June 18, 2025 • 60 mins
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And now it's time for a brand new show on KCAA,
The Uncommon Sense Democrat with your host Eric Bauman, a
show about politics and contemporary issues. And now, yeah, well,
you know, I wish I could say, here's Eric Bawman.
This is Mark Westbooth, general manager of KCAA. And if
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you're tuning in to hear Eric Bauman and you haven't
already heard, it's always tough to do a show like this.
But Eric Bauman has passed away. Good friend, a longtime
show host here at CASEA every Wednesday at four pm.
I used to have my show right before him, and
he used to co host my show and I used
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to his co host his show on occasion. But Eric
Carl Pinches Bauman, sixty six of Los Angeles, passed away
June sixteenth at the UCLA West Valley Medical Center after
a prolonged illness, everyone's nurse on call. Eric was a
critical care are in above all, and that same sense
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of caring led Eric to become an accomplished leader in
the Democratic Party, which he's very very well known for,
serving as the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chair for
seventeen years. And he did a bang up job. Was
a great fundraiser, a great organizer, and he followed in
the footsteps his mother wasn't chair, but his mother was
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very active with the Democratic Party as well, and he
became the chair of the California Democratic Party. He was
gifted and trusted political advisor to many local, state, and
federal elected officials, including my own campaign on a couple
of times. Eric will be remembered for his ability to
bring together groups of people who might otherwise have remained estranged.
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We're saying goodbye to him today. We're sending him greetings
in heaven. I'm sure that the angels have already quickly
raised him up. He was a warrior, He was a fighter,
but he also was a friend. And when you had
Eric on your side, you had a worthy, worthy ally.
And no one can forget Eric Balin is unforgettable. He
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is one of a kind, and we are here today
to salute him. We'll have a few people calling in
we were hoping, and I'm sure his family is in
mourning right now. Eric was of the Jewish faith, and
he died just on Monday, shortly before the mid morning
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period ended. I think around nine thirty or ten if
I'm not mistaken, and we will be saying goodbye and
doing our final goodbye to him at his memorial tomorrow
in Los Angeles. If you were a friend and you'd
like to know where that's taking place, you can always
call me at nine O nine eight one zero six,
one zero two, or call the radio station at nine
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O nine three eight three one o six five. And
you know I will screen you and let you know
where that is. As you would well aware. Somebody of
Eric's caliber. Uh, you know, we need to protect him
as well. Uh and you know, and protect his family
and respect his family. He was a mighty warrior and
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uh and and it showed. Eric is survived by his
husband partner forty two years great great gentleman Michael and Drachek,
very very supportive, great great partner to Eric. His father,
Richard Bauman his sister roy Obauman, his uncle John, who
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a lot of people have heard on this radio show
many times before. He was the chair of the seniors.
Is a good idea pac or something like that. Forgive
me that I'm having a senior moment here. Also you
might know him as John Bowser from Shannanach Seananaugh and
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the big guy that had the big deep voice. And
also the John was the host of match Game Hollywood
Squares for many many years too. So he had a
famous cousin, Michael Blitz, is also in our book, very
very famous because he was on this radio show a
lot and was a loyal co host to him and
a faithful friend and cousin Michael Blitz, and of course
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we can't forget his aunt Mary Bowin. Eric was also
loved many by many close friends and family, including his
best friend forever former Speaker of the State Assembly, John Perez,
Neil says Alofski zo z Alofski, excuse me, and of
course who could forget Rhonda. Ronda has been on here
many times to Ronald Blaker and then his loyal staffer,
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loyal friend Adam along with his wife Brydon, Brenda Sedden
and who made Eric and Michael the godparents to their kids,
honorary godparents, many cousins and nieces and just a one
of a kind person. So before we go any further,
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you know, we have many, many memories, and of course
Eric Asario will be joining us. He was his board
up for many, many years. Hello, Eric, how are you?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
You know I had the pleasure of working with Bauman
for the past five years or so, and you know
it's heavy hearted loss.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Bauman, that's right. Yeah, it was gruff like that. And
you know we spent many times and we'll do we
reflecting on that, including just a little while we'll talk
about how Eric and I were co hosting each other's
shows and he was on my show about three o'clock
in the afternoon on January sixth when the news hit
what was happening in Washington, d C. And for the
next five hours, Eric was on the Eric covering it
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with us, a consummate, consummate professional and really respected him.
But for right now, with no further ado, because you know,
Eric was all about people. It was also about being social.
He cared about people. He was a nurse and one
of the ways he did that was, you know, food
and drink and eating and being merry and celebrating. So
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today we celebrate Eric's life. We celebrate Eric's life, and
so we will now raise a little toast of my
diet coke to him. Because of course I would never
have Jack Daniels in here, because you know that's not legal.
But we want to toast him, and we want to
raise our glasses to Eric Bauman, one of a kind,
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a great friend. And Eric Asario in the control room
has a glass as well. In our teamsters nineteen thirty
two cups, our juvenile cups if you could see them.
What an apropos place for him to end his show
is at these great studios in the halls of labor,
because labor always supported Brett Eric and so years to you, Eric,
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and uh, let's kick back for a minute. He'd loved
Frank Sinatra and we used to enjoy it together. So
let's listen to a little Frank Sinatra and have a
little refreshment.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
That's life.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
That's what all the people say.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
You're riding high in April, shut down in May. But
I know I'm gonna change that tune when I'm back
on top, back on top.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
In June.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
I said, that's life. And as funny as it may seem,
some people get their kicks stopping on us. But I
don't let it, let it get me down, because this
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fine old world it keeps spinning around. I've been a puppet,
a cooper, a pirate, a poet, upon and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out, and
I know one thing.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Each time I find.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Myself flat on my face, I picked myself up and
get back in the raid. That's life.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
I tell you, I can't deny it.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
I thought of quitting baby, but my heart just ain't
gonna buy it. And if I didn't think it was
worth one single child, I jump right on a big
bird and then I'd fly.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, and a poet.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Upon it, a king.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
I've been up and down and over and out, and
I know one thing.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
Each time I find myself lamb slat on my face,
I just picked myself up and get back in the race.
Speaker 13 (15:31):
That's flame backside, and I can a knife. Many times
I'm gonna cut out, but my heart won't fire. But
if there's nothing shaken comness here.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
To lie, I'm gonna roam myself up in a big
ball and.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
A little song for Eric sea Bounder, the good friend.
And you know you have a good friend when you
look on your social media just now and I realized
I had two hundred and thirty four mutual friends with him.
You know, it's a community. The Democratic Party is a community.
It's a family. We have our fights, we have our bickering,
you know, ups and downs and all that kind of stuff,
but then we come together. And Eric was all about
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that bringing people together. And you know, it shows, it
really shows, you know, by the sorrow and you know
the comments made on his social media and you know,
just you know, rest in peace, my friend. He were
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kind to me. Thank you. Well that's a good example.
He were kind to me. Thank you. That was from
one of his friends, Benny Diez. You know, you know,
Kathleen Gibney sends out condolences to her husband from her
husband and partner and to his husband and partner, Michael
Michael and j Jack uh And you know, he was
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an amazing man and he will be sorely missed. And
you know, one of my two hundred and thirty four
our mutual friends. I I'm very honored to know, and
spent last weekend protesting one of the fourteen point two
million people in the across the United States protesting the
Orange menace. Uh, Donald Trump p O. One one, three,
five eighth nine, as as we know him as his
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booking number.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
UH.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
And you know, Taco or whatever you want to call him,
there's a million names to call that man. We were
protesting him, fourteen million people protesting him. And UH, one
of the people I ran onto on the street was
none other than the Congressman Pete Aguilar. And of course, UH,
I texted Pete and I said, you know what had happened?
And he said he was so sad, and he was
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so sad about it. And you know, here's the third
ranking highest Democrat in Washington, d C. And he is,
you know, sending his condolences. Took his time, stopped right
on the spot. He says, Eric was one of a kind,
a real gem. It's always tough to lose good friends.
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And how did Pete Aguila know Eric Bawman? Not just
from Eric being active in the party or being a
party leader. Eric and Pete Aguilar were co employees together.
Maybe you don't know that, but Eric is being a
Deputy Chief to Governor Gray Davis at the time, and
so did Pete Aguilar. Pete Aguilar worked for Eric in
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the Riverside Office of the Governor, and so he had
a close relationship with Eric for many, many years, and
Eric supported him and one of the very very successful
people that Eric Bauman mentored. And it's surely made a
difference in our lives. And if you know, you know
Pete Aguilar, he was one of the chief prosecutors in
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the January sixth committee. He was right up there and
prosecuting the president and what happened and bringing light to
what Maggot did, the awful travesties that happened on January sixth,
And you know a little bit of politics here. I
participated in a very very peaceful protest in downtown Redlands,
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thousands and thousands of people. There just was not a
parking spot in any parking lot anywhere within a mile
of downtown Redlands. It was just incredible, And I estimated
about five thousand people there and that's probably conservative, might
have been more. But they were all peaceful. No cops died,
no one died, There was no vandalism, there was no violence,
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just messages, and those messages were pretty great and pretty
firm and pretty enlightened. And so you know, it was
a privilege to be there. And then Pete not only
had himself there, his wife was there, his two young
teenage sons were there, his dad was there, his brother
was there, his whole entire family, it seemed, was there
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anybody who could be from the Agular family there was there.
And you know that really says something. And you know
who mentored Pete Aguilar, but Eric Bauman, And that is
something to really really think. And here we have many,
many memories here of Eric Bauman and lots to talk
about and and you know, we have a little clip
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here that before we go into the break, we're going
to listen to, ladies and gentlemen, this is radio man
Eric Bauman.
Speaker 14 (20:39):
And I'm gonna a second thank you guys for being
here with us, and Mark and I will be on
from four to five and or until whatever.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Time, and if you guys want to hang around your more.
Speaker 14 (20:54):
Than whatever time. Mark frees me to go to dinner.
I wanted to end. I wanted to I wanted to
thank the two of you. Jacqueline, my favorite high school
and college student young Democrat. Well, I've known since since
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since he was very young. And Pastor WILLIAMS. Smart, who
I've known since he was twenty, which is only three
years ago, oh thirty. Pardon me, I made a mistake.
We have a lot of future and a lot of
America and a lot of a lot of dreams ahead
of us, and a lot of resistance. Stand up and
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just say no to this. This is Derek Bauman, host
of The uncommon Sense Democrat here on NBC Radio KCAA
with Mark Westwood. We will you know you after.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
That is just the consummate mint. Eric Bauman here on
the radio. That was January sixth, and we were faced,
you know, we turned on the news, we were live
on the air. Eric, Eric is sorry, was in the
control room that day. It was a long day, huh,
And it was a very very long day. We turned
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on the TVs, we turned on the wires. We were watching,
we were reading, we were trying to discern what was
going on. And you know, we didn't have the twenty
twenty foresight. We didn't know what was happening, how it
would go, where it would go. But yet we knew
we had to cover it. And that's what we did
for the next five hours, and Eric was always thanking people.
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He was kind of apologizing to somebody because we had
to interrupt our interview, and we have a lot of
stories like that. But first of all, because this is
radio about this time, we always have to go to
a break. So we will continue with our tribute in
a little bit. I'm Mark Westwood on the air, and
what would have been Eric Bowen's show here today a
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little over five years he was here and Eric Asio's
in the studio. We'll come back with some memories and
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give a good message, message of support and love for
his family, and UH let's treat Eric Bauman with the
dignity and respect that he deserves and give him a
good sendoff here at KCAA. We'll be back after this.
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Workay c a A ten fifty am one O six
point five FM. And today we're remembering with great affection
our great friend Eric caral Baumann and his time here
at KCA is five years plus. Here at KSEA is
a host of the Uncommon Democrat. Every every every Wednesday
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at four pm. He loved doing his show. He really
really enjoyed it. He was always very organ and I
was very prepared. He had good guests, and he will
definitely be missed. And just like he led the California
Democratic Party and was vice chair of the Democratic Party
for a long long time and leader of the Los
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Angeles Democratic Party for over seventeen years, he put that
into his radio show and it really really really showed
with the information. He was a nurse. By the way,
if you didn't know that, Eric wasn't a professional political advisor.
He was a professional, but that's you know, his career,
his advocation, his vocation was he was a nurse and
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he helped people and certainly and certainly showed he was
a one of a kind person. A gentleman by the
name of Dave Montoya says on the website, I mert
Eric in DC a DNC function in the mid two thousands,
and even though my politics shifted all over the place,
Eric believed in all voices, both in the Democratic Party
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and in America. He was a voice himself and thankful
to have known him. He was and is today one
of the best humans I have ever met. He will
be missed that was David Monteio, and echoing him as
the next vice chair after Eric Bauman was Alex Gallardo Rooker,
who said, well said, I couldn't have said it better,
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And She's right, I couldn't have said it better. He
was a voice himself, and he made such a big
difference in the party. You know, he served under Senator
John Burton when John Burton led the party, and in
that era, those Democrats managed to make sure that the
governor's seat, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of State, the treasurer,
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the attorney general, the superintendent of schools, any constitutional officer
in California was a Democrat. And then you know, he
we moved down into the legislature and I believe at
one point when Eric was chair, there were only seventeen
Republicans all of Sacramento. Everybody was elected and was a Democrat.
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And that's Eric Bauman and the work that Eric put in.
He joined together with labor, he joined the teachers, he
joined a lot of lots and lots and lots of
people together and created a force to be reckoned with,
a force to be reckoned with. And you know, I
really really admired Eric. I could see him working. I
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could see him working with multifaceted people, very complicated people,
sometimes people with agendas pulling one way or the other.
And Eric always made it manage to bring the party
together and get the job done. And his election after
election after election he won. And so Eric is to
be saluted for that and to be toasted for that
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and anything else we can do to, you know, ceremonially
give him macrimony. I would do it this moment. There
are not words, there are not words to be said
at all. And I think we have somebody on the
line who wants to join us. Who are we joining with? Okay,
and we have Chris Roebliss on the line. Chris is
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the former chair of the sam Real County Democratic Party. Hello,
Chris him Mark.
Speaker 21 (31:15):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
All right?
Speaker 21 (31:16):
I'm in the car.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Yeah, we can hear you pretty good. Maybe hold the
phone a little closer to you and we'll give you
a little more volume on this side, and I think
we'll be good. So Chris, thank you for joining me.
And uh, it's apropos. I served as your vice chair
for a few years there and there, and you were
the chair of the sam Real County Democratic Party. About
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the same time, Eric was chair of the Los Angeles
Democratic Party and we always looked to L eight as
a good example of what we should be doing. Is
that correct?
Speaker 21 (31:46):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, Eric was very helpful
at numerous times giving me advice and guidance as I
manage what in ess a third maybe fourth, third or
fourth depending on how big San Diego gets a county
(32:07):
central committee in the state of California.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, he also helped fundraise millions of
dollars there. The Democratic Party in Los Angeles County is
not a pauper, let's just put it that way. Uh.
And it still remains pretty strong, you know. But he
worked very, very hard while his husband forty two years
Michael and Drachik stood by his side. Uh. And uh,
(32:33):
the family, you know, sacrificed a lot, and there's something
to be said for that. I know that your your
wife used to sit at home alone a lot in
the evenings as well as you were working and toiling away,
and it was no different for Eric. It was it
was work. It was a lot of jobs, but he
cared and he was passionate. You know.
Speaker 21 (32:54):
It was absolutely a lot of work, Yes, and it's unpaid. Yeah,
people realize it's unpaid.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Yeah, And you know, you sometimes you have to. You know,
even with Samuey, who County's Democratic Party, he helped be
an arbitrator at one point. And you know, it takes
a lot of patience, it takes a lot of sacrifice,
It takes a lot of biting your tongue sometimes and
trying to bring people together. And Eric did that. Eric
(33:22):
did that very very well, So you're.
Speaker 21 (33:25):
Absolutely right he was. He was always getting people to
sit at the table, talk it out and come to
a resolution that was good for everyone. That was That
was always his motto, his effort and probably one of
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the things that most people didn't recognize because they see
the chairs as either the fundraiser or the spokesperson. But
a lot of it, as you just said, is getting
different actions and different people who want to go in
different directions to all cooperate and keep the party moving forward.
(34:10):
And he was brilliant at that.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
California a big state with forty million people, fifty eight
counties and central companies in each and every county and
Democratic workers. You know, wow, how do you keep that
all going? That's just this amazing for somebody to be
able to do that. And you know, I was recently
at the California Democratic Party at convention in Anaheim. It
just wasn't the same. When I looked around and I
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didn't see Eric Bauman. I knew he wasn't feeling well,
and I knew he wasn't doing well. But you know,
it's just not the same without him, that's for sure.
He did a lot for the Democratic Party. There was
a person who posted on his media website, Mastafa Mousa, say,
who's kind of known well in the party and especially
down Los Angeles. She said, thank you for all you
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did for the Democratic Party. And that's just you know,
we can't say that enough. You serve. Also, you were
also on the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committe
at one point, weren't you, Chris.
Speaker 21 (35:07):
Yes, that's where I got my start. I actually started
in my twenties. That was in our late twenties. It
was the late eighties, early nineties, and I didn't even
know what it was. Eric was not part of the
Central Committee at that time, but it was small, it
was not.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
The strong, but his mother was.
Speaker 21 (35:28):
I guarantee you today, Oh well, I don't know that
I knew his mother, but I probably saw her there.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
She was nurse and she also was active on the
Democratic Party in the state in Los Angeles. Well, I
think she was more active with the Los Angeles County
Democratic Party.
Speaker 21 (35:43):
But yeah, yeah, yes, But then I moved away for
seven years and worked in the Clinton administration. When I
came back, Eric Bauman was the chair and it was
a completely different party and it was my pleasure to
get know him and really learn the craft of being
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able to run a meeting the size of a central
committee with again people from all different positions on policy issues,
and keeping everyone moving forward in the same direction. I
learned that from Eric, and that's what made me able
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to lead the Center Committee here in San Berdardino County.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
And you also started a company called Vantage Campaigns, and
he does some political consulting here and there too, right, yes, yes,
I do.
Speaker 21 (36:44):
That's been my trade for twenty five years.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
Yeah. And you learned a lot of that and saw
a lot of that. And Eric was a great example
for you, as he was for me in my organizing.
And you know, he learned a lot of that by
being up in the Governor's office under Great Davis and
he had to swim, he had to move, and he
had to get things done. And he brought that with
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him and that experience with him to the Los Angeles
County Democratic Party, where, like you said, he reshaped the
Los Angeles County Democratic Party. I wouldn't say it was
a slouch, but it certainly wasn't the active, very vigorous,
vibrant party that it was when Eric was the chair
and continues to be today. I think they have. I
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heard one time one hundred and nineteen Democratic clubs. It's like, wow,
just blew my mind. You know, Samudy House, you know
in the twenties, you know that sort of thing, right,
and well, you.
Speaker 20 (37:41):
Know there's a there's a big distance between any other
Central Committee and LA. It's just LA has such a
huge population, right, but Hamberdino holds its own. We're we're
we're good size. We could be a little larger if
we wanted to give him the population here, but it's
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it's working out quite nicely and Democrats are well represented here.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Yeah. I saw one comment that's kind of funny here.
It says we want to replace Beverly Boulevard in Los
Angeles with Eric C. Bawman Boulevard from Downtown LA to
Beverly Hills or East LA to Whittier. You know, people
have great ideas and Eric Charles Bowman, but it was
actually Eric Carl Bauman by the way Memorial Parkway in
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Los Angeles. You know, we need to memorialize him, we
need to thank him. And you know, sadly, I don't
know that he realized how many people, and now maybe
in heaven he is seeing and looking down how many
people admired and respected him and enjoyed his company. And
you know, missed him around the California Democratic Party. But
we had the pleasure, you know, I back after you know,
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he stepped down and you know he had a little
extra time in his hand. They knew he did. And
he such an articulate voice and such a consummate politician.
I thought, let's bring him to CACA where he can
be on the air. And you know I talked to him.
At first. He was really not really too wild about it.
He was a little fearful about it all. And I said, no, no,
(39:17):
we'll give you one hundred percent support. We'll put you
on the air. He got on the air one time,
and let me tell you. That was it. It was
all over. The next time he had an artinery, it
was all organized. He was timing the show down to
the to the minute, you know. He was chiding me. Yeah,
and I gotta laugh at one thing that I still
(39:39):
got you, Eric, I still got you. He kept chiding
me recently because he'd been on the air for five
years and we'd used the same introduction to his show
and it says new the new Eric Bowman Radio Show,
The Uncommon Sense Democrat. Is like, I'm not new anymore.
Keep taking that, take that out, and I says, no,
(39:59):
every show is new. He looked at me. You got me,
Every show is new, and Mark, yeah.
Speaker 20 (40:09):
I apologize. I am my, that's lousy. City council calls
a special meeting to pass a billion dollar budgets Ontario.
It's outrageous and I have to go in and speak.
It starts at five. But I want to thank you
Mark for doing this show and memory of Eric.
Speaker 7 (40:27):
And I'm sure we'll get Michael Blitz and a few
other people to do it one more time. But yeah,
they're busy in morning, and they're his close family, so
we picked up the slack today. But thank you, Chris Roblos,
former Samuel County Democratic Chair, Vantage Campaigns and very active
Democrat good luck at the City council meeting in Ontario.
(40:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Eric, Thank you. Chris and Eric
Sorio sat behind the controls for five years working with
Eric Bowman, and I gotta tell you, Eric Baman was
very exacting, very precise most of the time. He had
a very certain vision of how he wanted things to go,
(41:09):
and like I said, he'd spilled out the whole itinerary.
And sometimes Eric could be a tiny bit.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Well, you know, It's funny because when I had first
started here, I heard that there was a couple of
board ops and engineers that worked the show before that
he wasn't the biggest fans of and so it was
a little intimidating, and uh, I was a little I
was a little anxious about working it for the first time.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
And yeah, it was loved loved me.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
So we always had a great, you know, relationship, and
I started to think, I'm like, maybe it was just
the other board ops and engineers that were just messing
up his show.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
It's true. Yeah, I'll be honest with you. He he
required a certain level of expertise and sometimes while we
had one board engineer who who who was kind of
new and kind of fragile and didn't quite make the grade.
And then then we had another one who I won't
say who it was, but kind of didn't care enough.
(42:09):
And of course they were changed, and that's why we
brought you in here.
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Yes, yeah, and uh, yeah, he's he always gave me
a lot of compliments after great shows and stuff like that.
But if there was any biff ups, if there was
any mess ups, he for sure O let me know.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
I could just hear now. He had that deep guttural
like shaking his hand and shaking his head and anyway. Yeah,
and but you did have a good affection between each other,
and he enjoyed having you as his board op and
he complimented you many times. To me, now, I never
told you that because you would want to raise. It's
(42:49):
a good strategy. So why why are we going on here?
I think you should raise your glass and you can
do a toast, Derek.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Uh, we're gonna miss you, Eric. I'll call call him Baaluman.
So we're gonna miss you Bowman much love. I had
the pleasure to work with you for five years and
have a work relationship turned into a friendship. And you know,
I'm gonna miss uh, you know, our little teasing back
and forth and uh your stories about Larry David and
(43:17):
things like that.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
So, uh, we're gonna miss you.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Bauman, love you man.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Here's drinking our diet cork of course, and and and uh,
you know, not drinking on the air at all, because
that wouldn't be legal and also you know, it wouldn't
be whatever. I don't know if Eric ever did, but possibly,
but we certainly enjoyed him. And he used to used
(43:43):
to go back and forth and what would you say
to him? And he he called you and then you
called him.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
Oh well, you know, uh, he would always call me
my boy. He would always he was always call me my.
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Boy, but here my boy.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
Yeah, you know he'd be like, oh my boy.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Yeah, and you said, oh.
Speaker 8 (44:01):
That's that's just for the homies.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Oh yeah, you can say it though, thank you, Papa. Yeah,
And there's nothing there. It was just affection back and forth. Yeah.
It was always appropriate and always professional, and we loved him. Here.
There's many times, you know, from covering the January sixth
thing to covering different events and making our points and constantly,
(44:28):
constantly campaigning and trying to convince people not to vote
for Donald Trump. And of course, much to our credit,
I think Samuel County didn't vote for Donald Trump, and
neither did Los Angeles County and most of Los Angeles
and LA and Orange County even, you know, was very strong.
And you know he turned deep red areas purple to
(44:50):
light purple, to violet, to blue to dark purple. And
that's his credit. The California Democratic Party is the California
Democratic Party. It is today in part and largely because
of there wasn't Eric C. Pinches Bauman, which I didn't
know that name until just recently. He never said that
(45:10):
it was always Eric C. Bauman. We didn't know, and
that it was Carl Eric Carl Bauman. So that'll be
his memorial is tomorrow and we will be there. What
we're going to do here at this radio station is
I've I've brought in a substitute for Eric Asario and
myself and Eric Sario and Chris Roeblos and Eric Sanchez
(45:34):
who is behind the scenes guy who does something called traffic,
which is scheduling commercials and scheduling things on the show
and coordinating and Eric is a friend of Eric's as well.
I seem to be kind of partial to Eric's Rick
coming in tomorrow to help us. And we have Eric Asario,
(45:56):
Eric Bauman, and then we have Eric Sanchez, and so
Joe's and Eric's that's what I have here. That's uh,
maybe it keeps it simple. I just call out Joe
or Eric and somebody says, what.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
One of us is going to walk to the office.
Speaker 7 (46:12):
One of you is going to walk to the office.
There are so many, so many remembrance of him online
and people are still learning. And because Eric was a
very devout Jewish person of faith. Uh, and he believed
in God and uh, you know Eric and Michael Andre
(46:34):
uh and jac Michael always attended uh Satyrs and had
dinners and entertained people and and went out with people.
And they had a few parties in their house in
the hills back in the day that people are referring to.
And uh, you know, it's just so many, you know,
(46:55):
many many memories that people would like to share. Kind
of being selfish today. And we didn't have a lot
of time to get organized because, like I said, as
Eric was of the Jewish faith. It's Jewish protocol. Protocol
the Jewish faith is that you know, there's not four
sunsets that happened between the time that someone dies in
(47:20):
the Jewish faith and that they're buried and remembered and memorialized.
So you know, it happened Tuesday about ten thirty, and
here we are on Wednesday talking about the funeral plans
that happened tomorrow. And you know, it's just something that
I'm of the Catholic faith. By the way, one of
my other best friends whose named Jerry Brown, not that
(47:41):
Jerry Brown, the governor, but his name is Jerry Brown,
is also Jewish. And you know, I seem to have
a few Jewish friends, and you know, Catholics and Jewish
people seem to get along pretty well. And you know,
I learned a neat little blessing them to say in
a minute here from a Catholic priest, and you know,
I want to share it with you, and I want
(48:03):
to share it with you and pronounce it the proper way. Uh.
And so I am bringing that up right now, and
I hopefully I can say it barakden on hahamet, which
translates a blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of
the universe, the true Judge. Uh and uh. You know,
(48:23):
words of comfort like that we can extend. Uh. You know,
when somebody passes away Illinois Barakolai Dianahametz and busses the
true Judge. And I respect Eric for his deep, profound faith,
his belief in God, the Creator, God in heavens uh
(48:45):
and uh uh and and he lived that in his life.
And uh, you know, his memory is always going to
be a blessing. The phrase really means that to a
el and hahu medic ha olam dahan hahamet. That's a
(49:06):
Catholic boy saying that very difficult, but it does mean
may their memory be a blessing. And you know it
is something that Eric has been a blessing to us all,
very very much so. And so we're gonna play another
song and have another drink because that's what we used
(49:29):
to do with Eric. I used to take him out
to one of my favorite spots, the Tartan, and he
did not order the cheap steak, let's just put it
that way. But you know what, we enjoyed that great meal,
maybe a glass of wine, some talks, and we talked
about everything under the sun and we were good friends
and shared a lot in common, and our love for
(49:51):
people is one of them. And so I have been
playing some Frank Sinatra because Eric had a lot of class,
a lot of style that a lot of people, a
lot of flair that people didn't have, and it's a
rare thing these days to have it, and it's very
(50:13):
much a blessing, and it's something I very much enjoyed
about Eric. So we're going to play another little Frank
Sinatra song before we go, And so I think this
is a good, proper appropriate Frank Sinatra song.
Speaker 22 (50:31):
And now the end is near, and so I faced
the final curtain, my friend. I'll say it clear. I'll
state my case, of which I'm certain.
Speaker 9 (50:56):
I've lived a life.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It's full.
Speaker 22 (51:02):
I traveled each and every highway, and more much more
than this, I did it my.
Speaker 6 (51:19):
Way.
Speaker 7 (51:21):
Regrets.
Speaker 22 (51:24):
I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.
Speaker 23 (51:34):
I did what I had to do, saw it through
without exemption.
Speaker 10 (51:46):
I planned each charted course, each capital step.
Speaker 22 (51:55):
Along the byway. Oh much more than this, I did
it my.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Way.
Speaker 23 (52:11):
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew.
Speaker 9 (52:18):
When I bit off more than I could choose.
Speaker 24 (52:24):
But threw it all when there was gone, I hid
it up.
Speaker 13 (52:33):
And spit it all.
Speaker 24 (52:36):
I pasted it all and nice to call, and did
it my way.
Speaker 22 (52:49):
I've loved, I've laughed and cried. I've got my fuel,
my share of losing. And the now is tears of side.
I find it all so amusing to think I did
(53:18):
all that.
Speaker 23 (53:21):
And may I say.
Speaker 22 (53:24):
Not in a shy way, Oh no, oh no, nothing,
I did it my.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
With forward.
Speaker 10 (53:40):
Is a man, what has he got if not himself?
Then he has.
Speaker 23 (53:50):
Not to say the things he truly feels.
Speaker 9 (53:59):
And nothing.
Speaker 7 (54:16):
Wait, I knew you could have pop that down and
make me saying that last phrase there, Eric, Eric it
he would have he would have loved it very very much.
I can see him in that restaurant downtown l A.
I can't remember the name of it, red velvet paper
and old black leather seating in it, and uh, just
kind of like a rat pack restaurant if there ever
(54:38):
was one, And he would go there sometimes to meet
his friends and you know, decompressed after the Los Angeles
Democratic Central Committees, and uh, you know that that that
lounge was all about Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and
all those great people and Erica lived a good life
and we're grateful for him. I also want to say
thank you to a few other people that were on
(55:00):
a show year after year, and I know I'm gonna
forget a few, and I apologize, but I want to
say thank you first of all to John John Bowser,
who we enjoyed always having and you know, Shan shan
on Boo. I can't do it. I wish he was here,
but I know that that family is in morning right
(55:21):
now and this is not something they do right now.
So but also to Ronda, Ronda who was a consummate
guest and always a joy to remember, Michael's to mister
Smart who was always on the show with him uh,
and of course his cousin UH. And by the way,
John Bowser was his uncle, not his cousin. UH. And
(55:42):
then Michael Blitz, also a great rabbi, and then Uh
of course his sidekick, if ever there was a good sidekick,
a wingman. Somebody who was faithful by his side was
Adam Siden and Adam was there always and they were
a family. And Chris Roeblis and of course I was
(56:05):
privileged in honor to be there, Eric, Sorry, I was
privileged on to be there. Eric Sanchez, who toasts him
as well. It was privileged to work with him and
he was a good friend. And I mentioned family. Adam
Siden had a son, and you know here is Adam
Siden has a son, and he was picking the best
(56:27):
person he could use as a role model for his
son in the future to be a godparent, god parents
with Eric Bauman and Michael Andrechick and Michael andre Check
is also a gem. And just you know, I got
to compliment Michael was sticking by Eric side all these
years and being faithful, you know, taking care of their puppies,
(56:48):
their fur babies and moving in the last couple of
years and through thick and thin, that's what a partner does.
And so we're thankful that Eric Boudman had Michael and
Drecheck as well. And so there is a family here.
As you can tell, we're all a family. And our
family will take the day off tomorrow and travel into
Los Angeles from Sam Brenandino to attend Eric's memorial because
(57:12):
we are family. And there's one thing that I also
looked up to him is because of this song and
pride and being who we are and being strong and
being out of the closet. So from you to me,
to everyone, to the heavens. I hope the angels had
(57:33):
Eric in heaven an hour before the devil knew he
was dead. That's a good old Irish blessing. Here we are,
we are family. Here's this one's for you. Eric.
Speaker 8 (57:42):
We'll miss you.
Speaker 25 (57:43):
Women's you you get up everybody inside our family.
Speaker 9 (58:11):
I got one of my sisters.
Speaker 4 (58:13):
The things.
Speaker 25 (58:15):
We our family.
Speaker 9 (58:19):
Get everybody inside.
Speaker 26 (58:25):
Everyone can see we're together as we walk on line
and we fly just like birds of a feather.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
I won't tell no lie.
Speaker 26 (58:41):
All over people around the city.
Speaker 9 (58:46):
Can they be that close?
Speaker 26 (58:49):
Just let mistake the record. We're giving love a family.
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Speaker 7 (06:08):
And now it's time for a brand new show on KCAA,
The Uncommon Sense Democrat with your host Eric Bauman, a
show about politics and contemporary issues. And now, yeah, well,
you know, I wish I could say, here's Eric Bawman.
This is Mark Westbooth, general manager of KCAA. And if
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you're tuning in to hear Eric Bauman and you haven't
already heard, it's always tough to do a show like this.
But Eric Bauman has passed away. Good friend, a longtime
show host here at CASEA every Wednesday at four pm.
I used to have my show right before him, and
he used to co host my show and I used
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to his co host his show on occasion. But Eric
Carl Pinches Bauman, sixty six of Los Angeles, passed away
June sixteenth at the UCLA West Valley Medical Center after
a prolonged illness, everyone's nurse on call. Eric was a
critical care are in above all, and that same sense
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of caring led Eric to become an accomplished leader in
the Democratic Party, which he's very very well known for,
serving as the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chair for
seventeen years. And he did a bang up job. Was
a great fundraiser, a great organizer, and he followed in
the footsteps his mother wasn't chair, but his mother was
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very active with the Democratic Party as well, and he
became the chair of the California Democratic Party. He was
gifted and trusted political advisor to many local, state, and
federal elected officials, including my own campaign on a couple
of times. Eric will be remembered for his ability to
bring together groups of people who might otherwise have remained estranged.
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We're saying goodbye to him today. We're sending him greetings
in heaven. I'm sure that the angels have already quickly
raised him up. He was a warrior, He was a fighter,
but he also was a friend. And when you had
Eric on your side, you had a worthy, worthy ally.
And no one can forget Eric Balin is unforgettable. He
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is one of a kind, and we are here today
to salute him. We'll have a few people calling in
we were hoping, and I'm sure his family is in
mourning right now. Eric was of the Jewish faith, and
he died just on Monday, shortly before the mid morning
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period ended. I think around nine thirty or ten if
I'm not mistaken, and we will be saying goodbye and
doing our final goodbye to him at his memorial tomorrow
in Los Angeles. If you were a friend and you'd
like to know where that's taking place, you can always
call me at nine O nine eight one zero six,
one zero two, or call the radio station at nine
(09:05):
O nine three eight three one o six five. And
you know I will screen you and let you know
where that is. As you would well aware. Somebody of
Eric's caliber. Uh, you know, we need to protect him
as well. Uh and you know, and protect his family
and respect his family. He was a mighty warrior and
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uh and and it showed. Eric is survived by his
husband partner forty two years great great gentleman Michael and Drachek,
very very supportive, great great partner to Eric. His father,
Richard Bauman his sister roy Obauman, his uncle John, who
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a lot of people have heard on this radio show
many times before. He was the chair of the seniors.
Is a good idea pac or something like that. Forgive
me that I'm having a senior moment here. Also you
might know him as John Bowser from Shannanach Seananaugh and
(10:06):
the big guy that had the big deep voice. And
also the John was the host of match Game Hollywood
Squares for many many years too. So he had a
famous cousin, Michael Blitz, is also in our book, very
very famous because he was on this radio show a
lot and was a loyal co host to him and
a faithful friend and cousin Michael Blitz, and of course
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we can't forget his aunt Mary Bowin. Eric was also
loved many by many close friends and family, including his
best friend forever former Speaker of the State Assembly, John Perez,
Neil says Alofski zo z Alofski, excuse me, and of
course who could forget Rhonda. Ronda has been on here
many times to Ronald Blaker and then his loyal staffer,
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loyal friend Adam along with his wife Brydon, Brenda Sedden
and who made Eric and Michael the godparents to their kids,
honorary godparents, many cousins and nieces and just a one
of a kind person. So before we go any further,
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you know, we have many, many memories, and of course
Eric Asario will be joining us. He was his board
up for many, many years. Hello, Eric, how are you?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
You know I had the pleasure of working with Bauman
for the past five years or so, and you know
it's heavy hearted loss.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
Bauman, that's right. Yeah, it was gruff like that. And
you know we spent many times and we'll do we
reflecting on that, including just a little while we'll talk
about how Eric and I were co hosting each other's
shows and he was on my show about three o'clock
in the afternoon on January sixth when the news hit
what was happening in Washington, d C. And for the
next five hours, Eric was on the Eric covering it
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with us, a consummate, consummate professional and really respected him.
But for right now, with no further ado, because you know,
Eric was all about people. It was also about being social.
He cared about people. He was a nurse and one
of the ways he did that was, you know, food
and drink and eating and being merry and celebrating. So
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today we celebrate Eric's life. We celebrate Eric's life, and
so we will now raise a little toast of my
diet coke to him. Because of course I would never
have Jack Daniels in here, because you know that's not legal.
But we want to toast him, and we want to
raise our glasses to Eric Bauman, one of a kind,
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a great friend. And Eric Asario in the control room
has a glass as well. In our teamsters nineteen thirty
two cups, our juvenile cups if you could see them.
What an apropos place for him to end his show
is at these great studios in the halls of labor,
because labor always supported Brett Eric and so years to you, Eric,
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and uh, let's kick back for a minute. He'd loved
Frank Sinatra and we used to enjoy it together. So
let's listen to a little Frank Sinatra and have a
little refreshment.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
That's life.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
That's what all the people say.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
You're riding high in April, shut down in May. But
I know I'm gonna change that tune when I'm back
on top, back on top.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
In June.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
I said, that's life. And as funny as it may seem,
some people get their kicks stopping on us. But I
don't let it, let it get me down, because this
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fine old world it keeps spinning around. I've been a puppet,
a cooper, a pirate, a poet, upon and a king.
I've been up and down and over and out, and
I know one thing.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Each time I find.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Myself flat on my face, I picked myself up and
get back in the raid. That's life.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
I tell you, I can't deny it.
Speaker 9 (14:47):
I thought of quitting baby, but my heart just ain't
gonna buy it. And if I didn't think it was
worth one single child, I jump right on a big
bird and then I'd fly.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, and a poet.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Upon it, a king.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
I've been up and down and over and out, and
I know one thing.
Speaker 12 (15:18):
Each time I find myself lamb slat on my face,
I just picked myself up and get back in the race.
Speaker 13 (15:31):
That's flame backside, and I can a knife. Many times
I'm gonna cut out, but my heart won't fire. But
if there's nothing shaken comness here.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
To lie, I'm gonna roam myself up in a big
ball and.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
A little song for Eric sea Bounder, the good friend.
And you know you have a good friend when you
look on your social media just now and I realized
I had two hundred and thirty four mutual friends with him.
You know, it's a community. The Democratic Party is a community.
It's a family. We have our fights, we have our bickering,
you know, ups and downs and all that kind of stuff,
but then we come together. And Eric was all about
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that bringing people together. And you know, it shows, it
really shows, you know, by the sorrow and you know
the comments made on his social media and you know,
just you know, rest in peace, my friend. He were
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kind to me. Thank you. Well that's a good example.
He were kind to me. Thank you. That was from
one of his friends, Benny Diez. You know, you know,
Kathleen Gibney sends out condolences to her husband from her
husband and partner and to his husband and partner, Michael
Michael and j Jack uh And you know, he was
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an amazing man and he will be sorely missed. And
you know, one of my two hundred and thirty four
our mutual friends. I I'm very honored to know, and
spent last weekend protesting one of the fourteen point two
million people in the across the United States protesting the
Orange menace. Uh, Donald Trump p O. One one, three,
five eighth nine, as as we know him as his
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booking number.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
UH.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
And you know, Taco or whatever you want to call him,
there's a million names to call that man. We were
protesting him, fourteen million people protesting him. And UH, one
of the people I ran onto on the street was
none other than the Congressman Pete Aguilar. And of course, UH,
I texted Pete and I said, you know what had happened?
And he said he was so sad, and he was
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so sad about it. And you know, here's the third
ranking highest Democrat in Washington, d C. And he is,
you know, sending his condolences. Took his time, stopped right
on the spot. He says, Eric was one of a kind,
a real gem. It's always tough to lose good friends.
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And how did Pete Aguila know Eric Bawman? Not just
from Eric being active in the party or being a
party leader. Eric and Pete Aguilar were co employees together.
Maybe you don't know that, but Eric is being a
Deputy Chief to Governor Gray Davis at the time, and
so did Pete Aguilar. Pete Aguilar worked for Eric in
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the Riverside Office of the Governor, and so he had
a close relationship with Eric for many, many years, and
Eric supported him and one of the very very successful
people that Eric Bauman mentored. And it's surely made a
difference in our lives. And if you know, you know
Pete Aguilar, he was one of the chief prosecutors in
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the January sixth committee. He was right up there and
prosecuting the president and what happened and bringing light to
what Maggot did, the awful travesties that happened on January sixth,
And you know a little bit of politics here. I
participated in a very very peaceful protest in downtown Redlands,
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thousands and thousands of people. There just was not a
parking spot in any parking lot anywhere within a mile
of downtown Redlands. It was just incredible, And I estimated
about five thousand people there and that's probably conservative, might
have been more. But they were all peaceful. No cops died,
no one died, There was no vandalism, there was no violence,
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just messages, and those messages were pretty great and pretty
firm and pretty enlightened. And so you know, it was
a privilege to be there. And then Pete not only
had himself there, his wife was there, his two young
teenage sons were there, his dad was there, his brother
was there, his whole entire family, it seemed, was there
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anybody who could be from the Agular family there was there.
And you know that really says something. And you know
who mentored Pete Aguilar, but Eric Bauman, And that is
something to really really think. And here we have many,
many memories here of Eric Bauman and lots to talk
about and and you know, we have a little clip
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here that before we go into the break, we're going
to listen to, ladies and gentlemen, this is radio man
Eric Bauman.
Speaker 14 (20:39):
And I'm gonna a second thank you guys for being
here with us, and Mark and I will be on
from four to five and or until whatever.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Time, and if you guys want to hang around your more.
Speaker 14 (20:54):
Than whatever time. Mark frees me to go to dinner.
I wanted to end. I wanted to I wanted to
thank the two of you. Jacqueline, my favorite high school
and college student young Democrat. Well, I've known since since
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since he was very young. And Pastor WILLIAMS. Smart, who
I've known since he was twenty, which is only three
years ago, oh thirty. Pardon me, I made a mistake.
We have a lot of future and a lot of
America and a lot of a lot of dreams ahead
of us, and a lot of resistance. Stand up and
(21:40):
just say no to this. This is Derek Bauman, host
of The uncommon Sense Democrat here on NBC Radio KCAA
with Mark Westwood. We will you know you after.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
That is just the consummate mint. Eric Bauman here on
the radio. That was January sixth, and we were faced,
you know, we turned on the news, we were live
on the air. Eric, Eric is sorry, was in the
control room that day. It was a long day, huh,
And it was a very very long day. We turned
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on the TVs, we turned on the wires. We were watching,
we were reading, we were trying to discern what was
going on. And you know, we didn't have the twenty
twenty foresight. We didn't know what was happening, how it
would go, where it would go. But yet we knew
we had to cover it. And that's what we did
for the next five hours, and Eric was always thanking people.
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He was kind of apologizing to somebody because we had
to interrupt our interview, and we have a lot of
stories like that. But first of all, because this is
radio about this time, we always have to go to
a break. So we will continue with our tribute in
a little bit. I'm Mark Westwood on the air, and
what would have been Eric Bowen's show here today a
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little over five years he was here and Eric Asio's
in the studio. We'll come back with some memories and
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his family, and UH let's treat Eric Bauman with the
dignity and respect that he deserves and give him a
good sendoff here at KCAA. We'll be back after this.
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our great friend Eric caral Baumann and his time here
at KCA is five years plus. Here at KSEA is
a host of the Uncommon Democrat. Every every every Wednesday
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at four pm. He loved doing his show. He really
really enjoyed it. He was always very organ and I
was very prepared. He had good guests, and he will
definitely be missed. And just like he led the California
Democratic Party and was vice chair of the Democratic Party
for a long long time and leader of the Los
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Angeles Democratic Party for over seventeen years, he put that
into his radio show and it really really really showed
with the information. He was a nurse. By the way,
if you didn't know that, Eric wasn't a professional political advisor.
He was a professional, but that's you know, his career,
his advocation, his vocation was he was a nurse and
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he helped people and certainly and certainly showed he was
a one of a kind person. A gentleman by the
name of Dave Montoya says on the website, I mert
Eric in DC a DNC function in the mid two thousands,
and even though my politics shifted all over the place,
Eric believed in all voices, both in the Democratic Party
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and in America. He was a voice himself and thankful
to have known him. He was and is today one
of the best humans I have ever met. He will
be missed that was David Monteio, and echoing him as
the next vice chair after Eric Bauman was Alex Gallardo Rooker,
who said, well said, I couldn't have said it better,
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And She's right, I couldn't have said it better. He
was a voice himself, and he made such a big
difference in the party. You know, he served under Senator
John Burton when John Burton led the party, and in
that era, those Democrats managed to make sure that the
governor's seat, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of State, the treasurer,
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the attorney general, the superintendent of schools, any constitutional officer
in California was a Democrat. And then you know, he
we moved down into the legislature and I believe at
one point when Eric was chair, there were only seventeen
Republicans all of Sacramento. Everybody was elected and was a Democrat.
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And that's Eric Bauman and the work that Eric put in.
He joined together with labor, he joined the teachers, he
joined a lot of lots and lots and lots of
people together and created a force to be reckoned with,
a force to be reckoned with. And you know, I
really really admired Eric. I could see him working. I
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could see him working with multifaceted people, very complicated people,
sometimes people with agendas pulling one way or the other.
And Eric always made it manage to bring the party
together and get the job done. And his election after
election after election he won. And so Eric is to
be saluted for that and to be toasted for that
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and anything else we can do to, you know, ceremonially
give him macrimony. I would do it this moment. There
are not words, there are not words to be said
at all. And I think we have somebody on the
line who wants to join us. Who are we joining with? Okay,
and we have Chris Roebliss on the line. Chris is
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the former chair of the sam Real County Democratic Party. Hello,
Chris him Mark.
Speaker 21 (31:15):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
All right?
Speaker 21 (31:16):
I'm in the car.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Yeah, we can hear you pretty good. Maybe hold the
phone a little closer to you and we'll give you
a little more volume on this side, and I think
we'll be good. So Chris, thank you for joining me.
And uh, it's apropos. I served as your vice chair
for a few years there and there, and you were
the chair of the sam Real County Democratic Party. About
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the same time, Eric was chair of the Los Angeles
Democratic Party and we always looked to L eight as
a good example of what we should be doing. Is
that correct?
Speaker 21 (31:46):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, Eric was very helpful
at numerous times giving me advice and guidance as I
manage what in ess a third maybe fourth, third or
fourth depending on how big San Diego gets a county
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central committee in the state of California.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, he also helped fundraise millions of
dollars there. The Democratic Party in Los Angeles County is
not a pauper, let's just put it that way. Uh.
And it still remains pretty strong, you know. But he
worked very, very hard while his husband forty two years
Michael and Drachik stood by his side. Uh. And uh,
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the family, you know, sacrificed a lot, and there's something
to be said for that. I know that your your
wife used to sit at home alone a lot in
the evenings as well as you were working and toiling away,
and it was no different for Eric. It was it
was work. It was a lot of jobs, but he
cared and he was passionate. You know.
Speaker 21 (32:54):
It was absolutely a lot of work, Yes, and it's unpaid. Yeah,
people realize it's unpaid.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Yeah, And you know, you sometimes you have to. You know,
even with Samuey, who County's Democratic Party, he helped be
an arbitrator at one point. And you know, it takes
a lot of patience, it takes a lot of sacrifice,
It takes a lot of biting your tongue sometimes and
trying to bring people together. And Eric did that. Eric
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did that very very well, So you're.
Speaker 21 (33:25):
Absolutely right he was. He was always getting people to
sit at the table, talk it out and come to
a resolution that was good for everyone. That was That
was always his motto, his effort and probably one of
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the things that most people didn't recognize because they see
the chairs as either the fundraiser or the spokesperson. But
a lot of it, as you just said, is getting
different actions and different people who want to go in
different directions to all cooperate and keep the party moving forward.
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And he was brilliant at that.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
California a big state with forty million people, fifty eight
counties and central companies in each and every county and
Democratic workers. You know, wow, how do you keep that
all going? That's just this amazing for somebody to be
able to do that. And you know, I was recently
at the California Democratic Party at convention in Anaheim. It
just wasn't the same. When I looked around and I
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didn't see Eric Bauman. I knew he wasn't feeling well,
and I knew he wasn't doing well. But you know,
it's just not the same without him, that's for sure.
He did a lot for the Democratic Party. There was
a person who posted on his media website, Mastafa Mousa, say,
who's kind of known well in the party and especially
down Los Angeles. She said, thank you for all you
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did for the Democratic Party. And that's just you know,
we can't say that enough. You serve. Also, you were
also on the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committe
at one point, weren't you, Chris.
Speaker 21 (35:07):
Yes, that's where I got my start. I actually started
in my twenties. That was in our late twenties. It
was the late eighties, early nineties, and I didn't even
know what it was. Eric was not part of the
Central Committee at that time, but it was small, it
was not.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
The strong, but his mother was.
Speaker 21 (35:28):
I guarantee you today, Oh well, I don't know that
I knew his mother, but I probably saw her there.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
She was nurse and she also was active on the
Democratic Party in the state in Los Angeles. Well, I
think she was more active with the Los Angeles County
Democratic Party.
Speaker 21 (35:43):
But yeah, yeah, yes, But then I moved away for
seven years and worked in the Clinton administration. When I
came back, Eric Bauman was the chair and it was
a completely different party and it was my pleasure to
get know him and really learn the craft of being
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able to run a meeting the size of a central
committee with again people from all different positions on policy issues,
and keeping everyone moving forward in the same direction. I
learned that from Eric, and that's what made me able
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to lead the Center Committee here in San Berdardino County.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
And you also started a company called Vantage Campaigns, and
he does some political consulting here and there too, right, yes, yes,
I do.
Speaker 21 (36:44):
That's been my trade for twenty five years.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
Yeah. And you learned a lot of that and saw
a lot of that. And Eric was a great example
for you, as he was for me in my organizing.
And you know, he learned a lot of that by
being up in the Governor's office under Great Davis and
he had to swim, he had to move, and he
had to get things done. And he brought that with
(37:08):
him and that experience with him to the Los Angeles
County Democratic Party, where, like you said, he reshaped the
Los Angeles County Democratic Party. I wouldn't say it was
a slouch, but it certainly wasn't the active, very vigorous,
vibrant party that it was when Eric was the chair
and continues to be today. I think they have. I
(37:30):
heard one time one hundred and nineteen Democratic clubs. It's like, wow,
just blew my mind. You know, Samudy House, you know
in the twenties, you know that sort of thing, right,
and well, you.
Speaker 20 (37:41):
Know there's a there's a big distance between any other
Central Committee and LA. It's just LA has such a
huge population, right, but Hamberdino holds its own. We're we're
we're good size. We could be a little larger if
we wanted to give him the population here, but it's
(38:04):
it's working out quite nicely and Democrats are well represented here.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Yeah. I saw one comment that's kind of funny here.
It says we want to replace Beverly Boulevard in Los
Angeles with Eric C. Bawman Boulevard from Downtown LA to
Beverly Hills or East LA to Whittier. You know, people
have great ideas and Eric Charles Bowman, but it was
actually Eric Carl Bauman by the way Memorial Parkway in
(38:32):
Los Angeles. You know, we need to memorialize him, we
need to thank him. And you know, sadly, I don't
know that he realized how many people, and now maybe
in heaven he is seeing and looking down how many
people admired and respected him and enjoyed his company. And
you know, missed him around the California Democratic Party. But
we had the pleasure, you know, I back after you know,
(38:55):
he stepped down and you know he had a little
extra time in his hand. They knew he did. And
he such an articulate voice and such a consummate politician.
I thought, let's bring him to CACA where he can
be on the air. And you know I talked to him.
At first. He was really not really too wild about it.
He was a little fearful about it all. And I said, no, no,
(39:17):
we'll give you one hundred percent support. We'll put you
on the air. He got on the air one time,
and let me tell you. That was it. It was
all over. The next time he had an artinery, it
was all organized. He was timing the show down to
the to the minute, you know. He was chiding me. Yeah,
and I gotta laugh at one thing that I still
(39:39):
got you, Eric, I still got you. He kept chiding
me recently because he'd been on the air for five
years and we'd used the same introduction to his show
and it says new the new Eric Bowman Radio Show,
The Uncommon Sense Democrat. Is like, I'm not new anymore.
Keep taking that, take that out, and I says, no,
(39:59):
every show is new. He looked at me. You got me,
Every show is new, and Mark, yeah.
Speaker 20 (40:09):
I apologize. I am my, that's lousy. City council calls
a special meeting to pass a billion dollar budgets Ontario.
It's outrageous and I have to go in and speak.
It starts at five. But I want to thank you
Mark for doing this show and memory of Eric.
Speaker 7 (40:27):
And I'm sure we'll get Michael Blitz and a few
other people to do it one more time. But yeah,
they're busy in morning, and they're his close family, so
we picked up the slack today. But thank you, Chris Roblos,
former Samuel County Democratic Chair, Vantage Campaigns and very active
Democrat good luck at the City council meeting in Ontario.
(40:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Eric, Thank you. Chris and Eric
Sorio sat behind the controls for five years working with
Eric Bowman, and I gotta tell you, Eric Baman was
very exacting, very precise most of the time. He had
a very certain vision of how he wanted things to go,
(41:09):
and like I said, he'd spilled out the whole itinerary.
And sometimes Eric could be a tiny bit.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Well, you know, It's funny because when I had first
started here, I heard that there was a couple of
board ops and engineers that worked the show before that
he wasn't the biggest fans of and so it was
a little intimidating, and uh, I was a little I
was a little anxious about working it for the first time.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
And yeah, it was loved loved me.
Speaker 8 (41:38):
So we always had a great, you know, relationship, and
I started to think, I'm like, maybe it was just
the other board ops and engineers that were just messing
up his show.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
It's true. Yeah, I'll be honest with you. He he
required a certain level of expertise and sometimes while we
had one board engineer who who who was kind of
new and kind of fragile and didn't quite make the grade.
And then then we had another one who I won't
say who it was, but kind of didn't care enough.
(42:09):
And of course they were changed, and that's why we
brought you in here.
Speaker 8 (42:11):
Yes, yeah, and uh, yeah, he's he always gave me
a lot of compliments after great shows and stuff like that.
But if there was any biff ups, if there was
any mess ups, he for sure O let me know.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
I could just hear now. He had that deep guttural
like shaking his hand and shaking his head and anyway. Yeah,
and but you did have a good affection between each other,
and he enjoyed having you as his board op and
he complimented you many times. To me, now, I never
told you that because you would want to raise. It's
(42:49):
a good strategy. So why why are we going on here?
I think you should raise your glass and you can
do a toast, Derek.
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Uh, we're gonna miss you, Eric. I'll call call him Baaluman.
So we're gonna miss you Bowman much love. I had
the pleasure to work with you for five years and
have a work relationship turned into a friendship. And you know,
I'm gonna miss uh, you know, our little teasing back
and forth and uh your stories about Larry David and
(43:17):
things like that.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
So, uh, we're gonna miss you.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Bauman, love you man.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Here's drinking our diet cork of course, and and and uh,
you know, not drinking on the air at all, because
that wouldn't be legal and also you know, it wouldn't
be whatever. I don't know if Eric ever did, but possibly,
but we certainly enjoyed him. And he used to used
(43:43):
to go back and forth and what would you say
to him? And he he called you and then you
called him.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
Oh well, you know, uh, he would always call me
my boy. He would always he was always call me my.
Speaker 7 (43:54):
Boy, but here my boy.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
Yeah, you know he'd be like, oh my boy.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Yeah, and you said, oh.
Speaker 8 (44:01):
That's that's just for the homies.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Oh yeah, you can say it though, thank you, Papa. Yeah,
And there's nothing there. It was just affection back and forth. Yeah.
It was always appropriate and always professional, and we loved him. Here.
There's many times, you know, from covering the January sixth
thing to covering different events and making our points and constantly,
(44:28):
constantly campaigning and trying to convince people not to vote
for Donald Trump. And of course, much to our credit,
I think Samuel County didn't vote for Donald Trump, and
neither did Los Angeles County and most of Los Angeles
and LA and Orange County even, you know, was very strong.
And you know he turned deep red areas purple to
(44:50):
light purple, to violet, to blue to dark purple. And
that's his credit. The California Democratic Party is the California
Democratic Party. It is today in part and largely because
of there wasn't Eric C. Pinches Bauman, which I didn't
know that name until just recently. He never said that
(45:10):
it was always Eric C. Bauman. We didn't know, and
that it was Carl Eric Carl Bauman. So that'll be
his memorial is tomorrow and we will be there. What
we're going to do here at this radio station is
I've I've brought in a substitute for Eric Asario and
myself and Eric Sario and Chris Roeblos and Eric Sanchez
(45:34):
who is behind the scenes guy who does something called traffic,
which is scheduling commercials and scheduling things on the show
and coordinating and Eric is a friend of Eric's as well.
I seem to be kind of partial to Eric's Rick
coming in tomorrow to help us. And we have Eric Asario,
(45:56):
Eric Bauman, and then we have Eric Sanchez, and so
Joe's and Eric's that's what I have here. That's uh,
maybe it keeps it simple. I just call out Joe
or Eric and somebody says, what.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
One of us is going to walk to the office.
Speaker 7 (46:12):
One of you is going to walk to the office.
There are so many, so many remembrance of him online
and people are still learning. And because Eric was a
very devout Jewish person of faith. Uh, and he believed
in God and uh, you know Eric and Michael Andre
(46:34):
uh and jac Michael always attended uh Satyrs and had
dinners and entertained people and and went out with people.
And they had a few parties in their house in
the hills back in the day that people are referring to.
And uh, you know, it's just so many, you know,
(46:55):
many many memories that people would like to share. Kind
of being selfish today. And we didn't have a lot
of time to get organized because, like I said, as
Eric was of the Jewish faith. It's Jewish protocol. Protocol
the Jewish faith is that you know, there's not four
sunsets that happened between the time that someone dies in
(47:20):
the Jewish faith and that they're buried and remembered and memorialized.
So you know, it happened Tuesday about ten thirty, and
here we are on Wednesday talking about the funeral plans
that happened tomorrow. And you know, it's just something that
I'm of the Catholic faith. By the way, one of
my other best friends whose named Jerry Brown, not that
(47:41):
Jerry Brown, the governor, but his name is Jerry Brown,
is also Jewish. And you know, I seem to have
a few Jewish friends, and you know, Catholics and Jewish
people seem to get along pretty well. And you know,
I learned a neat little blessing them to say in
a minute here from a Catholic priest, and you know,
I want to share it with you, and I want
(48:03):
to share it with you and pronounce it the proper way. Uh.
And so I am bringing that up right now, and
I hopefully I can say it barakden on hahamet, which
translates a blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of
the universe, the true Judge. Uh and uh. You know,
(48:23):
words of comfort like that we can extend. Uh. You know,
when somebody passes away Illinois Barakolai Dianahametz and busses the
true Judge. And I respect Eric for his deep, profound faith,
his belief in God, the Creator, God in heavens uh
(48:45):
and uh uh and and he lived that in his life.
And uh, you know, his memory is always going to
be a blessing. The phrase really means that to a
el and hahu medic ha olam dahan hahamet. That's a
(49:06):
Catholic boy saying that very difficult, but it does mean
may their memory be a blessing. And you know it
is something that Eric has been a blessing to us all,
very very much so. And so we're gonna play another
song and have another drink because that's what we used
(49:29):
to do with Eric. I used to take him out
to one of my favorite spots, the Tartan, and he
did not order the cheap steak, let's just put it
that way. But you know what, we enjoyed that great meal,
maybe a glass of wine, some talks, and we talked
about everything under the sun and we were good friends
and shared a lot in common, and our love for
(49:51):
people is one of them. And so I have been
playing some Frank Sinatra because Eric had a lot of class,
a lot of style that a lot of people, a
lot of flair that people didn't have, and it's a
rare thing these days to have it, and it's very
(50:13):
much a blessing, and it's something I very much enjoyed
about Eric. So we're going to play another little Frank
Sinatra song before we go, And so I think this
is a good, proper appropriate Frank Sinatra song.
Speaker 22 (50:31):
And now the end is near, and so I faced
the final curtain, my friend. I'll say it clear. I'll
state my case, of which I'm certain.
Speaker 9 (50:56):
I've lived a life.
Speaker 3 (51:00):
It's full.
Speaker 22 (51:02):
I traveled each and every highway, and more much more
than this, I did it my.
Speaker 6 (51:19):
Way.
Speaker 7 (51:21):
Regrets.
Speaker 22 (51:24):
I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.
Speaker 23 (51:34):
I did what I had to do, saw it through
without exemption.
Speaker 10 (51:46):
I planned each charted course, each capital step.
Speaker 22 (51:55):
Along the byway. Oh much more than this, I did
it my.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Way.
Speaker 23 (52:11):
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew.
Speaker 9 (52:18):
When I bit off more than I could choose.
Speaker 24 (52:24):
But threw it all when there was gone, I hid
it up.
Speaker 13 (52:33):
And spit it all.
Speaker 24 (52:36):
I pasted it all and nice to call, and did
it my way.
Speaker 22 (52:49):
I've loved, I've laughed and cried. I've got my fuel,
my share of losing. And the now is tears of side.
I find it all so amusing to think I did
(53:18):
all that.
Speaker 23 (53:21):
And may I say.
Speaker 22 (53:24):
Not in a shy way, Oh no, oh no, nothing,
I did it my.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
With forward.
Speaker 10 (53:40):
Is a man, what has he got if not himself?
Then he has.
Speaker 23 (53:50):
Not to say the things he truly feels.
Speaker 9 (53:59):
And nothing.
Speaker 7 (54:16):
Wait, I knew you could have pop that down and
make me saying that last phrase there, Eric, Eric it
he would have he would have loved it very very much.
I can see him in that restaurant downtown l A.
I can't remember the name of it, red velvet paper
and old black leather seating in it, and uh, just
kind of like a rat pack restaurant if there ever
(54:38):
was one, And he would go there sometimes to meet
his friends and you know, decompressed after the Los Angeles
Democratic Central Committees, and uh, you know that that that
lounge was all about Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and
all those great people and Erica lived a good life
and we're grateful for him. I also want to say
thank you to a few other people that were on
(55:00):
a show year after year, and I know I'm gonna
forget a few, and I apologize, but I want to
say thank you first of all to John John Bowser,
who we enjoyed always having and you know, Shan shan
on Boo. I can't do it. I wish he was here,
but I know that that family is in morning right
(55:21):
now and this is not something they do right now.
So but also to Ronda, Ronda who was a consummate
guest and always a joy to remember, Michael's to mister
Smart who was always on the show with him uh,
and of course his cousin UH. And by the way,
John Bowser was his uncle, not his cousin. UH. And
(55:42):
then Michael Blitz, also a great rabbi, and then Uh
of course his sidekick, if ever there was a good sidekick,
a wingman. Somebody who was faithful by his side was
Adam Siden and Adam was there always and they were
a family. And Chris Roeblis and of course I was
(56:05):
privileged in honor to be there, Eric, Sorry, I was
privileged on to be there. Eric Sanchez, who toasts him
as well. It was privileged to work with him and
he was a good friend. And I mentioned family. Adam
Siden had a son, and you know here is Adam
Siden has a son, and he was picking the best
(56:27):
person he could use as a role model for his
son in the future to be a godparent, god parents
with Eric Bauman and Michael Andrechick and Michael andre Check
is also a gem. And just you know, I got
to compliment Michael was sticking by Eric side all these
years and being faithful, you know, taking care of their puppies,
(56:48):
their fur babies and moving in the last couple of
years and through thick and thin, that's what a partner does.
And so we're thankful that Eric Boudman had Michael and
Drecheck as well. And so there is a family here.
As you can tell, we're all a family. And our
family will take the day off tomorrow and travel into
Los Angeles from Sam Brenandino to attend Eric's memorial because
(57:12):
we are family. And there's one thing that I also
looked up to him is because of this song and
pride and being who we are and being strong and
being out of the closet. So from you to me,
to everyone, to the heavens. I hope the angels had
(57:33):
Eric in heaven an hour before the devil knew he
was dead. That's a good old Irish blessing. Here we are,
we are family. Here's this one's for you. Eric.
Speaker 8 (57:42):
We'll miss you.
Speaker 25 (57:43):
Women's you you get up everybody inside our family.
Speaker 9 (58:11):
I got one of my sisters.
Speaker 4 (58:13):
The things.
Speaker 25 (58:15):
We our family.
Speaker 9 (58:19):
Get everybody inside.
Speaker 26 (58:25):
Everyone can see we're together as we walk on line
and we fly just like birds of a feather.
Speaker 4 (58:37):
I won't tell no lie.
Speaker 26 (58:41):
All over people around the city.
Speaker 9 (58:46):
Can they be that close?
Speaker 26 (58:49):
Just let mistake the record. We're giving love a family.
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