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Speaker 2: Well, we were.
Speaker 1: Talking about that two hundred year old condom at the
Speaker 1: Amsterdam Museum and the history there from nine eighteen thirty.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is not often in the same conversation of history.
Speaker 1: We make distinctions between our city and going to just
Speaker 1: the East Coast for a juxtaposition of buildings and appreciating
Speaker 1: history and what still remains. Of course, going to Europe
Speaker 1: and the like anywhere else on the globe is a
Speaker 1: totally different ballgame. But there is quite a bit of
Speaker 1: history in Los Angeles. Maybe it's not preserved as well
Speaker 1: as it is in other places. But Nathan Marsak is
Speaker 1: an author from Los Angeles and celebrates all of the
Speaker 1: history of Los Angeles architecturally and the like.
Speaker 2: That exists or that has tragically.
Speaker 3: Been lost in some situations in a lot of cases,
Speaker 3: and Nathan has helped expanded has helped expand a book
Speaker 3: that was originally put out by photographer Arnold Hyland. Nathan
Speaker 3: is joining us now to talk about this. First question, Nathan,
Speaker 3: are you currently wearing a bow tie.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on, And the answer is incredibly No,
Speaker 4: I'm wearing a long, regular necktie, but it is from
Speaker 4: the nineteen.
Speaker 3: Thirty Are you wearing pants?
Speaker 4: No, we live in a zoom era now, and so
Speaker 4: I'm just in like my pajama shorts, but then a
Speaker 4: full suit on top.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the way to do. I like the honesty.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Arnold Hyland originally who put out this
Speaker 3: book Los Angeles before the freeways. How did you find
Speaker 3: out about this guy? And how did you fall in
Speaker 3: love with this book?
Speaker 4: You know, I'll tell you I've always loved old buildings
Speaker 4: and I've always loved Los Angeles. Those are my two
Speaker 4: great passions in life. And so I was in a bar.
Speaker 4: I moved to Los Angeles in the mid nineties. I'm
Speaker 4: a Santa Barbara boy originally, and it was in a
Speaker 4: bar and I'm near Central Library because I used to
Speaker 4: go there to try and you know, pick up librarians.
Speaker 4: And one of the old rummies he says to me,
Speaker 4: you know, kid, you like old la out that window
Speaker 4: right there that was all mansions and I'm like no,
Speaker 4: it's like yeah, and all the buildings down here, you know,
Speaker 4: they used to have finials and turrets and gargoyles on them.
Speaker 4: I'm like, come on, and they're like And there was
Speaker 4: a guy, it was Arnold Highland, and he took photos
Speaker 4: in the fifties and he put out books about it.
Speaker 4: And I said, well, I'll go to Barnes and Noble
Speaker 4: and find these books. And they're like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: good luck because the only printed a couple hundred copies
Speaker 4: of each one. So I got obsessed and I kind
Speaker 4: of made it my mission to find these book. One
Speaker 4: was he had two books. One was called Bunker Hill,
Speaker 4: a Los Angeles landmark, and one was called Los Angeles
Speaker 4: Before the Freeways. It comes out in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 4: six hundred copies. I finally find the book, and I
Speaker 4: would kind of drive around with it like a like
Speaker 4: a weird Phantom Thomas guide, you know, like on my
Speaker 4: lap graving around downtown. I'd be like, like, look at
Speaker 4: that giant, crazy building, and then I would look at
Speaker 4: and be like, oh, and it's a parking lot now.
Speaker 4: And so I started to sort of develop this idea
Speaker 4: about what's old like in the nineteen fifties, if you
Speaker 4: were walking around downtown, was nothing but Victorian buildings. There
Speaker 4: had been a giant building boom in the eighteen eighties
Speaker 4: because of the new railroads, and Hyland knew that this
Speaker 4: stuff was starting to disappear, so he got obsessive about
Speaker 4: photographing it. I would have done the same thing if
Speaker 4: i'd been around that time. And so I got this book,
Speaker 4: and I eventually said, you know what, someday, I'm going
Speaker 4: to reprint this.
Speaker 1: You go to the south, you go to the East coast,
Speaker 1: and there are mansions that exist the way they existed
Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds or before then. We don't have
Speaker 1: that in Los Angeles. And the way that you described
Speaker 1: the Brunson Mansion, which was once on the corner of
Speaker 1: Fourth and Grand, I find to be fascinating. And the
Speaker 1: fact that we lost that is just heartbreaking. Could you
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Brunson Mansion?
Speaker 4: Oh, I certainly could. So. If you know downtown, if
Speaker 4: you've been to Bunker Hill, those two big matching eighties Granite,
Speaker 4: you know Reggian era muscular buildings, the Wells Fargo Center,
Speaker 4: originally the Clark Center, that's what the Brunton Mansion was.
Speaker 4: North and Grant, and there was a judge. His name
Speaker 4: was Brunson. He was very rich, and he built a
Speaker 4: like eighteen thousand square foot mansion, the kind of stuff
Speaker 4: you think about knob Hill in San Francisco. This Bunker
Speaker 4: Hill was like our knob Hill, and it had finials
Speaker 4: and it had turrets and frescoes inside and stained glass
Speaker 4: and freezes. And it only lasted till like nineteen seventeen
Speaker 4: because somebody said, you know what we need here, We
Speaker 4: need a parking lot and a garage. Because of Los
Speaker 4: Angeles entered the age of the automobile, people were like,
Speaker 4: all these funny old buildings, you know, they're they're falling down,
Speaker 4: they're pointless. We don't like them, Like, get rid of it.
Speaker 4: We need parking lots. And that's sort of what Los
Speaker 4: Angeles is known for all over the world. You know.
Speaker 4: I've been all over the world and people always say like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're from La. What did they tear down you know, yesterday?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, uh, you know, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's like I brought up Parker Center the other day.
Speaker 1: I got some crap about it because it's a dated reference.
Speaker 1: But Parker Center is another piece of history that even
Speaker 1: cinematic history alone that we.
Speaker 4: Lost well, I know, I kind of got into the
Speaker 4: old LA thing and part and I know you were
Speaker 4: mentioning Perry Mason. It's like super noir. Everyone loves old
Speaker 4: Noir La. Everyone's seen you know, Black Dolly and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. Parker Center, designed by Welton Beckett, opened in
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty five, super important, super progressive for the way
Speaker 4: in which it changed policing and the way we jailed people,
Speaker 4: Like the cells had rubber matts and it had glass
Speaker 4: walls instead of bars, and the city was so hot
Speaker 4: to tear it down. And what's there now? Nothing still
Speaker 4: a parking one. Yeah, not even a parking one. It's
Speaker 4: like it's fenced off. So they destroyed it as some
Speaker 4: sort of you know, performative justice for criminals, and it's
Speaker 4: I was just rolling my eyes and you know what
Speaker 4: they say, When it's gone, it's gone. And it breaks
Speaker 4: my heart that we are still, especially now with you know,
Speaker 4: the housing push all down around USC where there used
Speaker 4: to be incredible craftsman homes, those are falling left and right.
Speaker 4: We're really watching, especially in the last five years, we're
Speaker 4: watching the city disappear before our eyes.
Speaker 2: I love the spirit we don't learn.
Speaker 4: We don't learn it.
Speaker 2: No, we are big dumb animals.
Speaker 3: I love the spirit with which you talk about the
Speaker 3: older architecture and the passion were you. Did you use
Speaker 3: that to talk to Arnold Hyland's family about reissuing the
Speaker 3: book and expanding upon it.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. They were very type fisted about his legacy and
Speaker 4: about the negatives that existed, and I really had to
Speaker 4: sort of prove myself. I started writing about bunker Hill,
Speaker 4: especially around two thousand and five for a blog called
Speaker 4: on bunker Hill, and that's when I reached out to them,
Speaker 4: And it took about ten years before I convinced them
Speaker 4: that I wasn't. You know, anyone who has an archive
Speaker 4: always thinks, oh, you know, we're gonna a million dollars
Speaker 4: at it. I hate to say it, folks, but no,
Speaker 4: you put out a book like this, you do it
Speaker 4: for the love. And once they realized that I was
Speaker 4: completely obsessed, they said, okay, kid, you know, here's the negatives.
Speaker 4: Go to town. And then I went to very important
Speaker 4: Angel City Press, Dean and Titan of Great La Publishing.
Speaker 4: They also put out my book on bunker Hill called
Speaker 4: Bunker Hill Los Angeles and ACP was like, we love
Speaker 4: this idea, let's reprint this book. And everyone wonders, like,
Speaker 4: who wants to sit and look through you know, one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty photos of old building like eighteen eighties
Speaker 4: buildings in the nineteen fifties downtown. And it has been
Speaker 4: selling really well. People really eat it up, They love it.
Speaker 4: They If I can make people as enthusiastic as I
Speaker 4: am about it, then I've done my job.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Nathan Marsak. Nathan, can you hold on
Speaker 1: for another segment?
Speaker 2: Absolutely awesome. I have some more questions.
Speaker 1: I also want to find out if you ever picked
Speaker 1: up that librarian or librarians.
Speaker 2: I think everyone wants to know.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you I was not terribly successful, but I
Speaker 4: wasn't totally unsuccessful.
Speaker 2: Oh go, that's excellent. T tell you the story. Gary
Speaker 2: and Shannon will continue.
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Speaker 3: We're talking with Nathan Marsak, who has put out a
Speaker 3: reissue of a book, Los Angeles Before the Freeways, Building
Speaker 3: on what Arnold Hyland put together back in the eighties,
Speaker 3: which was a collection of his photos of some of
Speaker 3: the greatest architecture that La has ever seen. Granted it's not,
Speaker 3: you know, six hundred years old, like the tavern in
Speaker 3: Scotland or something like that, but it is important to
Speaker 3: know kind of where.
Speaker 2: We were one hundred and ten years ago, and it's
Speaker 2: hard to imagine.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until that Angelina Joe Lee movie Changeling I
Speaker 1: think twenty years ago something now, fifteen twenty years ago
Speaker 1: where it shows all the orchards out where several freeways lie,
Speaker 1: that you think of Last Angels having a history before
Speaker 1: the freeways, because so much of it has been lost
Speaker 1: as well, we don't have those museums of mansions that
Speaker 1: once were in downtown La anymore.
Speaker 3: Nathan, you said the family gave you that Highland's family
Speaker 3: gave you access to his negative so his entire collection
Speaker 3: of photos. Was there anything surprising that you saw in
Speaker 3: the negatives that you didn't see in the original book.
Speaker 4: Oh very much so. I should mention that the original book,
Speaker 4: as published in nineteen eighty one by Dawson's Books, has
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifteen images in it, and this new version,
Speaker 4: the expanded version with bigger, larger, lush pictures, one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty three images. Wow, because he shot in like
Speaker 4: the one twenty format. Each each strip of negatives was
Speaker 4: three shots, So each shot from the book had two
Speaker 4: other shots next to it, and usually those were like
Speaker 4: it's a house, It's like, let's say it's the Brussau Mansion,
Speaker 4: and it's like two other versions of that. But once
Speaker 4: in a while he turn around and shoot something across
Speaker 4: the street. And in a lot of cases, those are
Speaker 4: the ones that just blew my mind. That was stuff
Speaker 4: that no one had ever photographed before. So I was
Speaker 4: just thrilled to be able to put about thirty forty
Speaker 4: images like that in the book that no one's ever
Speaker 4: seen before.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Los Angeles's time with the
Speaker 1: street cars? Do you see us ever returning to any
Speaker 1: sort of.
Speaker 4: That you know we are they're trying to re engineer
Speaker 4: Los Angeles to be Manhattan. You know, you can build
Speaker 4: as big as you want without zoning if you're near
Speaker 4: a bus. And then they're building without parking. They're like,
Speaker 4: everyone's just gonna ride, you know, public transit and have
Speaker 4: bicycles from now on. We're Los Angeles, damn we always
Speaker 4: I think dams aren't it. We were built around the automobile.
Speaker 4: We're an oil town and God blessed the street cars.
Speaker 4: But the narrative that there was a conspiracy by big
Speaker 4: oil and big tire, big road to destroy the street
Speaker 4: cars is false. That's actually it's actually not true. It's
Speaker 4: great and Rodgers rabbit, But we like bringing back Broadway.
Speaker 4: Huizar tried to put street cars back on Broadway. I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's ever gonna happen. And don't get
Speaker 4: me wrong, if I could go back in time and
Speaker 4: ride the you know, the yellow car out to the
Speaker 4: Orange Groves, you know, or or ride the red car downtown,
Speaker 4: that'd be amazing. But I think we, you know, we
Speaker 4: can't even build a bullet train. Come on, it would
Speaker 4: cost a billion dollars in studies to find out if
Speaker 4: we could have street cars in Los Angeles. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go ahead and say that that day has passed.
Speaker 1: I just love that era though, and that idea of
Speaker 1: getting around l A and vibrant.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm an old New Orleans boy. My family's
Speaker 4: from there, and so I ride, you know, the street
Speaker 4: car up and down St. Charles Avenue. Yeah, I know
Speaker 4: it and it's there's just nothing better than that. And
Speaker 4: I just don't know if it would totally translate to
Speaker 4: LA And I would love to be proven wrong, you know,
Speaker 4: twenty years from now, I'd love to have a nice
Speaker 4: street car cruising down. But you know, when I moved
Speaker 4: to Highland Park thirty years ago, we didn't have the
Speaker 4: gold Line, and you know, it was just empty tracks.
Speaker 4: So we're slowly putting back public transits. Uh.
Speaker 3: Is there a specific landmark or neighborhood or building that
Speaker 3: you think is most at risk right now?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's an excellent question. Well, I don't have to
Speaker 4: tell you how heartbreaking the fires were in January. But
Speaker 4: the stuff that the sort of areas we're tearing down
Speaker 4: right now, just in spades, is like Koreatown and Westlake,
Speaker 4: that area, like around MacArthur Park, so many incredible buildings
Speaker 4: between there and like down towards USC, so many incredible
Speaker 4: built like mostly houses built in the turn of the century,
Speaker 4: turn of the last entries, like around nineteen oh five,
Speaker 4: and I'm just watching them go left and right. They're
Speaker 4: being demolished for these you know, six story gray boxes
Speaker 4: that have that are absolutely featureless, that are built to
Speaker 4: the edge of the property on either every side because
Speaker 4: there's no more zoning in Los Angeles. They call it
Speaker 4: a density bonus. It's not a density bonus. It's the
Speaker 4: zoning variant. And I've probably seen there's probably been a
Speaker 4: thousand important houses demolished and commercial structures demolished since I
Speaker 4: started tracking them around twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: So did you marry a librarian?
Speaker 4: I married an archaeologist.
Speaker 2: Okay, same kind of thing, and I love like, I.
Speaker 4: Love trust me. I had a very lengthy stretch of
Speaker 4: you know, brainy girls with glasses and drinking problems, but
Speaker 4: that's what I like, and I like. But but then
Speaker 4: I met this too little archaeologist and she's a little
Speaker 4: more sane and sober, so I said, okay, you know
Speaker 4: you're the one, and we've been together ever since.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to know your limits.
Speaker 4: Exactly. You gotta know at some point you've got to
Speaker 4: you got to grow up.
Speaker 2: And yeah, oh there is that too.
Speaker 3: By the way, Nathan's going to speak about the book
Speaker 3: coming up Los Angeles before the Freeways, part of the
Speaker 3: Marine North of lecture series for the La City Historical
Speaker 3: Society coming up on Sunday. That's June eighth Sunday afternoon
Speaker 3: at the Tape Auditorium at the Central Library.
Speaker 2: Rife with librarians. I'm sure and.
Speaker 4: Oh it's like I'm like, it's in a candy store.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You can find out more when you go to La
Speaker 3: lacityhistory dot org. The events page on there is going
Speaker 3: to have more about Nathan and that. That talk coming
Speaker 3: up again Los Angeles before the Freeways, the Tape Auditorium
Speaker 3: at the Central Library coming up on Sunday afternoon at
Speaker 3: two Apart.
Speaker 2: Nathan, that was so much fun. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for joining us.
Speaker 4: You guys are the best. Thank you, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: You bet all right, coming up more stuff including I
Speaker 3: don't talk about that.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the elderly treehouse when we come back.
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Speaker 3: FBI and Port Authority police have arrested a guy at
Speaker 3: JFK Airport and Queen's overnight in connection with their investigation
Speaker 3: into the bombing of that fertility clinic and Palm Springs.
Speaker 3: He was a They believe that he may have been
Speaker 3: supplying materials for the bomb.
Speaker 2: That was used.
Speaker 3: He was a guy from Washington State, private payrolls increased
Speaker 3: far less than expected in May. Adp national employment reports
Speaker 3: showed this morning a new potential warning sign for the
Speaker 3: direction of the economy and air quality in the Midwest
Speaker 3: and the East really bad, but for no reason of ours.
Speaker 3: Out of control wildfires in Canada is producing a bunch
Speaker 3: of smoke that is pouring to the south, and there's
Speaker 3: a plume of dust that originated from the Sahara over
Speaker 3: in Africa that's tracking west across the Atlantic Ocean. They're
Speaker 3: saying that the dust could collide with the smoke sometime
Speaker 3: someplace around the South this week, causing unhealthy air quality
Speaker 3: and very hazy, dull skies during the day. But of
Speaker 3: course gorgeous sunrises and sunset.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, so don't forget. Let us know what
Speaker 1: you are watching. I'm a big fan of adults on
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Speaker 1: Justin Worsham. We're going to be talking parenting coming up
Speaker 1: in about an hour from now. Research showing that most
Speaker 1: consider their dad to be a top life mentor.
Speaker 2: We'll dig into that as well. Well.
Speaker 3: Benito Flores is upset that his home in El Serena
Speaker 3: was being taken away from him. He says that the
Speaker 3: home was illegally seized after its owner, the Department of Transportation,
Speaker 3: left at vacant. He'd been allowed to stay for a
Speaker 3: few months, but with Zen told he had to go
Speaker 3: to this nearby home owned by the agency. But now
Speaker 3: that clock has ticked too far down on that home
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Over the months, he has Benito sawed wooden two by
Speaker 1: fours to use as a brace between the front door
Speaker 1: and an anterior wall to make it harder to breach.
Speaker 1: He has bolted shut the metal screen door. He has
Speaker 1: secured the entrance. He has retreated into a wooden structure
Speaker 1: that he has built twenty eight feet high in an
Speaker 1: ash tree in the backyard, a treehouse.
Speaker 2: I have a question.
Speaker 3: This goes back to the screwdriver from last week, the
Speaker 3: slotted versus flathead. Yeah, what other kind of two by
Speaker 3: fours are there besides wooden?
Speaker 2: Why did they write.
Speaker 1: That that is redundant? You're right, Chris Little is somewhere
Speaker 1: losing his freaking mind anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you could have a you have a
Speaker 2: metal stud I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it's so redundant wooden two by fours.
Speaker 1: You know what, Let's get this author who wrote this
Speaker 1: in the La Times, Liam Liam Dylan, Let's get on
Speaker 1: the horn.
Speaker 3: No, it turns out that Benito then retreated to that
Speaker 3: wooden structure in the backyard. If the police wanted to believe,
Speaker 3: they're going to have to go up to his treehouse
Speaker 3: and get him.
Speaker 2: He says, I planned to resist as long as I can.
Speaker 2: It's six feet tall, three feet wide.
Speaker 1: They say it represents the last stand for Benito and
Speaker 1: a larger protest that has captured the national attention. Starting
Speaker 1: in March twenty twenty, he and a dozen others occupied
Speaker 1: empty homes owned by Caltrans. They were acquired was this
Speaker 1: imminent domain acquired by the hundred and a half century
Speaker 1: ago for the freeway expansion that never happened, for.
Speaker 3: The original high speed rail plan, the idea of that
Speaker 3: something is never going to happen. The agencies have continued
Speaker 3: to offer referrals for permanent housing. They've offered financial settlements
Speaker 3: of up to twenty thousand dollars if group members would
Speaker 3: leave voluntarily. The evictions would have been a last resort,
Speaker 3: but they would be required by law. Basically, Tina Booth,
Speaker 3: director of Asset Management for the Housing Authority of the
Speaker 3: City of La which is operating the program on behalf
Speaker 3: of Caltrans, says, we just don't have any authority to
Speaker 3: operate outside of that.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this is one of those things that you'll find
Speaker 1: a lot with people who get older. They don't understand
Speaker 1: that there are rules and the hoops that they have
Speaker 1: to jump through, and I get it. Caltrans wants to
Speaker 1: sell this guy's home and a bunch of other empty
Speaker 1: houses in Elserino to public or nonprofit housing providers, which
Speaker 1: would make them available to people like Oh, I don't know, Benito,
Speaker 1: low income residents for rent or purchase.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: Evicting him makes no sense because the properties intended to
Speaker 1: be used as affordable housing that he qualifies for. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you still have to jump through all the hoops.
Speaker 1: You still have to do all the paperwork.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's not as easy as just saying, well, I qualify
Speaker 1: for what you want to do here with this, with
Speaker 1: this house or this property. It's just not that Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's not that simple anymore. It may have been at
Speaker 1: one point, it's not that way. There's too much red tape.
Speaker 3: The way that Benito says it is they are out
Speaker 3: of options, that his treehouse, as much as a form
Speaker 3: of protest as it is, is really the only option
Speaker 3: before he moves into his and sleeps in his van.
Speaker 3: And he wrote he and others wrote an open letter
Speaker 3: to Sheriff Robert Luna and said, we're going to live
Speaker 3: on the streets for the rest of our lives. So
Speaker 3: the idea that this is a this is one of
Speaker 3: the hardest parts about it. But it is one of
Speaker 3: those things like you move into a neighborhood where the
Speaker 3: airport is there before you and then complain about the
Speaker 3: air traffic. You know, you complain about the noise from
Speaker 3: the airport. This is an awful, awful.
Speaker 1: Well, you move into a vacant home that's not yours.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to pay the piper. It's all that's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you you know, Yes, story's sad. It's very
Speaker 1: sad that Benito us to live in a treehouse. But
Speaker 1: he moved into a home that wasn't his, and it
Speaker 1: was vacant, and they're going to at some point and
Speaker 1: get it from you.
Speaker 2: And if it makes sense.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense, Just
Speaker 1: like in this case, it doesn't make sense. They're trying
Speaker 1: to take the home away from him to give it
Speaker 1: to someone just like him. Why isn't it him? Why
Speaker 1: can't he just stay put? That's what this stuff is
Speaker 1: intended for. Well, you know that's actually best case scenario.
Speaker 1: If he's going to get press out of this, they
Speaker 1: might make an exception and be like, all right, Benito,
Speaker 1: you can move to the front of the line.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it's going. Maybe you can stay in
Speaker 2: your home or what have you.
Speaker 1: But you move into a home that's not your home,
Speaker 1: chances are it's not going to work.
Speaker 2: Out for you.
Speaker 3: This is a pretty gross story out of Long Beach.
Speaker 3: An ad who is working with disabled children has been arrested.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you why when we come back.
Speaker 2: It is as dark as you could go in your mind.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon will continue.
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Speaker 3: I was scrolling through Facebook to find an old image
Speaker 3: that had come up, and one of the things that
Speaker 3: I'm now being forced in my algorithm is a page
Speaker 3: called Los Angeles Relics, and it's pictures of La back
Speaker 3: from the forties and fifties and things like this is
Speaker 3: the four level Interchange, the first stack interchange in the world,
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty four, the Horleywood Harbor, Pasadena and Santa Ana freeways.
Speaker 2: It's it's wild.
Speaker 1: I was off a couple days, stayed at a Weston,
Speaker 1: said the word Weston and immediately got an email on
Speaker 1: my phone from Weston. I mean, the listening is out
Speaker 1: of control, the directed ads, all the things are.
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
Speaker 1: How we worry about sharing passwords and privacy and social
Speaker 1: security emit, it's all. It's all done. It's done.
Speaker 3: When we get into swamp Watch at the top of
Speaker 3: the hour, one massive figure in the Democratic Party has
Speaker 3: given up on the Democratic Party. They just said that
Speaker 3: they'll be independent from this point.
Speaker 1: For I have a story about what you need to
Speaker 1: do if you want a job in the federal government.
Speaker 1: Yes they're still hiring, but you got to write an
Speaker 1: essay to get in. We'll tell you what the subject
Speaker 1: needs to be.
Speaker 2: Let chech ept do it. There you go.
Speaker 3: There is an aid working for a school in Long Beach,
Speaker 3: twenty two years old, arrested on suspicion of possessing and
Speaker 3: distributing images of the sexual abuse of children. She was
Speaker 3: working with disabled kids. The Longbeach Unified School District. The
Speaker 3: LAPDS Harbord Division served a warrant and arrested her just yesterday. Now,
Speaker 3: the school district says she was specifically a contractor, not
Speaker 3: a direct employee of the district.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a question, but before I get to it,
Speaker 1: police also announced that a thirty seven year old kids
Speaker 1: so Welker coach was arrested on suspicion of attempting to
Speaker 1: meet up with a minor for sex. That was in
Speaker 1: Redondo Beach so also Harbor area.
Speaker 2: What kind of.
Speaker 1: Checks are we doing before we put people in the
Speaker 1: company of our children.
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm amazed. I've said this multiple times. I referred
Speaker 3: to the training background check, fingerprinting I had to go
Speaker 3: through as a soccer coach.
Speaker 2: For seven year olds.
Speaker 3: I mean, and the specifically the coaches training that you
Speaker 3: had to go through, where they'd bring in all the
Speaker 3: coaches and then whoever's the for whoever represents the league,
Speaker 3: would say here's how you can talk to kids, Here's
Speaker 3: what you can't say to kids. Here's how you refer
Speaker 3: you know, if you suspect something that your kids. The
Speaker 3: kids are being abused or whatever mistreated in some way,
Speaker 3: you can always go through the league. We have a
Speaker 3: specific phone number that you can call, or email address
Speaker 3: that you can or you know references. You can't hug
Speaker 3: a kid, you have to hug, you have to side
Speaker 3: hug or fist bump a kid. You can't ever give
Speaker 3: a kid a ride home alone. You gotta have somebody
Speaker 3: else in the car, or other kids in the car.
Speaker 2: Whatever. I mean.
Speaker 3: That kind of stuff for a volunteer organization was so
Speaker 3: much more aggressive, it seems, than anything that these people
Speaker 3: have had to go through. Yeah, and they have much more.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. I saw these kids two times a
Speaker 3: week for ninety minutes at a time. These people are
Speaker 3: around kids six seven, nine hours a day.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, for it to get to the point of
Speaker 1: a warrant and arrest has to be pretty blatant. And
Speaker 1: I think that the hoops you had to jump through
Speaker 1: while a pain in the ass good.
Speaker 2: And I didn't mind it. That was the thing.
Speaker 3: Like I as a parent, was perfectly willing to go
Speaker 3: through a two hour welcome mindless seminar, hoping that the
Speaker 3: other people that were in the room were the same
Speaker 3: way as I was, which was this is a perfectly
Speaker 3: acceptable way to scream for coaches.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we will get to what kind of
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Speaker 2: What did you say.
Speaker 3: The very high profile democrat that has given up on
Speaker 3: the party?
Speaker 2: How do have I not heard about this? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think you'll be surprised. I was surprised when I
Speaker 2: saw it.
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