KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 2 Jun, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 2 Jun, 2025

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Speaker 8 (07:08):
Hello, this is Robert Porter. Are missing Ipianni Lockhart and
on the I Love Samondino County Radio Show in Casey,
NBC one O six point five FM, ten fifty am. Well,
we will talk politics, culture in history today. We have
an incredible show. We have council Movement from Samon Ardino
Kim Canas on the show How You Doing Today? We

(07:29):
got Sante Earl in the house. He's doing some stuff
with AI.

Speaker 12 (07:33):
And Hey everyone, I'm excited to be here with.

Speaker 8 (07:37):
You today and what do you got for us today?
What are you gonna talk about?

Speaker 12 (07:41):
You know what, I got a whole.

Speaker 13 (07:42):
Bunch of things I can talk about, but I'm gonna
keep it real, smooth and light.

Speaker 12 (07:47):
Today. We're gonna talk a little bit about AI, talk
a little bit.

Speaker 13 (07:49):
About what I'm doing in the community with our nonprofit,
and you know, hopefully we'll have a real kickback conversation
and see if we can enlighten some folks.

Speaker 8 (07:58):
Okay, sounds like a plan. Sounds like a plan. Okay, Well,
today we have my beautiful mother, Della Porter in the house.
How you doing, Mama, Hi, I'm here. My goal was
to get her back on the radio. She was on
the radio and singing Christmas carols in December and she's
back on today. So thank you, Mama. We love you.

Speaker 14 (08:17):
I love you too.

Speaker 12 (08:18):
Then we go, yes, Yes.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
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large pepperoni pizza right here in the office. My mama
had their chicken salad. Was a good mama.

Speaker 14 (08:39):
It was wonderful.

Speaker 8 (08:39):
Yeah, they got good food over their team. Yeah, head
over to Golden and Highland or olive in Watermen, and
it's seven to fifty five plus tax all day, every day.
You can't get a better deal. Team, and watch your
kids chomp that down on a Friday, chomp it down,
and then you'll only have to give him ice cream. Right,
they'll be full.

Speaker 12 (08:58):
You gotta have ice cream.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
And if you're a really good parent, you'll get them
the chicken salad too, and make them eat a salad beforehand.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Right.

Speaker 8 (09:07):
But yeah, that's pure. Well it's good because it's coats
of the stomach and then you don't absorb as much
fat and the sugar.

Speaker 12 (09:15):
Yeah, that part all right.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
And PAL Charter Academy when they are having their graduation
at Zambernadino Valley College this Thursday, I believe at four o'clock,
me and my mama will be there. I hope to
see you all there. If you are not there, If
your kids are there, congratulations to them. Pal Charter Academy,

(09:37):
Middle School, high school. Their summer school enrollment is open
until June twentieth. Get your kids in summer school. It
is not for dumb kids. This is for setting your
kids up for the future. Right, you gotta work this summer.
Put your kids to work this summer, right, I agree.
I don't think there's a better thing that you can

(09:58):
do during the summer besides old family vacation is to
spend time doing something where you learn, right, even if
it is a summer camp or a school or some
kind of program that you're learning Spanish, whatever it is.
In ninth grade, I learned Spanish, right, That's that's what
I try to do. So, I mean, any student in

(10:20):
high school can do this themselves, right, And guess where
I learned Spanish. Sam Ardino Valley College. They have a
program for high school students that they come at least
at that time, I don't know that was nineteen died
and four. They probably still do though, so I'm maybe
check in. And I went to uh to Valley and
then I got to a chance to uh you know,

(10:41):
have more free time at school, which led more free
time to be able to work, which let me to
have money in my high school years.

Speaker 12 (10:51):
Right, it changes everything when you got money.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, it was fun, like I had a blast. I
actually took all my high school friends out for food
and stuff like that, Taco tia Wednesdays, you know, we
had it all. Anyways, good stuff, good stuff right on teams.
So please check out Pile Charter Academy. Enroll them, enroll
them in the school for summer, see if you like it.
If you like it during the summer, you might be

(11:15):
able to get them in for the fall. Right, just
keep on going. And they having a separate middle school
as well, so you can send your kids there. So
you know, mister Raden, he's a cool cat. Over there.
They're talking about, uh, maybe putting in a community garden there.
They have a brand new football field and baseball field
and like, uh, what's what's what they call this the scoreboard?

(11:38):
Brand new scoreboard. I saw it. His dad's names on there,
you know, really cool stuff. So, yes, it's an incredible
school and they have a lot of fun things for
the kids. And then the most important thing is that
the kids that I see excelling there are total smiles
and like you can see you're not faking those smiles

(11:59):
in the right, I know that these are real smiles, right,
So they they they've got to be having a good time.
I'm sure there's rough times too, because they have a
counseling center where the kids can sit down, put their
feet up and calm down.

Speaker 12 (12:13):
That's always needed.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, I probably needed that quite a few times better.

Speaker 12 (12:20):
Yeah, yes, yes, that's so true back in the day there.

Speaker 8 (12:24):
All right, I'd like to bring up our I love
Sam Bernardino stand Out of the Week as Robert Saderfield today, uh,
performing arts theater teacher at at samer Nadino and San Fragonio.
And I mean he's been involved in so much when
it comes to theater and arts and acting and stuff

(12:46):
that he's he's built this repertoire of famous people that
he can show their pictures that he's with and it's
just really it's cool to watch his post.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Right.

Speaker 8 (12:57):
And then me and Tanya on Talk of the Town
one time interviewed him and he had done a whole
expos on the Medal of Honor recipients and stuff that
they had the day, have contributed and who they were
and things like that. You know, that's super cool. So
I talked to him today. He thanked me for being

(13:17):
a stand of the Week. He's working on some stuff
for the fiftieth and seventy fifth anniversaries of graduating classes.
I think of a ceremonial ceremonial high school. But he's
pretty busy right now, so he's not gonna get on
the show anytime soon, but we will keep bugging him

(13:37):
and see what we can do. All right, this is
very important team, probably the most important thing on this
show today. How do I request city services? How do
I clean up my own town? How do I me?
You go online to sbcity dot org, slash sb access,

(13:58):
or you get the mobile app at the app store,
Go SB city, right, and then you can just take
a picture, mark the GPS. They'll come out in a
few days and fix the pothole, the graffiti, the encampment,
whatever it is you need fixed, or you know, the
old school way, sometimes we'd have to do this, give
them a call nine oh nine, three eight four seven

(14:20):
two seven to two, and you know, put in your
request for city services. Have you ever done that, a council.

Speaker 14 (14:27):
Woman, numerous times. I've been using it for years. I
used it before when it was the I think go
request and that switched over to go SB City. So
it's very very convenient, and like you said, it's a
good way to help our city out. We have to
keep in mind that we're kind of the boots on
the ground. We see it. We live here, so we
have to kind of do our part as community and report.

Speaker 8 (14:46):
And if we don't do it, then we just expect
others to.

Speaker 14 (14:50):
I mean nah, or it just doesn't get handled.

Speaker 8 (14:52):
Yeah, I mean yeah, it's just not that's the result,
is that, right? I mean, And like even when the
city does get a chance to get to stuff, they
can't be all over the sixty square mint sixty four
square miles, right, So.

Speaker 14 (15:06):
They got a hard city.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
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we don't have a lot of incredible spots here in

(15:50):
sam Ernadino that make me feel like I need to
get dressed up to go to. So when there is
a place, let's do it, let's use it. If we
do not use it, team, what will happen?

Speaker 12 (16:00):
We might lose it.

Speaker 8 (16:01):
Yes, it will end up with another jack in the box.

Speaker 12 (16:03):
Like I don't want.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
Another jack in the box. I don't. We don't need
another quack or another car wash or another storage. I
know you need those people to to pay some stuff,
but like I think we need some foody spots. Yeah, yes,
yes please. I don't want us to be like the

(16:27):
stop off point like cal State was, like the commuter campus, right, Yeah,
I don't want to be that. I want I want
to be a wholesome Yeah, the central because we are
the center.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
We are.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
Yeah, we're the hub. We've always been the hub. La
was a hub. We're a hub. La always just came
to Samernanino and back and forth.

Speaker 12 (16:46):
Right, So I.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Love Sammardian with all my hard team. So thank you,
Milk Josh. We should doing Cindy tos for all you do.
And if you get a chance, hit up Mochi nut
and BBQ Korean Fried Chicken right there on Redlands Boulevard
and Anderson right behind the bakers. Man, this stuff is good.
Those mochi nut ye donuts are incredible. And they got
these corn dogs that they roll in different toppings. Man,

(17:12):
So if you like some hot you know, gordag or whatever,
go try it. They got some good stuff. So I
love that Cindy like decided, you know what, we're getting
out of the real estate rat race for a little bit,
and we're gonna build some local businesses and some foody businesses.

Speaker 12 (17:32):
Right.

Speaker 9 (17:32):
That is so cool.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
Like the fact that she said that made me just like, Wow,
some people really do think about the future of our city, right, Yeah,
we need a lot more of those, right. So that's
why I try to showcase what Cindy and her husband
are doing and and and hopefully they can lead the
way for other people who are involved in real estate.
That I see them right now posting a million videos

(17:57):
on their real estate company. Will stop making videos team,
go open a business and doing something else, because the
time is for the for the housing's over. Yeah, you
can keep your side business a little bit for your
real estate, keep your site, your portfolio, whatever, but realize
that's gone start another business, build out of our recession.

(18:17):
That we're going to be in and then you'll have
something incredible as we leave out of it. Right, So
that's the key to hard times. That's how a lot
of people who make money off of hard times. What
people make money off of hard times? Oh yeah, yes,
there are people that pray every day for hard times.

(18:40):
So that means that we could make money out of
hard times too, right, So that means we also have
to be prepared for the possibility that there will be
some more difficult times in the future. So keep that
in mind, team, and also you know, call and request
some city services. Right. How do you get more information
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Speaker 8 (19:24):
And that's brought to you by Motivational Realizations, thelogy a
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And as we get started, we have the wonderful councilwoman
Kim Kannath in the house. So you doing today, I'm
doing great pleasure to be here today. And uh so,

(19:47):
I mean you worked hard to get to this point.
Is it everything you ever dreamed?

Speaker 14 (19:52):
Oh? And more?

Speaker 12 (19:53):
Your camera?

Speaker 8 (19:54):
Oh off the Jena. Oh so go ahead and we
can keep talking.

Speaker 13 (19:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (20:00):
I mean I knew when I signed on that, you know,
our city definitely has challenges. So I didn't come in
with my eyes closed for sure. Well, I say it
was a little more challenging than I ever could dream of. Absolutely.
I mean, We've had a lot of surprises thrown at
us within a very short period of time. But I'm

(20:21):
a fighter, I'm a bit of a bulldog, and I
love this city. I've been here since nineteen eighty four.
It's my home and I say it all the time.
For all of us, it's a choice.

Speaker 11 (20:30):
You know.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
We could be like so many other people that put
up afore sale sign and move over to the land
of Milk and honey, you know, Rancho Cucamonga or even
now Fontana. But we choose to stay here, and we
choose to be involved, and we choose to actually get
out work for the benefit and the betterment of our city.
And so that's why I signed on. You know, Robert,

(20:51):
I've always been involved in community, you know, doing sp
food Fest, I had the Verdemont Revitalization project. This was
just a necessary to actually a million cleanups, yes, many
city cleanups, cleaning up trash all over I've done.

Speaker 8 (21:08):
So if our city budget was a towel and you're
a bulldog, oh goodness.

Speaker 12 (21:14):
You're.

Speaker 8 (21:18):
What what will you shake out of the budget right now?

Speaker 14 (21:21):
Just well, I'm going to be very transparent. I mean
I was very transparent at our budget workshop. I'm always transparent,
so I shouldn't say I'm going to be because I
always am. You know, I've always really been a stickler
when it comes to our city coffers, because we are
not We're out of bankruptcy, but we are not at
a place where we are thriving. And that is troublesome.

(21:44):
When you look at every surrounding city and you look
at the amount of economic development that they have had,
they are out pacing us left and right. So you'll
see actually on Wednesday's agenda, there is a proposed future
item that I have put on there in regards to
our economic development, it is way past time that Sarmonidino
has had more of an intentional focus on our economic development.

(22:06):
To your point, we get a lot of fast food,
we get a lot of car washes. You know, that's
not diverse businesses. Those aren't catalytic projects that are really
going to change the trajectory of our city. That's not
what's going to propel Sarmondino and move us forward. I mean,
you've been here just as long as I have. How
long have we been talking about redeveloping parasomal I mean

(22:27):
it's kind of a source subject. I mean, it's at
least it's a vacant lot now.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
I mean at least.

Speaker 14 (22:35):
I mean I will say, you know, I I'm bougie
and I tell everyone this, If I could make this
Beverly Hills, I would. You know, we deserve so much
better as residents because again, we choose to be here.
I'm raising my two babies here. You know, I'm invested
in multiple ways, and we deserve to have things in
our city. We deserve to have things in the place

(22:55):
that we call home. And so that's what I'm working
with the council to try to change your tra directory,
but change our focus. You know, back to our budget.
We were able to balance the budget, which is great,
but we have to keep in mind the how how
are we able to balance that budget? We have essentially
asked every city department to cut their budget by five percent.

(23:18):
That's you have to keep in mind. There's ramifications with that.
We have to keep in mind. Okay, public works cuts
five percent, what services are being cut five percent? If
PD is cutting five percent, what services are going to
be cut five percent?

Speaker 8 (23:33):
If of course with the animal shelters cutting five percent? Yes, exactly,
That's why it's good to put it across the board
like you do. Well, it's kind of everybody.

Speaker 14 (23:45):
I get it, but I say yes and no. And
this is the reason I say the no again. If
we do not focus on building up our city coffers,
we will continually be in this predicament. Exactly how many
times have we been having to cut Remember sitting in
that audience before I was a council person, and it
was Councilman Sanchez, that was you know, really you know,

(24:05):
going through those items saying we're having to cut trimming trees,
We're having to do this. That was just about two
years ago, and now here we are for our twenty
five twenty six fiscal year. We're in the same predicament.
So my thing is we.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Have little reserves.

Speaker 14 (24:22):
You know, we have reserves, which is great, but we
don't want to go into the rest.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
Which we which we created because of the bankruptcy, right yeah.
The fact that we're in a better position than la
is because of.

Speaker 14 (24:34):
The or we didn't have fires. We definitely.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah, so they're hurting that right So, but we do
rely on sales tax as well, so heavily. Yeah. I
often look at their economy and downsize of towers and realize, wow, well.

Speaker 14 (24:51):
You know, their economy definitely is very different. It's like
comparing apples to oranges. I mean a little bit is
if you want to compare it at the same we'll
look at the city of Stockton and compare it to
Samonnidino and you'll see it's a start comparison. Do they
use property to do and so you'll see what we
are missing out on, and so you know, can't go back. Unfortunately,

(25:13):
that was a deal that was done in fortunity, but
we are currently engaging with the county. I thought, good
for you for doing that.

Speaker 8 (25:23):
It made it impossible for you to actually to beat
laugh you.

Speaker 14 (25:25):
Could well, well, we'll never say, you know, impossible just yet.
You know, we're going to remain optimistic. The county's great
partners and we have to keep them. We are the
county seat, you know. And I think everyone's really rooting
for Salmonidino. That's one thing, you know, in my campaign
that was quite refreshing, you know, and meeting a lot
of our you know, other city counterparts and colleagues, they

(25:47):
are genuinely wanting Samonnidino to succeed. They're like, we're rooting,
we want to help you guys. What is it going
to take for you guys to get it together? So
it was refreshing and it still is. And I we
still have a lot of allies out there. We just
have to do our part. We really do. I think
that Samnadino. Unfortunately, we've had a lot of toxicity in

(26:10):
our politics, but we also have a lot of silos.
There's a lot of division. When I got involved and
I started in my community organization, that was one thing
that was glaring to me. It's kind of like, you know, mine, mine, mind, mine,
the me, me, me me, there's not a lot of
us us us, and so we really have to work
towards breaking that down. And that's been a goal for mine,

(26:32):
even on the council. I mean, our previous council was
literally known as the left side versus the right side.
And it's kind of unfortunate how some of the community members,
you know, the are for the gang of this or
the gang of that. You know, we really have to
stop talking about our city the way that we do.
If we really want to realize the change, we have
to kind of change how we talk about our city,

(26:53):
and that includes our council.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
We can't change nobody.

Speaker 14 (26:56):
It don't change yourself exactly. So the words we.

Speaker 8 (26:59):
Speak, you've got a problem.

Speaker 14 (27:02):
And the words that we do we speak do have power.
So it kind of hurts me when I'm hearing like
Sam ra to ghetto and Sam were to do do
like we have to stop using those words.

Speaker 8 (27:11):
I'll tell it right now. I have reported that Sarmon
Ghetto pay a million dollars.

Speaker 14 (27:15):
Thank you. I think you say that, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 8 (27:18):
And then I know who runs it, and they run
it because they're making fun of me. Whatever, would Oh,
you know what, I didn't know that because it can't.
You know, not everyone can love good Way well.

Speaker 14 (27:27):
And that's unfortunate because again that you know, it is
we have to It starts with us, it truly does.
And so some of the positives, you know, I know
what the perception may be, but I will say for
the majority of the council, we really have coalesced. It
has been really refreshing to sit there next to my
council colleagues and really just push forward, you know, not

(27:50):
be deterred by the noise, not be deterred by the
naysayers and the negative We have really coalesced to say, Okay,
we're going to focus on doing what we know is
right for the city so that we can really start
rebuilding our foundation. Because I'm really firm on this. You
can't build off of a broken foundation. It will continue
to fall.

Speaker 8 (28:10):
So one question I have to ask a little my
hope it's not too difficult. But for the animals, yeah,
I'm a big animal advocate, the pigs and dogs and turtles.

Speaker 14 (28:22):
I had four dogs at one point, and I know it.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
I know we're it's a very hard situation, especially when
there's cuts so if there's anything we can do to
try to get a veterinarian.

Speaker 14 (28:35):
So we have been trying. As you can see, there's
been open vacancies. Filling that position isn't.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
As easy as you up that salary.

Speaker 14 (28:44):
Probably the salary.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
I've asked big philanthropists around town that if they could
whatever we could do to try to up that salary,
for them to pressure the city to up the salary.
I mean, like, when you pay a proper salary, guess.

Speaker 14 (28:59):
What happened sweat Robert, I get it, But guess what
that's all around? You know, we just and that's why
I'm really big on economic development, because we can't talk
about these things. We can't talk about filling the potholes,
we can't talk about repaving streets if we're not talking
about the money that it's going to take to do that.
So when we're talking about budget cuts, but we're not

(29:19):
talking about how we're going to replace that five percent
in the future and beyond, that's concerning to me. So
that's a conversation that I'm trying to turn and happen.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
You're going to get it. You're gonna eventually it's going
to turn. And then it's going to go the positive.

Speaker 14 (29:34):
Well, I think we just got to keep pushing for it.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
And if you were there with us, they cut to
the bone. I know we still have not got back
to those levels. So guess what's gonna right back to
the bone.

Speaker 14 (29:44):
Well, I think you have to keep in mind too,
we're talking about a bankruptcy that was two thousand and nine.
We're now in twenty twenty five, so we're talking about
getting back. We shouldn't be aspiring to get back to
two thousand and nine. We have to keep in mind
our city's grown since then. We need to increase those numbers.
So that's what I mean. As far as we really
have to think about our future and where we want

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to be and plan for it accordingly, we can't. You know,
we are all American city. We have so much history,
and it does kill me sometimes when I see so
much of our history lost. But simultaneously, we have to
be planning for our future, for future generations to come.
Like you're talking about AI. Those are technological advantages.

Speaker 8 (30:26):
Though. The people that are building in our city they
don't care about our history and they don't care about
our future. Well some of them, I'm serious. They just
want to have They see a cheap piece of land
that's cheaper than everywhere else, and they're going to do
whatever they can to build on that land because it's
gonna make a money.

Speaker 14 (30:44):
Well that's why I say we have to change that,
because you know, capitalism is going to survive.

Speaker 8 (30:50):
So how do we do it? We like, well, you
go after Amazon and say, you know what, you need
to start paying city sales tax?

Speaker 14 (30:57):
Well they do. I mean, this is the thing. We
have to have a plan. What is that saying? Like,
you can't stop a man with a plan. We first
have to have a plan. You know, again back to
the silos and the different agendas. You know, when we're
all working towards different goals, what gets accomplished not very much.
So we really have to again that's why I'm really excited,

(31:18):
you know, for our time and we're we're at currently
with our city council. We are coalescing, you know, the
city manager recruitment. There was a lot of fan fear
that came along with that, but it was necessary because
it starts at the top leadership.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
Is any movement?

Speaker 14 (31:32):
Absolutely yes, you know. So we moved forward and it
was I think something that was necessary. You know, we
we've been without a city manager, a permanent city manager
now for over a year. So you have to keep
in mind how that impacts staff, and we are losing
staff left and right. Oh yeah, you know, to.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
Me, I don't expect to keep the city manager long.
Don't say that, you know.

Speaker 14 (31:56):
So that's when we have to speak like and we
have to speak positive.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
They end up in a problem and they leave because
we're not getting quality in the beginning.

Speaker 14 (32:05):
So let's say this because about speaking, you know, positive appromation.
I want you to speak because it really is us
coming together as a city. We have to home. Ever
is in that seat set them up for success. You know.
That's one thing that I noticed, you know, And I
wasn't in agreeance with the last city manager, permanent pick.
Obviously I wasn't on the council. I didn't have a say,

(32:27):
but you know, being a resident from the outside looking in,
I was like, oh, this is horrible, you know, But
I do think that the council was kind of.

Speaker 8 (32:34):
The last time I did try. All right, I'm going
to try to be positive and I'm gonna go along
with this so we can change the beginning of the
city it were crooked with our money.

Speaker 14 (32:45):
Like I tried, like, well him, I think I think
you're talking about one of the other you know so.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
Much that like I feel like sometimes people come here
just to take advantage of us.

Speaker 14 (32:58):
Yeah, we won't go all the way there. Yes, I
do agree with that.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
So, like you said, do you have two young ins
and go to So what's it like being a councilwoman
and a mama and a wife, And.

Speaker 14 (33:14):
It's challenging. I will be very crystal clear about that.
I juggle a lot, I wear a lot of hats.
I'm a CEO of a nonprofit organization, I'm a mom,
I'm a wife, and I'm a city council person. And
even though our city council is a part time job,
we have full time needs for this city. So my
days are that far time by the charter, charter, but

(33:38):
you be getting calls and text all literally it's seven
days a week. Yeah, no, so yeah, I mean, but
you know, I think that God led me to this
seat for a reason, and I'm trusting and believing and
I'm going with it and keeping optimistic.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
Your husband, what was his name again, Anthony? Anthony?

Speaker 14 (33:58):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (33:59):
How does he how does he like you.

Speaker 14 (34:04):
Definitely has their moments, but you know, he's been a deer.
He really has. Even you know, before obviously even stepping
on council, I was highly involved in the city. So
I always say that my family's always had to share
me with the city of Samrenandino, and I really appreciate
them for that. And my babies. They've been a troop,
all of them, including my hubby.

Speaker 8 (34:23):
So where do you guys go on date night?

Speaker 14 (34:25):
Oh? My god, what's a date night? No, we haven't
had one of those. We you know, we do a lot.

Speaker 8 (34:32):
Of sizzling summer nights.

Speaker 14 (34:34):
Is coming up at Yes, Yes, we enjoyed those last summer,
so we'll be back. We will.

Speaker 9 (34:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
And uh, where's your favorite place to eat in Samandino?

Speaker 14 (34:45):
Oh my goodness, I have a I have a couple.
I do like Yang's Noodle House, which is in my
fifth ward area.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
I've noted that yet.

Speaker 14 (34:52):
Yes, they're pretty good. I love their their Chinese fried rice.
They have this sausage in there. Oh so good. It's
really really good. So that's one of my favorites. I
am a boba person, not I don't like boba, but
I love Thai iced tea and so oh god, now
the names escaping me a liquid tea bar. They have
great teas. I love them. And then we just have

(35:14):
a new one hung Up on Caine. I'm a foodie,
so I'm a little bit of It doesn't look like it, but.

Speaker 8 (35:19):
I actually went to Lemon Shark a lot before hung up.

Speaker 14 (35:23):
I haven't been to that's the one. I haven't been here.

Speaker 8 (35:27):
And then became hung out of a Yeah.

Speaker 14 (35:29):
Oh so that's what it replays Lemon left. Sorry. Yeah,
well there's another pokey place over by University across from
kel State.

Speaker 8 (35:40):
We're going there next. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (35:43):
So no, we have a good it is it is
really good.

Speaker 8 (35:46):
Yeah, around kel State we really are starting to build
up a foody kind.

Speaker 14 (35:50):
Of culture, are I just I'm really wanting like a
nice sit down restaurant would be. That's what we really need.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
So also, it was on that huge hill right there
as you're coming in, right to the or used to
put the letters up there on the hill. Oh yeah,
the little complex there. Yeah, all right, well that sounds cool.
The fifth Ward has been doing well cal State and

(36:18):
growing and incredible, yes, offering a lot for our community too.
So thank you, thank you so much. For helping the
fifth ward and like coming on here as not as
like in a candidate or anything, but as a real.

Speaker 14 (36:33):
Council I'm a real person. I tell everyone, I'm a
resident just like everyone else. The only difference is I
signed up for this crazy task of being a council person.
But I'm just like everyone else. I'm a resident here
that loves Samernardino and and.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
And because you're in the in the limelight and your
public figure out, people are going to attack you.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
Oh god, well that's been happening, to be quite honest.

Speaker 8 (36:59):
And I just want to tell you, like, whatever they do,
make it into a shirt.

Speaker 14 (37:06):
I like that.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
I'm totally serious.

Speaker 14 (37:08):
Oh I like that, whatever aid you.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
Make it into a shirt because they're giving you some
publicity and that's all you need, right, you know, someone
good is going to read that same thing. It's like, man,
that person me so like, you know, I had one
person grab my most worst photo ever and put it
online with all this stuff on it and you know,
maybe a girl and everything, right because I was against

(37:33):
the wall or the dollar General Marshall Street, Yes, just
because of that as a commissioner, Like so I took
that picture and I said I'm gonna make it into
a shirt and I posted it all over the internet.
They didn't do anything else, So I love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(37:54):
I know myself I probably should have. But anyway, you know,
that would have really showed him, right, you know, like
that's something I appreciate that. So Chantelle Earl Chante, Earl
oh Chante, Earl Jante Earl. So where are you.

Speaker 12 (38:10):
From, Salmernardino?

Speaker 8 (38:12):
Oh, you're from our hometown.

Speaker 13 (38:14):
I am from Sanmernardino. I was born and raised on
the west side of town. Born at the County Hospital.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Will born kim Me Iphon was born at the Saint
Bernardine Ah there.

Speaker 14 (38:30):
I was born on a base.

Speaker 8 (38:33):
Base baby which one.

Speaker 14 (38:35):
So I Edward's Air Force Base. So my dad was
stationed there and it was Norton. He was a captain
in the Air Force. That brought my family here in
eighty four.

Speaker 12 (38:43):
Cool.

Speaker 8 (38:43):
Yeah, my father was in the military disabled veterans, so
we got to go to Norton Commissary and March Air
Force Base and all that stuff. When I was a kid,
you know, going pat going down Tippe canoe and they'd
be like, yeah, right, and you have your little sticker
on your.

Speaker 14 (38:58):
Little I'd always get lost the commissary.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
Did you have your own little? I d at twelve.
At twelve years old, I got my own ID, and
I thought I was the coolest person ever.

Speaker 14 (39:12):
I don't think it lasted that long. I think by
twelve unfortunately.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
The Air Force.

Speaker 13 (39:18):
Yes, imagine that crazy some different different times back then.

Speaker 8 (39:23):
So your west side, west side? Which school? Did you
go to?

Speaker 12 (39:27):
San Bardino High School?

Speaker 8 (39:28):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a Pacific pirate. Right here home house,
right there's there's SEGREGONI right there.

Speaker 12 (39:40):
Excellent, excellent. We moved around the city a lot.

Speaker 13 (39:43):
Let me tell you, we moved a lot, being on
the west side of town. And uh, you know, I
grew up early with my mother first half of my
life till I was about nineteen years old. And then
she decided she was gonna move out of town. Then
my dad came around and said, okay, you got are
coming with me, And I started to living with my
pops and we lived literally right off of Fifth Street

(40:06):
and Supovida, right across the street from the San So
Kobe Lake. I'm right here in the hood. I still
as a matter of fact, I remember back then, me
and my sister.

Speaker 12 (40:21):
We used to go to the.

Speaker 13 (40:22):
Lake, find as many strings as we can, find sticks
and find those nice little hooks, throw them in the
lake and sit there and fish until I got all
these hooks in my hand. And then you know, I
was like, I don't like this fishing thing. I mean,
it was fun while lasted, but it didn't last that long.
But you know, my household, you know, unfortunately we had

(40:44):
some issues.

Speaker 12 (40:44):
In my household.

Speaker 13 (40:45):
And my dad he told us one summer, he said,
we don't want you to come home after school. I
need you guys to go to the library. You guys
stay at the library and when I come.

Speaker 12 (40:55):
Home, then you come home. I'm like, well, this is
where we had to go.

Speaker 13 (41:00):
And as that summer I was at the library and
I remember clearly, I was about eleven years old, and
that summer there was a gentleman in the local library
right next to the courthouse that was teaching that was
teaching kids how to code computers. Oh wow, And I

(41:21):
learned how to code a computer at eleven. It wasn't much,
but I was able to make a stick figure walk
across the screen.

Speaker 8 (41:31):
I went to Riley Elementary and it was a magnet program.
For computers, and I got to work on an Apple
two and I built this program that had this rocket
shoot up into the sky.

Speaker 12 (41:42):
Right, very cool, you know what I mean? Yeah, it
was cool.

Speaker 8 (41:44):
Study it was.

Speaker 12 (41:45):
It was one of the best. It was one of
the best.

Speaker 13 (41:47):
And you know, I started reading those little books that
you know, great adventure books, and I became a I
liked reading. I realized that reading took me away from
all of the issues that I had.

Speaker 12 (41:59):
Now all had issues, not all.

Speaker 13 (42:01):
Of us, but some households are different than others. Everybody
has some kind of challenge. But I realized that I
had a love for technology and.

Speaker 12 (42:09):
A love for reading, and the beauty of that is.

Speaker 13 (42:14):
I ended up getting back into that industry later on
in my career because I noticed that all my family members,
they always call me if they need their computer fix,
if they need me to connect something to the VCR
or to fix something. I've always been the guy that
they would call.

Speaker 8 (42:32):
So, what what is the main thing you have to
fix on your family's computer?

Speaker 12 (42:36):
Usually I have to run some type of program to
get the viruses off.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
The virus. There's always viruses that never do like they
just didn't know how to turn the volume on the computer.
Nothing like that. Okay, I still get that too. Virus yeah,
I still the normal stuff was very was very very

(43:00):
viruses off.

Speaker 12 (43:01):
Sometimes you know sometimes I you know, back in the day,
you keep making it work.

Speaker 13 (43:06):
I heard you keep them in quarantine. Well right now, quarantine.
Let's not talk about quarantine because let me tell you.
Let me tell you the quarantine we experienced during COVID.
That was something that was absolutely insane. It drove me
back in the house and back on the computer.

Speaker 8 (43:25):
Maybe a good thing, right, Actually.

Speaker 13 (43:28):
You know, I look at life like this when you
were talking about positive and keeping things, looking for the
opportunity in the midst of all the challenges. I believe
everything happens in its season, and a lot of times
we make decisions based on temporary circumstances, knowing that there
is always going to be a season after every recession,

(43:49):
there's always some type of years of growth and excel
and then obviously it comes back around to another.

Speaker 12 (43:59):
It's all in cycles.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
And we've had a long I mean, this is the
longest good time we've had in a long, long, long,
long time.

Speaker 12 (44:06):
It's been great.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
Yeah, cod wasn't that bad because they fed us some
good money.

Speaker 12 (44:11):
Right, Well, yeah, they gave some money away. Yeah, and
a lot of people.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
No, no, no, this is a thing like that. I
spent so much that my life changed, Like I lost
a couple of years, but I got to spend time
with my family and do things that I never ever
would have done.

Speaker 14 (44:29):
Yes, I think it had. It definitely had some negative impacts,
but as far as like economically speaking, it had a
complete opposite effect of what we anticipated. And we thought
real estate was going to tank and all of that,
but it was an opposite.

Speaker 13 (44:43):
Yeah, it's been it's been a very interesting ride. I know,
during the first recession, I ended up getting into real
estate because I am still a licensed agent.

Speaker 12 (44:52):
I've been a licensed agent for over eighteen years.

Speaker 13 (44:54):
And I realized when the first recession that we entered,
I had to make a HIVT and because people were
losing homes, things were going bunkers, and everybody was trying
to figure out what they were going to do, including myself.

Speaker 12 (45:07):
And you know, I have a big family, and I'm like.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
Well, I like com I mean, kid, you got five kids.

Speaker 12 (45:14):
And I've been married to a beautiful wife by the
name of Tawan, who's for thirty years.

Speaker 8 (45:18):
Oh bless congratulations, thank.

Speaker 13 (45:21):
You, thank you, thank you, And you know it's been
a it's been an interesting season.

Speaker 12 (45:26):
Thank God.

Speaker 13 (45:27):
God gives us good women that we can help, that
can beil us out when we mess up.

Speaker 8 (45:31):
They messed up to our family.

Speaker 12 (45:37):
There we got, there, we got. That's always a wonderful thing.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
Just for you, Mama. I love you.

Speaker 12 (45:43):
Yeah, that's come on. You got to enjoy your mother.

Speaker 8 (45:46):
Now you start. So you got back into computers and
reading it and you started a non for profit.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
Well, you know what what took place was this in
twenty twenty nine. I pivoted, like I shared with you. Yeah,
well I do think about the future. A few years.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
My fault year.

Speaker 13 (46:08):
Two thousand, two thousand and seven, and I got back
into the computers and I said, well, let me learn
how to cold build websites, because you know, things.

Speaker 12 (46:18):
They change so quickly.

Speaker 13 (46:20):
One minute, you spend all your time learning one thing,
and then you wake up the next day. That's old.
Now you have to learn something else. I don't know
if you've ever experienced that, but that's how it was
back in that day, back in you know, two thousand
and nine, twenty ten, And you know I was.

Speaker 12 (46:35):
Able to learn some things.

Speaker 13 (46:36):
I made a little bit of money back then, and
I kept my finger on the pulse and continue to
try to figure out, well, how can I make all
the money online and not have to go to work.

Speaker 12 (46:47):
I think that's what a lot of people.

Speaker 8 (46:48):
Isn't that the secret?

Speaker 13 (46:50):
Well, you got the juice, there's there's really it doesn't work.

Speaker 12 (46:57):
It doesn't work.

Speaker 13 (46:57):
You can you can live the dream, you can buy
the dream, sell the dream, but it don't always.

Speaker 12 (47:02):
Sometimes it turns into a nightmare.

Speaker 13 (47:03):
Yeah, but I stuck and I continue to keep my
finger on the pulse and fast forward. When COVID hit,
I was like, you know what, this is a good
time to start creating courses and you know, I have
to knowledge some But something amazing happened in twenty twenty two.
We were introduced to chat GPT, Open AI November introduce

(47:28):
this thing called artificial intelligence.

Speaker 8 (47:30):
I mean, we all were the humanity.

Speaker 13 (47:32):
Humanity, So I'm thinking to myself, what were they doing
while we were locked in the house.

Speaker 12 (47:39):
What's really going on?

Speaker 8 (47:41):
Now?

Speaker 13 (47:41):
All of a sudden we get this new technology and
it's literally changed the way we do everything everything.

Speaker 8 (47:47):
Yes, and I just read a whole article about like,
let's stop sugar coating it. It's about fifty percent of
all admissions, you know, desk jobs things like that are
going to be gone. We gotta start pivoting with this
new technology.

Speaker 13 (48:04):
Mandatory because life, the way of doing things, the way
of doing businesses is.

Speaker 12 (48:08):
Going to change, and it already has changed.

Speaker 13 (48:11):
And you know, I hear this saying that you know,
AI is not going to take your job or it's
going to take jobs, but it's really the people using
it that's going to really position themselves to take your job.

Speaker 8 (48:22):
We were all archaeologists out there. We use tape measures
and compasses and fringe finders, and then this tremble unit
came out there that had GPS. You could press a
button and send the report into the you know, into
the office, and you'd enter it into the what the heck,
you know, like they didn't even need me anymore.

Speaker 12 (48:44):
And it's and it's very.

Speaker 8 (48:47):
College to go to get a degree in archaeology, you.

Speaker 14 (48:50):
Know, like it's kind of crazy how fast it's going
so fast.

Speaker 12 (48:56):
So fast?

Speaker 8 (48:57):
So so what do you tell your kids learn?

Speaker 12 (49:00):
You know, you know I do, and I try to
encourage them to.

Speaker 13 (49:06):
Take their head out of the telephone and focus on
what's going on around you.

Speaker 12 (49:11):
And you'll be surprised how many people think of it.

Speaker 13 (49:13):
And they are fearful of this thing called technology.

Speaker 12 (49:18):
And when I discovered.

Speaker 8 (49:19):
When they have a parasite on their hand all day long.

Speaker 13 (49:22):
Man, it's different though it's for entertaining, and when you
have to work in then it's it's a discipline that
has to take place at that and it's hard to change.

Speaker 12 (49:34):
People don't really like change.

Speaker 8 (49:35):
Do you think they need screen?

Speaker 15 (49:39):
Like?

Speaker 14 (49:39):
I don't know, like like, No, I think it's a too.
It's a comfortability when you're not comfortable and you don't
understand something entirely, especially for the older generation. I consider
myself I'm old. I'm not young, but I'm not old.
I'm in that kind of you know, middle spot right there,
and so you have to Yeah, when you don't understand it.

Speaker 12 (50:02):
You.

Speaker 8 (50:04):
Yeah, very young.

Speaker 14 (50:07):
I guess I'm the only older person.

Speaker 12 (50:08):
Yeah, I'm very young. Great, great, close.

Speaker 6 (50:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (50:13):
I might be older.

Speaker 14 (50:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (50:15):
He may be.

Speaker 8 (50:16):
You're telling you, yes, thirty, We'll go with whatever.

Speaker 12 (50:23):
Never asked the lady.

Speaker 8 (50:25):
It's no worse than the only thing worse is asking
if someone's.

Speaker 16 (50:28):
Break ghost in your rest like run and I actually
did that the other day and don't do it.

Speaker 8 (50:38):
Bad boy, bad boy. I was that. I was. I
went up to a lady that I know and I
and I said, are you pregnant? Yeah, it was too
late that came out.

Speaker 13 (50:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (50:54):
Like he looked at me like, you the dumbest dude
on the plane, I hate you. She didn't say, you know,
but she definitely had the same look. The next time
I saw you heard it, so I apologized again.

Speaker 12 (51:08):
It's unfortunately.

Speaker 8 (51:11):
So you others not for brothet.

Speaker 12 (51:14):
Well, I have both. I have both.

Speaker 13 (51:16):
My wife and I we started a nonprofit organization called
Lifting Dreams Community Development four years ago. And the pillars
are you know, it's three pillars to learn, earn, and return.
One thing that I discovered is I'm real big and
it comes to financial literacy, teaching financial literacy to the youth,

(51:36):
because I realized that when you can change a person's
outlook when it comes to money and to take care
of that issue early on, a lot of other problems
don't tend to be there. It's usually around finances and
and unfortunately, when I was growing up, that conversation.

Speaker 12 (51:58):
Most families don't have it around kitchen table.

Speaker 13 (52:01):
Uh, my community, we just don't have that type of
conversations because for one, a lot of times we're in
survival mode and we're just trying to figure out how
we're gonna pay our rent, how we're gonna pay our light,
build our gas bill, how we're gonna eat, how we're
gonna drive. And financial literacy starts at home and then
it has to continue within the schools and within our communities,

(52:21):
within our because it's ours.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Especially schools in in classes, get hone the skills. Yeah, exactly,
how it does balance a check with what you don't
really need to do anymore, but you still got to
balance your your account exactly.

Speaker 13 (52:37):
And one thing I found is, you know, I have
been in this type of work for quite some time.
I did some volunteer work for a lot of different
nonprofit organizations. I've beenca I was a mentor for Charter School.
I taught life skills course locally here in sam Bernardino,

(52:57):
and now every Monday I actually teach the pro Bram
flip that you've built here in sam Maernardino on Fourth Street.

Speaker 12 (53:05):
And you know, I have a.

Speaker 13 (53:06):
Passion for teaching always have had a passion and I've
also have a passion for your technology.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
That there's nothing but passion in that whole complex right there,
young visionaries is there? You're absolutely real the Black Chamber
of Commerce. Y, Yes, it's about to start.

Speaker 12 (53:26):
It really is. It really is.

Speaker 13 (53:27):
And it's a lot of support because as community we
have to support one another.

Speaker 12 (53:32):
And a lot of times we.

Speaker 13 (53:33):
Look at others who might have similar businesses, are similar
activities as competition and it's not really a way of
looking at it.

Speaker 12 (53:42):
I don't feel that we should see it that way.
It should be more collaboration and pushes. It's very important.

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Now, this is super important. I can't think of a
more important question. I mean, and I know Kim couldn't
even answer this, but like what it comes down to
is a I gonna take over the world.

Speaker 12 (54:02):
AI is a very scary thing. It can be if
you don't understand it. There's some really.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
Maybe Kim does know, she's giving me the eye. Maybe
it does.

Speaker 13 (54:12):
Yeah, there's some dangerous things going on. But one thing
that I always go back to a simplicity. So I
actually teach a course called AI Made Simple for Beginners,
baby boomers, people who are looking at it and saying exactly,
once we break that down and break down that barrier,
just a bro. They made it so easy for us

(54:35):
to access that most people think that it's more difficult
than what it really is.

Speaker 10 (54:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (54:39):
I played around with it, like I I mess around
with a lot of ais and getting metas and uh,
the one on the new one, what's the new one
on Google? Yeah, Gemini, Gemini, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (54:54):
Time.

Speaker 8 (54:55):
But I had an argument with gentlemen that was interesting.
It was interesting even want to lose it, did not
want to lose in the fact that you sarcasm at
the end, yeah, and basically.

Speaker 9 (55:06):
Got you on.

Speaker 12 (55:07):
I believe it. I believe it. I believe it.

Speaker 13 (55:10):
There's you know, when it comes to this thing called technology,
as far as the adoption of technology, it's a technological
adoption curve, and it's five different areas in this particular curve.
One is the innovators. They're the ones they got the money,
you know, they don't mind putting the tech out there
waiting for somebody to actually see it, and if the
world accepts it, they're like, yeah, we have a winner here.

(55:33):
Then we have the early adopters, those who say, hey,
give me the first iPhone, let me try it out,
let me beta testing, and then we have the early majorities,
they'll say, Okay, hey, they're doing it, so I'll do it.
And then the late majority they're saying, well, I guess
we'll go ahead and get it done since everybody is
already jumped on board, but they're late. And then the
laggards they're like, I am not going to do it.

Speaker 12 (55:57):
Give me a pencil and a piece of.

Speaker 13 (55:59):
Paper and I'll just write it down the way I've
always done things.

Speaker 12 (56:03):
And unfortunately in business.

Speaker 13 (56:06):
In life, we see how being in those categories can
either help your business actually scale or literally be out
of business. You know, just look at the blockbusters of
the world who didn't make that shift. Now we're starting
to see companies fall continually right now because they're not

(56:27):
making it all right.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
We're almost at a time here, how do we find
out more information about your non for profit?

Speaker 13 (56:32):
And yeah, definitely definitely. You can always go to our
website Lifting Dreams dot Org and you can go there
and there's a there's a lot of information. I have
a Facebook page as well, go to smart AI workshops
at Facebook, Instagram, also YouTube, and I've got free courses

(56:54):
if you want to learn, and I'm always willing to teach.

Speaker 14 (56:58):
And Kim, you can find me on social media. It's
Kim Canos four s B. I'm on Instagram as well
as Facebook, and then of course you can contact me
at our city council office.

Speaker 8 (57:11):
Let me catch that frog where Yeah.

Speaker 14 (57:14):
Yeah, I'm still recovering from bronchitis.

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So it's okay. We're just so happy that you actually
came in today. We appreciate it. We love it when
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