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June 11, 2025 • 120 mins
KCAA: The Worker Power Hour on Wed, 11 Jun, 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 6 (00:51):
In Agnews from agnet West, talking with Daniel Jackson from
Family Tree Farms headquartered in Reidley, California, and I asked Daniel,
the shelf life for true.

Speaker 7 (01:02):
Food is not long.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
Your marketing team has to be on their a game
to get it out quickly.

Speaker 8 (01:07):
So the process for stown fruit, because it's perishable, you
want to first find some genetics that actually are able
to have a little bit of a longer shelf life
so it can go through the process. So we start
up the end of April beginning of May here in
the Salwaquin Valley and we go all the way into October.
And that's all because of genetics.

Speaker 9 (01:27):
And there's early varieties that work well here, and there's
mid season varieties, and there's late season varieties that work well.
We harvest the fruit daily as it matures, and we
bring it into the packing facility after its pack We
pre cool it down to thirty two degrees with four
stair cooling, and then we store it and we get

(01:50):
it ready to shift, hopefully within a few days of
it being packed, and hopefully no longer than a couple
of weeks. So that kind of varies, right, Early season
fruits a little weaker, the later season freeze a little stronger,
and so sales kind of vary depending on what time
and time of the year it is.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
That was Daniel Jackson from Family Tree Farms in Reedley, California.
Family Tree Farms packs over one hundred and seventy million
pounds a year of tree fruit and blueberries.

Speaker 10 (02:18):
Today we're talking with aphids and white flies about Sefena
insecticide from basf We.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
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Speaker 11 (02:24):
So tell us how.

Speaker 10 (02:25):
You feeling really really weird and you still wanted to
four this field?

Speaker 12 (02:31):
No way, bro.

Speaker 10 (02:33):
There you have it, folks. Safina insecticide is specifically engineered
to disorient aphis and wife flies so they can't eat,
and when they can't eat, they can't destroy.

Speaker 7 (02:42):
Help protect your alfalfa from aphids with Sefina insecticide. Always
read it, follow label directions.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
I'm Nick Papagny, the agmeantor for Agnete West.

Speaker 13 (02:52):
Located in the heart of San Bernardino, California, the Teamsters
Local nineteen thirty two Training Center is designed to train
workers for high demand, good paying jobs and various industries
throughout the Inland Empire. If you want a pathway to
a high paying job and the respect that comes with
a union contract, visit nineteen thirty two Trainingcenter dot org

(03:15):
to enroll today. That's nineteen thirty two Trainingcenter dot org.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
You're listening to KCAA, your good neighbor along the way.

Speaker 14 (03:29):
This is CACAA.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Welcome to The Worker Power Hour with Randy Corrigan, a
brand new show about labor and worker issues. The host
of the show is Randy Corrigan, Secretary Treasurer and Principal
Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, one of
the largest public sector labor unions on the West Coast,
representing workers in government and non sworn law enforcement personnel.

(03:53):
Randy Corgan is a thirty year Teamster who first became
involved in the labor movement by volunteering his time as
an organizer with the Team sus Usion at the age
of twenty one. Since then, he's helped thousands organized, mobilized,
and achieved bargaining rights. He accomplished this by spending countless
hours with brave men and women all over southern California
in their living rooms on the picket.

Speaker 7 (04:14):
Line to bring workers towards victory.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is the Worker Power Hour, and now here's the
host of the show, Randy Corgan.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
Good afternoon, everybody, Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Hour.
You got some music for me there, Mark, you gonna
what is it?

Speaker 14 (04:32):
Okay?

Speaker 15 (04:32):
All right?

Speaker 7 (04:33):
And you got to turn that up a little bit.

Speaker 11 (04:38):
Let's chack it.

Speaker 14 (04:40):
I love it.

Speaker 13 (04:42):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
We got to get Scott on here to actually sing
this song, because he does a really good job of
actually saying that's exactly who that was for. It's for you, Scott,
if you're listening live, that's for Scott Anyway, longtime organizer,
first time radio host. Here, I'm actually about ready to
come on my one year anniversary of the show. Randy
Corgan A worker power our CASEAA ten fifty AM one

(05:03):
six point five FM. This is the Teamsters nineteen thirty
two broadcast Network. We're excited to obviously report out this
partnership that we have. I actually have a full studio today.
I got a bunch of people roaming around here. I
got Lucky over here taking pictures and maybe I can
sucker him to get onto the show here in a minute.
I got Ralph putting his fingers behind Mark's head over here,

(05:27):
and everybody having a good time. But hey, last week,
what a great show we had last week. This Teamster
advantage partner that came on Jose the general manager from
the Banning restaurant called Los Caos. You know, I actually
went there the next day. I went there on Thursday

(05:47):
and I had a shrimp cocktail and we had a
few dishes, and man boy, I just got to say
the food was off the charts as well. As he
was describing it. The as much as the as Jose
was describing how good the food was, it was even
better in person. So if you get a chance, if

(06:10):
you get a chance, come in order, especially the seafood,
especially the mariscos. I think that's how you say, right, right,
Robert Martskos, I do it right, Okay. I get sometimes
I can say some of these these these Spanish words
and pronounce them, pronounce them correctly every now and then,

(06:33):
not all the time, but most of the time, sometimes
half the time, maybe a third of the time. Anyway,
with that, make sure that you go to that restaurant
banning it is. It is very very good, great atmosphere,
you know, the the way they reset that place up
from the previous owners or from the previous setup. Uh.

(06:54):
Now it's a breakfast place and a Mexican food place,
and it's got a it looks like what is a
really good happy hour. I went there pretty late, got
off work and ended up stopping by there. I think
it was about eight thirty or seven thirty or eight o'clock,
and all I got to say is that was the
best from cocktail I've ever had. Little Spicy, the very

(07:15):
very good as far as the broth is concerned, I
don't know what they call that, what the actual term
for it is, but but it just had such a
great flavor. Didn't need to add anything to it. It
was just great right out the gate. It was phenomenal.
And then we also had Jason the Steward, our shop
steward from Chino Valley Fire District on. He did a

(07:38):
great job. Hopefully you're listening again Jason Live today, but
he did a really good job of talking about how
the workers came together there at the fire district and
helped press those leaders there and also make sure that
we remind everybody that the board member who got in

(07:59):
front of trying to prevent these workers from getting a
good contract was very quickly knocked out of office as
a result of that. And so kudos to all that
community and everybody getting behind the workers there in that
community and making sure that they have good leadership leading
the fire district. The employees, not just the firefighters, but

(08:19):
all the employees that are employed in a fire district
are important, not just the firefighter itself. The firefighter can't
do what they can do without all the workers around them.
And I think this is obviously one of the reasons
why we do what we do on this show. And
Jason again, thank you all of the members out there
at the Chino Valley Fire District. Great job abe Gego's

(08:42):
great job at helping getting that bringing that contract home.
Looking forward to you guys building more worker power and
helping other workers in the area do what they need
to do. So next part of the show is are
live shoutouts. The first live shout out I want to
give is that er Lauren bt Bartlett. We also have

(09:05):
jens parents listening in from our office staff Bill and
Linda looks like wasoom from Highland, California. It's great that
we've got all these people getting their family members and
everybody else listening in. It's cool to get feedback from
people that are just not just teamsters or in the
labor movement, but those that are maybe connected or not

(09:28):
even connected at all, just hearing generally what they think
of the show. We also have Tito Ramirez from San
Maritino County Traffic Division listening in live. We have Nicole
Milled from the City of Colton. We have Brian Hickinson
from the City of Needles Water and Sewer apartment. We
have Fontana members as a whole listening in. I'm not

(09:50):
sure who they all are. I know that I believe
they got a contract that they're going to be taken
out for vote here pretty soon, something that's a recommended
offer for them to be voting in the next few days.
Hopefully I didn't let the cat out of the bag,
and the business agents have already let them know. My bad,
My apologies if I if I messed that up anyway.
City of San Bornino Code Enforcement with an Animal Shelter

(10:12):
members Tricia Flores and Crystal Olds Stewart's at Rauto. We
also had Kirk Garrison and our favorite Susan Loftis Susan,
I'm gonna I'm gonna say this every week that you
listening live. We're gonna get you on this show, and
we're gonna get you. Sitting over here to Myra, is
she coming on? All right? She's coming on next week.
I guess my badgering finally paid off, right, Robert, So

(10:34):
we'll get We'll get Susan to to tell us why
she finally gave in from what is this the thirtieth
time I've asked her to come on the show. Madeline
Gonzalez from the City of Barstow, Patricia Hernandez from Public Health,
tre Teresa Parciato from RMC, Jeremy Lopez, Olivia, Jerma Germera,

(10:58):
and Christa Hunter all from RMC. Thanks for listening live.
Everybody really appreciate it. If you want to get a
live shout out, make sure you let us know. And
then we have Michelle texting me right now from Pete Town.
Michelle Etheridge from the City of Pomona, listening in live,
saying don't forget me. If we're live today, I won't
forget you, Michelle. I just just said it. Are three

(11:19):
Teamster jobs. This is one of our favorite parts of
the show. For many of you listeners. You're always like,
what are they going to be the three jobs today?
Here's a unique one, you know back in the day.
The first job I'm going to lay out as a
matter of fact, Dennis Reardon, who used to work with
us and helped us essentially build the infrastructure of this organization.

(11:39):
His father was the president of a union that did
this job. There was actually a union of those that
did the job I'm about to talk about right now,
which is Lamar Billboard employees. So the billboards you see
on the freeways that have it Lamar logo on it
on the bottom, many of those are built, managed and
maintained by Teamsters. Those are teams members. And there used

(12:01):
to be a billboard union organization many many, many many
years ago, and Dennis Reardon's father was the president of
that unions. I think it was in Missouri, whatever local
it was that was in Missouri. And so shout out
to Dennis Arden. Hopefully he's listening in live. I actually

(12:24):
got a chance to talk to him again today, and
he's always sending his best wishes to us, and we're
obviously sending ours to him as well. He is enjoying
his retirement as he should, and we would not be
where we are today if it wasn't for that individual.
He's just an amazing individual. And I hope that you
get to enjoy every day of that retirement like you

(12:46):
look like you are on Facebook right now. The next
one is the Teamsters that we have at the Superior
Court of California. Employees at the Superior Court of California,
County of Samard, you know, perform a variety of roles
to ensure the effectiveness of administ Rate of Justice, and
that is they manage appeal processes, they record court transcripts

(13:07):
as well as the oversea court, administrative processes and strategic planning.
And we also have a bunch of attorneys there too
in some of the classifications. So next time you're in
the court, hopefully it's not for a bad thing. Hopefully
it's for something it's not so bad. I can't think
of off the top of my head why you'd be in
court unless it was a bad thing, at least right now,

(13:28):
But maybe someone can remind me of the good reasons
why you're in court. But just remember, if you're in
Samardino County, many of the individuals that are in there
helping process everything are actually teamsters as well. And then
also the City of Samardino Public Works department. Employees at
Samordino Public Works maintain roads, streets, parks and sewers. With

(13:49):
the increase in homelessness, they are also on the front
lines of making sure our parks and recreation recreational areas
are kept clean and safe. And you know, clearly with
the challenge of homelessness happening across the nation, quite frankly
across the world, it's definitely a tough job for our
public works departments at all of our cities and our

(14:09):
counties that are represented. So a big shout out to
those teamsters doing those very important jobs. And so with that,
I'm actually going to mix things up here right now,
and I'm gonna not do a bunch of the news.
I'm just gonna talk briefly about something in the news
that's really important. Many people may have seen the HR

(14:34):
eighty two past the House, and I'm going to talk
about this in more depth later on. But that's a
big deal for us for HR eighty two to pass,
because we actually, over the last few months have been
encouraging our members to engage in this and make sure
that their congressional leaders have been contacted and we have

(14:55):
been asking them to be supportive. And we're going to
see the full list of who was a yes vote
on this here pretty soon, so hopefully we'll be able
to unfold is that our membership activity in this space
created a really good bipartisan effort to pass something that
adjusts there's an issue with social security. If you worked

(15:20):
in the private sector for a while and then you
go into a public sector job and you end up
drawing a public pension, a public sector pension, government pension.
There's a penalty to your social security, which makes no sense,
especially for the average worker, because quite frankly, your social
security you pay for it. So why are they pentalizing

(15:42):
something that you pay for? And I understand why it
went into effect many decades ago because there were individuals
that were capitalizing it on it on the top end,
you know, your like your city managers and executives, and
they call it a windfall exemption or something like that.
And so I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that.
So great job for all of you that are listening

(16:03):
in that actually called your congressional leaders and encouraged them
to be supportive. We're hopeful that that push that we
did across the country and specifically something that we agitated
a lot here in southern California. We're hopeful that that
was the difference, and it was it encouraged some congressional
leaders to get on board with eliminating a penalty that

(16:25):
they shouldn't have had. And so with that, I am
going to go into what is my favorite part of
the show, which is our Teamster Advantage partner and our
Teamster Advantage Network. I have Daniel Jack from People Helping
People and just quick, this is the first time listening
to the show. I have always got to do my

(16:45):
little rap on the Team's Advantage program and the fact
that we're in twenty six chambers of commerce and commerce
and we're connected to more than a thousand small businesses.
And one of the things that we do is we
try to utilize our platform to help those small businesses.
We advertise for them for free, we have them in
our app, we send out push notifications and all this.

(17:05):
We do this for free because what we want is
we want to make sure that small business owners are
connected to a network of working people so that they
can thrive and they can support their family as well.
Being a small business owner owner is difficult and tough,
and you know they need help too, just like working
people do. And we're all in the same bucket in

(17:25):
this space, and we think it's really important for us
to collaborate and do the best we can it making
sure that the money stays in a local economy. And
the best way to do that is to support small
business and do everything we can to participate with small business.
And I'll shut up here for a minute, and I'll
let Daniel Jack from People Helping People introduce himself and

(17:49):
discuss your great business. Daniel, thank you for having me
on the show. Got to get you to get a
little closer to that.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Mike, appreciate you having me on the show. So basically,
I've been in the insurance industry for about seven years now.
I started with this company about four years ago, and
we help people to secure themselves with insurance annuities.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
We help with debt protection or.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm sorry, debt elimination and asset protection, so things like
we actually have something similar to I saw the Teamsters
have it in.

Speaker 16 (18:32):
A text here.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
It is called the Teamster Teamster VIP plus plan.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
So basically that is like the living benefits of our
insurance protection. So if an individual were to get an
insurance policy, it's called living benefits that are already built
into the policy, and it's basically, if you're unable to

(19:06):
work for an extended period of time, you're living benefits
will kick in and take care of the bills that
never stop coming. So that's one thing the insurance protection.
I'm not sure if you've heard of anything called an
indexed universal life before I have.

Speaker 7 (19:25):
Yeah, most people listening probably haven't, though, go ahead and
explain it.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
So we it's called an index universal life in that
basically it's an insurance policy that also has a built
in savings plan with it, and that savings aspect participates
in the market, but is not.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
It doesn't.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
It's not affected directly by the market. So your funds
will grow as the market grows. But if the market
were to take a dive, your funds will se they protected.
Will you never lose a red scent that you've put
into the policy you can only gain with this policy.
So that's one of another advantage for.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
What we do. So how long have you been doing
this business? How long have you been in business doing this?

Speaker 4 (20:19):
I've been doing insurance for about seven years with people
helping people, I've been with them about four years, roughly
five four to five years insurance.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
So many people, you know, realize that you've got to
have health insurance, you have car insurance, you have life insurance.
There's all kinds of insurance. You got dog insurance, which
is true, right, There's all kinds of insurance. So when
you say insurance, what are all the different insurances you do?
So there's different certifications for all of them, right.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
There is, So I do life insurance, so anything from
term insurance to up all the way up to the
I U L types of insurance.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
Which is a new form of whole life.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
A new form of whole life. Yes, so it.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Many people my age bracket just remember the whole life expression.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yeah, so there's there's been a few evolutions from the
whole life. What the new form of the whole life
is a little bit better protection. You're actually able to
get both buckets. If you're an old school whole life person,
you understand that back then you were only able to

(21:32):
get the one bucket, the insurance portion. And then you know,
if if anything were to happen to you, knock on wood,
there was no savings aspect. It was just you you
built towards the insurance.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
So I've always been in the impression that you could
take a life insurance policy out on anybody, right if
it's under a certain amount. Not true, No, not true.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
You you you need to have a but you can
help me interest in the person.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
So like so if somebody owed me money, I could
take a life insurance policy out on them. So just
in case something happened to guarantee my bank. That's not
not not that one.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
So like any any family member, you're able to do that.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
Like I couldn't take an insurance like a fifth cousin.
Fifth cousin.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Maybe maybe we have to look into we have to
look into the finer details with that. But I wouldn't
be able to take an insurance policy out on you
and vice versa. It just has to do with family. Yeah.
As far as the debt protection or debt elimination goes,

(22:52):
we help people. So everybody nowadays has credit card debt,
maybe student loan debt, So we help people to minimize
the amount that they are paying out on a monthly
basis to bring down their debt and then use that
what they're saving and they can put it towards, you know,

(23:13):
whatever else, maybe put it into their savings, new debt.
I wouldn't recommend that, but I would recommend putting it,
putting it into your savings, maybe purchasing going with that
alu L and building towards you know, a secure, more

(23:33):
secure retirement.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Do you have any funny stories? You gotta have some
funny stories.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
The insurance, I honestly I don't like you found out crazy.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
The stories that I have have to do with people
unfortunately being diagnosed with say cancer, yeah, something severe, Yeah,
you know, something like that. However, because of the living
ben fits, they were able to focus.

Speaker 7 (24:03):
More on, well, let's tell a good Story's sell a
good story. So there, what's your favorite story? Obviously you
don't have to give names of who the people are, but.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
So a mentor of mine front the office that I
work in in Pasadena, his sister, I want to say,
about six months before she was diagnosed with a rare
form of breast cancer, got one of our and you know,
she just something to do. Six months later, she's diagnosed

(24:35):
with this this form of breath breast cancer. You know,
obviously distraught about it and wondering like how how they're
going to make ends meet her and her family, her husband,
her kids. But because the plan had living benefits built
into it, she just simply made a call to the

(24:57):
insurance company said, hey, I have this diagnosis, I'm going
to be out of work for six months or so.
Can you help me out?

Speaker 7 (25:08):
And then one of the is able to draw on it. Yeah,
she was able to draw on her insurance.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
I believe she got like eighty thousand dollars a check
cut for eighty thousand dollars. She's able to take care
of all of her bills and focus on what really mattered,
which was getting better and yes today story that's okay,
she's cancer free.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
That's awesome. See that's a good story, got a good ending.
Anything else you want to cover before we wrap this up.
We really appreciate the relationship and how you know small businesses.
Is always trying to help you know the community and
obviously trying to help small businesses survive. When you're competing
with these huge corporations, right, you know, it definitely has

(25:49):
its challenges. So anything you want to close up with.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
So to close out, she's understanding that we work with
the larger companies, the AIG, these forresters, the nlg's national
life groups. We work with them to be able to
bring the services to the clients. But my service is

(26:14):
complementary and you're able to take care of everything that
you need as far as the insurance coverage, the debtor,
the debt elimination and building towards your retirement and financial future.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Great, anything else you want to talk about your business
before we cut you off the air. We really appreciate
you coming on the show.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
By that, that's pretty much it. I just want to
get the name out there and help.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
People help people too. Yes, that's I like the I
like the I like the title. I like the name.
I like it. It's really Oh absolutely, it's uh, it's
it's catchy.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
And that that's exactly what we do. We do it
totally free of charge, and uh we're able to help
people to you know, eliminate their debt, build their retirement
savings and just have a better, better way of life.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
Well, thank you, Daniel Jack. This is people helping people.
He's with with people helping people, and make sure if
you're you know, keep in mind obviously there's a lot
of options in this space, but when someone says they're
going to do it for free, you know, why not
talk to them and walk through it first and have
a good understanding. So really appreciate you coming on, Daniel.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Thank you for having me on.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
I appreciate you absolutely. And what that mark, Why don't
you just take some quick music before we switch over
to our next guest. We're for those of you listening in,
We're gonna have Liz Ortega come on Assembly Member Liz
Ortega will be coming on the line. You're pretty soon
we're going to be talking about some labor activities legislatively
throughout the state of California. Take it away, money, Charles.

Speaker 17 (27:50):
We were downtown bouncing rounds from the door to door.
There ain't a song. I was insane. From the DJs
on the twos and fours to the hometown honk on
the hardwood floors. I was out throwing down in the
middle of a crowd when a boy.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
In the band rubber bulow, I'm just so culled.

Speaker 12 (28:12):
I was raised on the radio medifest clowns to Hollywood walking.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Took a trip to music.

Speaker 17 (28:20):
Said, I'm a little bit of everything with me. I'm
a little bit of bag say the old eggs, a
little bit of clapyarns.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
I'm a little bit of six strings.

Speaker 17 (28:29):
On the back beach, the fiddle in the band. I'm
like a Bernstady from MO three and a Mustang. You
never knew what was coming.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Sure, I can't help to be r B or.

Speaker 17 (28:48):
A touch of train Hegg guitars and dashboard drum man.

Speaker 12 (28:54):
Hey, I'm just so killed. I was raised on the
radio Memphis Blues Speak to a Hollywood wreck, do sick
a trip to music set a little bit of everything
with me.

Speaker 17 (29:09):
I'm a little bit of bass, say the old age,
a little bit of clap your hands.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
I'm a little bit of six strings on the.

Speaker 12 (29:15):
Back, bea with a fiddle in a man. Y'all hear
the next.

Speaker 17 (29:26):
From the DJ's on the Tues and fours to the
Honkey Town, from the arm work floor, from the first
song to the encore.

Speaker 12 (29:35):
I'm just like, yeah, I was raising the rail. Memphis
does too, like go back sick a Dream to music set,
little bit of everything.

Speaker 17 (29:47):
I mean, I'm a little bit of bass, say the
old Age, a little bit of clap yawn hands. I'm
a little bit of six strings on back, bead with
the fiddle in a man.

Speaker 7 (30:21):
Randy Corgan here and the Worker Power Hour. I've always
wanted to say this Live from Sandrandino, KCAA ten fifty
AM one oh six point five FM, Teamsters nineteen thirty
two Broadcast Network. How about that? Yeah right, yeah, Here
we are a longtime organizer, first time radio host. Let's

(30:42):
hear it for Daniel Jackie's also a member. I failed
to mention it while he was in here. He's a
member of Teamsters nineteen thirty two. Works out of our
I think it's our Del Rosa Tad whatever it is,
I think it's one of the Tad locations. So working
hard as a as as a county employee and then
also doing a little side business and and just trying

(31:02):
to you know, work hard and feed the family and
and you know, you're really really hustle. As I would say,
some people say when you use the word hustle, that
you're trying to hustle people out of something. I've always
used the term if someone's hustling, that they're that they're
working hard, they're knocking on doors, and they're trying to
earn money, and they're really doing the best job that

(31:24):
they can of making things happen. And so we're gonna
have assembly Woman Liz Ortega come on here in a
few minutes. I think she's going to be calling in live.
And for those of you that do want to call
in live for for listeners, we have nine O nine
three eight three one thousand to call in if you
actually want to call in and say something on the air.

(31:46):
We're obviously gonna gonna We're gonna find out what you're
talking about first, we can't just We're not just gonna
let you call in and say anything you want. But
short of that, I'm really looking forward to the conversation
with Liz. We got Liz on yet, Is she actually on?
She's not in yet, so we got a couple of
minutes until she comes on. So let's take a couple
of minutes we want to do. Oh, we've got Amy

(32:11):
Shackelford listening in live, so shout out to Amy again.
I kind of like this. Sometimes I pay attention to
my phone. I'm not always supposed to be paying attention
to my phone, but hey, when I actually I shouldn't
be paying attention to my phone. And what we're going
to do here is we're actually going to get a
board so that that I can see there's some feedback

(32:32):
live feedback, so that I'm not having to actually look
down and try to get my phone open, because one
of the issues with your phone is obviously it's face
recognition for it to open up, and I got to
move away from the microphone. But you know, for those
of you that you know have my phone or want
to text me a question, you know you want to
call in live you want to talk about something on
the air, you know, give suggestions, you know, please let

(32:55):
us know. We've we've gotten a lot of suggestions over
the last year that we been doing this, and we've
actually made small adjustments or added things to the show
based on these suggestions over the last year that we've
been doing this. And I got to look back and
see exactly when the year anniversary is. But I may
have either about to pass it or going to pass

(33:16):
it here pretty soon, And looks like we have our
caller calling in Liz Artaka. But we really want to
hear from you. We want to hear what parts of
the show you like, maybe things that you'd like to
see go a little longer. The other thing is some
ideas on some segments and what individuals might want to
hear as far as parts of the segments. Have had

(33:37):
some suggestions on some more meat and potatoes kind of
like around what agrievance procedure is or arbitration or some
interpreting contract language. Remember, that's kind of for those of
us that are in the field, maybe that's something well
we're connected to, But for other people that are listening
while they're driving, maybe that's a little too drive for them,

(34:00):
and they're like, you know, so I'll try to whatever
your suggestions are, I'll try to turn it into something
that is digestible for anybody to listen to. Because for
all of you that are listening live right now and
you're not in a union, you don't understand these terminologies.
One of the things that we're doing with this show
is we're building a library over a period of time

(34:23):
so that we could direct you to each of those subjects,
so that as a listener, if you're non union, that
you're able to connect to how unions operate and you're
able to go back to old shows and listen to
these different parts of how we operate or you know,

(34:43):
the things that we do, or you know the things
that we talk about the way we're connected to the community,
and you know, a lot is encompassed in labor, and
there's most of what's encompassed in labor doesn't really get
talked about much. So I think what's really really important
is that we put as much content as we can
for future listeners or current listeners and they're able to

(35:06):
go back and pick up some old shows and listen
to some of that stuff that we've already covered. So again,
we want to hear your hear your thoughts, We want
to hear your ideas. We really want to hear some
ideas on some segments, you know, maybe a ten minute
segment on this or ten minute segment on that. We
do have pretty heavy guests, I should say a heavy

(35:29):
list of guests that are trying to get on the show.
So we're pretty filled up most of the time. And
we do take all this stuff into account and we
really think about it when we're building on our show.
So with that, I think I have Liz or Take
on the show, right, Robert or her. We have her
on the phone, and so let's make let's hope that
we don't run into the problem that we run into sometimes,

(35:51):
which is when someone calls in, they sound like they're
they're calling from a fish tank and they're underwater. So
let's get Let's get Liz Ortega assembly Woman Liz or Taken.
And by the way, she is the chair of the
Assembly Labor Committee. What does that mean here, here's where
there's influence of an elected leader that is making sure

(36:17):
that bills that directly impact working class families are moved
through the process and having somebody this close, like a
Liz Ortega, who is really making sure that bills that
are impacting workers are are you know that that connection

(36:38):
is there, and that this individual who's helping advocate within
the legislature to pass these bills. It's really important and
she's an extremely important individual, and we're so happy to
have her on. Do we have her connected yet? Liz?
Are you there? Can you hear me? Liz? Can you

(36:59):
hear me? Nope, I'm not hearing her yet. So all
of our listeners are going, what's going on with the
don't hang up on her?

Speaker 14 (37:12):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (37:17):
All right, so we don't there? Okay, Well, maybe we
can call her and try to try to get her connected.
I would prefer in the future that we do it
via zoom and we get it up on the screen
so that we can actually see the people that are
that are listening in, so that we don't run to
these issues. I'm not sure why the call in line
is not working. I apologize for all of you listeners

(37:39):
for a bit of a little bit of a snag here.
This is one of the great things about live radio. Liz,
if you can hear me, now, why don't you say hi?
How you doing, because I'm being told that you should
be connected now, Liz, are you there? No, try it
one last time? All right, Mark and Mark, I'm gonna

(38:06):
throw all right, I can hear you now, Liz, Liz Ortega,
the chair of the Assembly Labor Committee. How are you doing.
It's great to have you on the show.

Speaker 15 (38:17):
I'm great, Randy. Oh and here's some feedback.

Speaker 7 (38:20):
Yeah, you got a little bit of feedback here. Is
there a way to tune that out?

Speaker 15 (38:26):
Let me see? Can you hear me better?

Speaker 7 (38:30):
I can. I can hear you pretty good.

Speaker 15 (38:32):
Okay, I hear the feedback still, But I don't know
if there's anything I can do about it.

Speaker 7 (38:37):
Maybe not. Why don't you introduce yourself, Liz and talk about,
you know, a little bit of your history. You know,
obviously you're a assembly woman here in the state of California.
Talk a little bit about your district, and talk about
you know, I'd like to get into really talking about
how important you are to the labor movement, because you're
a big, big advocate for the labor movement.

Speaker 15 (38:59):
Well, first to say thank you for having me. It's
such an honor to be on this radio show and
to have a place dedicated to educating and listening to labor.
So thank you for having me, Randy. Yes, I'm a
family member Liz Ortega, and I represent the beautiful District twenty,

(39:19):
which is located in the Bay Area, and I am
lucky enough to represent one of the most diverse districts
in the state where we have you know, people from
all over the world, and it's such a beauty and
an honor to get to, you know, go to Sacramento
and be their voice every single day when it comes

(39:40):
to either legislation or the budget and making sure that
their voices are heard and represented. A little bit about me,
you know, prior to becoming your asseamily member, I was
a labor organizer. I spent over twenty something years organizing

(40:03):
first with SCIU, then I went to work with AFSME,
and then I became the first Latina to ever run
or be president of a labor council in the Bay Area,
which meant that I represented over one hundred and thirty
five thousand workers in all different sectors and you know,

(40:24):
really enjoyed my time there, did a lot of great work,
especially during some very difficult times.

Speaker 13 (40:32):
You know.

Speaker 15 (40:32):
One of the things that I talked about during my
campaign with the pandemic and the work we did to
make sure that grocery workers received hazard pay. You know,
they were being called heroes everywhere, but they were not
being compensated as such. And so, you know, I left

(40:54):
the Labor Council to run for office knowing that I
had worked really hard to make sure that every city
that I represented pass laws that would protect those workers
and make sure that they received the wages that they deserved.
And you know, that's what I did. And then this
opportunity came two years ago for me to run for office,

(41:18):
and you know, I became the family member for District
twenty and then a year ago had the honor of
becoming your Labor and Employment chair.

Speaker 7 (41:32):
Well, I think you know that me being an organizer
for over thirty years, the thing that stuck out to
me in this whole conversation was the fact that you
were a labor organizer for all those years. So let's
give her a huge round of applause for that. I
you know, that's music, Mark not see. I love this

(41:52):
rookie status that I get. I don't always I don't
actually always hit the right button. But Liz really appreciate
the fact that you know, taking somebody there, we go, there,
we go. See, we're just a bunch of novices here
running a labor radio show. We're not always perfect, but
we really appreciate your advocacy. I think coming from labor

(42:15):
and then into the legislature, it has got a very
different vantage point, right Like you, you come from a
perspective of really understanding the struggles that the movement goes
through and what the legislature needs to do to help
workers move along. What are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 15 (42:33):
Absolutely, I think what makes me or you know, gives
me that advantage is that organizing background that I have, where,
you know, I believe that in order for us to
make a difference in people's lives, we actually have to listen.
And that's the number one thing that our organizer must
do is listen, talk less and listen more, and then

(42:55):
you know, be able to take what you've learned from
the workers that you represent and turned them into you know, actions.
So whether it was you know, increasing wages, whether it's
protecting health access to healthcare, or retirement with dignity, or
you know, voice on the job like health and safety,

(43:19):
all of those things I've spent my entire life dedicated
to both professionally and personally as an immigrant myself. You know,
my parents taught me very early on that, you know,
I had a guest when it came to translating. You know,
I learned to speak English when I was very little.
By the time I was in kindergarten, and my parents said,

(43:41):
I was fluent in drama and so, you know, I
learned to watch and watching stuff that, and so I
you know, but I used that state recognized at skill,
and so I used to have to go and translate
for them everywhere. And my story is not special or
different from many other immigrants in this state or country.

(44:05):
I think the only difference is that, you know, my
mom recognized and my dad recognized that I was going
to give give the skill that I had learned and
use it to serve others. So, you know, I would
go to job interviews, I would go to doctor's appointments,
and after I was done translated for my family, you know,

(44:26):
my mom would say to me, Okay, now that you're
done with us, I want you to go and help
every other family that's here who doesn't.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
Have a live Yeah, and abe eight hundred is a
great it's a great segue into if I understand correctly,
it's a bill that requires California public schools to establish
an entire week for juniors and seniors in high school
to learn about their labor rights, right rules and regulations
on the job.

Speaker 15 (44:53):
Absolutely, it's one of the pet the bround of applause.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Ready again, this is exactly what we need. We need
more of this. Thank you. I'm sorry for cutting you
off there, Liz, but this is amazing. These are the
things that we unfortunately the schools don't teach enough about this.
And for you to take on an issue like this
for the labor movement and for the future workers of California,

(45:20):
future workers of America. Thank you very much. Sorry, I
didn't mean to cut you off. I'm just so excited
about seeing the bills like that, and so thank you.

Speaker 15 (45:27):
No apologies needed. Yes, AB eight hundred insurance in our children.
Our youth enter the workforce with knowledge to protect themselves
and then advocate for their rights. You know, I think
it was very important that we educate our youth about
their workplace rights, because it doesn't do any of us
any good if we pass some of the best legislation

(45:51):
in the nation, and some of our most vulnerable or
entering the workplace and are being taken advantage or don't
understand it. And so making sure that the next generation
of youth is educated not only knows about their rights
on the job, but also understands that they have a
right to a union and a right to organize was

(46:14):
also incredibly important.

Speaker 7 (46:16):
Yeah, hey, so to shifting gears real quick. What do
you think of us having our own labor show? What
do you think of nineteen thirty two in the local
union anchoring down this type of platform. What do you
as an organizer for as long as you were, what
do you think about this? Do you think we were
wasting our time? Or do you think it's a good idea?

Speaker 15 (46:36):
Absolutely not. I think it's a great idea. I think
you guys are setting you know, president for having a
space where workers and families could tune into and learn
about what's happening in their communities. That is not you know,
being run by a media, a collaborative or you know

(46:56):
billionaires and millionaires.

Speaker 7 (46:58):
Right, It's why instead of doing the plause, Mark accidentally
pushed the wrong button and did the music right first time,
longtime organizer, first time radio host.

Speaker 15 (47:09):
No, I think yeah, I think this is an incredible
opportunity and really a pod you guys for doing this.
It is absolutely not a waste of time.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
Well, we appreciate you coming on the show too, because
that helps, you know, kind of broaden our audience too.
You know, we're we're not looking to try to you know,
get like a big national sort of recognition. We're what
we're really trying to do is you know, onesie tuesdies,
build it up slow, like you do any organizing, drive right,

(47:39):
one on one one out of time, and build the relationship.
Like you said earlier, listen right. Obviously, as the talk
show host, I can't do the same amount of listening
because I got to keep things moving. But as an organizer,
we know that if if you're listening and people are
listening and the content matches what their needs are, it's
going to grow and it's going to give people more

(48:01):
familiarity into labor. Right, make it to where it's not
this abstract. You know, we're not a cartel like we're
described in the In my son's high school book, the
unions were cartels. So again, you coming on helps legitimize
and helps, it helps broadcast our show a bit more,

(48:23):
and I'm having a great time with it, I'll tell
you honestly, as an organizer, I feel like it's this
great tool where we're able to communicate and just slowly
educate everybody on the positive parts of being a union
and all stop kind of rambling on about how great
the show is. I just I just always like to
hear from people in a position like yours. How how

(48:45):
powerful you think this tool can be if it's utilized properly.

Speaker 15 (48:49):
Yeah. No, I again, I think it's a great tool
and something that's unique and something that other unions should
pay attention to and do more of.

Speaker 7 (49:00):
So let's talk a little bit about your role as
the chair of the Assembly Labor Committee. So can you
talk really how are you using your influence in that
space to advocate right now? Give me an example the listeners.

Speaker 15 (49:15):
Yeah, I mean, we've this space is one to advocate for,
you know, for legislation and budget items that directly impact
workers across the state. But I think one of the
biggest things that you know, I'm doing as your Labor
un Employment chair is not just you know, paying attention

(49:36):
to workers who have a union, but also thinking about
the many who don't and who this committee is is
here to protect and to lift up and to move forward.
And you know, we do it both ways by introducing
bills and making sure that they're you know, they are
doing what they're intended to do, but also protect by

(50:02):
looking at and viewing potential risks, you know, because not
everyone understands organized labor workers or protections, and so there's
a lot of legislation that actually doesn't see the light
of day because we have that advantage of point at
being able to you know, look at things that could

(50:24):
have unintended consequences and really hurt you know, those we
are trying to protect. And so that's how you know,
I am using our Labor and Employment Committee to progress
and continue to make strives in the workplace.

Speaker 7 (50:44):
Yeah, clearly coming out of a very working class area,
the Alameda County area, and you were obviously part of
the Alameda Labor.

Speaker 15 (50:52):
Council, right, Yeah, I let the Alameda Labor.

Speaker 7 (50:55):
Council, So so being coming from that space, to me,
I always see it. It's very much mirrored in the
Ie the Inland Empire. Those two communities are very very
much alike, very working class obviously affected by corporate America,
you know, doing some of the things that they do
to really knock down workers. And you know, so we

(51:17):
really appreciate your advocate advocacy clearly pointing out the fact
that you're able to shut down some of these bills
before they ever get started. Is thank you very much
for doing that for these workers. I think it's just
it's it's amazing, and it's an important work, and like
you said, sometimes it never sees the light of day,
and nobody ever knows that something dangerous is working its

(51:38):
way up, something's going to cut some services or you know,
cut some safety cut or negatively affect working conditions. So
we really really appreciate that work. Is there anything in
particular that stands out to you in that space that
you may have stopped over the last few years that
most people aren't.

Speaker 15 (51:57):
Aware of, I mean, without getting into too much into
the weights, we've seen a trend, you know, of bills
related to you know, out of AI artificial intelligence worker surveillance,
rolling back some of the wages that we've been able

(52:18):
to increase in some of the sectors. So things like
that that you know might look like they're good, but
to really have a harmful impact if you don't have
someone like myself at the table looking at things knowing
what they actually mean. And it could be something as

(52:40):
simple as a word, which is what I learned during
my time with ask me, which is you know, I
used to be their lottyist, and really learn that in
the halls of power, there's very few people who come
from a working class background who are looking for things

(53:00):
like this that otherwise wouldn't you know, been noticed or
action would have been taken on.

Speaker 7 (53:06):
Yeah, I think you bring up an important point about AI.
Like one of the things that's dangerous about AI. Take
take your job, any job that somebody does, and take
the like the job description or the nuts and bolts
of what you do. Go into those they got. They
got like test areas where you can go into these
AI things and you can ask it questions and it'll

(53:27):
it'll produce something for you, like see if you can
get AI in that and test it to see if
you can actually get it to do your job for you.
And I've been shocked at the results of some of
this stuff that comes out and how quickly it produces
something that somebody could argue is a replacement for you

(53:50):
someday right right, And and I mean that, so everybody listening, like,
I think that's something you gotta do. You gotta as
much as we say, oh you can't, don't replace me,
You can't replace this. No, no, you actually can. It's
it's incredible the technology within AI and how much it
can replace. So do yourself a little test. And and

(54:13):
I'm doing saying this to all the listeners, right, and
so thank you for helping advocate and putting some guardrails
in this space, because you know this, you're talking a
very dangerous situation where you know, all of a sudden,
one day somebody comes in and says, oh, by the way,
we've got this ABC company now that AI is going
to be performing all your work and spitting it out

(54:34):
in like nine seconds versus it taking you, you know,
two weeks to produce these reports.

Speaker 15 (54:41):
Are sayah, we saw that with the Hollywood strike. What
are the longest strikes we've seen in a very long time,
And it was all related to the use of the
workers and you know AI.

Speaker 7 (54:54):
Yeah, look at the video games nowadays that our kids
are playing, right, you look at the video games and
you see how lifelike all of that stuff is and
how that could be turned into doing, you know, performing
things that you would normally perform on a daily basis.
You know, maybe most people don't care whatever, I'll go
do something different, but I don't, you know, I'd hate

(55:17):
for my job to be replaced by AI. Right, how
many jobs are vulnerable in that space and what are
the guardrails to prevent it from going too far? Right?

Speaker 15 (55:25):
Yes, absolutely, and that's been the biggest challenge last year,
and it's going to continue to be in terms of
balancing innovation, which we're you know, we're the state of
California here in the Bay Area. We have the you know,
the highest rates of tech anywhere else in the country,
and so balancing innovation and technology with worker protection and

(55:47):
guardrails is going to be very much at the forefront
of what I focus on for the next few years.

Speaker 7 (55:56):
That's phenomenal. Anything you want to close on, We've got
a few minutes here and I don't want to It
looks like we got three And what do you want
to close on? What are the important things you'd like
to hit you'd like our listeners to know that you're
working on again. Thank you so much for taking the
time out to come on to our show for Thank
you for advocating for workers, thank you for being an organizer,

(56:18):
and always never forgetting. Every time I approach something, I
always approach it as an organizer first, simply because it
takes that approach to build our organizations up in the
right way. So thank you for all that. Is there
anything you'd like to close on?

Speaker 15 (56:35):
Keep doing your radio show? Organizing? Organizing, organizing?

Speaker 7 (56:40):
So who do you think we should get on a
radio show?

Speaker 15 (56:43):
Oh that's a good question.

Speaker 7 (56:46):
I have to get Lorena on here.

Speaker 15 (56:47):
Yes, you definitely need to.

Speaker 7 (56:49):
I'm gonna tell her next time she can't borrow the
bus unless she comes on the radio stot. I'm gonna
have to like play some leverage here.

Speaker 15 (56:57):
You know.

Speaker 7 (56:57):
It was funny when she asked to use the bus
of this last election cycle. She was kind of like, well,
you know, Randy, it's a kind of a big ask
of what do you what are you asking for? The right?

Speaker 15 (57:06):
What?

Speaker 7 (57:06):
What's up? She's like, well, you know you need a
driver and what you need the bus? She's like, well, yeah,
you got it. Like that's why we got the bus.
We actually got the bus to do exactly what she
used it for everybody seemed to have a great time
with it.

Speaker 15 (57:20):
But I love the bus. I used it when I
was at the Labor Council. We used to park it
right in front of city Hall.

Speaker 7 (57:25):
That's right, it's it's, it's it's it's a powerful tool
and it it I love the fact that you can
cart so many people around and get him there. And
it's obviously just a billboard rolling every single day across
the system. And so you know, let's uh, let's not
also forget that you were the first Latina and woman
uh serving the Alameda Labor Council too, correct, not.

Speaker 15 (57:48):
The first woman, but the first latina.

Speaker 7 (57:49):
Yeah, yeah, the first Latino woman. Yes right, yeah, so see,
you're a trend setter here.

Speaker 15 (57:55):
Well, it doesn't do us any good if I'm the
first and the last. We need to keep it moving,
need to grow more, you know what.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
That's a very good point. Thank you for pointing that out. Well,
once again, we really appreciate you coming on with on
the Worker Power Hour. We're doing everything we can to
make sure that the community really understands how unions work.
We have billboards and we obviously have buses that we
have are think of Teamster branding throughout the entire region.

(58:24):
We have six buses that are branded, we have the
radio show. We're doing everything we can just to create
a familiarity. We also have our Teamster. The teams are
training center and we're trying to connect while they're in
high school. And what we want to do is make
sure that the familiarity whether you're in high school, you're
listening to on the radio, you drive by on a billboard,

(58:46):
you see a bus drive by, and you know you
see the branding, and that way when we're knocking on
your door and workers are organizing, it's not like who's
that just a familiarity with with labor. So we really
appreciate your partnership in that space. List.

Speaker 15 (58:59):
I also wouldn't I one thing. We'd love to give
a shout out to Robert. He was one of my
interns and an incredible part of my team, and I
stole that very Yes, but you're very lucky and I'm
happy to see he is in labor and making a difference.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
Well, thanks for coming on, yes, And what we're going
to do is we're going to make sure that Robert
always comes back and visits you. And we appreciate you
training him and helping us occupy this space. So with
that we're gonna have to close out. I have a
required break at the top of the hour. This is
Randy Corgan and the Worker Power are CASEYAA ten fifty

(59:36):
AM one O six point five FM. Thanks thank you
assembly Woman Artega for coming on the.

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Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Now that's quite the intro to Mark.

Speaker 7 (01:06:00):
I was in car show Wood.

Speaker 10 (01:06:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
Well, we just came off with a successful car show,
and I would say that this song comes from the
car show Randy Corgan and the Worker Power Our CACAA
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the Teamsters Local nineteen thirty two broadcast network listening to
some car show music. Matter of fact, I heard that
song a few times. What was it just a week ago,

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a little more than a week ago, at this massive
car show we just had. We grew up with this
at parties. Yes, we did that too. On top of that,
thanks for the music. I'm sure we will get We'll
get a lot of people commenting on whether they liked it.
Breaking news just happened. AB two eighty eight passed the
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on to it. So, as I reported at the earlier
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now up in Sacramento testifying and participating in a hearing
to make sure that AB two eighty eight passes and
get it started. It just got out of the Labor
and Employment Committee seven to zero. So thanks to those

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workers that have gone up there and did many of
them are actually listening in live remotely right now. I
just got it literally just happened a few minutes ago.
So thanks Sean for patching us in here and giving
me a quick update, and congratulations to those workers that
first step towards victory when it comes to holding these
huge corporations accountable in our region, making sure that we

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have good jobs, not just jobs. And this part of
our show, we are fortunate to be joined by Mauricio Ariano.
They pronounced that correctly perfect. See see I don't butcher
every name, but I do have a tendency to butcher
some names from time to time. Anyway, he is the
superintendent of schools for Samardino City Unified School District. Is

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that correct? And you are a native to the area
you grew up in sam Maardino. Got to get a
little closer to the mic. You might want to pull
that closer to you. Yeah, that's correct. So I just
gave you your title and your name. Why don't you
introduce yourself and talk about your your roots in this community,
because they are pretty pretty deep. Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
Yeah, I was fortunate to grow up in Samarnadino as
a matter of fact, right on thirteenth and f went
to Riley Elementary School, Golden Valley Middle School, and graduated
from Samonadino High School. So I was I'm a Samaradino native.
The music was great because I actually worked at Groovetime
Records that used to be on Baseline.

Speaker 7 (01:08:28):
Oh my, I was there. I can remember the years.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
So all the jams you guys are playing, I remember
listening and selling them.

Speaker 15 (01:08:35):
That is.

Speaker 7 (01:08:36):
And so what years would you have worked there?

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Eighty four to ninety four? I was there ten years.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
Oh my, So you were there in the conversion from
records over to CDs. Oh yeah, absolutely? How was that?
I mean because CD started off a little slow and
then then exploded and then records like disappeared like from
one day to the next. Well cassettes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Yeah, in retrospect, it was so future riistic at the time,
like wow, how does this work?

Speaker 7 (01:09:03):
Yeah? This mini record? This mini record?

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
Right, but yeah, it really changed and transformed the music industry.

Speaker 7 (01:09:09):
At that time.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
Is the building still there that you the building still there. Obviously,
the store is no longer there. The owner still owns
the property, and the owner still does does sell music online.
It's an online business now, no longer called groove Time.
I think it's a different name. But we're still all
very close friends and we get together from time to time.

Speaker 7 (01:09:32):
So, yeah, wasn't there a restaurant across the street?

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
Yeah, there's a there still is a little, a little
Mexican restaurant right across the street. But prior to that,
it was It's been many things. It's been a chicken place,
it's been a I think a steak sandwich place at
one time.

Speaker 7 (01:09:46):
So yeah, yeah, trying, I'm just trying to going down
memory lane. I actually lived in Sambordino off of off
of Orchid, which is just above Highland, off of Del
Rosa and Highland, right behind that Stater Brothers there, so
just below Pomelo, so obviously a little further that would
be further east from where you grew up, right, Yeah,

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So well, so now you're the you're the top dog. Hey,
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
I love coming to work every day. It's it's a
joy to be back in the community that gave me
so much.

Speaker 7 (01:10:19):
Right right, Yeah, those of us that grew up in
the area, we actually love our community and we appreciate
all the surroundings around here. While a lot of people
typically like for some reason like the dog on us,
like the eye's got so much to offer in my opinion,
And you know, I know that there's some challenges that
face us economically in the area, but I think that

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I don't know if you're aware, but our our platform
here is transforming the Inland Empire, and part of that
platform is us. We obviously, we have our training center,
which we'll talk about here in a few minutes, where
we're building real strong relationships with the schools so that
so that these these young adults, these kids see the
opportunity of what good jobs are out there. Also, we

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have a Teams to Advantage program where more than a
thousand small businesses are connected to our Teams to Advantage
program and we advertise for them for free. We have
an app based system where we our members get in
and they look and see where all the Teams Advantage
partners are. If they want to go you can get
a tire fixed, or they want to go to a
restaurant or uh, you know, get to get their taxes

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done whatever it is there. We've built this community and
it's free to all the small businesses. We don't charge
them anything. What we want, what we want to do
is encourage the local community and our members to participate
because obviously, if small business thrives, the community thrives. And
then obviously we represent thousands of workers in the region

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and they're the best jobs in the area. And we
want to make sure that people, you know, can buy
homes and and buy goods and services in the area
to make the economy flourished. And so we believe that.
But investing in this area like you see here in
the Complot Pound we have here in downtown sam Maardino.
While a lot of people are running from it, we've
got a nice, good looking facility here. And what we're

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trying to do is lead by example on that what
you can do in a place like sam Mardino, do
the right thing. And I don't know if you got
to see our car show, but man, we had somewhere.
We're still trying to figure out a headcount. Somewhere between
thirty five hundred and five thousand people attend this free
car show. We don't charge people to come to it,

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nor do we charge the participants to participate in it.
It's our investment in the community to make sure everybody
understands unions are good for the local community and we're
a part of making sure that the community thrives every day.
That's enough of the pitch of Teamsters nineteen thirty two, Right,
So what do you think of all these programs we got?
And then we got our own little radio show here too.

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It's not a little one, but it's Casea, which used
to be in sanm Mardino over at the Central City Mall.
Remember I remember that. Now we have it here. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
Well, I just want to say, you know, thank you
for your investment in our city and thank you for
the mission and vision that you have and trying to
help rebuild the city Samardino. You know, I often say
one of my objectives, which I think is equal to yours,
is trying to rebuild the middle class in the city
of Samardino, so that the city will thrive, so our
citizens thrive, and that they don't have to drive somewhere

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else to get some of the core necessities or even
the recreational necessities of living a quality life. So I
just want to say on air, thank you for that investment,
thank you for being here. I very much support labor.
I think that's important. So the fact that you've invested
in our city of sam Maornandino in that way, and
you're creating events to expose not just the adults, but

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even our young people so they can see their future,
that their future can be right here in sam Marendino,
because for decades, I think our kids believe that their
future is somewhere else. So thank you for doing that,
and hopefully many of our private colleagues, teams to colleagues
in colleagues, other organizations start to invest here and realize this.

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This is such a beautiful valley when you really think
about it. I call it the one hour town. He
could be our skiing, our beach, our Disneyland, our Palm Springs.
This could be a great place to live and.

Speaker 7 (01:14:17):
Raise your kids in two and a half hours from
the river. Yeah, two and a half hours.

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Hey, there's something to be said about that, Absolutely there is. Yeah, No,
you know, we are really we're really proud of this
relationship that we have with you, especially with the school
district and a lot of the high schools. We're very
proud of the event that we just hosted on I
think it was March twelfth, correct, And in the studio
I have Becky Leppens here who's our training center director

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and executive director. You got some title over there, right,
it's important she she's you know, it's been amazing at
connecting the dots so that the schools are recognizing all
the good jobs in the area because what we found
is that the kids. I'm going to take it back
in time for me, when I was in high school,

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I knew in high school that coming out that there
were these certain jobs that I can get if I
didn't go to college. Right, there's always that debate am
I going to go to college or not? And if
I'm not going to go to college, what am I
going to do? Ironically, now, looking back in time, every
job I was looking at was actually a teamster job
because there was somebody I knew or a family a

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friend of a family member was connected to. And ultimately
that turned into a pretty good career for me. But
most importantly, what we recognize now is that the kids
or young adults are just unaware of all those jobs
and what we saw happen on March twelfth with over
forty employers. I think it was forty high schools, right

(01:15:50):
about thirty high schools and almost six hundred kids roll
through here that they just it opened their eyes on
all these different career paths and good jobs, not just
like you know, flipping burgers and I ME guess you
go to work in and now that's a good burger
flipping job. It's really good and actually or getting stuck

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in a job that they don't like. And I think
that kids in today's day that whether they're going to
go to college or not, that there's not as many
pathways for them to connect to what they like to do.
And they get to turn eighteen and they got to
pay the bills and all of a sudden they kind
of get stuck in sort of this cycle of a

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job that they really don't like. Seeing on March twelfth,
their eyes open up. Like the CSI you know, the
crime scene investigators that we represent, and watching them talk
to the kids about about the job that now obviously
some kids would be attracted that and some more you
know the the it itsd all those jobs or you know,

(01:16:59):
in some love the like I want to drive a truck.
You know, you don't want to slight somebody for something
that they like. You want to connect them to it.
What are your thoughts on all that stuff? And thank
you for being a partner in it. Obviously I'm excited
at kind of hearing it in my voice.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
Yeah, no, I appreciate your excitement. You know what's unfortunate
is over the last few decades, I think public education
really missed the mark. And it came from a good place, right.
We were so focused on trying to get all kids
into college, which is a noble goal, but the reality
is there are many kids who want to work coming
out of high school. We were just talking about a

(01:17:35):
particular story, and so I'm very proud that public education
has changed that mindset. Personally, I want to thank doctor
del Martsen, who was the superintendent here for many years,
and board member Mike Gallo who just passed away.

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
And we just.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Renamed the manufacturing building at in Springs High School because
they changed the trajectory of high school education by pushing
the career tech education opportunities for kids in schools in
Samuel City. Right now, we currently have fifty nine career
pathways from dental to transportations, to autoshop, to manufacturing to

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culinary programs, on and on and on. So we're very
proud that we've turned that corner. The second piece to
that is what you just spoke to is when you
live in the community of poverty. Most kids who live
in communities of poverty don't experience life beyond a two
mile radius. So many times kids can't see their future

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because that future doesn't land within that two mile radius.
The fact that you put together events like you did,
where you bring the different career sectors that fall within
the teamster's umbrella, that kids right here can go to
that opportunity and see their potential futures is outstanding because
now you're creating hope, you're creating hopefully motivation because kids

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do wake up with dreams right starting since five year olds.
We were just talking about that. So we have kids
right now that are an elementary middle schooler saying I
want to be this and it's not necessarily a career
career that requires a college graduate degree.

Speaker 7 (01:19:19):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
But the last thing I'll say to that statement is
thank you for bringing that opportunity. But you're emphasizing the
difference between a job, and a job with a livable wage.

Speaker 7 (01:19:30):
That is the key.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
If our kids can see that they can get a
livable wage right here in Samardino, they'll buy a house
right here in Samardino. They will spend their money right
here in Samarandino, and the economy starts to build. And
as that hope and thrive starts to happen, then you
start to see things such as crime go down, you
start to see property values increase. So what you guys

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have done is amazing and I thank.

Speaker 7 (01:19:56):
You for that. Thank you, I really appreciate you raising
the awarenes on missing the mark, education missed the mark.
I got a bunch of questions I want to ask
you about, you know, like what got you involved in
education and some of that stuff. But before I do that,
I know my generation, everybody in my age group that
didn't go to college, they feel we feel like failures

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because it was so overemphasized. If you didn't go to college,
you were a failure. And I think that that it's
good to see the education community turned the corner on
that and realize, look, I know again it was well intended,
but what in retrospect you look back and you realize
that an entire generation that maybe didn't go to college

(01:20:44):
felt like they just come up short in life. And
it's interesting, you know, I be in that in that
age group. I can see how that affected some people
I grew up. Now, they had a good job. But
even though they had a good job, and they may
have many of them had teams to jobs or union jobs,
and some of them are actually already retired right now

(01:21:06):
because of that, right, they still felt like they came
up short because of that, instead of instead of being
reminded that these are necessary careers and it's okay and
you're not a failure. Again, I'm not trying to beat
you up on it. It's just great. It's refreshing, refreshing

(01:21:26):
to hear that the next time we approach this, obviously
for this generation, that we're going to do it better
than we did before, and we're going to improve on
it so that those that do get a great job
and decide not to go to college, that they recognize
they're just not a failure. Amen to that.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
And I appreciate you holding us accountable for that, because
that is a tragedy that that's happened, right, is making
people feel less and giving them less credit because of
this ideology of you have to reach this level to
be recognized.

Speaker 7 (01:22:00):
But let's be real.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
When you're a homeowner and your electricity goes out, who
do you call electrician? When your toilet doesn't work, who
are you going to call? You're gonna call plumber. These
are all necessary skill sets for our society to function.

Speaker 7 (01:22:16):
Or you're gonna get on your phone and order something
and someone's going to deliver it to your house. Yeah, yeah,
it should be a teamster delivering it like we have
for over one hundred and twenty years. I mean, we
go back to delivering when it was when it was
a chunk of ice that you were putting in the
ice box before it was a refrigerator.

Speaker 17 (01:22:34):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:22:35):
We go back to delivering when it was milk that
was on the doorstep every couple of days, right, not
every day, but every few days, because milk didn't last
three months like it does now, which just got us
a little, you know, kind of it's a little weird. Anyway,
point is is you're one hundred percent correct. We we
have to emphasize the importance of those jobs, those roles,

(01:22:56):
and the contribution to the community and value them in
the right way, so that you know, we don't take
them for granted. And you know, and you know everybody
works for a lower wage or can't afford to buy
a home in a neighborhood, right.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
Right, Yeah, and you see now even the California Department
of Education, they've created a dashboard where there are certain
indicators that school districts are held accountable for to reach.
And one of those indicators is the career readiness and
a career readiness indicator. So that validates that for your

(01:23:28):
college and career readiness indicator are of the same value.

Speaker 7 (01:23:33):
Right, It's correct.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
So I'm really proud that it's public education. We've turned
that corner. So good things are happening and we're leading
that pack is public education entity right here in San Maernandino.

Speaker 7 (01:23:43):
So how did you get involved in education? What drove
you into that space, because you know, it's it's you
have to have you have to be a certain type
of person to be in that environment. Yeah, thank you
for asking question. It was by accident.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
When I finished college at UC Riverside, my initial goal
was to be an FBI or CIAgent. I wanted to
work in some sort of fucked the doors. Well, in
nineteen ninety when I graduated from UC Riverside, federal government
was having hiring freeze. So my dad said, well, you're
not going to sit around here and do nothing, so
go apply and be a substitute teacher. So I walked

(01:24:19):
in just to become a substitute teacher, and they saw
my resume that I spoke Spanish, and so they said, hey,
how would you like to teach fourth grade for twenty
one thousand dollars on a one year emergency credential man
twenty one thousand for a kid at thirteenth and f
I was like, yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:36):
I'm in. Don't threaten me.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
The good thing right, And I got signed a Muscoy
Elementary as a fourth grade teacher, and I fell in
love with the kids, fell in love with this whole
public education conversation, enrolled and got my teaching credential, and
thirty five years later, here I am.

Speaker 7 (01:24:53):
That's how it happened. What a great story, and literally
right up the street. You know, it's always great to
hear somebody in the area who loves the area, grew
up in the area. Do you remember Sam Argino being
in All America City in nineteen seventy seven. Absolutely, absolutely,

(01:25:15):
you remember.

Speaker 6 (01:25:17):
Oh yeah, I remember when they painted Ea Street.

Speaker 7 (01:25:19):
It's still up there, isn't it? The band? They redid
it recently? Didn't They Up to the Castaways? Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (01:25:25):
I remember.

Speaker 7 (01:25:26):
It's been a couple of years since I've been up there.
But I might have snuck into the Castaways. No, No,
we wouldn't have done that, right, Yeah, nineteen seventy seven,
sam Regina was an All America Cities. Forty some years later,
what's happened? You know, what's going on a lot of it,
in my opinion, has to do with it's all about
the job market, right, making sure good jobs, jobs that

(01:25:46):
people can get, or young adults especially. You're in this
perfect spot of dealing with young adults or kids as
soon as they enter the workforce. Like that two mile radius.
I'm glad you pointed that out, because, like, imagine us
adults at this age narrowing everything down to a two

(01:26:08):
mile radius and then identifying what that opportunity is because
you're just not seeing ninety nine percent of what's out there.
And we've got to, you know, we just really got
to examine how we're doing this and make sure we
start holding these big corporations that are making a lot
of money accountable. Make sure that our elected officials are
recognizing the right policy in place to ensure good jobs

(01:26:33):
in a particular area and not give up on an
area that was once in All America City.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
I completely concur with that, and that was one of
the major reasons why I personally came back.

Speaker 7 (01:26:48):
To sam Marnadino. So I thank you for coming back.

Speaker 5 (01:26:51):
Oh no, it's my honor to be here, and I
sincerely mean that. You know, my first fourteen years of
my career was right here in Samernadino School District. In
two thousand and two, I took a job in Palm
Springs and I was there for fourteen years, and then
I was six years in Redlands. You know, very different
communities at the moment, right than the city of San Marnadino.

(01:27:14):
But when the city of Samardino opened up for twenty years,
all I had heard when I left Samardino, when people
asked me is where are you from? Said Samardino. They
do always go oh, right, right, And so I'm like,
you know, enough of that, enough of that. I want
to come back, do my part, give back to what
was given to me, and I want to help that mindset,
try to drive that mindset not only in the school district,

(01:27:36):
but even with my colleagues at city Hall, and they've
been very responsive. I think they have the same aspirations.

Speaker 14 (01:27:43):
That we have.

Speaker 5 (01:27:44):
And I don't know their bureaucracy, but I want to
do my part to bring the city back to those
type of designations. You know, people back in the sixties
and seventy used to come to sam Mandino to shop,
to the.

Speaker 7 (01:27:58):
Theaters for art, for culture. Growing up in Fontana, we
hopped on the bus, went down foothill, we came to
Central City Mall. You know, we went to the theaters.
I forget the name of the theaters at the time,
but you know, we didn't have any of that in
Fontana or Roalto.

Speaker 14 (01:28:14):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
Did you stop at the bus stop right in front
of Harris, Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Absolutely run across
from Big Five, yep, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28:23):
So I want that to be us again, where people
wake up somewhere else and go I want to go
to Samardino today and do X.

Speaker 7 (01:28:31):
Y Z you know, you know, and what's amazing, I
think there's a huge opportunity here is some crazy idea
I have is is that Samardino, Samargino, Riverside Counties. There's
over four million people in the Inland Empire. It's it's
a huge metropolitan area, but it's it's it's anchored in

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the LA market. In other words, everything is dependent upon LA.
And giving an example, like a lot of the government buildings,
federal buildings, stuff like that, you have to go to
downtown LA. And I don't know about you, but whenever
I go to downtown LA or to the West Side,
you know, it's a two and a half three sometimes
a four hour trip one way to get there. And

(01:29:17):
quite frankly, this population center should actually be an epicenter
for its own region, for its own identity, in its
own area. And one of those, in my opinion, should
be media. In other words, we should have our own news,
we should have our own media center. I'm not talking

(01:29:37):
like Hollywood. I'm just talking about an identity that becomes
separate from everything being so dependent upon the LA basin.
Because we have the population, we have the people, We
have the jobs, though I would argue a lot of
those jobs should be better jobs. And we're doing at
least our part in trying to make that happen. And

(01:29:59):
what we're trying to to do is build this message
about transforming Sambordino, transforming the Inland Empire, is giving that
vision of hope and inspiration that these are things you
can do. You just got to start doing it, pencil
it out and make it happen. And even though like
what we have here on this property, we're going to
have ultimately have a clinic here, we'll have a little

(01:30:20):
a small medical center. We obviously have the training center,
we have our trust fund here, we obviously have the
headquarters of the building, and it's a pretty nice complex.
We host a lot of community events here, as you
saw with the car show. We do movie nights, we
do all kinds of stuff, and we don't have a
ten foot fence built around it. Now that's hard to manage,

(01:30:41):
but that's our commitment to the community to say we're
making it look good. We're doing everything we can to
bring something positive. We need more to do the same thing.
What do you think of us having our own media
center here right here, and we started this little We've
got three radio stations now in here, which also includes
kfx SEM. You remember KFEX absolutely well. Right now, the

(01:31:01):
radio station back in the day it was. Isn't that crazy?
I got KFX right here, right down this hallway, So
we're starting to I know it sounds crazy, but my
idea of having a media center is literally starting by
us just bringing first bringing the radio stations back, and
then now let's start to anchor down right here in

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downtown Sammordino of what could be, not what used to be.

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
Yeah, no, absolutely I support that. I've actually thought of
that many times. When I was in Palm Springs. Yeah,
they had three four different TV stations, they had nine
to ten different radio stations. They had their own media
market there.

Speaker 7 (01:31:46):
And here we are.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
We have a train station, we have an airport, we
have a major university, two major freeways criss cross right
in the heart of sam Marnandino. We have hospitality Lane
which brings in a lot of people. Yeah, we need
to start taking control of our own messaging. Here are

(01:32:09):
our own energy and not have to be dependent on
something so far away. La is very different than Samardino,
and yet we get sucked in into that messaging. So
I concur I think we should do it. We have
the capacity to do it. And then all the things
that I've listed, you know, having a train station, having

(01:32:30):
that airport. I mean, we are primed to be hub city.

Speaker 7 (01:32:35):
Again, you know, Yeah, and it just takes kind of
pushing all the right people into the collective space to
kind of make it happen. You make a good point.
Maybe what we do is we you know, because back
in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, I think it was
twenty eighteen, we hosted a town hall here where we

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talked about how sam Ardino was an All America city
in nineteen seventy seven and why, and then we kind
of laid out what needs to happen with the jobs,
and then we talked about our commitment that we were
going to make. And then we've literally been driving that
message obviously every since. And maybe what you did is
you just touched on something that maybe we try to
drive another again. This is just an idea here another

(01:33:18):
town hall where we invite somebody of authority from each
of those entities you just discussed and say, hey, what's
it going to take for us to make this happen? Like,
what's it going to take for you to participate in
moving it in the right direction? I mean, I know
I'd be willing to host that sort of event. We

(01:33:39):
just obviously need to kind of start ushering everybody into
that space because I'm sure everybody's like, where did we start? Well,
the way you start is you start with the idea
and then you start to put people in a room
to map out how to accomplish the goals of that
idea and start to execute. I don't know what ideas.
What do you think? Do you think that it's a

(01:34:00):
good start? I don't know. I'm just spitballing.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Yeah, I love that we're throwing out ideas. In talking
to Mayor Helen Tran, you know, I've often asked what
is the strategic plan of the city and just being
where does the school district fit in there?

Speaker 7 (01:34:17):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:34:18):
And so I think we're still waiting to see what
is that strategic plan that the city wants to roll out.
To your point, we should all be part of that
conversation because we all own a little small piece that
leads to that nucleus, which is the objective of what
Sanmardino should be personally thinking, you know, I think we

(01:34:38):
need to It's okay to remember what we used to be,
but now we have to start planning what we're going
to be right, and we need to be even better
than we were in nineteen seventy seven. Right, We're much
bigger or much larger. Our infrastructure is very different. So
I love your idea. I think it is a part

(01:34:58):
of a bigger conversation with what is the city doing?

Speaker 7 (01:35:02):
And maybe they are.

Speaker 5 (01:35:02):
I'm not trying to throw stones, because I love my
relationship with the city. They've been good, we worked together well.
But I think to your point is all of the
folks that we just named have to be a part
of that building of that dream, right because we all
own a.

Speaker 7 (01:35:17):
Piece of it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:17):
So I think it's a great idea, and maybe it
starts that energy starts with the town hall meeting. Maybe
that's what creates the energy to move forward. I know,
I love the idea, and I just.

Speaker 7 (01:35:27):
Put another project on my plate. Ironically, you know, I've
kicked this idea around before, but maybe the timing's better
now in a sense of how we lead it. I
know a few years ago I tried to usher the
space and I don't know if maybe we didn't have
enough juice in the area if you say, if you

(01:35:50):
use a word or influence, But maybe maybe that's shifted
and changed, and maybe our profile is lifted enough to
be able to kind of push people into that collective
space again and to hope and dream to do something grand.

Speaker 15 (01:36:04):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:36:06):
And I don't even think it's that big of a
lift when you really think about the natural resources we're
literally sitting on top of. It's just figuring out how
to get them to coordinate with each other and to
work with each other for a common goal.

Speaker 14 (01:36:22):
Man.

Speaker 7 (01:36:23):
So I know we've shifted off of the students and
all this stuff, but I like this idea. We're going
to have to game this out a little bit better.
Anything you want to share as far as what you
think we can partner with you more in the district obviously,
what your goals to serve your mission with the students
in the public. What do you think that labor can

(01:36:45):
do more in that space?

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
Yeah, now, thank you for that question, and thank you
for offering that opportunity to have a dialogue. I think
there's a lot we can do continue to do. I
want to thank you for all that you have done already,
and I just asked that we continue to have those
conversations again in the spirit of recognizing that we have
students that want to go into the workforce immediately after
high school. One of our objectives has been to really

(01:37:10):
try to increase the number of internships or apprenticeships that
our students can have so that the kids are learning
on the job skills while they're still in high school,
and so when they graduate, they are prepared to come
right into the workforce and be a productive employee and
a productive member and citizen of the area. So I

(01:37:32):
would just implore us to continue to explore those opportunities
where kids can have, you know, paid internship opportunities while
they're in high school or on the job apprenticeships so
that when they do finish, they're ready to just walk
in day one and be able to have a livable
wage type of job so that they stay here. That's

(01:37:54):
the key is I need that brilliance, that skill set
to stay here. You know, that's a big part of
that big dream of the city is if we create
those opportunities. It also goes back to exposure, keep having
those career days. I love that you were sharing with
me that you had the actual boots on the ground

(01:38:16):
folks at those recruitment tables so they could truly explain
to it. This was what the job really is, not
the sugar coated version. And I'm from HR guys. I
went through the HR part in school system. You know,
we sugarcoat things, right, But I love that idea that
kids got to actually speak to the folks that are job.

Speaker 7 (01:38:37):
We made sure Becky, Becky, actually not me or we,
It was really Becky's idea to make sure that each
of the employers that those doing the those representing the
employer were those that actually did the job. And what
we found, because I've been to a lot of career
days or events and stuff like that, I'm sure like

(01:39:00):
you have, what we found was a completely different interaction
with the kids who really connected deeper to what we
found as kids are like they changed their mind two
or three times as they went around the room, which
is great, right because that was exposure for them and
options and options and recognizing quotes were like, they had

(01:39:22):
no idea there were these types of opportunities this close
to home. Anything stick out to you, Becky.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
They could see themselves.

Speaker 7 (01:39:33):
They could see themselves they in that person. Yeah, they
could visualize the pathway. They could recognize that there was
stability in that direction, which clearly if you listen to
the narrative, especially if you're growing up in the areas
get out of here, get out of here, Get out
of here, get out of here. Like people got to

(01:39:54):
stop that. No, first of all, there's a lot of
good opportunity here. So let's first recognize that and prop
it up to help create more of that. Don't don't
beat everybody down and and make it, you know, in
a negative way. Take what you can to do in
a positive versus the negative. And so thank you Becky

(01:40:14):
for making sure that that was propped up in our
team at the training center and coordinating that and and
doing that. And now what we want to do is
we want to do that every fall so that the
kids at the beginning of the year. You know, it's
like I know, me, I I I became really kin
to wood shop when I was in high school. I
just compared to metal shop and and and you know

(01:40:36):
the auto shop and all the other stuff. Wood shop
is the one I really really gravitated towards. And and
so that's obviously something I liked to do. This is
the same thing, right, like if you if you like
technology or you like you know, you like like the
CSI stuff like, there's all these different things that we

(01:40:56):
saw those kids just connect to. It was just great.
It was organic, and we just got to figure out
how to do more of that. What are your thoughts
on that?

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
Well, first of all, I think back, you should get
a raise?

Speaker 7 (01:41:05):
Is that in play? Is that is that possible? Can
you hit that du button over there now? Absolutely she
deserves twice what she gets.

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
I think if if we can continue to provide those
opportunities for our kids, because sometimes a one time deal
it's overwhelming. So I'm sure many of those kids went home,
like I talk to all these people and there's four
great things. I think it would be powerful to do
follow up immediately after, maybe a couple months down the road.
I don't know, and I don't know what that follow
up looks like, but kids have now had an opportunity

(01:41:36):
to reflect on that moment, and as you said, they
kept changing their minds, I guarantee, and they went home
they changed their mind four more times. Right, Yeah, So
maybe that follow up and say, okay, it's been a
couple of months.

Speaker 7 (01:41:48):
What you stuck with you? Yeah? What's stuck with you?

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Because I know you've you've been on the internet looking
at what does the job this and what does it pay?
And what is the future and now be able to
maybe create a pathway, you know, almost an agenda for
that student. And student says, well, I want to be
CSI or I want to be you know, a train conductor.

Speaker 7 (01:42:09):
What do I need to do next?

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Well, it's right here. You know that this company's right here,
Teamsters is right here to help you. There's training centers.
A lot of these kids don't know that, or they
won't remember. They may have heard it that day, but
it's so overwhelming, so they need that time to reflect,
filter and then maybe create some sort of a plan
that we can all work together and again show them
their future, that their future is here and keep them here.

Speaker 7 (01:42:34):
And this is why we believe that there should be
more emphasis on teaching labor in school and and there's
different aspects of labor. I think that a current education system.
I'm sure there's you know, there's everybody's a critic from
a distance. I can tell you this if my kid
comes home, and just so you know, my wife and
I we have nine kids combined, so we deal with

(01:42:58):
kids have come home and come about their teachers. I'm like,
look if the teacher tells you to stand on your head,
stand on your head, I don't know what to tell you,
right like, I think that some of that's been lost
in society, that that parents get whipped around by kids
not wanting to do things. My point is is is
I've always come from a high level of respect for

(01:43:19):
what the teachers do, and the kids need to respect that.
But I also with that criticism. What criticism I will
will will lean in on is that the schools are
not teaching a very important part of the future, which
is labor. Number one, the history of it, the real
history of it. And there's this emphasis of you know,

(01:43:41):
everybody's going to be a business tycoon, a Carnegie of
this or that. And if you really go back into
history and you look at what the Carnegie and the
Rockefellers did, they were not good to people. Their fortunes
were one and gained off of the exploitation of a
lot of people. And I think that it's important for
this generation to learn that for two reasons, One to

(01:44:05):
not repeat the past, first and foremost, but also two
to make sure that labor gets its due respect, because
again that goes into that failure bucket that if I
don't go to college and I end up in a
working class job, middle class job, whatever it's called, I'm good.
I'm okay. What's the problem here? Why is it that

(01:44:27):
I'm frowned upon because I don't have an education? Look,
I don't, I don't. A lot of people don't realize
I don't have a college education. I didn't go to college,
and I know a lot of people that have been
very successful because they didn't allow that failure. Now do
I feel at some times like I was a failure
early on because I didn't achieve that simply because of

(01:44:47):
what was being pounded in our head at that age. Sure?
So what's your thoughts on how we emphasize more content
about labor for kids at this.

Speaker 5 (01:45:01):
Well, I think you're speaking to a couple of things.
So first is, as an assistant supertenent of HR, I
was a chief negotiator for the union or for the
district with the teachers' unions, and I think the folks
that represented the teachers' union, I think would tell you

(01:45:21):
that I was very pro labor and the reason for
that is I believe in unions because it creates a
check and balance against abuse and kind of the exploitation
some of the historical things that you mentioned, And I
think that's important. There has to be a voice, There
has to be a balance, because if not, people's natural
tendency is I want it all and everybody else gets nothing. Right,

(01:45:44):
And so to that point, is that same mindset we
have to teach in our schools, right, And I don't
know what it looks like. So to be clear, I
don't know what that would look like, but I know personally,
as a superintendent, I pushed the ideas of, first of all,
being kind to each other. I push the ideas of
we have to respect authority and rules. I pushed the

(01:46:06):
ideas of we need to work together as a team.
I push the ideas of we have to have honest debate.
We're not always going to be on the same side
of an argument, but then we have to work towards
the middle and find the answer instead of anger, hatred,
name calling, categorizing people.

Speaker 13 (01:46:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:46:27):
So, I think those are the skill sets that we
are trying to push within the experience of a K
twelve student. Right now, you say the history of labor,
You know, I have to look at our history books.
You know, as a superintendent I don't get involved in
a deep, deep curriculum, So I'm interested now to see
how that is portrayed.

Speaker 7 (01:46:46):
To make that point, my son who graduate, he's twenty
one now, the one that's twenty one, he was a senior.
I think he was a junior or senior at Carlsbad
High and that's where his mom lives. And he sends
me a picture of his textbook that describes unions as

(01:47:08):
a cartel. You be shocked at how uniform that is,
And it's how does that get missed? Like you know
that those those individuals from the Teachers' Union, they're not
the cartel. They're not They're not the mob that's looking

(01:47:28):
to whack someone around every corner. Like you know, this
ain't the first you know. And I mean, obviously I'm
the head of a Teamster local and I'm in the
Teamsters Union. So can you can imagine how many times
I've been generalized or categorized as I just described. But
you know, what we're trying to do is challenge educators

(01:47:48):
to deal with this space, uh and to and to
and to start to look at it because what's happened
is is a couple of generations of the workforce heard
that the union where the cartel. I mean, I'm not
making this up like this is this is something that's
happening right now. And there's this subliminal or you know,

(01:48:12):
light sort of reference where labor is a bad thing,
and we've got to turn that around because that has
two layers to it. One, why are we negatively, you know,
putting in a negative light and the organizations that represent
workers number one. The other is if somebody goes into

(01:48:35):
if a kid ultimately ends up there, they feel like
they're part of something bad. Right, there's those two tracks
at the same time. So I would challenge you to
take a look at that please and examine what you
could do different in trying to hopefully your district is
not doesn't call us a court cartel, But secondarily, what

(01:48:58):
can we do more of and then what can we
do to participate in that space, because the reality is
a large percentage of the students are going to end
up in the workforce and they need the proper sort
of recognition of what labor's role is versus it being
slanted like that, And hopefully you could be a larger

(01:49:21):
partner in that space with us to help you know,
raise that real level of education and information on the
history of what's really gone on there.

Speaker 5 (01:49:30):
Yeah, well, I can tell you you have the commitment
from the SAMUCI Unified School District on that. You know,
we're a very pro labor organization, always have been, dating
back to when I was here twenty one years ago.
So you have my commitment on that. And I'm actually curious.
I'm going to dig into some of my high school
curriculum and see if I find something like that. But
I tell you my personal experience. You know, I've dealt

(01:49:52):
with the California Teach Association, and I dealt with Teamsters
out in Palm Springs.

Speaker 7 (01:49:57):
Ray Whitner. I don't know if anybody knows.

Speaker 5 (01:49:59):
We know Rayrol Love like Ray and I work together
for fourteen years across the table. Love that guy, have
a lot of respect for him.

Speaker 7 (01:50:07):
And I and I think the feel part of the
district is Teamstairs in Palms.

Speaker 5 (01:50:10):
In Palm Springs, right yeah. So I had a great
working relationship with them and in a great experience. So uh,
part of it was because of my attitude, right yeah,
you know, and so I I think in sam Ernandino,
the actions show that attitude that you know we respect unions,
we understand the purpose of unions, but more importantly, we

(01:50:31):
also like the conversations that are happening the collaboration. So
I think our actions speak for themselves. Is that we're
here to support each other. We're here to build the city.
We have the same visions and objectives. So h but
I'll take you up on that challenge and I'll report
back to you.

Speaker 7 (01:50:47):
That'd be great, Becky. What are the things you think
we should ask, talk about or raise up here in
this conversation.

Speaker 12 (01:50:54):
I think the only other thing now is that working
with the district and meeting the students were not only
meeting the students.

Speaker 11 (01:51:00):
They're taking that back to their families, so they're.

Speaker 8 (01:51:04):
School as well, are looking.

Speaker 13 (01:51:09):
For a job.

Speaker 7 (01:51:10):
Oh that's a great idea to strengthen the community.

Speaker 9 (01:51:14):
How can we work with your parents and fail.

Speaker 1 (01:51:18):
To be able to reach to the community grows?

Speaker 6 (01:51:22):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:51:22):
I know Becky's not on the mic, but listening to
the last show, we could actually hear who's talking in
the room, so I think everybody picked up on it.
If they didn't pick up on it, I'll just briefly
repeat it is the work that's being done here in
the space as far as the jobs, the careers, those pathways.
It's not just targeting the kids that may be graduating,

(01:51:43):
it's also how it impacts the family and that what
can we do or what can the district do to
let that reach back into the household for those parents, uncles, aunts,
relatives that are connected as the as the kids goes back,
you know, back home, and they could potentially connect to

(01:52:04):
this very same resource. That's kind of your point, right, Becky,
of the family, the schools, about the students.

Speaker 12 (01:52:17):
Community.

Speaker 7 (01:52:19):
So Becky's complementing the district In case you didn't hear, uh,
Becky's complementing the district on its ability to connect back
into the household. You got anything you want to like,
what are your programs in that space, what's your what's
your objective there, and what are you doing deliberately to
make that happen?

Speaker 13 (01:52:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
Sure, well, Becky, thank you for pointing it out. We're
probably one of the very few school districts that actually
has a parent Engagement department, and we actually have a
parent Engagement Action Plan with the objective of not only
teaching parents how to navigate the public education system on
behalf of their children, but also to build up their
courage and leadership skills to just enhance their own lives.

(01:52:59):
So we provide a lot of parent trainings from simple
things from how to shop efficiency, how to cook healthy,
but also how to put together resumes and how to
find jobs, etc. So we do have these elements of
empowering parents and we have.

Speaker 7 (01:53:18):
The people to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Now the challenge that I'm hearing, which I think is great,
is how can we now try to get the parents
to also be exposed as some of these opportunities that
you've given our kids. I think that's a next step.

Speaker 7 (01:53:32):
Let's work on that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:33):
You know, Beatrice Gonzalez is our director of Parent Engagement.

Speaker 7 (01:53:37):
I think that's a.

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
Great practice problem of practice that we can deal and
put out a plan and say how can we do it?
So I appreciate that that vision and objective. Let's get
to it.

Speaker 7 (01:53:48):
So it's called a parent Engagement Department. What a great idea.
I love that. That's a first I've ever heard of
anything like that. It is the only school district in
the area you know that's doing it. What a what
a Yeah. What people don't realize is that you know
it's is in today's day with Facebook and social media,

(01:54:10):
it's like everybody's got an opinion, right, Like, the reality
is is those opinions are typically junk first and foremost.
But the reality is this is always you have to
approach this in a holistic fashion, right, Like what's going
on or whatever the challenges are for the kid, you know,
it's obviously happening or the young adult is obviously probably

(01:54:30):
happening in the family as a whole, and so you
got to you got to try to approach it the
best you can and a holistic approach. So you know,
someone pointed out here, you know, empowering students to be
activists so they can educate their parents, Like what a
I love this, Thanks Carlos for chiming in on this.
And and you know when people say activist, what's activists mean?

(01:54:52):
Like is that, oh, something radical and crazy? No, like, like,
it's it's it's making them helping them advocate for good
jobs in the area. And a lot of times the
young adults are the kids in this age bracket. They
have a lot of the extra energy and time to
be effective in this space, So why not engage them

(01:55:12):
in something very positive versus you know, some of us
got into trouble when we had extra time on our hands,
not us, So we just got a few more minutes
left in the show. Is there anything you'd like to
wrap up on or talk about? And what do you
think of this platform a union having its own live
radio show in the area. Super cool? I love that,
super Cool. I love it. It's like a cool toy.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
Yeah, it's kind of fun. When can I come back
right now? I just want to say thank you for
the opportunity, thank you for the partnership. I think you've
hit on many points that lives in our multi year
vision called SBCUSD twenty thirty Shines. You'll see that we
have a focus on teaching our kids to be civically engaged.
You see that we have a focus on making sure

(01:55:54):
that kids have the opportunity to pick college and or
a career pathway, that we are putting in resources and
money into our career technical education programs. That one of
the visions that we have two way communication not only
with our parents but with our community partners. So I
think we have all the elements in place to continue

(01:56:15):
to build this relationship and stick to the vision of
creating hope for our kids that want to work after
high school and that we can capture them keep them here.
So I appreciate your vision of the Teamsters, the opportunities,
the relationship. I wanted to continue to grow and let's
keep building Samardino. That's the objective.

Speaker 7 (01:56:37):
Yeah. Thanks. We've been joined here today on the Worker
Power are with by Mauricio Ariano, the Superintendent of Schools
for Samordino, the City of Samordino, Unified, correct and homegrown.
Come from the area and it seems like we've got
a lot of things in common here and got a
lot of ideas we've cooked up. Now we got to

(01:56:58):
get to work on them, all right. This is Randy
Corgan in the Worker Power Hour. We've you know, gone
through our a couple hours here and we're going to
wrap this thing up KCAA ten fifty AM, one O
six point five FM and the Teamsters nineteen thirty two
Broadcast Network. We're building worker power in the ie. We're
transforming the eal An Empire. And how are we building
worker power. We're talking to workers. We want you to

(01:57:20):
talk to your friends, your family, your neighbors, encourage them
on how they can build worker power. We're we're bridging
the gap between workers in the area, the community, small business,
our training center, schools. You're seeing it live firsthand with
a radio show and everything else that we got and
so really appreciate everybody listening in. Thanks for another great show.
Take it away, Mark Randy Corgan the Worker Power out

(01:57:42):
of KCA ten fifty one and six point five. See
you next week.

Speaker 14 (01:57:49):
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