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Speaker 1: And I'm so happy to have a little something something

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different for you. On this wealth Building Wednesday, we like

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to shine a spotlight on all different kinds of businesses

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and opportunities for business. Today we are spotlighting a dance teacher,

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a spreader of the culture, a provider of joy. Cali Kara, Welcome, Hi,

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good morning, Good morning. So I know that your your business,

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if you will, is line dancing, But tell me a

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little bit about yourself. I don't I didn't get too

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much info on you. Are you a professional dancer? Like,

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how did you come to this line of work?

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Speaker 2: Sure? Well, first of all, good morning, Masominic, Good morning everybody.

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My name is Cali. I'm from Los Angeles, California. I'm

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not a professional, but all my life I love to

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dance and I recently lost over one hundred pounds and

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that was with hard work, heavy on my mental work,

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a lot my mental health, and I realized I really

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like to line dance, and so I figured, why not

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not only teach easy, beginner friendly dances, but also incorporate

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to help people's mental health. So that's kind of how

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I came up with it. The name of the business

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is Rhythm and Release because it takes all the rhythm

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to learn the dance. I'm hoping. I'm hoping people can

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come to my class and you know, whatever they're going through,

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they can release it within that hour. And I also

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like to work with mental health based nonprofits to teach

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some dancing as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a nice combination, you know. So you team

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up with organizations that are helping people with their mental wellbeing,

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and then you add the dance component to help them

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find some joy and release in that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So okay, let's just back up a little bit here.

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You said you've lost one hundred pounds. There as an

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article I think it was in La Times who talks

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about how right now when I think because of the

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GLP ones and stuff that people are real judge and

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they don't trust people who lose weight or whatever? Did that?

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Did that? Did that impact you? And also being in

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the dance space, which of course can can be pretty

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judgey too, although I imagine line dancing is not as

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bad as ballet. You know, in this environment, like the

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way everyone is moving right now, was it hard harder

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for you to to lose that weight?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be completely transparent. Some of my success was

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due to a GOP one. I was on it for

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about six months, but I didn't like the way it

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made my body feel personally. So I just really learned

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to keep a better habit and to stay active and dancing,

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not only line dancing, but dancing with a lot of

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my physical activity, and I kind of got into the

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line dancing and it just made me feel really good.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, look, Kelly, I don't judge people for

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taking g LP. Once people got to do it, they

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gotta do. It's your body, you do with what you want.

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drop some of that weight and you've been able to

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keep it off, you're doing you're doing something pretty heroic

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because a lot of people have had trouble keeping it

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off when they when they you know, cycle off of

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them and they're you know, they're not liking some of

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the side effects like you didn't. Then they cycle off

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and they struggle. So you you, you know, congrats to

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you whatever you're doing. If you feel happy, I feel

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happy for you. But with the with your line dancing,

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I mean you brought that up because was that because

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that was part of your journey or is it because

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it doesn't matter what size you are or is it

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Speaker 3: Both.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm definitely part of my journey. Like I said,

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when I was a kid, I always used to love

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to dance, so I definitely incorporated as a line dancing.

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That's my fun of exercise. I did home exercises, I

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didn't really go to the gym, but I danced a lot,

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like I made sure I moved my body, and when

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doing the workout over and over again. And then also

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I would realize people would come to me because I

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didn't know the line dancers and they would want to learn.

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you know, everybody was happy and smiling at the end

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of it. So I thought about, why not, you know,

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share the gifts God gave me and teach other people.

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don't want people to be stressed out or worried about

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it when they come to class. I wanted to go,

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you know, pretty smoothly for them.

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Speaker 1: I love that because that's how a lot of small

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businesses start. It's something we do that everyone bugs us

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to help them with or do more or make some

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of whatever. So many businesses start that way. Sounds like

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you had a gift and you know, and and it's

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an urgent need. Because my understanding is that if you

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don't know the line dances, you can have your black

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card revoked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a running joke for sure. People are like,

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you don't know this dance. I'm not gonna lie. Some

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of the harder ones I am still learning, but the

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easier ones, you know, it's it's like I said, it's

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a lot of fun, but it is. It gets a

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little competitive when it comes to the harder ones, and

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you know, it's a challenge. But at the end of

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the day, it's just a fun thing to pick up

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and a great thing to learn.

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Speaker 1: So how do we support your business? And how do

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we you know, shake our booties?

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you guys can follow me on Instagram. It's

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rhythm So it's r H Y T H M and

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and then release R E L E A S the

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number three and I post my classes. I have them

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once a month. I have a class coming it's on

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the twenty second at Vans Park at eleven am. My

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classes are only five dollars. It's very affordable. That's out

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of parks. When people have kids, they can bring their

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kids and you know, we can we watch the kids.

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We're in iView of the kids. If that's just a

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worry for a person, but yeah, I post them on

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my Instagram or if I'm ever doing any community events,

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I post that on my page as well. So if

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people want to follow me, they can feel free to

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shoot me a follow and keep up with media Instagram

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and I also have a registration link in my buyout.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's all happening on Instagram. It's amazing how

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many thriving black businesses are happening on Instagram and other

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businesses too. A lot of folks making making money there.

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But your class is free.

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Speaker 2: It's so it's five dollars, but it's not like a demand.

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I know, you know people sometimes five dollars it's hard

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to come with. So if people can show up, then

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you know, I still would encourage them to show up

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even if they don't have five dollars.

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Speaker 1: So no one turned away. But five bucks if you

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have it. But that's very affordable. And I suppose if

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there's a nonprofit. We have lots of nonprofits that listen

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that want to do do something different around the mental

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health space, they would reach out to you via Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Yes, via Instagram is the best way. I can also

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give out my personal page if they want to reach

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me there. It's C A L three I's underscore KA

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R three a's. I hope they call that.

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Speaker 1: Three a's Okay, a lot of a's, a lot of a's.

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But Rhythman releases the name of the business. If I'm

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a nonprofit and I reach out to you, and what

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are the kinds of things you're gonna do with me?

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What kinds of like collabs would we do?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I definitely I offer not only do I offer

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a variation of beginner front of the line dance hits.

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but I'm open to work with anybody. Just encouragement. I

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share my story of the importance of keeping your mental

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health in check. You know, if you need support, getting

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the support, arapey or whatever it looks like, having a

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healthy community and keep your body moving because it does

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great things for your mind as well.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well said, well said, Okay, so Vans Park we're

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having we're having a dance opportunity. I'm gonna call it

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an opportunity. That's Saturday. That's at eleven eleven am.

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Speaker 2: On the twenty second, Yes, eleven am on the twenty second, right.

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Speaker 1: So it's not this Saturday, it's a week from Saturday.

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At the time at eleven am. How long will it

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go for It's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be an hour. It might go over, you know,

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if we people need to learn little more, that's fine.

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Women if they I dedicate my Saturdays when I have

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a class to the whole day if it goes that way,

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but it's usually typically an hour.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that sounds like a lot of fun too.

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So and all levels welcome a super beginner to a super.

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Speaker 2: Experience, you know, if you know all the line dances,

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but you just want to get out and move your

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body and you know, keep it simple. Any and everybody

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gets welcome.

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Speaker 1: What's the most popular one right now?

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Speaker 2: I would say the most boots on the ground, still

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still boots on the ground. Everybody loves that fan pop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's the fan Well, so, I mean it

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sounds like disguise the limit for you. And I know

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that line dancing is incredibly popular. So if folks want

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to follow, how else can we support your business? What

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what can we do to help you thrive?

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Speaker 2: Cali car come on to the class. Come check out

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the class. If you're a nonprofit looking for fun things

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to do, any community work. I love working with my

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community at the in south central LA. So I love

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breaking things to the community and just getting down there

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and and just being with my people. So if anybody

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wants to work with me, want to collab, or you

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just want to come check out a class, please do

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you are more than welcome. That's the best way to support.

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my post, share it to any and everybody.

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Speaker 1: And that's at Rhythm and Release three everything spelled out

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except the number three right, yes' Rhythm and Release three.

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And what a great way to you know, build community,

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build a business and help us get a little healthier

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up in here. Yes, it's nice to meet you, Cali Kara.

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Best of luck to you and may you build enormous wealth.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. I appreciate this. Just starting

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this business, I've gotten so far already and I just

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give glory to God that he's making us happen and

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he's opening doors. So I appreciate you so so much.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you as well, and one day I may

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just pop up somewhere, you know, come pop up somewhere

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with you, my fans.

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Speaker 2: I would love to have you. You would have a great time.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have a feeling that I absolutely would.

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so you know a recent poll I'm struggling to find

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the mayor's supporters. Nevertheless, it shows that she is leading

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by thirty seven percentage points to thirty three over Nithia Raman.

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twelve hundred likely voters and the margin vera is around

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it's still a lead. This is from July twenty eighth,

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a tough time for LA. I mean, we're dealing with

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the fire and boil heights and the pull the story

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about the unhoused and jump in the number of unhoused,

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which actually turns out, even according to the La Times,

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that the methodology is faulty, so that jump, yes, it

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did occur, but may not have been as pronounced. Likely

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was not as pronounced as they claimed it was, because

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they have this weird system where they have certain beds

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for homeless people that they count in alternate years. The snapshot,

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as they call it, of the unhouse. They call it

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snapshot because it's a look from one day, has been

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notoriously unreliable anyway, because we really don't know how to

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count the unhoused. And I don't know if there's a

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system somewhere in the world that's better. I haven't looked

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into it, but I have read enough over the years

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to know that this is relatively un reliable. However, we

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have to figure we have to have some sense of it,

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and it's what they do. They literally go ten to

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tempt look who's inside, or try to calculate how many

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people are inside, and then estimate how many people are

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living on the streets. We know it's a lot, we

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know there's way too many. But we do know that

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the trend line has been going down under Mayor Karen

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Bassett's the first time it's gone down under any mayor

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in recent history, and it's going down at a time

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when the resident the administration in Washington is defunding our

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medicacal right, defunding food stamps and other safety net programs.

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So there's pressure coming from Washington in the form of

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reduced resources that would would lead to more unhoused people

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on the streets. You cannot count or even talk about

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the state of unhoused folks of homelessness in la or

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any other American city right now, especially a blue state city,

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without counting in the impact of the oligarchic, authoritarian, anti black,

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anti brown, anti working class, anti poor, anti middle class,

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if you really want to get down to it, administration

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that we have right so, if nobody was doing anything,

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if we didn't have an executive, a chief executive of

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our city who was effective against homelessness, what we would

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see right now is a huge jump. Because the work

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that's being done and the moves that are being made

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to counter act the defunding of services and safety nets

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from Washington is what's keeping the floodgates from opening up

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even wider, and that has to be understood in order

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to have an accurate picture of what's happening in our city,

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really any city in America right now, because houselessness is

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no longer, if it ever was a West Coast or

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in La or a California problem. It's growing in every city.

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Why because we've allowed housing to be a commodity rather

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than a human right. You're letting the big corporations and

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the stock market f boys play with our dwellings the

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way you would gamble with your earnings in a slot

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machine in Vegas. And that ain't it. You know, I

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know they're trying to privatize schools, so we'll get to

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that point where we're you know, we could get to

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that point with schools right now. We have a public option, right,

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we have a public option. We don't have a public

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option for healthcare. We've got Obamacare, which still, even though

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it helped a lot of people, still keeps the power

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in the hands of the corporations, in this case, insurance companies.

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We don't have a public option for banking. It's one

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of the missed opportunities I think one of the most

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glaring missed opportunities of the Bush crash, the GOP crash

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of two thousand and eight, the Great Recession. We should

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have come out of that with a public option for banking,

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but we don't have it. We don't have medicare for all.

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We do have a public option for schools, and we

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need to guard that. We do have a public option

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for fire departments, and we need to guard that against privatization.

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We do not have a public option for housing. We

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don't have social housing. We have housing projects in some

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cities for the very poor, but we don't have social

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housing for elders, for the working class, for the working poor,

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for the unemployed, to keep people off the streets. In fact,

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we've done just the opposite. We've allowed housing to become

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more and more just another item to buy, sell, and

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trade on the stock market instead of looking at the

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human impact. I mean, the reason that our utilities, water

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and power are public and private, and as we see,

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that still doesn't protect us from the Southern California Edison's

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of the pg andes of the world. But the reason

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they're public and private they're considered public utilities is because

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it's essential. If you fully privatize water or power, people

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are going to freeze and they're going to die a thirst.

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And that's the situation that we have in housing now. Right,

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we've allowed it to become privatized, we've allowed it to

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become bicell trade. Absolutely, we would not be in as

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good a position we are right now in the city

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of Los Angeles, Left right, progressive, Republican, blue, red blood, crip,

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whatever you got going on. If it wasn't for the

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counteractive measures that this mayor has been taking, this steady

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work that she's and on the flip side, how much

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more progress we would would we see if she didn't

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have to fight Washington just to keep people off the streets.

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These are things we need to really think about now.

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I know they're talking about dismantling LASA, you know, the

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LA Housing Organization because the county pulled their money out,

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but they still wanted boss folks around, and it's an

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agency and transition to put a mildly so what would

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we replace it with. I mean, there's big questions that

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have to be answered here, but it is clear that

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with the actions that have been taken in the past

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four years, we are weathering this storm of the resident

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of the White House much better than we otherwise would.

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Let us not forget that, I'm Dominique de Prima. We

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got news traffic in sports then more only right here.

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So much to cover today, and you know it's not

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been reported a bunch maybe because there won't be a

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final vote on it until August twenty fifth, but the

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City of Fort Worth has agreed to pay eleven point

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two five million to the family of a Tatiana Jefferson.

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Remember her. She was killed in her own home by

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police in twenty nineteen, and that money is meant to

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go into funds that are going for her nephews and

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other family members. And if you remember that case, it

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was terrifying. She did have one of her nephews there

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with her, it might have been too imagine how traumatized

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those children are. So the Fort Worth City Council will

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vote on that August twenty fifth, But it looks like

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the City of Fort Worth is finally finally moving forward

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with that settlement. I wanted to give you some updates

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on some of the other cases that I you know,

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I'm determined not to let us forget about. We'll get

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to that. There's there's more news in the Nolan Wells case.

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We haven't spent a lot of time talking about the

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young woman Tasia who was found hanging in Mississippi, hanging

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from a tree. There is more news. Her name is

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Tasia Fortune. There's more news coming out in the Carmelo

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Anthony case update. I will update you on that, and

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of course keeping our eyes on what's happening also in

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Mississippi with the story of baby Cohen, the one year

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old who was killed by police. There. Before we do that,

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let's go to Paul calling us from LA.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Paul, good one, Please some of you can

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hear me this time, Dominique, I do, oh, perfect, So

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I have put it. I called earlier just for the

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news on the Lakers now being sold again and flipped

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over to the Kushner family and Bob Iger.

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Speaker 1: So Krishner family, that's bizarre. I didn't know that. That's bizarre.

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Speaker 4: So so I want you to pay attention to what

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happened here. So the Walter in that group bought the

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dog the Lakers from, brought the Lakers from the Bus family.

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Then the Dodgers go to the White House, which I

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had presumed was going to be because right along there

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there was a federal case that was pulled against Walters

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with potentially with some funny money being used overall. Then

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not even a month later, from those reports, the Lakers

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are being sold to the Kushner family.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, well yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't, doesn't does

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the league have to approve that's it's not like football

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where the league has to approve it. They can just

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flip it like that because I know it takes a

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minute to buy like a football team or a baseball team,

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you know what I mean, there's a process. I don't

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know that I've heard of it of a basketball of

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a team being flipped back quickly.

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Speaker 4: So think about it. You're you're correct. Normally, you do

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your due diligence right, and you do background checks and

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everybody where they get their money. But we're living in

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a time like you've discussed the private equity, right, they

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got their guy in office. People are wondering, we're living

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in the Gilded age too. They're buying up all the media.

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They're consolidating all the media, they're buying up the sports

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teams at this point as a as a as a

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way to gravitate towards power overall. Yeah, and the idea

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that they got their guy. Steve Bennet said, a long

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time ago, we've been waiting for Trump because what Trump

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can do, he's a crown artist. He can sell you

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magic beings. Nothing he can say is ever two racists,

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nothing he can do ever bad enough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, or two sexist misogynists, anti disabled folks. I mean,

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I see this article on ESPN. That's confirming what you're saying.

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And they made two billion. That's a that's a quick

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two billion because they bought it for ten mom Mark

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Walter bought it for ten billion, the Lakers and sold

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it to Kushner and Igre for twelve billion. Over twelve billion,

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which you're saying is a record breaking price. So they

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made a fast, fast two billion right there. And then

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it's it's an interesting strange bedfellows. Bob Iger of course,

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you know, longtime Disney chief. And then Josh Kushner, who

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is a member Yeah, he is a member of the

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in Laws of the Residents LA LA.

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Speaker 4: So the LA just understand that the Trumps owned the Lakers.

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I've been a Laker fan my whole life. My grandfather

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and my mom. My values and respect for my people

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mean way more than shooting a basketball. I will not

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support that team. This is me personally, as long as

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if this sale goes through, which more than likely it is,

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because look at what the guy that just bought the

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Portland Trailblazers are doing. This is just a consolidation of

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power overall wealth and everything that you're talking about, Dominique,

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is private equity gets in somewhere. They the largest costs

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for corporations is labor, work, right, it's the working class, right.

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So they're gonna cut from there and they're going to

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try to accumulate a much of the wealth as they

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can to the top of the payamid this.

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Speaker 1: Is this is this is very fishy though. I'm glad

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you pointed this out, because he was just saying owning.

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He says, owning the Lakers has been one of the

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greatest owners of my life. But how long did he

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own them?

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Speaker 4: Not not even what a full year?

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Speaker 1: If that, it's been one of the greatest ownors of

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my life. But also I'm out, like what, he needs

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a pardon?

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Speaker 4: He needs a pardon, Dominique pay attention to it.

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Speaker 1: Followed the money funny though, because yeah, and so he

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bought it from the best family. Then he goes to

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the White House to celebrate the Dodgers because he owns

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the Sparks too. Walter the guy that's selling it to

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the Kushners, uh and the and and mister Iger. He

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owns the Dodgers. He owns the sparks, He owns the

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Professional Women's Hockey League, and racing teams and UH Club Chelsea.

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So you would think he's just collecting teams, but this

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one he spins off.

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Speaker 4: But he's not. But the thing is, Dominique is not

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just him that's involved in these group of people. There

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are there's foreign money that's involved in it too, there's

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other private equity firms. He's just the face of it.

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He's just a face. This is just a representation of

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where everything is. Think about it, Well.

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Speaker 1: Bob Biker, but Bob Biger, I don't know if he's

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a face or not a face, but he was a

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CEO of Disney forever in a day. Just step down.

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So that's just like it's hard for me to believe

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that the Kushners and Iger would just be like symbolic

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owners with no strategic plan or corporate influence.

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Speaker 4: And look at and look at how he stepped down

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and moved away. Everyone pay it. It's real simple, It's

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real simple. These people, there's a class of people that

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is accumulating as much of the wealth as they can.

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They don't want to pay taxes. You taught you discussed

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it earlier. With billionaires here. They don't believe their tax

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dollars should go towards schools, to roads in things of

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that nature. As a matter of fact, California is the

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fourth or fifth biggest economy in the world, right, they

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feel that your tax dollars needs to go towards their

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investments and reinvestments in which they are they are monetizing, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a whole mindset that we could

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do an entire show on because they rely on the

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human resources of this state to run their businesses. As employees,

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those people are educated through the schools that they benefit from.

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They drive on the roads that our tax dollars pay for.

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That is what they benefit from. They use more water,

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more power, more human and other resources than anyone else

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because they have bigger corporate footprints, because they have huge

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homes and huge businesses. So obviously, to anyone with common sense,

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they should be paying to maintain the systems that allow

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them to accumulate the wealth that they have. Instead, they

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want to defund them. And you know, I have a

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problem with that. But to your other point, Paul, you know,

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the the ESPN article does note that Walter is under

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federal investigation for tax fraud.

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Speaker 4: So follow the money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Trump just got himself to preemptively pardon himself

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for all current and future IRS crimes, not whine. Maybe

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that's the same deal that mister Walter uh thinks that

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he can get mister Mark Walter perhaps thinks he can

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get you know, forever immunity from IRS prosecution with this deal.

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I mean, we're speculating right now. We have no proof

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of that, but it certainly is an interesting coincidence.

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Speaker 4: I'm allegedly gonna throw something else out here for y'all allegations, right,

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I'm gonna make sure I'm not. I'm not the station.

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They ain't dominique. This is allegedly some of my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: I used an opinions expressed by Paul Lee or.

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Speaker 4: They they they're, they're their their their unions are an

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issue for them. They want to break that stuff up

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to right because a functioning middle working class is it's

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not subservient for what they're trying to do. They have

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to destroy that overall, which in turn is it's not

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a race. They use culture, it's a class war. And

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until people understand what this is, where does tax dollars go?

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And who gets taxed. This goes back as far as Rag,

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as far as Reagan. If you want to argue Nixon,

511
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mag is nothing new.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree with that, Paul. I agree with that.

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I do think that union breaking is not allegedly union

514
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busting is is clearly part of the MAGA agenda. I

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don't think it's going to be that easy. If they're

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trying to break the players' unions at the NBA and

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the NFL, I don't think that's that easy. But who knows.

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I didn't think they, you know, overturned obs. I didn't

519
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think a lot of things. I didn't even think this

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dude would get elected or selected. And so you know,

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I have underestimated the idiocy of people time and time again.

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Speaker 4: Skin because when they're able to use and this goes

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way back when people when they are able to use

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skin color as currency. Remember, after the Civil Rights Act

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was signed, the Democrats never won the white boat again.

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And why did that happen, even though FDR's new deal

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gave the benefits towards the working class of people and

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rebuilt the country from the depression that we were in.

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Why because they were able to divide and conquer what

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you're watching now in this country is it's a class

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war people. It's a reason ten of the eleven last

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recessions started under certain regimes and administrations.

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Speaker 1: Just follow the money, follow the money. Indeed, it's always

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great to hear from you, Paul. And wow, that's a

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block Puster story that I definitely missed, but it is.

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It's got long tentacles, folks, and lots of suspicious, coincidental

537
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sort of implications there. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.

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That's the number Paul called. I encourage you to do

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the same. I'm Dominicq Depriema and this it's KBLA Talk

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fifteen eighty. Yes, indeed, we are for you. If you're

541
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if you're listening and you want to talk, you can

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call eight hundred and nine to oh fifteen eighty or

543
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hop on the YouTube where we have lots and lots

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of conversation and information shared. All these updates I wanted

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to do. If I don't get to them today, I

546
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will get to them tomorrow. It's just it feels like

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a troubling time, particularly in Mississippi. But Mississippi can be

548
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a symbol right for the ongoing struggle for freedom for liberation,

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for safety, it's talking about. This case is the latest

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well I don't even know if it's the latest Asia fortune.

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It's what I'm talking about. This is a woman who

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is found hanging from a tree in a backyard in

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an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi. This was last week.

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Her body was found August third. And the one thing

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that is a little different, the police department says there's

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an active and ongoing investigation. Usually when they find black

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people hanging from trees, they hurriedly say it was suicide.

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They did not do that this time, which is notable.

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Her mom doesn't believe it was suicide. Most of us

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never believe that it's suicide when black people are hung

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from trees, because well, the history of America. They did

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arrest this guy, well, they didn't arrest They questioned the guy.

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They didn't arrest him. They questioned a guy, Terence Anderson.

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They said he's a person of interest. He is He

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was her baby daddy. Apparently, according to his brother, they

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have a five year old together and that child lived

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with him. But they have not named him as a suspect,

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and there is an ongoing investigation. So that part is good.

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And within the past few months there have been several

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black people found hanging in Mississippi. I think it's four,

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it might be three, but this latest one Taser fortune

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is getting a little bit more conversation, which is good

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and hopefully it makes us say, what's going on in Mississippi?

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What is going on in Mississippi. Mississippi is where one

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year old baby Cohen was shot by police, and this

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is obviously a part of their history, part of the

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history of the Deep South, Mississippi in particular, but we

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don't know much about police are keeping tight lipped on

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her death. But now remember, within the past year, Trey Reid,

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a twenty one year old student at Delta State University,

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was found hanging from a tree. As well, there is

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a hanging of an unhoused white man in Vicksburg, and

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those two have both been ruled suicides. But the other

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thing that's casting a shadow over Mississippi right now is

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Nolan Wells, and I do have some updates on that.

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It's hard to keep track of all of it, but

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it's hard not to look at Mississippi's pass I understand

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why Nolan Well's mom is trying to say, hey, I

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didn't say. I'm not trying to say this death was

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possibly racially motivated. She's just saying she wants to know

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what happened, but she's being vilified for supposedly racializing this.

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We'll have add more on that, you know, I will

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tracking this. Let's go to Ron calling us from Richmond.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ron, Good morning, my bay here with your homegirl.

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How you feeling.

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Speaker 1: I'm blessed. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm blessed. You was just thankful to be here so much,

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with so much madness going on in the world right now,

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still dealing with mister Orange over here in this White

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House and all this other madness. But I'm just thankful

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to be here. I was so glad she was able

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to get that week off, get you some rest in.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely got to go traveling. Got to see what it's

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like to be in a country with no military. That

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was wild.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I heard that. That's the business. Oh yeah, did

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you did you have to cancel your trip to uh

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to South Africa, to South Africa this year? Did you?

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Speaker 1: It was actually meant to be East Africa. It was well,

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actually no, it's Southern Africa, You're right, not the country

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of South Africa. Zambia and Botswana. Yes, we did. We

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canceled because of the Ebola crisis. It's still ongoing. We

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wanted to go desperately, but we don't want to die,

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so we had to And because Trump has defunded, you know,

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all the medical aid on the motherland, it was harder

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for them to get that disease contained, so we had

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to cancel.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's what's up. Yeah, I'm watching you on my

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TV right now. I got tape delay, so but you're

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still kicking those shout outs to all the folks out

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there watching my girl worldwide. All my Bay people, may

622
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:51,159
y'all support the homie dominate the premium, all my frisk

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old people, y'all tune in, go to YouTube, all that

624
00:38:53,679 --> 00:38:57,280
good stuff. Indeed support Mark good. Yeah, I'm gonna shout

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you out every chance I get. You know how we

626
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do it up here. You know how we do it

627
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up here in the Bay. So I got you. Don't

628
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even trill and shout out to miuth Clated, shout out

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to Miles Cleerbated that birthday yesterday, man, Happy birthday again. Brother.

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I know you got got your party. Yell on the turnative.

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So I'm gonna stop yapping. I'm glad you're back. I

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miss you that whole week I was having withdrawal. I

633
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,159
tuned in that money, like, wait a minute, what this

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00:39:22,199 --> 00:39:26,559
cat doing here? I should have known. I should have

635
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known you took that break.

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Speaker 1: So that cat for holding it down. Uh, And thank you, Aron,

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Appreciate the support, Appreciate the love and reminding the Bay area.

638
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We're still doing our thing. We're still doing our thing. Man.

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I was just updating on since you brought up the

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Africa trip, two thousand people have died so far miles

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in that Ebola outbreak. That's a lot of folks. It's

642
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a lot of folks and it's still going on. So

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you know, your safety, the safety of our beloved KBLA

644
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,000
delegation and our own safety has to be the top priority.

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And praying for those folks because that is that outbreak

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is still going. They do not have a cure for

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this strain. Scientists start trying to figure it out and

648
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it's a small world. After also pray for Congo, Democratic

649
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Republic of Congo where they are dealing with that four

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thousand cases, two thousand deaths. Hopefully the world will come

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to its census shortly we're talking negotiation. Looking forward to

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this conversation, We've got a world renowned expert and author,

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Mari Taharapor joins us next on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty