December 21, 2025 • 43 mins
The phone lines are jingling, and the topics are roasting on an open fire. We close out the year sounding off on the best and worst of the year that was and what do more of in the twelve months ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, b LA Doc fifteen eighty. That's a good question, Miles.
What song sums up your year? Is there one?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is a thing Tank Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I have declared like I was some kind of authority,
which I ain't. I've declared caller amnesty, which means you
can call in even if you already called this week,
just asking that you keep it succinct eight hundred nine,
two oh fifteen eighty. The think Tank Thursday question that
I posed was what do you want to leave in
twenty twenty five and what would you like to bring
(00:31):
forward into twenty twenty six that we learned that we won,
that we saw this year. So I've asked that question,
but you're welcome to call in about anything else that's
on your mind. At eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty and Miles asked me what song summarizes my year?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I haven't figured it out yet.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And I'm assuming Miles, that you wanted to be a
twenty twenty five song, not one of my oldies. I
noticed you you picked the clips.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, because even though I ain't rocking with for real
too hard right now, but yeah, for sure, did you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
See Farrel's response to the critique of him saying he
doesn't do politics. You know, he gave a speech and
it was I mean, it was passionate. He was saying
he came from the Mud and that, you know what,
his comments were taken out of context. I don't know
how convincing that was, but anyway, I mean, I I
(01:29):
appreciated him addressing it. I appreciated him sharing his own struggle,
you know. But also, you know, some of it has
to do with the moves you make politically. So when
you say you're you hate politics, but then then everyone's
going to look at well, what if you supported what
(01:49):
have you been on board with? And if it doesn't
match the speech, then that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We went right over there to the Israeli Defense Force
and was rocking with him. So yeah, no, no, I mean,
you know, I can get what you're saying. I understand
that we all could have a find a SOB story
in our life, of course, but yeah, what what do
your moves say? So no, you don't get a passion
that that for real? Great music?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cool?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know Louis stuff, maybe I guess, but.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Nah, yeah, Louis stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
If you can afford it.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Im Timberling Booty selling for like eighty bands.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Wow, yeah, I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, I look because I think it's another expression
of our creativity and I'm here for that. But those
are prices that you know, I just yeah, I'll find
Dapper Dan. Ye oh wait, he's over there with the
real uh, the real designers now the so called real designers. Anyway,
(02:44):
I think it's a fair question, and I'm gonna have
to give it some thought because there was so many great,
so many great albums and songs this year, and yet
the ones that I play and you know, sing at
the top of my lungs when I'm mad and stuff,
some of them are not from this year.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I have to think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Clips this should be a good theme song for me
because it's a it's an appreciation of people that have
been on the mic for a long long time. So
that's that's what I'm looking for in twenty twenty six,
I'll be looking for my CLIPS moment.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Be a bounced backs. You never fell down like that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't fall down, but I don't, you know, and
I guess probably every person that's pioneering it's been on
you know, doing whatever they're doing for a long time.
I'm not looking for fame. I rather get fortune. But
I just think for some of us who've opened doors
for other people, it just feels like you don't get
the credit, or maybe you don't get for me, I
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don't care as much about the credit as the check
that we you know that other people who came along
later and sort of were able to benefit from the
work you put in did get. I'm not a hater
because I think my blessings have my name on them,
and everyone's blessings have their name on them, which is
why I'll never be bitter. I've been blessed to do
(04:01):
what I love to do for so many years. But
I wouldn't mind a Clips moment where they go, Man,
that girl is dope. She's been doing this before everybody
had a podcast, and.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Before everybody decided they were a broadcaster, and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Before there were any females on the mic. I mean,
just the fact that this is the first time a
black woman has done morning drives in commercial talk radio
in LA tells you everything you need to know about
some of the obstacles that I've been blessed to overcome.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So I'll take that clips moment. I do.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I am not complaining though, even though I am an ingrate.
Thamas always says if you complain, he'd be an ingrade.
I do complain, so that's why I say, yes, I
can be an ingrad. But I just feel like very
blessed and I'm so it's not a complaint.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So Amnestya is on.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You can call eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen
eighty if you want to share what you want to
keep in twenty twenty from twenty twenty five. Would you
want to leave behind mind your theme song for the
year or something else sits on your mind? Eight hundred
and nine to oh fifteen eighty. That's the number you
know that. You can also weigh in on YouTube YouTube
(05:12):
KBLA fifteen eighty is our address handle whatever on YouTube.
We're streaming there right now. A pressor, John says he
wants a counterfeit outfit from a Dapper Dan, not the
legit Gucci releases. I mean, that's what I was saying.
But isn't Dapper Dan now working for them?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Not sure, but I mean I think so.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You can find probably most of the stuff on krishaw
if you go look for it to find somebody to
make your Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Sure, you don't have to go all the way. You
can just go to what do they call this slosson
swap Meet. Now it has a different name, sloss in
super Mall it's called but it's still this sloss and
swap meet anyway. Yeah, eight hundred nine too, oh, fifteen eighty. Meanwhile,
lots of crazy things are happening as per usual.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The President gave a speech last night where he basically
said this was aired on the networks, where he basically said,
you know, the economy's fine, you're doing great, and if
you're not doing great, it's Joe Biden's fault. This is
my summary. You're doing great, and if you're not doing great,
it's Joe Biden's fault. And also you're going to be
(06:22):
doing great next year.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He included this.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Check that he claims he's sending out for seventeen one
hundred and seventy six dollars that's meant to go to
the troops. Now, I don't know if that is because
he thinks there's a possibility of a coup where the
government could be overthrown, Like maybe he's peeping out you know,
what's going on in veneen and other places, and he thinks, well, like,
(06:53):
you know, my popularity is way down, so maybe at
least I need to keep the military on my side
because the troops have generally sided with the president, have
generally voted Trump, which is amazing to me because he
got out of military service due to having bone spurs.
(07:13):
He has disrespected people like John McCain, Senator John McCain saying,
I like people who don't get captured. He has disparaged
gold star families whose loved ones have been killed in combat,
and yet the troops. I think it's kind of like
(07:33):
rappers and justice impacted people. They're buying the image. They're
buying the image from you know, TV, the Apprentice, They're
buying the image that the Playboy, you know, bad bees
and gold potties image, and so I think they're bad
(07:55):
buying the bad ombre image, like because if we're looking
at what he has or has not done for troops,
you would not be supporting him anyway. He is doing that,
trying to bribe people to keep the to keep the
support of the troops, and I think.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think the speech is not gonna help, but I'd
love to hear your thoughts. I don't think it's gonna
help because when you tell me that I'm doing fine
and my check buys fewer and fewer groceries, it just
it doesn't make I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm my wallet is making you a liar.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let's go to Big Phil calling us from LA. Good morning,
Big Phil.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
One, good morning morning Devil to doll the twenty six
around the corners, my year financing?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Good help.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Let me take one dam moved very quickly. You know,
I like rap to a certain extent. I love Mile
Wrap Cancer rapper, you know, but till dogs you go
suit out. I'm telling you he had no game, never
talked about game invention. You know, he's always wanted to
see TV. He needs to be like Master Pe. Okay,
he's talking about you need to go into trash camp. Okay,
(09:13):
but I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I gotta go godless interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know it's funny you would say that I wonder
if and he has to go so by Big Phil,
thank you for calling. I wonder if Snoop I saw
it on Instagram, but I wonder if Snoop is taking
damage because of that performance for Trump. I saw it
on Instagram. I know he lost a lot of followers
and Snoop was one of the faces that launched that
(09:39):
entire app. I know he remains incredibly popular. He's got
this halftime show on Christmas Day. He's still going to
be doing his Olympic thing. I I don't know, but
I for me, I wonder if these moves make people
lose popularity. I know some like Chrissette Michelle played a
(10:02):
huge paid a huge price right for supporting Republicans. She
really almost lost her career, But I feel like Snoop
is kind of carrying on. Do you think he's paid
a price for that?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I think yeah, in some ways. But I think when
you're I think Snoop transcended just the people you got
to care about to kind of know and kind of
like a character, you know what I mean, Like an
l long type of character would be you know what
I mean, whoa.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Types of character.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's nothing wrong without just saying that's that's kind of
what the persona that Snoop is kind of in bodied.
I don't know if you can take that big, how
big of a hit is gonna credit that it's gonna
hurt Mickey Mouse's credibility. He's still gonna have disney Land,
You're still gonna have Disney channels.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
So I mean, I don't know how much those hits
are gonna matter.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, that's a fair point. I mean, if you are
a larger than life, almost like a cartoon character, do
people have the same accountability for you? And I You know,
that could apply to Donald Trump too, because, like I
just said, I believe that one of the reasons he
gets the kind of support he has gotten from the
hip hop community, aside from the fact that people may
want pardons for their brothers or boyfriends or husbands or whatever,
(11:15):
is that people see him almost like a scarface, you know.
To me, he's like a Tony Montana, you know, say
hello to my little friend. It's like it's not a
real thing. It's like a it's like a fictional character.
And I think the Apprentice and all of that sort
of playboy Epstein swag works to his that's gross.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Epstein's wwag is gross, but I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Think it actually works to his favor rather than his
disfavor and adds to the teflon of it all. Eight
hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's the number
of Big Phil call to I invite you to do
the same.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You're listening to.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
KVLA Talk fifteen eighty. We are leaving behind in twenty
twenty five. Things we are taking with us into twenty
twenty six. One of the things I want to take
with us is the courage that I have witnessed people
speaking out, people being bold in the face of extreme repression,
the kind of you know, stripping away of our rights
(12:11):
that I haven't really seen in my lifetime. And yet
people keep marching, they keep speaking out, they keep calling
stuff out on socials.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That courage I.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Do want to bring into twenty twenty six. Let's go
to Quamel calling us from Guardina.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good morning, Quamel.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Hello, Yeah, I am definitely on a tip that there
needs to be zero trumpet and especially Exceptian energy of.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Moves.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Except it's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, no that Yeah, we had Cag's breath. Yeah, he
himself needs to be Tony Tony thrown off the boat
and yeah, just from himself. Hopefully he's throws thrown off
the boat or himself just kind of just croaks and
just off the boat. And it's something that we're starting
to openly wish that now. Uh so I think I
(13:07):
think that momentum. I think that momentum needs to stay.
I think, Uh I'm not a Democrat, but uh, the
Democrat fight needs to stay. The Democrat hurt needs to
the Democrat hurt needs to go lead that behind. People
are too leaned up in that. But hip hop, though, yes,
can that energy please keep going? And not and not
(13:32):
and not these not these goofy bird black boys. And
that was like Trump. But I'm talking about the kind
where the Daylight soul albums, you know, the Nas and
Primo albums, Larry June, two Chains, alkomeanst albums. Uh that
that that comes and uh you know even Snoopers on
like a real dope cut with with method Man and
Master Killa. I love I love that tune wast Cast
(13:54):
came back. Uh you know, I want to see the
youngsters kind of get up in there with some good
sign energy too, and hopefully the return of dances. I
want to I want to see this for the New year. Uh,
just some just really dope dance energy out there. Uh
you know, bring back the bring back the athleticism, bring
back the joy, you know, bring back the fight, the activism,
(14:16):
the street knowledge. You know, I'm here with min We're
gonna be doing anything in black Lantern books this Sunday
two to four. Now I'm about builing a cipher. And
and we and we get into the street knowledge. We
get into the street knowledge, like yo, bring that back,
don't you know? Don't lean in the dumb propaganda? Uh yeah,
And and and lastly, well.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I had a question for you, can hip can hip
hop save black history? Can hip hop save Black lives matter?
Can hip hop save uh the fight against anti blackness?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And will it.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
If it cares? If it cares, if it if it
if it's a bunch if it turns to a bunch
of podcasts bros. You know that that that are that
are basically boot liquors. No, no, I mean no, no,
but but it's we gotta it's putting the thread together.
It's it's spreading everything together. We're putting the old puzzle together.
(15:11):
So yeah, if it's a bunch of boot liquors, who
just who just want the bag? Which Snoop started looking
like where it was like he never met a he
never met a commercial. He didn't like iced tea and
shot kind of be on that same tip.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
You know, I'm off for them getting a bread. But
it's like, yo, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Man?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Like you know you're trying to sell depend on the garments.
I know you're getting up that age. But stop, bro,
that's that's that's not hip hoppy. That's that's not hippie
hoppity energy. Uh, that's just dude. That's just dude. Is
trying to be like a different kind of hustler because
they can't. They can't, they can't go out being d
boys anymore. Yes, but but but I but I do
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need I do need. I do need hip hop to
recapture that street Donald's spirit, that activist spirit where it's
too much, it's too much thinking like oh that ain't cool.
Uh you know but running around with were democrat heard
all day? Okay, you want us to think like that
so you have no smoke for obvious dictators, people that
(16:08):
obviously want you, want you dead.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Come on now, Bruel, you say you're not are you?
You're not a Republican though, right?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Are you a decline to I'm I.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Mean, yeah, I'm m p P m p P.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But I have very much Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
But I'm very much progressive and and I just want
to keep seeing uh progressive development like development of progressive minds,
progressive UH ideas and policies. I think I might have
lost the thread, but basically, uh yeah, I want I
just I just want that return to uh, that that
(16:46):
pe that brand Nubian uh and not on not on
the wrap, not just on the rap tip or the
sound tip, but on that on that street knowledge and
that activism tip. Like let's get back to that on
that note, I think your time, my friend, Thank.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You, thank you, good to hear from you. As always, Quamel,
We're gonna go to Lynette calling us from LA.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good morning, Queen, Good.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Morning queen, thanks for taking my call. Reparations and memory
of our ancestors, and we know the struggle continues with
always to God be the glory. You know, I was
thinking about what you said, and I'm diddling what you
said about what we're gonna take, what we're gonna leave.
But I really like the move that the AU and
the EU is making lately. And if you didn't hear
(17:31):
about the EU, they said that they are not gonna
be doing no business with Trump and putin about this
peace deal. You ain't gonna be griffing on this one
making some billions, and that we're gonna give Ukraine a
three hundred billions out of our pockets, and we're gonna
make sure that they do what they need to do
(17:51):
with it. And if you keep on messing with us,
we gonna sell your US bonds. Okay, them is war
fighting right there. Okay, you know, bushing him, bushing him,
they said, you know, back there when when uh, what
was the dam us say was talking about, well, we're
gonna take the dollar off the off the oil stand
(18:12):
or some of the We're gonna uh, we're gonna, yeah,
we're gonna take the dollar off the oil standards something
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, yeah, that's what what they're talking about, is not
taking making the dollar no longer be the currency of
the world, you know, which which would be a problem
for the United States. It would be a big problem
for us for our credit and all kinds of other things.
But we're moving in that direction. The world is moving
in that direction.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
But but listen, see the world they real hip on
this stuff. They ain't drinking a kool aid. Just like
the au the a you got together those African countries
they said, Hey, run us our check our recreations. It's
just that simple, you know. So I'm liking now. I'm
liking the seven million along with the seven million protesters
that got out there along it with Congressman Al Green
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who got just about all the Democrats to go with
the impeachment on last week, you know, because in the summer,
the Democrats they wasn't doing nothing about it. They voted
to keep Trump in. You know, they wouldn't do that.
So praise the Lord for that. And then I'm like,
here's just the fact that we are able to do
what we are doing here in the grassroots, like Black
(19:26):
Lives Matter, Reparations United, and everybody doing what they doing
to make this thing happen and bring us back from
this a moral what they say bent that Trump has
got us in, you know, because really the rest of
the world didn't laughing at us, and they think we're
much of more rons, And yeah, we need to come
to Jesus. Okay, the whole world need to come to Jesus.
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But this is making us look real bad around the world.
And he's gonna talk about Ryaner. He don't talk about Rhyner.
What leader ever does something like that. You ain't got
nothing good to say, don't say nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But to be fair Lynette, it's partly because the mainstream
media refuses to report on the work of fifty two
chapters of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, of all of the
different reparations organizations of which there are dozens in the
you know, in the country, of which you know what
I mean, they're not reporting on. Actually, my bonus daughter
(20:22):
sent me this terrible footage of what's going on in Washington,
you know, the flooding. The global warming is taking out
people's homes and entire communities. They're not reporting on that
and our pushback to it. They're not reporting on the
No Kings marches, or the you know, or the black
people marching in our communities, and the turn ups and
(20:45):
the callouts and all of these reparations commissions that are
being stood up. Like to your point, Lynnette, a lot
of good things are happening. Let's take all of that
into twenty twenty six, whether it's being reported on or not,
except for Washington. But I don't know how we stop.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Like the.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Climate emergency, we just have to keep talking about it.
The climate emergency is here right now. But all of
these things are happening and they're not getting reported on.
And that's one of the reasons why the world might
be laughing at us, because most of us don't support
the madness that's going on in the White House, even
if it is kind of funny. Lynette called me at
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eight hundred and nine to oh fifteen eighty, I invite
you to do the same. Caller Amnesty is on after News,
Traffic and Sports on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty, and like
I said, I invite you in right now at eight
hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eighty if you want to say something, it
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is true. Someone was pointing out that's the the hip
hop world has moved away from consciousness. But as I've
watched the cycles over the years, these things go in waves.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know, we have more.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Activism and hip hop, and then less, we got more
party vibes, and then we get more whatever the new
thing is, you know. So I don't I'm not super
alarmed by that. Somebody put it so well in the chat,
and unfortunately I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Scroll up to see who it is.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But the statement was that we need hip hop needs
to love love, justice and black people and community.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
More than it loves capitalism.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I do think the drift toward capitalism has been
strong because there's more and more money in the game.
That kind of money wasn't even there when rap started,
when hip hop started, but now it is there. So
now it's a choice. And we know the corporations would
rather you promote drinking and you know, drugs, mindlessness, self destruction,
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but we've always had that. It's just do we have choices?
And what is being platformed? What is being promoted?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I was gonna say radio, but other than talk radio
doesn't have the cloud that it used to because now
everybody streams and does whatever they do. In fact, I
was reading about how, now, oh that was you super busy? Okay, yeah,
that was a great point in the KBLA chat on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
In the comments, I.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Was reading about how there's so many podcasts now. Literally
these companies can put out three thousand podcasts in one
day using AI. They're not using actual broadcasters or talkers
or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
They're just using.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
AI, and so now the podcast zone is being flooded.
I saw the article and I thought, well, I wonder
if this means that people are gonna stop getting podcasts
because the zone will be totally flooded. It's already pretty flooded.
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I mean, when the former First Lady has a podcast,
you know it's out of control. But I'm just wondering
how all of these AI podcasts are going to impact,
if at all, because I think they're pretty generic and
not that fun to listen to.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe they'll get better and better. Maybe I'm sure they
will get better and better. I mean, Miles, you're the
AI expert AI user in this building. Do you see
the AI podcast pushing the real ones out? And I
do call them real because I think humans are meant
to be talking to humans. Was it going to push
(24:49):
people out of the game.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I don't think so. I think I think it'll deter
the people who it's meant to deter. I don't. I
think there's always gonna.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Be a a level of authenticity that we kind of crave.
I'm sure that like the machines and the big corporations
will push them on us a little more. You'll see
more advertisements for them, you'll see them more in your face.
You'll be forced to listen to them more. But I
think will always kind of seek the you know, the
real authenticity. Though it's gonna be scared of when we
can't really tell the difference and we're just accepting what
(25:20):
we hear, do not even question it though, right.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And I wonder if some people can tell now, I mean, yeah,
you can, but you can spot AI in a second
that other people don't spot. I mean, I'm I'm constantly
amazed that I can tell the obvious AI. But sometimes,
you know, I have to check. I have to go
in the comments and see if somebody said AI, because
(25:43):
it's getting more convincing. Anyway, we'll see, you know. It's
like anything. I remember when everybody got a camera on
their phone and all of a sudden, that actually did
lead to the demise of my production company, but it
was really more of a pivot than a demise. I
just stopped editing video and focused more on my own broadcast,
snimcy and writing work. But it did render the business
(26:07):
model unworkable because everyone felt they were a producer. Everyone
can edit everyone as a camera and they think that
they can do it, so it, you know, it became unworkable.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
They learned real quick that there's a difference between them
doing it and somebody who actually knows what they're doing.
Did they I think so, yeah, that I guarantee you
they work from that time showed the difference between yeah,
you were producing verse with their.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Producers, Oh, no doubt, no doubt. But I always think
there's opportunity in these crazy moments too. You know, when
something gets flooded, or something gets burnt out, or something
new is coming in. It's always a time when if
you really use your creative mind, you can find you
can find an opportunity in that.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
And I always say that I think that we just
counter it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
If you don't believe it, if you don't like it,
just your chance to counter it and put the put
the soul in the spirit and the.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Continent right on top into that. As a man, we're
gonna flood.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
If they're going to flood AI Slot podcast, why do
we not have people out here flooding it with you
know info podcasts, with you know infographics we gained from
the people who taught us from the great you know
mass teats of our time.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I'm pretty sure that what we're not gonna hear on
AI podcast is a lot of political content, you know,
speaking of opportunity.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
That's not gonna be pushed to you, but I guarantee
you it's gonna be made though.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Some conservative content. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't see a lot of progressive podcasts being generated
by A. I guess I could be wrong, but I
don't see it.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You listen to it, if you, if you, if it
came across your desk, I'll.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Check it out just to see what they're doing. What
I listened to it regularly? Probably not I like people
like humans like I don't you know, I'm not that
girl that's gonna marry her AI avatar or be chatting
because in my mind, I know that's not a real soul.
That's just a a construct. It's just an algorithm.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
It's just a chat botox.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And now, like I liked R two D two, but
would I like have a play date with.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Him her it?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
No, that's not that I need soul in my entities.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
What do you want to get out? What are we
looking to get out of?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Antepe robot discrimination, efficiency, cape capacity, things that that AI
can do that we can't, like sorting massive data sets
in seconds. Those are the things you know, And I'm
sure there's more that I haven't because I've barely started
exploring it. I'm sure there's more, but it's really more
(28:43):
to me, it looks like it should be more about
efficiency and capacity than creativity and soul. Yeah, that's what
I think. So we're gonna have a great Freedman Friday
tomorrow because we have got to talk about what happened
in Maryland, where, just like our guests last week on
(29:08):
Friedman Friday said the governor's veto was overridden, and I
actually maybe that was the week before that was Davon
Love who said that that they were really feeling like
they were going to be able to overturn Governor Wes
Moore's veto on reparations. And they did it. They absolutely
(29:33):
did it. And that means that Maryland will go ahead
and create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery
Jim Crow subsequent harms, just like California did. And this
is a big, huge deal a veto override around reparations.
(29:54):
Of course, I get Maryland is a very blackety black state.
In fact, this veto over I kind of made me
think I should maybe I should move there. I mean,
I wish we could have overridden a couple of the
governor's vetos this year, and certainly more than that the
year before, but they were able to do it, and
(30:18):
the governor said he wasn't thrilled about that. But he
says he will cooperate, that he will cooperate with the.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Task Force initiative. So he also says.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's not planning to run for president in twenty twenty eight.
But I, you know, I don't buy that. I really
feel like that's why him and Knewsome and others have
distanced themselves from reparations and sort of backpedaled against away
from a commitment that they had. Anyway, it'll be interesting
to see to unbox that a little bit more and
look at what it really means for Maryland and for
(30:58):
the reparations movement as a whole. It's absolutely one that
has continued to go even despite the fact that we
have this administration which is anti everything black, antide I,
anti self help, anti repair, anti anything that helps black people,
(31:21):
and yet local state, county measures continued to move forward.
The Trump administration has said now that Ethiopians who are
in the country who have legal or TPS protected status
temporary protected status will no longer have that status. They've
(31:43):
given them sixty days to get out of town or
be arrested or deported. So again, you know the Haitians.
We saw that with the Haitians, now we're seeing it
with the Ethiopians. I don't think anyone is surprised the
targeting of African countries. If you are surprised, you're not
paying attention that. Clearly the immigrants, so called immigrants, migrants,
(32:10):
refugees that are not welcome here are the darker hued ones.
And so that looks like it's about five thousand Ethiopians
that are refugees here that have that TPS status. Some
of them escape from war and t Gray and Aromea
and other places. But they say that if they are
(32:34):
deported or detained, they will never be allowed to come back,
which is crazy, crazy work. The oscars are moving to YouTube,
that's wild. The Oscars for me, is one of the
more mainstream and staid American traditions of TV. They used
(32:55):
to get about forty million viewers. Last year they were
back up to nineteen. But still they're struggling relative to
what they have.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Been used to doing.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And so now the whole thing's going to be on
YouTube and they're leaving it starts in twenty twenty nine.
I guess next year it will still be next year.
In the year after, it will still be on ABC.
But this has been fifty years on ABC. So this
is a giant culture see change, and you will not
(33:25):
be seeing it on network anymore. If you want to
see the OSCAR starting in twenty twenty nine, you will
have to go to YouTube, and they're saying it's free.
I don't know how long that's going to stay to
the point where you'll have to get YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
You'll have to.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Get that to be able to see the oscars. Right now,
they're claiming that they're going to stream it free, and
they're saying that they feel they'll be able to reach
a much bigger international audience. It's not too late to
call me on this. Amnesty Think Tank Thursday, What are
we bringing with us into twenty twenty six, what are
we leaving behind in twenty twenty five, and what's your
(34:05):
theme song for the year that was? All of those
are on the table, but certainly you're invited to talk
about anything that is.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
On your mind. I'm Dominic Taprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's a great time to call me at eight hundred
nine to oh fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to oh
fifteen eighty. I am truly looking forward to reuniting with
some of my African focused trailblazers next hour, and you're
invited into the conversation as we talk all things Motherland.
A nice little palate cleanser for your think tank Thursday.
So I asked you, what do you want to keep
(34:37):
from twenty twenty five and what do you want to
leave behind. I want to leave behind the outside outsized
influence of celebrities. I think it is waning, but I
would like to see it go all the way. Goodbye, bye, bye,
bye bye. People that don't know jack about things, telling
us what to vote, what to think, what to buy.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Leave that in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I want to leave bbls in twenty twenty five. I
think we could leave those in twenty twenty five more squats,
less bbls. I want to leave behind the irrational support
of the president. If you have an actual, fully well
researched and supported reason to go maga, Okay, you know,
(35:27):
all right? You know if I'm Nicki Minaj and I'm
trying to get my brother or my lover pardoned, and
at least there's some logic there, but the irrational support
of the president. I think we could leave that in
twenty twenty five. I would like to leave the super
giant lashes in twenty twenty five. You know, I've been
(35:49):
known to wear my lashes from time to time. I
like a little enhancement, but they're really big ones that
look like kind of more like fur than actual lashes,
Like they're so thick. I think we could leave those
in twenty twenty five. And I want to leave advice videos.
I feel like we're all burnt out on advice. You
know what you need to do, you know, even if
(36:11):
they I don't sound salty, huh, but even if they're
well meaning, it's just I'm kind of burnt out on it.
I think because of it, the Internet's and everybody's giving
you advice all the time. It's like, if I want
advice right now, I'm going to go to an expert,
not you. Not talking to you personally, Miles, but I
would like you to share your experiences, tell me a
(36:33):
funny story, you know, But all of the advice.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
No, I'm just I'm good.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Start the list.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I like that, like that you like the list.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
The list I lashes bbl's advice.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And celebrity influence.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Celebrity influence, that's a solid one. I think we should
leave those well. I think we definitely got to leave
this uh man verse one topic.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, the battle of the sexes.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Earthly that off of So let's leave that in.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
We'll look back at that when Facebook and Instagram give
us like the reminder of where you wore seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I mean, yeah, yeah, that MANI sphere whatever you call
the female version of it, which I didn't know existed,
but it does.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Uh yeah, that has.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
To go early that let's leave. Uh. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I was about to be salty and say, like the
TikTok dance craze, you know, I don't see that dying off.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
We always gonna come with our own dance.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah. To be honest with you, I mean I can
see because you probably spend more time on TikTok than
I do. I still find it charming because it's like, oh,
something that doesn't harm people that they're doing for fun.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
It's kind of wholesome.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
To me, I don't know, but I can see you know,
I probably haven't gotten sick of it yet. I want
to bring with us into twenty twenty six internet humor.
I think one of the things I love about the Internet,
even Twitter, is that people are funny.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Yeah, I love it too.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I love I always said, always said that once we
use this internet comedy for good and not evil, it's
an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Once we come together and make it happen, people.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Are hilarious, and that's one of the things that renews
my faith in mankind because to me, humor is also
a sign of intelligence. Right, So yes, let's bring all
the jokes, all the humor, even the stupid jokes.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Let's bring all of that into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Bring love into music back, like actual love songs, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Cut the cut out the sex songs, cut out the world.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Let's bring it more more love, like actual love between
human beings.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yes, I'm here for that. Well, we've got a Stevie
Wonder album dropping in twenty twenty six, so that should
have some love. But you know, when I saw Tara
Smartin it was the night before last. He was so good.
Oh my gosh, if you could go. It's at this
restaurant called Vers. He's doing it residency there.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Anyway, he's he played this really nice love song. I
can't remember what it was called, but he said he
found it in his phone. He was looking for some
stuff for his taxes and he found a song that
he had written I don't know, six seven years ago,
and it was just the most beautiful love song. He
said he can't write them like that anymore because it
sounded like too many problems, you know, like tax problems
(39:23):
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's taking over the writing instead of the love.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So I love that Either go look in your phone
again and find some more love song, or maybe we
need to be intentional about focusing on love.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Sure for sure.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
And I think, you know, being intentionally being places that
will curate that love and you know that inspiration out
of us, you know. I think we need to bring
more community into twenty twenty six. I think we've done
a great job as people getting back to you know,
finding our tribe, you know what I mean, find our
joy back outside, find that community.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
I think that more community options, more.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
More more healthy, more sober living options of what we're
gonna need.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I was trying to go to that Christmas on slosson
yesterday that they did the marathon. Yeah, but I didn't,
you know, I couldn't get myself to get.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Out the house.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
But and then today is the TD Christmas the Nickerson Gardens.
If you're in La, let me tell you I went
last year. That line is long. They're probably already lined
up because doors open at ten. That line was blocks
and blocks long. It was a great show and it's beautiful.
And then tomorrow they do their give back, the toy
(40:34):
giveaway and stuff like that. So I mean, yeah, you know,
I'm always here for community.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
And I also I said courage.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I definitely want to keep the courage I've seen in
twenty twenty five and build on that. But I also
I want to keep leave the advice videos behind. But
let's keep the smart videos because there are some really
like there are some creators that are doing short historical
videos and breaking down policies and breaking down speeches that
(41:08):
politicians say that are really smart and very helpful. I
think we need to keep those.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah, yeah, let's I think that's gonna require us, you know,
probably training own algorithm though, and stop depending on the
likes and the follows to make us see who's important
and who's telling the truth. Let's actually because we have
so you said, we have some great doctors, great lawyers,
great teachers, great scholars, great community leaders, great philosophers that are.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Making great content.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It may not be getting looks at, it may get
for somebody who's you know, got a little bit more
of a social media platform.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
So yeah, yeah, a lot more of that.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Please, Yeah, the smart videos and there's a lot of them.
I mean, I learned things. Some of my doom scrolling
is time wasting, but some of it I'm actually learning
stuff and following up on stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
So yes to all of that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
We're talking Africa. That's one thing we're definitely taking into
twenty twenty six is our trips to the Motherland, and
you know we're gonna talk all things Motherland, but also
do a little bit of reminiscing. And I'm glad Miles
that you were there too, so you can be in
on that conversation. Eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty.
(42:16):
Of course, you know we're streaming. Don't forget to follow me.
I'm Atdpremia Radio, d ip r IM and then radio.
So even when we're off for the holidays, you know
we can tap in on social media. The radio station
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Please like, follow, subscribe, talks mac all of that is good.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
And don't forget I even.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Have a YouTube channel. I've been uploading stuff lately now
that I learned how to do it, so you never
know what might pop up. I know one thing that
we're bringing into twenty twenty six is content, content, and
conversation because as usual we have a lot to talk
about news, traffic and sports. Then the more I'm Dominique Diprima.
(43:01):
That's Miles Low and this is KBLA Talk fifteen eighty
Hey, b LA Doc fifteen eighty. That's a good question, Miles.
What song sums up your year? Is there one?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is a thing Tank Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I have declared like I was some kind of authority,
which I ain't. I've declared caller amnesty, which means you
can call in even if you already called this week,
just asking that you keep it succinct eight hundred nine,
two oh fifteen eighty. The think Tank Thursday question that
I posed was what do you want to leave in
twenty twenty five and what would you like to bring
(00:31):
forward into twenty twenty six that we learned that we won,
that we saw this year. So I've asked that question,
but you're welcome to call in about anything else that's
on your mind. At eight hundred and nine two oh
fifteen eighty and Miles asked me what song summarizes my year?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I haven't figured it out yet.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And I'm assuming Miles, that you wanted to be a
twenty twenty five song, not one of my oldies. I
noticed you you picked the clips.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, because even though I ain't rocking with for real
too hard right now, but yeah, for sure, did you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
See Farrel's response to the critique of him saying he
doesn't do politics. You know, he gave a speech and
it was I mean, it was passionate. He was saying
he came from the Mud and that, you know what,
his comments were taken out of context. I don't know
how convincing that was, but anyway, I mean, I I
(01:29):
appreciated him addressing it. I appreciated him sharing his own struggle,
you know. But also, you know, some of it has
to do with the moves you make politically. So when
you say you're you hate politics, but then then everyone's
going to look at well, what if you supported what
(01:49):
have you been on board with? And if it doesn't
match the speech, then that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
We went right over there to the Israeli Defense Force
and was rocking with him. So yeah, no, no, I mean,
you know, I can get what you're saying. I understand
that we all could have a find a SOB story
in our life, of course, but yeah, what what do
your moves say? So no, you don't get a passion
that that for real? Great music?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Cool?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know Louis stuff, maybe I guess, but.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Nah, yeah, Louis stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
If you can afford it.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Im Timberling Booty selling for like eighty bands.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Wow, yeah, I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, I look because I think it's another expression
of our creativity and I'm here for that. But those
are prices that you know, I just yeah, I'll find
Dapper Dan. Ye oh wait, he's over there with the
real uh, the real designers now the so called real designers. Anyway,
(02:44):
I think it's a fair question, and I'm gonna have
to give it some thought because there was so many great,
so many great albums and songs this year, and yet
the ones that I play and you know, sing at
the top of my lungs when I'm mad and stuff,
some of them are not from this year.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I have to think about it.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Clips this should be a good theme song for me
because it's a it's an appreciation of people that have
been on the mic for a long long time. So
that's that's what I'm looking for in twenty twenty six,
I'll be looking for my CLIPS moment.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Be a bounced backs. You never fell down like that.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't fall down, but I don't, you know, and
I guess probably every person that's pioneering it's been on
you know, doing whatever they're doing for a long time.
I'm not looking for fame. I rather get fortune. But
I just think for some of us who've opened doors
for other people, it just feels like you don't get
the credit, or maybe you don't get for me, I
(03:41):
don't care as much about the credit as the check
that we you know that other people who came along
later and sort of were able to benefit from the
work you put in did get. I'm not a hater
because I think my blessings have my name on them,
and everyone's blessings have their name on them, which is
why I'll never be bitter. I've been blessed to do
(04:01):
what I love to do for so many years. But
I wouldn't mind a Clips moment where they go, Man,
that girl is dope. She's been doing this before everybody
had a podcast, and.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Before everybody decided they were a broadcaster, and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Before there were any females on the mic. I mean,
just the fact that this is the first time a
black woman has done morning drives in commercial talk radio
in LA tells you everything you need to know about
some of the obstacles that I've been blessed to overcome.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So I'll take that clips moment. I do.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I am not complaining though, even though I am an ingrate.
Thamas always says if you complain, he'd be an ingrade.
I do complain, so that's why I say, yes, I
can be an ingrad. But I just feel like very
blessed and I'm so it's not a complaint.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So Amnestya is on.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You can call eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen
eighty if you want to share what you want to
keep in twenty twenty from twenty twenty five. Would you
want to leave behind mind your theme song for the
year or something else sits on your mind? Eight hundred
and nine to oh fifteen eighty. That's the number you
know that. You can also weigh in on YouTube YouTube
(05:12):
KBLA fifteen eighty is our address handle whatever on YouTube.
We're streaming there right now. A pressor, John says he
wants a counterfeit outfit from a Dapper Dan, not the
legit Gucci releases. I mean, that's what I was saying.
But isn't Dapper Dan now working for them?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Not sure, but I mean I think so.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You can find probably most of the stuff on krishaw
if you go look for it to find somebody to
make your Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Sure, you don't have to go all the way. You
can just go to what do they call this slosson
swap Meet. Now it has a different name, sloss in
super Mall it's called but it's still this sloss and
swap meet anyway. Yeah, eight hundred nine too, oh, fifteen eighty. Meanwhile,
lots of crazy things are happening as per usual.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The President gave a speech last night where he basically
said this was aired on the networks, where he basically said,
you know, the economy's fine, you're doing great, and if
you're not doing great, it's Joe Biden's fault. This is
my summary. You're doing great, and if you're not doing great,
it's Joe Biden's fault. And also you're going to be
(06:22):
doing great next year.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He included this.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Check that he claims he's sending out for seventeen one
hundred and seventy six dollars that's meant to go to
the troops. Now, I don't know if that is because
he thinks there's a possibility of a coup where the
government could be overthrown, Like maybe he's peeping out you know,
what's going on in veneen and other places, and he thinks, well, like,
(06:53):
you know, my popularity is way down, so maybe at
least I need to keep the military on my side
because the troops have generally sided with the president, have
generally voted Trump, which is amazing to me because he
got out of military service due to having bone spurs.
(07:13):
He has disrespected people like John McCain, Senator John McCain saying,
I like people who don't get captured. He has disparaged
gold star families whose loved ones have been killed in combat,
and yet the troops. I think it's kind of like
(07:33):
rappers and justice impacted people. They're buying the image. They're
buying the image from you know, TV, the Apprentice, They're
buying the image that the Playboy, you know, bad bees
and gold potties image, and so I think they're bad
(07:55):
buying the bad ombre image, like because if we're looking
at what he has or has not done for troops,
you would not be supporting him anyway. He is doing that,
trying to bribe people to keep the to keep the
support of the troops, and I think.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I think the speech is not gonna help, but I'd
love to hear your thoughts. I don't think it's gonna
help because when you tell me that I'm doing fine
and my check buys fewer and fewer groceries, it just
it doesn't make I don't believe you.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I'm my wallet is making you a liar.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Let's go to Big Phil calling us from LA. Good morning,
Big Phil.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
One, good morning morning Devil to doll the twenty six
around the corners, my year financing?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Good help.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Let me take one dam moved very quickly. You know,
I like rap to a certain extent. I love Mile
Wrap Cancer rapper, you know, but till dogs you go
suit out. I'm telling you he had no game, never
talked about game invention. You know, he's always wanted to
see TV. He needs to be like Master Pe. Okay,
he's talking about you need to go into trash camp. Okay,
(09:13):
but I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I gotta go godless interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know it's funny you would say that I wonder
if and he has to go so by Big Phil,
thank you for calling. I wonder if Snoop I saw
it on Instagram, but I wonder if Snoop is taking
damage because of that performance for Trump. I saw it
on Instagram. I know he lost a lot of followers
and Snoop was one of the faces that launched that
(09:39):
entire app. I know he remains incredibly popular. He's got
this halftime show on Christmas Day. He's still going to
be doing his Olympic thing. I I don't know, but
I for me, I wonder if these moves make people
lose popularity. I know some like Chrissette Michelle played a
(10:02):
huge paid a huge price right for supporting Republicans. She
really almost lost her career, But I feel like Snoop
is kind of carrying on. Do you think he's paid
a price for that?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I think yeah, in some ways. But I think when
you're I think Snoop transcended just the people you got
to care about to kind of know and kind of
like a character, you know what I mean, Like an
l long type of character would be you know what
I mean, whoa.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Types of character.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's nothing wrong without just saying that's that's kind of
what the persona that Snoop is kind of in bodied.
I don't know if you can take that big, how
big of a hit is gonna credit that it's gonna
hurt Mickey Mouse's credibility. He's still gonna have disney Land,
You're still gonna have Disney channels.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
So I mean, I don't know how much those hits
are gonna matter.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, that's a fair point. I mean, if you are
a larger than life, almost like a cartoon character, do
people have the same accountability for you? And I You know,
that could apply to Donald Trump too, because, like I
just said, I believe that one of the reasons he
gets the kind of support he has gotten from the
hip hop community, aside from the fact that people may
want pardons for their brothers or boyfriends or husbands or whatever,
(11:15):
is that people see him almost like a scarface, you know.
To me, he's like a Tony Montana, you know, say
hello to my little friend. It's like it's not a
real thing. It's like a it's like a fictional character.
And I think the Apprentice and all of that sort
of playboy Epstein swag works to his that's gross.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Epstein's wwag is gross, but I.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Think it actually works to his favor rather than his
disfavor and adds to the teflon of it all. Eight
hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty. That's the number
of Big Phil call to I invite you to do
the same.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You're listening to.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
KVLA Talk fifteen eighty. We are leaving behind in twenty
twenty five. Things we are taking with us into twenty
twenty six. One of the things I want to take
with us is the courage that I have witnessed people
speaking out, people being bold in the face of extreme repression,
the kind of you know, stripping away of our rights
(12:11):
that I haven't really seen in my lifetime. And yet
people keep marching, they keep speaking out, they keep calling
stuff out on socials.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That courage I.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Do want to bring into twenty twenty six. Let's go
to Quamel calling us from Guardina.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good morning, Quamel.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Hello, Yeah, I am definitely on a tip that there
needs to be zero trumpet and especially Exceptian energy of.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Moves.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Except it's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, no that Yeah, we had Cag's breath. Yeah, he
himself needs to be Tony Tony thrown off the boat
and yeah, just from himself. Hopefully he's throws thrown off
the boat or himself just kind of just croaks and
just off the boat. And it's something that we're starting
to openly wish that now. Uh so I think I
(13:07):
think that momentum. I think that momentum needs to stay.
I think, Uh I'm not a Democrat, but uh, the
Democrat fight needs to stay. The Democrat hurt needs to
the Democrat hurt needs to go lead that behind. People
are too leaned up in that. But hip hop, though, yes,
can that energy please keep going? And not and not
(13:32):
and not these not these goofy bird black boys. And
that was like Trump. But I'm talking about the kind
where the Daylight soul albums, you know, the Nas and
Primo albums, Larry June, two Chains, alkomeanst albums. Uh that
that that comes and uh you know even Snoopers on
like a real dope cut with with method Man and
Master Killa. I love I love that tune wast Cast
(13:54):
came back. Uh you know, I want to see the
youngsters kind of get up in there with some good
sign energy too, and hopefully the return of dances. I
want to I want to see this for the New year. Uh,
just some just really dope dance energy out there. Uh
you know, bring back the bring back the athleticism, bring
back the joy, you know, bring back the fight, the activism,
(14:16):
the street knowledge. You know, I'm here with min We're
gonna be doing anything in black Lantern books this Sunday
two to four. Now I'm about builing a cipher. And
and we and we get into the street knowledge. We
get into the street knowledge, like yo, bring that back,
don't you know? Don't lean in the dumb propaganda? Uh yeah,
And and and lastly, well.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I had a question for you, can hip can hip
hop save black history? Can hip hop save Black lives matter?
Can hip hop save uh the fight against anti blackness?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
And will it.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
If it cares? If it cares, if it if it
if it's a bunch if it turns to a bunch
of podcasts bros. You know that that that are that
are basically boot liquors. No, no, I mean no, no,
but but it's we gotta it's putting the thread together.
It's it's spreading everything together. We're putting the old puzzle together.
(15:11):
So yeah, if it's a bunch of boot liquors, who
just who just want the bag? Which Snoop started looking
like where it was like he never met a he
never met a commercial. He didn't like iced tea and
shot kind of be on that same tip.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
You know, I'm off for them getting a bread. But
it's like, yo, what are y'all doing?
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Man?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Like you know you're trying to sell depend on the garments.
I know you're getting up that age. But stop, bro,
that's that's that's not hip hoppy. That's that's not hippie
hoppity energy. Uh, that's just dude. That's just dude. Is
trying to be like a different kind of hustler because
they can't. They can't, they can't go out being d
boys anymore. Yes, but but but I but I do
(15:48):
need I do need. I do need hip hop to
recapture that street Donald's spirit, that activist spirit where it's
too much, it's too much thinking like oh that ain't cool.
Uh you know but running around with were democrat heard
all day? Okay, you want us to think like that
so you have no smoke for obvious dictators, people that
(16:08):
obviously want you, want you dead.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Come on now, Bruel, you say you're not are you?
You're not a Republican though, right?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Are you a decline to I'm I.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Mean, yeah, I'm m p P m p P.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But I have very much Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
But I'm very much progressive and and I just want
to keep seeing uh progressive development like development of progressive minds,
progressive UH ideas and policies. I think I might have
lost the thread, but basically, uh yeah, I want I
just I just want that return to uh, that that
(16:46):
pe that brand Nubian uh and not on not on
the wrap, not just on the rap tip or the
sound tip, but on that on that street knowledge and
that activism tip. Like let's get back to that on
that note, I think your time, my friend, Thank.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You, thank you, good to hear from you. As always, Quamel,
We're gonna go to Lynette calling us from LA.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good morning, Queen, Good.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Morning queen, thanks for taking my call. Reparations and memory
of our ancestors, and we know the struggle continues with
always to God be the glory. You know, I was
thinking about what you said, and I'm diddling what you
said about what we're gonna take, what we're gonna leave.
But I really like the move that the AU and
the EU is making lately. And if you didn't hear
(17:31):
about the EU, they said that they are not gonna
be doing no business with Trump and putin about this
peace deal. You ain't gonna be griffing on this one
making some billions, and that we're gonna give Ukraine a
three hundred billions out of our pockets, and we're gonna
make sure that they do what they need to do
(17:51):
with it. And if you keep on messing with us,
we gonna sell your US bonds. Okay, them is war
fighting right there. Okay, you know, bushing him, bushing him,
they said, you know, back there when when uh, what
was the dam us say was talking about, well, we're
gonna take the dollar off the off the oil stand
(18:12):
or some of the We're gonna uh, we're gonna, yeah,
we're gonna take the dollar off the oil standards something
like that.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, yeah, that's what what they're talking about, is not
taking making the dollar no longer be the currency of
the world, you know, which which would be a problem
for the United States. It would be a big problem
for us for our credit and all kinds of other things.
But we're moving in that direction. The world is moving
in that direction.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
But but listen, see the world they real hip on
this stuff. They ain't drinking a kool aid. Just like
the au the a you got together those African countries
they said, Hey, run us our check our recreations. It's
just that simple, you know. So I'm liking now. I'm
liking the seven million along with the seven million protesters
that got out there along it with Congressman Al Green
(19:02):
who got just about all the Democrats to go with
the impeachment on last week, you know, because in the summer,
the Democrats they wasn't doing nothing about it. They voted
to keep Trump in. You know, they wouldn't do that.
So praise the Lord for that. And then I'm like,
here's just the fact that we are able to do
what we are doing here in the grassroots, like Black
(19:26):
Lives Matter, Reparations United, and everybody doing what they doing
to make this thing happen and bring us back from
this a moral what they say bent that Trump has
got us in, you know, because really the rest of
the world didn't laughing at us, and they think we're
much of more rons, And yeah, we need to come
to Jesus. Okay, the whole world need to come to Jesus.
(19:47):
But this is making us look real bad around the world.
And he's gonna talk about Ryaner. He don't talk about Rhyner.
What leader ever does something like that. You ain't got
nothing good to say, don't say nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But to be fair Lynette, it's partly because the mainstream
media refuses to report on the work of fifty two
chapters of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, of all of the
different reparations organizations of which there are dozens in the
you know, in the country, of which you know what
I mean, they're not reporting on. Actually, my bonus daughter
(20:22):
sent me this terrible footage of what's going on in Washington,
you know, the flooding. The global warming is taking out
people's homes and entire communities. They're not reporting on that
and our pushback to it. They're not reporting on the
No Kings marches, or the you know, or the black
people marching in our communities, and the turn ups and
(20:45):
the callouts and all of these reparations commissions that are
being stood up. Like to your point, Lynnette, a lot
of good things are happening. Let's take all of that
into twenty twenty six, whether it's being reported on or not,
except for Washington. But I don't know how we stop.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Like the.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Climate emergency, we just have to keep talking about it.
The climate emergency is here right now. But all of
these things are happening and they're not getting reported on.
And that's one of the reasons why the world might
be laughing at us, because most of us don't support
the madness that's going on in the White House, even
if it is kind of funny. Lynette called me at
(21:28):
eight hundred and nine to oh fifteen eighty, I invite
you to do the same. Caller Amnesty is on after News,
Traffic and Sports on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty, and like
I said, I invite you in right now at eight
hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two
oh fifteen eighty if you want to say something, it
(21:49):
is true. Someone was pointing out that's the the hip
hop world has moved away from consciousness. But as I've
watched the cycles over the years, these things go in waves.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know, we have more.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Activism and hip hop, and then less, we got more
party vibes, and then we get more whatever the new
thing is, you know. So I don't I'm not super
alarmed by that. Somebody put it so well in the chat,
and unfortunately I can't.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Scroll up to see who it is.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But the statement was that we need hip hop needs
to love love, justice and black people and community.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
More than it loves capitalism.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And I do think the drift toward capitalism has been
strong because there's more and more money in the game.
That kind of money wasn't even there when rap started,
when hip hop started, but now it is there. So
now it's a choice. And we know the corporations would
rather you promote drinking and you know, drugs, mindlessness, self destruction,
(23:03):
but we've always had that. It's just do we have choices?
And what is being platformed? What is being promoted?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I was gonna say radio, but other than talk radio
doesn't have the cloud that it used to because now
everybody streams and does whatever they do. In fact, I
was reading about how, now, oh that was you super busy? Okay, yeah,
that was a great point in the KBLA chat on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
In the comments, I.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Was reading about how there's so many podcasts now. Literally
these companies can put out three thousand podcasts in one
day using AI. They're not using actual broadcasters or talkers
or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
They're just using.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
AI, and so now the podcast zone is being flooded.
I saw the article and I thought, well, I wonder
if this means that people are gonna stop getting podcasts
because the zone will be totally flooded. It's already pretty flooded.
(24:10):
I mean, when the former First Lady has a podcast,
you know it's out of control. But I'm just wondering
how all of these AI podcasts are going to impact,
if at all, because I think they're pretty generic and
not that fun to listen to.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe they'll get better and better. Maybe I'm sure they
will get better and better. I mean, Miles, you're the
AI expert AI user in this building. Do you see
the AI podcast pushing the real ones out? And I
do call them real because I think humans are meant
to be talking to humans. Was it going to push
(24:49):
people out of the game.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I don't think so. I think I think it'll deter
the people who it's meant to deter. I don't. I
think there's always gonna.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Be a a level of authenticity that we kind of crave.
I'm sure that like the machines and the big corporations
will push them on us a little more. You'll see
more advertisements for them, you'll see them more in your face.
You'll be forced to listen to them more. But I
think will always kind of seek the you know, the
real authenticity. Though it's gonna be scared of when we
can't really tell the difference and we're just accepting what
(25:20):
we hear, do not even question it though, right.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And I wonder if some people can tell now, I mean, yeah,
you can, but you can spot AI in a second
that other people don't spot. I mean, I'm I'm constantly
amazed that I can tell the obvious AI. But sometimes,
you know, I have to check. I have to go
in the comments and see if somebody said AI, because
(25:43):
it's getting more convincing. Anyway, we'll see, you know. It's
like anything. I remember when everybody got a camera on
their phone and all of a sudden, that actually did
lead to the demise of my production company, but it
was really more of a pivot than a demise. I
just stopped editing video and focused more on my own broadcast,
snimcy and writing work. But it did render the business
(26:07):
model unworkable because everyone felt they were a producer. Everyone
can edit everyone as a camera and they think that
they can do it, so it, you know, it became unworkable.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
They learned real quick that there's a difference between them
doing it and somebody who actually knows what they're doing.
Did they I think so, yeah, that I guarantee you
they work from that time showed the difference between yeah,
you were producing verse with their.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Producers, Oh, no doubt, no doubt. But I always think
there's opportunity in these crazy moments too. You know, when
something gets flooded, or something gets burnt out, or something
new is coming in. It's always a time when if
you really use your creative mind, you can find you
can find an opportunity in that.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
And I always say that I think that we just
counter it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
If you don't believe it, if you don't like it,
just your chance to counter it and put the put
the soul in the spirit and the.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Continent right on top into that. As a man, we're
gonna flood.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
If they're going to flood AI Slot podcast, why do
we not have people out here flooding it with you
know info podcasts, with you know infographics we gained from
the people who taught us from the great you know
mass teats of our time.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I'm pretty sure that what we're not gonna hear on
AI podcast is a lot of political content, you know,
speaking of opportunity.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
That's not gonna be pushed to you, but I guarantee
you it's gonna be made though.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Some conservative content. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't see a lot of progressive podcasts being generated
by A. I guess I could be wrong, but I
don't see it.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
You listen to it, if you, if you, if it
came across your desk, I'll.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Check it out just to see what they're doing. What
I listened to it regularly? Probably not I like people
like humans like I don't you know, I'm not that
girl that's gonna marry her AI avatar or be chatting
because in my mind, I know that's not a real soul.
That's just a a construct. It's just an algorithm.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
It's just a chat botox.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And now, like I liked R two D two, but
would I like have a play date with.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Him her it?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
No, that's not that I need soul in my entities.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
What do you want to get out? What are we
looking to get out of?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Antepe robot discrimination, efficiency, cape capacity, things that that AI
can do that we can't, like sorting massive data sets
in seconds. Those are the things you know, And I'm
sure there's more that I haven't because I've barely started
exploring it. I'm sure there's more, but it's really more
(28:43):
to me, it looks like it should be more about
efficiency and capacity than creativity and soul. Yeah, that's what
I think. So we're gonna have a great Freedman Friday
tomorrow because we have got to talk about what happened
in Maryland, where, just like our guests last week on
(29:08):
Friedman Friday said the governor's veto was overridden, and I
actually maybe that was the week before that was Davon
Love who said that that they were really feeling like
they were going to be able to overturn Governor Wes
Moore's veto on reparations. And they did it. They absolutely
(29:33):
did it. And that means that Maryland will go ahead
and create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery
Jim Crow subsequent harms, just like California did. And this
is a big, huge deal a veto override around reparations.
(29:54):
Of course, I get Maryland is a very blackety black state.
In fact, this veto over I kind of made me
think I should maybe I should move there. I mean,
I wish we could have overridden a couple of the
governor's vetos this year, and certainly more than that the
year before, but they were able to do it, and
(30:18):
the governor said he wasn't thrilled about that. But he
says he will cooperate, that he will cooperate with the.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Task Force initiative. So he also says.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's not planning to run for president in twenty twenty eight.
But I, you know, I don't buy that. I really
feel like that's why him and Knewsome and others have
distanced themselves from reparations and sort of backpedaled against away
from a commitment that they had. Anyway, it'll be interesting
to see to unbox that a little bit more and
look at what it really means for Maryland and for
(30:58):
the reparations movement as a whole. It's absolutely one that
has continued to go even despite the fact that we
have this administration which is anti everything black, antide I,
anti self help, anti repair, anti anything that helps black people,
(31:21):
and yet local state, county measures continued to move forward.
The Trump administration has said now that Ethiopians who are
in the country who have legal or TPS protected status
temporary protected status will no longer have that status. They've
(31:43):
given them sixty days to get out of town or
be arrested or deported. So again, you know the Haitians.
We saw that with the Haitians, now we're seeing it
with the Ethiopians. I don't think anyone is surprised the
targeting of African countries. If you are surprised, you're not
paying attention that. Clearly the immigrants, so called immigrants, migrants,
(32:10):
refugees that are not welcome here are the darker hued ones.
And so that looks like it's about five thousand Ethiopians
that are refugees here that have that TPS status. Some
of them escape from war and t Gray and Aromea
and other places. But they say that if they are
(32:34):
deported or detained, they will never be allowed to come back,
which is crazy, crazy work. The oscars are moving to YouTube,
that's wild. The Oscars for me, is one of the
more mainstream and staid American traditions of TV. They used
(32:55):
to get about forty million viewers. Last year they were
back up to nineteen. But still they're struggling relative to
what they have.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Been used to doing.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And so now the whole thing's going to be on
YouTube and they're leaving it starts in twenty twenty nine.
I guess next year it will still be next year.
In the year after, it will still be on ABC.
But this has been fifty years on ABC. So this
is a giant culture see change, and you will not
(33:25):
be seeing it on network anymore. If you want to
see the OSCAR starting in twenty twenty nine, you will
have to go to YouTube, and they're saying it's free.
I don't know how long that's going to stay to
the point where you'll have to get YouTube TV.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
You'll have to.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Get that to be able to see the oscars. Right now,
they're claiming that they're going to stream it free, and
they're saying that they feel they'll be able to reach
a much bigger international audience. It's not too late to
call me on this. Amnesty Think Tank Thursday, What are
we bringing with us into twenty twenty six, what are
we leaving behind in twenty twenty five, and what's your
(34:05):
theme song for the year that was? All of those
are on the table, but certainly you're invited to talk
about anything that is.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
On your mind. I'm Dominic Taprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's a great time to call me at eight hundred
nine to oh fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine to oh
fifteen eighty. I am truly looking forward to reuniting with
some of my African focused trailblazers next hour, and you're
invited into the conversation as we talk all things Motherland.
A nice little palate cleanser for your think tank Thursday.
So I asked you, what do you want to keep
(34:37):
from twenty twenty five and what do you want to
leave behind. I want to leave behind the outside outsized
influence of celebrities. I think it is waning, but I
would like to see it go all the way. Goodbye, bye, bye,
bye bye. People that don't know jack about things, telling
us what to vote, what to think, what to buy.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Leave that in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I want to leave bbls in twenty twenty five. I
think we could leave those in twenty twenty five more squats,
less bbls. I want to leave behind the irrational support
of the president. If you have an actual, fully well
researched and supported reason to go maga, Okay, you know,
(35:27):
all right? You know if I'm Nicki Minaj and I'm
trying to get my brother or my lover pardoned, and
at least there's some logic there, but the irrational support
of the president. I think we could leave that in
twenty twenty five. I would like to leave the super
giant lashes in twenty twenty five. You know, I've been
(35:49):
known to wear my lashes from time to time. I
like a little enhancement, but they're really big ones that
look like kind of more like fur than actual lashes,
Like they're so thick. I think we could leave those
in twenty twenty five. And I want to leave advice videos.
I feel like we're all burnt out on advice. You
know what you need to do, you know, even if
(36:11):
they I don't sound salty, huh, but even if they're
well meaning, it's just I'm kind of burnt out on it.
I think because of it, the Internet's and everybody's giving
you advice all the time. It's like, if I want
advice right now, I'm going to go to an expert,
not you. Not talking to you personally, Miles, but I
would like you to share your experiences, tell me a
(36:33):
funny story, you know, But all of the advice.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
No, I'm just I'm good.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Start the list.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I like that, like that you like the list.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
The list I lashes bbl's advice.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And celebrity influence.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Celebrity influence, that's a solid one. I think we should
leave those well. I think we definitely got to leave
this uh man verse one topic.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, the battle of the sexes.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Earthly that off of So let's leave that in.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
We'll look back at that when Facebook and Instagram give
us like the reminder of where you wore seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I mean, yeah, yeah, that MANI sphere whatever you call
the female version of it, which I didn't know existed,
but it does.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Uh yeah, that has.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
To go early that let's leave. Uh. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I was about to be salty and say, like the
TikTok dance craze, you know, I don't see that dying off.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
We always gonna come with our own dance.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah. To be honest with you, I mean I can
see because you probably spend more time on TikTok than
I do. I still find it charming because it's like, oh,
something that doesn't harm people that they're doing for fun.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
It's kind of wholesome.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
To me, I don't know, but I can see you know,
I probably haven't gotten sick of it yet. I want
to bring with us into twenty twenty six internet humor.
I think one of the things I love about the Internet,
even Twitter, is that people are funny.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Yeah, I love it too.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I love I always said, always said that once we
use this internet comedy for good and not evil, it's
an amazing thing.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Once we come together and make it happen, people.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Are hilarious, and that's one of the things that renews
my faith in mankind because to me, humor is also
a sign of intelligence. Right, So yes, let's bring all
the jokes, all the humor, even the stupid jokes.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Let's bring all of that into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Bring love into music back, like actual love songs, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Cut the cut out the sex songs, cut out the world.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Let's bring it more more love, like actual love between
human beings.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yes, I'm here for that. Well, we've got a Stevie
Wonder album dropping in twenty twenty six, so that should
have some love. But you know, when I saw Tara
Smartin it was the night before last. He was so good.
Oh my gosh, if you could go. It's at this
restaurant called Vers. He's doing it residency there.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Anyway, he's he played this really nice love song. I
can't remember what it was called, but he said he
found it in his phone. He was looking for some
stuff for his taxes and he found a song that
he had written I don't know, six seven years ago,
and it was just the most beautiful love song. He
said he can't write them like that anymore because it
sounded like too many problems, you know, like tax problems
(39:23):
and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's taking over the writing instead of the love.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So I love that Either go look in your phone
again and find some more love song, or maybe we
need to be intentional about focusing on love.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Sure for sure.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
And I think, you know, being intentionally being places that
will curate that love and you know that inspiration out
of us, you know. I think we need to bring
more community into twenty twenty six. I think we've done
a great job as people getting back to you know,
finding our tribe, you know what I mean, find our
joy back outside, find that community.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
I think that more community options, more.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
More more healthy, more sober living options of what we're
gonna need.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
In twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I was trying to go to that Christmas on slosson
yesterday that they did the marathon. Yeah, but I didn't,
you know, I couldn't get myself to get.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Out the house.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
But and then today is the TD Christmas the Nickerson Gardens.
If you're in La, let me tell you I went
last year. That line is long. They're probably already lined
up because doors open at ten. That line was blocks
and blocks long. It was a great show and it's beautiful.
And then tomorrow they do their give back, the toy
(40:34):
giveaway and stuff like that. So I mean, yeah, you know,
I'm always here for community.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
And I also I said courage.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
I definitely want to keep the courage I've seen in
twenty twenty five and build on that. But I also
I want to keep leave the advice videos behind. But
let's keep the smart videos because there are some really
like there are some creators that are doing short historical
videos and breaking down policies and breaking down speeches that
(41:08):
politicians say that are really smart and very helpful. I
think we need to keep those.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah, yeah, let's I think that's gonna require us, you know,
probably training own algorithm though, and stop depending on the
likes and the follows to make us see who's important
and who's telling the truth. Let's actually because we have
so you said, we have some great doctors, great lawyers,
great teachers, great scholars, great community leaders, great philosophers that are.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Making great content.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It may not be getting looks at, it may get
for somebody who's you know, got a little bit more
of a social media platform.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
So yeah, yeah, a lot more of that.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Please, Yeah, the smart videos and there's a lot of them.
I mean, I learned things. Some of my doom scrolling
is time wasting, but some of it I'm actually learning
stuff and following up on stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
So yes to all of that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
We're talking Africa. That's one thing we're definitely taking into
twenty twenty six is our trips to the Motherland, and
you know we're gonna talk all things Motherland, but also
do a little bit of reminiscing. And I'm glad Miles
that you were there too, so you can be in
on that conversation. Eight hundred and nine two oh fifteen eighty.
(42:16):
Of course, you know we're streaming. Don't forget to follow me.
I'm Atdpremia Radio, d ip r IM and then radio.
So even when we're off for the holidays, you know
we can tap in on social media. The radio station
is at KBLA fifteen eighty KBLA fifteen eighty on every platform,
Please like, follow, subscribe, talks mac all of that is good.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
And don't forget I even.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Have a YouTube channel. I've been uploading stuff lately now
that I learned how to do it, so you never
know what might pop up. I know one thing that
we're bringing into twenty twenty six is content, content, and
conversation because as usual we have a lot to talk
about news, traffic and sports. Then the more I'm Dominique Diprima.
(43:01):
That's Miles Low and this is KBLA Talk fifteen eighty
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