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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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It's Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm Tiffany Hobbs here with you from five to seven.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
On this glorious, glorious Saturday. Happy official start to the summer. Unofficial.
I think the calendar says somewhere around June twentieth twenty
first is that summer equinox. But Memorial Day seems to
mark that unofficial start. And if the weather is any
indication in southern California and in other parts of the country.
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Now as it warms up, we are in the beginning
of summer. It's hot. It's really really hot outside. You know,
just doing my regular mundane tasks last week, you know,
you do your grocery shopping, doing all these things. And
if you're like me, now that it is lighter longer,
you find yourself out longer as well, absorbing what's going on. Right,
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it's beautiful weather, and so we get out in it.
And I was out shopping, burning through some of my
radio paycheck and very very small shopping, very small paycheck,
and I was driving through a shopping Center Thursday afternoon
in La and I came across one of those Asian buffets,
you know, the buffet right the buffet where you see it,
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it says buffet, the price is some all encompassing price.
You know you're going to spend a couple of hours
there enjoying yourself. And it was the middle of the
day on Thursday, about three pm or so, and the
line to enter this buffet was wrapped around the building,
probably one and a half times. And I remember seeing
that and thinking, oh, it must.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Be really good food.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And then I noticed in the line as I'm driving through,
all these caps and gowns and families and smiles and
flowers and all of those things that let you know
that this is a c of celebration, obviously well attended
by graduates and their families and their supporters. And that
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was a beautiful sight to see, because in our daily rigamarole,
if you're not in education like I am, or aren't
experiencing someone who's dealing with or in education right now,
students or otherwise, and you might not necessarily be paying
attention to that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I did.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I took notice of it, and I remember thinking to myself. Man,
these kids have been through so much in the last
five years twenty twenty five, this last five year period
with the introduction of COVID and all the closures and
what that did with distance learning and kids not being
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able to participate in graduation or any activity for that
matter physically in person, and twenty twenty one kind of
trying to get back and have those graduations and recoup
the lost time. And then fast forward to earlier this
year and thousands of students from Outa Dina to the
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Palisades obviously or impacted because of the fires. And so
you think about all of these things in conjunction with
this current graduating class, be the middle or high schoolers,
and these kids have been through.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A lot, just a hell of a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And you think about the generosity of people and people
who have stepped up to not just during COVID, of course,
but with the fires specifically to lend their services to
make sure that students had things provided for them for
not just graduation but prom as well. I'm reminded of
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Steve Carell, the actor who, in collaborating with an organization,
decided that he was going to pay for the prom
entry fee of Eton High School seniors. He wanted to
make sure that they didn't have to incur that cost.
A beautiful, beautiful and generous offering to these kids who
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had been through so much. And in talking about Eaton
High School, Steve Correll and that collaboration went even further.
They provided the tickets for prom. But then the organization
that Steve Correll used also collaborated with a limo company
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to provide free rides for a select group of Eaton
High School seniors who were attending prom. But something went
horribly wrong, Something went really really wrong. Yeah, everything was
in place, everything seemed like a go and you get
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to prom night and something happened with these with this
free limo ride.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Let's find out what Limo rides donated for Eton fire
High school prom goers never showed up, leaving these dulled
up students stranded. The organization Alice's Kids, got a lot
of attention after Steve Carell posted this video saying the
Virginia based nonprofit would cover prompt tickets for high schoolers
impacted by the fires. They arranged and paid Wise Guy
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Entertainment more than four thousand dollars for three limos to
take the seniors to the prompt. Ron Fitzimmons, executive director
of Alice's Kids, flew out to LA for the occasion.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We sent him a whole check and it's been cashed.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And he was a no show.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Myers, whose daughter was among the stood up students, says
when the parents tried to contact the limo owner, they
were blocked. Myers lost her home and business, Steve's Pet Store,
in the Eton fire. She says, it's not about the money,
it's the principal.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Well, they've been through so much, you know, between the
pan let'll stay up giving looks it. They missed seventh eighth,
they had no graduation, they missed their dance, they missed
their picnic the senior year, and their house is burned down.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can hear it in her voice, and I imagine
any of you listening out there is empathize and can
certainly understand why this woman would be so emotional. She
detailed it right there. These kids have been through so much,
and then when you think that humanity is stepping up
to provide for them and to right these wrongs and
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to give them some sort of reconciliation, you have a
limo company that never shows up. They took the money
to the tune of over four thousand dollars And what
is the name of this company?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Because I know you're all wondering.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I hope you go tell them how you feel
the name of the company is wise Guy Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Wise with a Z.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Whyse Guy Entertainment four thousand dollars plus for three limos
to take the seniors to prom paid, never showed up.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And when you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
See these kids all dressed up in their prom's finest
standing there for a picture that was taken and circulated
of their disappointment, it just rips your heart out, and
it should. It's like, you're just how much more disappointment
can these kids withstand? And again there there shouldn't necessarily
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be a correlation made between Steve Correll, Alice's kids, and
this limo company.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Because Alice's kids, who got.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The attention of Steve Correll, did infect cup the prom
tickets for those high school seniors at Eton Fire or
excuse me, eaton high School. But Wiseguy Entertainment, which was
brought in to pay for the limo or provide the
limo service, did not. They did not make good on
their promise and not just a promise, but the payment
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and when the parents tried to contact the owner of
Wise Guy Entertainment they were blocked.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That tells you all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Again, the good news is the students did end up
making it too prompt via uber, and I'm glad that
they were ubered instead of maybe hopping on the Metro,
which will lead us into what we are discussing after
the break, the fact that for many students around southern
California and really in metropolitan Los Angeles, the most dangerous
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part of their day involves going home. And that's because
many of the school buses, if not all of them,
stop running around five or six PM, leaving students all
across southern California needing to get home in some way,
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and many of them take to our public transportation system,
La Metro to get home from school, after school and
after these extracurricular activities. And they are speaking out, these
students because they say, not only is it dangerous and uncomfortable,
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but it's practically it is practically something that requires them
to risk their lives on a daily basis. So we'll
talk about that on the other side of the break,
and we'll also get into LA passing a new minimum
wage and by contrast, not Sperry Farm and Magic Mountain
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cutting jobs. I wonder if they're there's a connection there.
We'll find out. On the other side of the break.
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Saturdays with Tiffany here until seven pm.
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Tommy hops here with you until seven pm tonight on
this beautiful, warm and now thunder stormy days thunderstormy Saturday.
So the National Weather System just issued an alert, and
if you are in Santa Barbara or Ventura, you want
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to hear this because you might not have gotten the alert.
There are severe thunderstorms that are occurring in your area,
Santa Barbara and Ventura, and these thunderstorms are bringing hail,
flash flooding, and dry lightning. Didn't know there could be
wet lightning, but dry lightning is what they are saying,
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and hell damage is expected.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
They say.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
If you are outdoors, get the inside immediately lest you
be hit in the head by a big nugget of
hal don't want that to happen on this beautiful Saturday,
so make sure you stay tuned too KFI for updates
on that. Getting back to our Metros story, this is
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a cautionary tale definitely if you have young people in
your lives who are riding the Metro using our public
transportation system, and because of the nature of where we
are in society, with things being spread out in the Southland,
students maybe not going to school in their community, maybe
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going across town, maybe they've been displaced because of the fires,
or maybe it's by choice, or they're just enjoying being
able to have freedom. And that's what public transportation certainly provides.
It provides that way to be able to get to
and from places. These students, these young people are saying
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it's extremely dangerous to ride on the Metro, especially for
those students who rely on public transportation to get home
from school. And they're saying that when they stay, these students,
when they stay at school late for clubs, sports, college prep, tutoring,
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just to hang out with their friends, whatever it may be,
that when they leave, getting home becomes the most dangerous
part of their day.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
My message to the community is Metro is safe.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
After everything that's happened recently, do you still feel the
same way?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, I do not feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
How interesting that was Karen Bass last year, Mayor Karen
Bass telling us extolling the virtues in one clip the half,
the first half of that clip that Metro was safe.
And as you heard, she completely switched her tune just
a few months later when grilled and drilled down upon
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again about the safety of La Metro. So, getting back
to these students, LAUSD does provide school buses, and many
of those buses, if not all of them, end up
ending their service their commuter service by early evening. That
means students who are still on campus or need to
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get home from wherever they're at then have to rely
on public transportation. Let's be real, Not everyone has the
means to do ride share, and not every student feels
comfortable riding with their peers, and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You were in high school, once.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You commuted wherever it is you went to, you asked
to be able to hang out after school or on
the weekends, and before ride share existed, we all were
very comfortable using the bus. I know, I was the bus.
They had its issues, but nothing like now. And this
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was before the kind of development of our rail system.
So when we were left to the buses, we knew
you don't you don't sit in the back. You sit
in the front, especially if you're a female. You sit
in the front, and you make sure that if you're uncomfortable,
you sit nearest the driver. Now, the problem with our
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current rail system, our current bus system, is that there
don't seem to be any safe seats on these public
modes of transportation. And these kids are saying this is
the only way they can get home, especially the ways
in which that are financially feasible for them. It says
that they're saying that they're facing dark train stations. The
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lighting is horrible in these train stations. They're saying that
they're confronting crime from small crime, maybe someone tagging or
defacing property, all the way up to assault, and that
these students who are speaking out are saying that they
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carry self defense tools. Now, when it comes to the
self defense tools, the students are saying, yeah, I carry
a pocket knife, or yeah I carry pepper spray because
I want to feel safe. But herein lies the problem.
These are students that means whatever safety measure. They are
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taking whatever tool they are carrying on their person in
their backpack is not permitted on their school campus, which
then leaves kids in a huge bind. They're saying they
need the pepper spray, they need the switch blade or
whatever it is they have, but they can't take it
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onto their campus without these items being confiscated because they say,
school administrators don't necessarily see it as self defense, but
as a way to hurt themselves or others. And these
students are saying that administrators LAUSD overall, and I imagine
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outside of LAUSD as well, should reconsider policy. We've done
the cell phone policy reconsideration. I don't know if policy
is now going to allow switchblades and peppers spray on campus.
That seems like a bit of a far stretch, but
these kids are demanding some sort of alternative. They say
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it's just not safe. And as you heard Mayor Karen
Bass there say she doesn't even feel that La Metro
is safe. As of last year, eighty percent of LA
residents don't think Writing Metro trains is safe, and that
is up since twenty nineteen. These incidents, nonviolent and violent alike,
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make it for young writers to not want to necessarily
use our public transportation system, but they're saying they simply
have no other way to get home. When we come back,
we're going to talk a bit about this minimum.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Wage hike that LA has just passed.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We went from the twenty dollars plus minimum wage, which
we're all just kind of getting used to, and now
in some sectors thirty dollars at least by twenty twenty eight.
But many employers are saying that that twenty twenty eight
year Olympics may very well endanger their ability to be
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successful and to maintain their businesses during this period of time.
We'll talk about that and more right here on Saturdays
with Tiffany KFI AM six forty everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (18:13):
We have a talk back from Bob about the Wise
Guy Entertainment stiffing those eaton high school seniors who were
just trying to go to prom with a free limo
provided by Wise Guy Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Let's hear.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I just logged on too Wise Guys Entertainment to give
them a very poor review, and the response was they
were unable to take any information due to blah blah
blah blah blah. This company should be taken out, strung.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Up, taken out and strung up. No, you know, I
understand the strong sentiments. I'm not encouraging violence against anyone
connected to Wise Guy Entertainment, especially since there's more than
one Wise Guy Entertainment. Come to find out, I've had
some messages sent to me showing that Wise Guys with
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an S on the end Entertainment and another part of
the country has been inundated with negative reviews and comments.
It's the casualty of the Internet. People will find you
not necessarily vet and then think that you are the
thing that they are upset with. Well, make sure that
when you look up Wise Guy Entertainment, wise with the
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Z you just put one guy. There's only one guy,
and that company which Kayla and I looked up on
the break actually is experiencing an influx of negative reviews
on Yelp. People are taken to Yelp to tell them
that they don't like what they did to those kids,
nor should they, And they're saying some other choice words
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as well, so much so that Yelp has shut down
their page temporarily because they say a lot of these
comments likely came in because of news, not necessarily first
hand experience. So to maintain the integrity of the site
and the review process, Yelp, which is seemingly the premiere
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review site for businesses, said they're putting a pause on
the page. If you go to wise Guy Entertainment on Yelp,
it will show them as temporarily closed, of which they may.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Or may not be. But hey, can't scam.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
These high school kids and not think that anything's gonna
happen to you. You know, you kind of get what
you get. Karma is real, right, Bob, Bob knows. Bob said,
do something to them. All right, let's get into what
else is happening around the south Land. Okay, So, if
you are a person who works in the service industry, honestly,
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if you're a person who works in southern California, whatever
industry you're in, then you know just how difficult it
is to make ends meet. We do stories from top
to bottom every day about the economy.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Right here, on the station. You've known it, if you
live in it.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Everyone knows it is the very common understanding that it's
hard to live in California period because it's expensive and
wages don't match the cost of living. While rents, mortgages, prices, gas,
everything is gone up, wage increases have often stagnated. Just
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last year, the twenty dollars minimum wage was discussed and
in stated, And now for fast food workers, and now
for hotel workers and other airport catering staff in that industry,
they aren't going to be in joying an increase of
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up to thirty dollars per hour between now and July
first of twenty twenty eight. Let's find out what's going
on with these hotel workers, with this airport staff and
why they can expect a huge maybe not too huge,
but a bump and income coming shortly.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Colleen and Michael. Workers are celebrating what they feel is
a long and hard fought victory, but businesses are sounding
the warning that this wage increase may hurt their preparation
for the Olympics. Right the voices of struggling tourism workers
now heard inside La City Hall. The council today giving
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final approval to raising their minimum wage fifty percent over
the next three years to thirty dollars an hour by
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's like a weight lifted off. We've been fighting this
fight for two years.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm so overwhelmed with joy I don't know well to scream,
holland jump cry.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
But hotels and businesses at Lax say the increase will
make a bad situation worse. They say they're still recovering
from the pandemic, and tourism is down even more for
the impact of the La fires and fears about tariffs.
David Townsend, the general manager at the High Place Hide
House at Lax, says the hotel is losing four million
dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Just to stay in business.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
The owners are paying four million dollars a year just
to stay in business, just.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To stay in business. He said it twice, so he
really meant it. The hotel workers are paying this much money.
They're paying this much money to stay in business. But
as you heard there, it it is a necessary increase
to keep up with the pace of things in California.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Overall, people have to get paid more.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You can cry about it, you can complain and bemoan
that all you want, but if people are not able
to afford the very basic, the very bare minimum accommodations
of living in this state, then we will see homelessness, blight, crime,
all of that continue to explode, and then we'll be
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complaining about that. So this is an attempt to mitigate
that explosion of homelessness and what some refer to as
housing insecurity.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
However you want to.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Explain it, but the fact is just to outline the
details once again, this increase would be incremental from now
until July one, twenty twenty eight. It coincides practically to
the day of the kickoff for the Olympic and Para
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Olympic Games in twenty twenty eight. And a lot of
these companies are saying that this sort of increase is
not sustainable. We've seen it, we've heard it from fast
food companies, and we're now being told at hotels that
they cannot maintain their current models and that that increase
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will be projected upon the consumer, projected onto you as
the customer. So expect to see things continue to go up,
and it feels like cat and mouse. As things go up,
things are they are being chased, and once they are
seemingly caught, they continue to go further up, and then
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that cycle continues, and it is a never ending cycle.
I do not think that there is really truly much
reconciliation to be had when it comes to our California economy,
especially since we are is it something like a billion
dollars in debt? Where's this money coming from? Makes you
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wonder quickly a place that is going to try and
find more money? Six Flags and Not Spary Farm, can
we hear it?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Real quick? I think we have audio to this one, right? Well,
do we have audio? We know we may maybe we.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Don't, but six Flags and Not Spary Farm are cutting
one hundred and thirty five full time job.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Sorry about that, rau wul no audio. I'm the audio here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And because of these cuts, they are hoping to be
able to reduce their own overhead costs. And you think
about it, these companies aren't seeing the same sort of
patronage as we might have seen in the past. People,
especially kids, just aren't going to these theme parks, especially
because in many cases, these theme parks are requiring eighteen
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year old chaperones. So as things continue to shift, that's
what's happening. They're seeing they're making major cuts. And it's
not cuts in ways that are comfortable. No, these are
jobs being eliminated. They are in the red. They're saying,
they are millions of dollars in the red. So if
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you have a teenager who was hoping to go to
Knotsberry Farm in Magic Mountain this summer to get a job,
like as a rite of passage for so many in
southern California, luck with that. Send them to one of
the dying malls instead, or maybe send them out to
Waimo because Weymo's gonna need all the help they can get.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And we'll talk about why Weymo is.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Pissing people off in Santa Monica when we come back
from the break.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
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at Tiffany Hobbs here. Remember at six pm every Saturday
Saturdays with Tiffany, we do our Deeper Dives segment. Want
you to make sure that you're listening. It's a really
good segment coming up about the luxury apartment complex, the
six story, eight, ten, twelve whatever story mid to high
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rises that are basically their own community. They function as
their own ecosystem with all sorts of amenities, and a
lot of young people and people of all generations are
flocking to these apartment complexes and they are redesigning the
face of southern California and all across the United States.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So we're gonna talk about why.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They're so popular and kind of what the implications of
these apartment complexes are upon the greater economy, upon neighborhoods,
and upon community, the idea of community. So that's six o'clock,
our deeper dive segment. Right now, let's get into some
Waymo news. I love a good Way Mo's story. I
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love to tear Waimo down sometimes, although I have written
in a Way Moo and it was interesting, it's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's not something I.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Would say I would never do again, but it's not
something I would easily run too. And it's because Weaimo
has quite a few problems that not having a human
driver make even more apparent. And one of those problems
that Waimo has is the fact that their autonomous system
doesn't really shut off per se.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It keeps going.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
At least the sounds connected Touemo and the sounds connected
to Wee Moo are ticking people in Santa Monica off.
Not overall, not the entire city of Santa Monica. Your
block might be fine, but.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
In some areas of Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
The beeping of the way mos is driving them crazy.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
It's basically a basity birthright, opening your window to catch
the ocean breezes. But in one Santa Monica neighborhood, some
people are shutting out the fresh air in hopes of
blocking out its beeping. The reverse is the really what's
concerning everybody, The reverse sound.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
It's every day, all day.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Can you play that beeping one more time? Roll well,
listen to this beeping. Imagine it's two am, you're settled in,
you're fast asleep, and something houses you from your sleep.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's not the dog, it's not the TV. It's this.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
In hopes of blocking out the reverse is really what's
concerning everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The reverse soon.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's every day, all day, every day, all day, is
what these residents in this Cinamonica neighborhood are alleging. They're
saying they've been battling against this weimo parking lot, this
weaimos station for months, four months, and now the battle
has escalated beyond just words. They are using cones, they're
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using cars, these residents to block the WAYMOS from even
entering the parking lot, because the parking lot is where
all of this noise has kind of become a cacophony
of irritation. People are saying they've even called the police
and there's nothing that can be done. And that also
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Cintamonica is saying that they're trying to mit a the sound.
They've even planted trees to create a sound barrier. How
cute there are trees that make the sound more attractive. No,
because it's not blocking the sound. It's just now a
visual distraction from the thing that's really annoying these people
twenty four hours a day, twenty four hours a day,
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Tell you please, can you imagine that's awful? I'm sure
they're paying an arm and a leg in rent, because
you know we all are, because it's patamoniclous and Santa
Monica on top of that, and to listen to that
when I'm paying X amount every month is just unacceptable.
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Way MOA owes me some money. You lay down and
you're relaxing. It's quiet, and.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You have your wine.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You've had your wine and now you're just slipping into
that relaxation and as you doze off, this is what
you hear.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Go for it. It's okay, were whispering.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh, then you have to make the sound. Then, Raoul,
you have to make the sound. Dude, dude, sounds like
a broken waym but real. That's one imagine if I'm
just one, imagine if there are thirty of me in
the parking lot going dude, dude, right, and then you
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hear everything else. It's just I can't imagine again paying
all that rent to have that be what you hear
when you open your windows for that beautiful fresh breeze,
especially in a day like today when you want some
relief and I want to turn on your air conditioner.
It's a thousand dollars, right, so you want just that
and that's what you hear. That's just If Waimo is
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going to be the savior to driving and do all
the things that it claims to do to change our
world and our economy and driving and make it safer
in all these things, then you definitely don't want to
drive people mentally insane by having this incessant beeping. Something
else that might drive you crazy is not knowing that
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your phone is recording you. What, Kayla, if your if
your phone told you what it was recording on any
given let's say, five minute period, what might it record
from your from your from your activity.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I don't even to think about it.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Can't go there, can't go there, don't even want to
disclose see me and you no, well, the microphones are on.
But I am an adult. Yes, yeah, I don't want
people all up in your adult business. I do not
well T mobiles in your business. If you have T mobiles,
I do well here. You might want to know this.
They have a tech support app which is just ingrained.
(33:55):
It's baked into your T mobile system, and that tech
support app has a rather unnerving feature for some users,
and some is somewhat arbitrary. We don't know if some
are almost all or practically all, but for some users
it appears that the Tea Life app, this tech support
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app can record.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Your screen whenever you have the app open.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What if I'm in privacy use screen browsing privacy. Browsing
privacy doesn't exist, Kayla.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
We know that. It's very true, Pollyanna, there's no privacy.
Speaker 8 (34:38):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And T Mobile is telling you straight up that they
are recording you. And here's the thing about this sneaky
little app. You go to it, you're trying to do
some sort of technical servicing to your phone.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You think you know what you're doing. You go there,
you google how.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
To fix something and send you to this baked in
app in your phone. And then after you've done the thing,
many of us don't close an app. We just shift
over to the next thing. You come out of the
app and you go to your phone, or you go
to Facebook or x or wherever you're at, she in
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or TMU or whatever kind of shopping you're doing, and
the app is still open in the background, meaning, as
it says here, when the app is open, your screen
is being recorded.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
And the thing.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
About it, this setting is enabled by default for most
of us who are T mobile users, this is actually
activated right now and you did not know it. So
what you need to do on this next break, if
you're a T Mobile user is go to your settings,
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go to your T Life Tech Support app and disable
the green record feature. Do that now, and when we
come back, we're going to take a deeper dive into
the luxury apartment building and how it's creating a new
sense of community. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
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It's Saturdays with Tiffany.
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I'm Tiffany Hobbs here with you from five to seven.
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On this glorious, glorious Saturday. Happy official start to the summer. Unofficial.
I think the calendar says somewhere around June twentieth twenty
first is that summer equinox. But Memorial Day seems to
mark that unofficial start. And if the weather is any
indication in southern California and in other parts of the country.
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Now as it warms up, we are in the beginning
of summer. It's hot. It's really really hot outside. You know,
just doing my regular mundane tasks last week, you know,
you do your grocery shopping, doing all these things. And
if you're like me, now that it is lighter longer,
you find yourself out longer as well, absorbing what's going on. Right,
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it's beautiful weather, and so we get out in it.
And I was out shopping, burning through some of my
radio paycheck and very very small shopping, very small paycheck,
and I was driving through a shopping Center Thursday afternoon
in La and I came across one of those Asian buffets,
you know, the buffet right the buffet where you see it,
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it says buffet, the price is some all encompassing price.
You know you're going to spend a couple of hours
there enjoying yourself. And it was the middle of the
day on Thursday, about three pm or so, and the
line to enter this buffet was wrapped around the building,
probably one and a half times. And I remember seeing
that and thinking, oh, it must.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Be really good food.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And then I noticed in the line as I'm driving through,
all these caps and gowns and families and smiles and
flowers and all of those things that let you know
that this is a c of celebration, obviously well attended
by graduates and their families and their supporters. And that
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was a beautiful sight to see, because in our daily rigamarole,
if you're not in education like I am, or aren't
experiencing someone who's dealing with or in education right now,
students or otherwise, and you might not necessarily be paying
attention to that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I did.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I took notice of it, and I remember thinking to myself. Man,
these kids have been through so much in the last
five years twenty twenty five, this last five year period
with the introduction of COVID and all the closures and
what that did with distance learning and kids not being
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able to participate in graduation or any activity for that
matter physically in person, and twenty twenty one kind of
trying to get back and have those graduations and recoup
the lost time. And then fast forward to earlier this
year and thousands of students from Outa Dina to the
(03:10):
Palisades obviously or impacted because of the fires. And so
you think about all of these things in conjunction with
this current graduating class, be the middle or high schoolers,
and these kids have been through.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A lot, just a hell of a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
And you think about the generosity of people and people
who have stepped up to not just during COVID, of course,
but with the fires specifically to lend their services to
make sure that students had things provided for them for
not just graduation but prom as well. I'm reminded of
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Steve Carell, the actor who, in collaborating with an organization,
decided that he was going to pay for the prom
entry fee of Eton High School seniors. He wanted to
make sure that they didn't have to incur that cost.
A beautiful, beautiful and generous offering to these kids who
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had been through so much. And in talking about Eaton
High School, Steve Correll and that collaboration went even further.
They provided the tickets for prom. But then the organization
that Steve Correll used also collaborated with a limo company
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to provide free rides for a select group of Eaton
High School seniors who were attending prom. But something went
horribly wrong, Something went really really wrong. Yeah, everything was
in place, everything seemed like a go and you get
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to prom night and something happened with these with this
free limo ride.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Let's find out what Limo rides donated for Eton fire
High school prom goers never showed up, leaving these dulled
up students stranded. The organization Alice's Kids, got a lot
of attention after Steve Carell posted this video saying the
Virginia based nonprofit would cover prompt tickets for high schoolers
impacted by the fires. They arranged and paid Wise Guy
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Entertainment more than four thousand dollars for three limos to
take the seniors to the prompt. Ron Fitzimmons, executive director
of Alice's Kids, flew out to LA for the occasion.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We sent him a whole check and it's been cashed.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
And he was a no show.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Myers, whose daughter was among the stood up students, says
when the parents tried to contact the limo owner, they
were blocked. Myers lost her home and business, Steve's Pet Store,
in the Eton fire. She says, it's not about the money,
it's the principal.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Well, they've been through so much, you know, between the
pan let'll stay up giving looks it. They missed seventh eighth,
they had no graduation, they missed their dance, they missed
their picnic the senior year, and their house is burned down.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can hear it in her voice, and I imagine
any of you listening out there is empathize and can
certainly understand why this woman would be so emotional. She
detailed it right there. These kids have been through so much,
and then when you think that humanity is stepping up
to provide for them and to right these wrongs and
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to give them some sort of reconciliation, you have a
limo company that never shows up. They took the money
to the tune of over four thousand dollars And what
is the name of this company?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Because I know you're all wondering.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And I hope you go tell them how you feel
the name of the company is wise Guy Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Wise with a Z.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Whyse Guy Entertainment four thousand dollars plus for three limos
to take the seniors to prom paid, never showed up.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And when you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
See these kids all dressed up in their prom's finest
standing there for a picture that was taken and circulated
of their disappointment, it just rips your heart out, and
it should. It's like, you're just how much more disappointment
can these kids withstand? And again there there shouldn't necessarily
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be a correlation made between Steve Correll, Alice's kids, and
this limo company.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Because Alice's kids, who got.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The attention of Steve Correll, did infect cup the prom
tickets for those high school seniors at Eton Fire or
excuse me, eaton high School. But Wiseguy Entertainment, which was
brought in to pay for the limo or provide the
limo service, did not. They did not make good on
their promise and not just a promise, but the payment
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and when the parents tried to contact the owner of
Wise Guy Entertainment they were blocked.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That tells you all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Again, the good news is the students did end up
making it too prompt via uber, and I'm glad that
they were ubered instead of maybe hopping on the Metro,
which will lead us into what we are discussing after
the break, the fact that for many students around southern
California and really in metropolitan Los Angeles, the most dangerous
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part of their day involves going home. And that's because
many of the school buses, if not all of them,
stop running around five or six PM, leaving students all
across southern California needing to get home in some way,
(09:16):
and many of them take to our public transportation system,
La Metro to get home from school, after school and
after these extracurricular activities. And they are speaking out, these
students because they say, not only is it dangerous and uncomfortable,
(09:36):
but it's practically it is practically something that requires them
to risk their lives on a daily basis. So we'll
talk about that on the other side of the break,
and we'll also get into LA passing a new minimum
wage and by contrast, not Sperry Farm and Magic Mountain
(09:58):
cutting jobs. I wonder if they're there's a connection there.
We'll find out. On the other side of the break.
It's KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Saturdays with Tiffany here until seven pm.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tommy hops here with you until seven pm tonight on
this beautiful, warm and now thunder stormy days thunderstormy Saturday.
So the National Weather System just issued an alert, and
if you are in Santa Barbara or Ventura, you want
(10:38):
to hear this because you might not have gotten the alert.
There are severe thunderstorms that are occurring in your area,
Santa Barbara and Ventura, and these thunderstorms are bringing hail,
flash flooding, and dry lightning. Didn't know there could be
wet lightning, but dry lightning is what they are saying,
(11:02):
and hell damage is expected.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
They say.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
If you are outdoors, get the inside immediately lest you
be hit in the head by a big nugget of
hal don't want that to happen on this beautiful Saturday,
so make sure you stay tuned too KFI for updates
on that. Getting back to our Metros story, this is
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a cautionary tale definitely if you have young people in
your lives who are riding the Metro using our public
transportation system, and because of the nature of where we
are in society, with things being spread out in the Southland,
students maybe not going to school in their community, maybe
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going across town, maybe they've been displaced because of the fires,
or maybe it's by choice, or they're just enjoying being
able to have freedom. And that's what public transportation certainly provides.
It provides that way to be able to get to
and from places. These students, these young people are saying
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it's extremely dangerous to ride on the Metro, especially for
those students who rely on public transportation to get home
from school. And they're saying that when they stay, these students,
when they stay at school late for clubs, sports, college prep, tutoring,
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just to hang out with their friends, whatever it may be,
that when they leave, getting home becomes the most dangerous
part of their day.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
My message to the community is Metro is safe.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
After everything that's happened recently, do you still feel the
same way?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No, I do not feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
How interesting that was Karen Bass last year, Mayor Karen
Bass telling us extolling the virtues in one clip the half,
the first half of that clip that Metro was safe.
And as you heard, she completely switched her tune just
a few months later when grilled and drilled down upon
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again about the safety of La Metro. So, getting back
to these students, LAUSD does provide school buses, and many
of those buses, if not all of them, end up
ending their service their commuter service by early evening. That
means students who are still on campus or need to
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get home from wherever they're at then have to rely
on public transportation. Let's be real, Not everyone has the
means to do ride share, and not every student feels
comfortable riding with their peers, and rightfully so.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
You were in high school, once.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You commuted wherever it is you went to, you asked
to be able to hang out after school or on
the weekends, and before ride share existed, we all were
very comfortable using the bus. I know, I was the bus.
They had its issues, but nothing like now. And this
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was before the kind of development of our rail system.
So when we were left to the buses, we knew
you don't you don't sit in the back. You sit
in the front, especially if you're a female. You sit
in the front, and you make sure that if you're uncomfortable,
you sit nearest the driver. Now, the problem with our
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current rail system, our current bus system, is that there
don't seem to be any safe seats on these public
modes of transportation. And these kids are saying this is
the only way they can get home, especially the ways
in which that are financially feasible for them. It says
that they're saying that they're facing dark train stations. The
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lighting is horrible in these train stations. They're saying that
they're confronting crime from small crime, maybe someone tagging or
defacing property, all the way up to assault, and that
these students who are speaking out are saying that they
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carry self defense tools. Now, when it comes to the
self defense tools, the students are saying, yeah, I carry
a pocket knife, or yeah I carry pepper spray because
I want to feel safe. But herein lies the problem.
These are students that means whatever safety measure. They are
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taking whatever tool they are carrying on their person in
their backpack is not permitted on their school campus, which
then leaves kids in a huge bind. They're saying they
need the pepper spray, they need the switch blade or
whatever it is they have, but they can't take it
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onto their campus without these items being confiscated because they say,
school administrators don't necessarily see it as self defense, but
as a way to hurt themselves or others. And these
students are saying that administrators LAUSD overall, and I imagine
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outside of LAUSD as well, should reconsider policy. We've done
the cell phone policy reconsideration. I don't know if policy
is now going to allow switchblades and peppers spray on campus.
That seems like a bit of a far stretch, but
these kids are demanding some sort of alternative. They say
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it's just not safe. And as you heard Mayor Karen
Bass there say she doesn't even feel that La Metro
is safe. As of last year, eighty percent of LA
residents don't think Writing Metro trains is safe, and that
is up since twenty nineteen. These incidents, nonviolent and violent alike,
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make it for young writers to not want to necessarily
use our public transportation system, but they're saying they simply
have no other way to get home. When we come back,
we're going to talk a bit about this minimum.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Wage hike that LA has just passed.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
We went from the twenty dollars plus minimum wage, which
we're all just kind of getting used to, and now
in some sectors thirty dollars at least by twenty twenty eight.
But many employers are saying that that twenty twenty eight
year Olympics may very well endanger their ability to be
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successful and to maintain their businesses during this period of time.
We'll talk about that and more right here on Saturdays
with Tiffany KFI AM six forty everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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We have a talk back from Bob about the Wise
Guy Entertainment stiffing those eaton high school seniors who were
just trying to go to prom with a free limo
provided by Wise Guy Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Let's hear.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I just logged on too Wise Guys Entertainment to give
them a very poor review, and the response was they
were unable to take any information due to blah blah
blah blah blah. This company should be taken out, strung.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Up, taken out and strung up. No, you know, I
understand the strong sentiments. I'm not encouraging violence against anyone
connected to Wise Guy Entertainment, especially since there's more than
one Wise Guy Entertainment. Come to find out, I've had
some messages sent to me showing that Wise Guys with
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an S on the end Entertainment and another part of
the country has been inundated with negative reviews and comments.
It's the casualty of the Internet. People will find you
not necessarily vet and then think that you are the
thing that they are upset with. Well, make sure that
when you look up Wise Guy Entertainment, wise with the
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Z you just put one guy. There's only one guy,
and that company which Kayla and I looked up on
the break actually is experiencing an influx of negative reviews
on Yelp. People are taken to Yelp to tell them
that they don't like what they did to those kids,
nor should they, And they're saying some other choice words
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as well, so much so that Yelp has shut down
their page temporarily because they say a lot of these
comments likely came in because of news, not necessarily first
hand experience. So to maintain the integrity of the site
and the review process, Yelp, which is seemingly the premiere
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review site for businesses, said they're putting a pause on
the page. If you go to wise Guy Entertainment on Yelp,
it will show them as temporarily closed, of which they may.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Or may not be. But hey, can't scam.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
These high school kids and not think that anything's gonna
happen to you. You know, you kind of get what
you get. Karma is real, right, Bob, Bob knows. Bob said,
do something to them. All right, let's get into what
else is happening around the south Land. Okay, So, if
you are a person who works in the service industry, honestly,
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if you're a person who works in southern California, whatever
industry you're in, then you know just how difficult it
is to make ends meet. We do stories from top
to bottom every day about the economy.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Right here, on the station. You've known it, if you
live in it.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Everyone knows it is the very common understanding that it's
hard to live in California period because it's expensive and
wages don't match the cost of living. While rents, mortgages, prices, gas,
everything is gone up, wage increases have often stagnated. Just
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last year, the twenty dollars minimum wage was discussed and
in stated, And now for fast food workers, and now
for hotel workers and other airport catering staff in that industry,
they aren't going to be in joying an increase of
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up to thirty dollars per hour between now and July
first of twenty twenty eight. Let's find out what's going
on with these hotel workers, with this airport staff and
why they can expect a huge maybe not too huge,
but a bump and income coming shortly.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Colleen and Michael. Workers are celebrating what they feel is
a long and hard fought victory, but businesses are sounding
the warning that this wage increase may hurt their preparation
for the Olympics. Right the voices of struggling tourism workers
now heard inside La City Hall. The council today giving
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final approval to raising their minimum wage fifty percent over
the next three years to thirty dollars an hour by
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
It's like a weight lifted off. We've been fighting this
fight for two years.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm so overwhelmed with joy I don't know well to scream,
holland jump cry.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
But hotels and businesses at Lax say the increase will
make a bad situation worse. They say they're still recovering
from the pandemic, and tourism is down even more for
the impact of the La fires and fears about tariffs.
David Townsend, the general manager at the High Place Hide
House at Lax, says the hotel is losing four million
dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Just to stay in business.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
The owners are paying four million dollars a year just
to stay in business, just.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To stay in business. He said it twice, so he
really meant it. The hotel workers are paying this much money.
They're paying this much money to stay in business. But
as you heard there, it it is a necessary increase
to keep up with the pace of things in California.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Overall, people have to get paid more.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You can cry about it, you can complain and bemoan
that all you want, but if people are not able
to afford the very basic, the very bare minimum accommodations
of living in this state, then we will see homelessness, blight, crime,
all of that continue to explode, and then we'll be
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complaining about that. So this is an attempt to mitigate
that explosion of homelessness and what some refer to as
housing insecurity.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
However you want to.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Explain it, but the fact is just to outline the
details once again, this increase would be incremental from now
until July one, twenty twenty eight. It coincides practically to
the day of the kickoff for the Olympic and Para
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Olympic Games in twenty twenty eight. And a lot of
these companies are saying that this sort of increase is
not sustainable. We've seen it, we've heard it from fast
food companies, and we're now being told at hotels that
they cannot maintain their current models and that that increase
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will be projected upon the consumer, projected onto you as
the customer. So expect to see things continue to go up,
and it feels like cat and mouse. As things go up,
things are they are being chased, and once they are
seemingly caught, they continue to go further up, and then
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that cycle continues, and it is a never ending cycle.
I do not think that there is really truly much
reconciliation to be had when it comes to our California economy,
especially since we are is it something like a billion
dollars in debt? Where's this money coming from? Makes you
(25:43):
wonder quickly a place that is going to try and
find more money? Six Flags and Not Spary Farm, can
we hear it?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Real quick? I think we have audio to this one, right? Well,
do we have audio? We know we may maybe we.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Don't, but six Flags and Not Spary Farm are cutting
one hundred and thirty five full time job.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Sorry about that, rau wul no audio. I'm the audio here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And because of these cuts, they are hoping to be
able to reduce their own overhead costs. And you think
about it, these companies aren't seeing the same sort of
patronage as we might have seen in the past. People,
especially kids, just aren't going to these theme parks, especially
because in many cases, these theme parks are requiring eighteen
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year old chaperones. So as things continue to shift, that's
what's happening. They're seeing they're making major cuts. And it's
not cuts in ways that are comfortable. No, these are
jobs being eliminated. They are in the red. They're saying,
they are millions of dollars in the red. So if
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you have a teenager who was hoping to go to
Knotsberry Farm in Magic Mountain this summer to get a job,
like as a rite of passage for so many in
southern California, luck with that. Send them to one of
the dying malls instead, or maybe send them out to
Waimo because Weymo's gonna need all the help they can get.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And we'll talk about why Weymo is.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Pissing people off in Santa Monica when we come back
from the break.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
K if I AM six forty.
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Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
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at Tiffany Hobbs here. Remember at six pm every Saturday
Saturdays with Tiffany, we do our Deeper Dives segment. Want
you to make sure that you're listening. It's a really
good segment coming up about the luxury apartment complex, the
six story, eight, ten, twelve whatever story mid to high
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rises that are basically their own community. They function as
their own ecosystem with all sorts of amenities, and a
lot of young people and people of all generations are
flocking to these apartment complexes and they are redesigning the
face of southern California and all across the United States.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So we're gonna talk about why.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
They're so popular and kind of what the implications of
these apartment complexes are upon the greater economy, upon neighborhoods,
and upon community, the idea of community. So that's six o'clock,
our deeper dive segment. Right now, let's get into some
Waymo news. I love a good Way Mo's story. I
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love to tear Waimo down sometimes, although I have written
in a Way Moo and it was interesting, it's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's not something I.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Would say I would never do again, but it's not
something I would easily run too. And it's because Weaimo
has quite a few problems that not having a human
driver make even more apparent. And one of those problems
that Waimo has is the fact that their autonomous system
doesn't really shut off per se.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It keeps going.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
At least the sounds connected Touemo and the sounds connected
to Wee Moo are ticking people in Santa Monica off.
Not overall, not the entire city of Santa Monica. Your
block might be fine, but.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
In some areas of Santa Monica.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
The beeping of the way mos is driving them crazy.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
It's basically a basity birthright, opening your window to catch
the ocean breezes. But in one Santa Monica neighborhood, some
people are shutting out the fresh air in hopes of
blocking out its beeping. The reverse is the really what's
concerning everybody, The reverse sound.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
It's every day, all day.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Can you play that beeping one more time? Roll well,
listen to this beeping. Imagine it's two am, you're settled in,
you're fast asleep, and something houses you from your sleep.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's not the dog, it's not the TV. It's this.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
In hopes of blocking out the reverse is really what's
concerning everybody.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
The reverse soon.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's every day, all day, every day, all day, is
what these residents in this Cinamonica neighborhood are alleging. They're
saying they've been battling against this weimo parking lot, this
weaimos station for months, four months, and now the battle
has escalated beyond just words. They are using cones, they're
(30:36):
using cars, these residents to block the WAYMOS from even
entering the parking lot, because the parking lot is where
all of this noise has kind of become a cacophony
of irritation. People are saying they've even called the police
and there's nothing that can be done. And that also
(30:57):
Cintamonica is saying that they're trying to mit a the sound.
They've even planted trees to create a sound barrier. How
cute there are trees that make the sound more attractive. No,
because it's not blocking the sound. It's just now a
visual distraction from the thing that's really annoying these people
twenty four hours a day, twenty four hours a day,
(31:23):
Tell you please, can you imagine that's awful? I'm sure
they're paying an arm and a leg in rent, because
you know we all are, because it's patamoniclous and Santa
Monica on top of that, and to listen to that
when I'm paying X amount every month is just unacceptable.
(31:44):
Way MOA owes me some money. You lay down and
you're relaxing. It's quiet, and.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
You have your wine.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You've had your wine and now you're just slipping into
that relaxation and as you doze off, this is what
you hear.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Go for it. It's okay, were whispering.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Oh, then you have to make the sound. Then, Raoul,
you have to make the sound. Dude, dude, sounds like
a broken waym but real. That's one imagine if I'm
just one, imagine if there are thirty of me in
the parking lot going dude, dude, right, and then you
(32:25):
hear everything else. It's just I can't imagine again paying
all that rent to have that be what you hear
when you open your windows for that beautiful fresh breeze,
especially in a day like today when you want some
relief and I want to turn on your air conditioner.
It's a thousand dollars, right, so you want just that
and that's what you hear. That's just If Waimo is
(32:46):
going to be the savior to driving and do all
the things that it claims to do to change our
world and our economy and driving and make it safer
in all these things, then you definitely don't want to
drive people mentally insane by having this incessant beeping. Something
else that might drive you crazy is not knowing that
(33:09):
your phone is recording you. What, Kayla, if your if
your phone told you what it was recording on any
given let's say, five minute period, what might it record
from your from your from your activity.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I don't even to think about it.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Can't go there, can't go there, don't even want to
disclose see me and you no, well, the microphones are on.
But I am an adult. Yes, yeah, I don't want
people all up in your adult business. I do not
well T mobiles in your business. If you have T mobiles,
I do well here. You might want to know this.
They have a tech support app which is just ingrained.
(33:55):
It's baked into your T mobile system, and that tech
support app has a rather unnerving feature for some users,
and some is somewhat arbitrary. We don't know if some
are almost all or practically all, but for some users
it appears that the Tea Life app, this tech support
(34:16):
app can record.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Your screen whenever you have the app open.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What if I'm in privacy use screen browsing privacy. Browsing
privacy doesn't exist, Kayla.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
We know that. It's very true, Pollyanna, there's no privacy.
Speaker 8 (34:38):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And T Mobile is telling you straight up that they
are recording you. And here's the thing about this sneaky
little app. You go to it, you're trying to do
some sort of technical servicing to your phone.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You think you know what you're doing. You go there,
you google how.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
To fix something and send you to this baked in
app in your phone. And then after you've done the thing,
many of us don't close an app. We just shift
over to the next thing. You come out of the
app and you go to your phone, or you go
to Facebook or x or wherever you're at, she in
(35:17):
or TMU or whatever kind of shopping you're doing, and
the app is still open in the background, meaning, as
it says here, when the app is open, your screen
is being recorded.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
And the thing.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
About it, this setting is enabled by default for most
of us who are T mobile users, this is actually
activated right now and you did not know it. So
what you need to do on this next break, if
you're a T Mobile user is go to your settings,
(35:53):
go to your T Life Tech Support app and disable
the green record feature. Do that now, and when we
come back, we're going to take a deeper dive into
the luxury apartment building and how it's creating a new
sense of community. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
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