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. Tiffany
Speaker 2: Hobbs here with you until seven. Make sure you listen
Speaker 2: back to the podcast's link on theiheartapp iHeartRadio dot com
Speaker 2: so you can hear Maya Winston, a global DEI consultant,
Speaker 2: discuss details of what DEI actually is, common misconceptions, and
Speaker 2: who actually are beneficiaries of DEI policy. It's not who
Speaker 2: you think. It's actually a lot broader than that, and
Speaker 2: Maya opened up the conversation in a very skillful way
Speaker 2: to share her expertise about what DEI is and what
Speaker 2: it isn't and how all of us will be impacted
Speaker 2: as these DEI rollbacks continue moving from one disaster to another.
Speaker 2: The fires are now one hundred percent contained, both the
Speaker 2: Eton Fire and the Palisades Fire. That is wonderful news,
Speaker 2: but the next phase of recovery is well underway with
Speaker 2: people trying to navigate this new direction that they are in,
Speaker 2: this new place that they are in, whether they have
Speaker 2: lost their homes or their businesses, whatever the case, the
Speaker 2: County of Los Angeles is dealing with a lot of
Speaker 2: recovery efforts, and you can continue to donate through KFI
Speaker 2: as we partner with the Dream Center. Those donations are
Speaker 2: still ongoing, so you can get out there to the
Speaker 2: Dream Center and donate online at kfiam six forty dot
Speaker 2: com backslash donate of which they are collecting things still
Speaker 2: for people who are victims of the fires. One thing
Speaker 2: that they ask people do not donate at the Dream
Speaker 2: Center and at other donation centers is clothing. We have
Speaker 2: found out through these fires that Angelino's people in southern
Speaker 2: California and Orange County as well a lot of clothes.
Speaker 2: And when we want to rind ourselves, when we want
Speaker 2: to purge ourselves of all of those extra clothes, we
Speaker 2: are quick to donate. But the problem is when those
Speaker 2: donations pile up, when there's nowhere for those those donations
Speaker 2: to land, When donation centers have no further need for
Speaker 2: your old t shirts and jeans and coats and shoes
Speaker 2: and socks and everything else that you have so generously given,
Speaker 2: Where do these clothes go? And that is a big
Speaker 2: question being asked in the Guardian, and the title is overwhelming.
Speaker 2: What happens to fifty pounds of extra LA wildfire clothing donations.
Speaker 2: This is a big issue. This article actually reveals that
Speaker 2: a lot of the clothing that is collected is often
Speaker 2: outsourced or taken to landfills. And there's an issue happening
Speaker 2: right now with landfills as the airs of the Palisades
Speaker 2: and Altadena and Pasadena are looking to dispose of their
Speaker 2: toxic waste. You've been hearing it here on KFI. There
Speaker 2: are landfills that have been designated to receive that toxic waste,
Speaker 2: and residents in both both the Palisades and the altadenapacity
Speaker 2: in the area have pushed back against those collection sites,
Speaker 2: those dumping sites, sighting environmental concerns, health concerns. People don't
Speaker 2: want toxicity near where they live, and that is totally understandable.
Speaker 2: But often we think of toxicity in this case as
Speaker 2: ash as perhaps oil or something else that might be
Speaker 2: more chemically toxic, But in fact, clothing is a part
Speaker 2: of that toxicity. And let me tell you a little
Speaker 2: bit about what's happening with one specific organization, one business
Speaker 2: that is hoping to be able to assuage the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles area of this fifty extra fifty pounds of clothes
Speaker 2: collected from wildfire donations. There's a sewing shop. It's called
Speaker 2: Sway Sew Shop. It's in the La Arts district down
Speaker 2: there in downtown and they have been collecting surplus donations
Speaker 2: from the wildfire donation centers and community groups that these
Speaker 2: groups were unable to distribute because they already had too much,
Speaker 2: or as we have found out, because these items were dirty,
Speaker 2: damaged or poorly made. There were lots of complaints during
Speaker 2: the collections of clothing over this last three weeks that
Speaker 2: clothing was coming in very worn, very dirty, very poorly made,
Speaker 2: and people were speaking out and they were very incensed
Speaker 2: and rightfully so that people were seemingly donating their trash. Well,
Speaker 2: this company, the Sway Sow Shop, has collected all of
Speaker 2: it and instead of letting the clothes go to a landfill,
Speaker 2: which in fact does cause a host of environmental problems,
Speaker 2: this company, swaysoa Shop, has taken this fifty thousand pounds
Speaker 2: of clothing so that they can be cleaned, sorted and
Speaker 2: upcycled by professional designers and seamstresses and seamsters. So the
Speaker 2: clothing that is being donated that has nowhere to go
Speaker 2: and people have no use for, will be collected, cleaned, repaired,
Speaker 2: and re sold right back to you. It is a
Speaker 2: cycle that is interesting. I did not know that, Kayla.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? I had no idea. Did you
Speaker 2: donate anything? No judgment, but have you donated anything that
Speaker 2: items but money?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: And you've donated things before, like clothing before. I'm sure,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, of course. I throw them in the
Speaker 2: little bins that they have around the world. What do
Speaker 2: you expect to happen, you know, to that, to those
Speaker 2: parcels of clothing. Do you expect them to go directly
Speaker 2: to people or in this case, do you expect them
Speaker 2: to be sold back to you? No, I don't expect
Speaker 2: them to be sold back to me. I expect them
Speaker 2: to be given to people that need it. And that's
Speaker 2: what's happening. It's being sold right back to you, Kayla. No,
Speaker 2: the shirts we're wearing today could have very well been
Speaker 2: collected at a donation site, cleaned, refurbished, and sold back
Speaker 2: to us at a higher price. That's messed up there,
Speaker 2: and that's what's happening. This is the revelation in all
Speaker 2: of this. When it comes to donations and collections, it
Speaker 2: also shines a light on over production. We have been
Speaker 2: consuming quite a bit. In twenty twenty, studies came out
Speaker 2: that showed that people were shopping a lot more, especially online,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that shopping was in terms of
Speaker 2: fast fashion, much of which has been collected during these
Speaker 2: donations are at these donation centers. They are citing fast
Speaker 2: fashion items as being something that they've received a lot of.
Speaker 2: That's your kind of cheaply made clothing, your trendy clothing,
Speaker 2: things that are season to season, not something that people
Speaker 2: could potentially keep. Because of these surplus donations now being
Speaker 2: sold back again, it is shining a light on that
Speaker 2: over consumerism. And from this article, it says that a
Speaker 2: disturbing eighty five percent of all textiles end up in landfills. So,
Speaker 2: whether a fire or another disaster, whether you're just donating
Speaker 2: out of the goodwill of your heart, a lot of
Speaker 2: what you are donating when it comes to clothing is
Speaker 2: ending up in landfills where these clothes emit methane gas
Speaker 2: and leech chemicals and dyes into our soil and ground water.
Speaker 2: We must be really dirty, we are emitting methane gas.
Speaker 2: I thought that was really relegated to cows. But apparently
Speaker 2: our clothing is so chock full of chemicals and whatever
Speaker 2: we're putting inside of our clothing your body that when
Speaker 2: put into a land phil it is contributing to major
Speaker 2: environmental hazards. So continue to donate. Make sure though, that
Speaker 2: you are not just ridding yourself or or purging your
Speaker 2: closet of your trash. Of course, we keep saying that
Speaker 2: week to week as we help these unfortunate people who
Speaker 2: are victims of the wildfires navigate their new reality. But
Speaker 2: just know that if you do, in fact donate clothing
Speaker 2: going into the future, your clothing is being repackaged and
Speaker 2: resold to you. Something to think about as you look
Speaker 2: at your closet. Something else to think about is where
Speaker 2: you plan to visit as the rebuilding phase from the
Speaker 2: fires continues. And I'll have a list of restaurants that
Speaker 2: plan to rebuild, hope to rebuild as there as this
Speaker 2: next phase of recovery is underway. So I'll share that
Speaker 2: with you when we come back. Kf I AM six
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Okay, if I AM six forty live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Timmy Hobs here with you until seven, and
Speaker 2: then Michael Monks comes aboard, so make sure you stay
Speaker 2: tuned for that. We have had a very explosive show.
Speaker 2: Our talkback feature has just been going berserk. We've had
Speaker 2: so many talkbacks, many of which we are not going
Speaker 2: to dignify, but some we have to because they are
Speaker 2: just so good and so insightful. So we're gonna hear
Speaker 2: from Sonya and Dennis.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 4: What's that Tiffany?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 4: So I'm half white, half Spanish, and I get that
Speaker 4: guy's emotions, but I feel like he's been fed the
Speaker 4: wrong facts, just like how I've been, and which is
Speaker 4: why I keep my mouth shut.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I don't know everything, and.
Speaker 4: Which is why it's really good you're gonna talk about
Speaker 4: this topic today.
Speaker 3: Get some facts out there.
Speaker 4: But I get I think it's just everything that we
Speaker 4: are told and not the facts.
Speaker 3: And you know, you come out with emotion.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much much, Dennis. I appreciate your insight
Speaker 2: and your maturity about the matter. No, we do not
Speaker 2: know everything. I certainly don't, which is why I had
Speaker 2: Maya Winston come on, so she can let us know
Speaker 2: otherwise I would just be speculating and that's not good
Speaker 2: news reporting. All right, can we go to Sonia please,
Speaker 2: Hey you guys.
Speaker 5: On this topic about sway Soo's shop and the extra clothing.
Speaker 5: I'm down here in Orange County and I'm collecting donations
Speaker 5: from my neighbors and they've been so generous, mostly donating
Speaker 5: brand new items and all kinds of things, all mostly new.
Speaker 5: But I was even surprised, and it takes a lot
Speaker 5: to see what people were donating. And yes, dirty stained trash.
Speaker 5: Someone took their junk drawer and dumped it upside down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what people were staying at these donation sites. Again,
Speaker 2: we were talking about the surplus of clothing. Thank you
Speaker 2: Sonya for that and for sharing what's happening about what's
Speaker 2: happening in Orange County. People were saying that, yeah, what's
Speaker 2: being collected is not of good quality. And then all
Speaker 2: of that, whether good quality or otherwise, is sent two
Speaker 2: different outsourcing companies, and what they do is they refurbish,
Speaker 2: repackage and resell it back to you. We did have
Speaker 2: a talkback who said, yeah, you know, I've gone to
Speaker 2: the Goodwill and they don't do that. They don't clean anything.
Speaker 2: This is supposed to be true. I cannot fully qualify it,
Speaker 2: but I have heard that as well. We're not talking
Speaker 2: about just goodwill. We're talking about actual boutiques that are
Speaker 2: getting the clothing and repackaging it and reselling it to consumers.
Speaker 2: So it's a vicious cycle. This donation stuff is and
Speaker 2: it comes from a good place. But they don't need
Speaker 2: your clothes anymore, ladies and gentlemen. They need other things,
Speaker 2: and you can check the Dream Center's website to find
Speaker 2: out what they need specifically. As iHeart continues to pair
Speaker 2: with them and their recovery efforts. So talking about the
Speaker 2: fires again, we're seeing one hundred percent containment for all
Speaker 2: of the fires. We are now for the first day
Speaker 2: in I think the last thirty days, I saw a
Speaker 2: stat there are no active fires in southern California. And
Speaker 2: that is something that is to be applauded sadly, because wow,
Speaker 2: we spent an entire month checking our watch duty app
Speaker 2: and expecting the next fire to spring up, and like clockwork,
Speaker 2: they were. As we know, the Palisades fire and Eaten
Speaker 2: fires were extremely destructive, with tens of thousands of acres
Speaker 2: burned about ten thousand now close to businesses and structures
Speaker 2: burned as well, and of those structures, many are hoping
Speaker 2: to rebuild. Of those businesses, many are hoping to emerge
Speaker 2: from the flames, so to speak, renewed and rebuilt so
Speaker 2: they can continue serving the community. If we're talking about
Speaker 2: Malibu and the Palisades, there were quite a few restaurants
Speaker 2: that burned. Moonshadows is one, bitari another. There's Cafe Lux
Speaker 2: unfortunately that was burned, and the Malibus excuse me, the
Speaker 2: popular real In in Malibu over there on PCH. You
Speaker 2: may have seen it driving by. They are just on
Speaker 2: the north side of PCH as you are driving kind
Speaker 2: of northwest on PCH and you'll see that beautiful chalkboard
Speaker 2: out there with their illustration or menu. It's a very
Speaker 2: popular spot, been there for thirty two years and unfortunately
Speaker 2: it burned to the ground. That reel In on PCH
Speaker 2: in the Palisades fire, well, the owner is looking to
Speaker 2: rebuild and he has taken to go fund me to
Speaker 2: launch a campaign to not only be able to rebuild,
Speaker 2: but to also pay his employees as they are now
Speaker 2: out of work. But he does expect to rebuild on
Speaker 2: the same site. The owner and he is working with
Speaker 2: California State Parks on a plan to do just that.
Speaker 2: So the Real Inn is saying don't worry, will be back,
Speaker 2: and I know that is music to my ears because
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed visiting the Real in the numerous times
Speaker 2: I went. Another restaurant that hopes to come back in
Speaker 2: Malibu is the Chilada Thai Restaurant, a beloved place by
Speaker 2: locals and visitors as well. The Chilada Thai Restaurant in
Speaker 2: Malibu there has been operating for twenty five years and
Speaker 2: they're also looking for support online via GoFundMe to be
Speaker 2: able to rebuild in the same place. And that is
Speaker 2: very important to these business owners. They know that location
Speaker 2: is not only everything, but that it ties them specifically
Speaker 2: to the community, a community that has seen them there
Speaker 2: for twenty five thirty plus years, and to move it
Speaker 2: to a new location these restaurants could be disruptive to
Speaker 2: their overall culture. You can look for those two restaurants
Speaker 2: to rebuild in terms of the Outadena area Pasadena area
Speaker 2: and that Eaten Fire Altadena lost Everest, Burger's, Cafe de Leche,
Speaker 2: and also the Little Red Hen Coffee Shop, and the
Speaker 2: Little Red Hen Coffee Shop was a family run soul
Speaker 2: food restaurant. But their owner says that they are going
Speaker 2: to rebuild. They are going to rebuild, They are going
Speaker 2: to rebuild in the same place, and that they are
Speaker 2: also looking for your support on their go fundme. They're
Speaker 2: looking for fifty thousand dollars to finance the rebuilding of
Speaker 2: their business, which has been there for over twenty years.
Speaker 2: I believe, so just another idea of what people have lost,
Speaker 2: cornerstones of these communities, homes as well as businesses that
Speaker 2: really made up the cultural specificity in the Palisades, in Malibu,
Speaker 2: in Alta Dina, and the ambitious efforts that are now
Speaker 2: underway to rebuild, and not just rebuild, but in the
Speaker 2: exact same spot with which the fires occurred. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we're going to talk about events around southern
Speaker 2: California for Black History Month. I want you to get
Speaker 2: out there and I want you to enjoy yourself. You
Speaker 2: deserve it. You deserve to get out there and do
Speaker 2: something nice during this month of February, in which there
Speaker 2: are many wonderful events that celebrate the contributions of Black Americans.
Speaker 2: In this country, and I'll tell you about where you
Speaker 2: can go from Los Angeles to Orange County to do
Speaker 2: just that. When we come back. KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tifny hobbs here with you until seven, and then Michael
Speaker 2: Monks comes aboard. I keep wanting to put someone else
Speaker 2: in the chair. No, it is Michael Monks who will
Speaker 2: be here. Absolutely. Make sure you stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2: Yesterday yesterday, some time yesterday while you were doing other things.
Speaker 2: President Trump was very busy, and one of the things
Speaker 2: that he did was he sat down in the Oval
Speaker 2: office and he declared something. He made a proclamation, and
Speaker 2: it was somewhat unexpected and probably a little ironic for others,
Speaker 2: because his proclamation was made on the heels of the
Speaker 2: critiques of things that would in fact probably be the
Speaker 2: antithesis to this proclamation. Okay, And what I mean is
Speaker 2: President Trump sat down and he proclaimed February twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five as National Black History Month. From President Trump's mouth
Speaker 2: to your ears and from my mouth to your ears,
Speaker 2: because I'm telling you that President Trump sat down and
Speaker 2: he said, quote unquote, throughout our history, black Americans have
Speaker 2: been among our country's most consequential leaders, shaping the cultural
Speaker 2: and political destiny of our nation in profound ways. He
Speaker 2: goes on to say, this National Black History Month, as
Speaker 2: America prepares to enter a historic golden age, I want
Speaker 2: to extend my tremendous gratitude to Black Americans for all
Speaker 2: they have done to bring us to this moment, and
Speaker 2: for the many future contributions they will make as we
Speaker 2: advance into a future of limitless possibility under my administration.
Speaker 2: He went on to say, I Donald J. Trump, President
Speaker 2: of the United States of America, by virtue of the
Speaker 2: authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws
Speaker 2: of the United States, do hereby proclaim February twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five as National Black History Month. So because President Trump
Speaker 2: has proclaimed that February, as we are now in today's
Speaker 2: February first starts Black History Month as it has for many, many,
Speaker 2: many years, I want to share with you ten events
Speaker 2: in southern California that are celebrating Black History. And this
Speaker 2: is around Los Angeles and Orange County, and these are
Speaker 2: events that you can get out to and indulge yourself
Speaker 2: and enjoy. The first one is really apropos It is
Speaker 2: the African American Firefighter Museum. So if you want to
Speaker 2: take the kids down to a museum dedicated to firefighting,
Speaker 2: this is a wonderful opportunity. It says. You can explore
Speaker 2: the history of the African American Firefighter Museum, which opened
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety seven and is located inside fire Station
Speaker 2: Number thirty. The fire station was one of two segregated
Speaker 2: firehouses in LA between nineteen twenty four and nineteen fifty
Speaker 2: five and is recognized as the only free standing museum
Speaker 2: dedicated to Black Americans in the fire service in the
Speaker 2: United States. That is at fourteen oh one South Central
Speaker 2: Avenue in LA and they are open every Sunday from
Speaker 2: one to three p m. That is the African American
Speaker 2: Firefighter Museum. Admission is free. Admission is free the African
Speaker 2: American Firefighter Museum, fourteen oh one South Central Avenue Sundays
Speaker 2: from one to three pm. If you're into photography, you
Speaker 2: can visit the I Am a Man Photographs of the
Speaker 2: Civil Rights Movement Exhibition in Temecula, so you can get
Speaker 2: out there to Temecula at the Temecula Valley Museum. The
Speaker 2: admission is five dollars. It is being held Tuesday through Sunday,
Speaker 2: February third, which is Monday through March twenty sixth, so
Speaker 2: they have an extended run and you can get out
Speaker 2: there and see this exhibition which focuses on the civil
Speaker 2: rights move between the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies. There
Speaker 2: are photographs taken by amateurs, local photo journalists, and international
Speaker 2: photographers that are chronicling the civil rights movement that's out
Speaker 2: there in Temecula at the Temecula Valley Museum two eight
Speaker 2: three one four Mercedes Street. These are Black History Month events.
Speaker 2: This one goes until March twenty six If you are
Speaker 2: into poetry and you are near Temple City, you can
Speaker 2: go through to the Empower Through Poetry Workshop hosted at
Speaker 2: the Temple City Library and it will teach teenagers how
Speaker 2: to write and structure poetry by analyzing black writers who
Speaker 2: have used the art to express themselves and their identities
Speaker 2: through American history. And these foundational works of poets date
Speaker 2: back to the Annabellum period, which is slavery and you
Speaker 2: can see how Poets Tree has been used again to
Speaker 2: reflect the times. And that's a wonderful opportunity for teenagers
Speaker 2: to get out there in Temple City and take this workshop.
Speaker 2: Admission is free and it will be held this coming Friday,
Speaker 2: February seventh, from four to five pm, so right after
Speaker 2: school at the Temple City Library. You can take your teens,
Speaker 2: maybe your preteens down there. I don't see an actual
Speaker 2: age limitation here, but I bet if you go, they
Speaker 2: will not turn you away. Let's say you're into Motown.
Speaker 2: You like Motown, don't you revisit the classic songs and
Speaker 2: stars of the Motown era in music history, American music history.
Speaker 2: And this will be held in Thousand Oaks at the
Speaker 2: Janet and Ray Sure Forum Theater, the Janet and Ray
Speaker 2: Sure Forum Theater, twenty one hundred East Thousand Oaks Boulevard
Speaker 2: from three pm to seven thirty pm next Saturday, one
Speaker 2: week from today. Motown Mania. You can get out there.
Speaker 2: It's an R and B review show, so you'll get
Speaker 2: all the singing, all the theatrics. It's a wonderful time,
Speaker 2: wonderful way to observe and celebrate black history in terms
Speaker 2: of music, and the tickets can be purchased on ticket
Speaker 2: Master and they start at sixty four dollars. So these
Speaker 2: are prime tickets for a real true motown R and
Speaker 2: B review that rhymed they should use me for their advertising.
Speaker 2: Get out there and visit some of these beautiful and
Speaker 2: wonderful events. When we come back, I'll tell you of
Speaker 2: a few more around the city of Los Angeles, around
Speaker 2: Orange County, and how you can observe Black History Month
Speaker 2: that President Trump has proclaimed as being. So don't get
Speaker 2: mad at me. Point your fingers and your vitre all
Speaker 2: at President Trump who says, hey, you need to get
Speaker 2: out there and celebrate Black History. Be mad at him
Speaker 2: all you like. We'll come back and talk more about that.
Speaker 2: K I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand k
Speaker 1: if I Am.
Speaker 2: Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tifny Hobs
Speaker 2: here with you for one more segment, and then Michael
Speaker 2: Monks will be here and you'll find out what's going
Speaker 2: to be on his big show in a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I want to first give a quick little thank
Speaker 2: you to listener Jeff Briggs. We weren't able to play
Speaker 2: his talkback, but Jeff has sent me so many ideas
Speaker 2: for Black History Month. He's been very complementary of black
Speaker 2: culture and has been very encouraging of me as a host,
Speaker 2: and you know, identified himself as a white male and
Speaker 2: wanted to make sure that I knew that not all
Speaker 2: white males were, you know, thinking that I'm a DEI higher.
Speaker 2: He really wanted to speak positively about equity and diversity,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for that, Jeff Briggs. And I
Speaker 2: just hope that I can be as intellectual as him
Speaker 2: one day. And just he's so smart, this Jet Briggs.
Speaker 2: He really was really well spoken, so well spoken. I
Speaker 2: appreciate what he said. Very active member of society clearly,
Speaker 2: and we think his exit, yeah, so good for his existence. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I hope he, you know, sends us more. Definitely talk
Speaker 2: about his talkback set on the air. Okay, So getting
Speaker 2: back to this Black History Month list. If you are
Speaker 2: in Lawndale and you like to paint and you like
Speaker 2: to sip on the veno a little bit, so I'm
Speaker 2: speaking to myself here, there's a paint and sip for
Speaker 2: Black History Month, and you can enjoy an afternoon of
Speaker 2: creativity while learning about a featured artist in celebration of
Speaker 2: Black History Month. This is for beginners and art enthusiasts alike.
Speaker 2: Registration is required and you must have an La County
Speaker 2: Library card to be a part of this event. The
Speaker 2: admission for this event is free with that library card
Speaker 2: and you can register at visit dot La County Library
Speaker 2: dot org. That will be held at the Lawndale Library
Speaker 2: one four six one five Buren Avenue in Lawndale next Saturday,
Speaker 2: February eighth, three pm to four p m. So this
Speaker 2: is a paint and sip. It does not say if
Speaker 2: this is open to all ages or if this is
Speaker 2: strictly for twenty one and over, but I think if
Speaker 2: it is a paint and sip, you know, maybe bring
Speaker 2: that purse wine with you. Put that wine in your
Speaker 2: purse so you can enjoy yourself. Let's do one more
Speaker 2: if you are into film. If you're into film, you
Speaker 2: can visit the Sola Monte Glass Booth in Rancho Cucamonga
Speaker 2: ninety two hundred Milliken Avenue. You know what, No, you can't.
Speaker 2: You can't visit It actually happened today, So sorry about that.
Speaker 2: But you should visit anyway because they do have an
Speaker 2: exhibit that's going on for Black History Months, but you
Speaker 2: won't be able to engage with it the way that
Speaker 2: you would if it were in the future. So let's
Speaker 2: skip to this last one. This is orchestra. If you're
Speaker 2: into the orchestra, which I love, and you love to
Speaker 2: see kids performing in orchestral music, you can visit La
Speaker 2: Voices Black History Celebration with Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA.
Speaker 2: This is at the Wilshire Ebail Theater over there on
Speaker 2: Wiltshire Boulevard, right off between eighth and Wilshire forty four
Speaker 2: zero one West eighth Street, Los Angeles. That's next Sunday,
Speaker 2: February ninth, from four pm to seven pm. That's the
Speaker 2: Black History Celebration with Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA.
Speaker 2: All La Voices events are free of charge, but you
Speaker 2: must register for tickets online. You can go to the
Speaker 2: Wilshire Ebel Theater website to do that. And this is
Speaker 2: a beautiful composition of music in collaboration with African Americans
Speaker 2: for La Opera. A very special evening. Also, someone who's
Speaker 2: here for a very special evening, a very special person
Speaker 2: indeed is Michael.
Speaker 3: Mont Oh happy Valentie s data you or about that?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you are just putting them a shame
Speaker 2: you started it, I know, just a love fest in here.
Speaker 6: Indeed, well we need it. We made it through January. Yeah,
Speaker 6: what was the year of Januaries? Wasn't it that?
Speaker 3: It was a lot?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So what else will be a lot? I know
Speaker 2: you have a lot to discuss on your show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so obviously that surprised you no asked that question.
Speaker 3: This coffee is starting to kick in fight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, the aftermath of the fires has begun right, like,
Speaker 6: they are fully contained and now we start the hard work.
Speaker 6: And it seems like we're unclear on what that means.
Speaker 3: Who wants what? When do they want it? Pch is
Speaker 3: opening tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: I heard that, But people aren't all that happy about it,
Speaker 6: right because I'm like, exactly, So we're gonna talk a
Speaker 6: bit about that. There was a big fight this week
Speaker 6: inside La City Hall between council members. You don't see
Speaker 6: that too often about how to respond to some more
Speaker 6: of the fallout from the fires, which includes people losing income,
Speaker 6: like workers who may not have lived in the Palisades
Speaker 6: but they worked there.
Speaker 2: Ooh that's fight. I watched, Yeah, I listened. I watched
Speaker 2: online and it was explosive.
Speaker 6: It was Indeed, I watched a lot of council meetings
Speaker 6: almost everyone, and this was a juicy one.
Speaker 3: I've got some clips. We're gonna play those.
Speaker 6: Then there is an unlikely neighborhood in Los Angeles that says, hey,
Speaker 6: Palisades people, while you're out looking for a new home.
Speaker 3: Choose us. You wouldn't expect this neighborhood to be the one.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that as well.
Speaker 6: And then I talked to a researcher from UC Irvine
Speaker 6: who says, if you listen to improvisational jazz, might take
Speaker 6: away your pain.
Speaker 3: Oh what's is your heartache? Oh? Her physical aches and pain,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And then if they go to the Inner City Youth
Speaker 2: Orchestra of LA next Sunday, February ninth, from four pm
Speaker 2: to seven pm, they might have.
Speaker 3: That It's like popping two tail in all perfect exactly.
Speaker 2: I think I feel like you were put here just
Speaker 2: to amplify this Black History Month event.
Speaker 3: I am an ally of the black man.
Speaker 2: I believe you, Michael Monks, don't you know don't say
Speaker 2: that too. Last talkbacks are going to go craze Z.
Speaker 2: You can't say that here. No, but I appreciate that
Speaker 2: you say that, because you know, we all should be
Speaker 2: supporting each other, you know, at the risk of sounding
Speaker 2: very Pollyanna, No.
Speaker 3: You know, I like how.
Speaker 6: Our good buddy Neil ends the Fork Report, you know,
Speaker 6: talking about go with empathy, you know, be kind to
Speaker 6: each other. It's very simple, and I wish we could
Speaker 6: do that. And that's probably a bit of what I'm
Speaker 6: going to talk about with these fires. Yeah, is you know,
Speaker 6: why don't we, uh, why don't we figure out what
Speaker 6: the problem is and then fix the problem and not
Speaker 6: worry about who our political hero is, yes, and what
Speaker 6: their reputation might be on the other side of this
Speaker 6: thing like that should be less like who cares which
Speaker 6: political team wins. I mean a lot of people just
Speaker 6: went through the worst event of their life, the city,
Speaker 6: worst event in city history.
Speaker 3: I mean, get it together.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna get out of your way so you
Speaker 2: can do that. Yeah, all right, So you guys stay
Speaker 2: tuned for Michael Monks. He'll be here from seven to nine.
Speaker 2: He has a really big show, great show, and you
Speaker 2: want to be here to listen to that. You can
Speaker 2: go online and hear the podcast a little while of
Speaker 2: this show where you'll hear where you will hear Maya
Speaker 2: Winston talk about her take on DEI. She's the professional,
Speaker 2: the consummate professional, the expert on the matter, and she
Speaker 2: can explain to you what DEI is and what it isn't,
Speaker 2: how it helps and how it will hurt now that
Speaker 2: it is being removed. And then you'll also be able
Speaker 2: to hear back all the topics that we discussed here,
Speaker 2: including facts about the crash between that helicopter and that
Speaker 2: American Airlines plane, and as well what happens to all
Speaker 2: those clothes you've been donating. Pro tip, stop donating your clothes,
Speaker 2: just stop buying clothes. We're already over consumerist as is.
Speaker 2: It's been a blast. Thank you so very much. I
Speaker 2: hope you enjoyed this show. Happy Black History Month. Got
Speaker 2: to get it in there. Make one last person a
Speaker 2: little upset before I go home. All right, have a
Speaker 2: good one, guys. It's been fun. Uh KFI AM six
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