KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 14 Jul, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 14 Jul, 2025

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 10 (06:46):
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Speaker 11 (06:47):
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(07:10):
of what you didn't appreciate what you've got. You can
no ways to proof. Just don't stop going when your
brain to achieve in your life, you gotta take a chance,
like rolling the dice.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
You won't come to you, so you gotta go get it.
At the end of the.

Speaker 12 (07:23):
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Ten fifty am.

Speaker 9 (07:35):
Well we will talk politics, culture and history.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
What's up and beyond it? You blessed to be alive, brother.
How about yourself? How are you doing?

Speaker 10 (07:43):
Brother?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
We got a good vacation, you know what.

Speaker 13 (07:45):
I had a wonderful time off. I just had a
wonderful opportunity to go to Oak Glynn with the Redlands
Camera Club. We did a field trip up there at
the preserve that they have up there.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I love that beautiful.

Speaker 13 (07:56):
One thing that I did not discuss, did not know,
is that they're sequoia is down here in southern California.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yes, yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 13 (08:03):
We always went up north for the red woods and
they were not big. They're not the big dirty ones.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
And there they're transplants. Took and he heaps peak up
off the eighteen near crestline. There is a little tiny
grove of sequoias up there that have reached quite a
large I did see your picture of that beautiful sequoia.
I just worry a little bit because alone those trees

(08:29):
get so large that eventually they fall over, so they
need multiple friends hold them up, just like humans.

Speaker 13 (08:37):
Well, he looks like they're doing pretty well. It was
a couple of them all oh good, good showed that one,
but it.

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Was it was those were beautiful shots.

Speaker 13 (08:44):
Yeah, thank you, brother. But you should see the imagery
from the other members of the Camera Club. There's just
so many phenomenal photographers to out there empire.

Speaker 9 (08:53):
Like well, looking forward to that reel. I mean, just
have them all.

Speaker 13 (09:00):
He's gonna reach out to the president, Bruce Herwig and
see if you would like to join us on one.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Of the shows. You know what I mean.

Speaker 13 (09:06):
Excellent, Yes, his photography, he's award winning, winning photographer, you know,
like his imagery is amazing. He loves the astro photography
as well. I mean, it's it's it's awesome. I'm learning
so much. It's been it's been an awesome experience.

Speaker 9 (09:19):
Okay, Well, before we get into the two council members
Teddy Sanchez and Sandra Bara in the house today he
Rendino City Council, We're gonna talk a little bit about
our sponsors, Golden Pizza and Wings On Golden in Highland
and Olive and Waterman. They have their seven fifty five
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(09:42):
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you've been working all day. Stop by Golden Pizza, talk
to TEG, grab yourself some pizza and wings, and make
your kids happy.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
There you go is affordable goodness.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
Yes, honest, it's awesome.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
It's awesome.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
We also have Power Charter Academy, so yeah, and they
have a middle school, high school, summer school. The summer
school enrollment's over, it's it's in session right now, but
they are doing pre enrollment for middle school and the
high school. So if you're interested in giving your kids
a head start and some really cool access to classes

(10:23):
that I haven't seen necessarily all uh uh combined at
one area of local San Fernandino Unified School District, school
right spread out. Yeah, it spread out a lot of spots.
So what was that, Sandra.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I think they also have people outside of high school already,
young young adults doing their programs that they have for
like nursing and construction, so they have a lot of
career paths.

Speaker 9 (10:51):
They're they're really working hard and uh and and I
appreciate all the anything that helps our kids, like new
feel for him and stuff make them feel like, wow,
we're good enough to have a brand new feel.

Speaker 14 (11:05):
Listen, listen.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
We had some of their students to help us at
Habitat for Humanity with some of the home rehab program
protest we did.

Speaker 14 (11:12):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 9 (11:13):
And then you know if Sam and well loves pal
Charter Academy and helps them, you know they're they're they're good.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 9 (11:21):
I'd also if you want more information, look an info
at PA Palcenter dot org or call nine on nine
eighty seven seven zero zero two. I'd like to mention
our I love Sam Rendino. Stand out of the week
today is Kenny's Schultz. Okay, Now, Kenny is the president

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of Urban Gardens and uh he took over for Neona
Rose after she passed away, and he's been setting up
our crop swaps and things like that award winning Crops
Swaps an an award by the mayor former mayor. But
still we have fun. We trade things. We trade. We
trade like ideas in art and crafts, yes, and then

(12:09):
food like you have a little breakfast there.

Speaker 14 (12:11):
So gratulations can.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Yeah. So we're gonna have Urbon Gardens at the on
Golden and at the Center for Spiritual Living this Saturday
at ten o'clock. So we always shrew up there and
have some coffee and trade some fruit and bring my
avocados and we have a good time.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Definitely.

Speaker 13 (12:29):
I also want to shout out his sobriety yes, because
he's doing an excellent job. I know he's up to
like what over six months or something like that, But
I know that many people are watching and are encouraged
by you, Kene, so continue to do the great job
and modeling what it looks like to take control of
dominion over oneself and living a better life. So we
wish you well, brother, and we love you as well.

Speaker 9 (12:50):
So and your mama, she's awesome, you know you. Send
our love to her, and thank you so much you
and all the admin for helping me in my time
of need right here in the groups. My year long
suspension is slowly working its way down through the groups now.
It was not my fault. It was a technological malfunction

(13:13):
that I'm currently working with Facebook to rectify. For the
last four months, literally every week I have a conversation
with some new dude. They don't know what's going on.
It was some other like a bad actor.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
They said, I know a bad actor and he did
it to a lot of things.

Speaker 9 (13:35):
So like I'm in the suspension that they cannot remove
with their own ai. So we're working on it. We're
doing the different things, so I hope it works out. Otherwise,
I'm gonna ride through and thank you Kenny for sharing
the stuff for me and helping me out.

Speaker 13 (13:47):
And we say all that to say, if anyone has
Mark Zuckerberg's direct line, please give it to Robert Porter
Hawaiian Underground so I.

Speaker 9 (13:57):
Can still post in all my pages and everything. So
that's no, you know, I still have plenty of work
to do, but it does help me to post in
the groups as well because I love Sanmary Reporter does
have forty thousand members.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
We're climbing again. We're climbing again.

Speaker 14 (14:09):
That's not the original one though, the original one hundred Yeah,
I remember.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
One hundred dollars twice.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
And then we're going to be back. We're coming back.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
But yeah, I did really notice a big increase in
the amount of people joining because of what's going on.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yes, yes, looking.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
For somewhere to go and feel safe, so you feel
safe there, but don't feel too safety. I wouldn't feel
too safe nowhere right now.

Speaker 13 (14:34):
I hear you, because it's about positivity and raising awareness.

Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yes, absolutely, How do you request city services? You got
good feeding, You've got.

Speaker 14 (14:43):
A good feeding. Got potholes, yes.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
You got problems?

Speaker 14 (14:46):
We got lights are out, you need.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
Birtech to do some extra cleaning on the area.

Speaker 14 (14:51):
That's you've got somebody dumping behind your house.

Speaker 9 (14:54):
And at least you have some city services so called
nine nine nine eight two thousand.

Speaker 14 (14:59):
That's a new number, nine eight.

Speaker 9 (15:02):
Two thousand, the new number. You can go online to
sbcity dot org, slash sb access or get the mobile app.
I'm at the app story and go to go SB city.

Speaker 13 (15:14):
I love that stuff in right, Yes, there you go
and definitely utilize the app.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
We all have a role to play.

Speaker 13 (15:21):
In bettering our community, bringing awareness to things that need
to be fixed, and not only pointing out the things
that can be fixed. Also look in the mirror self
reflection and see what you can do to help better
our community. You know, we all want better. We all want.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Better, we all do.

Speaker 9 (15:37):
I have one last thing before we get into our interview.
I have a little history tidbit, a Samardio history tidbit
another local historian book Loves who Loves not very Well
actually loves dark Rides? Right, Okay, So this book is
written by Christopher Merritt and Jay Eric Lynxweiler, And it's

(15:58):
not very tales.

Speaker 14 (15:59):
Right, it's not mystery of the.

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Knots Burytale Ride and the Dino Ride that replaced it
and the history of knots in general and the new
ride and everything that's associated with it. Albert Rodriguez, this
was his idea. Albert Rodriguez is a local here from
sam and Well and he just had this idea about

(16:24):
I think he said ten years ago. Oh no, it's
been two decades, a journey that lasted far longer than
he thought, and he was inspired to get this book
out and he finally did it. And they just had
the fifty year anniversary of knots Bury Tales over there,
and also he had the book there. His whole team
they gave you know, I tried to get tickets, but

(16:44):
they were sold out, so I had to just go
down there and buy the book myself because I'm a
huge fan of his work and I just want him
to know that this is awesomeness and someday I'm going
to get an autographs, so I saw those books from there.
I'm a historian and I love history in any way.

(17:08):
Save things, you know, if you have a passion, save.

Speaker 13 (17:11):
It with that, with that, knowing that you just want
to Knoxbury firem an awesome shirt fit you all the way,
you know, vibes out, shout out too, Snoopy looks like
he's on acid or something, but it was. But I
was wondering, what is one of your favorite rides from
Knoxbury Phone?

Speaker 9 (17:31):
I do so me personally. I do love Knotsbury Tales
because you get to sit there with your little jam
gun shoot and compete and I beat my mama. I
got second place. I still be she got there.

Speaker 13 (17:44):
Okay, Well, well I think I think you were fighting
for your mama because you know she's here. You like
this guy view, the one that rose around? How about yourself, Teddy?
Have you been to Knoxberry Phone a long time? What
was one of your favorite rides when you used to
go there? Minasuma's Revenge?

Speaker 10 (18:05):
No, I think I like the one that the when
they go through the water features.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
The log right yeah, yeah? Or rapids.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
Bigfoot And I found out about that because I kept
asking for Bigfoot. Now it's Roaring Rapids, but what it
is They changed the name periodically to say they.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Have like something I hear, how about yourself saying.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I'm gonna u. I like the extreme rights. Silver Bullet
was my last favorite.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
There you go.

Speaker 13 (18:33):
I used to love the Soapbox Derby, the one they
used to have the soapbox cars. Basically it was four tracks,
the metal rails, and it had the carts that you
would race on. They said about four people in per card,
and if you lean with the track, you could go
a little bit faster. So it was kind of I
love racing, so it was kind of like racing. And
when they tore that ride out, that was like one
of my favorites. I was so sad to see it.

(18:54):
I wish I had the wealth where I could put
it in my backyard, you know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (18:59):
I have been racing lately with me and Amy. Got
a Luna okay controller, Okay, I'm playing a smurf car.

Speaker 14 (19:07):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
Actually it is.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I love video games.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Like so we're trying some more modern stuff.

Speaker 13 (19:15):
Very welcome to the future, yes, and check out some.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
Of that stuff, Like we're trying to work out to
where we can play the kids and stuff.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
To get ahead of the curve so you can beat
them for a little while.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
All right, Well, yeah, let's get into some some of
the meat of the matter here, right, Like we always
like to start off the show with some cool stuff
and like sharees we've been doing and everything. I want
to thank Yanni for always sponsoring the show and being
a hardcore with motivational realizations, the.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Energy of positive thought and.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
That is h This interview is brought to you by
them today, and thank you Teddy counselman Sanchez and councilwoman
and Borrow, thank you so much for today. I've known
you both for a long time now.

Speaker 14 (20:03):
Man, I think you've known me the longest.

Speaker 9 (20:06):
Yes, I truly have h head start. Uh.

Speaker 14 (20:10):
You were in the original one, Yes.

Speaker 9 (20:14):
And did a lot of things. I remember. The first
kind of event you started to do was you had
people running with you on Paris hit.

Speaker 14 (20:21):
I tried.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
I tried gathering people to walk with me, like at
five in the morning, and people were the comments.

Speaker 14 (20:27):
On I were like, are you crazy? This the city
is dangerous? I did it. Candy. Candy was the first
one to join me. Kenny Candelaria, where are you?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah? She she she was a trooper. She was a trooper,
and and she walked with me in the mornings. Walking
does help the health, you know, And so I kept
doing it, and then I started going to the council
meetings because Robert Porter was always upset.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
That people weren't coming up to vote and.

Speaker 14 (20:52):
People weren't getting involved.

Speaker 9 (20:55):
You were association president.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yes, well, first I started with Neighborhood to Watch because
my neighbors I was getting broken into. I was I
was new, I didn't know anybody in the neighborhood, and
all the neighbors flocked to me because I was bilingual.
And then from there we started having more people from
other blogs joining and I was like, well, let's just
activate the neighborhood Association.

Speaker 9 (21:14):
Do you think that people feel more comfortable when you
speak Spanish to them if Spanish is their primary language.

Speaker 14 (21:20):
Yes, They're they're more open. Yes.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
And then the way my Spanish came from just from home.
I watched their Spanish soap operas I would watch. I
would read the magazines and read the new watch the news.
So that's how I became very fluent in my Spanish
at the same time in kindergarten with no English at home,

(21:45):
I was submerged straight into just English instruction. So I I,
you know, got uh got spotted as a Gifted and
Talented Education student Gate. And then I went on to
honors in high school, and then I went on to
U c l A.

Speaker 14 (22:01):
So I'm very proud of my education. You never had
a tour.

Speaker 9 (22:06):
You just you're not just sitting up there doing nothing.

Speaker 14 (22:09):
No I'm not. And you have an education, yes, legitimate education.

Speaker 9 (22:16):
You did learn before becoming a counselor.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
I did. I did a lot of cleanups in the neighborhoods.
People would complain about how dirty the neighborhoods would look,
and I would go out with the city staff, volunteers
they heard associations and clean up anywhere that was needed.

Speaker 9 (22:33):
How about this, Do you remember when we were out
there trying to save the pups and the animal sheltered together.

Speaker 14 (22:38):
I was like, well, I was a council person.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
And then then you single handedly putting gum in the
works to make it.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
It was hard to convince my colleague here like come on,
let's save her animal shelter.

Speaker 14 (22:50):
Let's keep it in house.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Came around I.

Speaker 14 (22:54):
Never gave up, you know. That's that's one of the things.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
It's people seem to forget of how how we are
trying to do our best up there, and when we're
we fall on deaf ears and we just keep going
and be persistent until it actually happens.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
So if you vote, does it automatically happen?

Speaker 14 (23:12):
No?

Speaker 9 (23:14):
I mean you have like you're not a god.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
I mean how many I mean, how many times have
we brought up oxbal for example, and it's never nothing
ever happened.

Speaker 14 (23:24):
And we've done our part.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
Recording that pile archaeologically, Like this stuff right here is
from the fire at the Amazon.

Speaker 14 (23:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be a historical site.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
One got it.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
We gotta keep pushing, you know, And if my colleagues
bring it up, I'll support them as long as it's
not questionable items of course.

Speaker 13 (23:51):
Well what I what I love about the way you
conduct yourself, Sandra, because as you guys kind of went over,
the history is and I think this is why you
continue to get the support a community, even though sometimes
you run campaigns that are probably severely underfunded, you had
the people power. You have built that trust through your actions.
It's not saying, oh, if I get elected, I'm gonna
do this. No, I've been doing this this, and if

(24:14):
you give me the opportunity to represent us, I will
continue to do this and scale it up.

Speaker 14 (24:18):
So that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
I don't post pictures of everything that I'm doing or
post a lot of what's happening in my ward, but
there is a lot of work being done in the
second world that has not been done prior to my
time being a council member. And those people whose lives
have been improved because of the continuous and persistent work
that I've been doing up there, they're the ones that

(24:40):
are thankful, and they're the ones that keep supporting me
for that same reason. I like I was telling if
Yanni or Yanni I was telling him earlier. I had
the smear campaign against me, and I had a competitor
that ran against me. He raced over forty thousand dollars
and I only had three thousand left over for my
first compan and I didn't even use it all. I

(25:02):
got no endorsements, I didn't ask for money, and I
still want my reelection and I honest hard work, and
you know, all these years that I've been there, I've
been called the worst that you can think of, you know,
a liar, a puppet, stupid, you name it. It's been
on social media, and you know that that doesn't stop

(25:23):
the work that I do.

Speaker 15 (25:24):
So have you ever anything?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (25:26):
Yeah, you want to hear a clip?

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Do you feel do you feel do you feel jaded?
Does it do you think that's like made you more
cynical or no?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I don't think I've been cynical. If anything, it makes
me more passionate, it makes me speak up more. Sometimes
I try to stay classy, just be quiet at the
council meetings. I don't burst out, I don't yell over people.
Sometimes there's times when when things really are are deep,
deep in my heart.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
I got pictures of that look.

Speaker 14 (25:57):
And remember the one I was like this.

Speaker 13 (26:01):
I have a question for you because you know before
we were on Era talking about how we had a
pleasure of having lunch together about seven years ago when
you were just getting ready to run.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 13 (26:12):
And and and the passion and the love that you
have for the community. What keeps you what keeps you
fired up? Because I've seen that it's been a lot
of it's this. This work is not easy. This work
is not easy, and it pulls on people's hearts, mind, body,
spirit and soul. What keeps you passionate about the advocacy

(26:33):
and the leadership and the role you play within our community?

Speaker 14 (26:36):
That's who I am. Okay, I was, I was, I was.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
I'm the oldest of six kids, and you know, first generation,
so I always had to go to those parent conferences
with all of my brothers and sisters, translate for them
and back and forth help them through college. And that's
something that I've carried through me. I always look out
for people that I love and care for, which is
the same for the city. The same love that Robert

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has is the same one that I have. And I
don't care people say about me. All I know is
what's in my heart. I go to bed in peace
every single night after a council meeting despite.

Speaker 14 (27:11):
What people say.

Speaker 9 (27:11):
You have a technical question, sure, right, So how many
votes do you need to have something move or have
something occur in our city?

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Majority of the council and now there's seven of us,
it has to be by four. If it's four by three,
and then if the mayor decides that it's not good
and they veto it, then that's that will stop it.

Speaker 14 (27:34):
But five five five, yes.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
So.

Speaker 9 (27:38):
That means you you have to work together. We have
to make our city function.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
So you know what, and I and I'll and I'll
get props to I believe it was damon Alexander when
he when he passed the baton over, he made it
very specific and very accurate in his going away message
that nothing would have happened or done in his ward
if it was not for the support of all his colleagues.
And that is what it takes to be in council

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and politics of legislator. You need to have the support
of everybody with you. You can't do it all by yourself.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
Yeah, it's just not possible because it's only one vote.
It is, you need five to legally move money, right
for well, four and five if the mayor isn't on
your side, right right. So, so if you just mentioned
that you had to lobby, uh teddy first.

Speaker 14 (28:29):
Lobby I begged him save our animal shelter.

Speaker 9 (28:34):
So so what do you do when you.

Speaker 14 (28:37):
Did I'm being honest, Well, it was.

Speaker 9 (28:39):
It's a money thing. And and when you are in
this position, you can't just think about the animals.

Speaker 14 (28:46):
And he was about the money.

Speaker 9 (28:47):
I wish you could only think about the animals, but
you need to think about the money. You need to
think how it's going to affect all.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
The vets as many of layers and.

Speaker 9 (28:56):
I and I understand that, and I want the others
to understand that as well. So so Teddy, Like, when
you have to lobby somebody, what do you do when
you need five votes for something that you're interested in getting?

Speaker 13 (29:07):
Instead of saying lobby when you need your colleague support,
how do you go about procuring your colleague support?

Speaker 9 (29:12):
Well?

Speaker 10 (29:13):
Usually I try to become as familiar with the issue
at hand as I possibly can, know it backwards and forwards,
and then present present that to my colleagues.

Speaker 15 (29:27):
How do you do that by reading the agenda? The
agenda's about that thing.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
Wait a second, The agenda that I see online is
very is.

Speaker 14 (29:36):
Besides me the agenda.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
He talks to staff and he gets your input and
then he'll talk to community members.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's Andrew, Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
So the the what I was mentioning is that, like
you two have to read the agenda, and it's not
the thing that they that's not only the thing they
pass out in the city meeting this thing if you
appendix man and it's it's like it's stereo instructions. I
find myself using the dictionary often legal terminology. You have

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to know exactly what it means. You can't have like
I have, but.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
View of it.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
And we've we've had those situations when contracts get presented
before us, but they're not complete or they're not in
the packets, and we have to rely on staff on
what they're telling us to vote on specific contract That
I think has been one of the downfalls. We just
got to keep insisting that staff put those contracts so

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we can review them, make sure that they are protecting
our city and.

Speaker 9 (30:39):
To protect staff a little bit to it. It's hard.
There's a lot of responsibility on them, right, and we
are coming out of bankruptcy. Thatanruptcy, Well yeah we're coming
out of it. Yeah we're out, but we're coming out
of it right in a new era and we already
cut to the bone, so we're adding, we're pasting pieces

(30:59):
back to the to our skeleton. Right.

Speaker 14 (31:01):
People should know.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
People should know, though, going back to what Damon Alexander said,
the streets are getting fixed, it did not just take
one council member to get a fixed the parks are
getting fixed. It the not to just take one council
member like before. You know, all this money was funnel Lisa.
For example, over Nicholson Park. Teddy and I sat on
a committee, the CDBG committee, and we were putting as

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much as we could during that time into Nicholson Park.
It was it was pennies to compare to how much
money we were putting into it now. But it was
something that required all of us to come together and
vote on it.

Speaker 14 (31:36):
And that was for the sixth word.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
It was seeing Teddy and me on that committee and
that was our focus. Let's get Nicholson Park done. Because
we visited Nicholson Park, it wasn't bad.

Speaker 9 (31:45):
Settle the current councilor over and power up.

Speaker 13 (31:49):
Yeah, definitely definitely My question back these projects go definitely definitely.

Speaker 9 (31:53):
I have.

Speaker 13 (31:54):
My question is for for Teddy sir, how long have
you been on the city council?

Speaker 10 (32:00):
About five more minutes than my colleague Sandrabara. So I
got elected in twenty eighteen in November twenty eighteen and
then assumed office in December of twenty eighteen.

Speaker 13 (32:13):
What led you to take on this this under this
huge undertaking, because it's always seems to be a little
bit of confusion on the diist But what made you
want to throw your name in the head and try
to correct the correct the course of the ship.

Speaker 10 (32:30):
Yes, I know that there's a it's an incredible, incredible
responsibility to become a council member for a city our size,
with all the needs that we have. But I thought
that I could, I could could bring about the change
necessary that was going to improve quality of life for
residents in San Bernardino.

Speaker 15 (32:50):
And I was lucky enough to.

Speaker 10 (32:54):
Be able to present my vision for the city to
the voters of the first ward and they collected me
twice now and I'm hoping to to have.

Speaker 15 (33:06):
Their continued support in the election next year.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Definitely, definitely.

Speaker 13 (33:09):
Will said, what's your I'm were you born and raised
in Sandy? I'm with shout out your schools man.

Speaker 10 (33:16):
Oh, Well, I went to Urbita Elementary School, I went
to Richardson Middle School, and then I actually went to
Redlands High.

Speaker 9 (33:25):
School Bridge Road.

Speaker 10 (33:30):
But I was born and raised in San Bernardino. Uh,
I have lived in the neighborhood I live now is
a neighborhood I've lived in my whole life, and so
I feel very comfortable there. I don't want to move away.

Speaker 9 (33:46):
And did you move Did you move there to get elected?

Speaker 10 (33:51):
No, I've been there my whole life. Yeah, I know
that was right. Yeah, you were born there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's it's it's one of those things.

Speaker 15 (34:02):
It's easy to kind of throw accusations out.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
You were born, knew you did some social media, you
know something about it.

Speaker 15 (34:10):
Yeah. So I yeah, I.

Speaker 10 (34:14):
Really do care about the city, and I have the
energy and the passion I think to be able to
bring out some good.

Speaker 9 (34:22):
So I have a serious question with the new mayor,
Helen Tran. What do you like about the things that
she's currently done so far?

Speaker 15 (34:36):
You might have to give me some time.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Well this is important.

Speaker 13 (34:41):
Well yeah, I'll chime in first, right because, just just
to set the table, I love the fact that she
was one of the first of her ethnicity and a
woman to be a man right too. It's sad that
when we look in our country, we still have these
ceilings that must be shattered from representation from diff and
ethnicity is different cultures, because our country is quote unquote

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supposed to be a melting pot, but it seems like
we're in a space where they trying to unmelt.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Things apparently right and read the country of.

Speaker 13 (35:15):
People that they deem as undesirable, but which is really
sad because this nation was first found, it was already
people here, so the indigenous people were here. And then
when you think about the America America, it was built
on immigration, immigrants, right, and it's so funny how people
forget their history, forget where they're come from, and then.

Speaker 9 (35:36):
Try to get And also this happened right here in
sam Mara Nadino, so it elevates our historical footprint, right.
That's important to me. Those are the kinds of things
that outlast every single term that you could ever do.
So these are good things. The other thing I like
about the mayor me personally is that she goes all

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out to be the cheerleader for Samara, you know she.

Speaker 14 (35:59):
Really that is a very strong point.

Speaker 9 (36:02):
Like when when I went to the Juneteenth thing, Tristan,
I only empire, yeah and the work that was awesome,
and she came up to me. She tries to treat
everybody like like like like she's friendly with them, and
that's one thing that Valdivia didn't do He only did

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that with the rich people or if you were powerful, right,
like Helen does it for everybody. So that is a
major difference that I like about her. That's a little
different now, you know, you had your own style, and
he definitely could bring in all money and business and
stuff too. So yeah, it is his aspects that work.
Do you have anything now that.

Speaker 15 (36:42):
You can have to you have to get back to me.
I'm still working, still working.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
I like her optimism and her energy everye when they
when they make me speak after her, I'm like, I
cannot top this woman's energy.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
The way she spoke to.

Speaker 9 (36:59):
The audience, likes.

Speaker 14 (37:01):
It's something that our city needs.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
We we have been, We've been the value of the
shadow of the valley here for so long. We need
somebody that's gonna lift the city up. I think she's
doing a good job there. She's she's learning. I think
one of the things she can focus work on is
trying to get us all together, work together, because there's
a lot of decisions.

Speaker 9 (37:23):
That's like, that's like hurting cats.

Speaker 14 (37:25):
It is, it is, But you know what, it's possible.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
You got the joker here, yeah, and when you got
the serious one one, you know he's always serious, mister him,
mister you got Sandra up there, you know she's watching everybody.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
But very quiet woman.

Speaker 9 (37:46):
But but then when you're very vocal, you are vocal.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
And then that's why people say I'm too evil though, well,
and that's what they've said. You don't speak up, you
don't do anything. And when the woman I do or
you just do people, it's like, no, I'm speaking the
difference between attacking and speaking up here, like.

Speaker 13 (38:06):
Raising awareness, No, totally, totally on a more serious note,
knowing the the stress that this these positions can can stress.
That's actually there with these positions, what do each of
you do for self care to make sure that you're
minding your mind, body.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Spirits, muscles right here? How about yourself? Teddy? Let's start.

Speaker 15 (38:31):
Yeah, I like I like doing yard work. Okay, so
the yard work yard?

Speaker 10 (38:37):
Yeah, I like doing my yard.

Speaker 15 (38:41):
All Uh, a barbecue?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
I like, what are you gonna?

Speaker 9 (38:46):
What? Where's the insight next time?

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Girl?

Speaker 10 (38:50):
Well, once we're off air, I'll give you the addresses.

Speaker 15 (38:52):
We'll come on you guys, come on over and we'll
I'll cook something up right.

Speaker 10 (38:56):
I don't drink, Uh, you don't need to drink for
a barbecue.

Speaker 13 (39:02):
Maybe that might be something that the city could organize
where everyone does a barbecue day and every every council
member does a barbecue in their war and it springs
our community, just to try to spark community idea.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
You know, I like it.

Speaker 15 (39:14):
I like it, and I like to read. I like
to read.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
What's the last book that you've read.

Speaker 10 (39:19):
I just read m U m k Ultra m mk Ultra.
It's about this about the c I as for control run. Yeah,
you know you're familiar.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I've heard of it.

Speaker 15 (39:33):
Yeah, very interesting.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
Deep reading, very very very It's actually scary stuff.

Speaker 15 (39:41):
It was very scary.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
It happens in this world.

Speaker 13 (39:43):
There's so much stuff that things happening in this world
that we're not privy to that are real.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
That is mind blowing.

Speaker 9 (39:51):
More recently, it's really mind blowing.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Definitely. How about yourself, Sandra, how do you take care
of yourself?

Speaker 14 (39:59):
Just on the lot of the healthy eating.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
I've gone through Kaiser, that's who I've had for many years,
and they've shown us how to eat healthy, and I
was like, no, wonder, I don't lose weight. I make
big plates of healthy eating, but I'm not working out.
I got to work out, especially now I'm having bone
spurs coming out all over my body, and when I.

Speaker 14 (40:21):
Do physical therapy it helps.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
So I started going to the gym and I'll go
for a few minutes and just work out the muscles that.

Speaker 14 (40:27):
Needs the help. I have a lot.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
I am also looking after my mom, my aging mother,
who has some health conditions, and then I'm having my
own health conditions to deal with. So I've been I've
been trying. I rest a lot. I've been resting a lot.
I do have a second job because I'm a single
woman homeowner.

Speaker 14 (40:49):
It's one job. You can't do it on one income
unless unless you're.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Making you know, and we're not, and we're not, and
people don't realize that what we make is still minimum wage.
You know. It's I I personally like being I like
being a public sturemer. At the end of the day,
I also have bills, I have a home to maintain.
I have to eat, so I'm just focused on my eating.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
All right.

Speaker 9 (41:15):
So wait, I'm going to get something positive that I
teddy here first, all.

Speaker 14 (41:18):
Right, So besides the barbecue and so, do you.

Speaker 9 (41:22):
Feel good when there is a unanimous vote on that die?

Speaker 15 (41:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Yeah, Hey, that shows that we're together in it. You know.

Speaker 10 (41:38):
Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot of I think
if you were to take an account really of all
the votes we take, a minimum minimum of fifty percent
of those votes are unanimous.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
Yeah, and you're on the same page, especially when what
they call it, when the consent calendar, when you vote
it all.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
Yeah, So it's not it's not like it's uncommon. It's
just personalities.

Speaker 9 (42:01):
Yeah. I like, I honestly like a competition up there.
I like you guys doing that a little bit. But
I just don't like the name calling and when you
don't like each other. But I mean, I understand that
politics is a rough game, yes, and that's you know,
it's gonna give you PTSD and that you know what
I used to think. I wanted to run and all

(42:23):
learn my lesson, man.

Speaker 13 (42:25):
And I think it's probably so important for anyone in
any leadership role, in any capacity in this country that
when when we cannot agree, the community suffers. The people suffers,
the people that were here to represent and serve suffer,
and and and especially our community. We're tired of suffering.
We don't we don't deserve to suffer in much any
any longer. And my hopes are that I hope that

(42:49):
they can have uh uh. Some people say I'm coming
to Jesus, but whatever each ascribe to. But just go
out and just sit down and have a meal together,
leave the families at home, lead the politics, and just
get to know one another. Because I know everyone up
there is passionate about trying to make change. And you know,
there's a way to implement a vision that benefits each

(43:09):
one of the wards, but most importantly bitifits community at large.
And I know you guys can do it. I know
you guys can do it. That's why they sent you there.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
And personally I believe that is happening, right, It's just
there's these few things here or there that actually overshadow
you know. It's like homelessness. It's just an issue that's very.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Hard that has been frustrate the most, Like how hard
it is to put the tiny homes.

Speaker 9 (43:35):
I don't blame you for the irresponsible neighbors that I
see letting their dogs mate as much as they want
and then open their gate, right Like what are you
supposed to? Oh, the gog got out and run away? Right? Like?
What are you supposed to do. Wait, go get your dog, right,
but like they didn't even care. I start, I see
that kind of stuff happen, and all these strays and

(43:57):
stuff like, like, man, how do you solve this? But
thank you for least trying. Now, the first ward has
been deferred for sewers, for roads, for a lot of
things for a long time, upwards of fifty million dollars
worth of deferment. Right, So fighting for the first ward

(44:18):
to me doesn't seem like a bad thing, right, And
I appreciate that you do that. So what do you
think one of your signature achievements is for the first
ward that actually benefits the city as a whole.

Speaker 10 (44:32):
As a whole, well, anytime that that conditions improve in
the first ward, they're improving in the City of sam
Bernard now and that's going to be a net positive
for the whole city. So the city, you know, went
into bankruptcy in twenty twelve, but the city ran out

(44:52):
of money long before that. And so when it ran
out of money, you know what it starts doing. It
starts cutting. It starts cutting capital improvement project maintenance of
city facilities, streets, parks, libraries, sidewalks, and so by the
time I came into office.

Speaker 14 (45:09):
In the twenty bad moment, everybody.

Speaker 10 (45:13):
We already had twenty years, twenty years of deferred maintenance.
What would your living room and your house look like
if you were living there but didn't clean it for
twenty years, it would need to help. I'm happy. And
so we have put in. We put in thirty five

(45:34):
million dollars into capital improvement projects just in the first sword.
Those are capital improvement projects that are completed.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
And it still doesn't catch up yet. I mean it's
not even closed.

Speaker 10 (45:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna and I'm gonna. I'm gonna throw in
the cavea two caveats here. First of all, that's that's
already thirty five million dollars of projects completed. There's another
twenty million dollars already slated and budgeted to be done.
So it's budgeted and it's just going to take a
matter of time to do it. The second caveat here

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is that does not include the Mount Vernon Bridge. The
Mount Vernon Bridge is the biggest public works project in
the history of the City of San Bernardino.

Speaker 9 (46:23):
Makes sense, it's a huge project, and we're getting.

Speaker 10 (46:26):
Close, right, Three hundred million dollars and it's opening and
it's opening next month.

Speaker 14 (46:31):
And it was multiple coming together.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
We got money and we did and we're.

Speaker 14 (46:40):
Doing it with partnerships.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
It's not just the city, it's also the state coming
in cal trends you.

Speaker 10 (46:46):
Battle state regional agency, and the city put in a
lot of money as well. But it wasn't going to
happen without those partnerships. But it wasn't going to happen
with the rest of this.

Speaker 9 (47:00):
And we're getting close, right a month, next month, next yes, August,
I think it's August.

Speaker 10 (47:07):
I think it might be the third Saturday of August.

Speaker 15 (47:12):
Let me let me look at it.

Speaker 14 (47:13):
Take the day off from work.

Speaker 10 (47:15):
Actually, we definitely want to highlight that the twenty third
of August, because I mean, I.

Speaker 9 (47:20):
Am tired of going around.

Speaker 10 (47:23):
Oh okay, yeah, so the twenty third, the twenty third
of August starts at nine am.

Speaker 9 (47:31):
You hear that team.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
More more month, more month.

Speaker 9 (47:35):
Seriously, that's like ten minutes added to some people's commute.

Speaker 10 (47:38):
Oh yeah, and if there's traffic. So those are those
are the things I've been doing in the eight years.

Speaker 15 (47:45):
And so.

Speaker 10 (47:46):
Problem is that you know, there's there's fifty there's fifty
million of deferred maintenance that I inherited the first day I.

Speaker 9 (47:54):
Came in day one, so that you had to catch up.

Speaker 10 (47:57):
Yeah, and uh, And I was just going over some
news articles and I pulled up an article from the
Sun that talked about how the council had to cut
eleven million dollars from the budget.

Speaker 14 (48:10):
That was the most painful thing for me.

Speaker 10 (48:12):
Yeah, in March and April of twenty nineteen. So in
six less than six months after I took office, we
had to cut eleven million dollars from the budget and
we already had fifty million dollars in deferred maintenance. Just
in the first word, I believe it. And so it's
like a all right, you guys, I get it. We
gotta we gotta fix our parts. We gotta do this.

Speaker 9 (48:33):
So what I'm trying to portray for all y'all is
that he's he is fighting for He's fighting for Sam Bernardino,
for an area that has not gotten attention. My ward
got all the attention all those years. I'm from the
seventh ward. It got the attention. All the mayors were

(48:53):
from there, right, it changed with Valdivia. But that's the
way it used to be, and like that's where the
rich people were, right, So that's where all the stuff
got went down, Right, So like we have to understand
that that it's to be equitable, we have to help

(49:14):
everybody across the whole city. Right, But that doesn't mean
you start from zero, because they're already in the Yeah, right,
I hear you. So that's what I'm kind of trying
to say.

Speaker 13 (49:24):
You know, as we I know, we're probably about ten
minutes left, I want to hear what are your hopes
for the city and and and if you could have
just a blank check, what investments would you guys make
in the city to uplift our city for the whole city,
not just specifically your ward, but how would you invest

(49:46):
that money to uplift the city?

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Good question, because I've always thought about it, and if
I had all the money in the world, my main
focus would be to have street sweepers every day on
every street.

Speaker 14 (49:58):
I want a museum the alleys.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Well, I mean, for me, I believe in having a safe,
clean and equitable place where you live. That is what
my hope is for the city. I was blessed when
I came in. Apparently the city was bankrupt. I was
not aware of that, but I found a house at
a good price, and I try to encourage home ownership

(50:20):
to as many people as possible because with the rents
that you mentioned before we started about Redland skyrocketing their rents,
that when you're a homeowner, you don't have to worry
about those rents going up high. Like I'm paying probably
half of what people are paying for a two bedroom
apartment right now for a three bedroom house, so I
have that luxury.

Speaker 14 (50:40):
I can have my dogs.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
I don't have to worry about people telling me you
can't have dogs in your house. I allow like and
people don't understand. People try to portray me in the
very negative light because of the dogs I have. People
don't understand that I leave bedrooms available for my dogs.
I have doors open to go in and out of
they please, Their food is inside and I was targeted

(51:03):
recently and being portrayed as this bad dog owners, Like
how can I be a bad dog owner? They all
have their beds are inside the house, they go in
and out. I don't have them tied up to a chain,
and they're not out in the sun. If they want
to be out there, they can be out there, but.

Speaker 14 (51:18):
She was there.

Speaker 9 (51:21):
For the pups.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
And people are targeting me, trying to portray that I'm
a bad dog owner.

Speaker 13 (51:26):
But you're a pup lover living in a world of
misinformation now set.

Speaker 9 (51:31):
I mean, like, if you have more than one food
everyone's got more than one food.

Speaker 15 (51:35):
Bowl won and one.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Water bowl, you know, like, and this is what I
told the directors, like, look, I adopted the dogs from
our animals shelter. If you want them back, I'll get
them back to you if that's gonna be a big
issue for you.

Speaker 14 (51:46):
But my house is huge.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
I have I have a whole backyard that fits another
whole house. In the back the dogs used I have.
I have dogs in the middle. I have dogs in
the front of the house.

Speaker 14 (51:57):
They're everywhere. They're loving it.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
But if you don't help, if you don't want me
to have them, then you can have them back.

Speaker 14 (52:03):
And they don't want him back. It's hard to find
him home, definitely.

Speaker 13 (52:06):
How about how about yourself, Teddy, if you could do,
if you had a blank check, what would you do
for the city to lift the city for.

Speaker 10 (52:14):
All to address the homeless issue, the homeless concern. We
have over a thousand homeless people.

Speaker 9 (52:19):
Now, now I have seen a definite change I have
the parks are cleaner. Yes, yes, you guys have done
that at least, thank you. And you know it's still
some areas, especially county owned.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
And you know, people tell me that I'm I'm a
negative person because I point fingers supposed to like, well,
we have we have to hold people accountable. If they're
dropping off homeless into our city, they need to be
told of, like, hey, you cannot just burden the city
on somebody.

Speaker 14 (52:47):
Got in trouble, but what you are. So it's just
holding people accountable.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
And I think that and they may have hated me
when I was doing it, but it's like, no, homelessness
affects everybody. It's not just the city of semin or Vectorbilt,
it's everywhere.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Each city has to has to do their part.

Speaker 13 (53:04):
And I've heard those accusations from Los Angeles County coming
right onto the border of Saradino County dropping people.

Speaker 14 (53:11):
Off the system.

Speaker 13 (53:12):
We had a guess that I'm not going to mention
their name, but that advocation and works to get to
address the needs of our unhoused population, saying that he's
literally seeing the medical bands from Los Angeles County still
on their wrists.

Speaker 14 (53:26):
Oh yeah, you know, and.

Speaker 13 (53:27):
They're out here in you know, sixty miles away their network,
you know.

Speaker 10 (53:31):
What I mean.

Speaker 9 (53:31):
So it does that to take someone out of their
own network, I.

Speaker 13 (53:36):
Hear you, because that if they do have a support
system there, just totally remove them makes me think, what's
happening throughout our country?

Speaker 3 (53:42):
But we're not going to go there?

Speaker 14 (53:43):
Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, I was.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
I was doing the Point in Time count a couple
of years back when a twenty one year old who
got just recently released from jail was dropped off in
a vacant lot and was told looking to those tendency,
which one's more to.

Speaker 14 (53:58):
Your to your you're liking to your liking? And I
asked him and said, well what city do you? Don't
you have family? Where does family live? And in like Colton,
It's like, well, what are you doing in our city?
That's just no. I mean, I'm sorry Colton in.

Speaker 13 (54:14):
That negative way, but it's like, why couldn't they allow
you to connect with your Family's left.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
On his own in a vacant lot in the city.
He does not know when he has family, and they.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Could throw five more Miles and be Inton, you know,
I mean.

Speaker 14 (54:29):
That's just one of the many stories I mean I've
heard of that.

Speaker 9 (54:31):
It's because every single seat in the council has the
same issue, and those city councils members are putting pressure
on the police and they got to come up with results,
and they're not really giving the tools to get the results.

Speaker 13 (54:45):
To need and and and and that's a whole other
layer because I don't, like, I'm a law enforcement to
just do that. The civil servants, right, they shouldn't be
out here trying to address the unhoused, the mentally unstable.

Speaker 9 (54:59):
They're not trained the law counselor.

Speaker 13 (55:04):
They do have they have, they do have the care
teams and things like that that come.

Speaker 9 (55:09):
Just the law enforcement for the for the homeless. Like
we could make a homeless law enforcement that's only counselors
and they can't arrest.

Speaker 13 (55:17):
Well, it wouldn't have to be law enforcement. You could
just be counselors. It could be the people, of course,
of course, yeah, it could be social workers, it could
be but the people that have been trained with the
skills to address those specific needs, Like you.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Know, they have a piece of pie.

Speaker 9 (55:33):
For helping the homeless in our own country.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Right, And I want to say, for the record, the
gentleman from Colton was not dropped off by Colton. He
was dropped off by h the jail system. And just
say the jail system. He was released from jail and
dropped off here.

Speaker 14 (55:51):
He was not care from. So I love, I love all,
we love all our neighbors here.

Speaker 9 (55:57):
Last thing I'd like to any event it's coming up Johnny, Well, definitely,
I would love for Teddy to shout out the Mount
Vernon Bridge.

Speaker 10 (56:05):
Yes, August August twenty third, Satura's Saturday morning, nine am
to at least two o'clock. There's gonna be classic cars,
mariachi bands, a parade, and the exact location it'll people
will be traversing on foot and old you know, and
classic cars across the bridge north and south, but the

(56:27):
focal point will be on the south side of that bridge,
so near second second and there you go.

Speaker 13 (56:35):
I know, we're down to our last three minutes and
and try to make this quick. Starting with you said,
what's one of your favorite restaurants to go to in
your ward and then throughout the city.

Speaker 14 (56:44):
I have to.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Top okay, and I actually gave them my citizens of
the of the month off of Sterling and Highlands.

Speaker 14 (56:57):
I know your best from cocktail I've ever had at it.

Speaker 9 (57:00):
All Right, he's a cool dude.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
I've got I got and I got Mega Sushi, great
service of course, the Green Shack where.

Speaker 14 (57:11):
We all met.

Speaker 9 (57:14):
And Teddy, how about yourself in your ward?

Speaker 10 (57:17):
And then within this yeah, no, I had, I can't.
I can't not mention johns Burgers. It's just down the
street from where I am. I mean, it's some of the.

Speaker 14 (57:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (57:31):
Always Johns Burger is a long time Yeah, yeah, go
check out.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
I'm always telling him because I'm over over the city
looking for restaurants. I'm like, hey, you got a new
restaurant here in your ward, you gotta come help them out.

Speaker 9 (57:45):
Well, well, you know me head over to the Green
Shack Deli of course, you know, Golden Pizza and.

Speaker 14 (57:50):
Away there you go.

Speaker 9 (57:54):
Or more affordable. Yeah, and you.

Speaker 13 (57:59):
Know what I George Sundowners and my dad used to
take us. The Sundowners is still a good value. I
know the prices have gone up a little, but it's
still a great value.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Not a buffet. But you guys remember King's Table. You
remember King's Table back in the day, yeah.

Speaker 9 (58:15):
It's kind of it is kind of buffet ish.

Speaker 16 (58:19):
Yeah, yeah, okay, too much fun. This was a great show.
You had a good did you guys have a good
How do you do your Eric.

Speaker 14 (58:35):
Having a good time?

Speaker 13 (58:39):
The other one have a special show happening that tomorrow,
isn't it?

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Some special guests coming on the show tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (58:45):
Yeah, we're gonna have a It's gonna be a little surprise.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Thank you.

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