WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.319 Okay, b La Talk fifteen eighty. Good morning, God bless, 2 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:07.719 Happy Monday. What a Monday already. I'm dominate Taprima. This 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:09.880 show is called First Things First, and my very first 4 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:12.519 thing every day is prayer, and then prayer again, and 5 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:15.240 then prayer some more, and then we go, let's get 6 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.359 it started. Man, you got a lot of prayer today. 7 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.039 It is a mindful Monday. So the way we do 8 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.640 things around here technical difficulty or none. Way we do 9 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.440 things around here. Our one we look local. Our two 10 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.239 we go national, international, and beyond. And in the third 11 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.920 hour we do a deep dive. Now our two typically 12 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.119 starts with Sahara Ali and our Mindful Monday segment. So 13 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.520 we get get our heads together right, get ourselves present 14 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.079 and intentional for the week that will be the week 15 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.039 we would like to manifest, so to speak. We do 16 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.960 that in the top of the second hour, a guided 17 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.439 meditation and affirmation, a little astrological outlook with Tara Ali, 18 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.479 who is a meditation instructor, a yoga teacher, is Soundbath, 19 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.079 Special to Life coach, and more, and today is Black 20 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.719 Marriage Monday. You know, we kind of got on a 21 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.280 different little schedule because we wanted to get the gen 22 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.120 Z perspective for Messy Monday, and we had to do 23 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:13.280 that before the gen Z folks went back to school, 24 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.239 back to college. And so we're doing our Black Marriage 25 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.680 Monday today and we'll be talking with doctor James Smith. 26 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:26.280 He's a communications specialist. So it doesn't just apply to marriage. 27 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:32.640 It can apply to your situationship, relationship, even your breakup. 28 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.200 Who knows, maybe your job. But it is Black Marriage Monday, 29 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.519 so we're gonna focus on those long term, committed style 30 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:43.439 relationships like the one James Farr is in. James Farr 31 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.000 is with Me this morning. He's the host of The 32 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.439 Conversation Live on the weekends here Saturday mornings to be 33 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:55.439 exact Altadna Ford, and he is also a writer for 34 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:56.599 the LA Progressive. 35 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.319 Good morning James, Good morning Dominique. How are you well? 36 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.400 You know, I'm we're here and we were here, yes, 37 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.199 and we're overcoming adversity to do what we do. So 38 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.120 that's a blessing. I'm blessed. How are you you know what? 39 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:12.759 I'm here? 40 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:18.680 I'm in the fight, I'm swinging. Is it mercury retro grave? 41 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:20.120 I don't know. 42 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:22.520 We'll have to ask Sahara when she gets on be 43 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.680 honest with you, because it sure feels like it. Me 44 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.000 and my girlfriend went all the way to Anaheim last 45 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.039 night to see Daniel Caesar. Okay, right at the pond 46 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.400 well whatever is that the name of the place, The 47 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:43.719 Honda Center where the where they play hockey, right, and 48 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.120 the stub Hub people send us a message. 49 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:50.080 Good news you've been upgraded, which. 50 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.879 I've never heard of before with a concert that's usually 51 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:53.879 airline tickets. 52 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:54.159 Right. 53 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.400 Turns out they were lying because they took us from 54 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.000 the really I see so that we purchased. They said, 55 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.719 now you're down in the pit, right. I didn't realize 56 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.599 that Daniel Caesar has so many twelve year old fans. 57 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.800 What does that say about me and my emotional maturity? 58 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:14.879 I didn't know, you know, I just like, oh, I 59 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:15.520 love me. 60 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.759 So Daniel Caesar, I get there. Everyone else is twelve. 61 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.599 Then all that aside Dominique, as you were in there 62 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:30.080 chronologically more mature than anyone in the building. Perhaps perhaps 63 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:33.080 what was the best part of it, right, Well. 64 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.000 Don't know. I didn't get to the punchline yet. 65 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:40.879 We get we get another text from them, We've been sorry, 66 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:45.400 you've been put in general admission, which they won't tell 67 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.759 us what it is and basically what it ended up. 68 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:49.759 We didn't get to go to the show because basically, 69 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.080 I guess they over sold it. I don't know what 70 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.919 they did, but they took away our tickets, and so 71 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:57.800 we had the option of going in there with a 72 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.479 huge crowd of twelve year olds and not knowing where 73 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.319 we were going to be and getting charged the really 74 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.199 big price that we paid for great tickets, or going 75 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:10.680 home and hoping for one day getting refund. 76 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:11.879 It was such a bummer. 77 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.039 We drove all the way back, didn't see any Daniel Caesar, 78 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:16.560 actually not one song. 79 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.319 We saw a lot of twelve year olds wheeling around. Though. 80 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.800 Have you ever heard of that where they just take 81 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.279 away your ticket and then they send it, send us 82 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.480 all these texts, We're sorry, we understand that you bought 83 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.720 these tickets and we're giving you these other crappy tickets. 84 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.800 But sometimes this happens and we do our best and 85 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:35.600 blah blah blah. I never heard of that. 86 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:36.480 Have you heard of that? 87 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.759 Well, I've seen people get upgraded, I don't, but when. 88 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.759 It was really downgrade and then eventually you're in general admission, 89 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.759 whatever that means, and then. 90 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:50.160 They stopped texting us back. 91 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.639 I feel like I felt like I was lost in 92 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.120 a scam somewhere. 93 00:04:58.920 --> 00:04:59.839 I'm sympathetic. 94 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.480 You're laughing on me. I got you. 95 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.920 We drove all the way to Anaheim for no reason. 96 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:12.360 So Daniel Caesar call me. 97 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:14.439 Call me. Daniel Caesar called me. 98 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:17.680 Surely you wanted to season Black Women. 99 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.199 At show? Good morning with all the twelve year olds? 100 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.800 All right, yeah, James Farce here, we do have a 101 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:27.480 lot to talk about. 102 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:29.279 I'm sorry, I'm still like, really. 103 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.360 Sad he's And also I'm questioning myself because he's one 104 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.680 of my favorite artists right now, and I'm thinking, does 105 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.360 that mean I have the emotional maturity of a twelve 106 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:37.959 year old. 107 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:38.920 I'm just wondering. 108 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.639 All Right, we'll get to We got a lot. We 109 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:43.480 have a lot on the list, right, James got News, 110 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.319 traffic and sports and the more on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. 111 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.720 Yeah, we do appreciate you, Miles. 112 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:50.480 I didn't know next time you got to tell me, 113 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:55.920 Miles be on top of the stuff. Okay, why am 114 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.000 I hearing that? Oh that's my that's me. Sorry, it's 115 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:02.199 like that today. It's like it was like that yesterday. 116 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.319 But we're here and we're good. So James, what's going 117 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:06.120 on over there in. 118 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.240 The Alta Pass pass out? 119 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.680 I saw this uh breakdown in the LA Times this 120 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:19.319 weekend talking about their top takeaways from the new investigation, 121 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:26.279 the new reports on the Alta Dina fire, Alta Dina 122 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.360 Eating Canyon fire. And I guess you know you cover 123 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:34.120 this weekend week out. But to me for the LA 124 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:40.040 Times to basically put Southern California Edison on blast like that, 125 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.240 making it sound like they were negligent, that they were 126 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:48.079 covering things up, and that they were incompetent, I found 127 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.439 that pretty that should be pretty dire for Southern California Edison. First, 128 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:56.000 kb LA, now here comes the LA Times. 129 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:01.399 Yeah, well, well I am not surprised in what the 130 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.759 La Times reported because it's just the facts, right, I mean, 131 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.839 and we hope that they remain in fact in evidence base. 132 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:13.680 I've also reported, as you know, on this extensively in 133 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:17.800 KBLA and Black Press, USA, LA Progressive and the like. 134 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.720 But the key takeaways is the Altadena this fire happened 135 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.560 in twelve seconds, comedy. What was fully known, and we've 136 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.639 known this since early last year, immediately following the fire 137 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:37.199 that this utility pole, which had been decommissioned. ARCD started 138 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.759 a fire under brush that they did not maintain. They 139 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:47.160 had Win advisory, National Weather Service advisories, all of these 140 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.319 four warnings that something catastrophic could happen, and what ended 141 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.560 up happening is we ended up with a hurricane without rain, 142 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.240 eighty mile an hour winds, seventy foot tall wall. The 143 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.639 fire came burroling down on this community. It's what we've 144 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.680 always done. There have been twelve independent point of views, 145 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:14.000 independent videos. At a surface, there was never a question, 146 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:18.720 and up until very recently, Edison has been in court 147 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.000 saying that, well, we don't know what started. Now they're 148 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.319 kind of looking at well, possibly at us. But the 149 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:29.160 fact is I had attorney Doug Boxer on Saturday and 150 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:33.120 he's saying affirmatively that Edison could have settled this matter 151 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.120 forty five days after the event. There's so many different 152 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.679 things that Edison could have done to help displaced and 153 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:44.320 burned out families. They chose not to while it's simultaneously 154 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:49.440 paying dividends, record profits in their CEO clocked sixteen point 155 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:54.080 five million dollars as a compensation for burning out of town. 156 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.200 I don't know how that works, but it worked for him. 157 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:00.960 Well you know what I mean, we are so what 158 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.240 you're really saying is it's nothing new because we knew, 159 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:04.919 Like you said, we knew all of that. 160 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.600 But it seems like it. 161 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:12.639 Would be harder and harder for them to keep playing 162 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:17.039 dumb the way that they have been in court. And 163 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.360 it also to me explains why so few people still. 164 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:22.759 I mean, it's a couple thousand I think that have 165 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.399 taken their deal. That may sound like a lot, but 166 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:30.759 out of what nine thousand or more people, that's. 167 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.200 No, no, no, upwards of thirty thousand. There's not a 168 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.440 true accurate account of how many people are displaced. There's 169 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.279 no way to really qualify that. But we do know 170 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:42.440 the number of structures, about ninety four hundred total structures, 171 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:46.279 homes and businesses. What I believe Edison's strategy was from 172 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:49.679 a legal standpoint, of course I'm not a lawyer, but essentially, 173 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:51.639 as long as they can kick the can as far 174 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.879 down the road, you have to look at what was 175 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:58.519 happening kind of underneath this and run timelines. Chronologically. They're 176 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:04.639 paying dividends shareholders. This is strictly about profit, not people, 177 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.799 and so we'll get to a point where Edison will 178 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.360 not take this to trial. The preponderance of evidence is 179 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:12.519 too damning. 180 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:13.679 For them, right, So they're going to lose. 181 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.519 So so they're they're just slow walking it. What are 182 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.159 they hoping like residents die off? I mean, what is 183 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.720 the payoff if you know you're gonna lose of slow walking? 184 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.039 Well, I mean, there's no morality in capitalism. I mean, 185 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.399 that's what it is. There's no ethic in capitalism right there. 186 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.879 The key is for them to keep the meet running, 187 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.919 for them to continue to generate profits for their shareholders 188 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.720 and stakeholders. But what eventually will happen is they, I believe, 189 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.279 based on you know, a council that I'm speaking with, 190 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.320 they will settle this case before the two year statue 191 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:51.159 of limitation. 192 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:57.159 Yeah okay, well, I mean to me, you know that 193 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:01.759 that articles, like you said, wasn't a lot of new stuff. 194 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:06.080 But the fact that now the mainstream is totally reporting 195 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:10.679 the opposite or you know, a much more dire picture 196 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.519 than what they are admitting to in court not good 197 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:15.759 news for them. 198 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:21.559 And you know when you talk in your piece about. 199 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:27.519 The fire that destroyed Black Altadena and we can't forget 200 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.320 almost twenty people died in that fire, that. 201 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:33.120 You know this is. 202 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.639 This has got to help, I guess for the people 203 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.799 who are trying to make the case, for the people 204 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:43.440 that are not taking the deal, because the more we know, 205 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.240 the worse it gets for southern California. 206 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.600 Edison, Yeah, I just learned just last week Dominate that 207 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:56.240 there are eleven confirmed suicides as a result of this fire, 208 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.600 and so the trauma and the toll keeps getting more 209 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:06.559 and more. Eric Rodriguez, as recently as May, a survivor 210 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:11.320 who was in the rebuilding process, got two over his head. 211 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.559 According to his letter that he left for his family, 212 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.000 and he decided to unlive himself. Whether or not this 213 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:23.720 impacts the litigation is yet to be seen. Edison knows 214 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.559 their exposure. They knew that from the very beginning. I 215 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.159 don't think it's going to move the needle one way 216 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.919 or the other. Both sides are looking for a resolution 217 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:38.399 that if this thing does go to trial and plainish prevail, 218 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:43.240 that pushes out any compensation for years, and so it's 219 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:47.320 a balance of how do you get people compensation. I 220 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.679 don't want to say justice, that's their citicide, but I 221 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.639 don't know that people feel any better. I think what 222 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.240 people would much rather see is District Attorney Nathan Hoffman 223 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:02.799 criminally indict Southern California Edison and Edison International and charged 224 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:07.559 them like they did in Butke County, with counts of manslaughter. 225 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.519 Nineteen people died dominique. That's a homicide. That's not we 226 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.840 sanitized and say they died or their death right. But 227 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.240 what was the causation? It's a homicide, it's not murder, 228 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.200 but at a minimum, it should be reviewed and investigated 229 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.639 as manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter at the least. And that's what 230 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.000 legal experts are saying. 231 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:36.240 And DA Hoffman has not ruled that out right, he 232 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:37.279 just hasn't moved. 233 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.519 I asked d. A. Hawkman in April of last year, 234 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:45.960 if the evidence came back and supported causation of Edison, 235 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:49.240 and if there is shown to be negligent, let's just 236 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.879 cite the LA Times, right, if what people are reading 237 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:56.480 in that fifty something page investigation by the Los Angeles 238 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:59.919 County Fire Department, I don't see how this doesn't work 239 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:04.519 to the level of a criminal charge. He hasn't said 240 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.240 one way or the other. But how long does the 241 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.519 public allow the district attorney who one said he was 242 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.240 the hard middle and tough on crime too. You and 243 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.840 I both know Dominie black folks voted for this DA. 244 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.159 Well, not this black folks. I'm sorry. 245 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.320 Well, yeah, I mean I know because I saw plenty 246 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.960 of signs in my community that said same lawn sign 247 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:30.879 that said black lives matter, said Nathan Hoffman, which I 248 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.279 found very confusing. But yeah, and I don't, you know, 249 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.320 I don't know that it seems like that matters. Maybe 250 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.960 it does, maybe it doesn't to I mean, everybody has to. 251 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.759 Every DA has to run for reelection at some point, 252 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:54.080 but it seems like, you know, he's pivoted more more 253 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.200 openly sort of maga in his stances since being elected. 254 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.679 I mean, there's the potential of destabilizing the utility that 255 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:11.159 so there's that concern. But District Attorney Hoffman has an 256 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.320 election coming up, he has an announced that he's going 257 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:17.360 to run for reelection in eight of course he will, right. 258 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:20.759 I don't see how this isn't a He loves the 259 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:26.159 celebrity case. He loves a high profile case. Charging Edison 260 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.519 would certainly elevate his profile nationally and internationally, but I 261 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.159 don't think he should do it because of that. He 262 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:36.480 should do it because it's the right thing to do. Dominicue, 263 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.960 you or I are responsible for nineteen people dying in 264 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.879 thirty plus thousand people displaced in nine thousand structures. I 265 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:45.399 don't know how we don't get charged. 266 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:48.759 Yeah, well we'll see. 267 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.639 I mean, we're going to see because to your point, Yeah, 268 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:56.440 he may love that elevation any politician would of their 269 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:01.559 name during an election season. But I think also it's 270 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:03.960 what it's elevated for. I don't you know, I don't 271 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:09.159 know that he's seeking the Yeah, we'll see the approval 272 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:15.080 of of that of black Altadena. I'm just saying, I 273 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:16.720 don't know if that's on the top of the. 274 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:19.440 Vote. Yeah. 275 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.440 Yeah, and and and as they should. The other thing is, 276 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:28.159 you know, when you're speaking about this DA, we've seen that, uh, 277 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.120 he has decided to back down on charges against that 278 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:36.240 cop who was a whistleblower, the cop that took all 279 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.759 the video or all the all the that taped all 280 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:44.360 of the racist commentary from the l a p D 281 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:51.120 with in the hopes that there would be disciplinary action, racist, sexist, homophobic, 282 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.159 ablest and the DA had thrown a felony at this 283 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:03.519 guy now it looks like he's backed it down to misdemeanors. 284 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.480 And what that tells me is that, you know, when 285 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.480 a lot of people speak out, it does move the needle, 286 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.519 because I think everyone was outraged. 287 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:14.640 It wasn't just us. 288 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.240 Once again, it wasn't just black folks. We started to 289 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.440 see people on the West side going, what is happening? 290 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.519 What message are we sending the cops if we punish 291 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:26.119 them for being whistleblowers? 292 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.519 Yeah, well, you know, they circled the wagons. They expect 293 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.720 what Da Hawkman did initially was protect the organism, right, 294 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:41.839 It wasn't to look at the intent of what the 295 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.559 officer did in recording it. I mean, we want officers 296 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:49.279 to come forward, We want them to root out this 297 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.599 kind of behavior because it shows up in their enforcement 298 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:53.559 when they're on the street. 299 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:55.640 I mean, we always say aware are the good cops, 300 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.799 but then you get you know this and that the 301 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.839 young woman in Pasadena that we talked about another officer, 302 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:11.119 Tyson Crutchfield, who was punished and eventually fired for or 303 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:12.799 pushed out. I don't know if it was fired or 304 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:16.559 pushed out, but for speaking out against her own partners. 305 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.599 So what message are we sending, and I feel like 306 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.759 the officer got so much public support, even his name 307 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:30.000 was Daniel Flores, even though Hawkman's people, the DA's office 308 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.279 was saying, well, this guy wasn't really in it for good. 309 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.799 He was just in it to get a paycheck. 310 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.599 But whether he was in it for a check or 311 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.559 for not a check, I think the message is clear. 312 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:46.160 If you got sixteen felony charges against you for calling 313 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.759 out racism and sexism in the department, that's you know, a. 314 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:55.599 Problem, that's that's that's not the culture. The culture is 315 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:01.880 not reporting your colleagues. I talked with someone very familiar 316 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:06.960 with labor negotiations and police unions, and I don't know 317 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:10.359 how to sanitize this dominique, but what I'm told is 318 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:14.880 that police eat their own. They are far We know 319 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.519 how brutal they can be right to the public, we 320 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.839 see it, But in terms of how they turn their 321 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:27.559 apparatus on each other is pretty vicious. And so it's 322 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.559 not a surprise that anyone that speaks out and kind 323 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:32.759 of goes against the system. It's not a surprise that 324 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.839 those who participate in acts of violence and show up 325 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.960 as violence workers promote up the ranks. This is rewardable behavior. 326 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:46.480 What Officer Flores has done is completely went against the system. 327 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:49.920 Some call it a blue wall of science. I think 328 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:53.160 it's just culture and violence and this type of behavior 329 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.160 is just accepted and it shouldn't be. 330 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:00.319 Yeah, well, James Fars here, you're invited in all always 331 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.720 it eight hundred and nine to fifteen eighty, eight hundred nine, 332 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:04.880 two oh fifteen eighty. 333 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:07.559 We do have a lot to talk about KBLA Talk fifteen. 334 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:10.920 I want to touch on before we run out of 335 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:13.200 time with you here, James Fire, I want to touch 336 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:18.880 on an article you wrote about this deal between well 337 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:26.640 the deal that Governor Newsom is possibly championing here with 338 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:32.559 Southern California Edison that would I guess he's trying to 339 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:35.519 keep them solvent. Is that the logic behind it? 340 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:42.839 Well, yeah, the logic is the utility cartails are lobbying. 341 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:49.079 There's no bill language. Yeah, but what the utility cartails 342 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:51.759 are looking to do is to reduce the amount of 343 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:57.920 compensation that fire survivors would be able to recover. And 344 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.119 that would be compensatory damn, which is or perhaps like 345 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:06.119 emotional distress. So they're looking to kind of go retroactively, 346 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:12.440 which would significantly impact again the recovery for fire survivors. 347 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.519 Why the governor would do this is yet to be seen, 348 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.240 But I think the more important question is why are 349 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:25.279 legislators potentially going to allow this to have That's a 350 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:29.039 greater concern and many many think it's because everyone has 351 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:32.799 their own bills or pet projects. The governor has the 352 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.240 final pen and so what you won't see is any 353 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:39.960 of the legislators speak out publicly and challenge him. You 354 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:43.599 will hear them speak out against the insurance companies and 355 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.559 the utilities. What the public needs to do is to 356 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.279 get in contact with their legislators and let them know 357 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.519 if this bill is afoot. The closer session is this week, 358 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.519 that they need to stand in that gap and make 359 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:00.000 sure that all rate payers in the state of CALIFORNI 360 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:04.400 you won't be penalized when there are wildfires or fires 361 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:06.000 caused by utility companies. 362 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:08.160 I don't know how that you know how that can be. 363 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:08.640 I don't know. 364 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:12.880 You know, it seems like I understand we need utility companies. 365 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:15.440 They do have shareholders. I'm trying to figure out why 366 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.720 we're so desperately trying to protect them when they're making 367 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:22.359 record profits. I mean, when you know Pedro Pizarro got 368 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.759 this huge bonus, they're not hurting. Why can't they pay 369 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:32.640 the victims of the eating fire? Why can't they pay 370 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.160 it out? They've got plenty of money. 371 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:40.079 Now, the money is already there in a rate paying 372 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:45.240 that the utility payers have already paid into this account, right, 373 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.400 and so the money is there. What Edison is trying 374 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.200 to do is to mitigate against right so that they 375 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.880 keep the money. This is essentially dominate. This is already 376 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.559 to rate payers money that they're returning back to them 377 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:01.319 that they've collected by way of feet, We've already been 378 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:06.480 legislated to pay into these wildfire recovery funds for this event. 379 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.559 Edison is only concerned about their bottom line. It is 380 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:17.039 just strictly capitalism and profit over people. They tell that 381 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.480 they want to be Pedro Pizzarro to cel says he 382 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.680 wants to be a good neighbor and a community member. 383 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:24.319 This is not how that shows up. 384 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.680 Yeah, But okay, so here's the thing. Yes, we I'm 385 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:30.359 not under Southern California, Edison. 386 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:32.000 But rate payers get. 387 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.400 Taxed, get fees, and there's already a cap on what 388 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:38.160 the utilities are on the hook for because we the 389 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:43.240 people already have been tasked by our own lawmakers for 390 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:48.359 covering the butts of these utilities. But they're talking about 391 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:53.640 even further restrictions now, they're talking about putting ceilings on 392 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.119 what you can get for pain and suffering in the 393 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.640 like right, right, So why there's I guess when I'm 394 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:02.799 not innderstanding and since there's already this cap, there's already 395 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:06.759 these protections of how much they're on the hook for, 396 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.240 why do we need more? Why is the governor or 397 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:13.720 why are some lawmakers feeling like we need to protect 398 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:19.240 them even more when they're clearly thriving and they're already protected. 399 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:23.480 It's the money in politics. No one wants to come 400 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.119 up against the utility cartels, lobby and muscle right. They 401 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.640