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Speaker 1 (00:00):
City council member Nick Richardson, sir, good to see you again, Trevor.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Grig be back, brother, I got the energy.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're a few years older than my oldest son. But
he did the curl mustache, the what they call the
Gilded Age, right, I'm so fascinated. From eighteen eighty I
think to nineteen ten or something they called that the
Gilded Age when they did. Wasn't that architecture something that
they did back then? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Absolutely, Yeah, you got Vanderbilt and everything else, especially on
the East coast.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So that's the origins of your mustache that you're growing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is definitely dastardly villain mustache.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It is what'd you say, the penelope the train, the
train thing, right, the villain. Yeah. And I tell Counselman Richardson,
I said, I get my eyebrows. That's the only hair
above my chin that's growing anymore. I could do the
curl with him, whack something like that. Nobody's doing the
eyebrow curl, are they? That could be.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A style, absolutely, the eyebrow curls.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
As to come back, well, you are a first time politician.
You beat the polls, you beat a contender from city
council that had the backing of all the valley's big players.
And I got to know your background a little bit.
Talk about what you've been doing out there. It's still
with the reserves, that's correct, and you were in for
how long? Just give your background again, because you know, okay,
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maybe some people from Texas or Florida moved to California
and they don't know who you are. Wouldn't that I've
heard of that happening on it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey, you're there swarming to California.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, I'm wonder who's moving in all the new houses
that are being built. We can talk about that later,
But go back to who you are and where you
came from and all that place.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well do I'm Nick Richardson. I was born and raised
here in Fresno. Went over to Copper Hills Elementary over
there in District six. Was raised around here. Didn't leave
town until college. Went to the Virginia Military Institute. Did
four years there, got a couple degrees, commissioned into the
United States Marine Corps as a lieutenant in twenty thirteen,
went and flew God's Chariot, the uh one Yankee Hwey
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gunship and the Marine Corps active duty for about ten
years and moved to the reserves in twenty twenty two.
That allowed me to move home. So I'm working on
your thirteen right now as a major. But the most
exciting newest title that I have is definitely City Councilmen four,
District six.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, when I go back on that life quick history
right there, you went from California to suddenly being in
Virginia in the humidity with military tack dress uniforms up
to your neck, typed in right with that wool kind
of stuff on.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh yeah, and then move from there down to flight
school in Pensacola, Florida, which was nice and muggy, and
then from there southern California, then Hawaii, and that took
me to the Philippines and every other place that will
make you sweat as soon as you wake up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, maybe you've been sworn to secrets seeing some skull
and bones saying, but from what I see in the
movies about military academies and whatnot, you like in the
middle of the night if you're brand new there you
get thrown in a pellow case and beaten up and stuff.
Is it like that? Like the movie show it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I will definitely not disparage the traditions of the healthful
and pleasant abode that is a Virginia Military Institute. But
I will say we do have a lot of traditions there,
a lot of history and a lot of the happen
the intake, ceremonies or maybe something that that your average
bear is not used to and not ready for.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I bet you though some of that's changed because they
like universities, are changing hazing. Now, hazing can go too far.
We've seen that happen. But you know, the good stuff,
the good hazing that I think they're cutting back on
that kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know, physical fitness in and of itself should never
be considered hazing. There is a point at which it
becomes detrimental to the person doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If they're running and screaming because their hair is on
fire or something. It went a little far, Maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's exactly Yeah, if you're doing push ups in a
pot of a pit of coles or something of that nature. Definitely,
But I really keep close tabs on what's going on
at I'm the moderator the Virginia Military Institute. Okay, so
I'm the moderator for the parents' friends and alumni page
and I go back on occasion and visit my lineage, and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, it has to be good. Recruitment numbers are up.
That is really good to hear that. A lot of
the branches have already hit their like fiscal year quotas
already because there was a glut. Did you have that
in the reserves as well? Did you see that over
the last four years?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The reserves are real weird with where we pull from
different numbers, and you're gonna see from the active duty
it kind of ebbs and flows a little bit more
than the traditional just hey, we need to ramp up
all the time unless it's a drawback. So it's a
little more nuanced on the active side. But I was
blessed to be pulled in almost directly recruited based on
some of my qualifications to be in the unit I'm in,
and I'm about to move to a new one in October.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
All right, you're now thirty four when it comes around
when you got to go out and do the battle stuff? Right?
Is it a little tougher now? Have you found out
is easy to get? All? Okay, let me ask you this.
Do you look forward to it? When it's one week away,
three days away, or is it like, ah, it's getting
a little rougher now that I'm getting older. I guess
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that's my question.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, except for being apart from my beautiful fiance,
I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Look forward to drill. Yeah, tenive, that's it. No, I
look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You get to go out in the field with the
boys and you get to cuss and spit and dip
and fart and yell and burp and everything with them
and get dirty and go really get back to your elements,
basic elements.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All right. Now you got to battle down going at
city Council. That's been non stop. It almost seems like
though on the ebb and flow of the news stories,
it's been relatively a little calmer the last six months.
I'm going to say, would you would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The last six months are the only six months I've
had in city Hall. But I will say that a
lot of the I wouldn't say turmoil, A lot of
the issues, a lot of them in fighting.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It doesn't seem to be going on.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
All agree with that?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We tend to get along with each other fairly well,
respect each other kind of on the merits have more
intellectual conversations, and I think used to take place in
city hall.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
All right, explain, I want to go back to the military.
I have one more thing. Explain to the youth and
the parents of the military help shape you today. I
look at it as good. You're eighteen years old. It
still gives you some guardrails, and those vulnerable eighteen to
twenty four year old when you can get into trouble.
It's good guardrails to have up, is it not. I'm
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a recruiter, let's go.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Coming out of high school, I got into UCLA in
this Virginia Military Institute, an obscure skull on the East coast,
and I'm so glad that I picked it because I
really did need that guns. I need the structure. I
needed positive role models to look up to. I need
to get used to waking up early in the morning,
someone who's gonna push me to study hard. I was
so grateful to have that. And after that, once I
got into the Marine Corps and really understood what it
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was to be part of a brotherhood, not just the
benefits to me, but the benefits that I can express
out to the rest of the world. Really living that honor, courage,
and commitment. After a while, it really ingrains itself in.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You. Let me see if I can get a head
nod yes or headshake no. Do some of the military
things that he learned, like keep the sheet straight, keep
this tidy? It did? Did some of the military stay
in his civilian life? Now? Yeah? Yeah, you find yourself
still doing that and green, didn't you? Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We'll go on trips and I'll fold all my socks,
underwear and shirts into this one little bundle, and I
giggled at every time.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, when I was flying back from Texas, my Air
Force son taught me how to pack same way. Yeah,
military packing, and you can do that. You can now
travel and go through store shopping and bring something back
home with you in your suitcase if you military pack correctly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Correct, big on trinkets and what's its and doodads here.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, it wasn't boot camp, but I bet at times
you were was working hard at boot camp out there
campaigning walking your district. You started your Nikki six campaign.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
With your cool hats when I still have your hat
by they That campaign started in February of twenty twenty three. Okay,
so it was about nineteen months that we were campaigning.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Did you ever log hemy steps, miles people anything like
that that you met. You probably covered every neighborhood as soon.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We covered every single neighborhood in the district that was
about between twenty six and twenty seven thousand houses, and
we walked them twice. So it took us. It took
us a long time. The rain Court didn't teach me
how to fundraise, They didn't teach me how to go
ask for endorsements, but they sure as will taught me
how to walk.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well. It seemed that a lot of endorsement people said no,
we're going to go with another guy. And you were
up against a big opponent there, and I bet many
times where some people like, hey, man, you're not going
to win this. Why don't you go try and run
for this here first? Did you have a lot of
naysayers around you, experts in politics.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You'd be surprised. I did have some very financially sound
donors say, listen, we really like you. We don't think
we're going to go with you. Would you be interested
in moving to this other district and running there? And
that is entirely missing the point.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, what'd you learn about your district that you did
not know before you went out and met every home twice,
or at least knocked on every home twice.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I would say two things. The quick one is a
lot of people have never met a candidate running for
any office. That really surprised me. They had never had
someone come and knock on their door and say, Hi,
I want to introduce myself. What can I do to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm sure Bredefeld might have stop by, yeah, if anybody
would be himing you too, though, well, Tonga Paw, you
and Brettefeld. I think were the three hustling campaigners out there,
and you all three one Seriously, you were the hustlers.
I see it. I see who's hustling and who's not.
And you guys hustled and you won.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I know those guys are not afraid of some payment.
The second thing that I learned was that you may
come into an election. You may watch the news and
think that there are three or four really big problems
in the city and that's everyone's concern, and that's really
not the case. You know, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block,
everyone has kind of the one thing that's really really
important to them, whether it's people are driving too fast
in front of my school, or the roads in this
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area have a ton of holes in them, or my
trash constantly is missed for the pickup. People have the
one thing that they just want fixed. And it's as
various in my district as it is, I'm sure in
every other one.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So you thought you have a list of three or
four that turned into thirty four.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It came more down to making flash cards for myself.
And remember remembering when I go back to a clubhouse
or a meeting hall or an elementary school. All right, Nick,
remember this is what they were concerned.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Really, you went that far to keep notes like that,
That's probably why you want.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm not smart enough to be disorganized, So I got
flash cards for all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right, what was your flash card on me? Do
you remember I live in your district.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I do have a few flashcards on your neighborhood. I'd
like to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, here's mine. I think it's extremely, extremely dangerous to
direct any bicycle rider in between two lanes of traffic
on Fryant with a bright green stripe down the middle
of the street, and it makes all the other lanes
really really skinny now until they branched back out to
how they were before. And I know it's part of
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the fifteen minute City Mayor Dier CARBOSSI went over to
ride bikes and they came back here, and that's why
we have these. It would be people are going fifty
sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Almost like the speed limit signs didn't do anything for them.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well they're not. I call it the Fryant Freeway up there,
but I don't understand that green strike down Fryant right there,
right in the middle, there's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
One right everybody house on Willow as right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, I saw one on Audubon here. I'm driving up
here as well. Uh, this implementation across it just seems
like a waste of money. And if they I know
it's new, it's what Europe's done, and I guess it
makes sense over there. I think we sent a little
note down to city hall asking if the Tour de
France that went over there, if they've ever once ridden
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their bike to city hall.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Nah, if the Tour Defryant really made it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Tore Defrant, I like that. I like that as well,
But that's on Mike. That's on my cue card.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So we got a new tactic now that we're using
in my district. We've got a bunch of opportunities for
ways to fix frient and by fix, I just mean improve, right.
It's not it's not built to an unsafe standard or
anything of that nature, but is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
If you're on a bike in between those lanes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And you know there's some engineer somewhere who thinks it's
a great idea and totally checks all his boxes, I
personally don't think that Fryant is as good as we
can make it. I don't think it's as safe as
we can make it. But instead of the Nick Richardson
good Idea ferry coming around and sprinkling my ideas on
public works, what we're doing at our next town hall,
which we hold them quarterly, our next town hall.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Would you say, sprinkle ferry.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We see, yeah, the good idea faery comes by in
sprinkles dustine. It's how you get good ideas. Okay, But
at our next town hall, it'll be at Lincoln Correction.
It'll be at Valley Oak Elementary School right there over
you know, that neck of the woods, And we're actually
gonna have a survey We're gonna have a survey where
public Works gives us a bunch of solutions that they
can implement on frint for different costs, and I'm gonna
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put it out. We're gonna do a little pole, little
crowdsourcing here and see what the residents of that area
want their streets to look like. Because I have learned
as soon as a politician comes in and tells you
that they know your neighborhood better than you do, they're
full of it. Close the door.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, And I know that you've probably heard from many
people that the front freeway on my on my card
would be also on Saturday nights, especially when the weather's nice.
Window open ten o'clock at night, it turns into the
Indianapolis five hundred on that big curve round there. I
hear that all the time. They're high speed racing up there.
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They know they do it every Saturday night. I know
Fresno has crime and they're serving other areas, but to me,
that's like a gun going off that can kill somebody.
When shot spotter is going off in a neighborhood here,
they focus more police on that. Sure, people have died
on Fryan and Fryant Roulette. The YouTube channel shows all
the bullets that almost kill people. We need more police presidence.
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On Fryan, I see police. I see the motorcycle cops
a few times a month, maybe up there. What do
they say when you go, we need or are you
saying we need more police presence there to slow down
ricky racers in their teslas?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Totally? I do tell them that, and actually have a
very good relationship with the captain of the Northeast Policing District.
What they recommend is we have to efficiently use the
police force that we have. In order to do that,
you gotta report it. If it's specifically racing, street racing,
cars going too fast, if you're in the limits of
the city of Fresno, you can call six Race, six Race.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I stop it. I didn't know that's a real Yeah,
hang on, you talking, I'm right now down. You call
that number.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You give them the time, the location, what you heard.
And if we can establish a pattern of behavior, such
as on Millbrook and Fort Washington every Saturday morning at
nine am, we've got cars going way too fast. As
soon as their blotterer starts to rack up, they see
it's a pattern, then they can effectively allocate police forces
there at that time to make sure they're catching it
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and it wasn't just a one off.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, they're gonna say all these calls are coming from
one phone number on Saturday night, six' two to one.
RACE i just wrote it. Down you saw me put
it in my wallet right. There i'm gonna be getting
up and grabbing my wallet and call BECAUSE i really
thought it's not something that you nine one one. CALL
i didn't feel comfortable doing. THAT i wouldn't clog up
nine one one for. That sound up there anything you've
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learned about city government in six months that you might
not have known when you were heading into. IT i
know you guys are getting along a little bit. Better
has it been? Harder like you have all these ideas
you want to get, in you want to make. CHANGE
i guess you're realizing there are some maybe more roadblocks
you might not have.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Realized you, KNOW i was really expecting coming in, here
and this is probably naive of. ME i expected, that
because my colleagues were of a different political, party that
ANYTHING i wanted to get done just on the basis of,
politics it would be a. Roadblock it would get shut.
DOWN i wouldn't be able to do, anything and.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They probably thought same about.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You, well, perhaps But i'm only one guy and a
six' to. One, council, yeah HOWEVER what, i saw and
again much to, their credit if you bring forth common
sense legislation that's just here to, help businesses just here
to help, you know first responders or your. Average residents
if you leave the politics out of it and you
just get stuff done that saves money and, helps people
helps folks manage the cost of living a little, BIT
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better i really run into very.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Little opposition is there anybody down there that might surprise
me as a conservative talk, show host that might be
a little open to have conversations with yourself down there
on city COUNCIL that i might think is maybe more
hardheaded than they actually are because you know them and
you work, WITH them.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I do I think i can think of one and
a half of them.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right now, OUR bossy i think that.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
YOU would i think you would assume that he would
be pretty easy to. Work WITH and i, will say
when it comes to Working With, district too Represented By,
mike carbos very very often we get along or we're
able To.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Get okay we'll leave out who you. Don't work who
would surprise me that works well?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
With you who would surprise and who would surprise you
that works really well? With me, YOU know i do
have good things to say about probably each. Of them
what really, SURPRISED me i think Was Council member perea
down in like a tower district and a little. Bit
north She has, she's very. VERY intelligent i found that working,
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with her she's usually common sense and often takes a
stance that doesn't align with what you'd think that political
party would. Go for it's really based on constituents and
when she, DOES that i could appreciate.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That same about. Her father, oh, yeah okay in meeting
him when he ran, FOR mayor i kind of felt
that way about him. AS well i want to come
back and we'll talk about the black film Mech. And
association and you Mentioned Council member perea down In the
tower district with the boarded, up buildings and they might
be finding them. As well i'd like to get your
view on that. As well hang out to the bottom
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us nick you haven't been doing a lot of like
the wedding planning stuff like. THE movie i know you're
getting Married? In october here are you involved? With that
are you a modern? Day? Groom?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
HERE absolutely i have been dreaming ABOUT what i wanted
my wedding to look like.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
For?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Decades man is?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That true has?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He been kelsey was chuckling at me because when we,
GOT together, i, said well you would like to. Do
this we just did the seating chart for our wedding
the other day and that was probably the most fun
we've had in the entire. Planning process we got, you
know family can, be complicated and putting in with the
right people who are gonna enjoy the folks they are with.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It was it was.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Really fun you're.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Just Gonna have Ai now jay and sing at THE
RECEPTION a i can do it, all now can't they.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Probably if we probably take some of the fun OUT of,
i mean how fun when the wedding singer have been
if it was Just a windows ninety eight computer with
a microphone next.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
To, it hey that's that's the way that society. Has
going hey has city government factored any of that in with,
you know numbers and keeping track? Of everything has it
invaded down At city? Hall much or have you noticed
or HEARD has ai like?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
REPLACED anybody i have not heard of anybody being REPLACED,
by AI but i will say WE have i have
a pretty. Young staff we have found ways TO use
ai to maximize what my staff's able. To do give,
an example we Have The Southeast development. Area projects it's
kind of been floating around for, a while and a
lot of people are really passionate, about IT and i.
Appreciate that so we'll have all kinds of emails and
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messages and letters and. Whatever ELSE and i had one
of my staffers take all of, that information plug IT
into ai, and, say hey will you categorize this for
me into bullets in, a nice easy to, Digest format
and we can take that now and see what everybody's
concerns are what people are really fired, up about what
folks really don't. Care about it made a lot of.
That easier so we're enjoying the, very small comfortable PIECES
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of ai that we feel necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
To, use well it's good you got some people on
your staff like that that can formulate things of, that
NATURE Jihied, nicki henry is that the? New here i'm kidding?
ALL RIGHT ai, AI joke. AI joke i don't think
we realize right now how it's going to. CHANGE society,
i say we're like in nineteen ninety four, With email
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well you have no idea what how that was going to?
Change us? Did we? Right now we have? No IDEA
and i, keep thinking what Is The Mark zuckerberg facebook
idea right now that somebody's going to come? Up with
and WHY am i thinking? Of that have you laid
in bed and thought what is THE next? AI idea
i can?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
YOU know i in like twenty, seventeen twenty let's JUST.
ASK ai i read a book about the singularity and
it seems so far fetched, and, yeah right it's not,
gonna happen, you know WATCH it i robot. Or whatever,
but no.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We went through what four years Ago will smith. Eating
spaghetti you remember when that, was OUT that ai thing AND.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's ai it was goofy his hand and.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Right right but how quickly and how fast, it came
and it just seemed like it was suddenly released. Day
here the world's. Gonna change this. Is amazing i've been
reading where people that have schizophrenia and whatnot with chat
gpt that it's taken people down some dark holes. As
well there's a lot to be concerned about in, my
opinion early on from what we're learning. Right now my
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guest has Starts on City Council Member. NICK richardson I
know i was reading down in. The tower you're Mentioning
Council member perea with you know a lot of businesses have,
shut down some of them moved, other PLACES and i.
WAS talking, i know you guys are in. A lawsuit
you can't go into a whole lot. Of Detail But
Blackshawn merchant Association aj rossomni was on talking about they
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replaced the window that's broken, with glass and then it.
Gets broken they replaced it, with glass it, gets broken
then they board it up because they can't keep fording
to put glass in and now it looks like there's
going to be a new ordnance maybe coming down in
the tower or did it already pass where they can find.
THE businesses i understand boarded up places don't look good
and it doesn't look good, at ALL but, i mean
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how can you expect the. BUSINESS members i know it's
not in your, district yet but as this conversation, has, happened.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well we all have some sort of permutation of that
factor going on all over. The CITY and i really
do feel for the business owners who, have taken, at
significant usually financial risk to themselves an effort to stake
their claim and to run a business and to try
to engage people in that. Economic activity but at the,
same time there is a humanitarian issue with the homeless
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who were. Out there it's not just a. Housing problem
it is definitely a mental health issue.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And talents.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We are working very well with the police department with
heart with some of our local non governmental organizations to
be really wrap around with the services that we have
and to be quick on the response and to be
faithful to the, business owners faithful to the members of.
The community and it's really tough to do that when
you have drugs and mental illness playing such a, huge
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role and a lot of times folks don't. Want care
i'm not saying it's the majority, of them but a
lot of times folks either aren't in a mental place
where they can they can consent to going and receiving
care from either, the city, the state or an pass rationalization,
as that and other folks are entirely about their wits
and they don't want to be part of. THAT system i.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Would say it's. Some majority it's. A lifestyle they don't
have to pay BILLS and i have to have. Any
concerns and then most of them are on drugs. Or
alcohol let's just admit that in the, long, term ramifications
who's ever continued to snort math amphetamine or smoke or
whatever they're doing with? The fetanyl and it's a good
story at. The end it, Never is so it's only
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only only gonna. Get worse and has there ever been
any consensus among all y'all on the city council that
it's actually loving to remove them from the streets because
they're going. To die they're going, to die so we're
loving to forcibly. Remove them THAT'S how i look, at
it that that's.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
True compassion the issue isn't so much with whether someone
thinks a. Good idea it's whether or not you run
into legal boundaries when it comes to taking someone against
their own volition and. Entering, Them right fresno tried that and, then.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay if Out here. God forbid BUT if i had
a heart attack and you, guys, are oh somebody call nine,
one One and, i'm Oh and, i'm, like no get away,
from me leave. Me alone that's my heart inside. Not
working we see people on, the corner their, brain inside
their bodies, not working so we walk, past them we drive.
(23:56):
Past them it's, you know we all spawn when it's a.
Heart attack but we got a lot of, mental PEOPLE
so i think we do need to. Take THEM and
i think that ambulance would pick me up and force
me on, a, stretcher right?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Wouldn't they, you know can stay somewhere Between the hippocratic
oath and The good. Samaritan laws they would really depend on.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The situation all your city attorney, Right now i'll wait for. An,
ANSWER well i know you said you're in, a lawsuit
you can't, Talk much but have you guys had any
conversation With The Black Sowe merchant association they've been around
for about. A decade i mean during your, six months
have you guys sat down with them and talked with them.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At all so to the extent that you're talking to
the city council right now because you're talking to one of. The,
REPRESENTATIVES yeah i know, that Myself and i'm sure some
of my colleagues as well Who touch blackstone are up
and down that street all the time talking to local.
Business owners you can go talk to the political action
committees or the groups of the unions or, whatever else
but really sitting down and having a talk with the
owner of, a business that's how you get, the unadulterated
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pure experience of what it's like. For them data and that,
really differs and that takes. The time it, takes attention it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Takes desire, All, RIGHT well i appreciate your attention and
desire to come down here and sit with me for
this half hour and to let everyboy here what's on.
Your mind they're a. Council, member richardson when's the next
place you said you Had to we'll get together where
people can come out and talk.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
To, you yep the second Week, of september we'll be
blasting out on all of our social media be going
On At Valley Oak elementary school right There on Champlain.
And fryant it is. Open house we will have the
subject matter experts there, as, usual, police heart, public works you.
Name it they'll be there to answer your QUESTIONS if.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I can, all right let's see if this sets your.
Microphone down let's see if this marine wattapolo. Headphones off
so there. You go he knows what. He's doing. Let's
see let's see if he can hit one out. Of
three he can hit one out. OF three i think
a marine needs a hit two out. Of three two
all you needs to hit. All three, all right we'll
let you. Go, ahead no you're at the. Navy line
you need to move back to the. Marine line, I'm kidding,
(25:56):
navy GUYS quid i, know. You guys. I'm kidding. I'm
kidding you're fine. Right there, all right here. We go he's.
In position, oh okay you could still knock that in
though with the. Next, one, yeah oh he moves to.
The right let me tell you he's a bowl. Or
something he, did it. All right he knocked. One ends
that's the flavor flave and. One on you're gonna get our,
(26:19):
our well we got some. More flags look at that
put that on. Right there look At That fresno state
bulldog necklace. FLAVOR flave i think that. Goes there, It
is Thank you City Council Member. Nick richardson It's A
trevor nation all over. The place tour twenty. Twenty five
come on buy if you want some pizza at some
of the best this side Of the, i'll say this
(26:39):
side Of. The mississippi we're live at Ninety Nine craft
Pizza at Palm and nies Ninety Nine, Craft pizza Paul.
MAN niece i forgot to ask the, city Council, remember
richardson about this intersection. Over, here hey we're just trying
to get the homeless off. The street it's a it's a.
UNIQUE intersection i. Shall say to, get here just turn
at the shell station and that's the best way to.
(27:01):
Do it here, as well we got a four pack
of Tickets To fresno state Tomorrow Against Southern. GEORGIA magic
i see a young man nodding his head up and
DOWN as i said a. Four PACK he i think
he wants to try come play corn. Dog hole throw
it into the hole. Right there win. THE four i
see four people, sitting around they'll probably let the baby.
(27:23):
In free, all right what's? Your? Name man what's? Your?
Name alex, All, right alex give it, a, shot man
one out of three and that means you are, a
winner one out of three and he sends it home
on the. First shot he's going one out. Of two come. On,
out okay he's a, winner though he. Got it he
hit it Corn do it's, called cornhole but Since it's Trezo,
sat bulldogs we call it corn. Dog hole so there. You,
(27:46):
go man you got a four pack to go to the. Game,
tomorrow fistbuck. Let's go you're. Gonna eat we don't need
to shake hands because you're gonna be eating pizza and
you don't overmine have been, As, well alex thank you
for coming Out to craft ninety nine pizza out here
thinking everybody it's been out of course From On Sports
fox sports. Thirteen forty he joined me in the. First hour.
Thank you they're the city Council And nick richardson. AS
(28:08):
well i saw this little thing with school getting. Started
here they said it's a School, In. Tulsa Oklahoma Director
ryan nigel sent me. This story the, freshman there you
got to kiss your mom goodbye on the first day.
Of school as the seniors line up and watch and laugh.
At you, they said the tradition's gone on for. Twenty
years well that's a little bit of, pre pressure is.
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IT not i was Talking With nick richardson there about
the military school what they do. As well that's small
time hazing. Right there bulldog pass you get. One Price
paul weffler was in yesterday talking about this. One ticket
seventy four bucks for all the Sports At. Fresno state
not bad. At all we got the game Tomorrow Against
southern georgia that's gonna kick off at six Thirty At Valley.
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Children's stadium it will start to cool down. Around there
i'm gonna be doing yard work in, the Morning so
i've been looking at the weekend. Weather there we're gonna
have about still another five six days of. Triple digits
but it's been a RELATIVELY mild i would. SAY summertime,
i know as you feel the temperature, right now as,
(29:14):
we've Seen But fresno state is ranked number two in
the entire Nation By. WASHINGTON monthly i was talking about
this in the three O'clock hour this is kind of
good news. Right here the best college for your tuition and,
tax dollars world class education at an, affordable PRICE where
i think that's. Very good congratulations. As well october ninth
(29:35):
is going To be Filled The Need Day, All day
Filled The need Day With fresno state with our. Sponsorship there,
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the Fuel The. Need day there's a lot of needs
in this Valley and i'm always still impressed Because throughout
california they always say one of the highest poverty regions
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is right here in. The valley but it's still after
again almost a decade here still just blows. My mind
how much giving, you know with honor flight in those kinds,
of things the gofunding that get started, for people people care,
about people and that is a great thing to see
here in. This valley it's a lot to be proud of.
(30:18):
As WELL and i always tell people that grow up
here That bad Melvi that i'm like eighty Percent, of
america we'd love to live. Right here you don't know
what you got because you've never been anywhere else and
maybe felt the humidity or felt things of that nature
that had been. Going on, Please beware i'm telling you
in this DAY, of ai we were just TALKING. About
(30:39):
Ai this, LA woman i just read this about an
hour before the show started, out here and let me
pull this. Up Here this la woman was scammed out
of eighty one. Thousand dollars she fell FOR an ai
generated video. Of this maybe some people Know This general
Hospital Star. STEVE burton i guess he's a big soap.
Operas star so the daughter of this of, this mother
(31:03):
her mother fell for a deep fake video thinking it
was this Actor From. General, hospital Yeah They Good morning
america had this On This lady abigail sent the scammer
eighty one thousand dollars in gift cards and cash and
bitcoins and sold her condo for three hundred and fifty
thousand because she thought The Star general hospital was, into
(31:26):
her that was talking, to her he was sending. Her
videos the daughter said about her mom and didn't say
how old her mom was in this or what her,
you know condition of her. Mind was but she was
still planning after she sold, her condo she was going
to give the scammer an additional seventy. Thousand dollars but
the daughter found this out and he was some scammer
(31:49):
out there WAS sending ai generated videos of A Fake
steve Burton From, general hospital and it looked so real
because IT. Was. Ai ha this is SOMETHING that i
had not. Thought about with all the issues. And problems,
you know we've heard of scammers getting, you know a
lot of, the times maybe elderly folks at home and
they think It's really Bank of. America calling it's one
(32:09):
of my favorite YouTube things, to watch these guys that
change their voice to sound like an elderly man. Or
woman with these scammers from, you know countries on the
other side of, the world and these guys Here, in,
america man they. Are smart they'll go back in through
back channels to their, computers infiltrate take over their cameras
and talk. TO them i can see you, sitting there
(32:30):
and then they'll start deleting the. Scammers' files if you haven't,
Watched that i'll tell you it feels good to watch
these scammers get busted. Like that but it looks like
these scammers are taking it to a whole new level HERE.
With ai, All right so this lady almost got. Taken
down this lady did get. TAKEN down i watched the
(32:52):
entire police bodycam video on YouTube THAT and i played
the audio for. OF it i. Don't know a week
or so Ago That Rode Island Assistant attorney general that
was arrested out with her her friend that night on.
The town they got drunk at a restaurant and the
cops are telling them that they got, to leave and she's,
All screaming i'm AT, A g i'm A. A g
(33:13):
i'm you're gonna. Regret this i'm an a police car.
Door shut. Guess what she has now been placed on
six months of. Unpaid leave AND again i watched the
entire police body cam on that after the show, THAT
night i wanted to see how out of control. She
got The Current attorney general said she mistreated, the police
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and she, embarrassed herself she embarrassed, the office, and frankly she. Embarrassed,
me well there is still. Some hope you can't go
out and act a fool and get away, with it
even though too many PEOPLE are i. Think magic we
still got a couple, more tickets so we still got more.
Two pack We, got okay we're down to one, two
pack one two pack of Tickets and i'm gonna give
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them away before we close, shop here but they're going to.
Be open how late are you? Guys open how la are?
You open? Eight thirty they're open till eight thirty at
Ninety Nine crab pizza and you just look for the
shell station here Around. Paulm knee this is the second
week we're going to be out all. Fall Long It's
Resident state football keeps rolling tomorrow Taking On georgia's southern
(34:22):
kick off at six point Thirty At Valley. Children's hospital
if you want to, Be there thank. You guys enjoy
your pizza. Right there that's A happy. Friday night you
see the smile on people's faces as. They're, LEAVING yeah
i see that big grin. Right there look at his.
Hands rubbing he's waiting. FOR it i see the hands
rubbing as. He's waiting that's what this pizza does, To
You the detroit. Style pizza. Something else It's The Trevor
(34:45):
nation all Over The place tour twenty. Twenty five we're
live at Ninety Nine crab Pizza at Palm And Knees
The Assistant Trevor, Cherry, Show London Valley's power dog
City council member Nick Richardson, sir, good to see you again, Trevor.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Grig be back, brother, I got the energy.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're a few years older than my oldest son. But
he did the curl mustache, the what they call the
Gilded Age, right, I'm so fascinated. From eighteen eighty I
think to nineteen ten or something they called that the
Gilded Age when they did. Wasn't that architecture something that
they did back then? Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Absolutely, Yeah, you got Vanderbilt and everything else, especially on
the East coast.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So that's the origins of your mustache that you're growing.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is definitely dastardly villain mustache.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It is what'd you say, the penelope the train, the
train thing, right, the villain. Yeah. And I tell Counselman Richardson,
I said, I get my eyebrows. That's the only hair
above my chin that's growing anymore. I could do the
curl with him, whack something like that. Nobody's doing the
eyebrow curl, are they? That could be.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
A style, absolutely, the eyebrow curls.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
As to come back, well, you are a first time politician.
You beat the polls, you beat a contender from city
council that had the backing of all the valley's big players.
And I got to know your background a little bit.
Talk about what you've been doing out there. It's still
with the reserves, that's correct, and you were in for
how long? Just give your background again, because you know, okay,
(01:22):
maybe some people from Texas or Florida moved to California
and they don't know who you are. Wouldn't that I've
heard of that happening on it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey, you're there swarming to California.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, I'm wonder who's moving in all the new houses
that are being built. We can talk about that later,
But go back to who you are and where you
came from and all that place.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well do I'm Nick Richardson. I was born and raised
here in Fresno. Went over to Copper Hills Elementary over
there in District six. Was raised around here. Didn't leave
town until college. Went to the Virginia Military Institute. Did
four years there, got a couple degrees, commissioned into the
United States Marine Corps as a lieutenant in twenty thirteen,
went and flew God's Chariot, the uh one Yankee Hwey
(01:57):
gunship and the Marine Corps active duty for about ten
years and moved to the reserves in twenty twenty two.
That allowed me to move home. So I'm working on
your thirteen right now as a major. But the most
exciting newest title that I have is definitely City Councilmen four,
District six.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, when I go back on that life quick history
right there, you went from California to suddenly being in
Virginia in the humidity with military tack dress uniforms up
to your neck, typed in right with that wool kind
of stuff on.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh yeah, and then move from there down to flight
school in Pensacola, Florida, which was nice and muggy, and
then from there southern California, then Hawaii, and that took
me to the Philippines and every other place that will
make you sweat as soon as you wake up.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, maybe you've been sworn to secrets seeing some skull
and bones saying, but from what I see in the
movies about military academies and whatnot, you like in the
middle of the night if you're brand new there you
get thrown in a pellow case and beaten up and stuff.
Is it like that? Like the movie show it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I will definitely not disparage the traditions of the healthful
and pleasant abode that is a Virginia Military Institute. But
I will say we do have a lot of traditions there,
a lot of history and a lot of the happen
the intake, ceremonies or maybe something that that your average
bear is not used to and not ready for.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I bet you though some of that's changed because they
like universities, are changing hazing. Now, hazing can go too far.
We've seen that happen. But you know, the good stuff,
the good hazing that I think they're cutting back on
that kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know, physical fitness in and of itself should never
be considered hazing. There is a point at which it
becomes detrimental to the person doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
If they're running and screaming because their hair is on
fire or something. It went a little far, Maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's exactly Yeah, if you're doing push ups in a
pot of a pit of coles or something of that nature. Definitely,
But I really keep close tabs on what's going on
at I'm the moderator the Virginia Military Institute. Okay, so
I'm the moderator for the parents' friends and alumni page
and I go back on occasion and visit my lineage, and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, it has to be good. Recruitment numbers are up.
That is really good to hear that. A lot of
the branches have already hit their like fiscal year quotas
already because there was a glut. Did you have that
in the reserves as well? Did you see that over
the last four years?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The reserves are real weird with where we pull from
different numbers, and you're gonna see from the active duty
it kind of ebbs and flows a little bit more
than the traditional just hey, we need to ramp up
all the time unless it's a drawback. So it's a
little more nuanced on the active side. But I was
blessed to be pulled in almost directly recruited based on
some of my qualifications to be in the unit I'm in,
and I'm about to move to a new one in October.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
All right, you're now thirty four when it comes around
when you got to go out and do the battle stuff? Right?
Is it a little tougher now? Have you found out
is easy to get? All? Okay, let me ask you this.
Do you look forward to it? When it's one week away,
three days away, or is it like, ah, it's getting
a little rougher now that I'm getting older. I guess
(04:48):
that's my question.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You know, except for being apart from my beautiful fiance,
I really do.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Look forward to drill. Yeah, tenive, that's it. No, I
look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You get to go out in the field with the
boys and you get to cuss and spit and dip
and fart and yell and burp and everything with them
and get dirty and go really get back to your elements,
basic elements.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
All right. Now you got to battle down going at
city Council. That's been non stop. It almost seems like
though on the ebb and flow of the news stories,
it's been relatively a little calmer the last six months.
I'm going to say, would you would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The last six months are the only six months I've
had in city Hall. But I will say that a
lot of the I wouldn't say turmoil, A lot of
the issues, a lot of them in fighting.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It doesn't seem to be going on.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
All agree with that?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We tend to get along with each other fairly well,
respect each other kind of on the merits have more
intellectual conversations, and I think used to take place in
city hall.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
All right, explain, I want to go back to the military.
I have one more thing. Explain to the youth and
the parents of the military help shape you today. I
look at it as good. You're eighteen years old. It
still gives you some guardrails, and those vulnerable eighteen to
twenty four year old when you can get into trouble.
It's good guardrails to have up, is it not. I'm
(06:08):
a recruiter, let's go.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Coming out of high school, I got into UCLA in
this Virginia Military Institute, an obscure skull on the East coast,
and I'm so glad that I picked it because I
really did need that guns. I need the structure. I
needed positive role models to look up to. I need
to get used to waking up early in the morning,
someone who's gonna push me to study hard. I was
so grateful to have that. And after that, once I
got into the Marine Corps and really understood what it
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was to be part of a brotherhood, not just the
benefits to me, but the benefits that I can express
out to the rest of the world. Really living that honor, courage,
and commitment. After a while, it really ingrains itself in.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You. Let me see if I can get a head
nod yes or headshake no. Do some of the military
things that he learned, like keep the sheet straight, keep
this tidy? It did? Did some of the military stay
in his civilian life? Now? Yeah? Yeah, you find yourself
still doing that and green, didn't you? Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We'll go on trips and I'll fold all my socks,
underwear and shirts into this one little bundle, and I
giggled at every time.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, when I was flying back from Texas, my Air
Force son taught me how to pack same way. Yeah,
military packing, and you can do that. You can now
travel and go through store shopping and bring something back
home with you in your suitcase if you military pack correctly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Correct, big on trinkets and what's its and doodads here.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, it wasn't boot camp, but I bet at times
you were was working hard at boot camp out there
campaigning walking your district. You started your Nikki six campaign.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
With your cool hats when I still have your hat
by they That campaign started in February of twenty twenty three. Okay,
so it was about nineteen months that we were campaigning.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Did you ever log hemy steps, miles people anything like
that that you met. You probably covered every neighborhood as soon.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We covered every single neighborhood in the district that was
about between twenty six and twenty seven thousand houses, and
we walked them twice. So it took us. It took
us a long time. The rain Court didn't teach me
how to fundraise, They didn't teach me how to go
ask for endorsements, but they sure as will taught me
how to walk.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well. It seemed that a lot of endorsement people said no,
we're going to go with another guy. And you were
up against a big opponent there, and I bet many
times where some people like, hey, man, you're not going
to win this. Why don't you go try and run
for this here first? Did you have a lot of
naysayers around you, experts in politics.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You'd be surprised. I did have some very financially sound
donors say, listen, we really like you. We don't think
we're going to go with you. Would you be interested
in moving to this other district and running there? And
that is entirely missing the point.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, what'd you learn about your district that you did
not know before you went out and met every home twice,
or at least knocked on every home twice.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I would say two things. The quick one is a
lot of people have never met a candidate running for
any office. That really surprised me. They had never had
someone come and knock on their door and say, Hi,
I want to introduce myself. What can I do to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm sure Bredefeld might have stop by, yeah, if anybody
would be himing you too, though, well, Tonga Paw, you
and Brettefeld. I think were the three hustling campaigners out there,
and you all three one Seriously, you were the hustlers.
I see it. I see who's hustling and who's not.
And you guys hustled and you won.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I know those guys are not afraid of some payment.
The second thing that I learned was that you may
come into an election. You may watch the news and
think that there are three or four really big problems
in the city and that's everyone's concern, and that's really
not the case. You know, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block,
everyone has kind of the one thing that's really really
important to them, whether it's people are driving too fast
in front of my school, or the roads in this
(09:38):
area have a ton of holes in them, or my
trash constantly is missed for the pickup. People have the
one thing that they just want fixed. And it's as
various in my district as it is, I'm sure in
every other one.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So you thought you have a list of three or
four that turned into thirty four.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It came more down to making flash cards for myself.
And remember remembering when I go back to a clubhouse
or a meeting hall or an elementary school. All right, Nick,
remember this is what they were concerned.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Really, you went that far to keep notes like that,
That's probably why you want.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm not smart enough to be disorganized, So I got
flash cards for all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right, what was your flash card on me? Do
you remember I live in your district.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I do have a few flashcards on your neighborhood. I'd
like to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, here's mine. I think it's extremely, extremely dangerous to
direct any bicycle rider in between two lanes of traffic
on Fryant with a bright green stripe down the middle
of the street, and it makes all the other lanes
really really skinny now until they branched back out to
how they were before. And I know it's part of
(10:34):
the fifteen minute City Mayor Dier CARBOSSI went over to
ride bikes and they came back here, and that's why
we have these. It would be people are going fifty
sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Almost like the speed limit signs didn't do anything for them.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Well they're not. I call it the Fryant Freeway up there,
but I don't understand that green strike down Fryant right there,
right in the middle, there's.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
One right everybody house on Willow as right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, I saw one on Audubon here. I'm driving up
here as well. Uh, this implementation across it just seems
like a waste of money. And if they I know
it's new, it's what Europe's done, and I guess it
makes sense over there. I think we sent a little
note down to city hall asking if the Tour de
France that went over there, if they've ever once ridden
(11:18):
their bike to city hall.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Nah, if the Tour Defryant really made it.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Tore Defrant, I like that. I like that as well,
But that's on Mike. That's on my cue card.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So we got a new tactic now that we're using
in my district. We've got a bunch of opportunities for
ways to fix frient and by fix, I just mean improve, right.
It's not it's not built to an unsafe standard or
anything of that nature, but is.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
If you're on a bike in between those lanes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And you know there's some engineer somewhere who thinks it's
a great idea and totally checks all his boxes, I
personally don't think that Fryant is as good as we
can make it. I don't think it's as safe as
we can make it. But instead of the Nick Richardson
good Idea ferry coming around and sprinkling my ideas on
public works, what we're doing at our next town hall,
which we hold them quarterly, our next town hall.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Would you say, sprinkle ferry.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We see, yeah, the good idea faery comes by in
sprinkles dustine. It's how you get good ideas. Okay, But
at our next town hall, it'll be at Lincoln Correction.
It'll be at Valley Oak Elementary School right there over
you know, that neck of the woods, And we're actually
gonna have a survey We're gonna have a survey where
public Works gives us a bunch of solutions that they
can implement on frint for different costs, and I'm gonna
(12:23):
put it out. We're gonna do a little pole, little
crowdsourcing here and see what the residents of that area
want their streets to look like. Because I have learned
as soon as a politician comes in and tells you
that they know your neighborhood better than you do, they're
full of it. Close the door.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, And I know that you've probably heard from many
people that the front freeway on my on my card
would be also on Saturday nights, especially when the weather's nice.
Window open ten o'clock at night, it turns into the
Indianapolis five hundred on that big curve round there. I
hear that all the time. They're high speed racing up there.
(12:56):
They know they do it every Saturday night. I know
Fresno has crime and they're serving other areas, but to me,
that's like a gun going off that can kill somebody.
When shot spotter is going off in a neighborhood here,
they focus more police on that. Sure, people have died
on Fryan and Fryant Roulette. The YouTube channel shows all
the bullets that almost kill people. We need more police presidence.
(13:17):
On Fryan, I see police. I see the motorcycle cops
a few times a month, maybe up there. What do
they say when you go, we need or are you
saying we need more police presence there to slow down
ricky racers in their teslas?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Totally? I do tell them that, and actually have a
very good relationship with the captain of the Northeast Policing District.
What they recommend is we have to efficiently use the
police force that we have. In order to do that,
you gotta report it. If it's specifically racing, street racing,
cars going too fast, if you're in the limits of
the city of Fresno, you can call six Race, six Race.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I stop it. I didn't know that's a real Yeah,
hang on, you talking, I'm right now down. You call
that number.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You give them the time, the location, what you heard.
And if we can establish a pattern of behavior, such
as on Millbrook and Fort Washington every Saturday morning at
nine am, we've got cars going way too fast. As
soon as their blotterer starts to rack up, they see
it's a pattern, then they can effectively allocate police forces
there at that time to make sure they're catching it
(14:22):
and it wasn't just a one off.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, they're gonna say all these calls are coming from
one phone number on Saturday night, six' two to one.
RACE i just wrote it. Down you saw me put
it in my wallet right. There i'm gonna be getting
up and grabbing my wallet and call BECAUSE i really
thought it's not something that you nine one one. CALL
i didn't feel comfortable doing. THAT i wouldn't clog up
nine one one for. That sound up there anything you've
(14:45):
learned about city government in six months that you might
not have known when you were heading into. IT i
know you guys are getting along a little bit. Better
has it been? Harder like you have all these ideas
you want to get, in you want to make. CHANGE
i guess you're realizing there are some maybe more roadblocks
you might not have.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Realized you, KNOW i was really expecting coming in, here
and this is probably naive of. ME i expected, that
because my colleagues were of a different political, party that
ANYTHING i wanted to get done just on the basis of,
politics it would be a. Roadblock it would get shut.
DOWN i wouldn't be able to do, anything and.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
They probably thought same about.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You, well, perhaps But i'm only one guy and a
six' to. One, council, yeah HOWEVER what, i saw and
again much to, their credit if you bring forth common
sense legislation that's just here to, help businesses just here
to help, you know first responders or your. Average residents
if you leave the politics out of it and you
just get stuff done that saves money and, helps people
helps folks manage the cost of living a little, BIT
(15:38):
better i really run into very.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Little opposition is there anybody down there that might surprise
me as a conservative talk, show host that might be
a little open to have conversations with yourself down there
on city COUNCIL that i might think is maybe more
hardheaded than they actually are because you know them and
you work, WITH them.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I do I think i can think of one and
a half of them.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right now, OUR bossy i think that.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
YOU would i think you would assume that he would
be pretty easy to. Work WITH and i, will say
when it comes to Working With, district too Represented By,
mike carbos very very often we get along or we're
able To.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Get okay we'll leave out who you. Don't work who
would surprise me that works well?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
With you who would surprise and who would surprise you
that works really well? With me, YOU know i do
have good things to say about probably each. Of them
what really, SURPRISED me i think Was Council member perea
down in like a tower district and a little. Bit
north She has, she's very. VERY intelligent i found that working,
(16:40):
with her she's usually common sense and often takes a
stance that doesn't align with what you'd think that political
party would. Go for it's really based on constituents and
when she, DOES that i could appreciate.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That same about. Her father, oh, yeah okay in meeting
him when he ran, FOR mayor i kind of felt
that way about him. AS well i want to come
back and we'll talk about the black film Mech. And
association and you Mentioned Council member perea down In the
tower district with the boarded, up buildings and they might
be finding them. As well i'd like to get your
view on that. As well hang out to the bottom
(17:11):
of the hour, with us have some. More pizza, all right,
all Right It's Rosol City Councilman. Nick richardson It's A
Trevor Nation all Over The place tour twenty. Twenty five
we are live at Ninety Nine craft Pizza at Palm
AND knee tk From Ck, On Sports fox sports thirteen
forty joins me in the first Hour. Every friday As we,
simulcas said here We got Frezo City Councilman nick richardson here. With,
(17:33):
us nick you haven't been doing a lot of like
the wedding planning stuff like. THE movie i know you're
getting Married? In october here are you involved? With that
are you a modern? Day? Groom?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
HERE absolutely i have been dreaming ABOUT what i wanted
my wedding to look like.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
For?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Decades man is?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That true has?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He been kelsey was chuckling at me because when we,
GOT together, i, said well you would like to. Do
this we just did the seating chart for our wedding
the other day and that was probably the most fun
we've had in the entire. Planning process we got, you
know family can, be complicated and putting in with the
right people who are gonna enjoy the folks they are with.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It was it was.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Really fun you're.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Just Gonna have Ai now jay and sing at THE
RECEPTION a i can do it, all now can't they.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Probably if we probably take some of the fun OUT of,
i mean how fun when the wedding singer have been
if it was Just a windows ninety eight computer with
a microphone next.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
To, it hey that's that's the way that society. Has
going hey has city government factored any of that in with,
you know numbers and keeping track? Of everything has it
invaded down At city? Hall much or have you noticed
or HEARD has ai like?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
REPLACED anybody i have not heard of anybody being REPLACED,
by AI but i will say WE have i have
a pretty. Young staff we have found ways TO use
ai to maximize what my staff's able. To do give,
an example we Have The Southeast development. Area projects it's
kind of been floating around for, a while and a
lot of people are really passionate, about IT and i.
Appreciate that so we'll have all kinds of emails and
(19:02):
messages and letters and. Whatever ELSE and i had one
of my staffers take all of, that information plug IT
into ai, and, say hey will you categorize this for
me into bullets in, a nice easy to, Digest format
and we can take that now and see what everybody's
concerns are what people are really fired, up about what
folks really don't. Care about it made a lot of.
That easier so we're enjoying the, very small comfortable PIECES
(19:25):
of ai that we feel necessary.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
To, use well it's good you got some people on
your staff like that that can formulate things of, that
NATURE Jihied, nicki henry is that the? New here i'm kidding?
ALL RIGHT ai, AI joke. AI joke i don't think
we realize right now how it's going to. CHANGE society,
i say we're like in nineteen ninety four, With email
(19:49):
well you have no idea what how that was going to?
Change us? Did we? Right now we have? No IDEA
and i, keep thinking what Is The Mark zuckerberg facebook
idea right now that somebody's going to come? Up with
and WHY am i thinking? Of that have you laid
in bed and thought what is THE next? AI idea
i can?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
YOU know i in like twenty, seventeen twenty let's JUST.
ASK ai i read a book about the singularity and
it seems so far fetched, and, yeah right it's not,
gonna happen, you know WATCH it i robot. Or whatever,
but no.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We went through what four years Ago will smith. Eating
spaghetti you remember when that, was OUT that ai thing AND.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's ai it was goofy his hand and.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Right right but how quickly and how fast, it came
and it just seemed like it was suddenly released. Day
here the world's. Gonna change this. Is amazing i've been
reading where people that have schizophrenia and whatnot with chat
gpt that it's taken people down some dark holes. As
well there's a lot to be concerned about in, my
opinion early on from what we're learning. Right now my
(20:47):
guest has Starts on City Council Member. NICK richardson I
know i was reading down in. The tower you're Mentioning
Council member perea with you know a lot of businesses have,
shut down some of them moved, other PLACES and i.
WAS talking, i know you guys are in. A lawsuit
you can't go into a whole lot. Of Detail But
Blackshawn merchant Association aj rossomni was on talking about they
(21:08):
replaced the window that's broken, with glass and then it.
Gets broken they replaced it, with glass it, gets broken
then they board it up because they can't keep fording
to put glass in and now it looks like there's
going to be a new ordnance maybe coming down in
the tower or did it already pass where they can find.
THE businesses i understand boarded up places don't look good
and it doesn't look good, at ALL but, i mean
(21:29):
how can you expect the. BUSINESS members i know it's
not in your, district yet but as this conversation, has, happened.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Well we all have some sort of permutation of that
factor going on all over. The CITY and i really
do feel for the business owners who, have taken, at
significant usually financial risk to themselves an effort to stake
their claim and to run a business and to try
to engage people in that. Economic activity but at the,
same time there is a humanitarian issue with the homeless
(21:55):
who were. Out there it's not just a. Housing problem
it is definitely a mental health issue.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
And talents.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We are working very well with the police department with
heart with some of our local non governmental organizations to
be really wrap around with the services that we have
and to be quick on the response and to be
faithful to the, business owners faithful to the members of.
The community and it's really tough to do that when
you have drugs and mental illness playing such a, huge
(22:25):
role and a lot of times folks don't. Want care
i'm not saying it's the majority, of them but a
lot of times folks either aren't in a mental place
where they can they can consent to going and receiving
care from either, the city, the state or an pass rationalization,
as that and other folks are entirely about their wits
and they don't want to be part of. THAT system i.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Would say it's. Some majority it's. A lifestyle they don't
have to pay BILLS and i have to have. Any
concerns and then most of them are on drugs. Or
alcohol let's just admit that in the, long, term ramifications
who's ever continued to snort math amphetamine or smoke or
whatever they're doing with? The fetanyl and it's a good
story at. The end it, Never is so it's only
(23:03):
only only gonna. Get worse and has there ever been
any consensus among all y'all on the city council that
it's actually loving to remove them from the streets because
they're going. To die they're going, to die so we're
loving to forcibly. Remove them THAT'S how i look, at
it that that's.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
True compassion the issue isn't so much with whether someone
thinks a. Good idea it's whether or not you run
into legal boundaries when it comes to taking someone against
their own volition and. Entering, Them right fresno tried that and, then.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay if Out here. God forbid BUT if i had
a heart attack and you, guys, are oh somebody call nine,
one One and, i'm Oh and, i'm, like no get away,
from me leave. Me alone that's my heart inside. Not
working we see people on, the corner their, brain inside
their bodies, not working so we walk, past them we drive.
(23:56):
Past them it's, you know we all spawn when it's a.
Heart attack but we got a lot of, mental PEOPLE
so i think we do need to. Take THEM and
i think that ambulance would pick me up and force
me on, a, stretcher right?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Wouldn't they, you know can stay somewhere Between the hippocratic
oath and The good. Samaritan laws they would really depend on.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
The situation all your city attorney, Right now i'll wait for. An,
ANSWER well i know you said you're in, a lawsuit
you can't, Talk much but have you guys had any
conversation With The Black Sowe merchant association they've been around
for about. A decade i mean during your, six months
have you guys sat down with them and talked with them.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
At all so to the extent that you're talking to
the city council right now because you're talking to one of. The,
REPRESENTATIVES yeah i know, that Myself and i'm sure some
of my colleagues as well Who touch blackstone are up
and down that street all the time talking to local.
Business owners you can go talk to the political action
committees or the groups of the unions or, whatever else
but really sitting down and having a talk with the
owner of, a business that's how you get, the unadulterated
(24:57):
pure experience of what it's like. For them data and that,
really differs and that takes. The time it, takes attention it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Takes desire, All, RIGHT well i appreciate your attention and
desire to come down here and sit with me for
this half hour and to let everyboy here what's on.
Your mind they're a. Council, member richardson when's the next
place you said you Had to we'll get together where
people can come out and talk.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
To, you yep the second Week, of september we'll be
blasting out on all of our social media be going
On At Valley Oak elementary school right There on Champlain.
And fryant it is. Open house we will have the
subject matter experts there, as, usual, police heart, public works you.
Name it they'll be there to answer your QUESTIONS if.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I can, all right let's see if this sets your.
Microphone down let's see if this marine wattapolo. Headphones off
so there. You go he knows what. He's doing. Let's
see let's see if he can hit one out. Of
three he can hit one out. OF three i think
a marine needs a hit two out. Of three two
all you needs to hit. All three, all right we'll
let you. Go, ahead no you're at the. Navy line
you need to move back to the. Marine line, I'm kidding,
(25:56):
navy GUYS quid i, know. You guys. I'm kidding. I'm
kidding you're fine. Right there, all right here. We go he's.
In position, oh okay you could still knock that in
though with the. Next, one, yeah oh he moves to.
The right let me tell you he's a bowl. Or
something he, did it. All right he knocked. One ends
that's the flavor flave and. One on you're gonna get our,
(26:19):
our well we got some. More flags look at that
put that on. Right there look At That fresno state
bulldog necklace. FLAVOR flave i think that. Goes there, It
is Thank you City Council Member. Nick richardson It's A
trevor nation all over. The place tour twenty. Twenty five
come on buy if you want some pizza at some
of the best this side Of the, i'll say this
(26:39):
side Of. The mississippi we're live at Ninety Nine craft
Pizza at Palm and nies Ninety Nine, Craft pizza Paul.
MAN niece i forgot to ask the, city Council, remember
richardson about this intersection. Over, here hey we're just trying
to get the homeless off. The street it's a it's a.
UNIQUE intersection i. Shall say to, get here just turn
at the shell station and that's the best way to.
(27:01):
Do it here, as well we got a four pack
of Tickets To fresno state Tomorrow Against Southern. GEORGIA magic
i see a young man nodding his head up and
DOWN as i said a. Four PACK he i think
he wants to try come play corn. Dog hole throw
it into the hole. Right there win. THE four i
see four people, sitting around they'll probably let the baby.
(27:23):
In free, all right what's? Your? Name man what's? Your?
Name alex, All, right alex give it, a, shot man
one out of three and that means you are, a
winner one out of three and he sends it home
on the. First shot he's going one out. Of two come. On,
out okay he's a, winner though he. Got it he
hit it Corn do it's, called cornhole but Since it's Trezo,
sat bulldogs we call it corn. Dog hole so there. You,
(27:46):
go man you got a four pack to go to the. Game,
tomorrow fistbuck. Let's go you're. Gonna eat we don't need
to shake hands because you're gonna be eating pizza and
you don't overmine have been, As, well alex thank you
for coming Out to craft ninety nine pizza out here
thinking everybody it's been out of course From On Sports
fox sports. Thirteen forty he joined me in the. First hour.
Thank you they're the city Council And nick richardson. AS
(28:08):
well i saw this little thing with school getting. Started
here they said it's a School, In. Tulsa Oklahoma Director
ryan nigel sent me. This story the, freshman there you
got to kiss your mom goodbye on the first day.
Of school as the seniors line up and watch and laugh.
At you, they said the tradition's gone on for. Twenty
years well that's a little bit of, pre pressure is.
(28:30):
IT not i was Talking With nick richardson there about
the military school what they do. As well that's small
time hazing. Right there bulldog pass you get. One Price
paul weffler was in yesterday talking about this. One ticket
seventy four bucks for all the Sports At. Fresno state
not bad. At all we got the game Tomorrow Against
southern georgia that's gonna kick off at six Thirty At Valley.
(28:53):
Children's stadium it will start to cool down. Around there
i'm gonna be doing yard work in, the Morning so
i've been looking at the weekend. Weather there we're gonna
have about still another five six days of. Triple digits
but it's been a RELATIVELY mild i would. SAY summertime,
i know as you feel the temperature, right now as,
(29:14):
we've Seen But fresno state is ranked number two in
the entire Nation By. WASHINGTON monthly i was talking about
this in the three O'clock hour this is kind of
good news. Right here the best college for your tuition and,
tax dollars world class education at an, affordable PRICE where
i think that's. Very good congratulations. As well october ninth
(29:35):
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in this Valley and i'm always still impressed Because throughout
california they always say one of the highest poverty regions
(29:58):
is right here in. The valley but it's still after
again almost a decade here still just blows. My mind
how much giving, you know with honor flight in those kinds,
of things the gofunding that get started, for people people care,
about people and that is a great thing to see
here in. This valley it's a lot to be proud of.
(30:18):
As WELL and i always tell people that grow up
here That bad Melvi that i'm like eighty Percent, of
america we'd love to live. Right here you don't know
what you got because you've never been anywhere else and
maybe felt the humidity or felt things of that nature
that had been. Going on, Please beware i'm telling you
in this DAY, of ai we were just TALKING. About
(30:39):
Ai this, LA woman i just read this about an
hour before the show started, out here and let me
pull this. Up Here this la woman was scammed out
of eighty one. Thousand dollars she fell FOR an ai
generated video. Of this maybe some people Know This general
Hospital Star. STEVE burton i guess he's a big soap.
Operas star so the daughter of this of, this mother
(31:03):
her mother fell for a deep fake video thinking it
was this Actor From. General, hospital Yeah They Good morning
america had this On This lady abigail sent the scammer
eighty one thousand dollars in gift cards and cash and
bitcoins and sold her condo for three hundred and fifty
thousand because she thought The Star general hospital was, into
(31:26):
her that was talking, to her he was sending. Her
videos the daughter said about her mom and didn't say
how old her mom was in this or what her,
you know condition of her. Mind was but she was
still planning after she sold, her condo she was going
to give the scammer an additional seventy. Thousand dollars but
the daughter found this out and he was some scammer
(31:49):
out there WAS sending ai generated videos of A Fake
steve Burton From, general hospital and it looked so real
because IT. Was. Ai ha this is SOMETHING that i
had not. Thought about with all the issues. And problems,
you know we've heard of scammers getting, you know a
lot of, the times maybe elderly folks at home and
they think It's really Bank of. America calling it's one
(32:09):
of my favorite YouTube things, to watch these guys that
change their voice to sound like an elderly man. Or
woman with these scammers from, you know countries on the
other side of, the world and these guys Here, in,
america man they. Are smart they'll go back in through
back channels to their, computers infiltrate take over their cameras
and talk. TO them i can see you, sitting there
(32:30):
and then they'll start deleting the. Scammers' files if you haven't,
Watched that i'll tell you it feels good to watch
these scammers get busted. Like that but it looks like
these scammers are taking it to a whole new level HERE.
With ai, All right so this lady almost got. Taken
down this lady did get. TAKEN down i watched the
(32:52):
entire police bodycam video on YouTube THAT and i played
the audio for. OF it i. Don't know a week
or so Ago That Rode Island Assistant attorney general that
was arrested out with her her friend that night on.
The town they got drunk at a restaurant and the
cops are telling them that they got, to leave and she's,
All screaming i'm AT, A g i'm A. A g
(33:13):
i'm you're gonna. Regret this i'm an a police car.
Door shut. Guess what she has now been placed on
six months of. Unpaid leave AND again i watched the
entire police body cam on that after the show, THAT
night i wanted to see how out of control. She
got The Current attorney general said she mistreated, the police
(33:36):
and she, embarrassed herself she embarrassed, the office, and frankly she. Embarrassed,
me well there is still. Some hope you can't go
out and act a fool and get away, with it
even though too many PEOPLE are i. Think magic we
still got a couple, more tickets so we still got more.
Two pack We, got okay we're down to one, two
pack one two pack of Tickets and i'm gonna give
(33:59):
them away before we close, shop here but they're going to.
Be open how late are you? Guys open how la are?
You open? Eight thirty they're open till eight thirty at
Ninety Nine crab pizza and you just look for the
shell station here Around. Paulm knee this is the second
week we're going to be out all. Fall Long It's
Resident state football keeps rolling tomorrow Taking On georgia's southern
(34:22):
kick off at six point Thirty At Valley. Children's hospital
if you want to, Be there thank. You guys enjoy
your pizza. Right there that's A happy. Friday night you
see the smile on people's faces as. They're, LEAVING yeah
i see that big grin. Right there look at his.
Hands rubbing he's waiting. FOR it i see the hands
rubbing as. He's waiting that's what this pizza does, To
You the detroit. Style pizza. Something else It's The Trevor
(34:45):
nation all Over The place tour twenty. Twenty five we're
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