Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturdays with Tiffany until
Speaker 2: seven and then Michael Monks comes on and he'll have
Speaker 2: a great show as usual, so stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 2: and you'll find me there, and you'll find Michael Monks there,
Speaker 2: and you'll find lots of other things there, so you
Speaker 2: can always stay up to date on what we are
Speaker 2: talking about. And the next thing I want to talk
Speaker 2: about is the introduction of a new segment, a new
Speaker 2: segment and I'm calling it Deeper Dives. No, we're not
Speaker 2: going to talk about the ocean anymore right now. We might,
Speaker 2: but not right now. This is going to be expose's
Speaker 2: written by journalistic outlet, whether it's newspapers or social media,
Speaker 2: if it's credible, whatever it may be, that takes a deeper,
Speaker 2: longer look into a story that directly impacts Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: Los Angeles County and southern California. And this one specifically
Speaker 2: for our first story under the Deeper Dives News segment
Speaker 2: has to do with street sweeping. When you park in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, you'd better pay close attention to those street signs.
Speaker 2: We know it. You pull up to a curb and
Speaker 2: the signs seem to be confusing on purpose. You might
Speaker 2: be able to park between two and four, but not
Speaker 2: between four and six, and only for one hour until
Speaker 2: eight pm, and then after eight pm there's no parking
Speaker 2: unless you have a special city issued permit that says
Speaker 2: you belong in that neighborhood that's happened to me for sure,
Speaker 2: Or the the wonderful fun street signs that seem to
Speaker 2: be stacked one on top of each other like a
Speaker 2: totem pole, where each sign seems to negate the last
Speaker 2: or contradict the last, And now you are left standing
Speaker 2: underneath this menagerie of signs trying to decode when the
Speaker 2: heck you can park your car to pick up your
Speaker 2: food pickup or pick up your groceries, or run into
Speaker 2: that store to get your kid, or whatever it may be,
Speaker 2: just to park because you don't have parking at your home,
Speaker 2: whatever it may be and we've all if you are
Speaker 2: a driver in Los Angeles, I imagine that we all
Speaker 2: have fallen victim to getting a ticket for some reason
Speaker 2: when it comes to parking, Raoul, have you gotten a
Speaker 2: parking ticket before? Absolutely? Do you remember what it was for?
Speaker 2: Just one of them? I'm sure there's been more than one.
Speaker 3: Right overnight, like parking where there was nobody around. I
Speaker 3: parked on a street. Didn't notice that, Like, you can't
Speaker 3: park there for some reason.
Speaker 2: Right, and of course they're not got to make it clear.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't clear. And then yeah, it was like
Speaker 3: eighty bucks.
Speaker 2: Oh did you appeal or did you just pay it?
Speaker 2: I just paid it.
Speaker 3: I was just like, come on, just ah.
Speaker 2: Just had to eat it, right, Brigita, have you gotten
Speaker 2: a parking ticket? Is that a rhetorical question? I mean
Speaker 2: who has not? Do you remember one of them what
Speaker 2: it was for?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I used to live in a neighborhood where they
Speaker 4: always had street cleaning really early in the morning, but
Speaker 4: there was no other parking. So oftentimes you'd just be like, well,
Speaker 4: this is part of my parking price.
Speaker 2: I guess right, right, you just kind of again eat
Speaker 2: the cost.
Speaker 4: But it actually did get so expensive that I could
Speaker 4: no longer just weakly eat that cost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when it comes to revenue for the city,
Speaker 2: parking tickets are a major source of revenue, and that
Speaker 2: takes us to what you just mentioned, Brigitta, street sweeping,
Speaker 2: street cleaning. The issue of street sweeping and street cleaning
Speaker 2: is a big one and the subject of this expose.
Speaker 2: So the City of Los Angeles Sanitation Department has made
Speaker 2: it so street sweeping is supposed to occur weekly. It's
Speaker 2: supposed to occur weekly, but that hasn't happened since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: And I imagine you understand why everything was all haywire
Speaker 2: because of COVID, whether budgetary allocations, whether staff shortages. During
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, street sweeping in the City of Los Angeles
Speaker 2: went by weekly, so instead of that weekly occurrence, by weekly,
Speaker 2: and for some people did not expect street sweeping to
Speaker 2: happen at all. I remember living adjacent to a neighborhood
Speaker 2: in which street sweeping was paused indefinitely and people parked
Speaker 2: without fear of any sort of parking enforcement moving their car,
Speaker 2: ticketing their car because of that street sweeping that we
Speaker 2: had all come to expect. But then one day it changed,
Speaker 2: and it changed with very little warning. But there are
Speaker 2: still some residents who say street sweeping is not occurring
Speaker 2: at all, and when it does, it's kind of like
Speaker 2: a surprise. Here's this big truck coming down your street.
Speaker 2: Oh crap, gotta move the car. Westside Current dot com
Speaker 2: is a local investigative website that focuses on stories in
Speaker 2: and around southern California, and they launched a watchdog series
Speaker 2: that spotlights broken systems. Yay for them. I know they've
Speaker 2: looked at the copper wiring and the street lights, They've
Speaker 2: looked at potholes and other sorts of street infrastructure, and
Speaker 2: now they are focusing on the dirty truth behind street
Speaker 2: sweeping quote, where promises of clean streets rarely match reality.
Speaker 2: They actually spoke to some people who had evidence of
Speaker 2: what they've been dealing with in their own neighborhoods. One person,
Speaker 2: Marty Franklin, says that he noticed that a street sweep
Speaker 2: had stopped coming to his neighborhood in Los Felice. He
Speaker 2: then reached out directly to the city for answers because
Speaker 2: the trash was in fact piling up. He emailed counselwoman
Speaker 2: Nythia Ramin's office who represents his district, and said, I'd
Speaker 2: like to know why the streets weren't cleaned the last
Speaker 2: two cycles. We pay our taxes for this service, and
Speaker 2: I think I have a right to know. The following day,
Speaker 2: he got a response from Nythia Rahman's office. It read,
Speaker 2: hope you are well. Just heard back from my contact
Speaker 2: that they have spoken with the supervisor to ensure your
Speaker 2: street is not missed tomorrow. Please let me know if
Speaker 2: it is, and I will go ahead and escalate that,
Speaker 2: Franklin says. An hour and a half later, he received
Speaker 2: another response from Ramen's office, which provided no specific answers
Speaker 2: and instead started to place blame on a lack of records. So,
Speaker 2: instead of ownership and accountability, Nathia Rahman's office decided to
Speaker 2: start pointing fingers, and they said, unfortunately BSS, the group
Speaker 2: or the organization that's in charge of street sweeping, did
Speaker 2: not have an explicit record of the street being missed.
Speaker 2: Sometimes streets are missed if there is something in the
Speaker 2: way that prevents the truck from being able to get
Speaker 2: through the street. If this is case, If this is
Speaker 2: the case two schedules in a row, they will try
Speaker 2: to arrange on a different day. Unfortunately, as there was
Speaker 2: no record of this, this did not happen. The supervisors
Speaker 2: will now be keeping an eye on this specific route
Speaker 2: to ensure this does not happen again. If it does,
Speaker 2: please let me know so I can flag it for
Speaker 2: further investigation. Despite this email exchange in this assurance from
Speaker 2: Nythia Rahmen, his council person and her office in the
Speaker 2: area of Los Felees, Franklin, this resident, who was being
Speaker 2: interviewed for this investigative journalism, said that he continued to
Speaker 2: see no change, and not only was there no change
Speaker 2: over the next few weeks, no, there was no change
Speaker 2: over the next three months three months, and he repeatedly
Speaker 2: followed up with the city only to receive the same
Speaker 2: vague responses about why his street was not cleaned, as
Speaker 2: well as the same blame being placed and finger pointing
Speaker 2: that again did not avail him or the situation to
Speaker 2: any sort of specific details. This happened in September, so
Speaker 2: from September to December there was no change. In January
Speaker 2: of this year, Franklin was still seeing no improvement in
Speaker 2: street cleaning in his area of Los Felies. He reached
Speaker 2: out to the city again and this he was assured
Speaker 2: that a supervisor would be present during the next scheduled
Speaker 2: street sweeping to ensure that the job was completed. I'm
Speaker 2: going to tell you what happened to this resident in
Speaker 2: the area of Los Felees after he contacted the office
Speaker 2: after four months of inactivity and a lack of street sweeping.
Speaker 2: And I'll also let you know the greater implications that
Speaker 2: this street sweeping program has on the city of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: as well as what is being done and hopes to
Speaker 2: curtail what seems to be a gross oversight when it
Speaker 2: comes to sanitation in our city. We'll do all that
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break when we come back.
Speaker 2: I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hopps here with you and we are trying out
Speaker 2: a new segment. It's called Deeper Dives, where we look
Speaker 2: at an expos specific to the city of Los Angeles
Speaker 2: and our needs, things that are affecting us here in
Speaker 2: the city. And the story that I'm covering now involves
Speaker 2: streets sweeping. And again when you park in La, street
Speaker 2: sweeping and other sorts of parking signs become the bane
Speaker 2: of your existence, and you need to pay attention lest
Speaker 2: you end up with lots and lots and lots of
Speaker 2: parking tickets which become too synonymous, all too common with
Speaker 2: living and working in the city of Los Angeles. It's
Speaker 2: a major money maker. And I was talking about Marty Franklin,
Speaker 2: who is the resident. Is a resident of Los Fales
Speaker 2: and the subject of an investigative report by the website
Speaker 2: west Side Current. And Westside Current is doing a watchdog
Speaker 2: series on failed streets or failed city systems, and in
Speaker 2: this one they are investigating street sweeping. Marty Franklin in
Speaker 2: step Timber of twenty twenty four, so just a few
Speaker 2: months ago, noticed two missed weeks of street sweeping. This
Speaker 2: is a recap. There were two weeks where there was
Speaker 2: no street sweeping in his neighborhood in Los Felis. So
Speaker 2: he reached out to his councilwoman, Nythia Ramen for some answers,
Speaker 2: for some sort of timeline. She assured him that the
Speaker 2: sweepers would be out, but four months later in January,
Speaker 2: so from September to January, there had been no street sweeping,
Speaker 2: and there were multiple exchanges between Franklin and Nathia Rahman's
Speaker 2: office via email in which he was assured that the
Speaker 2: street sweepers would be out and there would be a
Speaker 2: supervisor there in his neighborhood to support. But none of
Speaker 2: that happened for four months between September and January. But
Speaker 2: something did happen. Marty Franklin received numerous tickets, tickets because
Speaker 2: he had street parking only in his neighborhood. These areas
Speaker 2: like Los Felies, or if you're in downtown, or these
Speaker 2: densely populated areas where there may not be parking available
Speaker 2: for you or your guests then result in a lot
Speaker 2: of infractions. And Marty Franklin himself fell victim to that.
Speaker 2: But he was getting ticketed, but there were no street sweepers.
Speaker 2: Marty Franklin, unlike Raoul, unlike myself, unlike maybe you, Brigitta
Speaker 2: or those of you out there listening. You know, we
Speaker 2: pay our tickets. But Marty Franklin fought back. He said, hell, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not paying all this money. He reached out to
Speaker 2: the city again and this time he said, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm sick of this. Not only do I have a
Speaker 2: watchdog organization with me interested in my story, that's West
Speaker 2: Side Current where this story story comes from. But he said,
Speaker 2: I'm going to the media. I'm going to expose all
Speaker 2: of these emails and the inactivity and the negligence on
Speaker 2: behalf of the city. The following week, his street was
Speaker 2: swept with a supervisor present. Surprise, surprise. Dan Howden, spokesperson
Speaker 2: for Streets LA, says street sweeping is common and that
Speaker 2: LA provides regular street sweeping service five days a week.
Speaker 2: They also sweep for special events like parades, marathons, sick lavilla.
Speaker 2: He says, if you need some sort of extra support,
Speaker 2: call three to one one or use the my three
Speaker 2: to one one app and share your concerns and we
Speaker 2: will respond. But West Side Current uncovered that residence say
Speaker 2: that line, that sort of direction is a dead end,
Speaker 2: that like Marty Franklin, nothing happens. There are main complaints
Speaker 2: that West Side Current uncovered in their investigative story here.
Speaker 2: One of the first ones was outdated street signs, so
Speaker 2: the mismatch between signage and actual service only adds to
Speaker 2: confusion for residents and it leads to unnecessary parking restrictions
Speaker 2: and of course ticketing, of course ticketing. In the first
Speaker 2: half of twenty twenty four, the city issued just over
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty thousand citations for parking in a
Speaker 2: street cleaning zone, and many of those tickets that were
Speaker 2: handed out were not in areas in which street sweeping
Speaker 2: was actually happening, even though it was supposed to occur.
Speaker 2: Another complaint is that the curbs in certain areas that
Speaker 2: street sweepers need to go down apparently don't allow for
Speaker 2: street sweepers to maneuver to get all the way down
Speaker 2: the curb, and that becomes a hazard in which the
Speaker 2: streets driver, whoever's in charge of that truck, can say
Speaker 2: there was an obstruction, I could not get down that street. However,
Speaker 2: when Westside Current checked some of these locations that were noted,
Speaker 2: they saw that street sweeping would not in fact be obstructed,
Speaker 2: that there was a clear and thorough path to these areas,
Speaker 2: and that it seems that some of these drivers may
Speaker 2: be using some subjectivity in whether or not they want
Speaker 2: to in fact go down these streets. All of this
Speaker 2: is resulting in trash not being picked up, trash going
Speaker 2: into storm drains and waterways being carried into the ocean,
Speaker 2: being carried into water facilities that we need to use.
Speaker 2: And of course many many people who are being sighted unfairly,
Speaker 2: like Marty Franklin for parking in areas in which is
Speaker 2: not only confusing, but street sweeping is not occurring and
Speaker 2: does not occur for months on end. Westside Current reached
Speaker 2: out to LA Department of Transportation for comments and did
Speaker 2: not hear back. So, if you are having issues with
Speaker 2: street sweeping in your area, threaten to take the media.
Speaker 2: Call us up here, let us know we'll support you.
Speaker 2: We'll be happy to have your back in this issue
Speaker 2: so that you can get those street sweepers out to
Speaker 2: your neighborhood. When we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about a new California law that's named after a former
Speaker 2: student and hazing victim. It's sorority and fraternity intake season,
Speaker 2: it's the spring on college campuses, and there's a new
Speaker 2: law in place to make that sort of process safer.
Speaker 2: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: tifnany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: Tiffany hobbes, it's spring, well, not yet. I think we
Speaker 2: have a few more weeks, hope. I forget the thing.
Speaker 2: What's the animal? The patsa khani puzza Phil? What is
Speaker 2: he a hedgehog? Porcupine? No, he's not a porcupine. Oh,
Speaker 2: we gotta look that up. I think he's a gopher
Speaker 2: or something something that comes out of the ground. Well,
Speaker 2: and he's also a sooth saying animal and tells us
Speaker 2: when spring is over and winter is over and all
Speaker 2: that type of stuff. Well, Phil told us that we
Speaker 2: have a few more weeks of winter, I believe. But
Speaker 2: on college campuses it is now the spring semester. Did
Speaker 2: you look it up? He's a groundhog, he's a porcupine,
Speaker 2: I said, what did I say? A gopher? Were just
Speaker 2: competing further and further away, further and further away from glory.
Speaker 2: So Phil again told us that it's still winter. And
Speaker 2: you know it's still winter. You can look outside, you
Speaker 2: can feel it. Maybe not in Socow, but it's still
Speaker 2: technically winter for a few more weeks. But on college
Speaker 2: campuses it is the beginning of the spring semester for
Speaker 2: most schools across the country, and the spring semester, the
Speaker 2: beginning of semesters comes with a lot of new, new
Speaker 2: insight and new opportunities for students, whether in picking their
Speaker 2: classes or deciding on what they want to do for
Speaker 2: a career, or in joining social groups on campus. And
Speaker 2: spring is a very popular time for students who are
Speaker 2: interested in joining sororities and fraternities because spring offers an
Speaker 2: intake process. An intake involves you going to a meeting
Speaker 2: or being invited to a meeting. Often these things or
Speaker 2: by invitation only, and you go to a meeting and
Speaker 2: you hear the information about the organization the fraternity or sorority.
Speaker 2: You decide if you want to stay, if you want
Speaker 2: to pursue joining that group, and if you do, there's
Speaker 2: a process that is required upon you that then proves
Speaker 2: your loyalty to that organization. It's a tale as old
Speaker 2: as time. There have been movies about it. There are
Speaker 2: all sorts of things in pop culture about sorority and fraternities,
Speaker 2: and many of those things are true for good and
Speaker 2: for not so good. Well, one of the not so
Speaker 2: good things is the negative stereotype that a lot of
Speaker 2: fraternities in fact incur when it comes to their own
Speaker 2: intake process, and that process can include things that are exploitative, violent, assaultive,
Speaker 2: and other negative situations in which students are placed in well.
Speaker 2: In six years ago, in twenty eighteen, seven years ago,
Speaker 2: now twenty year old Tyler Hilliard was a week away
Speaker 2: from starting his junior year at UC Riverside. He went
Speaker 2: to a fraternity event with some pledge brothers. So those
Speaker 2: are some friends who are also interested in joining this
Speaker 2: particular fraternity, and they went to this particular event at
Speaker 2: nearby Mount Rubideaux, a popular hiking spot. That day, September
Speaker 2: eight or September twenty eighteen, was a beautiful Saturday, and
Speaker 2: Tyler and his pledge brothers his friends were going to
Speaker 2: participate in a special type of punishment, kind of a
Speaker 2: rights of passage for those who were interested in joining
Speaker 2: this fraternity. The things that they had to do included
Speaker 2: eating an entire onion covered in hot sauce, drinking extreme
Speaker 2: amounts of water, and being spanked with a part of
Speaker 2: a cactus. While that might sound like just boys being boys,
Speaker 2: there were major consequences to these events that day, Tyler
Speaker 2: was rushed to the hospital. His heart stopped seven times
Speaker 2: that evening, and he was ultimately pronounced dead. When investigated
Speaker 2: police and Hilliard's family, Tyler's family found that his death
Speaker 2: was a result of the hazy that he had gone
Speaker 2: through with that eating of the entire onion covered in
Speaker 2: hot sauce, drinking the extreme amounts of water, and being
Speaker 2: spanked with a part of a cactus. The people who
Speaker 2: were involved in the incident, those who were the Pledge brothers,
Speaker 2: were not prosecuted. They were not prosecuted. Nearly seven years later,
Speaker 2: this week, Tyler's Law has gone into effect and it
Speaker 2: will look to ensure that no other college students in
Speaker 2: California will endure similar hazing incidents like what Tyler went through.
Speaker 2: The law is called Tyler's Law or AB twenty one
Speaker 2: ninety three, and it was actually passed last September and
Speaker 2: is an expansion of laws that we already have in
Speaker 2: California about hazing. Starting next year in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: universities in California will be able to be sued by
Speaker 2: hazing victims if the college knew about or should have
Speaker 2: known about hazing incidents and failed to stop them. Attorney
Speaker 2: V James D. Simone says it sends a message to
Speaker 2: these universities that if you're going to have fraternities that
Speaker 2: are connected with your university, make sure they are following
Speaker 2: the law and the rules, because hazing is a crime,
Speaker 2: and you will be prosecuted and you will be held
Speaker 2: accountable the law. Tyler's Law also requires hazing incidents to
Speaker 2: be compiled into an annual report, along with disclosures as
Speaker 2: to whether those incidents were tied to student organizations. This
Speaker 2: is very serious and it is very close to me.
Speaker 2: When I was in college, I participated in intake my
Speaker 2: freshmen and sophomore years separate sororities. I didn't end up
Speaker 2: joining either the first year because it was just simply
Speaker 2: cost prohibitive. They wanted two thousand dollars give or take
Speaker 2: in initial dues. Yes, Raoul's face, Your face tells it all.
Speaker 2: That's what I did when I heard how much they
Speaker 2: wanted from this freshman me with no job or some
Speaker 2: menial work study job, two thousand dollars in initial dues
Speaker 2: to join, and I didn't have it. I didn't find
Speaker 2: that sorority in the process interesting enough to try and
Speaker 2: get the money. The second year, however, when I went,
Speaker 2: when I was invited to participate in an intake process
Speaker 2: for a different sorority, all of the processes on campus
Speaker 2: were paused because there was a major incident at another
Speaker 2: university in which two young ladies died by drowning. They
Speaker 2: were in a part of their own intake process at
Speaker 2: this university. I did not know these young ladies, but
Speaker 2: they did in fact pass away, and all pledging was
Speaker 2: canceled across the school that I attended, and I just
Speaker 2: never resumed the process. Fortunately for me at the time,
Speaker 2: everything I had gone through was normative and was not
Speaker 2: violent at that point, but it definitely put a sour
Speaker 2: taste in my mouth. This is really important. A lot
Speaker 2: of you have students, have loved ones who are in
Speaker 2: college who may be wanting to participate in sororities and fraternities,
Speaker 2: and so please let them know that certain things are
Speaker 2: just not okay and you shouldn't have to subject yourself
Speaker 2: to violence, abuse and assault to be a part of
Speaker 2: an organization. And in fact, if that organization continues to
Speaker 2: belittle or require that sort of participation, they can be
Speaker 2: held legally responsible because of Tyler's Law. So unfortunately, this
Speaker 2: was a sacrifice that this young man made, but it
Speaker 2: is not in vain. It is not in vain. Tyler Hill,
Speaker 2: You're twenty year old student one week away from starting
Speaker 2: his junior year when he died during a pledging process.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'm gonna tell you a a
Speaker 2: little bit about a new app available in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It's being called Uber with Guns Time to Move out
Speaker 2: of LA. I'll tell you all about it in a
Speaker 2: little bit. KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand kf I.
Speaker 2: AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I
Speaker 2: talked all over the best part of the chorus. Sorry hopefull.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you're still singing and enjoying that. I've enjoyed being
Speaker 2: here as always. If you missed any part, please listen
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Speaker 2: features that will be right there, you'll be able to
Speaker 2: hear tonight's show, including our introduction of our newest segment,
Speaker 2: Deeper Dives. We looked at street sweeping and the fact
Speaker 2: that it's not happening, but you are still being ticketed
Speaker 2: and what it might take to actually get an actual
Speaker 2: street sweeping crew out to your street. One person was
Speaker 2: able to do it, So make sure you listen to that.
Speaker 2: Maybe you use Lift or maybe you use Uber. You
Speaker 2: know it's National Marguerite Day. Maybe you're out having a
Speaker 2: few and you're not driving home. That's the smart thing
Speaker 2: to do, call for a ride sharing service. But there's
Speaker 2: a new app that's available in Los Angeles and this
Speaker 2: one is being described as Uber with guns. What the
Speaker 2: heck is going on in LA? It has them.
Speaker 5: Front and so do celebrities. Now, imagine you stepping into
Speaker 5: an suv with an armed bodyguard by your side. That's
Speaker 5: exactly what Protector offers, a new app that combines ride
Speaker 5: sharing with personal security.
Speaker 4: I think most people will just go on Google and
Speaker 4: search private security for hire, and what they'll find is
Speaker 4: it's such an unintuitive experience and it's like amaze.
Speaker 2: That you have to go through to a bunch of
Speaker 2: different security websites.
Speaker 5: Just launching this week in Los Angeles and New York.
Speaker 5: Founder and CEO Nixon Rat says Protector is meant to
Speaker 5: provide easily accessible private security to anyone on the go.
Speaker 5: Every protector is either active duty or recently retired law
Speaker 5: enforcement or military.
Speaker 2: They all come from.
Speaker 4: Top units within their department or agencies, such as SWAT,
Speaker 4: Emergency Services Unit, air Force pjs, and even seal teams.
Speaker 5: Customers can also customize their experience, choosing their security stress
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Speaker 5: tactical gear.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of something like.
Speaker 1: This, some surprise, no one's done that before that. That
Speaker 1: is that's one of the smartest apps that'ves in in
Speaker 1: a while?
Speaker 5: Is it, though?
Speaker 2: Is it the smartest app we've seen in a while.
Speaker 2: I can think of a few other apps that are
Speaker 2: really really smart, and putting people into positions where they
Speaker 2: are potentially armed or you know, maybe just overly aggressive
Speaker 2: by or four higher does not necessarily seem like the
Speaker 2: right kind of app to unleash upon the streets of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. So again, protect your app Uber with guns.
Speaker 2: Two hundred dollars per hour. There originally was a one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars minim. I'm a five hour minimum, but now
Speaker 2: they've since reduced it and they say two hunt. That's
Speaker 2: that's great, Let's give people a deal two hundred dollars
Speaker 2: per hour. You do have to pay an annual membership
Speaker 2: fee of one hundred and twenty nine dollars. All protectors
Speaker 2: are vetted. Yeah, okay. You also, as a user, get
Speaker 2: to choose the type of bodyguard you want and how
Speaker 2: they should dress. It looks like when you cope you
Speaker 2: look at any of these visuals of this situation, it
Speaker 2: looks like a video game creation, like a creative player.
Speaker 2: You see a possible protector bodyguard and they turn it.
Speaker 2: They do a full three sixty, and you get to
Speaker 2: change their clothes and the clothes shift as they as
Speaker 2: you choose. It's kind of strange. And again it says
Speaker 2: that this is because of several high profile robberies and
Speaker 2: the service is only available in LA and New York.
Speaker 2: What could go wrong, Michael Monks, Lots of things could probably.
Speaker 6: Lots of things could probably go wrong, you know, but
Speaker 6: you know, if people feel unsafe, and this is a
Speaker 6: way to make them feel safer.
Speaker 2: In this day and age, I guess you gotta do
Speaker 2: what you gotta do. When I go to in and out,
Speaker 2: I want a bodyguard with me just so I can
Speaker 2: look important and hopefully kind of.
Speaker 6: I'm not a bodyguard to say, don't order so much.
Speaker 6: Easy pull the gun on me and say you don't.
Speaker 2: Need those fries.
Speaker 6: There you go, protector. I'll tell you what I can
Speaker 6: go wrong. I'm in here and I've got some business.
Speaker 2: Tell us what you're doing while you're on the air,
Speaker 2: and I'm back there in the newsroom. I'm the guy
Speaker 2: who answers the phone. Oh, I'm so sorry. You just
Speaker 2: you have so many jobs. You are many, you know,
Speaker 2: I do a lot around here to really quick. That's
Speaker 2: special you did last weekend? Yeah, amazing, amazing on the.
Speaker 6: Fire available on the app if people missed our our
Speaker 6: wildfire special that we did. It's two hours of full
Speaker 6: expiration of you know, the aftermath, where we stand, where
Speaker 6: we're going, what we've lost.
Speaker 2: Thorough and empathetic. What are talking about?
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Well, hold on, I need to give
Speaker 6: you this first. Okay, this is a I don't know
Speaker 6: if you've forgotten this. This is the official KFI newsroom
Speaker 6: local pronunciation.
Speaker 2: Oh no, did I say something wrong because I said
Speaker 2: semi glue tide and I got lot of No.
Speaker 1: No, no, that's.
Speaker 2: Not it's not a scientific word.
Speaker 6: It's a word that we'd say a lot around Okay,
Speaker 6: but I didn't write that. That was on there when
Speaker 6: I made the copy. Somebody else had written GROUPA out
Speaker 6: specifically so that we know how to say.
Speaker 2: I want you to go to the l's. Okay, did
Speaker 2: you say any of those tonight? La joya? I said,
Speaker 2: la joya?
Speaker 6: I said it right, Okay, it is another one that
Speaker 6: you said close felice, Oh, read the pronouncement close feeless.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got a call. Guy says, you know, you
Speaker 2: got to know how to say the thing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Look, if we have a lot of Spanish words around
Speaker 2: names around here, and you look at that, and if
Speaker 2: you know Spanish and I'm learning it. I'm learning.
Speaker 6: If Marguerite is Spanish of Spain right now, Margarita would
Speaker 6: be you know, in Spain Spanish, but here, you know,
Speaker 6: if you're a Latin American Spanish, lea the happiest, right,
Speaker 6: I mean the happy people.
Speaker 2: I'll give it to so locally.
Speaker 6: And I had to learn this, you know, it's lows
Speaker 6: feelis sine.
Speaker 2: That's all all right?
Speaker 6: Anyway up ahead, I'm gonna be fast. We're still friends,
Speaker 6: I hope. I'm just relaying the message.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's moibean. Continue do you think, Oh, and
Speaker 2: what do you think? How do you say? Do you
Speaker 2: say dwarti or d'Arte?
Speaker 6: Okay, now here's what I got in trouble last a
Speaker 6: few weeks ago when dwart I don't know, they'll kind.
Speaker 2: Of railroaded right now. Were you sent to do that?
Speaker 6: No, this is for me too, because I got into
Speaker 6: a little bit of an argument internally about how to
Speaker 6: pronounce that when they were in the news, because they
Speaker 6: didn't want all the fire trash coming to them. Well,
Speaker 6: the mayor himself, who is Latino, he says dart Yeah.
Speaker 2: Our pronouncer guide is Dwarti. Gringo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So we've Caucasianized a lot of these places, and
Speaker 6: so it is a little tricky.
Speaker 2: Don't say La Joila, definitely don't say that all right.
Speaker 6: Next hour, the rent protections that are going in for
Speaker 6: people who lost money because of the wildfires, well that
Speaker 6: may be good for them, but apparently could be for
Speaker 6: the rest of us who have to rent. Prices could
Speaker 6: go up. And then in the next hour we'll talk
Speaker 6: to the new chairwoman of the La County GOP. She
Speaker 6: says Republicans have a path forward in democratic dominated lak you.
Speaker 2: Get all the good guests, Michael Monks, you do all
Speaker 2: the great special to say Los Felis. Is that why
Speaker 2: I gotta work? Give me that guide back. I can
Speaker 2: get a special around here. You know you're great mind.
Speaker 2: You had a great show tonight, Tiffany, always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: Good air to you, sir, It's been a blast. You
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