July 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Military explosive devices found at the LAPD station in Pacoima led to evacuations in the surrounding area. Eight schools in Los Angeles are set to receive green spaces instead of asphalt, but they need to secure funding first. Dine LA Restaurant Week has begun, featuring various restaurants across the Los Angeles area—here’s what you need to know! Additionally, a home connected to a pastor involved in a ‘TikTok cult,’ who was featured in a Netflix docuseries, was raided as part of a sex trafficking investigation. Finally, Anthony Anderson has responded to a resurfaced video in which he tells teen Lindsay Lohan that he prefers "them young."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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from two to four. You normally hear me on Saturdays
from five to seven. But I took the call, I
accepted the call, and I am here on a Sunday,
a beautiful Sunday. The weather is perfect. I want to
be outside. But if there's anywhere other than outside enjoying
this beautiful summer day that I'd rather be, it's right
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here with you, and I thank you also for joining
us from two to four today, And of course after
me will be Chris Merrill, my buddy Chris Merrill, who
I love to talk to you. So I enjoy being
here on Sundays because I get to cross with my
friend and hang out with the Sunday crew and it's
just a wonderful time all around for everyone. Thank you
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again for tuning in a big show, big show. We
always say that big show, but it is a big show.
Have a lot of fun and interesting news to share
with you. I usually think of the weekends as a
time to review the kind of pertinent news stories, the
relevant news stories locally globally, of course, and then also
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to include some interesting things, some things that will hopefully
keep your attention and make this a worthwhile listen. And
I'm pretty sure today's show is going to cover that.
But before we get into those stories, there are a
few stories we're watching, including President Trump and the EU
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are making nice. They're making nicies, and they've agreed to
a trade deal in the form of a fifteen percent
of cross the board tariff. So while President Trump has
been in Scotland and golfing, he is taking care of
business in that way and in a way that is
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ensuring that things will continue to be somewhat peaceful, somewhat
friendly with the EU, at least in the form of
this new tariff deal. And then in Gaza, as we
know there has been there have been wide reports and
evidence of starvation, and Israel has allowed a pause in
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the fighting, a pause in the war against Gaza after
months without aid for air drops to happen, and food
has been air dropped inside of the Gaza territory to
allow people to hopefully begin to at least start to
be able to have food, have things to eat. It's
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you know, a lot of the footage that's come out
is just absolutely horrific. So that is undoubtedly a glimmer,
a slight glimmer in a very dark spot with what's
happening over there in Gaza. And then on a brighter note,
the US Open up Surfing is back, and it is
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right here in our backyard in Huntington Beach, some of
the most beautiful coastline in the world, and it's right
there in Huntington Beach. Started a couple of days ago
and is going through August third. This weekend seems to
be probably the biggest weekend or the biggest series of
days with the events and the music and all of
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the activities connected to the US Open of Surfing. Get
down there and be able to enjoy that, especially on
a beautiful daylight today. And the good thing about it too,
most of the activities, most of the events are not
just family friendly, they are free, so you don't have
to worry about breaking the bank. To enjoy watching surfing.
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You can go down there to Huntington Beach and enjoy
that with your family or otherwise for little or next
to nothing or nothing for that matter. Now, when it
comes to stories that are going on here again, there
are a lot of things that we're going to cover,
including the fact that a lot of spaces within Los
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Angeles Unified School District are made of concrete or asphalt.
A lot of the spaces that are spaces for the
kids to be able to have their recess or their
lunch or their pe. Well, there's a new proposal that will,
if it goes through, allow for eight schools within Los
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Angeles Unified School District to receive money so that they
can have green spaces over the existing asphalt that's there.
You know it's good, and I'll tell you why. Green
spaces can also help improve the quality of learning. We
know LAUSD is rot with problems. It's been that way
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for a long time and it will be that way
until things change. This is, you know, a foray into
that change, and these eight schools will serve practically as
kind of a pilot for a larger program that could
happen over the next couple of years. We're gonna get
into Dine La Restaurant Week is back Restaurant Week is
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back Dine La Restaurant Week and talk about what you
should know, what you might want to visit, and how
long it's going when it starts all the details there
in uh. If you're a Netflix watcher like I am,
I love a good documentary. Netflix always has these premire
Netflix documentaries. Right right now, I'm watching train Wrecked, which
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is a series of documentaries about literal not just literal
but figurative train wrecks, terrible things, things that have gone
completely wrong. And another one that I've watched has to
do with something called the ttalk pastor. What what am
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I talking about? Well, there's a TikTok pastor or a
person who uses TikTok, and there's a whole story behind
this about how this actual pastor has manipulated a pretty
sizable group of young people. While that pastor has been
arrested in a sex trafficking probe. I'm going to give
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you the details about that arrest and what might be
expected of this pastor. Yet another celebrity is in the
news for making lewd comments, inappropriate comments except for the
fact that this celebrity is not making the comments today
or yesterday. The comments come from about twenty years ago,
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but because of the Internet, they've been unearthed. Now I'll
tell you what the celebrity said, who the celebrity is,
and any potential fallout that this person may be facing.
It is a pretty big story and it's developing as
we speak. For our deeper dive segment, we are going
to take a closer look at what happens when starvation
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becomes a weapon of war. Gaza isn't the first country
to experience starvation during wartime. No, this has been going
on for the ages, and I have some history I
want to share with you about starvation crimes and international
law because many say we're in a new era in
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which that's being used. And then we're going to kind
of transition that conversation into the attempts by different civilians
and activists and trying to disperse aid food to countries
during wartime, including one that left I believe it's the
coast of the United States bound for Gaza and has
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since been accosted, and all of those people on board,
the activists hoping to get food to Gaza, they've all
been arrested, so there are updates about that story. They're
being held by Israel currently. For our Scammer's Gonna Scam segment,
what popular online retailer's name is being used in a
(08:29):
costly scam? Another day, another scam, and this time there's
a popular retailer that you visit, And I'm going to
tell you just how you might be getting scammed and
thinking that this retailer is reaching out to you with
some sort of something, some sort of deal, or some
sort of correspondence that you could very well pay for.
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And then to round up the show, I'm actually going
to talk about a scam that I was involved in
a few days ago, earlier last week that happens to
deal with rewards points. After you spend money somewhere, you
get rewards and you're supposed to be able to apply
those rewards to another place to receive a discount. I
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have information about how there is a scam happening locally
right here in southern California, and if you're not careful,
you will fall prey to it, like I almost did.
When we come back, we're going to get into the
biggest story right now in the Southland and it happens
to deal with yet another explosive or series of explosive
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devices found on someone's property. Where did they find it?
What happened? It just happened yesterday, by the way, last
night broke, the news broke, and you might not have
known about it. You might have been enjoying your Saturday
getting ready for bed, watching a Netflix documentary whatever it is.
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And while you were doing all of this, yet another
bundle of explodesives were found in someone's property not far
from where you live. People. I'll tell you all about
that and what's going on where those explosives are now
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was telling you that yet another situation has occurred
in which a military ordnance And you might be saying,
what is an ordinance? Ordinances are supplies, military supplies, weaponry, ammunition,
combat vehicles, maintenance tools, equipment, all of the things connected
to military think that style. Another bundle of military ordinances
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ordinances were found right here in southern California. And while
this might be somewhat of a blip on the radar
in quote unquote normal times, more neutral times by military ordinances,
finding explosive devices on the heels of three La Sheriff's
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Department deputies being killed make this story even more even
more interesting, even more problematic, and for me, finding more
ordinances on properties at people's homes is yet another indication that,
to be honest, a lot more people have these things
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on their property than we think. It could be your neighbor,
it might be you. You might be a collector and
someone maybe passed down something you inherited, something you bought,
something that is part of military ordinance or part of
you know, the category therein that involves supplies. Perhaps it's
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a grenade, perhaps it's shells or something else. But these
things are being found, and they're not always inert, as
we saw on July eighteenth, when the three LASD deputies
attempted to remove the two grenades from the property in
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Santa Monica to the Biscala's training facility in East LA
and one of those devices, one of those grenades exploded,
killing those three deputies. Terrible tragedy and another cautionary tale
that in the press conference on Friday, Sheriff Robert Luna
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cautioned the public to understand that these devices are in
fact floating out there, and yet here is another one.
This one happened in Paquoima. Police said a couple brought
military ordinances from their recently deceased family members home to
the Foothill Police Station in Paquoima. So these family members
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were cleaning out the home of their recently deceased love
one and came across what is being described as explosives,
and when they took those explosives to the police station,
the Foothill Police Station in Paquoima, it caused quote unquote
a major scene. Can you imagine the panic, the sheer
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amount of panic and hysteria, and finding that people are
bringing explosives that they don't know if they're inert, they
don't know if they're live, but they are bringing them
to the facility in hopes that they can transition them
to people who might be able to take care of
them better than they can. Well, in all of the hysteria,
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in all of the rush to quell this situation, to
contain the situation, not only was the police station evacuated,
but the entire neighborhood was evacuated, comprised of eleven additional
homes and four businesses and everything, especially law enforcement, went
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on heightened alert because just a little over a week prior,
those three deputies were killed doing the same type of thing,
moving these grenades from one facility or one place to
the secured facility in hopes of being able to then
likely transfer them to the military. That's usually what happens.
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The military comes in and takes care of it, disposes
of it, neutralizes the threat. Unfortunately, on July eighteenth, that
threat became realized when the deputies were killed. So now
you have these people taking these devices to the and
here's the thing, this is what you would likely think
to do. I want to take this scary thing to
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the police. I want to call in law enforcement to
help me with this scary thing. That's what we've been taught.
In the press conference with Sheriff Robert Luna, they did
encourage the public to call and say, you know, hey,
we have these things. We have the possibility of an
explosive device. But in the interim, what are you supposed
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to do? Are you supposed to evacuate this was somewhat unclear.
Are you supposed to handle them in any way? My
suggestion is no, perhaps you don't. If you saw Uncle
rob handling the devices and showing you and it's a
paper weight and he's moving it around as his apartment
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or his home, and it seems like nothing, then you
might be inclined to do the same. But as was
said in the press conference, the new policy for the
explosive team, the special teams assigned to deal with these
sorts of things, these sorts of devices, military ordinances, they
are going to now which again suggests that this wasn't
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happening before. They are going to now treat every ordnance
as if it is live, as if it is live.
They weren't doing that before. They are now going to
treat everything as if it's live. So if our law
enforcement professionals are going to treat everything as it's live,
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I highly suggest that you john public treat these things
as if they are live until further notice. So all
of these ordinances were moved to a storage facility when
taken to the after taken to the Foothill Police Station
in Paquoima, and they were to be safely stored until
the military could collect them at a later time. The
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LAPD bomb squad responded and used a robot to take
images of the devices. Camp Pendleton is actually the closive
closest Explosive Ordnance Device team, so they were called out
to collaborate with LAPD to determine the next best steps.
And the devices were not yet decided whether or not
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they were stable enough to move, so they had to wait.
And in that waiting game, a lot of panic, a
lot of evacuating all people, all the residents, the businesses
were allowed to return home. But again this suggests, I think,
and I feel like it's naive to consider otherwise. More
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people have ordinances, have grenades, have artillery, have things that
could explode on their properties, in their homes, collectors, keepsakes,
whatever it may be. They're there, and because they're there,
we need to be even more vigilant because you don't
want to have an accident happen to this caliber. This
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is these are deadly weapons. They're not to be necessarily
handled or displayed for your company when they come over,
or especially kept away boxes that you don't find until
you unearth them after clearing out someone's home once they've died.
Very dangerous territory. When we come back, we're going to
get into how LA schools are hoping to improve the
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quality of learning on campus by beautifying campuses through giving
these campuses green spaces, something that in your mind might
be kind of an obvious but it's not necessarily obvious
when you look at how many schools within LAUSD only
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have asphalt, only have concrete, no or very few green spaces.
So when we come back, going to tell you what's
happening with this new pilot program, how much it's going
to cost, and when it should take effect if all
goes through and it's not blocked by recent budget cuts.
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That's what they're up against. All of that and more
on the other side of the brakes.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If you were listening yesterday, If you have any continued
shout outs for the Foush, the Fush who we entered
into our official unofficial dating pool. We're kind of siphoning
off of Gary and Shannon's dating their new dating strategy
or dating game. I don't know what they're calling it,
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but Fush was finding quite a bit of success. Yesterday
on my show on Saturdays with Tiffany, had a young
lady actually reach out and ask Foush for a conversation
off air. So if you want to, you want to
enter yourself into the running to secure the Fuchster steph,
then you are more than welcome to use the talk
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back feature to do that. We were having a good
time and it made him feel good to He's such
a nice guy. He's very such a nice guy. Like
you know, he's bilingual, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like, he's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
His music tastes like next level. He has all his teeth,
good hair, good on hair, good bones. He loves his pizza.
He loves pizza. He does shorts very well, you know,
shorts all year round. Simple, many, simple man. He's big, hearty,
he's the best. So you know, as you hear all
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of us, if you would are you laughing Robin? She
is Robin, No, no, no, no, Robin. I feel like, okay, okay, maybe.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's a great guy. He is a great guy. He's
the best even out of my brothers. You know, he's
a very humble guy.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
He is, and I feel like it is very loyal.
It's very loyal. What women look for a man, right loyalty.
Loyal is a dog, hard worker, hard worker, lots of attribute.
So hit that talkback feature and let us know if
you're interested in being missed. Foosh, yeah, that'd be fun.
A kfi wedding with pizza and we can all wear
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shorts and good music and good music. I love it.
Are you a hymn for Halloween? I was fush for Halloween?
And you know, I felt so handsome. You're like, love
your works, big fan, love your work. You know. I
felt really, really handsome and like I could pull anything
because I look like the foush she I know, right,
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he'll be in later and he'll undoubtedly strangle me for
all of this. I'm sure he's listening. Let's jump into
the next story because I want to make sure that
I cover this. It is interesting and it's something that
I feel will resonate with quite a few people. When
you think about your school experience, especially if you lived
here in southern California. If let's say it was your
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school experience happened in any way prior to two thousand,
you likely were on a campus that had grass, It
had a yard, Richie, you grew up in southern California,
did your school have a yard barely maybe just in
the front, just for you know, appearance, but it was
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all concrete like hot Okay, Okay, that helps. I lean.
I don't know exactly where you grew up, but when
you think of your school your schools, did you have
a yard where you could go hang out, like on
the quad or oh yeah, like well like the quad?
Like what school?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I'm thinking elementary, anchool, any of them, elementary, high, elementary school.
And there was a playground. And I used to get
in trouble because I'd stay late with my friends. And
I'm going to give my age here kind of because
we used to play Charlie's Angels. Oh nice, nicee sice.
I'm not We're kind of close, So I understand that
a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But you had a yard. You enjoyed that we had
a yard. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mean back in the day we didn't have all
the video games. We played outside. We had yards, right,
you had your yards. Robin, you probably are the the
youngest of the four of us. Did your school, any
of your schools that you can remember, have a yard
where you could actually play on or have lunch on,
or have lessons on.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes, when I was doing elementary and middle school in Texas,
But once I came back to southern California and high school,
absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So it was just concrete, like Ritchie, you saw a
lot of asphalt, you saw a lot of hard surfaces.
And for me growing up, one of the things that
I loved most about school, other than the teachers and
things like that, what's the fact that we had a huge,
a hugely expansive yard, green space, just a big yard
that you could have your lunch on, you could play
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your games on your kickball, whatever it is. Teachers would
take students out and have classes on the yard. It
was a multi multi use surface, but it was outside,
and it really changed the dynamic of the learning environment
and the entire experience overall. But with La Post I
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would say two thousand, two thousand and five, space really
became a premium and continues to come at a premium.
There are not a lot of spaces for new schools
to be built there, and you see schools being built
in places that you might not think a school should
go because space is at a premium. You also see
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schools sharing the facility or the property already inhabited by
other schools. It's not uncommon to see two, three, even
four schools sharing one campus. So those green spaces that
we've talked about loving, they go away if they're there
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in the first place. With new builds, you're seeing a
lot of schools that just don't have green spaces. They
have asphalt, they have concrete, and as Richie said, hot, uncomfortable,
not very in, not very friendly for the learning environment. Well,
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LAUSD is hoping to benefit from a pretty sizable grant
in the form of one point six million dollars from
cow Fire to reimagine their outdoor spaces. What they're going
to do is they're going to take eight schools within
the district and they're going to hopefully create these big
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green spaces so that kids can benefit from that greenery
as well. And looking at asphalt and concrete, thinking about
temperature and comfortability asphalt itself, and Richie you touched on
the heat factor. Asphalt can literally reach triple digit temperatures
during heat waves and you have kids playing out there
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with that, You have kids out there sitting on it
or or standing in line or whatever. It may be.
Not comfortable, not inviting, and certainly does not enhance the
learning environment. So in looking at the statistics, there are
two hundred LAUSD elementary schools that have less than ten
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percent of green space each less than ten percent of
their campuses have some sort of green space, and a
lot of that might just be in the front. Like
Richie was saying at his school, for those coming in,
it looks it's a curb appeal, but it doesn't necessarily
extend within the campus. And that's according to the Districts
Green school Yards for All Plan, which does aim to
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transform thirty percent of existing hard surfaced school yard space
into sustainable green spaces by twenty thirty five. It's a
ten year plan. The plan estimates that four hundred and
seventy five sites school sites will in fact need to
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be updated and it was adopted last year by LAUSD's
estimated to cost three billion. Now cow fire contribute at
one point six million. This is a three billion dollar
ten year plan. Since last year when this entire plan
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was adopted, thirty one greening projects have been completed and
one hundred and seventy two are in progress. That's according
to LAUSD officials. Of the eight schools that are the
pilot program for this plan, two are located in the
San Fernando Valley and six are either in or around
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South LA and those were chosen because they are considered
to be located in very high need areas for green spaces.
So it's a ten year plan. It's a three billion
dollar plan. There's a one point five million dollar grant
from cal Fire and the balance of that will come
from undoubtedly special interest groups and is supposed to come
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from the budget the government. The problem is the government
has in fact threatened to cut a lot of the
money that would allow for this plan to be reached.
That is the barrier. All of the science, all of
the statistics, all of the study and experts say this
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is what's needed, but money is always the issue. So
we'll see hopefully what happens. We do get these first
eight schools who will benefit, that will benefit, and that's wonderful,
but looking at schools all around and wondering about the
quality of learning green spaces and the lack thereof have
a lot to do with it. When we come back,
we're going to talk Dine La. It's Dine La Restaurant Week,
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going to tell you what you need to know, how
much you might need to spend, and all the information
that you'll be interested in. And then when we come back,
we're going to get into some lute and lascivious behavior
that's what I'm calling that next segment lude and lascivious behavior,
and have a couple of stories for you about that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's Dine La Restaurant Week.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Woooo.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
All of you who like to eat food, and I'm
pretty sure that's most of us, you might be interested
in partaking in something that happens twice a year every year.
I always catch it after it's done, after it's well
passed its time. But in this case, I'm hoping to
be able to give you a little bit of a
head start. So Dine La runs from July twenty fifth,
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just a couple of days ago, through August eighth, Dine
La Restaurant Week, but it's actually a two week period
and no tickets or passes are required. All you need
to do is go to a restaurant, a restaurant that's
participating in Dine La, So you're gonna look for the
insignia if you follow their social media. I'm sure they'll
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share with you if they are involved. But in this case,
most of the restaurants and establishments that are a part
of Dine La Restaurant Week will have some sort of
posting some sort of poster that lets you know that
they're involved in this particular couple of weeks event, and
it runs again through August eighth. You participate at the restaurant.
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Go to the participating restaurant and you ask for the
Dine La Restaurant Week menu. Don't let them give you
their regular regular menu. You ask them for the Dine
La Restaurant Week menu, which is supposed to feature some
of their best cuisine, some of their best offers, their
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most popular things, the things that they want highlighted during
this period of time. So you go to the restaurant
and you can find a list of participating establishments on
places like ktla dot com, which is where I'm reading
this story from. You can find them by googling dine
La Restaurants. You can find them in multiple places. But
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you go, you ask for the special Dine La Restaurant
Week menu, and you pay like normal. There's not a
free Dine La Week. No, you're still gonna pay. You're
still gonna enjoy parting with your money, but you will
be contributing to Dine La Week. It's supposed to feature
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the best local food spots across Southern California, and you're
able to get all sorts of food, lots of ethnic cuisine,
lots of you know, your your favorite creature comforts, your barbecue,
your your different types of drinks, Boba, Mexican food, Chinese food,
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everything in between. And again it's supposed to restaurants should
be highlighting their most popular dishes on that menu so
that you can partake in it and you can say
that you, unlike me, were able to go to Dine
La Restaurant Week. I don't know. I'm announcing it now
and I bet you on August ninth, I'm going to go, Oh,
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I want to go to Dine La Restaurant Week. Let's
go see what's going on, and it will be over
because that's what happens to me every single year. You
get it twice a year, and I'm telling you about
the next one or the current one, which goes through
August eighth. All right, a bundle of lude and lascivious stories. TikTok.
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TikTok is a place where teenagers young people love to go,
and being on social media already makes people vulnerable to
the influences of others. TikTok is probably the pinnacle of that.
A lot of young people have found themselves on the
receiving end or opposite in of some pretty negative interactions.
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And when it comes to this particular story, it starts
on TikTok. There's something called a TikTok cult. TikTok cult, Yeah,
and it's led by a pastor, believe it or not,
led by a pastor, Pastor Robert Shin, who was chronicled
in a Netflix documentary called The I believe it's called
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the TikTok Cult. You can find it. It's right there
and you're a carousel on Netflix. But has to deal
with the fact that Pastor Robert Shin Lord people using
his own children to his home, his church in hopes
of becoming famous content creators, dancers. He took dancers, found
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dancers and said, become a part of my church. Tithe
give me the money that your content creation will generate,
and I will allow you to live here in this
big palatial on this big platial property for free or
at a very low cost, and it'll be in exchange.
You know, you're gonna get famous, and you'll pay me,
and then you also be serving the Lord, very very
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very opportunistic right, and it happened for years. It went
on for years. The church has called the Shaquina Church,
and those members acted as recruiters. It basically was a
pyramid scheme. Kids went in, became dancers, recruited other dancers
to come in, and before they knew it, they had
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dozens and dozens of young people, boys and girls, who
were a part of what is being called a tick
talk cult. Well, federal agents descended upon the home belonging
to Pastor Robert Shin just this previous week and arrested
him and others as part of an investigation into sex
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trafficking and other criminal claims. The home is out there
into Hunga. It's partially owned by Pastor Robert Shin and others,
and several people were detained. Officials served warrants related to
those allegations of sex trafficking, but the warrants also included
allegations of money laundering, mail fraud, tax evasion, and COVID
(35:13):
nineteen related fraud. So Pastor Robert Shin is sitting in
a jail cell with others while they await their fate.
Always make sure you know what your people, your young people,
are doing. When it comes to TikTok, especially if there
are other adults involved, or they're being recruited into something
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that seems like a pay as you play or a
pyramid scheme. There are a lot of those out there.
Now quickly, while we get to this next story, there's
audio and I want you to hear it. Anthony Anderson actor.
You might know him. He's been in quite a few things.
He always plays the affable, lovable, kind of goofy father
(35:56):
or innocent male figure. But Anthony Anderson actor has been
himself the subject of multiple allegations, including allegations of rape.
This is over the last ten fifteen years. Now. While
those allegations went away quietly, Anthony Anderson is finding himself
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now having to react to backlash over an interview with
Lindsey Lohan from two thousand and three. Lindsay Lohan, actress
at the time still is was promoting Freaky Friday. Back
in two thousand and three, she was seventeen, Anthony Anderson
was in his thirties. Again, Lindsay seventeen, Anthony Anderson very
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much an adult, and the conversation went like this, I
just bought a place up here with my friend Raven
aw Hello, Raven Smoo, I'll look at it. Look at
Raven smo. So both of your beautiful women, both of
you young and have your own individual.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Styles and things like that. How are you guys going
to compromise on decorating the whole?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
We kind of have the same ideas, and I mean
our rooms are completely different. Like literally you walk into
mine and it's all pink. Okay, I have like pink
satin sheets and like hers, hers is darker and stuff.
But that's what's cool about it. We're not She's each
other with the same things.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
What gentlemen will be at the new pad with you
and Raven Simon No one.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I'm just talking about, you know, like party, she's single.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Look, I'm illegal for people that are own well, you know, some.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Some mean like I'm young.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
We ain't gonna mention no names, but you know I'm
one of them. You can stop it there some men
like I'm young. I'm one of them. I think the
audio speaks for itself. And of course, now Anthony Anderson
is insisting through his lawyer it was just a joke.
(38:01):
He deserves whatever fallout he should get. Whatever's coming toward
Anthony Anderson is deserved. When we come back, we're going
to take a deep dive into our deep Dive segment
and we're going to talk starvation, crimes and international law.
What's going on. Well, starvation as a tactic of war,
(38:22):
a weapon of wars not new, but many are saying
we're in a new era where that starvation, crimes and
international law are intertwining, intermingling in new ways that should
be discussed. We'll also talk about the civilians who attempted
to take aid into Gaza via that flotilla ship. Oh,
(38:43):
they were accosted, arrested by Israeli police and they're currently
detained in international waters. Have some updates there as well.
All of that and more.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
KFI A six on demand
You're listening to KF I Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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the radio just insime say funny Hobbs got me feel
insie sweet? Yes, what's tippy? It's all in house fall
A two C feels like I am six forty live
everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs filling in today
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from two to four. You normally hear me on Saturdays
from five to seven. But I took the call, I
accepted the call, and I am here on a Sunday,
a beautiful Sunday. The weather is perfect. I want to
be outside. But if there's anywhere other than outside enjoying
this beautiful summer day that I'd rather be, it's right
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here with you, and I thank you also for joining
us from two to four today, And of course after
me will be Chris Merrill, my buddy Chris Merrill, who
I love to talk to you. So I enjoy being
here on Sundays because I get to cross with my
friend and hang out with the Sunday crew and it's
just a wonderful time all around for everyone. Thank you
(01:08):
again for tuning in a big show, big show. We
always say that big show, but it is a big show.
Have a lot of fun and interesting news to share
with you. I usually think of the weekends as a
time to review the kind of pertinent news stories, the
relevant news stories locally globally, of course, and then also
(01:30):
to include some interesting things, some things that will hopefully
keep your attention and make this a worthwhile listen. And
I'm pretty sure today's show is going to cover that.
But before we get into those stories, there are a
few stories we're watching, including President Trump and the EU
(01:51):
are making nice. They're making nicies, and they've agreed to
a trade deal in the form of a fifteen percent
of cross the board tariff. So while President Trump has
been in Scotland and golfing, he is taking care of
business in that way and in a way that is
(02:11):
ensuring that things will continue to be somewhat peaceful, somewhat
friendly with the EU, at least in the form of
this new tariff deal. And then in Gaza, as we
know there has been there have been wide reports and
evidence of starvation, and Israel has allowed a pause in
(02:33):
the fighting, a pause in the war against Gaza after
months without aid for air drops to happen, and food
has been air dropped inside of the Gaza territory to
allow people to hopefully begin to at least start to
be able to have food, have things to eat. It's
(02:55):
you know, a lot of the footage that's come out
is just absolutely horrific. So that is undoubtedly a glimmer,
a slight glimmer in a very dark spot with what's
happening over there in Gaza. And then on a brighter note,
the US Open up Surfing is back, and it is
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right here in our backyard in Huntington Beach, some of
the most beautiful coastline in the world, and it's right
there in Huntington Beach. Started a couple of days ago
and is going through August third. This weekend seems to
be probably the biggest weekend or the biggest series of
days with the events and the music and all of
(03:39):
the activities connected to the US Open of Surfing. Get
down there and be able to enjoy that, especially on
a beautiful daylight today. And the good thing about it too,
most of the activities, most of the events are not
just family friendly, they are free, so you don't have
to worry about breaking the bank. To enjoy watching surfing.
(04:02):
You can go down there to Huntington Beach and enjoy
that with your family or otherwise for little or next
to nothing or nothing for that matter. Now, when it
comes to stories that are going on here again, there
are a lot of things that we're going to cover,
including the fact that a lot of spaces within Los
(04:26):
Angeles Unified School District are made of concrete or asphalt.
A lot of the spaces that are spaces for the
kids to be able to have their recess or their
lunch or their pe. Well, there's a new proposal that will,
if it goes through, allow for eight schools within Los
(04:47):
Angeles Unified School District to receive money so that they
can have green spaces over the existing asphalt that's there.
You know it's good, and I'll tell you why. Green
spaces can also help improve the quality of learning. We
know LAUSD is rot with problems. It's been that way
(05:09):
for a long time and it will be that way
until things change. This is, you know, a foray into
that change, and these eight schools will serve practically as
kind of a pilot for a larger program that could
happen over the next couple of years. We're gonna get
into Dine La Restaurant Week is back Restaurant Week is
(05:30):
back Dine La Restaurant Week and talk about what you
should know, what you might want to visit, and how
long it's going when it starts all the details there
in uh. If you're a Netflix watcher like I am,
I love a good documentary. Netflix always has these premire
Netflix documentaries. Right right now, I'm watching train Wrecked, which
(05:53):
is a series of documentaries about literal not just literal
but figurative train wrecks, terrible things, things that have gone
completely wrong. And another one that I've watched has to
do with something called the ttalk pastor. What what am
(06:13):
I talking about? Well, there's a TikTok pastor or a
person who uses TikTok, and there's a whole story behind
this about how this actual pastor has manipulated a pretty
sizable group of young people. While that pastor has been
arrested in a sex trafficking probe. I'm going to give
(06:37):
you the details about that arrest and what might be
expected of this pastor. Yet another celebrity is in the
news for making lewd comments, inappropriate comments except for the
fact that this celebrity is not making the comments today
or yesterday. The comments come from about twenty years ago,
(06:59):
but because of the Internet, they've been unearthed. Now I'll
tell you what the celebrity said, who the celebrity is,
and any potential fallout that this person may be facing.
It is a pretty big story and it's developing as
we speak. For our deeper dive segment, we are going
to take a closer look at what happens when starvation
(07:22):
becomes a weapon of war. Gaza isn't the first country
to experience starvation during wartime. No, this has been going
on for the ages, and I have some history I
want to share with you about starvation crimes and international
law because many say we're in a new era in
(07:43):
which that's being used. And then we're going to kind
of transition that conversation into the attempts by different civilians
and activists and trying to disperse aid food to countries
during wartime, including one that left I believe it's the
coast of the United States bound for Gaza and has
(08:07):
since been accosted, and all of those people on board,
the activists hoping to get food to Gaza, they've all
been arrested, so there are updates about that story. They're
being held by Israel currently. For our Scammer's Gonna Scam segment,
what popular online retailer's name is being used in a
(08:29):
costly scam? Another day, another scam, and this time there's
a popular retailer that you visit, And I'm going to
tell you just how you might be getting scammed and
thinking that this retailer is reaching out to you with
some sort of something, some sort of deal, or some
sort of correspondence that you could very well pay for.
(08:53):
And then to round up the show, I'm actually going
to talk about a scam that I was involved in
a few days ago, earlier last week that happens to
deal with rewards points. After you spend money somewhere, you
get rewards and you're supposed to be able to apply
those rewards to another place to receive a discount. I
(09:14):
have information about how there is a scam happening locally
right here in southern California, and if you're not careful,
you will fall prey to it, like I almost did.
When we come back, we're going to get into the
biggest story right now in the Southland and it happens
to deal with yet another explosive or series of explosive
(09:36):
devices found on someone's property. Where did they find it?
What happened? It just happened yesterday, by the way, last
night broke, the news broke, and you might not have
known about it. You might have been enjoying your Saturday
getting ready for bed, watching a Netflix documentary whatever it is.
(09:56):
And while you were doing all of this, yet another
bundle of explodesives were found in someone's property not far
from where you live. People. I'll tell you all about
that and what's going on where those explosives are now
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was telling you that yet another situation has occurred
in which a military ordnance And you might be saying,
what is an ordinance? Ordinances are supplies, military supplies, weaponry, ammunition,
combat vehicles, maintenance tools, equipment, all of the things connected
to military think that style. Another bundle of military ordinances
(10:44):
ordinances were found right here in southern California. And while
this might be somewhat of a blip on the radar
in quote unquote normal times, more neutral times by military ordinances,
finding explosive devices on the heels of three La Sheriff's
(11:07):
Department deputies being killed make this story even more even
more interesting, even more problematic, and for me, finding more
ordinances on properties at people's homes is yet another indication that,
to be honest, a lot more people have these things
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on their property than we think. It could be your neighbor,
it might be you. You might be a collector and
someone maybe passed down something you inherited, something you bought,
something that is part of military ordinance or part of
you know, the category therein that involves supplies. Perhaps it's
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a grenade, perhaps it's shells or something else. But these
things are being found, and they're not always inert, as
we saw on July eighteenth, when the three LASD deputies
attempted to remove the two grenades from the property in
(12:10):
Santa Monica to the Biscala's training facility in East LA
and one of those devices, one of those grenades exploded,
killing those three deputies. Terrible tragedy and another cautionary tale
that in the press conference on Friday, Sheriff Robert Luna
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cautioned the public to understand that these devices are in
fact floating out there, and yet here is another one.
This one happened in Paquoima. Police said a couple brought
military ordinances from their recently deceased family members home to
the Foothill Police Station in Paquoima. So these family members
(12:55):
were cleaning out the home of their recently deceased love
one and came across what is being described as explosives,
and when they took those explosives to the police station,
the Foothill Police Station in Paquoima, it caused quote unquote
a major scene. Can you imagine the panic, the sheer
(13:20):
amount of panic and hysteria, and finding that people are
bringing explosives that they don't know if they're inert, they
don't know if they're live, but they are bringing them
to the facility in hopes that they can transition them
to people who might be able to take care of
them better than they can. Well, in all of the hysteria,
(13:42):
in all of the rush to quell this situation, to
contain the situation, not only was the police station evacuated,
but the entire neighborhood was evacuated, comprised of eleven additional
homes and four businesses and everything, especially law enforcement, went
(14:05):
on heightened alert because just a little over a week prior,
those three deputies were killed doing the same type of thing,
moving these grenades from one facility or one place to
the secured facility in hopes of being able to then
likely transfer them to the military. That's usually what happens.
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The military comes in and takes care of it, disposes
of it, neutralizes the threat. Unfortunately, on July eighteenth, that
threat became realized when the deputies were killed. So now
you have these people taking these devices to the and
here's the thing, this is what you would likely think
to do. I want to take this scary thing to
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the police. I want to call in law enforcement to
help me with this scary thing. That's what we've been taught.
In the press conference with Sheriff Robert Luna, they did
encourage the public to call and say, you know, hey,
we have these things. We have the possibility of an
explosive device. But in the interim, what are you supposed
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to do? Are you supposed to evacuate this was somewhat unclear.
Are you supposed to handle them in any way? My
suggestion is no, perhaps you don't. If you saw Uncle
rob handling the devices and showing you and it's a
paper weight and he's moving it around as his apartment
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or his home, and it seems like nothing, then you
might be inclined to do the same. But as was
said in the press conference, the new policy for the
explosive team, the special teams assigned to deal with these
sorts of things, these sorts of devices, military ordinances, they
are going to now which again suggests that this wasn't
(15:58):
happening before. They are going to now treat every ordnance
as if it is live, as if it is live.
They weren't doing that before. They are now going to
treat everything as if it's live. So if our law
enforcement professionals are going to treat everything as it's live,
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I highly suggest that you john public treat these things
as if they are live until further notice. So all
of these ordinances were moved to a storage facility when
taken to the after taken to the Foothill Police Station
in Paquoima, and they were to be safely stored until
the military could collect them at a later time. The
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LAPD bomb squad responded and used a robot to take
images of the devices. Camp Pendleton is actually the closive
closest Explosive Ordnance Device team, so they were called out
to collaborate with LAPD to determine the next best steps.
And the devices were not yet decided whether or not
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they were stable enough to move, so they had to wait.
And in that waiting game, a lot of panic, a
lot of evacuating all people, all the residents, the businesses
were allowed to return home. But again this suggests, I think,
and I feel like it's naive to consider otherwise. More
(17:28):
people have ordinances, have grenades, have artillery, have things that
could explode on their properties, in their homes, collectors, keepsakes,
whatever it may be. They're there, and because they're there,
we need to be even more vigilant because you don't
want to have an accident happen to this caliber. This
(17:49):
is these are deadly weapons. They're not to be necessarily
handled or displayed for your company when they come over,
or especially kept away boxes that you don't find until
you unearth them after clearing out someone's home once they've died.
Very dangerous territory. When we come back, we're going to
get into how LA schools are hoping to improve the
(18:15):
quality of learning on campus by beautifying campuses through giving
these campuses green spaces, something that in your mind might
be kind of an obvious but it's not necessarily obvious
when you look at how many schools within LAUSD only
(18:38):
have asphalt, only have concrete, no or very few green spaces.
So when we come back, going to tell you what's
happening with this new pilot program, how much it's going
to cost, and when it should take effect if all
goes through and it's not blocked by recent budget cuts.
(18:59):
That's what they're up against. All of that and more
on the other side of the brakes.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If you were listening yesterday, If you have any continued
shout outs for the Foush, the Fush who we entered
into our official unofficial dating pool. We're kind of siphoning
off of Gary and Shannon's dating their new dating strategy
or dating game. I don't know what they're calling it,
(19:30):
but Fush was finding quite a bit of success. Yesterday
on my show on Saturdays with Tiffany, had a young
lady actually reach out and ask Foush for a conversation
off air. So if you want to, you want to
enter yourself into the running to secure the Fuchster steph,
then you are more than welcome to use the talk
(19:51):
back feature to do that. We were having a good
time and it made him feel good to He's such
a nice guy. He's very such a nice guy. Like
you know, he's bilingual, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Like, he's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
His music tastes like next level. He has all his teeth,
good hair, good on hair, good bones. He loves his pizza.
He loves pizza. He does shorts very well, you know,
shorts all year round. Simple, many, simple man. He's big, hearty,
he's the best. So you know, as you hear all
(20:26):
of us, if you would are you laughing Robin? She
is Robin, No, no, no, no, Robin. I feel like, okay, okay, maybe.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He's a great guy. He is a great guy. He's
the best even out of my brothers. You know, he's
a very humble guy.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
He is, and I feel like it is very loyal.
It's very loyal. What women look for a man, right loyalty.
Loyal is a dog, hard worker, hard worker, lots of attribute.
So hit that talkback feature and let us know if
you're interested in being missed. Foosh, yeah, that'd be fun.
A kfi wedding with pizza and we can all wear
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shorts and good music and good music. I love it.
Are you a hymn for Halloween? I was fush for Halloween?
And you know, I felt so handsome. You're like, love
your works, big fan, love your work. You know. I
felt really, really handsome and like I could pull anything
because I look like the foush she I know, right,
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he'll be in later and he'll undoubtedly strangle me for
all of this. I'm sure he's listening. Let's jump into
the next story because I want to make sure that
I cover this. It is interesting and it's something that
I feel will resonate with quite a few people. When
you think about your school experience, especially if you lived
here in southern California. If let's say it was your
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school experience happened in any way prior to two thousand,
you likely were on a campus that had grass, It
had a yard, Richie, you grew up in southern California,
did your school have a yard barely maybe just in
the front, just for you know, appearance, but it was
(22:13):
all concrete like hot Okay, Okay, that helps. I lean.
I don't know exactly where you grew up, but when
you think of your school your schools, did you have
a yard where you could go hang out, like on
the quad or oh yeah, like well like the quad?
Like what school?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I'm thinking elementary, anchool, any of them, elementary, high, elementary school.
And there was a playground. And I used to get
in trouble because I'd stay late with my friends. And
I'm going to give my age here kind of because
we used to play Charlie's Angels. Oh nice, nicee sice.
I'm not We're kind of close, So I understand that
a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
But you had a yard. You enjoyed that we had
a yard. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I mean back in the day we didn't have all
the video games. We played outside. We had yards, right,
you had your yards. Robin, you probably are the the
youngest of the four of us. Did your school, any
of your schools that you can remember, have a yard
where you could actually play on or have lunch on,
or have lessons on.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes, when I was doing elementary and middle school in Texas,
But once I came back to southern California and high school,
absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
So it was just concrete, like Ritchie, you saw a
lot of asphalt, you saw a lot of hard surfaces.
And for me growing up, one of the things that
I loved most about school, other than the teachers and
things like that, what's the fact that we had a huge,
a hugely expansive yard, green space, just a big yard
that you could have your lunch on, you could play
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your games on your kickball, whatever it is. Teachers would
take students out and have classes on the yard. It
was a multi multi use surface, but it was outside,
and it really changed the dynamic of the learning environment
and the entire experience overall. But with La Post I
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would say two thousand, two thousand and five, space really
became a premium and continues to come at a premium.
There are not a lot of spaces for new schools
to be built there, and you see schools being built
in places that you might not think a school should
go because space is at a premium. You also see
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schools sharing the facility or the property already inhabited by
other schools. It's not uncommon to see two, three, even
four schools sharing one campus. So those green spaces that
we've talked about loving, they go away if they're there
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in the first place. With new builds, you're seeing a
lot of schools that just don't have green spaces. They
have asphalt, they have concrete, and as Richie said, hot, uncomfortable,
not very in, not very friendly for the learning environment. Well,
(25:04):
LAUSD is hoping to benefit from a pretty sizable grant
in the form of one point six million dollars from
cow Fire to reimagine their outdoor spaces. What they're going
to do is they're going to take eight schools within
the district and they're going to hopefully create these big
(25:27):
green spaces so that kids can benefit from that greenery
as well. And looking at asphalt and concrete, thinking about
temperature and comfortability asphalt itself, and Richie you touched on
the heat factor. Asphalt can literally reach triple digit temperatures
during heat waves and you have kids playing out there
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with that, You have kids out there sitting on it
or or standing in line or whatever. It may be.
Not comfortable, not inviting, and certainly does not enhance the
learning environment. So in looking at the statistics, there are
two hundred LAUSD elementary schools that have less than ten
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percent of green space each less than ten percent of
their campuses have some sort of green space, and a
lot of that might just be in the front. Like
Richie was saying at his school, for those coming in,
it looks it's a curb appeal, but it doesn't necessarily
extend within the campus. And that's according to the Districts
Green school Yards for All Plan, which does aim to
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transform thirty percent of existing hard surfaced school yard space
into sustainable green spaces by twenty thirty five. It's a
ten year plan. The plan estimates that four hundred and
seventy five sites school sites will in fact need to
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be updated and it was adopted last year by LAUSD's
estimated to cost three billion. Now cow fire contribute at
one point six million. This is a three billion dollar
ten year plan. Since last year when this entire plan
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was adopted, thirty one greening projects have been completed and
one hundred and seventy two are in progress. That's according
to LAUSD officials. Of the eight schools that are the
pilot program for this plan, two are located in the
San Fernando Valley and six are either in or around
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South LA and those were chosen because they are considered
to be located in very high need areas for green spaces.
So it's a ten year plan. It's a three billion
dollar plan. There's a one point five million dollar grant
from cal Fire and the balance of that will come
from undoubtedly special interest groups and is supposed to come
(28:00):
from the budget the government. The problem is the government
has in fact threatened to cut a lot of the
money that would allow for this plan to be reached.
That is the barrier. All of the science, all of
the statistics, all of the study and experts say this
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is what's needed, but money is always the issue. So
we'll see hopefully what happens. We do get these first
eight schools who will benefit, that will benefit, and that's wonderful,
but looking at schools all around and wondering about the
quality of learning green spaces and the lack thereof have
a lot to do with it. When we come back,
we're going to talk Dine La. It's Dine La Restaurant Week,
(28:45):
going to tell you what you need to know, how
much you might need to spend, and all the information
that you'll be interested in. And then when we come back,
we're going to get into some lute and lascivious behavior
that's what I'm calling that next segment lude and lascivious behavior,
and have a couple of stories for you about that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's Dine La Restaurant Week.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Woooo.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
All of you who like to eat food, and I'm
pretty sure that's most of us, you might be interested
in partaking in something that happens twice a year every year.
I always catch it after it's done, after it's well
passed its time. But in this case, I'm hoping to
be able to give you a little bit of a
head start. So Dine La runs from July twenty fifth,
(29:39):
just a couple of days ago, through August eighth, Dine
La Restaurant Week, but it's actually a two week period
and no tickets or passes are required. All you need
to do is go to a restaurant, a restaurant that's
participating in Dine La, So you're gonna look for the
insignia if you follow their social media. I'm sure they'll
(30:02):
share with you if they are involved. But in this case,
most of the restaurants and establishments that are a part
of Dine La Restaurant Week will have some sort of
posting some sort of poster that lets you know that
they're involved in this particular couple of weeks event, and
it runs again through August eighth. You participate at the restaurant.
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Go to the participating restaurant and you ask for the
Dine La Restaurant Week menu. Don't let them give you
their regular regular menu. You ask them for the Dine
La Restaurant Week menu, which is supposed to feature some
of their best cuisine, some of their best offers, their
(30:48):
most popular things, the things that they want highlighted during
this period of time. So you go to the restaurant
and you can find a list of participating establishments on
places like ktla dot com, which is where I'm reading
this story from. You can find them by googling dine
La Restaurants. You can find them in multiple places. But
(31:08):
you go, you ask for the special Dine La Restaurant
Week menu, and you pay like normal. There's not a
free Dine La Week. No, you're still gonna pay. You're
still gonna enjoy parting with your money, but you will
be contributing to Dine La Week. It's supposed to feature
(31:29):
the best local food spots across Southern California, and you're
able to get all sorts of food, lots of ethnic cuisine,
lots of you know, your your favorite creature comforts, your barbecue,
your your different types of drinks, Boba, Mexican food, Chinese food,
(31:49):
everything in between. And again it's supposed to restaurants should
be highlighting their most popular dishes on that menu so
that you can partake in it and you can say
that you, unlike me, were able to go to Dine
La Restaurant Week. I don't know. I'm announcing it now
and I bet you on August ninth, I'm going to go, Oh,
(32:11):
I want to go to Dine La Restaurant Week. Let's
go see what's going on, and it will be over
because that's what happens to me every single year. You
get it twice a year, and I'm telling you about
the next one or the current one, which goes through
August eighth. All right, a bundle of lude and lascivious stories. TikTok.
(32:32):
TikTok is a place where teenagers young people love to go,
and being on social media already makes people vulnerable to
the influences of others. TikTok is probably the pinnacle of that.
A lot of young people have found themselves on the
receiving end or opposite in of some pretty negative interactions.
(32:53):
And when it comes to this particular story, it starts
on TikTok. There's something called a TikTok cult. TikTok cult, Yeah,
and it's led by a pastor, believe it or not,
led by a pastor, Pastor Robert Shin, who was chronicled
in a Netflix documentary called The I believe it's called
(33:16):
the TikTok Cult. You can find it. It's right there
and you're a carousel on Netflix. But has to deal
with the fact that Pastor Robert Shin Lord people using
his own children to his home, his church in hopes
of becoming famous content creators, dancers. He took dancers, found
(33:39):
dancers and said, become a part of my church. Tithe
give me the money that your content creation will generate,
and I will allow you to live here in this
big palatial on this big platial property for free or
at a very low cost, and it'll be in exchange.
You know, you're gonna get famous, and you'll pay me,
and then you also be serving the Lord, very very
(34:03):
very opportunistic right, and it happened for years. It went
on for years. The church has called the Shaquina Church,
and those members acted as recruiters. It basically was a
pyramid scheme. Kids went in, became dancers, recruited other dancers
to come in, and before they knew it, they had
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dozens and dozens of young people, boys and girls, who
were a part of what is being called a tick
talk cult. Well, federal agents descended upon the home belonging
to Pastor Robert Shin just this previous week and arrested
him and others as part of an investigation into sex
(34:48):
trafficking and other criminal claims. The home is out there
into Hunga. It's partially owned by Pastor Robert Shin and others,
and several people were detained. Officials served warrants related to
those allegations of sex trafficking, but the warrants also included
allegations of money laundering, mail fraud, tax evasion, and COVID
(35:13):
nineteen related fraud. So Pastor Robert Shin is sitting in
a jail cell with others while they await their fate.
Always make sure you know what your people, your young people,
are doing. When it comes to TikTok, especially if there
are other adults involved, or they're being recruited into something
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that seems like a pay as you play or a
pyramid scheme. There are a lot of those out there.
Now quickly, while we get to this next story, there's
audio and I want you to hear it. Anthony Anderson actor.
You might know him. He's been in quite a few things.
He always plays the affable, lovable, kind of goofy father
(35:56):
or innocent male figure. But Anthony Anderson actor has been
himself the subject of multiple allegations, including allegations of rape.
This is over the last ten fifteen years. Now. While
those allegations went away quietly, Anthony Anderson is finding himself
(36:16):
now having to react to backlash over an interview with
Lindsey Lohan from two thousand and three. Lindsay Lohan, actress
at the time still is was promoting Freaky Friday. Back
in two thousand and three, she was seventeen, Anthony Anderson
was in his thirties. Again, Lindsay seventeen, Anthony Anderson very
(36:40):
much an adult, and the conversation went like this, I
just bought a place up here with my friend Raven
aw Hello, Raven Smoo, I'll look at it. Look at
Raven smo. So both of your beautiful women, both of
you young and have your own individual.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Styles and things like that. How are you guys going
to compromise on decorating the whole?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
We kind of have the same ideas, and I mean
our rooms are completely different. Like literally you walk into
mine and it's all pink. Okay, I have like pink
satin sheets and like hers, hers is darker and stuff.
But that's what's cool about it. We're not She's each
other with the same things.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
What gentlemen will be at the new pad with you
and Raven Simon No one.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I'm just talking about, you know, like party, she's single.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Look, I'm illegal for people that are own well, you know, some.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Some mean like I'm young.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
We ain't gonna mention no names, but you know I'm
one of them. You can stop it there some men
like I'm young. I'm one of them. I think the
audio speaks for itself. And of course, now Anthony Anderson
is insisting through his lawyer it was just a joke.
(38:01):
He deserves whatever fallout he should get. Whatever's coming toward
Anthony Anderson is deserved. When we come back, we're going
to take a deep dive into our deep Dive segment
and we're going to talk starvation, crimes and international law.
What's going on. Well, starvation as a tactic of war,
(38:22):
a weapon of wars not new, but many are saying
we're in a new era where that starvation, crimes and
international law are intertwining, intermingling in new ways that should
be discussed. We'll also talk about the civilians who attempted
to take aid into Gaza via that flotilla ship. Oh,
(38:43):
they were accosted, arrested by Israeli police and they're currently
detained in international waters. Have some updates there as well.
All of that and more.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
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