KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 31 Mar, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 31 Mar, 2025

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Speaker 14 (06:10):
This is Robert Porter and i Bianni Locker with the
I Love Samonnidino County Radio Show on Casey A NBC
one oh six point five FM, ten and fifty Am.
But we will talk politics, culture in history. What's up, Yonny?

Speaker 5 (06:23):
What's up? Robert? How you doing today? Brother?

Speaker 14 (06:25):
We're gonna have an incredible show today. We have two
and elected officials from sam Cernadino in the house today.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Hey, now, hey, now who do we have?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
We have council member Mario Flores and Wafa grew up
from the third board.

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Oh right, this is gonna be a great show today.
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Speaker 14 (07:12):
All right, all right, stay tuned for Palm Trees and Progress.

Speaker 15 (07:15):
And hey, Rob, when you're gonna when you're gonna be
our guest?

Speaker 14 (07:20):
Yes, Tuesday, I bring my mama in and we'll do it.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Sounds good, We'll make that'd be awesome. That'd be awesome.

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Speaker 14 (07:37):
Yes, yes, And we want to thank Janny for all
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Now I went to I went there the other day,
but I didn't get any wings. I got pizza out.
And you know, I fed my mama's pizza and she's diabetics.
So what we did is we cut off the crust
and we just let her eat the top things and stuff.
And then we also get the chicken salad there. It's
like ten ninety five plus tax, but it's really pretty good.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Yeah, you talk about it on a time and it's
a healthy option.

Speaker 14 (08:24):
And I eat, you know, I eat a lot of
salad lately, team, I do eat a lot of salad.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
A lot of salad.

Speaker 14 (08:29):
Yeah, you never know, but yeah, Golden Pizza and Wings
and we like, uh, definitely check out their chicken salad.
We also got pal Charter Academy and the middle school
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Info at palecenter dot org or call nine O nine
eight seven seven seven zero zero two. And I'd also
like to mention our standout of the week, the Sambernadinos
stand Out of the week is Marvin Hernandez And evit,
you guys know Marvin. He's the docent at the McDonald's

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museum him and there's a few over there. But he
does a good job. And he also is an incredible photographer.
So like he goes around and he takes photos for
people that you know, probably can't afford to be paying
a lot to take photos, and he does incredible work.

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Now he does charge a good, good penny for his
work too, but he does help out a lot of
people as well. And he loves the showcase Sam Bernardinos,
so he goes to all the events and I often
see him just out and about it what it especially
has to do with McDonald's museum.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
That's there, you go.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
We're grateful for him then so.

Speaker 14 (10:09):
Yeah, thank you Marvin. You're one cool dude in my book. Awesome, right,
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Speaker 6 (10:30):
Have you you guys?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (10:33):
Hospitality Yeah, yeah, So it's right across the street from Costco.
So you leave in Costco, you got gas, and you
look right across the street there you'll see the sign
up there and you out.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
It sounds like one, have you It's delicious? Yes, absolutely, man,
I love going off to all the restaurants up and
down Hospitality Land. It's important for us to maintain to
support our local businesses here in the city as well,
because of course that's where the city degenerates the majority
of its revenue. And so let's continue to support all
of our small businesses as well.

Speaker 14 (11:02):
Yeah, I mean, you can give some the Costco.

Speaker 16 (11:04):
You're a little bit of Costco.

Speaker 14 (11:06):
Right, but then you know, you know, head on out
and that those savings you could spend you know.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
At a local business like that.

Speaker 14 (11:14):
I like that, and uh, you know that those taxes.
What Wan set is so important. Our county taxes for property.
Our property taxes go to the county for our fire services.
So we need sales tax to run our city. And
unfortunately LA runs their city off a sales tax as well,

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and they have a huge hole in their budget right now.
So I'm a little bit concerned about San Renardino because
we often follow right after LA. Whether it's a trend
or anything else, we usually follow. So that means we
need a shock local team.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Very much so. But we are keeping a close eye
on it and we're making sure we're not you know,
we're keeping within budget and we're spending you know appropriate.
We have a good reserve, right, we certainly do. Yes,
we do.

Speaker 14 (12:04):
And that's been prepared for because we just went through bankruptcy,
right so it was important during all those discussions that
there was a proper reserve set aside just in case.
And I'm hoping that we maintain a positive reserve and
you and don't spend it all up in the very

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beginning when times are probably gonna get a little rough here.
It just seems like a lot of people are losing
their jobs, yes, and that might equal less tax revenue
and things like that. So that's why I say, right now,
why the times are good. It feels good to me.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Tighten your belt right now, right, tighten it right now.

Speaker 14 (12:42):
And it has been good about that. But let's we
need to let a little bit money out for things
like streets and fixing our parks. Uh, do you let's
go back. Let's let's go back a little bit. Like
I want to know about you guys, and I forgot

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about that is very important, So please go ahead.

Speaker 13 (13:08):
Well, definitely, definitely, We're just going to go down the
panel to have everyone share their thoughts and reflections on
Caesar child As as today was a holiday representing Caesar
chive As. I think that brother Chiavez was an amazing man.
You know, I'm a community organizer, so it's so much
that I look from his his legacy of unifying the people,
the farm worker movement and and you know and all

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that you know came from that movement. And you know,
some of previous administrations use that same saying, you know
what I mean? And I really still believe that, like
you know, yes we can if we're willing to roll
up the sleeves and come together as a community. As Americans,
we can address these issues in our country, you know
what I mean. I believe everyone can make a difference.
So he's always inspired me to to know that we

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are able to make change, positive change, Well said.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
No, I you know what what I start to think about.
I think about my parents and many members of my family,
who are all immigrants who came here hoping to searching
for a better life as well, you know, And many
times I think about the struggles and sacrifices they've made.
They came to this country, you know, with a with
a hammer and a broom in their hand, right so
that their children can work with a pen and a

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pencil in their hand and have a better life. And
so that's I think about some of those things, some
of the sacrifices that many immigrants have made coming to
this country and hoping for a better future, not just
for them, you know, but for their children and great
grandchildren and generations to come after that. And so that's
what I reflect on, you know, just many, many people

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who have come to this country and given so much
so that not only they but their children will have a.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Better life as well.

Speaker 16 (14:46):
I know.

Speaker 17 (14:47):
I'm here on the same page. The son of immigrant parents,
and honestly see Caesar Chavez being bringing the power of organization,
be able to organize yourself and like your community, and
be able to speak for those who have who don't
have a voice, or those who feel that they don't
have a voice, and getting to the deep, deeper roots

(15:08):
of all issues with the power of community. So myself
parents sacrificed almost everything for me to be here, and
it's honestly every day being a council member, being able
to serve the city, being able to serve the community.
It's an honor really to be able to not only
give back to others just like my parents, but the

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whole the city as a whole, because there's different different
communities that have different backgrounds, different struggles, and it's important
that we listen, that we advocate for them, and we've
organized ourselves so we can propel the city forward.

Speaker 14 (15:42):
Me personally, some of the most important aspects of Caesar
job that's worked for me from someone who's actually worked
in the fields. But I didn't pick. I was an
archaeologist surveying those fields right through them. But I got
to see the conditions in the summertime when they were
picking the grapes in Mecca, and I saw them. You know,

(16:08):
they weren't picking grapes or cutting them, but they they
were just like sweating and so hot and it totally
covered like mummies from head to toe, barely slits in
the eyes so you could barely see, constantly wetting themselves down.
Mostly old women and younger children from Mexico as immigrants,
most of them legals. I lived with them all. Like

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we'd stay in the hotels at desert chores, and like
I have to like like like get the rooms like
three months in advance, because we knew that there would
there would be no rooms available once great picking time came,
right and yeah, and like we would go and out
in those fields and I'm like I could barely make

(16:49):
it as an archaeologist. And they were like running like
loads of grapes, running them to the trucks, and I'm like,
how are they getting the water? Like, So, like Caesar's
Child has work helped to like at least alleviate those
some of those conditions now that they're still bad, right,
and at least people are following it. But I think

(17:11):
people need to get back out in those fields again
and and refollow some of that work because they did
remove some of the pesticides and some of that stuff,
which was totally good. But I think they just switched
and so there's still more work to be done.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Definitely.

Speaker 14 (17:25):
So that's what I would say as a call to
action for those farmers that we need to get back
out there in those fields and see the conditions they're under,
not just when the property owner knows that we're coming
on the property right.

Speaker 13 (17:40):
And definitely advocating now I hear you the Dog and
Pony show, but definitely advocating for you know, living wages,
right to make sure that every every person in this
country that works hard has a living wage. We have
a population of people there working poor, right, you know
that work for big box stores, that still work forty
hours and they still on government assistance. You know, we

(18:01):
have to we have to make sure everyone has a
living ways that's willing to work, that does work extremely hard,
and you know, truly are the backbone of our country
and nation, you know, And like you said, maybe people
have to go out there and see how intensity, how
intense all the sectors are, because I think that's one
thing that we sometimes are guilty of boxing. It's many

(18:25):
of sector sectors and industries, you know what I mean,
not just this one specific.

Speaker 14 (18:29):
Yeah, warehousing, you know, like those places really truly need
air conditioning at the highest levels, but it's so expensive
that it offsets all their profits. So like, how do
you do this? Like, I hope they figure out a
cheap way to give air conditioning something.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
I've worked in many of those.

Speaker 13 (18:48):
Yeah, you put a little put a little time there.

Speaker 14 (18:52):
Yeah, Like I never had air conditioning in archaeology, so
I don't really know.

Speaker 7 (18:56):
You work outside, bro, I always ways that I could
keep cool.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
You know, like there's no indoor digging.

Speaker 13 (19:08):
I mean unless you discover like really something like really
rare or something. Sometimes they'll build if they know it's
like a cash cow of like archaeology bones and things
like oh yeah, I will build structures around it too,
but that's very rare.

Speaker 14 (19:23):
Yeah. Like I've seen some incredible stuff in Egypt, and
you know, especially for filming like oh on TV. I
mean like I don't need to go there, but like
but like not yet, not the companies around here. Yeah,
so you out there with a trowel and say, you know,
put it over your head, get some shade. Oh man,

(19:45):
all right, well, excellent, Uh yeah, happy, Uh Caesar his
day and uh.

Speaker 13 (19:50):
Eric, what are your reflections on the money? I should
say on Caesar.

Speaker 15 (19:56):
The same as these guys, I believe they both said there,
uh kids of immigrants or you know, I'm first generation
out here as well.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
And uh so every.

Speaker 15 (20:05):
Time I have any kind of fruit or grapes or
some wine, I guess I'm thinking about, Hey, I'm glad
they have some kind of better living and work environment,
you know.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
So definitely, definitely, thank you mighty well.

Speaker 14 (20:18):
My father was from Canada, so I'm part of immigrant,
but my mom, like I actually just posted going eight.
You know, we had a picture from nineteen fifty seven
of like my great great grandfather, my great grandfather, my
my grandfather's brother, younger brother, and his son. So like

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four generations in the Sun newspaper from nineteen fifty seven.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
I gotta check that out. Pretty cool.

Speaker 14 (20:49):
Yeah, like so, like, you know, like I have some
local roots. But then you know my father, you know,
he came to America and they were going to send
him to jail, right, so he joined the military, and
that was his choice. He was gonna go to jail
or go to the military. So he joined the military

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and he was too young to die, so they kept
him here at seventeen until a few months after when
he turned eighteen. He'd already realized that half of his
unit had been wounded and sent home. So that's the
scariest way to go into Vietnam, right, So that's where
he got his citizenship. A general came up to him, said,

(21:33):
you're not a citizen yet, he goes, no, he goes no,
Canadians dying in my unit, and he made him a citizen.
So that's how my father became a United States citizen.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
That's a story in Vietnam. I hear you, I hear you. Yes,
sound like a movie, bro. So yeah, I am.

Speaker 14 (21:56):
The son of an immigrant. Yeah, it's just from Canada.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
There you go. It's it's people come from all around
the world.

Speaker 14 (22:03):
And Canadians used to come here for similar reasons, but
they weren't the same jobs. Uh My, my father's childhood
friend would come for drafting jobs across Niagara Falls because
New York had the best drafting work. But he would
always have to go home and like he always had
to compete for that work, so he would take lower wages.

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Not everybody else and uh, you know he survived that way,
so I mean like he was a good guy. But
I guess it just doesn't matter what country you're from.
You you try to find a better life wherever you're from.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
We all have that interesting story and we all have
a unique, special, uh you know, little story that we
all bring to the table, and especially when we're making
decisions on the council, we have a perspective based on
so many things that not only we've experienced, but just
generationally we've experienced, you know, just through through our parents, grandparents,
you know, through your parents, Robert, you You've you bring

(22:59):
to the table to different things perspectives as well as
you as you do as well. And that's the unique
little thing.

Speaker 14 (23:06):
Ethnicity, right this is actually pretty representative of our city
right here.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Very true, very true.

Speaker 14 (23:13):
And it's so important because that gives us such an
advantage over others.

Speaker 13 (23:19):
I love the fact that you I see it the
same way. Sadly, it seems like in our nation right now,
many don't see it that way. You know, I think
every culture brings something beautiful. It's a beautiful mosaic that
this country actually is. You know, Yeah, you don't want
boiled chicken with no seasoning, right, Like, unless you're on

(23:40):
the health kick, you know you might, but you know,
but we want season even want flavor. And so I
love the way you frame that and have appreciation and
I know as many people in our country that appreciate that,
you know, and.

Speaker 14 (23:53):
It does, it does help Sammernandino to be this melting
pot that we are. We've always you've always really been
that way. All the railroads, everything came to here, right,
So it didn't matter if you were a hobo or
a vagabond, or a military man, or or just like
my grandparents, searching for a better life following your family.

(24:15):
You know, you came here and you start a life
and we're still here. Yeah, you're still here, right, We're
still here, still here, and we're all here to help Sammernadino.
And we you know, I see you all getting hit.
You get hit on that dias all day long. Man,
But like I'm I'm here to show off some of
the good stuff, because I mean there's a lot of

(24:38):
negativity and everything, but that that's not everything that you
all do, right, right, So, so can you name a
couple of positive things that you've seen on your short
time on the dias.

Speaker 16 (24:52):
Where do I start?

Speaker 12 (24:53):
Now? No.

Speaker 17 (24:54):
One of the positive things that I see on a
regular basis is Nicholson Park. I live right across the
street from it, so when I get out of my house,
I go to my car.

Speaker 16 (25:05):
I just every day I see the improvements like by it.

Speaker 14 (25:08):
And it's just do you see Nicholson Park as a
council member or do you see it as a resident?

Speaker 17 (25:14):
I see it as a resident because when I first
came to Samurai, do you know when my parents moved
out here in two thousand and eight when the housing
market crashed, Uh, that park was like the hangout spot
for family. My parents, we didn't have money so.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
We could We couldn't go to No No.

Speaker 17 (25:47):
With like with the neighbors, and that's where we would
like hang out, like every every week. And like when
friends we would go play, we'd always go across to
the park. So I have a lot of beautiful memories
there and.

Speaker 14 (25:58):
So what I'm trying to bring you have been here
so long you look at it as a resident. It's
so important to have people in in charge of our
money that look at it as a resident. If you
weren't born in San Renadino sometimes or grown up here, right,
you know, like sometimes I wonder like how much you

(26:19):
can really be about it or is this a stepping
stone right for right, so you have if you have
to prove to me, like it's taken Sandra a while, right,
she has really prove right, like she's for the city here,
she's really here. And and but but you all, it
comes natural for you because you see that park from memories.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Right, there's a connective memory to you to to a childhood, correct.

Speaker 14 (26:45):
And you want it to look good and you want
that same memory for the kids.

Speaker 16 (26:48):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 17 (26:49):
And I see what the park could be like in future, yes, right,
because I see it all around in different neighboring cities
where like people are going out walking their dogs. They're
like actually running in there like exercise in the community.
So and I can't I see that for that community
where I live in, Like it's a mobile home park,
apartment community. There really isn't much like green spaces inside

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those like apartments mobile home parks. But when you go
to the park here, it's a lot more open and
it's a different change.

Speaker 16 (27:19):
It's a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 14 (27:20):
Really in the parks are nature for a lot of people.

Speaker 16 (27:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (27:26):
And if you have a house and you have a
backyard like me, and you're spoiled, I mean maybe you
just don't really realize what it's how important it is
to go outside. But like you know, I do, But
I know there are people that take for granted they're
a huge backyard, right, the only people that see it
as a gardener.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
How many trees do you have?

Speaker 16 (27:45):
I don't even have a backyard.

Speaker 14 (27:47):
Like yeah, yeah, but do you have some pet plants?

Speaker 16 (27:51):
Oh? My mom does. She has a lot of plants.

Speaker 14 (27:53):
Yeah, waters any any vegetables?

Speaker 17 (27:56):
Oh no, No, it's just like your typical like all over,
like the Hispanic Mexican like plants.

Speaker 14 (28:03):
Okay, well what you're talking about everything?

Speaker 4 (28:11):
I grew up the same way man, when Sabila all
that stuff. Yeah, I grew up the same way. But
even still to.

Speaker 14 (28:17):
This day I can still smell it right there.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, but even still to this day, I mean, there's
always going to be some type of a tree, fruit tree, citrus, lemon, orange, avocado, something.
There's always something growing, you know, absolutely.

Speaker 14 (28:32):
So how do you what's something good that you've seen
in the city in the last since he's gotten.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Off it's been great. I honestly feel that we have
such a great working relationship with each other, very professional.
We're able to actually, you know, communicate with each other
and get things done and move things forward. Is it
different than there's always a different vibe with every council.
I think I've now had the opportunity to work with

(28:59):
three different councils at this point, and each one has
been a little bit different. But this one just feels
there's just a difference to it that I can't put
my finger on. But it just feels like we I
actually have a really good relationship with every single council member.

Speaker 14 (29:15):
It feels like things are gonna get done.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
I certainly hope. I think the one thing that we
need to focus on right now is of course with
the city manager, because that that's kind of the thing
that's uh helped to help us move forward and and
get a lot of the things that need to get done.
So that's uh. A lot of it just stems from from,
you know, internally, and this is why when people drive
around like why aren't the streets being taken care of?

(29:39):
A why aren't the parks taking being taken care of?

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Us?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Because internally we haven't been taken care of ourselves, right,
and so we need to We need to make sure
that we have a good city manager that's going to
work well with the council and execute the directive of
the council, the vision.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
That's we are here as council members to provide the
pulse of the community, right, We're not here to do
the data day operations and and manage people and direct
and this. You do this, you do this. We're providing
the pulse of the community.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
If you did that, you get in trouble.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Absolutely, it'd be against the charter, right, And so that's
part of our role is understanding what our role is
and just creating that policy and meeting with constituents, meeting.

Speaker 14 (30:17):
With the mayor and the cartoons team.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
No, it's not like that at all. We're not the
ones pulling levers and making you know, the only people
won't button it's policy, so that you know. Part of
our role, of course is to meet with the community
at large, and that includes residents, business people, all all
the stakeholders of the community so that we have a good,

(30:42):
well rounded idea of what the pulse of the community is.
So that when we do go back to the to
city the council and the council meetings, we're able to
provide input and directive and then it is up to
the city manager team, the management team to execute those
those wishes.

Speaker 13 (30:56):
You know, a question that kind of to vision, right,
because I know each ward has its own kind of
unique needs and and and each of those residents kind
of have a vision.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
For their ward.

Speaker 13 (31:08):
How is it, as council members on the dais that
you guys blend all the different wards vision that come
to a collective vision. Knowing that everybody's not going to
get everything they wanted, but if long as we get
everyone gets like sixty seventy percent of what they desire,
how do you go about blending that vision? Because that
seems like a whole entire task in itself.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
It is, and that's the beauty and ugliness of governments, right.
So you bring all these different ideas, all these different
you know, all this input, and somehow you put a
there's an amalgamation of ideas, I guess, right, And so
that's where we come together as a team and set priorities.
Look what are priorities in the community right now? And
I know we we fall into this trap of you know,

(31:52):
this is my ward, this is my ward. We are
elected by wards, but really we're city council representatives. We're
not ward representatives, so we're not ward members, and so
we do represent the city as a whole. We're just
elected by wards simply so that every part of the
city is represented, you know, so that you don't have
all your representatives coming from from one area, let's say

(32:13):
the university area of the North End or the South End.
This is to ensure that there's equal representation throughout the city.
But ultimately we're still city representatives. And I think that
when you actually do engage and I do go to
other council members town hall meetings and how they engage
their residents, their wishes are just the same as people
on the South End if they are on the North End,

(32:33):
on the West End. You know, it's the quality of
life issues, homeless issues, infrastructure, public safety. Those are always
the same things that come up over and over again.

Speaker 14 (32:43):
Yeah, and is it the homeless stuff, Like team, we
got to do some work on our own too, totally.
Like if you're putting stuff in your trash can that
you know that they're going to get like I had
to stop doing it, like I had to. I'm not
recycling home myself.

Speaker 16 (32:58):
Now.

Speaker 14 (33:00):
If you give them the stuff, you entice them to
go through your stuff and stuff, they're gonna go there.
So and now I found one guy was sleeping on
my was sleeping under a bush in my front yard
the last trash day, with all the trash cans from
the neighboring neighbors all around them in like a little fort.

(33:20):
I'm like, I walked out. I was not a nice team.
I'm not ever nice when someone's trespassing all my property
in the morning like that, and that it was a disaster.
They must have thrown like a billion tiny pieces of
trash everywhere I was. I cleaned up for an hour
after that, but I got so mad at him I
went outside. I went back in the house, and then

(33:43):
I came back out. I'm okay, okay, I'm not I'm
not a Can you say the D word? I don't know,
I'm not, but.

Speaker 12 (33:53):
You need to.

Speaker 14 (33:53):
Clean that up right there. I was gonna clean that up.
I'm gonna clean that up right You're not gonna clean
that up. So I don't want you thinking I'm come
back here and mess up my car or something like that.
You made that mess right there, dude, you're drunk or
whatever you are, and you make that mess.

Speaker 16 (34:08):
You go.

Speaker 14 (34:09):
Oh, I used to live in a house too, I know.
I No, you don't know, because look at this mess
that I got to clean up. Right So I was
really hard on him, and then the neighbor across the
street realized that it was his trash can that he
had stolen. Right, so, like he has a thing about
his trash cans. He likes his trash, he has those
things cleaned.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
I believe those things.

Speaker 14 (34:29):
Are pristine pieces of work.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
I don't.

Speaker 14 (34:32):
I'm not even allowed to put nothing in them, so,
you know, like you must be stealing his trash cans.
Like so, like I realized that this stuff is filtering down.
But like if I call Mario, said, Mario, take care
of this homeless guy coming down my he can't do
anything right. One can't do anything either.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, And that's unfortunately, that's a lot of people think
that we do control, you know, the city in that way,
and we really don't. Uh, you know, I guess unfortunate
people think they they think that we have all this
power and we we don't. And we really shouldn't. We
really shouldn't. At leads to all kinds of other problems.

Speaker 14 (35:11):
If one was to call the police chief, right and said, man,
there's this homeles person on the street, go over there
and check it out. That's a that's favoritism, like what
like he would he should have to do that for
every single person, you know, Like, so you shouldn't even
put him under that kind of pressure. Now, a general
sense of homelessness problems, yeah, I mean they are a

(35:34):
fair game. I mean, they are in charge of our money, right,
But what are some of the answers you guys are
coming up with for the future of of alleviating those Well, I.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Don't want to dominate the whole conversation.

Speaker 13 (35:48):
Before you jump in, Mario, just just to frame this,
this is happening.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
Throughout this entire state of California.

Speaker 13 (35:55):
You know, we almost have half of the nations unhoused
because of our weather, right, you can't live and when
they're in the Midwest because you're freeze.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Right.

Speaker 13 (36:04):
Yeah, So we don't want you guys to think that
this is an issue solely affecting Samnadino. No, this is
affecting the whole entire state and many of cities and
bodies and county supervisors are looking on how to address
the needs of our unhoused population as well as address
the needs of our residents as well.

Speaker 14 (36:22):
You know, yes, and that I don't blame them, you know,
but I do blame the drug users amongst them, like
they're not like I used to be a drug user myself, right,
So I understand the struggle, but I didn't go stealing
people's stuff.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
And the homelessness situation. Look, I can I know, I've
been on the show many times, and I please have
me back one day just so that we can discuss
homelessness specifically, because I have all kinds of ideas and
reasons why. I mean, when you when we look at
the people that are on the streets, I know that
many times people say, oh, you know, it's like, you know,
we're all a paycheck away from, you know, from being

(37:03):
in that situation. But I tend to disagree a little
bit with that, because when you look at the individuals
that are on the street, it isn't because there they
lost their job last week or the factory closed down
a week ago. It's those individuals, many of them have
burned their bridges over the course of many years with
either their family members, their friends. You know that there's

(37:23):
been so many years and possibly even decades of poor behavior,
possibly and drug use. But when you stop to think about, well,
what what started the drug use, you know that could
be all kinds of other different reasons. Maybe there was
Maybe it was a child who grew up in the
in the in the foster system, and their only way
to cope once they turned eighteen and were pushed out
into society with no resources, was to maybe cope with

(37:47):
a little bit of alcohol, marijuana, or something else, and
then that little thing leads to more and more and more.
Now it's a cycle. That person's now with diicted out
in the streets. You know, there's drug induced psychosis, all
of other things. You know, there are other situations where
somebody loses their home due to a natural disaster, a fire,
or something else. There's also psychiatric issues. You know, you

(38:10):
have people with schizophrenia who are out there screaming at menia, dementia,
and I've even I've made this comparison before. I work
in hospice care, and so I work with a lot
of people who have dementia, Alzheimer's, you know, senile degeneration
of the brain, and many of those individuals, you know,
we have we have a system set up where you
can have the children or other family members step in

(38:32):
and say, hey, mom, hey, grandma, you're we recognize that
you no longer have the mental capacity to make decisions
for yourself. So we as a family, we're going to
step in and help you out and get the resources
that you need. But unfortunately, when it comes to our
son's daughters, our nieces and nephews who are out on
the street, we don't have the ability to say, hey,
you know what, we recognize that you don't have the

(38:53):
mental capacity to make decisions for yourself. That the state
doesn't allow us or doesn't provide us a mechanism. In fact,
the way that they defined mental capacities is such that
it's so difficult for a family member to step in
and say, look, we want you to get the treatment
that you need. And so why are the people why
are the individuals out in the street. Whole hosts a

(39:14):
different reason, Okay, many of them are.

Speaker 14 (39:16):
Each person has their own reason.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Every single one has a reason. But we also have resources.
You know, if I were to just lose everything. Today,
I do have family that I can fall back on.
I can couch surf you know, for for a few
weeks or months until I figure things out. But it's
there's there's a system of support around me as well.
And so I think, unfortunately, what happens with many of

(39:39):
the individuals who who are out on the street, they've
probably burned every resource and support system that they've and
so that's.

Speaker 14 (39:48):
Why back you went in on vico In and like
then he just you know, he fell into the trap
with his wife and they just ended up, you know,
doing all the things that drug addicts do, and eventually
she unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
And it's hard to reverse that, Robert, it's really hard.

Speaker 14 (40:03):
Once good news, four months cleaning awesome.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
That is hard to do, and that that deserves an applause.

Speaker 13 (40:13):
Because on that same tip, on that same tip, shout
out to Kenneth as well. I think he reached six
months of sober, being sobriety, So shout out, Yeah, so
shout out to ken as well. Mario definitely want to
know because the last time you're on the show, you
were running for the city council seat, and now you're
a council member. You're a council member Mario Flores. Now,

(40:36):
you know, how's that experience and how's the growth and
learning process been going for you? And what are what
are some lessons that you know now versus when you
first entered into the space.

Speaker 17 (40:47):
Oh man, No, it's it's definitely been. It's been about
a year since I was last on the show. There's
been a lot that's changed, and it's been very like
eye opening. It's but what I expected, the amount of
work that I expected myself to put in, it's still there.
I mean, obviously there's like a little hiccups because you

(41:07):
want everything to go like smoothly and then perfectly, but
that's that's not the case, and that's that's just how
life is in general. But one of the things that
I've kind of like learned about is just not being
so hard on myself, right because I noticed these like
first three months, so it's only been three months heading

(41:28):
into the fourth one, that I I feel like I
just want to like tackle everything and like do everything
and just with a snap of the finger, make sure
that it's already and.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
It's it's complete.

Speaker 17 (41:39):
Yeah, that's that's the that's the frustrating part. So it's
just kind of centering myself and telling them like, hey,
like you're you're doing a great job. Like you because
the council member stuff isn't the only thing that I
do in my life.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Really.

Speaker 17 (41:51):
I still have like my my personal life and I
also work another job. So it's it's main like balancing
and maintaining those those lives and not being so hard
on myself where I'm like, oh, man, like putting fifty
sixty hours in and then like not really seeing like
the progress like immediately.

Speaker 16 (42:09):
It's going to take a while.

Speaker 17 (42:10):
So but I'm I have one thing that I've always
enjoyed is just learning, and this has been a very
big learning like experience.

Speaker 16 (42:18):
For me and I should and I'm really like appreciative.
I mean they're going into it. I there were some
things that I knew, but the.

Speaker 17 (42:25):
Operation of like the city is a little different than
like when I was at the county, right, so it
just maneuvers differently, But there's little key aspects here and
there where it's like all that that's very similar. But
I'm enjoying it. I really like being out in the community,
being out in like public that's kind of where like
I started with my with myself is just being there

(42:46):
like hey, let me help you out, or like hey,
like let me you.

Speaker 16 (42:49):
Guys are having an event, like I want to go.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
To support, and if I made for a second, you've
done a really great job of being out in the community.
In fact, I think that's one of the most important
things that you can do is just continue to be
out in the community.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
You have to.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Transition from being in campaign mode to now being a
council in promoting. I think it just to just to
give you credit, you've done a really great job of
being getting back out into the community to being out
in events, little meetings. I know that you recently went
to one of my town hall meetings as well, and
so just to give you some support on the you
know what, You're doing a great job as far as
getting out to the community. And I want to encourage

(43:23):
you to remain engaged with community members, with business, the
business community, and with all all stakeholders in the community
as well, because that's that's how you continue to grow
and mold and so that you bring back great ideas
to the council meetings as well.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
So great job, definitely, definitely.

Speaker 13 (43:40):
I know that both of your parents hearing a little
about both of your backgrounds, and that are very proud
that you are the dreams of your grand buelo. You
know what I mean That you guys are the living
manifestations of that. And I know that Do you have kids, sir,
I'm not too sure. Yeah, well definitely, so you know
you building a rock salad foundation for them for them

(44:01):
to reach for their dreams as well.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
I hope, yeah, I hope that in the future you know, grandchildren,
great grandchildren, generation that I'll never meet, but we start,
we set that, we set that up now, yes, so
that they can have a better future. And again and
anybody that comes in after me, whether they're related or not,
I hope that what we do, the work that we

(44:23):
put in, allows them an opportunity and avenue for them
to better themselves as well.

Speaker 14 (44:28):
Man Well said said, what does something signature that you
would like to accomplish in your turn?

Speaker 16 (44:35):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (44:36):
Man, I tell this to everyone that I meet. So
whenever I have meetings with people, we always get at
a coffee shop, but it's always outside the sixth Ward,
like outside the district, because the sixth Ward doesn't have
a coffee shop. So one of the things that I
want to bring a coffee shop the sixth Ward, like
like Starbucks, or it doesn't really have to be a chain.

Speaker 16 (44:57):
I can be like a small mom and pop.

Speaker 14 (44:59):
But I really want opportunity knocking. As Joannie would.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Say, that's a great that's beautiful.

Speaker 16 (45:08):
I mean most.

Speaker 14 (45:09):
People say, oh, I want to fix homelessness, dude, that's
actually possible.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
It's a simple little things that you know.

Speaker 14 (45:18):
That's a great goal, man. I mean, keep simple, small
goals like that. They're actually possible to achieve those. It
might actually take five years, but sometimes or less or
less or less, but still it's possible. Like you got
to treat everything like you're getting a master's degree, especially
with this with dealing with our money, right, I want
you guys doing your best work.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Robert lets you.

Speaker 14 (45:42):
Know, well, I'm a very liberal dude most of the time,
but when it comes to money, I like to be
conservative because the more money you stay, the more things
you can do with it later, right, And actually the
more leverage you have when you need to get money
and loans and things like that as well. So I'd

(46:05):
like to see sam Renadino thrive in the future. I've
seen us cut to the bone and I see, yeah,
and I've seen as a build out of that, you know,
add a little bit of there's a tiny bit of
muscle there. We'll put some skin over it. But we
might have to cut here a little bit coming up,
but hopefully not as much if we did have to

(46:26):
cut something. One when you think about that, like, where
does your mind first go? Like, because it's never fair.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
No, it's certainly not, and it's not an easy decision
to make. But I think our focus should be on growth,
you know, so that we can prevent or avoid having
to make cuts. And so if we streamline certain department,
let's say, Planning and development, so that it is easier
for businesses to come to the city and we generate
a little bit more revenue, then we don't have to
worry so much about making those cuts. But unfortunately, yes,

(46:57):
cuts do have to happen occasionally, and those aren't easy
things to do because how do you choose which, you know,
what do we cut today or what do we cut?
It's because regardless of where we cut, it's going to
affect another system in the whole big piece or people
out in the community. And we've had so much deferred
maintenance at this point where you've seen our streets, they're

(47:19):
they're they're horrible, they really are. And so we are
making small steps.

Speaker 14 (47:23):
Especially the First Ward. The First War has had a
lot of their everything was deferred over there for a
long time.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
And so we're finally having more money coming in than
we had anticipated, and we're we're a little bit more healthy,
and in fact, we're a heck of a lot more
healthy than we used to be, and we are starting
to make those small improves. And now, what would it
take to repave every single street in the city. Well,
that's probably close to a billion dollars right there. So
we can't do that all.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
In one year.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
But what we can do is focus our energy, our efforts,
our resources in areas that that makes sense.

Speaker 14 (47:59):
Places that been Nigga comes, Swiss cheese all through you
know the ground there. So yeah, oh we'll build new
roads for you.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
But I think our focus should really really be on
growth so that we don't have to worry about making
those cuts. And if an.

Speaker 14 (48:13):
Interesting data point to see, like putting money into a
department and seeing how many more businesses actually came to
the city because more money was put in the and
and then like you could actually add how much money
you could get per dollar you put in and show

(48:36):
because a lot of times people just say, oh, you're
just adding another administrator, administrator your top heavy.

Speaker 13 (48:44):
But the top heavy people are like mad, I can't
even move so restricted.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
They're extremely stretched out right now. But that there's certainly
one of the things that I do receive many phone
calls about is why does it take so long my plant.
I'm still waiting for a planner to be a signed
me and it's been five months. But you know, and
word gets out and people hear these things and they're
saying they're thinking, well, why am I going to go
to San Bernardino when I can go to a neighboring

(49:10):
city and they'll get it done in two three months.
And so that's yeah, you've seen you've seen the changes
that have occurred in Fontana over the last twenty twenty
plus years. It's completely grown up. It's not the Fontana
that we at the home. But so, but that would

(49:30):
be that would be an example of something that could
realistically change, you know, over the course of the next
few months, especially you know, with with the city with
a new city manager coming in as well, where we
can refocus some of our our energy and assess a
certain department so that we can streamline some of those
things and make it easier to open up those mom
and pop shops or those little businesses that help bring

(49:51):
in revenue to our city so that we can continue
to provide those those resource resources that the residents do deserve.

Speaker 13 (49:59):
Definitely, definitely thank you. Thank you for explaining and sharing
and sharing that that well thought out what's happening in
our community and ways of looking at this and trying
to focus on the growth. A couple of questions for
you guys both. I'm wondering does the city of Samardino
have a community Day? Because I know in Redlands they

(50:20):
do a community day where they advertise throughout the whole
entire city to come out and clean up a certain part.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Have you got Do we have one.

Speaker 13 (50:28):
Of those here in Samaradino And if not, I would
love to see that that happened, some kind of community
service day where all of us go out whatever wardrone
we go and clean up the wars like everybody as
an entire city, as an act of goodwill, like to
have a day out of the year that we kind
of do that worre like community loving community.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
I would love to see that, right.

Speaker 13 (50:49):
But and then the question that I actually have for
both of you is like and it's more of a
happy thing, like we're we're a few of your favorite
restaurants in Samonnadino And what do you guys do with
your family?

Speaker 5 (50:59):
And because.

Speaker 14 (51:07):
I had antation.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
Something that's going over with the foods at you know
what I mean.

Speaker 13 (51:17):
But yeah, some of the restaurants, some of your favorite
like go to spots, you know, for myself, like I
love going to Ama Pola like that. You know, I
used to love Taco Bend there for the pork chili fries,
you know, back in the day, you know what I mean.
So where are some of your favorites throughout the city?

Speaker 4 (51:32):
You know, I'm gonna let Mario answer that particular work
just before I get that we have had the festival,
we have the Extravaganza coming up. I know the cal
State Temporary has Coyote Care Days, so we did partner
up with that. So there and then there are other
smaller little groups that do go out in the community
do little cleanups. I know that I've been a part
of a few, but I think it would be a
really good idea if we could just put something so

(51:56):
that all collectively can kind of work together on one
specific day and get something maybe with maybe with Redlands.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
Maybe we'll make a effort.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
I co hosted a clean up day with a neighboring
council in the City of Colton council member as well,
where we joined on one of our bordering streets where
where his district is on one side, mine is on
the other side. We all brought our residents together and
we were able to bring between Colton and the city
of Sambordino to clean up.

Speaker 13 (52:25):
I like has to be over by Sanmardino Valley College
somewhere over that.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
It's over down toward that that that area on Hunts Lane.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
Okay, definitely, that's awesome.

Speaker 16 (52:37):
Restaurant. Obviously. No, my dad doesn't really cook, so.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
I love to cook.

Speaker 17 (52:46):
Then No, I like cooking too. Favorite restaurants. So it
depends what I'm feeling. So I mean, if I'm trying
to like splurge and like treat myself, if you want
like some good barbecue, and this is spirit, ye shout
out to.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
The old mug, you know what I mean.

Speaker 13 (53:04):
The meatball sandwiches were so good, the mug was so good,
and the pizza.

Speaker 17 (53:09):
Was off Texas And then uh, if I want like
a quick like taco burrito, I go right there off
of Foothill and Meridian.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
So it's like definitely, I know the domain Long, the
doormin Long.

Speaker 13 (53:23):
The sleeper, that big burrito man like, because there's one
in fall Tan and we used to go to the
one and.

Speaker 14 (53:29):
Yeah, he's going to sleep.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's a big old burrito.

Speaker 13 (53:33):
And then they calls the sleeper yo, like for real,
it's it's delicious of those.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
Well know, you can get two meals out of one,
bro for real, for real?

Speaker 4 (53:43):
You know how four meals? You're right?

Speaker 17 (53:47):
And then I guess last h, I really like Asian cuisine.
And there's this really good spot. It's it's a Vietnamese
restaurant off of Watermen and Mills. Yeah it's it's called
fuh huh I believe. Yeah, so very delicious.

Speaker 14 (54:04):
Like the number is good too, right there on Waterman. Well,
I heard a lot of good things.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
About it's a good spot as well.

Speaker 17 (54:10):
Yeah, we have some incredible food, don't we really do
You haven't any different?

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Oh my goodness, I am so spoiled.

Speaker 9 (54:21):
I have.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
Especially down the Hospitality Lane, there's a lot of little,
not the chain restaurants, but there's a few small ones
I meet personally. I love like Indian food. You know
there there's uh Clay Oven and down there as well,
and they're both right there on Hospitality is Hospitality Lane.
I love Thai food some of my favorite. There's Proving
Restaurant down on Hospitality as well before it kicks, but

(54:45):
right there down of Hospitality Lane as well. So yeah,
there's a there's two Thai restaurants down on Hospitality Lane
that I love to go to as well. But then
I also hang out a couple of times over at
Burger Point. Also, he's done a lot of great stuff
in the in the community as well, so I appreciate

(55:05):
all all this stuff that he does.

Speaker 14 (55:07):
Just had Payata Tie on Highland across the street from
Paris Paris Hill Park, very good, good food. And then
also Tye Place over on Kandle University right there.

Speaker 13 (55:22):
Stuff you know for myself, you know, like I said,
I love I'm a Polos Taco bender. Also I enjoy
the spirit of Texas as well, you know, going in there.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
I love the O G rose marias you.

Speaker 11 (55:35):
Knows, you know what I mean.

Speaker 13 (55:40):
You know, I sometimes you do get to Chili Riano
because there's they put the pork in there too, you
know what I mean. But I normally get the bean
rice and cheese burrito, meat rice and cheese burrito and
add sour cream, you know, and the.

Speaker 14 (55:53):
Walk sauce they call avocado.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
No, I normally don't get that. I like it.

Speaker 13 (55:59):
What I love buss there, the hot the sausa, the
hot sauce, like I always buy a bottle of that.

Speaker 18 (56:04):
Cousin you can throw you yeah, the video of them,
you know.

Speaker 14 (56:14):
I'll just does that to you guys. Haven't to try
that sometime. But all that is incredible restaurants.

Speaker 13 (56:22):
You know one other place that I love and it's
a chain, But I used to the North End Bakers,
like the Bakers right by Shannon Hills. Like we used
to go because my cousin, my god rest is so
Nicholas Gregory Krome used to live in a couple of
apartments right by Shannon Hill, and we would go to
Bakers all the time and get I love Bakers cheeseburgers, right.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 13 (56:43):
And and and and their beef burritos and stuff like that,
so we would hit up that Baker's all the time.
It's kind of nostalgia.

Speaker 14 (56:49):
And then of course Golden Pizza and well, no, I
was gonna say, all those ones are incredible, but if
you're sponsoring the show, you get an extra bit.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
Actually, how about yourself, bro, how about yourself?

Speaker 14 (57:04):
Yeah? I mean I do like the Chili ran a
burrito with walk Them Away from from Rose Marias. That's
always really a go to for me. Amy likes some
pean and cheese burrito from them, like if we're having
a bad day or whatever, I liketthing. So, but we

(57:26):
do have a lot of good food and I do
try to try new spots around and don't forget that team.
We can't just hit the same old spots all the time. Yeah,
because these businesses need love too. I mean, commodities are
high right now, right, so you know, it's it's hard
to make ends meet.

Speaker 13 (57:43):
You know, one thing that I want to get to
and I know we're circling towards the end of the show.
I know they do like like I don't know where
this is happening. Is that the Orange Show where they
have like that all the different vendors come out and
it's like I think it's like Friday Nights or something
like that.

Speaker 14 (57:57):
Yeah, it's where.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
It used to be before. It's now over at the
Orange Show.

Speaker 13 (58:01):
Okay, well, I gotta get over there because the food
looks so amazing.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Every video I.

Speaker 14 (58:04):
See food out everywhere that's is.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
No eat money.

Speaker 13 (58:08):
What are Do you have any favorite go to spots
in the Inland Empire? Because I know you you Riverside brother,
Riverside Native. Where's one of your favorite go tos in
in the count in the Empire?

Speaker 15 (58:19):
I really like bob os in Food Lab.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
It's nice spicy chicken.

Speaker 15 (58:24):
But if we're talking about towards Los Aierra's side where
I stay in Riverside, Uh, there's a Korean chicken spot
over there. Oh my gosh, the names escaping me right now.
But it's right on Magnolia.

Speaker 16 (58:34):
And Los Aira Brain.

Speaker 15 (58:36):
I get a picture of beer and like eight chicken
huge chicken tan is a Korean style. I think it's
like twenty dollars there amazing food too.

Speaker 14 (58:45):
There you go and the segue.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
True driving or yeah?

Speaker 14 (58:52):
Okay, oh right, well because you don't have a segue unfortunately.

Speaker 13 (58:57):
Yeah, sadly, you know, Ulysses came on that, you know
that one day when we had time for change and everything,
but the week before was there. Sadly was their last show,
but they enjoyed their time. They had a good run,
and then I'm sure we'll see them again.

Speaker 14 (59:12):
All right, Well, it's hope for you know, just got
a sponsor away, a sponsor away for a show. I mean, like,
just ask ten people and look for nose, look.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
For they're gonna come, but find.

Speaker 14 (59:27):
Somewhere. If you get to know, then you'll be happy
with it, all right, racking.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
Them up definitely.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
All right.

Speaker 14 (59:34):
We want to thank you so much for joining us
on I love Saronio County Radio show. Thank you, and
we're gonna get you on next week. We're gonna put
a show together. I don't know what it is yet,
but it will let you know it. And thank you
too for coming on here.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
You're always it's always funny.

Speaker 14 (59:49):
There's politicians up there talking and spending our money like
wild animals.

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Robert will let you know.

Speaker 14 (59:58):
Right on and we all

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