December 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Saharah Ali is a meditation instructor, astrologer, life coach, yoga teacher and sound bath specialist. On this podcast she unboxes Mars in Capricorn with a call to play the long game practicing stamina and self-control. Later in the hour Dominique reads between the headlines on the terrible murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner, the horrific mass shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is, and I'm so pleased to start the week
this holiday week even more than others with Sahara Ali.
She is a yoga teacher, a meditation and structure a numerologist, astrologer,
life coach, sound bass specialists, sound healer, and so much more.
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It's time for Mindful Monday with Sahara Ali. Good morning, Sahara.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Grand Rising Dominique in the KBLA family. Welcome to Mindful Monday,
where we get our minds right for the week by
setting positive intentions to honor our mind and body through meditation,
prayer and affirmation. As we step unapologetically into our week,
being on purpose with our power, wisdom, faith and truth.
We're being blessed this week with the celestial gift of
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Mars moving into Capricorn on Wednesday until January twenty third.
Mars is our willpower. Mars is exulted in Capricorn, boosting
determination and resilience, asking us to play the long game,
blessing us with stamina to persevere, aiding us to be
on purpose with self control, facilitating meaningful transformation through practical actions,
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unfolding dreams to reality. Our margin orders are to reframe
our belief system embrace our soul's path, accepting our life
is God's life. Our mindful Monday call to action is
to be brave and take action towards fulfillment, harnessing personal power.
Trusting the Most High is our partner. Just know Capricorn
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is the task master of the zodiac. Enhancing the truth
of what we value will get done. So going forward,
let's lean into our mindful Monday meditation. Pause for a
moment and take a breath, anchoring your feet to the earth,
connecting to the roots of your soul, and allowing yourself
to be right here, right now on purpose. Just breathe
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and relax, and as you breathe, allow yourself to align
with your inner wisdom. Be right here, right now in
this moment, open to love of self, trusting wisdom from
the Most High. Relax, breathe, connecting to the power of
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divine clarity. Be right here, right now in this moment,
allowing yourself to relax, allowing yourself to embrace the power
of your inner light. Give yourself permission to invite positive
change and growth into your life here and now, and
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allow this positive change to grace through the unfold breathe,
feeling centered, feeling relaxed, feeling grounded. Open your heart, open
your mind to embrace change with grace, connect to your
wholeness with each breath, Relax and receive and renew as
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you call on your angels and ancestors supporting transformation in
your life. Breathe in divine guidance and allow yourself to
trust the power of who you are. Relax and celebrate,
Celebrate rebirth, Celebrate grace, and open yourself to wholeness and
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not fear. Relax, breathing and promising yourself to lean into
the Most High as your partner, opening places of clarity
and inner wisdom. Breathe, knowing and believing all things are
manifesting in your favor under grace and with ease. Breathe
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quieting your mind, quieting your body, and allow yourself to
sit in this moment, ready to renew your spirit and
open yourself to receive our mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today,
I give myself permission to trust and know the Most
High is my partner, manifesting miracles in my life with
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grace and ease. Today, I give myself permission to trust
and know the Most High is my partner. Manifesting miracles
in my life with grace and ease. Sit with that,
Sit with that, relax and breathe, trusting that the Most
High is your partner, and miracles are manifesting in your
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life with grace and ease. And as you bring your
awareness back, be in present time. Be right here, right now,
sitting with that affirmation, trusting the Most High partner, Breathe, relax,
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field yourself and good and grounded, bringing your awareness back,
opening yourself to trust and know the Most High is
your partner, manifesting miracles in your life with grace and ease,
ground yourself, sender yourself and be right here right now.
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Thank you, Dominique. Have a smiley miles in the fifteen
to eighty KBLA family. I have an unapologetic, mindfully blessed
week and holiday season. Giving yourself permission to trust the
Most High as your partner, unfolding miracles with grace.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Any I love that so much. Okay, So I wished
you a happy birthday last Monday when it wasn't your birthday,
and I'm gonna wish you a happy birthday again this
Monday when it's also not your birthday. Your birthday was
last week, so we can just celebrate all of Sagittarian season.
We'll just celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, we only have a few minutes because on the
twenty second we go in a hard hardcore rolling Capricorn
and Mars you know, just went there. So we're going
to be more practical, you know. But I like to say,
you know that everything in this physical role is already history.
So my birthday is history, but I can still practice
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it now. And so I want us as we move
forward into twenty twenty six, which is a very dynamic year,
to be willing to rewrite the future we want to live.
Because right now, from here on to January and a
little bit into February, it's about closure. It's about releasing,
it's about reframing, and most of all, taking the trash
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out in your life and really giving yourself permission to
believe people when they tell you who they are, and
embrace self love, saying no to say yes to yourself.
Because we are up against all of this other official intelligence,
we are up against the illusions of our government, and
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so at some point we must allow ourselves to connect
to the wholeness within us and know that there is
a power greater than ourselves, always moving through our lives,
and so remember that, and also remember that the Mindful
Monday serves as a gentle reminder to pause and reconnect
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with the essence of who we are. It's a sacred
opportunity to step away from the noise of daily life,
allowing ourselves to be present in the space of reflection
and rejuvenation. So if you didn't really understand or get
everything we went over this morning, check out the KBLA
app and enjoy Mindful Monday throughout the week and anytime
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you need it to get anchored and grounded.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's right, it's a good point. All of the shows
are on the app and you can also find them
on YouTube. Of course you'll see me sitting here with
my eyes closed doing the affirmation. But nevertheless, you can
meditate along with us, and I think get your affirmation,
write it down. I usually write them down, but you
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can have it for yourself. So that's a great plan.
I also think you talk about change and being on
the graceful side of change. With the Winter solstice, which
is coming up this weekend, it's the ultimate change, right,
It's what they call the return of the light because
the days start to get longer again. The longest night
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of the year is the solstice, which is this weekend,
and then after that the nights start getting shorter again,
and eventually we get to summer. We have those well,
it stays light until eight eight thirty at night. That's
my favorite thing. But that's that's a huge change, and
some folks experience it as a funk or some kind
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of a transformation, you know, that can be challenging, right,
like a force transformation.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The winter, the winter solstice is an opportunity to go
as you say, it's like we have longer nights, shorter days,
and so it's about embracing the truth that's in the
unseen or the darkness or the world behind our eyes,
where divine wisdom exists. It's a time to go inward,
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to meditate. It's a time to reframe and rebirth. It's
like the trees. The trees lose all their leaves, but
the roots are still being nourished. The roots are still
operating to blossom when spring comes. And so we have
to understand that even though we are in this shadow
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period as they would call it, there is light within
that and so this shadow period is very necessary for
us to go within and explore the world behind our
eyes and reframe the truth and understand that there's a
bye force always moving through us, even though the sun
may not be shining, or you can't go outside and
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do all the things you normally do, but to go
in and be creative, to reframe, to make a plan,
because it's a transition from the winter solstice preparing for
the spring equalnox and the equalnox is to create equals,
so the winter salt this is the time of closure.
So we clean out the closs that we clean out
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our glove compartments, We clean out our minds, we change
our attitude, we get rid of some funky people. Okay,
I shouldn't have said it that way, but it's the
time that all the darkness that no longer serves you
release it and find the light within to walk through
this shadow period, to embrace your wholeness and your truth
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and understand that everything happens for a reason. We are
more powerful than we allow ourselves to be. And as
we are stepping into twenty twenty six, which is a
whole new paradigm shift for all of us, don't be
afraid to tell yourself the truth about the power you
possessed to be in charge of your own life.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, a couple things I want to let people know
about before I forget Sahara Ali. The next soundbath I
know is January thirty. First, I think it's at the
yoga House. You could go to Sahara Ali dot com
to find out more. You have to be on time
otherwise you don't get to go, so that's happening. You
can go to Sahara Ali dot com. But also something
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we had talked about last year but never got around
to doing just because it was so hectic. Your schedule
is so busy. We are going to do it this
in twenty twenty six, So the fifth of January, Sahara
Ali will be doing readings on the air, and we're
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also going to do it the ninth. The fifth and
the ninth. So for those of you, and I know
there's a lot of them, sharr because they're dming me
that come in the dog on YouTube chat. When is
Sahara doing readings? When is sa Horror doing readings? Mark
your calendar January fifth and January ninth to start your
year off with some insight and some clarity. We're going
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to do that, and we haven't done it for two years,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I know, I know, I just I love it. I
love sharing insight, I love empowering individuals. And in the meantime,
please open your heart to let go and trust that
we never walk along and that is important. To let
go and give yourself permission to embrace something new. If
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it's all, get rid of it. If it's not working,
get rid of it and tell yourself the truth about
how you're willing to love yourself and how you're willing
to be loved.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Sahara Ali, thank you so much. As always, if you
want to go see Sahara, get a reading, maybe get
your astrological chart done, or get a sound treatment. That's
what you that's what you need. We look at me
telling you what you need. Call Alice at two one
three six to eight nine seven eight three two one
three six two eight nine seven eight three. Phone lines
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are open now you can weigh in on national and
international matters or whatever's on your mind. I'm Dominique Diprima
for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty All right. I felt kind
of bad because the clock cut us off and Jasmin
didn't even get to land, so I asked her to
stay and she did. What were you saying, Oh, no,
we were up against the clock. You were just saying.
(13:30):
I mean I was asking you about media literacy and
you know, in what we ought to do, and you said,
you know, if you do find out about something right
or call, I feel like we just have to be
more sophisticated and looking at everything. Who's sang it? Why
are they saying it? Follow the money?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean we do. And in this case, like I said,
folks should reach out to ABC seven and Leo Stalworth.
But anytime you hear uh or see anything in the
mainstream media that's incorrect and you know it's incorrect, you
should reach out and let them know. I mean, we
have that's the responsibility that we have. You know, when
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you know it's a one person organization getting played to
the world like they represent all of us, and it's
a one man organization, hit that station up and say
what are you doing? They do not represent us. If
you know that there's a story and they left out
an organization that did the heavy lifting, that did the work,
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you should definitely reach out and let them know. I
you know, there you know I have my feelings about
social media, but there are some things that I think
it's really good at. And holding folks accountable and humbling
folks is one thing. The Internet Internet is defeated, undefeated. Ye,
(14:52):
So you know we need to do that with with
the mainstream media as well, do you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I When I get news stories, I try to look
at more than one source. Do you do that? Like,
especially if what it's what I consider an extreme story,
I will go to the Weekly Standard or the Wall
Street Journal or some other conservative paper and see what
they're saying. And then I'll go see what the Huffington
Post or you know, The Nation or somebody more on
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the left is saying. I'll try to see the discrepancies
and the coverage.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I mean, I do A long time ago a Santo
am Baboo Pan African Film Festival shout out taught me
to if I want to know what is going on
outside of America in a country, to read that country's media, right.
So I learned from a long time ago that you gotta,
especially when it comes to US media, you need to
have more than one source, more than one's thorce.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I told you now, you know, when when I travel
in Africa you've traveled in Africa too. When I travel
in Africa, the default on their TV at the hotel
is Al Jazeera. It is not CNN. And it's just
really interesting because it's a reminder that the whole world
does not see things from the same angle as the
United States.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
One of the things I love about the news when
I am abroad, particularly in Africa, is the rain is
not a breaking news story.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I find that absolutely marvelous. But it's just life goes on.
Whatever the celebrities are doing is not the breaking news story.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, well, just FYI in the Bay Area and rain
is not a breaking news story either. It is just
so calving.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah it drives me crazy, but yeah, No, I do stormwatch.
I know, like you. I do. Uh well, have to
give Twanda a storm watch. I do. I do consult
multiple sources when it comes to certain things. I do
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read and listen to a lot of conservative media. I
do not need to always know what the choir is saying,
because I always already know what the choir is saying.
I need to know what the ops are talking about.
I need to know what's going on on the other side.
So I'm pretty diligent about that. It can be uh taxing, tiring, exhausting,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I can only watch like I known news, and I
can watch it in small doses, but it gives.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Me a lot of also inspiration.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Uh, you know, it depends on how you want to
harness it, how you want to use that. But yeah,
you have to. You cannot unless it's KBLA. I mean,
if you want to just listen to KBLA, yeah, we
can work with that. But everyone else, you gotta have
multiple sources.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's so easy now with the Internet.
You can just go to Yahoo News or Google News
and google the topic and they're gonna give you twenty
different sources.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I still got to research it because trust me when
I tell you, the AI written news gets it wrong too.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, the AI news gets it wrong a lot. Yes,
I know the hallucinations as they call it, when it
just makes something up because it doesn't know that it's
obvious to you. It's obvious to me. It's not obvious
to everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Apparently not. I I'm I'm learning that with Towanda. Yes
it is not.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
People think it's you, Yes, Yes, they don't realize it's
your AI alter.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Even though her name is I am Twanda do Ai.
But yes, wow, I've never hid that she was Ai.
But you're right. People we think it's so obvious, right,
But you're right now that i'm thinking about it. Yeah,
people don't.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, you created your own AI of you, and people
think it's you. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yes, I would be probably dead or in jail if
if you did. Definite, would be for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Sure in jail, for sure in jail. He's living vicariously,
you were. That's another show for another day. But I
do think it's really important. I've had people come to
me when they get you know, virtually come to me
when they get something DM to them on social media
and they're freaked out. How do you We're almost out
of time again, so let me just say, fine, follow Jasmine.
(19:18):
How do we follow you?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Always? Not in person, but on line at Hello Jasmine
on Instagram and I'm also on Facebook. It's Jasmine with
the ychanic. I'm pretty easy to find digitally, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, thank you, Yeah, thank you. I just think I
just think, I don't know, we'll have to do a
show on media literacy because there'll be other offenders and
also figuring out whether a clip is real at all, right,
you know, is a skill because people are all mad
and then that turns out to be a whole fake
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thing or a skit or something like that. So to
be continued, Jaz Mechanic, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We have news, traffic and sports and then you can
call me. It's KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You are, and
we do have a lot to talk about. I always
feel a little at a loss when there's so much
death and destruction in the news, because I don't really
know how to address it, particularly the mass shootings, because
it feels like we're doing the same stories or variations
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of the stories over and over again, and there is
not a lot of progress or change in preventing it
from happening again. Of course, you know, I'm referring to
a couple of mass shootings this weekend, and then the
murder of Rob Reiner car Rein Oh, Rob Reiner Kush,
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I'm mixing them up, and his wife, right, and it's
I feel like it's hard to have a productive thing
to say about these situations, but we do need to
report on them, and I welcome you and to share
your thoughts. Maybe you have some words of comfort or
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wisdom or analysis that are more helpful than what I have.
One of the things that I found very jarring about
the story about the Reiners, Rob Reiner and Michelle was
that apparently they made a movie about their struggle with
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their child in twenty fifteen, obviously like ten years ago,
and it was about their struggles as a family, and
it was co written by Nick Reiner, who is a
person of interest in the killings of his mom and dad.
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So that's what I have from the Hollywood reporter. I
don't have anything about, you know, but the evidence is
or if there are other suspects, but they are saying,
and this has been widely reported that their child, Nick Reiner,
is a suspect in the homicide of his parents. He also, apparently,
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according to this film and other reports, has often on
struggled with drug addiction. And this story it's called Being Charlie.
It's a film about a person whose whose parents are
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movie stars or their dad is a movie star, and
they're struggling with drug addiction, and they are resentful of
the way their parents have dealt with their drug addiction,
being really strict about it and forcing them into rehab
and apparently that is really close to what actually happened
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in real life, and it was co written by Nick Reiner,
the son of Robin Michelle Reiner. So really, I guess
that's the most insight we'll get right now. But it's
just a terrible situation. And whether it's mental health and
drugs or drugs alone, usually there's a combination going on
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right there. That drug situation is self medicating, or if
you're not self medicating, the drug use itself can lead
to the mental health struggles. Clearly a lot of that
is going on, and it just is also a reminder
that you don't know what's happening with people. We see
the Instagram version of themselves, we see we see the
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awards shows and the successes, and we don't know what
exactly is going on. Okay, So now the LA Times
is reporting that Nick Reiner has been arrested and booked
into Laky Jail on suspicion of murder, and of course
Rob and Michelle Rhiner were found dead in their home
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in Brentwood on yesterday. He's being held on four million
dollars bail, and apparently, as I was referencing in the movie,
he's been in and out of rehab, has been homeless
at times, even as a teenager, and as I said,
in twenty fifteen, Got Clean worked on this film with
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his dad which is semi autobiographical and was apparently quite
an emotional process. Sounds like it for the family. But
now they're being those deaths are being investigated as homicides,
and the sun Nick Reiner has been arrested. It's a
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really really, really really sad story. Meanwhile, police detain someone
Sunday in connection to that mass shooting at Brown University,
and it's so hard to know what is going on
now because we have Cash Patel in charge of the FBI,
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this is clearly something the FBI would be investigating. They
said that they had someone in custody and a person
of interest was in custody and there's a shelter in
place order, but they hadn't identified that person of interest.
But then they let the man out and they said
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there's no basis to consider him a person of interest. So,
once again, like I said, we've got Cash Pateel in charge,
so it's hard to know exactly what is really going on.
They person that they grabbed and were holding and didn't
release the name of turned out to not be a
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person of interest. After all, all classes are so brown,
all the final exams and everything for the rest of
the semester have been canceled. And two people dead, nine
people injured. It's like I said, I don't really know
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what to say. I'm gonna cover it because I don't
want us to be so jaded, so normalized, Like these
incidents have become so normalized that we don't even comment
on it. But at the same time, I don't have
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anything else to say that's insightful. Universal background checks. I mean, look,
I'm an advocate for the Second Amendment, but there are
certain common sense reforms that the majority of American people
agree with. So why is it so hard the background checks?
What's hard about that? The banning of semi automatic weapons.
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I don't I don't know what to say beyond that
they're back on on the hunt for suspect in that case.
The other terrible, terrible incident in Australia, a father and
son go out and do a mass shooting. Fifteen people killed.
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This is at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday. Sajida
Cram and Navid a fifty year old and a twenty
four year old allegedly reportedly went out and shot a
bunch of people at a Hanuk event Jewish people. One
of the victims was a ten year old girl, a
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rabbi and a Holocaust survivor, which is crazy. Was also
a Muslim man, Ahmed, a Lahmed, who grabbed the gun
away from the shooter wrestled him to the ground. I
mean that was crazy. Then the guy runs away. Uh,
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that's a they say, a good guy with a gunman.
That was a good guy without a gun. He just
snuck up on the guy from behind a car, tackled him,
took him down to the ground. They're saying that this
gunman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and they
found Islamic State flags in the car. They say they
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were not part of a formal terrorist cell, but they
were motivated by extreme ideology. I I don't know what
to say other than the fact that it, you know,
it has to stop, and this, this is this is
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actually apparently clearly terrorism eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty.
If you want to weigh in I don't know how
to give you a palate cleanser. You know, there's lots
of good things happening in the world, but when stuff
happens that's this widespread and you know, terrifying. I think
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people do need to talk about it more than about it.
Process it, but how to prevent the next one, or
how we can do better, how we can do a
better job reporting. All of those things are relevant, but
a lot more difficult, I feel, if we're going to
be fair and nuanced. I love the fact that social
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media picked up on a med A Lamed being a
Muslim man who stopped even more people from being killed.
They're a bondie and the amount of bravery that it
takes to do that is insane. I mean, to walk
up on a guy with a with a weapon, tackle
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him and take the gun, you gotta be you have
to be insane or brave or both. Shout out to him,
Shout out to people you know that remind us in
the middle of tragedy like this that there are good people.
They're extremely good people, kind people, people who are driven
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by ethics, not what's legal and what's illegal, but what's
humane and what's not humane. What's ethical and what's not ethical?
Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's the number
to call if you got a thing to say. We
do as always have a lot to talk about KBLA
Talk fifteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The President talking smack about Rob Reiner on truth Social
is pique diabolical. He's saying that he's saying as Trump
derangement syndrome and sort of blaming him for his own death.
And then he says, may they rest in peace. I mean,
(31:06):
you can't make this stuff up. It does make me wonder,
you know, well, let me not even say it. Yeah,
it's just wow. Let me just karma, just one more,
just karma. Interestingly, I found this super interesting. This terrible
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shooting happens in Bondi Beach in Australia. So what does
the Australian government do. They announced that they are immediately
going to change their gun laws. You can wait another
one hundred years. They're not going to change around here.
But apparently the Australians were very concerned and they are
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going to overhaul their gun laws immediately. That's the first
thing on the agenda. And well, I don't know what
to say. I mean, it. This is what I'll say.
I feel like we saw this in New Zealand, now
we're seeing it in Australia, and all it does is
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point out what's wrong with us and why even though
we're starting to see mass shootings in other parts of
the world, now, we don't see them continuing over and
over and over again, at least not so far. It happens,
they make a change to the law and then it
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makes it harder for it to happen. And that's exactly
what they're doing in Australia. And that's exactly what we've
never ever yet done here in the United States. And
I say yet because I'm an optimist and I believe
we can. But New Zealand instantly made changes to their
gun laws the moment they had a mass shooting, and
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now the same thing is happening with Australia. They're going
to tighten their gun laws. They're not even probably going
to have a debate about it. I'm sure they must
have gun lobbies they are, just like we have them here,
and organizations that protect people's rights, their Second Amendment rights.
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It's not Second Amendment whatever their gun rights situation is,
but federal and state government leaders have already agreed that
they're going to overhaul their gun laws, and they they
have tough gun laws to begin with, so they're not
going to give thoughts in prayers. They're going to make change,
and that that's where we need to be making change,
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making it harder for the next group. It was sad
to read about that one young person who had been
at Parkland, you know, had been in a mass school shooting,
and now they're at another one at Brown. It's terrible.
Here's your palette refresher. A federal grand jury in Virginia
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once again refusing to indict Attorney General Letitia James out
of New York, black woman out of New York. That's
the third time they've tried to get charges brought against her,
and a grand jury's say, nah, I don't think so.
And I think I'm hoping this is a good sign,
since the Department of Justice is now trying to bring
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mortgage fraud charges against everybody, every Democrat with a mortgage,
Adam Schiff, Letitia James. They already did it to Marilyn Moseby.
And I saw an excellent report about how the kind
of so called alleged fraud that they're bringing is really
a minor paperwork error, or in the case of Letitia James,
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it's correct on most of the papers. There's only one
or two pages where the information was incorrect, so it
should have been overridden by the correct information. But what
I'm hoping is that that means that grand jury's jury's
in general, the American public is waking up to the tactics,
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the retaliation tactics that this Department of Justice is using
as it acquiesces to act as the personal lawyer and
revenge arm of the super villain in the White House.
And it's a big loss for the Department of Justice.
But the kind of error that was on Leticia James's
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allegedly on some of Leticia James's mortgage paperwork, is apparently
all over Donald Trump's paperwork. So you would think the
DOJ would be, you know, looking at the upside. At
least we don't later have to go after our dear
leader and put him in jail for mortgage fraud. But
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as per usual, the double standard is glaring and insane. Well,
so that was your palate cleanser, at least for now.
The attorney who brought charges against the president successfully out
of New York will not be facing phony, so called
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trumped up charges against herself in the case of every
Democrat supposedly has has done mortgage fraud if you ask
President Trump. And I think that is true. I think
the American public is getting wiser. I think that that's
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obviously going to show up in jurors that we don't
We don't necessarily believe the hype. Everyone may not be protesting,
but everyone starting to get a little bit more aware,
a little bit and savvy. And I partly attribute that
(36:55):
to social media. I mean, you see, we all see
these videos where the official story is one thing, and
then the bodycam footage tells a totally different story. You
see the stories like the lady at Cinnabahn, you know,
going off on a racist rant, all the Karens, and
what ends up happening is I think in people's minds,
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they say, well, we don't know the whole story yet,
and we're getting to be more comfortable not always believing
the official story. And I think that's a good thing.
I think it will make for more objective juries who
can actually weigh the facts and not just go along
(37:37):
with what Goliath said. I guess we're in a little
bit of a theme on, you know, media literacy. I'm
always on that theme because I just feel like we
that's the trap right now. It can change a person's
entire ideology if you see something online and you don't
double check to make sure it's true. And I've had
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these conversations, as you well know, with members of my
own family and plenty of voices on the air. They
looked at one story which was probably not even true
or was spun to such an extreme, and then they
changed their whole worldview based on that story, and it
turns out not to be true. That's one of the
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reasons we have a talking point Tuesday. That's one of
the reasons why I'm constantly talking about fact based and
evidence based. Sure, you can speculate, if you say you're speculating,
but let's be clear and let's not allow our whole
world view to be changed. Example, this pervasive talking point
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that immigrants get big checks and housing when they come
to this country. That's just not the case. Well, if
you're a Ukrainian get you may get housing, or if
you're an Afghan you know why, because those are seen
as war situations. And in case of Ukraine, you can
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say it's because they're white. That's what folks were saying about,
you know, the lighter skin Venezuelans and such, And that
may well be. But there's also the political aspect. The
average migrant from Latin America, from Africa, from Haiti is
not getting a check and they're not getting housing. That
is not what's happening. People change their whole world views.
(39:28):
I hate Biden because he's giving these people checks based
on something that isn't even factual. And that's and that
if you were to fact check it, you would be
able to learn that it's not factual. But the way
things are coming at us so fast and furious to
where you can't even fact check in real time, it's
(39:49):
easy to latch onto something. So if you find yourself
moved like that by a particular story, a particular theme,
go down the rabbit hole and make sure that is
really true before you change your whole worldview based on
a skit or some misinformation. Yes, indeed, that's my that's
(40:11):
my little rant for your Holiday Monday. I call it
holiday Monday because next week is Christmas and Kwanza and
all the good stuff. Looking forward to talking with Isaac
Hayes the third. He's my guest next hour and you're
invited in news, traffic, and sports. Then more on KBLA
Talk fifteen eighty
It is, and I'm so pleased to start the week
this holiday week even more than others with Sahara Ali.
She is a yoga teacher, a meditation and structure a numerologist, astrologer,
life coach, sound bass specialists, sound healer, and so much more.
(00:20):
It's time for Mindful Monday with Sahara Ali. Good morning, Sahara.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Grand Rising Dominique in the KBLA family. Welcome to Mindful Monday,
where we get our minds right for the week by
setting positive intentions to honor our mind and body through meditation,
prayer and affirmation. As we step unapologetically into our week,
being on purpose with our power, wisdom, faith and truth.
We're being blessed this week with the celestial gift of
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Mars moving into Capricorn on Wednesday until January twenty third.
Mars is our willpower. Mars is exulted in Capricorn, boosting
determination and resilience, asking us to play the long game,
blessing us with stamina to persevere, aiding us to be
on purpose with self control, facilitating meaningful transformation through practical actions,
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unfolding dreams to reality. Our margin orders are to reframe
our belief system embrace our soul's path, accepting our life
is God's life. Our mindful Monday call to action is
to be brave and take action towards fulfillment, harnessing personal power.
Trusting the Most High is our partner. Just know Capricorn
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is the task master of the zodiac. Enhancing the truth
of what we value will get done. So going forward,
let's lean into our mindful Monday meditation. Pause for a
moment and take a breath, anchoring your feet to the earth,
connecting to the roots of your soul, and allowing yourself
to be right here, right now on purpose. Just breathe
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and relax, and as you breathe, allow yourself to align
with your inner wisdom. Be right here, right now in
this moment, open to love of self, trusting wisdom from
the Most High. Relax, breathe, connecting to the power of
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divine clarity. Be right here, right now in this moment,
allowing yourself to relax, allowing yourself to embrace the power
of your inner light. Give yourself permission to invite positive
change and growth into your life here and now, and
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allow this positive change to grace through the unfold breathe,
feeling centered, feeling relaxed, feeling grounded. Open your heart, open
your mind to embrace change with grace, connect to your
wholeness with each breath, Relax and receive and renew as
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you call on your angels and ancestors supporting transformation in
your life. Breathe in divine guidance and allow yourself to
trust the power of who you are. Relax and celebrate,
Celebrate rebirth, Celebrate grace, and open yourself to wholeness and
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not fear. Relax, breathing and promising yourself to lean into
the Most High as your partner, opening places of clarity
and inner wisdom. Breathe, knowing and believing all things are
manifesting in your favor under grace and with ease. Breathe
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quieting your mind, quieting your body, and allow yourself to
sit in this moment, ready to renew your spirit and
open yourself to receive our mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today,
I give myself permission to trust and know the Most
High is my partner, manifesting miracles in my life with
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grace and ease. Today, I give myself permission to trust
and know the Most High is my partner. Manifesting miracles
in my life with grace and ease. Sit with that,
Sit with that, relax and breathe, trusting that the Most
High is your partner, and miracles are manifesting in your
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life with grace and ease. And as you bring your
awareness back, be in present time. Be right here, right now,
sitting with that affirmation, trusting the Most High partner, Breathe, relax,
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field yourself and good and grounded, bringing your awareness back,
opening yourself to trust and know the Most High is
your partner, manifesting miracles in your life with grace and ease,
ground yourself, sender yourself and be right here right now.
(05:25):
Thank you, Dominique. Have a smiley miles in the fifteen
to eighty KBLA family. I have an unapologetic, mindfully blessed
week and holiday season. Giving yourself permission to trust the
Most High as your partner, unfolding miracles with grace.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Any I love that so much. Okay, So I wished
you a happy birthday last Monday when it wasn't your birthday,
and I'm gonna wish you a happy birthday again this
Monday when it's also not your birthday. Your birthday was
last week, so we can just celebrate all of Sagittarian season.
We'll just celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, we only have a few minutes because on the
twenty second we go in a hard hardcore rolling Capricorn
and Mars you know, just went there. So we're going
to be more practical, you know. But I like to say,
you know that everything in this physical role is already history.
So my birthday is history, but I can still practice
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it now. And so I want us as we move
forward into twenty twenty six, which is a very dynamic year,
to be willing to rewrite the future we want to live.
Because right now, from here on to January and a
little bit into February, it's about closure. It's about releasing,
it's about reframing, and most of all, taking the trash
(06:45):
out in your life and really giving yourself permission to
believe people when they tell you who they are, and
embrace self love, saying no to say yes to yourself.
Because we are up against all of this other official intelligence,
we are up against the illusions of our government, and
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so at some point we must allow ourselves to connect
to the wholeness within us and know that there is
a power greater than ourselves, always moving through our lives,
and so remember that, and also remember that the Mindful
Monday serves as a gentle reminder to pause and reconnect
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with the essence of who we are. It's a sacred
opportunity to step away from the noise of daily life,
allowing ourselves to be present in the space of reflection
and rejuvenation. So if you didn't really understand or get
everything we went over this morning, check out the KBLA
app and enjoy Mindful Monday throughout the week and anytime
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you need it to get anchored and grounded.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's right, it's a good point. All of the shows
are on the app and you can also find them
on YouTube. Of course you'll see me sitting here with
my eyes closed doing the affirmation. But nevertheless, you can
meditate along with us, and I think get your affirmation,
write it down. I usually write them down, but you
(08:13):
can have it for yourself. So that's a great plan.
I also think you talk about change and being on
the graceful side of change. With the Winter solstice, which
is coming up this weekend, it's the ultimate change, right,
It's what they call the return of the light because
the days start to get longer again. The longest night
(08:35):
of the year is the solstice, which is this weekend,
and then after that the nights start getting shorter again,
and eventually we get to summer. We have those well,
it stays light until eight eight thirty at night. That's
my favorite thing. But that's that's a huge change, and
some folks experience it as a funk or some kind
(08:55):
of a transformation, you know, that can be challenging, right,
like a force transformation.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The winter, the winter solstice is an opportunity to go
as you say, it's like we have longer nights, shorter days,
and so it's about embracing the truth that's in the
unseen or the darkness or the world behind our eyes,
where divine wisdom exists. It's a time to go inward,
(09:25):
to meditate. It's a time to reframe and rebirth. It's
like the trees. The trees lose all their leaves, but
the roots are still being nourished. The roots are still
operating to blossom when spring comes. And so we have
to understand that even though we are in this shadow
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period as they would call it, there is light within
that and so this shadow period is very necessary for
us to go within and explore the world behind our
eyes and reframe the truth and understand that there's a
bye force always moving through us, even though the sun
may not be shining, or you can't go outside and
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do all the things you normally do, but to go
in and be creative, to reframe, to make a plan,
because it's a transition from the winter solstice preparing for
the spring equalnox and the equalnox is to create equals,
so the winter salt this is the time of closure.
So we clean out the closs that we clean out
(10:27):
our glove compartments, We clean out our minds, we change
our attitude, we get rid of some funky people. Okay,
I shouldn't have said it that way, but it's the
time that all the darkness that no longer serves you
release it and find the light within to walk through
this shadow period, to embrace your wholeness and your truth
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and understand that everything happens for a reason. We are
more powerful than we allow ourselves to be. And as
we are stepping into twenty twenty six, which is a
whole new paradigm shift for all of us, don't be
afraid to tell yourself the truth about the power you
possessed to be in charge of your own life.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, a couple things I want to let people know
about before I forget Sahara Ali. The next soundbath I
know is January thirty. First, I think it's at the
yoga House. You could go to Sahara Ali dot com
to find out more. You have to be on time
otherwise you don't get to go, so that's happening. You
can go to Sahara Ali dot com. But also something
(11:30):
we had talked about last year but never got around
to doing just because it was so hectic. Your schedule
is so busy. We are going to do it this
in twenty twenty six, So the fifth of January, Sahara
Ali will be doing readings on the air, and we're
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also going to do it the ninth. The fifth and
the ninth. So for those of you, and I know
there's a lot of them, sharr because they're dming me
that come in the dog on YouTube chat. When is
Sahara doing readings? When is sa Horror doing readings? Mark
your calendar January fifth and January ninth to start your
year off with some insight and some clarity. We're going
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to do that, and we haven't done it for two years,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I know, I know, I just I love it. I
love sharing insight, I love empowering individuals. And in the meantime,
please open your heart to let go and trust that
we never walk along and that is important. To let
go and give yourself permission to embrace something new. If
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it's all, get rid of it. If it's not working,
get rid of it and tell yourself the truth about
how you're willing to love yourself and how you're willing
to be loved.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Sahara Ali, thank you so much. As always, if you
want to go see Sahara, get a reading, maybe get
your astrological chart done, or get a sound treatment. That's
what you that's what you need. We look at me
telling you what you need. Call Alice at two one
three six to eight nine seven eight three two one
three six two eight nine seven eight three. Phone lines
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are open now you can weigh in on national and
international matters or whatever's on your mind. I'm Dominique Diprima
for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty All right. I felt kind
of bad because the clock cut us off and Jasmin
didn't even get to land, so I asked her to
stay and she did. What were you saying, Oh, no,
we were up against the clock. You were just saying.
(13:30):
I mean I was asking you about media literacy and
you know, in what we ought to do, and you said,
you know, if you do find out about something right
or call, I feel like we just have to be
more sophisticated and looking at everything. Who's sang it? Why
are they saying it? Follow the money?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean we do. And in this case, like I said,
folks should reach out to ABC seven and Leo Stalworth.
But anytime you hear uh or see anything in the
mainstream media that's incorrect and you know it's incorrect, you
should reach out and let them know. I mean, we
have that's the responsibility that we have. You know, when
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you know it's a one person organization getting played to
the world like they represent all of us, and it's
a one man organization, hit that station up and say
what are you doing? They do not represent us. If
you know that there's a story and they left out
an organization that did the heavy lifting, that did the work,
(14:31):
you should definitely reach out and let them know. I
you know, there you know I have my feelings about
social media, but there are some things that I think
it's really good at. And holding folks accountable and humbling
folks is one thing. The Internet Internet is defeated, undefeated. Ye,
(14:52):
So you know we need to do that with with
the mainstream media as well, do you.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I When I get news stories, I try to look
at more than one source. Do you do that? Like,
especially if what it's what I consider an extreme story,
I will go to the Weekly Standard or the Wall
Street Journal or some other conservative paper and see what
they're saying. And then I'll go see what the Huffington
Post or you know, The Nation or somebody more on
(15:20):
the left is saying. I'll try to see the discrepancies
and the coverage.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I mean, I do A long time ago a Santo
am Baboo Pan African Film Festival shout out taught me
to if I want to know what is going on
outside of America in a country, to read that country's media, right.
So I learned from a long time ago that you gotta,
especially when it comes to US media, you need to
have more than one source, more than one's thorce.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I told you now, you know, when when I travel
in Africa you've traveled in Africa too. When I travel
in Africa, the default on their TV at the hotel
is Al Jazeera. It is not CNN. And it's just
really interesting because it's a reminder that the whole world
does not see things from the same angle as the
United States.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
One of the things I love about the news when
I am abroad, particularly in Africa, is the rain is
not a breaking news story.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I find that absolutely marvelous. But it's just life goes on.
Whatever the celebrities are doing is not the breaking news story.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Okay, well, just FYI in the Bay Area and rain
is not a breaking news story either. It is just
so calving.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah it drives me crazy, but yeah, No, I do stormwatch.
I know, like you. I do. Uh well, have to
give Twanda a storm watch. I do. I do consult
multiple sources when it comes to certain things. I do
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read and listen to a lot of conservative media. I
do not need to always know what the choir is saying,
because I always already know what the choir is saying.
I need to know what the ops are talking about.
I need to know what's going on on the other side.
So I'm pretty diligent about that. It can be uh taxing, tiring, exhausting,
and it is.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I can only watch like I known news, and I
can watch it in small doses, but it gives.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Me a lot of also inspiration.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Uh, you know, it depends on how you want to
harness it, how you want to use that. But yeah,
you have to. You cannot unless it's KBLA. I mean,
if you want to just listen to KBLA, yeah, we
can work with that. But everyone else, you gotta have
multiple sources.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's so easy now with the Internet.
You can just go to Yahoo News or Google News
and google the topic and they're gonna give you twenty
different sources.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I still got to research it because trust me when
I tell you, the AI written news gets it wrong too.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, the AI news gets it wrong a lot. Yes,
I know the hallucinations as they call it, when it
just makes something up because it doesn't know that it's
obvious to you. It's obvious to me. It's not obvious
to everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Apparently not. I I'm I'm learning that with Towanda. Yes
it is not.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
People think it's you, Yes, Yes, they don't realize it's
your AI alter.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Even though her name is I am Twanda do Ai.
But yes, wow, I've never hid that she was Ai.
But you're right. People we think it's so obvious, right,
But you're right now that i'm thinking about it. Yeah,
people don't.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, you created your own AI of you, and people
think it's you. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yes, I would be probably dead or in jail if
if you did. Definite, would be for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Sure in jail, for sure in jail. He's living vicariously,
you were. That's another show for another day. But I
do think it's really important. I've had people come to
me when they get you know, virtually come to me
when they get something DM to them on social media
and they're freaked out. How do you We're almost out
of time again, so let me just say, fine, follow Jasmine.
(19:18):
How do we follow you?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Always? Not in person, but on line at Hello Jasmine
on Instagram and I'm also on Facebook. It's Jasmine with
the ychanic. I'm pretty easy to find digitally, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, thank you, Yeah, thank you. I just think I
just think, I don't know, we'll have to do a
show on media literacy because there'll be other offenders and
also figuring out whether a clip is real at all, right,
you know, is a skill because people are all mad
and then that turns out to be a whole fake
(19:55):
thing or a skit or something like that. So to
be continued, Jaz Mechanic, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We have news, traffic and sports and then you can
call me. It's KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You are, and
we do have a lot to talk about. I always
feel a little at a loss when there's so much
death and destruction in the news, because I don't really
know how to address it, particularly the mass shootings, because
it feels like we're doing the same stories or variations
(20:25):
of the stories over and over again, and there is
not a lot of progress or change in preventing it
from happening again. Of course, you know, I'm referring to
a couple of mass shootings this weekend, and then the
murder of Rob Reiner car Rein Oh, Rob Reiner Kush,
(20:48):
I'm mixing them up, and his wife, right, and it's
I feel like it's hard to have a productive thing
to say about these situations, but we do need to
report on them, and I welcome you and to share
your thoughts. Maybe you have some words of comfort or
(21:09):
wisdom or analysis that are more helpful than what I have.
One of the things that I found very jarring about
the story about the Reiners, Rob Reiner and Michelle was
that apparently they made a movie about their struggle with
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their child in twenty fifteen, obviously like ten years ago,
and it was about their struggles as a family, and
it was co written by Nick Reiner, who is a
person of interest in the killings of his mom and dad.
(21:55):
So that's what I have from the Hollywood reporter. I
don't have anything about, you know, but the evidence is
or if there are other suspects, but they are saying,
and this has been widely reported that their child, Nick Reiner,
is a suspect in the homicide of his parents. He also, apparently,
(22:15):
according to this film and other reports, has often on
struggled with drug addiction. And this story it's called Being Charlie.
It's a film about a person whose whose parents are
(22:36):
movie stars or their dad is a movie star, and
they're struggling with drug addiction, and they are resentful of
the way their parents have dealt with their drug addiction,
being really strict about it and forcing them into rehab
and apparently that is really close to what actually happened
(22:56):
in real life, and it was co written by Nick Reiner,
the son of Robin Michelle Reiner. So really, I guess
that's the most insight we'll get right now. But it's
just a terrible situation. And whether it's mental health and
drugs or drugs alone, usually there's a combination going on
(23:20):
right there. That drug situation is self medicating, or if
you're not self medicating, the drug use itself can lead
to the mental health struggles. Clearly a lot of that
is going on, and it just is also a reminder
that you don't know what's happening with people. We see
the Instagram version of themselves, we see we see the
(23:46):
awards shows and the successes, and we don't know what
exactly is going on. Okay, So now the LA Times
is reporting that Nick Reiner has been arrested and booked
into Laky Jail on suspicion of murder, and of course
Rob and Michelle Rhiner were found dead in their home
(24:07):
in Brentwood on yesterday. He's being held on four million
dollars bail, and apparently, as I was referencing in the movie,
he's been in and out of rehab, has been homeless
at times, even as a teenager, and as I said,
in twenty fifteen, Got Clean worked on this film with
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his dad which is semi autobiographical and was apparently quite
an emotional process. Sounds like it for the family. But
now they're being those deaths are being investigated as homicides,
and the sun Nick Reiner has been arrested. It's a
(24:48):
really really, really really sad story. Meanwhile, police detain someone
Sunday in connection to that mass shooting at Brown University,
and it's so hard to know what is going on
now because we have Cash Patel in charge of the FBI,
(25:14):
this is clearly something the FBI would be investigating. They
said that they had someone in custody and a person
of interest was in custody and there's a shelter in
place order, but they hadn't identified that person of interest.
But then they let the man out and they said
(25:36):
there's no basis to consider him a person of interest. So,
once again, like I said, we've got Cash Pateel in charge,
so it's hard to know exactly what is really going on.
They person that they grabbed and were holding and didn't
release the name of turned out to not be a
(25:57):
person of interest. After all, all classes are so brown,
all the final exams and everything for the rest of
the semester have been canceled. And two people dead, nine
people injured. It's like I said, I don't really know
(26:19):
what to say. I'm gonna cover it because I don't
want us to be so jaded, so normalized, Like these
incidents have become so normalized that we don't even comment
on it. But at the same time, I don't have
(26:40):
anything else to say that's insightful. Universal background checks. I mean, look,
I'm an advocate for the Second Amendment, but there are
certain common sense reforms that the majority of American people
agree with. So why is it so hard the background checks?
What's hard about that? The banning of semi automatic weapons.
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I don't I don't know what to say beyond that
they're back on on the hunt for suspect in that case.
The other terrible, terrible incident in Australia, a father and
son go out and do a mass shooting. Fifteen people killed.
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This is at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday. Sajida
Cram and Navid a fifty year old and a twenty
four year old allegedly reportedly went out and shot a
bunch of people at a Hanuk event Jewish people. One
of the victims was a ten year old girl, a
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rabbi and a Holocaust survivor, which is crazy. Was also
a Muslim man, Ahmed, a Lahmed, who grabbed the gun
away from the shooter wrestled him to the ground. I
mean that was crazy. Then the guy runs away. Uh,
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that's a they say, a good guy with a gunman.
That was a good guy without a gun. He just
snuck up on the guy from behind a car, tackled him,
took him down to the ground. They're saying that this
gunman had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and they
found Islamic State flags in the car. They say they
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were not part of a formal terrorist cell, but they
were motivated by extreme ideology. I I don't know what
to say other than the fact that it, you know,
it has to stop, and this, this is this is
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actually apparently clearly terrorism eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty.
If you want to weigh in I don't know how
to give you a palate cleanser. You know, there's lots
of good things happening in the world, but when stuff
happens that's this widespread and you know, terrifying. I think
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people do need to talk about it more than about it.
Process it, but how to prevent the next one, or
how we can do better, how we can do a
better job reporting. All of those things are relevant, but
a lot more difficult, I feel, if we're going to
be fair and nuanced. I love the fact that social
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media picked up on a med A Lamed being a
Muslim man who stopped even more people from being killed.
They're a bondie and the amount of bravery that it
takes to do that is insane. I mean, to walk
up on a guy with a with a weapon, tackle
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him and take the gun, you gotta be you have
to be insane or brave or both. Shout out to him,
Shout out to people you know that remind us in
the middle of tragedy like this that there are good people.
They're extremely good people, kind people, people who are driven
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by ethics, not what's legal and what's illegal, but what's
humane and what's not humane. What's ethical and what's not ethical?
Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's the number
to call if you got a thing to say. We
do as always have a lot to talk about KBLA
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Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
The President talking smack about Rob Reiner on truth Social
is pique diabolical. He's saying that he's saying as Trump
derangement syndrome and sort of blaming him for his own death.
And then he says, may they rest in peace. I mean,
(31:06):
you can't make this stuff up. It does make me wonder,
you know, well, let me not even say it. Yeah,
it's just wow. Let me just karma, just one more,
just karma. Interestingly, I found this super interesting. This terrible
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shooting happens in Bondi Beach in Australia. So what does
the Australian government do. They announced that they are immediately
going to change their gun laws. You can wait another
one hundred years. They're not going to change around here.
But apparently the Australians were very concerned and they are
(31:51):
going to overhaul their gun laws immediately. That's the first
thing on the agenda. And well, I don't know what
to say. I mean, it. This is what I'll say.
I feel like we saw this in New Zealand, now
we're seeing it in Australia, and all it does is
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point out what's wrong with us and why even though
we're starting to see mass shootings in other parts of
the world, now, we don't see them continuing over and
over and over again, at least not so far. It happens,
they make a change to the law and then it
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makes it harder for it to happen. And that's exactly
what they're doing in Australia. And that's exactly what we've
never ever yet done here in the United States. And
I say yet because I'm an optimist and I believe
we can. But New Zealand instantly made changes to their
gun laws the moment they had a mass shooting, and
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now the same thing is happening with Australia. They're going
to tighten their gun laws. They're not even probably going
to have a debate about it. I'm sure they must
have gun lobbies they are, just like we have them here,
and organizations that protect people's rights, their Second Amendment rights.
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It's not Second Amendment whatever their gun rights situation is,
but federal and state government leaders have already agreed that
they're going to overhaul their gun laws, and they they
have tough gun laws to begin with, so they're not
going to give thoughts in prayers. They're going to make change,
and that that's where we need to be making change,
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making it harder for the next group. It was sad
to read about that one young person who had been
at Parkland, you know, had been in a mass school shooting,
and now they're at another one at Brown. It's terrible.
Here's your palette refresher. A federal grand jury in Virginia
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once again refusing to indict Attorney General Letitia James out
of New York, black woman out of New York. That's
the third time they've tried to get charges brought against her,
and a grand jury's say, nah, I don't think so.
And I think I'm hoping this is a good sign,
since the Department of Justice is now trying to bring
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mortgage fraud charges against everybody, every Democrat with a mortgage,
Adam Schiff, Letitia James. They already did it to Marilyn Moseby.
And I saw an excellent report about how the kind
of so called alleged fraud that they're bringing is really
a minor paperwork error, or in the case of Letitia James,
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it's correct on most of the papers. There's only one
or two pages where the information was incorrect, so it
should have been overridden by the correct information. But what
I'm hoping is that that means that grand jury's jury's
in general, the American public is waking up to the tactics,
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the retaliation tactics that this Department of Justice is using
as it acquiesces to act as the personal lawyer and
revenge arm of the super villain in the White House.
And it's a big loss for the Department of Justice.
But the kind of error that was on Leticia James's
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allegedly on some of Leticia James's mortgage paperwork, is apparently
all over Donald Trump's paperwork. So you would think the
DOJ would be, you know, looking at the upside. At
least we don't later have to go after our dear
leader and put him in jail for mortgage fraud. But
(35:46):
as per usual, the double standard is glaring and insane. Well,
so that was your palate cleanser, at least for now.
The attorney who brought charges against the president successfully out
of New York will not be facing phony, so called
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trumped up charges against herself in the case of every
Democrat supposedly has has done mortgage fraud if you ask
President Trump. And I think that is true. I think
the American public is getting wiser. I think that that's
(36:34):
obviously going to show up in jurors that we don't
We don't necessarily believe the hype. Everyone may not be protesting,
but everyone starting to get a little bit more aware,
a little bit and savvy. And I partly attribute that
(36:55):
to social media. I mean, you see, we all see
these videos where the official story is one thing, and
then the bodycam footage tells a totally different story. You
see the stories like the lady at Cinnabahn, you know,
going off on a racist rant, all the Karens, and
what ends up happening is I think in people's minds,
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they say, well, we don't know the whole story yet,
and we're getting to be more comfortable not always believing
the official story. And I think that's a good thing.
I think it will make for more objective juries who
can actually weigh the facts and not just go along
(37:37):
with what Goliath said. I guess we're in a little
bit of a theme on, you know, media literacy. I'm
always on that theme because I just feel like we
that's the trap right now. It can change a person's
entire ideology if you see something online and you don't
double check to make sure it's true. And I've had
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these conversations, as you well know, with members of my
own family and plenty of voices on the air. They
looked at one story which was probably not even true
or was spun to such an extreme, and then they
changed their whole worldview based on that story, and it
turns out not to be true. That's one of the
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reasons we have a talking point Tuesday. That's one of
the reasons why I'm constantly talking about fact based and
evidence based. Sure, you can speculate, if you say you're speculating,
but let's be clear and let's not allow our whole
world view to be changed. Example, this pervasive talking point
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that immigrants get big checks and housing when they come
to this country. That's just not the case. Well, if
you're a Ukrainian get you may get housing, or if
you're an Afghan you know why, because those are seen
as war situations. And in case of Ukraine, you can
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say it's because they're white. That's what folks were saying about,
you know, the lighter skin Venezuelans and such, And that
may well be. But there's also the political aspect. The
average migrant from Latin America, from Africa, from Haiti is
not getting a check and they're not getting housing. That
is not what's happening. People change their whole world views.
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I hate Biden because he's giving these people checks based
on something that isn't even factual. And that's and that
if you were to fact check it, you would be
able to learn that it's not factual. But the way
things are coming at us so fast and furious to
where you can't even fact check in real time, it's
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easy to latch onto something. So if you find yourself
moved like that by a particular story, a particular theme,
go down the rabbit hole and make sure that is
really true before you change your whole worldview based on
a skit or some misinformation. Yes, indeed, that's my that's
(40:11):
my little rant for your Holiday Monday. I call it
holiday Monday because next week is Christmas and Kwanza and
all the good stuff. Looking forward to talking with Isaac
Hayes the third. He's my guest next hour and you're
invited in news, traffic, and sports. Then more on KBLA
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