July 30, 2025 • 11 mins
Thor stands for the people of Balboa Park and fights against the news that the city will start charging to park at what once was a free commodity for the people
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you have
some respectors midweek meltdowndown.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, here we go. You know, Thor's midweek meltdown is
about change. You know, the guy gets in there, you know,
and any any I'm budd babe, and please don't call.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Me any of those things, babe. Yes, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is a weird coincidence. I don't think it's When
Thor goes off about something, it does tend to help
and change whatever it is he's upset about.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It is hot.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll give him that world. Yeah, the world. You're gonna
like rant about.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Politic I stick to San Diego, can go on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's only things that affect you really, to be honest, yea, yeah,
we you know just recently had that whole garbage strip
thing and that day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't I know that you did, but you know,
what is it? What is it? This week? The year?
So I know what you're thinking that I a few
weeks ago I just did. I just did a parking
rant about parking.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And the daylight thing that you did.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know that you've been thinking about. I was just
thinking the other day I was at the dentist downtown
and I was looking at a park and it was like,
because it's downtown to Italy, don't know what to park.
And I found a place in Ace parking and they
wouldn't let me do the under ten hours plus thing,
so they were going to charge me thirty dollars to park,
(01:36):
which is insane. So obviously I would rather walk from
trou La Vista. So I just kept circling and I
was ten minutes late, so I found a spot late.
I was there ten minutes early. There was just nowhere
to park, so I just I don't know what to do. Man,
my painting. I'm not you. I'm not going to pay
thirty dollars. I mean that in a nice way, not
at all. But that fought. This is about this isn't
(01:57):
about parking downtown, okay. This is about me taking a
stand for the amazing people of Balboa Park because Bowboa
Park is about to get screwed and I am not
going to stand for it. So you're taking a stand
for the people. Let me get into it, babe. Obviously
(02:26):
I've been to Balboa Park a couple of times. Like,
it's not my thing. I don't I'm not a museum. Museum.
I know it's there. I know it's there. It's crazy,
that's crazy. I don't look at the art. It's just
not my thing. But I do know. My wife's pregnant.
If you didn't know that, she's about six and a
(02:47):
half months long. And you know, when you have a kid,
what do you do live?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, I've been going there since I was a
little girl. So I am I know where you're going with,
I think, and I am obsessed with it. By the way, Oh,
I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So bow Ball Park, you go with the kid because
it's free parking, and you you know, on Tuesdays some
of the museums are free. My New York accents really
coming up. We need to go to muse Kay by
the Fountain. Yeah, hang out a little bit December nights.
But what they're doing now, it's what they're doing now
(03:31):
courtesy of good old Todd Gloria. Here we go. Because
of the budget shortfall that they're having, and because they
want to keep up on the park, they're going to
start charging you to park at bow Ball Park and
the Zoo pretty soon. So Sky, I know that you
are worried about demonstrosity of this hundred story building that's
(03:52):
going to go up in PB pretty soon. The tower, Todd, Yes,
the tower. I'm more concerned about the parking at bow
Bowl Park. Now you're thinking, what's it gonna be too fitty. No,
it's gonna be a three tier system to park there
five dollars, ten dollars and fifteen dollars. Otherwise you're gonna
(04:12):
be and the five dollars one you mean walking like
fifteen miles to get to the park. Oh, this is fits.
And then and then they say, well, you know, hey,
whoa whoa. If you're whoa Yeah, whoa, if you're a
San Diego resident, you get like forty percent off parking,
but only on the top tier. So you're still paying
whatever forty percent of fifteen is. You're still paying a
(04:34):
ton of money. Wow. And it's obviously insane because we're
getting to the point where they're charging you for everything
and it's becoming alivable. And this is why I say
I'm for the people Balboa Park because I was reading
up on this, Yeah, and he reads I know it's
really bad, it's not. And they're implementing this around October,
just in time for December nights. I'm sure that won't
(04:56):
be insane with the paying for parking, which should be free.
You got a little kid, You got a little kid,
a little reedy walking around and maybe you're maybe your
single mom'm not making enough money. Baw Boll Park, perfect
place to go. It's free. The city should cover it
because that's the way it should be, because it's a
it's a park. And now you've got to pay fifteen
(05:16):
dollars to park and just walk around on top of
already paying for the museums. By the way, so when
they tell you, oh, this is gonna help keep up
the park, well, I'm already paying for the museums. What's
what do you need more money for? Todd Emily was
never a single mom. I was never a single one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But I feel what the single Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I started doing some reason and I found out
there's this guy, Jamie Camacho and Jamie not that, not
not not this shame Jamie James, No, this Jamie is
a Colombian artist. And he makes it Yes, yeah, guy,
you're Colombian. Look at the guy. Yeah that's not a
Colombian artist. Look something like drug. And he makes a
(06:04):
phenomenal point that I couldn't have said better myself. Quote
quote from NBC San Diego. If you charge parking, people
are not going to be enthusiastic about seeing my art
and spending money on it. First of all, who wants
to spend money on art? To begin with number two?
I mean he couldn't have said it better. You're screwing
(06:27):
over these people that go there to try to make money,
food trucks, artists, beaters. I don't beat. I don't know
where it was artists. They're gonna have to pay for parking.
And some days, you know, you make money, some days
you don't make money. So they're going to try to
(06:47):
do their job and lose money. But what Todd doesn't
care because you know Todd's all about. But the backup.
I don't want to in those dollar bills.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't want to add on to this and onto
your crazy thought. But I have heard some stuff that's
not good about our friend talk. Now, don't throw anything
you just threw. Here's the thing is that what is
San Diego known for and built for and all that stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Tourism?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Absolutely, Why is it that we as a city don't
have a higher hotel tax? If you know, you think
right and you go why why would that that doesn't
make a lot of sense. Like most big cities who
are known for tourism have pretty high hotel tax for
the people that don't live here that come in, they're
(07:37):
going to spend the money for that. You want to
know why why for the hotel people they don't want
that they don't want and they might be close ties
with a certain someone, and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who gets screwed, the people who live here. I don't know, though,
I don't know. I don't get me started on Gloria Mohler.
I don't know who says that she's a photographer, and
like I said a few minutes ago, she's gonna be
(08:10):
going to the park, she's gonna have to pay for parking,
set up everything, and then sometimes she may not make
any money, so she's losing money. We're at the point
now where one day you're gonna turn on the news
and you're gonna see Jason A. Stelle and he's gonna say, oh,
he's gonna okay, you flip around, You flip around, fine,
and you're gonna see Mayor Todd Gloria is proposing a
(08:33):
new plan to pay for his budget. Because it's always
about the budget that's what they say. We never have
a money for the budget, and the plan involves charging
for air and get ready for this. And every San
Diego resident is allowed ten thousand free breaths, but it's
five cents after every breath and you usually breathe about
twenty five thousand breaths to day, so this will help
(08:53):
with the budget shortfall. I guarantee he's still we're near it.
I don't guarantee that we're here. It's a wild guarantee.
You know, you try on NBC, You're like, this can't
be real, and you Glorio is now saying San Diego
(09:15):
is gonna be charged for steps. Everyone steps. Everyone gets
eight thousand steps, and every eight thousand they're over. It's
an extra cent that they're charged. And they're gonna have
like a monitor on you, and you're gonna be walking
around San Diego is having on Liverpool and even if
you make six figures, it's still hard to live here.
What are we doing to our people? For the people?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, I just want to say little Emily, the little
Emily inside of me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Is a single mom Emily or just.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Little little girl Emily sitting there right by the air
and space museum before a family got broken up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Mom and dad are there Kentucky Fried chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We'd get it and we'd head over to the park
bucket for Yep, we'd get a bucket of chicken with
some biscuits and we'd sit there watch the sun set
as a family.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And that little girl, thanks you, that little girl you
with you.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
This is so sad and I'm watching the devastated by this.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is my solution to this. Well, and I don't
want to add to the crazy either.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But you know that that Balboa Park was gifted to
the citizens of San Diego.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So so we act more research.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We actually own it. And then they're now charging us
for something we owe.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, and you know what's next, right, you know what's next? Right?
The zoo?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh yeah, don't stand those moms that Cantifordia thing could
barely afford to get a season pass the zoo, which
they scrape up money for and then guess what, the
single moms again, you guess what.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So they do that to take their kids to the zoo.
But the best part about it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Is you could pay You don't have to pay for.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Parking, free park. You can go all year around. Right now,
and look in the camera. Todd's got an open invitation
to sit right where Jane me sitting right. Anytime it
needs to happen, it needs stap and let's do it. Todd,
come on the show. Explain why you want to charge
(11:13):
everyone and how how in fifteen years people are gonna
be able to live in San Diego. Because I don't
think it's gonna be able to happen. You're gonna run
this by anybody. I mean, you said an open and
come on the show, Todd, Come on the show, Bud.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Like, well, little baby Walker even know what an elephant is?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Who knows if we're going to be living here. You
may have to be a pajillionaire to live in San Diego. Pillionaire,
I don't know. Next thing, you know, you're gonna be
charging to wear clothes what you're You're not making any sense.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You're not making sense and I haven't said anything. Just
get a room at Tower, todde You'll be.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Fine, Okay, thank you. That's definitely not that's definitely e
And now the show is happy to bring you have
some respectors midweek meltdowndown.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well, here we go. You know, Thor's midweek meltdown is
about change. You know, the guy gets in there, you know,
and any any I'm budd babe, and please don't call.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Me any of those things, babe. Yes, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is a weird coincidence. I don't think it's When
Thor goes off about something, it does tend to help
and change whatever it is he's upset about.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It is hot.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'll give him that world. Yeah, the world. You're gonna
like rant about.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Politic I stick to San Diego, can go on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's only things that affect you really, to be honest, yea, yeah,
we you know just recently had that whole garbage strip
thing and that day.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't I know that you did, but you know,
what is it? What is it? This week? The year?
So I know what you're thinking that I a few
weeks ago I just did. I just did a parking
rant about parking.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And the daylight thing that you did.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I know that you've been thinking about. I was just
thinking the other day I was at the dentist downtown
and I was looking at a park and it was like,
because it's downtown to Italy, don't know what to park.
And I found a place in Ace parking and they
wouldn't let me do the under ten hours plus thing,
so they were going to charge me thirty dollars to park,
(01:36):
which is insane. So obviously I would rather walk from
trou La Vista. So I just kept circling and I
was ten minutes late, so I found a spot late.
I was there ten minutes early. There was just nowhere
to park, so I just I don't know what to do. Man,
my painting. I'm not you. I'm not going to pay
thirty dollars. I mean that in a nice way, not
at all. But that fought. This is about this isn't
(01:57):
about parking downtown, okay. This is about me taking a
stand for the amazing people of Balboa Park because Bowboa
Park is about to get screwed and I am not
going to stand for it. So you're taking a stand
for the people. Let me get into it, babe. Obviously
(02:26):
I've been to Balboa Park a couple of times. Like,
it's not my thing. I don't I'm not a museum. Museum.
I know it's there. I know it's there. It's crazy,
that's crazy. I don't look at the art. It's just
not my thing. But I do know. My wife's pregnant.
If you didn't know that, she's about six and a
(02:47):
half months long. And you know, when you have a kid,
what do you do live?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I mean, I've been going there since I was a
little girl. So I am I know where you're going with,
I think, and I am obsessed with it. By the way, Oh,
I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So bow Ball Park, you go with the kid because
it's free parking, and you you know, on Tuesdays some
of the museums are free. My New York accents really
coming up. We need to go to muse Kay by
the Fountain. Yeah, hang out a little bit December nights.
But what they're doing now, it's what they're doing now
(03:31):
courtesy of good old Todd Gloria. Here we go. Because
of the budget shortfall that they're having, and because they
want to keep up on the park, they're going to
start charging you to park at bow Ball Park and
the Zoo pretty soon. So Sky, I know that you
are worried about demonstrosity of this hundred story building that's
(03:52):
going to go up in PB pretty soon. The tower, Todd, Yes,
the tower. I'm more concerned about the parking at bow
Bowl Park. Now you're thinking, what's it gonna be too fitty. No,
it's gonna be a three tier system to park there
five dollars, ten dollars and fifteen dollars. Otherwise you're gonna
(04:12):
be and the five dollars one you mean walking like
fifteen miles to get to the park. Oh, this is fits.
And then and then they say, well, you know, hey,
whoa whoa. If you're whoa Yeah, whoa, if you're a
San Diego resident, you get like forty percent off parking,
but only on the top tier. So you're still paying
whatever forty percent of fifteen is. You're still paying a
(04:34):
ton of money. Wow. And it's obviously insane because we're
getting to the point where they're charging you for everything
and it's becoming alivable. And this is why I say
I'm for the people Balboa Park because I was reading
up on this, Yeah, and he reads I know it's
really bad, it's not. And they're implementing this around October,
just in time for December nights. I'm sure that won't
(04:56):
be insane with the paying for parking, which should be free.
You got a little kid, You got a little kid,
a little reedy walking around and maybe you're maybe your
single mom'm not making enough money. Baw Boll Park, perfect
place to go. It's free. The city should cover it
because that's the way it should be, because it's a
it's a park. And now you've got to pay fifteen
(05:16):
dollars to park and just walk around on top of
already paying for the museums. By the way, so when
they tell you, oh, this is gonna help keep up
the park, well, I'm already paying for the museums. What's
what do you need more money for? Todd Emily was
never a single mom. I was never a single one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But I feel what the single Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I started doing some reason and I found out
there's this guy, Jamie Camacho and Jamie not that, not
not not this shame Jamie James, No, this Jamie is
a Colombian artist. And he makes it Yes, yeah, guy,
you're Colombian. Look at the guy. Yeah that's not a
Colombian artist. Look something like drug. And he makes a
(06:04):
phenomenal point that I couldn't have said better myself. Quote
quote from NBC San Diego. If you charge parking, people
are not going to be enthusiastic about seeing my art
and spending money on it. First of all, who wants
to spend money on art? To begin with number two?
I mean he couldn't have said it better. You're screwing
(06:27):
over these people that go there to try to make money,
food trucks, artists, beaters. I don't beat. I don't know
where it was artists. They're gonna have to pay for parking.
And some days, you know, you make money, some days
you don't make money. So they're going to try to
(06:47):
do their job and lose money. But what Todd doesn't
care because you know Todd's all about. But the backup.
I don't want to in those dollar bills.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't want to add on to this and onto
your crazy thought. But I have heard some stuff that's
not good about our friend talk. Now, don't throw anything
you just threw. Here's the thing is that what is
San Diego known for and built for and all that stuff?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Tourism?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Absolutely, Why is it that we as a city don't
have a higher hotel tax? If you know, you think
right and you go why why would that that doesn't
make a lot of sense. Like most big cities who
are known for tourism have pretty high hotel tax for
the people that don't live here that come in, they're
(07:37):
going to spend the money for that. You want to
know why why for the hotel people they don't want
that they don't want and they might be close ties
with a certain someone, and that's.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Who gets screwed, the people who live here. I don't know, though,
I don't know. I don't get me started on Gloria Mohler.
I don't know who says that she's a photographer, and
like I said a few minutes ago, she's gonna be
(08:10):
going to the park, she's gonna have to pay for parking,
set up everything, and then sometimes she may not make
any money, so she's losing money. We're at the point
now where one day you're gonna turn on the news
and you're gonna see Jason A. Stelle and he's gonna say, oh,
he's gonna okay, you flip around, You flip around, fine,
and you're gonna see Mayor Todd Gloria is proposing a
(08:33):
new plan to pay for his budget. Because it's always
about the budget that's what they say. We never have
a money for the budget, and the plan involves charging
for air and get ready for this. And every San
Diego resident is allowed ten thousand free breaths, but it's
five cents after every breath and you usually breathe about
twenty five thousand breaths to day, so this will help
(08:53):
with the budget shortfall. I guarantee he's still we're near it.
I don't guarantee that we're here. It's a wild guarantee.
You know, you try on NBC, You're like, this can't
be real, and you Glorio is now saying San Diego
(09:15):
is gonna be charged for steps. Everyone steps. Everyone gets
eight thousand steps, and every eight thousand they're over. It's
an extra cent that they're charged. And they're gonna have
like a monitor on you, and you're gonna be walking
around San Diego is having on Liverpool and even if
you make six figures, it's still hard to live here.
What are we doing to our people? For the people?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, I just want to say little Emily, the little
Emily inside of me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Is a single mom Emily or just.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Little little girl Emily sitting there right by the air
and space museum before a family got broken up.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Mom and dad are there Kentucky Fried chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We'd get it and we'd head over to the park
bucket for Yep, we'd get a bucket of chicken with
some biscuits and we'd sit there watch the sun set
as a family.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And that little girl, thanks you, that little girl you
with you.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
This is so sad and I'm watching the devastated by this.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is my solution to this. Well, and I don't
want to add to the crazy either.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But you know that that Balboa Park was gifted to
the citizens of San Diego.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So so we act more research.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
We actually own it. And then they're now charging us
for something we owe.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, and you know what's next, right, you know what's next? Right?
The zoo?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh yeah, don't stand those moms that Cantifordia thing could
barely afford to get a season pass the zoo, which
they scrape up money for and then guess what, the
single moms again, you guess what.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So they do that to take their kids to the zoo.
But the best part about it.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Is you could pay You don't have to pay for.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Parking, free park. You can go all year around. Right now,
and look in the camera. Todd's got an open invitation
to sit right where Jane me sitting right. Anytime it
needs to happen, it needs stap and let's do it. Todd,
come on the show. Explain why you want to charge
(11:13):
everyone and how how in fifteen years people are gonna
be able to live in San Diego. Because I don't
think it's gonna be able to happen. You're gonna run
this by anybody. I mean, you said an open and
come on the show, Todd, Come on the show, Bud.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Like, well, little baby Walker even know what an elephant is?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Who knows if we're going to be living here. You
may have to be a pajillionaire to live in San Diego. Pillionaire,
I don't know. Next thing, you know, you're gonna be
charging to wear clothes what you're You're not making any sense.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You're not making sense and I haven't said anything. Just
get a room at Tower, todde You'll be.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Fine, Okay, thank you. That's definitely not that's definitely e
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