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Jay Saturday KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's Saturday with Tiffany. I'm Tiffany Hobbs, sitting
here until seven o'clock on this beautiful, beautiful summer day.
It is absolutely summer. As I was driving in, I
think it's said eighty five, and then it was eighty eight,
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so it's it's summer, right. I went to Disneyland yesterday,
as you heard there in that cross talk with Neil,
and it was I think that it topped out in
Anaheim at like eighty one or eighty two, which, for
those of us who've been to Disneyland in the summer,
was extremely comfortable. Eighty one and eighty two is like
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a dream. It was wonderful. But my body is absolutely
still recovering because Disneyland in your forties and trying to
keep up and do all the rides is definitely not
the same as Disneyland when you're a kid. I think
we did something like ten and a half miles over
about eleven hours of just walking and standing in line.
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And by the way, the lines were really great. I
don't know what kind of luck we had yesterday, but
we got on everything, pretty much everything we wanted across
both parks. So wonderful way to kind of start this
summer and see what's going on with the rest of
this time. And as we know, summer is a wonderful
time for travel. We are approaching one of the biggest
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travel seasons in during the year. And with travel, you
have your car travel, which then takes into account gas prices.
We're going to get into that during the show, what's
going on with the gas tax. He also talks about
air flight and things like that. I'm not going to
really discuss flying today, but we are going to kick
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off the show with a fun little conversation about something
called the poop Cruise. But before we do that, make
sure that you are listening because we have a range
of topics and two very big guests who will be
joining us today at five point thirty. JR. Jackson, big
time media professional, host and creator of The watch List
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with JR. Jackson, a really popular show and former producer
and commentator on the Young Turks program is going to
come on to discuss some of the biggest stories in
the news from his political angle at six thirty. Aaron
Ac Christiansen, who was supposed to come on with us
last week but we bombed Iran and had to pivot. Well,
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he's going to come on with us today and he's
going to talk about a major effort to rescue animals, dogs, cats,
other animals in downtown LA and skid Row and what
he's doing in that effort and what he needs going forward.
So it's gonna be a really heart tugging conversation with
Aaron at six point thirty and a fun political conversation
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with j R. Jackson at five thirty. But first, let's
get into some poop news, because it's a Saturday, and
it's summer, and we're here to have fun, and what's
more fun than talking about poop. I guess well, if
you're going to take a cruise, you definitely want to
listen to this writing. I think you're very good. Good
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after they welcome on board the beautiful Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We just love going on craziers, the food, the who,
the water, slide. I mean, what more.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Could you add? This was absolutely the bachelorette party that
I had dreamed of.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We were like, this is awesome, and then the lights.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Go up to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Oh my god. For more than four thousand people are
stuck on a cruise ship that is dead in the water.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's when all of us were like, what tough.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was? Immediately crisis mood.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
The toilets went working, Well, we can do a number
one in the shower, and then I'm telling you, you
got bad fast.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I would never expect having a poop in a red bag.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh no, oh no, no.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Suddenly everyone's out for themselves. You could hear the panic.
We were starting to smell urine. Oh my god, it
was terrified. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now, I've never been on a cruise, and some of
you listening may have, or perhaps you're curious about cruising.
I know, I am. It seems like a fun option
to travel longer distances with a lot of stuff in
between your all inclusive ship and all these activities, and
thousands of your closest friends right there on the ship
with you as you all meander around drunkenly or not,
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whatever your choice, on this floating city right, Well, that
trailer is telling you about some of the horrors that
you might entail should you decide to book a cruise.
And now, of course Carnival twelve years later is doing
damaged control, saying that was then, this is now and
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you don't have to worry about that same situation happening.
But if you're interested and you have about fifty five minutes,
That trailer comes from Netflix's own train Wreck Poop Cruise documentary,
which does in fact recount the infamous disaster abort the
Carnival Triumph in twenty and thirteen. Oh my gosh. It
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was supposed to be a four night cruise, four day
and night cruise from Galveston, Texas. And a lot of
people like to fly out to locations and then cruise
out of those ports. And we do have our own
here in Long Beach, which does take people to different
locations in Mexico, and this one was going to take
guests from Galveston, Texas to Cosmel, Mexico. Again, it was
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supposed to be four nights, but on night two guests
were awakened by this blaring siren alerting them that something
had gone gravely wrong. The documentary features passenger footage because
people had their cell phones out, and we're taking lots
and lots of video and audio and pictures to document
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what was going on. And it features exclusive interviews with
former guests and members of the crew. Now here's the thing.
It's not just that this ship had a major catastrophe,
which to documentary does infect detail, but it did pre
juice a condition in which there was no electricity for
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four thousand plus passengers and crew abort this ship. And
when there was no electricity, they quickly found out that
their toilets were also electric, meaning there was no way
to flush the toilet. So crew members and the ship's
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management had a great idea. They said, hey, go ahead,
go number one in the shower, and for number two,
we're going to give you these bright red biohazard bags
that they slipped under the door of every passenger on
board and told them number one shower, number two bag,
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you go in the bag. People did it, but again
they were expecting this to be just a couple more nights.
This turned into an eight day and night ordeal, and
eventually raw sewage backed up in the drains. Luckily, there
was a situation there was an alternative or a relief
on the horizon, if you will, no pun intended. And
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a tugboat came out and towed that boat, that ship
into Alabama, Mobile Alabama. But when it towed the ship,
it actually moved the ship into a position where that
it tipped over. So if you're following along with the
backing up in the showers and the toilets of all
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of the things that people were doing over this week,
plus everything spilled out, yes, spilled out onto the floor.
And the documentary follows everything that happened leading up to
this cruise and everything that happened after. When we come back,
I'm going to tell you how that cruise ship rebranded
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itself and also a huge caveat that passengers found out
when they decided they wanted to take legal action. All
of you cruise people, you might not have known the
fine print on your ticket doesn't protect you from situations
like this. But I'll tell you that and more, as
well as what the heck is going on with this
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gas tax coming July first, that's Tuesday, and should we
be afraid of nine dollars gas on the horizon. I'll
let you know that and more. On the other side
of the break. It's k I AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Saturdays with Tiffany here until seven.
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Be a good tipper or else you risk having something
extra at it to your food. K I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany Hobbs here
with you, and we're wrapping up this fun little conversation
about the Poop Cruise. A new documentary called train Wreck
Poop Cruise on Netflix, which is all about the twenty
thirteen very unfortunate incident with a Carnival Cruise ship that
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was supposed to embark on a four y trip that
turned into an eight day trip because of a fire,
electronical or electrical failure and toilets that stopped working. And
I was telling you right before we went to break
that there are some things going on with this ship
still that you might want to be aware of, especially
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since it's the summer travel season and cruising is this
is the time when people take their cruises. Well, the
Carnival Triumph changed its name. It's technically still in service actually,
but under a new name. The new name Carnival Sunrise.
And the thing about Carnival Sunrise is that the ticket
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for the original cruise on the Carnival Triumph. The ticket
now reflects a huge change. Back in twenty thirteen, when
people were hoping to be able to find some sort
of financial compensation for that really really bad four or
five days that they experienced, they found out when they
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all lawyered up that the Carnival Triumph ticket had this
major caveat, which is common, very common to cruise contracts.
So if you are about to take a cruise, you
might want to look at your ticket because on the
Carnival Triumph's ticket it said that the cruise line had
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limited liability in case of unforeseen circumstances. It went on
to say on the ticket that the company Carnival was
quote not responsible for ensuring a seaworthy vessel, safe passage,
adequate food, or even sanitary conditions. Yes, and of course
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this became a huge point of contention when the poop
cruise incident was wrapping up and people were looking for
that compensation. So again, if you are looking forward to cruising,
you might want to make sure you check your ticket
to see what kind of caveats are in place just
in case you should experience some sort of failure where
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you're stuck out at sea and being given red bags
to poop in. All right, let's say you want to
get in your car. Car travel a huge thing. Triple
A always predicts record setting car travel every holiday season,
and this fourth of July is no exception. But there
are questions around California's gas prices and what people are
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saying are potential huge hikes coming on July first. So
let's dispel some of these myths, shall we? For the
gas tax. California's gas tax will increase, not on July
first by three or four dollars. No, it will increase
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by one point six cents per gallon, not one dollar
one point six cents starting July first, Tuesday, as required
by law. Well, where you might be saying, where did
this come from? Who voted for this? The thing is
you did. You voted for this back in twenty seventeen,
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and it became overwhelmingly approved in twenty eighteen when a
repeal attempt was rejected. California voters said they wanted this
in the legislature to help pay for road repairs. This
is in twenty seventeen. Now, eight years later, it's taking
effect Tuesday, July first, gas tax will increase by one
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point six cents per gallon. Now. The next claim is
that gas prices could top eight dollars a gallon by
next year. There are some analysts that say, well, with
the trend of inflation, sure we could absolutely get to
higher than six dollars seven dollars. We kind of hear
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this every year, but in most cases analysis says, no,
this will not happen. So you don't necessarily have to
panic yet, but definitely don't panic for July first, which
is Tuesday. Now, if you are looking for something to
do around the Southland, here are a few things to
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do July fourth. And I'll get into these really quickly
because at five point thirty we have J R. Jackson
coming on to talk about many big things in the
news in southern California. So if you're in Woodland Hills,
Woodland Hills on July fourth, you can enjoy a free
concert and fireworks in Warner Center Park. That's Woodland Hills,
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h If you are in the Universal City area, Universal
Studios right there in Hollywood will have a huge pyrotechnic
show at nine pm, of which you probably can see
outside of Universal Studios if you're close enough. Six Flags
Magic Mountain will have a huge fireworks show at nine
to fifteen pm, So if you're there and you're not
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completely head in, the trash can vomiting from the rides,
and you might want to enjoy those fireworks. If you're
in Claremont, you can watch fireworks, eat barbecue, listen to
live music. Gates open at six point thirty pm in
Claremont right out there. Fireworks show schedule for nine p m.
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Rose Bowl. Those of you who love the Rose Bowl,
you can enjoy fireworks at the a drone light show
actually presented instead of traditional fireworks on July fourth, and
also vendors from July fourth through the sixth, so they're
having a full weekend of July fourth inspired activities culminating
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in a drone light show. If you're in Long Beach,
the Queen Mary will have a big fireworks show there
for free along the waterfront. This is on July fourth Friday.
If you're in Guardina, you can go to Raley Park
for free activities and a fireworks show that's from five
to ten pm. At Raley Park in Guardina, and if
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you're in Marina del Rey, you can go right over
there and see a beautiful twenty minute fireworks show at
nine pm in Fishermen's Village. If you're in Big Bear
now'll say this lastly, there's a huge effort to not
have their annual fireworks show to help preserve the environment
for the eagle family that we all have grown accustomed
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to seeing and maybe some of you, including myself, enjoying
watching this last few months. Since January, there's a petition
circulating saying do not have fireworks in Big Bear Valley
because of all of the natural wildlife and resources there
that could be disturbed. So you may see that fireworks
show if you're out there. If the petition is not successful,
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but if the eagles are your face as they are mine,
then you can certainly look up how to sign that
petition to not have fireworks in Big Bear Valley. Five
point thirty JR. Jackson's coming on just on the other
side of the break, and we're gonna get into some
big news coming out of southern California with this amazing
media professional right here on Saturdays with Tiffany kf I
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AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Kf I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, and we are about to
talk to a dear friend of mine, someone who is
an amazing media professional. And I don't say that to
be hyperbolic, because when I tell you what this man
has accomplished, and this is just a bite sized snapshot
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of what he does, you'll likely have been accustomed to
him in some way because he's honestly everywhere. We're gonna
talk to j R. Jackson. He's an award winning media professional,
host and creator of the watch List with JR. Jackson
and JR. Rated. He's the former longtime senior producer and
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contributor on the well known program The Young Turks. That
name seems to ring a bell with a lot of people,
and JR. Is all of that, including being well versed
on a lot of the biggest news stories, including those
right here, especially because he's an alum of USC. That's
how I know JR. Because we are both Trojans, and
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I have long admired Jr. For who he was then
and for who he has become. And he's going a
weigh in on a few topics, including what's going on
in LA with immigration, what's going on in LA with
maybe police drones. We're gonna pick his brain and see
what he thinks about some of these big issues. But
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first and foremost, welcome Jr. Jackson to Saturdays with Tiffany
and Kfi. Hey Jr.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
What's going on Tiffany? Saturday's is Tiffany Man? I love this.
This is wonderful. I've been trying to get on this
and talk to you for a minute. So outside of
all of those crazy act lies you toss my way,
I'm glad I'm here talking to you. This is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Thank you, Thank you so much. And you're busy, You're busy,
not just with your media life but with your family life,
and so free to carve out some time for us
is just really special and hopefully we'll make good use
of it. I know we will because this is what
you do. So I don't want to let you down.
Don't want to let you down.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Thank you. You've certainly been following what's going on in
the news. I see you weighing in on your social media.
I know you talk about these things on your various programs,
but let's get into a couple topics specifically to see
how you're feeling, what you're thinking from your angle, starting
with did you know that the Los Angeles Police Department
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is now going to you allow the use of drones
as first responders under their new program.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I hadn't heard about this. This is what I was
just looking up. I was thinking and seeing so many
things going on back home in LA in case you
guys you know, I've since moved. I'm out of state now,
and as I'm watching what's going on in my city,
I'm trying to keep track because I'm getting phone calls
and conversations with old friends and they're telling me, yo, listen,
remember the ice cream guy over in Cubra City. He's gone.
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My friends, my family were going, you know, we're headed
to home depot ice agents. There's activity here, there's activity there,
and I'm knowing every one of these corners that I've
been there since nineteen ninety eight, and it's kind of
devastating just to see and hear lots of how this
is happening and what many people lose them out of state,
but I'm watching closely. Maybe don't know is the makeup
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the energy of Los Angeles and the way that these
types of things would affect it. And I think many
people miss that. So even hearing about these drones, this
police laped not looking to have drones first responders. I
think it's going to agitate things even worse.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And they're saying that these new drones or these drones
will be used in scenarios that are high risk incidents
for investigative purposes, large scale events, and natural disasters. And
they're also saying that some of these drones have already
been in effect, they're just going to start covering a
wider area. What do you say about the question of
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over policing and privacy when it comes to the use
of drones.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, it's one of those things, like we've been saying,
as just one of the debates from a couple of
years ago when the term was defund the police. How
many people on either side of the aisle we're talking
a lot about how that's a troubling term because how
we're going to have someone respond to maybe some dangerous
situations what if there's a burglar in your home, what
if you're seeing a witnessing a crime right in front
of you. We can't have social workers show up to dangerous,
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violent situations potentially where there's a conflict of this conflict
that can happen either to you or right in front
of you. But it was always misconstrued that there's this
thing where it's a complete replacing of police officers. But
in many police departments across the country, we'll see a
bloated budget where they end up spending money on things
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like literal military equipment, literal war machines or weapons of
war that they're using to police communities situations where people
in these communities don't have these types of things. But
this seems like, I mean, I have to look deeper
into what is that they're trying to do. It seems
like an extra escalation of it that's further from actual
policing maybe making sure your communities are safe, rather than
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in conflict with what we've seen in many instances from
the sheriff's departments also LPP. There's groups within these departments
where there are rules officers. There's literal gangs that are
formed where they are unleased within our communities. So with
this type of extra level of technology, now further from
the harm that they're also causing to innocent folks because
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of the assumption that they may make about them. I know,
I'm pretty far on the I guess on the political
spectrum when it comes to how our crews are policed.
But I did a story years ago where there was
a system and I believe it was a suburb of Denver,
or maybe it was actually in the city of Denver
where they replaced some calls police called that were maybe
usually centerper officers, and they said, folks that are trained
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and maybe a domestic violence event, or maybe someone that's
in panic at home, or many someone coming from a
traumatic situation, maybe a mental health scenario, because we've seen
police officers show up and the first thing they do
is think there's a threat and that violence ensues from that.
And they saw a significant decrease in the violence that
comes and the people that end up getting harmed from
these situations. So that was really the basis for many
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of the defund the police terms that people were uncomfortable with.
It was a reallocation of the way that we use
our funds. To go to protecting our community in ways
that are beyond just violence.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We're talking with j R. Jackson, he's the host and
creator the watch List with JR. Jackson and JR Rated Jr.
And continuing the conversation about these police drones in this
LAPD new program. It's not a pilot program, but it's
an expansion of an existing program. One of the things
that LAPD says is that critics remain skeptical about promises
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of transparency in terms of facial recognition and surveillance. They
are also saying that these drones will in fact be
used to monitor mass protests for safety reasons. What do
you predict these drones could potentially create in the future.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, I mean, look, we've been seeing it in the streets.
So what's been happening from just officers on horseback to
officers in riot year when there's literally no riot happening.
It's almost it detaches us further from the humanity that
we're dealing with. So if you have drones, you get
to control them a further away. Look, we see it
in in conflict scenarios in foreign countries. Drones have become
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a part of war. So I mean we saw the Ukraine,
the Ukraine and the Russian conflict. Ukraine sent some drones
and attacked and blew up and dismantled several Russian aircraft
that were set to go out within a dare to
go launch more missiles in Ukraine. No one was at
the target site and no one was literally on these
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drones obviously, but they could control them from far away.
So it turns conflicts deadly conflicts potentially into an ease
where the people that are in control of the machines
that are coming to engage are no longer having to
directly see that conflict, to see that bloodshed. But it
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almost feels more like a planned robotic video game. I mean,
it's probably not exactly that way, but what it does
allows our human to continue to detach from the humans
that were in conflict with so of course, especially since
as we saw with these Massy petitions that are going
these Ice agents and speak, what they're being allowed to
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do is have these conflicts and then blame the response
to those conflicts on the people who are harmed by them,
and then portray them in any way that they want,
and then the result being they can then unleash their
drones on them, which further than us, even farther from
our humanity that deals with people.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
J R.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I want to keep you on after this break for
the next segments. We can get into something that's going
on with these immigration arrest these immigration raids. There's a
potential immigration agent who excuse me, a person who impersonated
an ICE agent in Huntington Park and I want to
talk to you about that and issues around who these
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ICE agents are. Are they official? Are they bounty hunters?
Kind of the conversation they're in, and also want to
talk about ICE agents being under five for taking down
protesters in ways that are being described as rough. So
that and more. On the other side of the break, JR.
Can you hang on with us? Is that okay? Absolutely fantastic.
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We're talking with JR. Jackson. He's the host and creator
of The watch List with JR. Jackson and JR rated
former longtime senior producer on The Young Turks a contributor
as well, and he's weighing in on some of the
biggest issues around Southern California. Will continue this conversation on
the other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you until seven. We have a talk
back addressed to our guest, JR. Jackson. Can we hear
that talk back?
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Please?
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Tiffany for your guest. You need war machines. You need
killer swat stuff. Do you remember Simony's Liberation Army with
no Patty Hurst and they were shooting up places with
AK forty sevens, robbing banks and burning houses down. You
need these big war machines to combat these a holes
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who are out of control. That's what they need for.
Not all the time, but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I appreciate that. Not all the time, but sometimes that
kind of cushioned the A lot of that was a lot.
That was a lot. JR. What do you say to that?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Oh, well, this is what I guess was part of
what I was saying before, Because what level and degree
do we trust the people that make the decisions on
how to use these war machines? Because look, we have,
as we see and already the way that the situation
in Los Angeles has been characterized by people who aren't there,
been there, don't know the city, don't know the people,
don't know the police departments that operate there. So who
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do we give these kinds of powers too, and what's
the betting process them. Let's not forget citizens of the
city pay these people's salaries. The citizens of the people,
because we'll always talk about how exorbitant taxes are in
states like California and New York, so we would like
our tax dollars to go to protecting us. There's a
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holes that commit all kinds of horrible crimes all over
the country. How do we decipher that the people that
are in charge of solving these crimes in these cases
are on the up and up that have an approach
that actually sees the people as people, or if they
see them all as a holes. Because currently, as we
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see the way people are talking about the city, they're
saying everybody is one of those a holes. So therefore
we need these weapons of war. And assume that a
sixty seven year old woman who's in our house sitting
on our couch, you need to blast the door open
with a flash bang bomb. Because as we've seen in
direct we've seen where they have these demonstrations for some
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of these weapons. People who to get to use them
get excited about it because that's part of their job.
The people that want to excude these types of things
are excited to do it. So if you give them
something a new toy used and they have no situation
to use it in, they're going to find a situation
to use it in. And if it's your house, they're
not going to like it when you accidentally get your
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front or blasted open because they think you're one of
the a holes when actually the ahole lifts two doors down.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Speaking of trust and power and empowering people to have
these sorts of weapons and people being excited about using
those weapons. Huntington Park officials held a press conference just
yesterday afternoon to talk about the recent arrest of someone
they say was allegedly impersonating a federal agent. The person,
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Fernando Diaz, had a vehicle and law enforcement paraphernalia. The vehicle,
they said, was an unmarked type of vehicle, a vehicle
that could easily be mistaken for law enforcement, and this incident,
of course, raises questions and conversation about identification of these
ICE agents and the use of masks as well to
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obscure identities, cars not necessarily being properly marked. Do you
have anything you want to say about this? This is
a huge story.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Well, we heard that this was going to happen, This
was happening earlier on before, you know, before this administration,
at least some of these agents through certain cities, specifically
right now Los Angeles. The people that make it really
easy to impersonate law enforcement I mean considering the ones
who have actually been in power to do this under
shaky legal grounds already, they don't have to identify themselves.
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So there's been people of course impersonating them. And by
the way, impersonating law enforcement officer is a big crime.
I'm not seeing it. Maybe someone can direct me to that.
I'm not seeing a lot of energy being put forward
to stop people that are impersonating the people who won't
identify themselves. It kind of creates the problem itself. So again,
(32:05):
if it's someone who's set up with ICE agents in
their neighborhood, and there's sometimes maybe some of the people
that are going to be targeted, I can find of
gear and the right time of look to impersonate these
folks and are asked, whoever I want? I'm not one
of the bad guys, but you'll never look because I
don't have to identify myself. It creates the problem that
(32:27):
we don't want. But until it knocks on your door,
we feel like we don't have that problem.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well said, very well said Jr. In this last two
minutes that we have you, you do a lot and
you just gave wonderful analysis in my opinion, in our
listeners' opinions, given our talkbacks that we've been getting as
well about these issues plaguing concerning Los Angeles and the
greater Southern California region. But where can people find out
(32:55):
more about what you do? Listen and watch your programs?
The watch list with JR. Jackson Jr. Rated How can
they keep up with you? And what's next for you?
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Well trouble those You can find the watch list on
pretty much all the streaming sites, the YouTube, the snapchats
you know, and also my direct Instagram is JR Jackson.
I post other things that I think that hits my
brain every day. That just frustrates me because I have
to go into so much analysis for what happens with
these large topics, and a lot of times we kind
(33:27):
of stop at the surface because it takes so much
time and so much analysis and so much regurgitating on
what is we see and break down that most people,
you have your own job, so you don't have time
to go through all of this. It's frustrating and tough
to do, so I do it a lot there, but
one of the main channels you'll find on YouTube, my
JR Rated channel. A lot of times I use video
to directly make the point that maybe you don't like
(33:49):
listen the way I say it, I'll show you video
that maybe proves or disproves the point that's maybe being
pushed by people who don't feel they have to fully
explain themselves, because that's how power works.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I think you're clear, I think you're concise. I think
that you are balanced, and I appreciate you coming on
Saturdays with Tiffany to share just a little bit. I
would love to have you for two hours, three hours,
four hours, but to share just a little bit of
your time to analyze some of these stories.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
J R.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Jackson, thank you so much for coming on with us.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I appreciate you let me have to trade it now,
mannad you back on mine at one point on jr.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Really me any time you know you just let me know,
you know where to find me.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
No problem. When we come back, we're going to take
a deeper dive and we're going to look at some
of the newest laws taking effect on July first. July
first is just this coming Tuesday. We talked briefly about
the gas tax, but what other laws are on the
horizon in California. What should you be watching out for,
what should you be concerned about. Right on the other
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side of the break, I am six forty live everywhere
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It is time to one one. The week's been hot.
Time to ease my mind. Turned on my radio just
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Jay Saturday KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. It's Saturday with Tiffany. I'm Tiffany Hobbs, sitting
here until seven o'clock on this beautiful, beautiful summer day.
It is absolutely summer. As I was driving in, I
think it's said eighty five, and then it was eighty eight,
(00:42):
so it's it's summer, right. I went to Disneyland yesterday,
as you heard there in that cross talk with Neil,
and it was I think that it topped out in
Anaheim at like eighty one or eighty two, which, for
those of us who've been to Disneyland in the summer,
was extremely comfortable. Eighty one and eighty two is like
(01:03):
a dream. It was wonderful. But my body is absolutely
still recovering because Disneyland in your forties and trying to
keep up and do all the rides is definitely not
the same as Disneyland when you're a kid. I think
we did something like ten and a half miles over
about eleven hours of just walking and standing in line.
(01:24):
And by the way, the lines were really great. I
don't know what kind of luck we had yesterday, but
we got on everything, pretty much everything we wanted across
both parks. So wonderful way to kind of start this
summer and see what's going on with the rest of
this time. And as we know, summer is a wonderful
time for travel. We are approaching one of the biggest
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travel seasons in during the year. And with travel, you
have your car travel, which then takes into account gas prices.
We're going to get into that during the show, what's
going on with the gas tax. He also talks about
air flight and things like that. I'm not going to
really discuss flying today, but we are going to kick
(02:07):
off the show with a fun little conversation about something
called the poop Cruise. But before we do that, make
sure that you are listening because we have a range
of topics and two very big guests who will be
joining us today at five point thirty. JR. Jackson, big
time media professional, host and creator of The watch List
(02:30):
with JR. Jackson, a really popular show and former producer
and commentator on the Young Turks program is going to
come on to discuss some of the biggest stories in
the news from his political angle at six thirty. Aaron
Ac Christiansen, who was supposed to come on with us
last week but we bombed Iran and had to pivot. Well,
(02:53):
he's going to come on with us today and he's
going to talk about a major effort to rescue animals, dogs, cats,
other animals in downtown LA and skid Row and what
he's doing in that effort and what he needs going forward.
So it's gonna be a really heart tugging conversation with
Aaron at six point thirty and a fun political conversation
(03:16):
with j R. Jackson at five thirty. But first, let's
get into some poop news, because it's a Saturday, and
it's summer, and we're here to have fun, and what's
more fun than talking about poop. I guess well, if
you're going to take a cruise, you definitely want to
listen to this writing. I think you're very good. Good
(03:39):
after they welcome on board the beautiful Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
We just love going on craziers, the food, the who,
the water, slide. I mean, what more.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Could you add? This was absolutely the bachelorette party that
I had dreamed of.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
We were like, this is awesome, and then the lights.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Go up to.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Oh my god. For more than four thousand people are
stuck on a cruise ship that is dead in the water.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's when all of us were like, what tough.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
It was? Immediately crisis mood.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
The toilets went working, Well, we can do a number
one in the shower, and then I'm telling you, you
got bad fast.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I would never expect having a poop in a red bag.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh no, oh no, no.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Suddenly everyone's out for themselves. You could hear the panic.
We were starting to smell urine. Oh my god, it
was terrified. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Now, I've never been on a cruise, and some of
you listening may have, or perhaps you're curious about cruising.
I know, I am. It seems like a fun option
to travel longer distances with a lot of stuff in
between your all inclusive ship and all these activities, and
thousands of your closest friends right there on the ship
with you as you all meander around drunkenly or not,
(05:10):
whatever your choice, on this floating city right, Well, that
trailer is telling you about some of the horrors that
you might entail should you decide to book a cruise.
And now, of course Carnival twelve years later is doing
damaged control, saying that was then, this is now and
(05:32):
you don't have to worry about that same situation happening.
But if you're interested and you have about fifty five minutes,
That trailer comes from Netflix's own train Wreck Poop Cruise documentary,
which does in fact recount the infamous disaster abort the
Carnival Triumph in twenty and thirteen. Oh my gosh. It
(05:57):
was supposed to be a four night cruise, four day
and night cruise from Galveston, Texas. And a lot of
people like to fly out to locations and then cruise
out of those ports. And we do have our own
here in Long Beach, which does take people to different
locations in Mexico, and this one was going to take
guests from Galveston, Texas to Cosmel, Mexico. Again, it was
(06:18):
supposed to be four nights, but on night two guests
were awakened by this blaring siren alerting them that something
had gone gravely wrong. The documentary features passenger footage because
people had their cell phones out, and we're taking lots
and lots of video and audio and pictures to document
(06:41):
what was going on. And it features exclusive interviews with
former guests and members of the crew. Now here's the thing.
It's not just that this ship had a major catastrophe,
which to documentary does infect detail, but it did pre
juice a condition in which there was no electricity for
(07:04):
four thousand plus passengers and crew abort this ship. And
when there was no electricity, they quickly found out that
their toilets were also electric, meaning there was no way
to flush the toilet. So crew members and the ship's
(07:24):
management had a great idea. They said, hey, go ahead,
go number one in the shower, and for number two,
we're going to give you these bright red biohazard bags
that they slipped under the door of every passenger on
board and told them number one shower, number two bag,
(07:47):
you go in the bag. People did it, but again
they were expecting this to be just a couple more nights.
This turned into an eight day and night ordeal, and
eventually raw sewage backed up in the drains. Luckily, there
was a situation there was an alternative or a relief
on the horizon, if you will, no pun intended. And
(08:10):
a tugboat came out and towed that boat, that ship
into Alabama, Mobile Alabama. But when it towed the ship,
it actually moved the ship into a position where that
it tipped over. So if you're following along with the
backing up in the showers and the toilets of all
(08:31):
of the things that people were doing over this week,
plus everything spilled out, yes, spilled out onto the floor.
And the documentary follows everything that happened leading up to
this cruise and everything that happened after. When we come back,
I'm going to tell you how that cruise ship rebranded
(08:52):
itself and also a huge caveat that passengers found out
when they decided they wanted to take legal action. All
of you cruise people, you might not have known the
fine print on your ticket doesn't protect you from situations
like this. But I'll tell you that and more, as
well as what the heck is going on with this
(09:12):
gas tax coming July first, that's Tuesday, and should we
be afraid of nine dollars gas on the horizon. I'll
let you know that and more. On the other side
of the break. It's k I AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Saturdays with Tiffany here until seven.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You're listening to kfi AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Be a good tipper or else you risk having something
extra at it to your food. K I AM six
forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany Hobbs here
with you, and we're wrapping up this fun little conversation
about the Poop Cruise. A new documentary called train Wreck
Poop Cruise on Netflix, which is all about the twenty
thirteen very unfortunate incident with a Carnival Cruise ship that
(09:58):
was supposed to embark on a four y trip that
turned into an eight day trip because of a fire,
electronical or electrical failure and toilets that stopped working. And
I was telling you right before we went to break
that there are some things going on with this ship
still that you might want to be aware of, especially
(10:19):
since it's the summer travel season and cruising is this
is the time when people take their cruises. Well, the
Carnival Triumph changed its name. It's technically still in service actually,
but under a new name. The new name Carnival Sunrise.
And the thing about Carnival Sunrise is that the ticket
(10:42):
for the original cruise on the Carnival Triumph. The ticket
now reflects a huge change. Back in twenty thirteen, when
people were hoping to be able to find some sort
of financial compensation for that really really bad four or
five days that they experienced, they found out when they
(11:03):
all lawyered up that the Carnival Triumph ticket had this
major caveat, which is common, very common to cruise contracts.
So if you are about to take a cruise, you
might want to look at your ticket because on the
Carnival Triumph's ticket it said that the cruise line had
(11:25):
limited liability in case of unforeseen circumstances. It went on
to say on the ticket that the company Carnival was
quote not responsible for ensuring a seaworthy vessel, safe passage,
adequate food, or even sanitary conditions. Yes, and of course
(11:50):
this became a huge point of contention when the poop
cruise incident was wrapping up and people were looking for
that compensation. So again, if you are looking forward to cruising,
you might want to make sure you check your ticket
to see what kind of caveats are in place just
in case you should experience some sort of failure where
(12:13):
you're stuck out at sea and being given red bags
to poop in. All right, let's say you want to
get in your car. Car travel a huge thing. Triple
A always predicts record setting car travel every holiday season,
and this fourth of July is no exception. But there
are questions around California's gas prices and what people are
(12:36):
saying are potential huge hikes coming on July first. So
let's dispel some of these myths, shall we? For the
gas tax. California's gas tax will increase, not on July
first by three or four dollars. No, it will increase
(12:56):
by one point six cents per gallon, not one dollar
one point six cents starting July first, Tuesday, as required
by law. Well, where you might be saying, where did
this come from? Who voted for this? The thing is
you did. You voted for this back in twenty seventeen,
(13:17):
and it became overwhelmingly approved in twenty eighteen when a
repeal attempt was rejected. California voters said they wanted this
in the legislature to help pay for road repairs. This
is in twenty seventeen. Now, eight years later, it's taking
effect Tuesday, July first, gas tax will increase by one
(13:42):
point six cents per gallon. Now. The next claim is
that gas prices could top eight dollars a gallon by
next year. There are some analysts that say, well, with
the trend of inflation, sure we could absolutely get to
higher than six dollars seven dollars. We kind of hear
(14:03):
this every year, but in most cases analysis says, no,
this will not happen. So you don't necessarily have to
panic yet, but definitely don't panic for July first, which
is Tuesday. Now, if you are looking for something to
do around the Southland, here are a few things to
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do July fourth. And I'll get into these really quickly
because at five point thirty we have J R. Jackson
coming on to talk about many big things in the
news in southern California. So if you're in Woodland Hills,
Woodland Hills on July fourth, you can enjoy a free
concert and fireworks in Warner Center Park. That's Woodland Hills,
(14:45):
h If you are in the Universal City area, Universal
Studios right there in Hollywood will have a huge pyrotechnic
show at nine pm, of which you probably can see
outside of Universal Studios if you're close enough. Six Flags
Magic Mountain will have a huge fireworks show at nine
to fifteen pm, So if you're there and you're not
(15:06):
completely head in, the trash can vomiting from the rides,
and you might want to enjoy those fireworks. If you're
in Claremont, you can watch fireworks, eat barbecue, listen to
live music. Gates open at six point thirty pm in
Claremont right out there. Fireworks show schedule for nine p m.
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Rose Bowl. Those of you who love the Rose Bowl,
you can enjoy fireworks at the a drone light show
actually presented instead of traditional fireworks on July fourth, and
also vendors from July fourth through the sixth, so they're
having a full weekend of July fourth inspired activities culminating
(15:50):
in a drone light show. If you're in Long Beach,
the Queen Mary will have a big fireworks show there
for free along the waterfront. This is on July fourth Friday.
If you're in Guardina, you can go to Raley Park
for free activities and a fireworks show that's from five
to ten pm. At Raley Park in Guardina, and if
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you're in Marina del Rey, you can go right over
there and see a beautiful twenty minute fireworks show at
nine pm in Fishermen's Village. If you're in Big Bear
now'll say this lastly, there's a huge effort to not
have their annual fireworks show to help preserve the environment
for the eagle family that we all have grown accustomed
(16:35):
to seeing and maybe some of you, including myself, enjoying
watching this last few months. Since January, there's a petition
circulating saying do not have fireworks in Big Bear Valley
because of all of the natural wildlife and resources there
that could be disturbed. So you may see that fireworks
show if you're out there. If the petition is not successful,
(16:57):
but if the eagles are your face as they are mine,
then you can certainly look up how to sign that
petition to not have fireworks in Big Bear Valley. Five
point thirty JR. Jackson's coming on just on the other
side of the break, and we're gonna get into some
big news coming out of southern California with this amazing
media professional right here on Saturdays with Tiffany kf I
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AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Kf I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, and we are about to
talk to a dear friend of mine, someone who is
an amazing media professional. And I don't say that to
be hyperbolic, because when I tell you what this man
has accomplished, and this is just a bite sized snapshot
(17:50):
of what he does, you'll likely have been accustomed to
him in some way because he's honestly everywhere. We're gonna
talk to j R. Jackson. He's an award winning media professional,
host and creator of the watch List with JR. Jackson
and JR. Rated. He's the former longtime senior producer and
(18:11):
contributor on the well known program The Young Turks. That
name seems to ring a bell with a lot of people,
and JR. Is all of that, including being well versed
on a lot of the biggest news stories, including those
right here, especially because he's an alum of USC. That's
how I know JR. Because we are both Trojans, and
(18:34):
I have long admired Jr. For who he was then
and for who he has become. And he's going a
weigh in on a few topics, including what's going on
in LA with immigration, what's going on in LA with
maybe police drones. We're gonna pick his brain and see
what he thinks about some of these big issues. But
(18:55):
first and foremost, welcome Jr. Jackson to Saturdays with Tiffany
and Kfi. Hey Jr.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
What's going on Tiffany? Saturday's is Tiffany Man? I love this.
This is wonderful. I've been trying to get on this
and talk to you for a minute. So outside of
all of those crazy act lies you toss my way,
I'm glad I'm here talking to you. This is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Thank you, Thank you so much. And you're busy, You're busy,
not just with your media life but with your family life,
and so free to carve out some time for us
is just really special and hopefully we'll make good use
of it. I know we will because this is what
you do. So I don't want to let you down.
Don't want to let you down.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Thank you. You've certainly been following what's going on in
the news. I see you weighing in on your social media.
I know you talk about these things on your various programs,
but let's get into a couple topics specifically to see
how you're feeling, what you're thinking from your angle, starting
with did you know that the Los Angeles Police Department
(19:58):
is now going to you allow the use of drones
as first responders under their new program.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
I hadn't heard about this. This is what I was
just looking up. I was thinking and seeing so many
things going on back home in LA in case you
guys you know, I've since moved. I'm out of state now,
and as I'm watching what's going on in my city,
I'm trying to keep track because I'm getting phone calls
and conversations with old friends and they're telling me, yo, listen,
remember the ice cream guy over in Cubra City. He's gone.
(20:31):
My friends, my family were going, you know, we're headed
to home depot ice agents. There's activity here, there's activity there,
and I'm knowing every one of these corners that I've
been there since nineteen ninety eight, and it's kind of
devastating just to see and hear lots of how this
is happening and what many people lose them out of state,
but I'm watching closely. Maybe don't know is the makeup
(20:52):
the energy of Los Angeles and the way that these
types of things would affect it. And I think many
people miss that. So even hearing about these drones, this
police laped not looking to have drones first responders. I
think it's going to agitate things even worse.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And they're saying that these new drones or these drones
will be used in scenarios that are high risk incidents
for investigative purposes, large scale events, and natural disasters. And
they're also saying that some of these drones have already
been in effect, they're just going to start covering a
wider area. What do you say about the question of
(21:29):
over policing and privacy when it comes to the use
of drones.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, it's one of those things, like we've been saying,
as just one of the debates from a couple of
years ago when the term was defund the police. How
many people on either side of the aisle we're talking
a lot about how that's a troubling term because how
we're going to have someone respond to maybe some dangerous
situations what if there's a burglar in your home, what
if you're seeing a witnessing a crime right in front
of you. We can't have social workers show up to dangerous,
(21:57):
violent situations potentially where there's a conflict of this conflict
that can happen either to you or right in front
of you. But it was always misconstrued that there's this
thing where it's a complete replacing of police officers. But
in many police departments across the country, we'll see a
bloated budget where they end up spending money on things
(22:17):
like literal military equipment, literal war machines or weapons of
war that they're using to police communities situations where people
in these communities don't have these types of things. But
this seems like, I mean, I have to look deeper
into what is that they're trying to do. It seems
like an extra escalation of it that's further from actual
policing maybe making sure your communities are safe, rather than
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in conflict with what we've seen in many instances from
the sheriff's departments also LPP. There's groups within these departments
where there are rules officers. There's literal gangs that are
formed where they are unleased within our communities. So with
this type of extra level of technology, now further from
the harm that they're also causing to innocent folks because
(23:02):
of the assumption that they may make about them. I know,
I'm pretty far on the I guess on the political
spectrum when it comes to how our crews are policed.
But I did a story years ago where there was
a system and I believe it was a suburb of Denver,
or maybe it was actually in the city of Denver
where they replaced some calls police called that were maybe
usually centerper officers, and they said, folks that are trained
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and maybe a domestic violence event, or maybe someone that's
in panic at home, or many someone coming from a
traumatic situation, maybe a mental health scenario, because we've seen
police officers show up and the first thing they do
is think there's a threat and that violence ensues from that.
And they saw a significant decrease in the violence that
comes and the people that end up getting harmed from
these situations. So that was really the basis for many
(23:48):
of the defund the police terms that people were uncomfortable with.
It was a reallocation of the way that we use
our funds. To go to protecting our community in ways
that are beyond just violence.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
We're talking with j R. Jackson, he's the host and
creator the watch List with JR. Jackson and JR Rated Jr.
And continuing the conversation about these police drones in this
LAPD new program. It's not a pilot program, but it's
an expansion of an existing program. One of the things
that LAPD says is that critics remain skeptical about promises
(24:19):
of transparency in terms of facial recognition and surveillance. They
are also saying that these drones will in fact be
used to monitor mass protests for safety reasons. What do
you predict these drones could potentially create in the future.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Well, I mean, look, we've been seeing it in the streets.
So what's been happening from just officers on horseback to
officers in riot year when there's literally no riot happening.
It's almost it detaches us further from the humanity that
we're dealing with. So if you have drones, you get
to control them a further away. Look, we see it
in in conflict scenarios in foreign countries. Drones have become
(25:03):
a part of war. So I mean we saw the Ukraine,
the Ukraine and the Russian conflict. Ukraine sent some drones
and attacked and blew up and dismantled several Russian aircraft
that were set to go out within a dare to
go launch more missiles in Ukraine. No one was at
the target site and no one was literally on these
(25:25):
drones obviously, but they could control them from far away.
So it turns conflicts deadly conflicts potentially into an ease
where the people that are in control of the machines
that are coming to engage are no longer having to
directly see that conflict, to see that bloodshed. But it
(25:45):
almost feels more like a planned robotic video game. I mean,
it's probably not exactly that way, but what it does
allows our human to continue to detach from the humans
that were in conflict with so of course, especially since
as we saw with these Massy petitions that are going
these Ice agents and speak, what they're being allowed to
(26:07):
do is have these conflicts and then blame the response
to those conflicts on the people who are harmed by them,
and then portray them in any way that they want,
and then the result being they can then unleash their
drones on them, which further than us, even farther from
our humanity that deals with people.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
J R.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I want to keep you on after this break for
the next segments. We can get into something that's going
on with these immigration arrest these immigration raids. There's a
potential immigration agent who excuse me, a person who impersonated
an ICE agent in Huntington Park and I want to
talk to you about that and issues around who these
(26:49):
ICE agents are. Are they official? Are they bounty hunters?
Kind of the conversation they're in, and also want to
talk about ICE agents being under five for taking down
protesters in ways that are being described as rough. So
that and more. On the other side of the break, JR.
Can you hang on with us? Is that okay? Absolutely fantastic.
(27:12):
We're talking with JR. Jackson. He's the host and creator
of The watch List with JR. Jackson and JR rated
former longtime senior producer on The Young Turks a contributor
as well, and he's weighing in on some of the
biggest issues around Southern California. Will continue this conversation on
the other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
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AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you until seven. We have a talk
back addressed to our guest, JR. Jackson. Can we hear
that talk back?
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Please?
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Tiffany for your guest. You need war machines. You need
killer swat stuff. Do you remember Simony's Liberation Army with
no Patty Hurst and they were shooting up places with
AK forty sevens, robbing banks and burning houses down. You
need these big war machines to combat these a holes
(28:13):
who are out of control. That's what they need for.
Not all the time, but sometimes.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I appreciate that. Not all the time, but sometimes that
kind of cushioned the A lot of that was a lot.
That was a lot. JR. What do you say to that?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Oh, well, this is what I guess was part of
what I was saying before, Because what level and degree
do we trust the people that make the decisions on
how to use these war machines? Because look, we have,
as we see and already the way that the situation
in Los Angeles has been characterized by people who aren't there,
been there, don't know the city, don't know the people,
don't know the police departments that operate there. So who
(28:53):
do we give these kinds of powers too, and what's
the betting process them. Let's not forget citizens of the
city pay these people's salaries. The citizens of the people,
because we'll always talk about how exorbitant taxes are in
states like California and New York, so we would like
our tax dollars to go to protecting us. There's a
(29:16):
holes that commit all kinds of horrible crimes all over
the country. How do we decipher that the people that
are in charge of solving these crimes in these cases
are on the up and up that have an approach
that actually sees the people as people, or if they
see them all as a holes. Because currently, as we
(29:37):
see the way people are talking about the city, they're
saying everybody is one of those a holes. So therefore
we need these weapons of war. And assume that a
sixty seven year old woman who's in our house sitting
on our couch, you need to blast the door open
with a flash bang bomb. Because as we've seen in
direct we've seen where they have these demonstrations for some
(29:58):
of these weapons. People who to get to use them
get excited about it because that's part of their job.
The people that want to excude these types of things
are excited to do it. So if you give them
something a new toy used and they have no situation
to use it in, they're going to find a situation
to use it in. And if it's your house, they're
not going to like it when you accidentally get your
(30:20):
front or blasted open because they think you're one of
the a holes when actually the ahole lifts two doors down.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Speaking of trust and power and empowering people to have
these sorts of weapons and people being excited about using
those weapons. Huntington Park officials held a press conference just
yesterday afternoon to talk about the recent arrest of someone
they say was allegedly impersonating a federal agent. The person,
(30:50):
Fernando Diaz, had a vehicle and law enforcement paraphernalia. The vehicle,
they said, was an unmarked type of vehicle, a vehicle
that could easily be mistaken for law enforcement, and this incident,
of course, raises questions and conversation about identification of these
ICE agents and the use of masks as well to
(31:12):
obscure identities, cars not necessarily being properly marked. Do you
have anything you want to say about this? This is
a huge story.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Well, we heard that this was going to happen, This
was happening earlier on before, you know, before this administration,
at least some of these agents through certain cities, specifically
right now Los Angeles. The people that make it really
easy to impersonate law enforcement I mean considering the ones
who have actually been in power to do this under
shaky legal grounds already, they don't have to identify themselves.
(31:45):
So there's been people of course impersonating them. And by
the way, impersonating law enforcement officer is a big crime.
I'm not seeing it. Maybe someone can direct me to that.
I'm not seeing a lot of energy being put forward
to stop people that are impersonating the people who won't
identify themselves. It kind of creates the problem itself. So again,
(32:05):
if it's someone who's set up with ICE agents in
their neighborhood, and there's sometimes maybe some of the people
that are going to be targeted, I can find of
gear and the right time of look to impersonate these
folks and are asked, whoever I want? I'm not one
of the bad guys, but you'll never look because I
don't have to identify myself. It creates the problem that
(32:27):
we don't want. But until it knocks on your door,
we feel like we don't have that problem.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well said, very well said Jr. In this last two
minutes that we have you, you do a lot and
you just gave wonderful analysis in my opinion, in our
listeners' opinions, given our talkbacks that we've been getting as
well about these issues plaguing concerning Los Angeles and the
greater Southern California region. But where can people find out
(32:55):
more about what you do? Listen and watch your programs?
The watch list with JR. Jackson Jr. Rated How can
they keep up with you? And what's next for you?
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Well trouble those You can find the watch list on
pretty much all the streaming sites, the YouTube, the snapchats
you know, and also my direct Instagram is JR Jackson.
I post other things that I think that hits my
brain every day. That just frustrates me because I have
to go into so much analysis for what happens with
these large topics, and a lot of times we kind
(33:27):
of stop at the surface because it takes so much
time and so much analysis and so much regurgitating on
what is we see and break down that most people,
you have your own job, so you don't have time
to go through all of this. It's frustrating and tough
to do, so I do it a lot there, but
one of the main channels you'll find on YouTube, my
JR Rated channel. A lot of times I use video
to directly make the point that maybe you don't like
(33:49):
listen the way I say it, I'll show you video
that maybe proves or disproves the point that's maybe being
pushed by people who don't feel they have to fully
explain themselves, because that's how power works.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I think you're clear, I think you're concise. I think
that you are balanced, and I appreciate you coming on
Saturdays with Tiffany to share just a little bit. I
would love to have you for two hours, three hours,
four hours, but to share just a little bit of
your time to analyze some of these stories.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
J R.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Jackson, thank you so much for coming on with us.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
I appreciate you let me have to trade it now,
mannad you back on mine at one point on jr.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Really me any time you know you just let me know,
you know where to find me.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
No problem. When we come back, we're going to take
a deeper dive and we're going to look at some
of the newest laws taking effect on July first. July
first is just this coming Tuesday. We talked briefly about
the gas tax, but what other laws are on the
horizon in California. What should you be watching out for,
what should you be concerned about. Right on the other
(34:51):
side of the break, I am six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1 (34:56):
KFI AM six forty on demand,
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