Speaker 1: And I'm so happy to have a little something something
Speaker 1: different for you. On this wealth Building Wednesday, we like
Speaker 1: to shine a spotlight on all different kinds of businesses
Speaker 1: and opportunities for business. Today we are spotlighting a dance teacher,
Speaker 1: a spreader of the culture, a provider of joy. Cali Kara, Welcome, Hi,
Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. So I know that your your business,
Speaker 1: if you will, is line dancing, But tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about yourself. I don't I didn't get too
Speaker 1: much info on you. Are you a professional dancer? Like,
Speaker 1: how did you come to this line of work?
Speaker 2: Sure? Well, first of all, good morning, Masominic, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2: My name is Cali. I'm from Los Angeles, California. I'm
Speaker 2: not a professional, but all my life I love to
Speaker 2: dance and I recently lost over one hundred pounds and
Speaker 2: that was with hard work, heavy on my mental work,
Speaker 2: a lot my mental health, and I realized I really
Speaker 2: like to line dance, and so I figured, why not
Speaker 2: not only teach easy, beginner friendly dances, but also incorporate
Speaker 2: to help people's mental health. So that's kind of how
Speaker 2: I came up with it. The name of the business
Speaker 2: is Rhythm and Release because it takes all the rhythm
Speaker 2: to learn the dance. I'm hoping. I'm hoping people can
Speaker 2: come to my class and you know, whatever they're going through,
Speaker 2: they can release it within that hour. And I also
Speaker 2: like to work with mental health based nonprofits to teach
Speaker 2: some dancing as well.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a nice combination, you know. So you team
Speaker 1: up with organizations that are helping people with their mental wellbeing,
Speaker 1: and then you add the dance component to help them
Speaker 1: find some joy and release in that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yes, So okay, let's just back up a little bit here.
Speaker 1: You said you've lost one hundred pounds. There as an
Speaker 1: article I think it was in La Times who talks
Speaker 1: about how right now when I think because of the
Speaker 1: GLP ones and stuff that people are real judge and
Speaker 1: they don't trust people who lose weight or whatever? Did that?
Speaker 1: Did that? Did that impact you? And also being in
Speaker 1: the dance space, which of course can can be pretty
Speaker 1: judgey too, although I imagine line dancing is not as
Speaker 1: bad as ballet. You know, in this environment, like the
Speaker 1: way everyone is moving right now, was it hard harder
Speaker 1: for you to to lose that weight?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be completely transparent. Some of my success was
Speaker 2: due to a GOP one. I was on it for
Speaker 2: about six months, but I didn't like the way it
Speaker 2: made my body feel personally. So I just really learned
Speaker 2: to keep a better habit and to stay active and dancing,
Speaker 2: not only line dancing, but dancing with a lot of
Speaker 2: my physical activity, and I kind of got into the
Speaker 2: line dancing and it just made me feel really good.
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, Kelly, I don't judge people for
Speaker 1: taking g LP. Once people got to do it, they
Speaker 1: gotta do. It's your body, you do with what you want.
Speaker 1: But I do think that if you use them to
Speaker 1: drop some of that weight and you've been able to
Speaker 1: keep it off, you're doing you're doing something pretty heroic
Speaker 1: because a lot of people have had trouble keeping it
Speaker 1: off when they when they you know, cycle off of
Speaker 1: them and they're you know, they're not liking some of
Speaker 1: the side effects like you didn't. Then they cycle off
Speaker 1: and they struggle. So you you, you know, congrats to
Speaker 1: you whatever you're doing. If you feel happy, I feel
Speaker 1: happy for you. But with the with your line dancing,
Speaker 1: I mean you brought that up because was that because
Speaker 1: that was part of your journey or is it because
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what size you are or is it
Speaker 1: because both.
Speaker 3: Both.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm definitely part of my journey. Like I said,
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, I always used to love
Speaker 2: to dance, so I definitely incorporated as a line dancing.
Speaker 2: That's my fun of exercise. I did home exercises, I
Speaker 2: didn't really go to the gym, but I danced a lot,
Speaker 2: like I made sure I moved my body, and when
Speaker 2: I got into the line dancing, I figured because a
Speaker 2: lot of it is repetitive, so it's kind of like
Speaker 2: doing the workout over and over again. And then also
Speaker 2: I would it's a whole community of line dancing, and
Speaker 2: I would realize people would come to me because I
Speaker 2: didn't know the line dancers and they would want to learn.
Speaker 2: So it kind of like popped in my mind, and
Speaker 2: you know, everybody was happy and smiling at the end
Speaker 2: of it. So I thought about, why not, you know,
Speaker 2: share the gifts God gave me and teach other people.
Speaker 2: And that's why I keep it beginning friendly because I
Speaker 2: don't want people to be stressed out or worried about
Speaker 2: it when they come to class. I wanted to go,
Speaker 2: you know, pretty smoothly for them.
Speaker 1: I love that because that's how a lot of small
Speaker 1: businesses start. It's something we do that everyone bugs us
Speaker 1: to help them with or do more or make some
Speaker 1: of whatever. So many businesses start that way. Sounds like
Speaker 1: you had a gift and you know, and and it's
Speaker 1: an urgent need. Because my understanding is that if you
Speaker 1: don't know the line dances, you can have your black
Speaker 1: card revoked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a running joke for sure. People are like,
Speaker 2: you don't know this dance. I'm not gonna lie. Some
Speaker 2: of the harder ones I am still learning, but the
Speaker 2: easier ones, you know, it's it's like I said, it's
Speaker 2: a lot of fun, but it is. It gets a
Speaker 2: little competitive when it comes to the harder ones, and
Speaker 2: you know, it's a challenge. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it's just a fun thing to pick up
Speaker 2: and a great thing to learn.
Speaker 1: So how do we support your business? And how do
Speaker 1: we you know, shake our booties?
Speaker 2: Yes, so you guys can follow me on Instagram. It's
Speaker 2: rhythm So it's r H Y T H M and
Speaker 2: and then release R E L E A S the
Speaker 2: number three and I post my classes. I have them
Speaker 2: once a month. I have a class coming it's on
Speaker 2: the twenty second at Vans Park at eleven am. My
Speaker 2: classes are only five dollars. It's very affordable. That's out
Speaker 2: of parks. When people have kids, they can bring their
Speaker 2: kids and you know, we can we watch the kids.
Speaker 2: We're in iView of the kids. If that's just a
Speaker 2: worry for a person, but yeah, I post them on
Speaker 2: my Instagram or if I'm ever doing any community events,
Speaker 2: I post that on my page as well. So if
Speaker 2: people want to follow me, they can feel free to
Speaker 2: shoot me a follow and keep up with media Instagram
Speaker 2: and I also have a registration link in my buyout.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's all happening on Instagram. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: many thriving black businesses are happening on Instagram and other
Speaker 1: businesses too. A lot of folks making making money there.
Speaker 1: But your class is free.
Speaker 2: It's so it's five dollars, but it's not like a demand.
Speaker 2: I know, you know people sometimes five dollars it's hard
Speaker 2: to come with. So if people can show up, then
Speaker 2: you know, I still would encourage them to show up
Speaker 2: even if they don't have five dollars.
Speaker 1: So no one turned away. But five bucks if you
Speaker 1: have it. But that's very affordable. And I suppose if
Speaker 1: there's a nonprofit. We have lots of nonprofits that listen
Speaker 1: that want to do do something different around the mental
Speaker 1: health space, they would reach out to you via Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yes, via Instagram is the best way. I can also
Speaker 2: give out my personal page if they want to reach
Speaker 2: me there. It's C A L three I's underscore KA
Speaker 2: R three a's. I hope they call that.
Speaker 1: Three a's Okay, a lot of a's, a lot of a's.
Speaker 1: But Rhythman releases the name of the business. If I'm
Speaker 1: a nonprofit and I reach out to you, and what
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things you're gonna do with me?
Speaker 1: What kinds of like collabs would we do?
Speaker 2: Yes, I definitely I offer not only do I offer
Speaker 2: a variation of beginner front of the line dance hits.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I love to work with mental health,
Speaker 2: but I'm open to work with anybody. Just encouragement. I
Speaker 2: share my story of the importance of keeping your mental
Speaker 2: health in check. You know, if you need support, getting
Speaker 2: the support, arapey or whatever it looks like, having a
Speaker 2: healthy community and keep your body moving because it does
Speaker 2: great things for your mind as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, well said, well said, Okay, so Vans Park we're
Speaker 1: having we're having a dance opportunity. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 1: an opportunity. That's Saturday. That's at eleven eleven am.
Speaker 2: On the twenty second, Yes, eleven am on the twenty second, right.
Speaker 1: So it's not this Saturday, it's a week from Saturday.
Speaker 1: At the time at eleven am. How long will it
Speaker 1: go for It's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be an hour. It might go over, you know,
Speaker 2: if we people need to learn little more, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Women if they I dedicate my Saturdays when I have
Speaker 2: a class to the whole day if it goes that way,
Speaker 2: but it's usually typically an hour.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that sounds like a lot of fun too.
Speaker 1: So and all levels welcome a super beginner to a super.
Speaker 2: Experience, you know, if you know all the line dances,
Speaker 2: but you just want to get out and move your
Speaker 2: body and you know, keep it simple. Any and everybody
Speaker 2: gets welcome.
Speaker 1: What's the most popular one right now?
Speaker 2: I would say the most boots on the ground, still
Speaker 2: still boots on the ground. Everybody loves that fan pop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's the fan Well, so, I mean it
Speaker 1: sounds like disguise the limit for you. And I know
Speaker 1: that line dancing is incredibly popular. So if folks want
Speaker 1: to follow, how else can we support your business? What
Speaker 1: what can we do to help you thrive?
Speaker 2: Cali car come on to the class. Come check out
Speaker 2: the class. If you're a nonprofit looking for fun things
Speaker 2: to do, any community work. I love working with my
Speaker 2: community at the in south central LA. So I love
Speaker 2: breaking things to the community and just getting down there
Speaker 2: and and just being with my people. So if anybody
Speaker 2: wants to work with me, want to collab, or you
Speaker 2: just want to come check out a class, please do
Speaker 2: you are more than welcome. That's the best way to support.
Speaker 2: Or if you follow me on Instagram and you see
Speaker 2: my post, share it to any and everybody.
Speaker 1: And that's at Rhythm and Release three everything spelled out
Speaker 1: except the number three right, yes' Rhythm and Release three.
Speaker 1: And what a great way to you know, build community,
Speaker 1: build a business and help us get a little healthier
Speaker 1: up in here. Yes, it's nice to meet you, Cali Kara.
Speaker 1: Best of luck to you and may you build enormous wealth.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. I appreciate this. Just starting
Speaker 2: this business, I've gotten so far already and I just
Speaker 2: give glory to God that he's making us happen and
Speaker 2: he's opening doors. So I appreciate you so so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you as well, and one day I may
Speaker 1: just pop up somewhere, you know, come pop up somewhere
Speaker 1: with you, my fans.
Speaker 2: I would love to have you. You would have a great time.
Speaker 2: My comment.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a feeling that I absolutely would.
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Speaker 1: I'm Dominique Daprima and you know where you are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know a recent poll I'm struggling to find
Speaker 1: the full information here, but this is was in Politico
Speaker 1: shows that this is a poll that was commissioned by
Speaker 1: the mayor's supporters. Nevertheless, it shows that she is leading
Speaker 1: by thirty seven percentage points to thirty three over Nithia Raman.
Speaker 1: And it's according to this article, if you count only
Speaker 1: you count undecided voters who are leaning toward one candidate
Speaker 1: or another but haven't fully made up their mind, then
Speaker 1: that advantage goes to forty one percent to thirty five,
Speaker 1: which would be a significant lead even though it's still
Speaker 1: considered I would consider it a very tight race. That's
Speaker 1: twelve hundred likely voters and the margin vera is around
Speaker 1: three percent, so that means even in the smaller lead,
Speaker 1: it's still a lead. This is from July twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty second through the twenty eighth, which was which was
Speaker 1: a tough time for LA. I mean, we're dealing with
Speaker 1: the fire and boil heights and the pull the story
Speaker 1: about the unhoused and jump in the number of unhoused,
Speaker 1: which actually turns out, even according to the La Times,
Speaker 1: that the methodology is faulty, so that jump, yes, it
Speaker 1: did occur, but may not have been as pronounced. Likely
Speaker 1: was not as pronounced as they claimed it was, because
Speaker 1: they have this weird system where they have certain beds
Speaker 1: for homeless people that they count in alternate years. The snapshot,
Speaker 1: as they call it, of the unhouse. They call it
Speaker 1: snapshot because it's a look from one day, has been
Speaker 1: notoriously unreliable anyway, because we really don't know how to
Speaker 1: count the unhoused. And I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: system somewhere in the world that's better. I haven't looked
Speaker 1: into it, but I have read enough over the years
Speaker 1: to know that this is relatively un reliable. However, we
Speaker 1: have to figure we have to have some sense of it,
Speaker 1: and it's what they do. They literally go ten to
Speaker 1: tempt look who's inside, or try to calculate how many
Speaker 1: people are inside, and then estimate how many people are
Speaker 1: living on the streets. We know it's a lot, we
Speaker 1: know there's way too many. But we do know that
Speaker 1: the trend line has been going down under Mayor Karen
Speaker 1: Bassett's the first time it's gone down under any mayor
Speaker 1: in recent history, and it's going down at a time
Speaker 1: when the resident the administration in Washington is defunding our
Speaker 1: medicacal right, defunding food stamps and other safety net programs.
Speaker 1: So there's pressure coming from Washington in the form of
Speaker 1: reduced resources that would would lead to more unhoused people
Speaker 1: on the streets. You cannot count or even talk about
Speaker 1: the state of unhoused folks of homelessness in la or
Speaker 1: any other American city right now, especially a blue state city,
Speaker 1: without counting in the impact of the oligarchic, authoritarian, anti black,
Speaker 1: anti brown, anti working class, anti poor, anti middle class,
Speaker 1: if you really want to get down to it, administration
Speaker 1: that we have right so, if nobody was doing anything,
Speaker 1: if we didn't have an executive, a chief executive of
Speaker 1: our city who was effective against homelessness, what we would
Speaker 1: see right now is a huge jump. Because the work
Speaker 1: that's being done and the moves that are being made
Speaker 1: to counter act the defunding of services and safety nets
Speaker 1: from Washington is what's keeping the floodgates from opening up
Speaker 1: even wider, and that has to be understood in order
Speaker 1: to have an accurate picture of what's happening in our city,
Speaker 1: really any city in America right now, because houselessness is
Speaker 1: no longer, if it ever was a West Coast or
Speaker 1: in La or a California problem. It's growing in every city.
Speaker 1: Why because we've allowed housing to be a commodity rather
Speaker 1: than a human right. You're letting the big corporations and
Speaker 1: the stock market f boys play with our dwellings the
Speaker 1: way you would gamble with your earnings in a slot
Speaker 1: machine in Vegas. And that ain't it. You know, I
Speaker 1: know they're trying to privatize schools, so we'll get to
Speaker 1: that point where we're you know, we could get to
Speaker 1: that point with schools right now. We have a public option, right,
Speaker 1: we have a public option. We don't have a public
Speaker 1: option for healthcare. We've got Obamacare, which still, even though
Speaker 1: it helped a lot of people, still keeps the power
Speaker 1: in the hands of the corporations, in this case, insurance companies.
Speaker 1: We don't have a public option for banking. It's one
Speaker 1: of the missed opportunities I think one of the most
Speaker 1: glaring missed opportunities of the Bush crash, the GOP crash
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight, the Great Recession. We should
Speaker 1: have come out of that with a public option for banking,
Speaker 1: but we don't have it. We don't have medicare for all.
Speaker 1: We do have a public option for schools, and we
Speaker 1: need to guard that. We do have a public option
Speaker 1: for fire departments, and we need to guard that against privatization.
Speaker 1: We do not have a public option for housing. We
Speaker 1: don't have social housing. We have housing projects in some
Speaker 1: cities for the very poor, but we don't have social
Speaker 1: housing for elders, for the working class, for the working poor,
Speaker 1: for the unemployed, to keep people off the streets. In fact,
Speaker 1: we've done just the opposite. We've allowed housing to become
Speaker 1: more and more just another item to buy, sell, and
Speaker 1: trade on the stock market instead of looking at the
Speaker 1: human impact. I mean, the reason that our utilities, water
Speaker 1: and power are public and private, and as we see,
Speaker 1: that still doesn't protect us from the Southern California Edison's
Speaker 1: of the pg andes of the world. But the reason
Speaker 1: they're public and private they're considered public utilities is because
Speaker 1: it's essential. If you fully privatize water or power, people
Speaker 1: are going to freeze and they're going to die a thirst.
Speaker 1: And that's the situation that we have in housing now. Right,
Speaker 1: we've allowed it to become privatized, we've allowed it to
Speaker 1: become bicell trade. Absolutely, we would not be in as
Speaker 1: good a position we are right now in the city
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, Left right, progressive, Republican, blue, red blood, crip,
Speaker 1: whatever you got going on. If it wasn't for the
Speaker 1: counteractive measures that this mayor has been taking, this steady
Speaker 1: work that she's and on the flip side, how much
Speaker 1: more progress we would would we see if she didn't
Speaker 1: have to fight Washington just to keep people off the streets.
Speaker 1: These are things we need to really think about now.
Speaker 1: I know they're talking about dismantling LASA, you know, the
Speaker 1: LA Housing Organization because the county pulled their money out,
Speaker 1: but they still wanted boss folks around, and it's an
Speaker 1: agency and transition to put a mildly so what would
Speaker 1: we replace it with. I mean, there's big questions that
Speaker 1: have to be answered here, but it is clear that
Speaker 1: with the actions that have been taken in the past
Speaker 1: four years, we are weathering this storm of the resident
Speaker 1: of the White House much better than we otherwise would.
Speaker 1: Let us not forget that, I'm Dominique de Prima. We
Speaker 1: got news traffic in sports then more only right here.
Speaker 1: So much to cover today, and you know it's not
Speaker 1: been reported a bunch maybe because there won't be a
Speaker 1: final vote on it until August twenty fifth, but the
Speaker 1: City of Fort Worth has agreed to pay eleven point
Speaker 1: two five million to the family of a Tatiana Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Remember her. She was killed in her own home by
Speaker 1: police in twenty nineteen, and that money is meant to
Speaker 1: go into funds that are going for her nephews and
Speaker 1: other family members. And if you remember that case, it
Speaker 1: was terrifying. She did have one of her nephews there
Speaker 1: with her, it might have been too imagine how traumatized
Speaker 1: those children are. So the Fort Worth City Council will
Speaker 1: vote on that August twenty fifth, But it looks like
Speaker 1: the City of Fort Worth is finally finally moving forward
Speaker 1: with that settlement. I wanted to give you some updates
Speaker 1: on some of the other cases that I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm determined not to let us forget about. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that. There's there's more news in the Nolan Wells case.
Speaker 1: We haven't spent a lot of time talking about the
Speaker 1: young woman Tasia who was found hanging in Mississippi, hanging
Speaker 1: from a tree. There is more news. Her name is
Speaker 1: Tasia Fortune. There's more news coming out in the Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony case update. I will update you on that, and
Speaker 1: of course keeping our eyes on what's happening also in
Speaker 1: Mississippi with the story of baby Cohen, the one year
Speaker 1: old who was killed by police. There. Before we do that,
Speaker 1: let's go to Paul calling us from LA.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Paul, good one, Please some of you can
Speaker 4: hear me this time, Dominique, I do, oh, perfect, So
Speaker 4: I have put it. I called earlier just for the
Speaker 4: news on the Lakers now being sold again and flipped
Speaker 4: over to the Kushner family and Bob Iger.
Speaker 1: So Krishner family, that's bizarre. I didn't know that. That's bizarre.
Speaker 4: So so I want you to pay attention to what
Speaker 4: happened here. So the Walter in that group bought the
Speaker 4: dog the Lakers from, brought the Lakers from the Bus family.
Speaker 4: Then the Dodgers go to the White House, which I
Speaker 4: had presumed was going to be because right along there
Speaker 4: there was a federal case that was pulled against Walters
Speaker 4: with potentially with some funny money being used overall. Then
Speaker 4: not even a month later, from those reports, the Lakers
Speaker 4: are being sold to the Kushner family.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, well yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't, doesn't does
Speaker 1: the league have to approve that's it's not like football
Speaker 1: where the league has to approve it. They can just
Speaker 1: flip it like that because I know it takes a
Speaker 1: minute to buy like a football team or a baseball team,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's a process. I don't
Speaker 1: know that I've heard of it of a basketball of
Speaker 1: a team being flipped back quickly.
Speaker 4: So think about it. You're you're correct. Normally, you do
Speaker 4: your due diligence right, and you do background checks and
Speaker 4: everybody where they get their money. But we're living in
Speaker 4: a time like you've discussed the private equity, right, they
Speaker 4: got their guy in office. People are wondering, we're living
Speaker 4: in the Gilded age too. They're buying up all the media.
Speaker 4: They're consolidating all the media, they're buying up the sports
Speaker 4: teams at this point as a as a as a
Speaker 4: way to gravitate towards power overall. Yeah, and the idea
Speaker 4: that they got their guy. Steve Bennet said, a long
Speaker 4: time ago, we've been waiting for Trump because what Trump
Speaker 4: can do, he's a crown artist. He can sell you
Speaker 4: magic beings. Nothing he can say is ever two racists,
Speaker 4: nothing he can do ever bad enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or two sexist misogynists, anti disabled folks. I mean,
Speaker 1: I see this article on ESPN. That's confirming what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And they made two billion. That's a that's a quick
Speaker 1: two billion because they bought it for ten mom Mark
Speaker 1: Walter bought it for ten billion, the Lakers and sold
Speaker 1: it to Kushner and Igre for twelve billion. Over twelve billion,
Speaker 1: which you're saying is a record breaking price. So they
Speaker 1: made a fast, fast two billion right there. And then
Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting strange bedfellows. Bob Iger of course,
Speaker 1: you know, longtime Disney chief. And then Josh Kushner, who
Speaker 1: is a member Yeah, he is a member of the
Speaker 1: in Laws of the Residents LA LA.
Speaker 4: So the LA just understand that the Trumps owned the Lakers.
Speaker 4: I've been a Laker fan my whole life. My grandfather
Speaker 4: and my mom. My values and respect for my people
Speaker 4: mean way more than shooting a basketball. I will not
Speaker 4: support that team. This is me personally, as long as
Speaker 4: if this sale goes through, which more than likely it is,
Speaker 4: because look at what the guy that just bought the
Speaker 4: Portland Trailblazers are doing. This is just a consolidation of
Speaker 4: power overall wealth and everything that you're talking about, Dominique,
Speaker 4: is private equity gets in somewhere. They the largest costs
Speaker 4: for corporations is labor, work, right, it's the working class, right.
Speaker 4: So they're gonna cut from there and they're going to
Speaker 4: try to accumulate a much of the wealth as they
Speaker 4: can to the top of the payamid this.
Speaker 1: Is this is this is very fishy though. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you pointed this out, because he was just saying owning.
Speaker 1: He says, owning the Lakers has been one of the
Speaker 1: greatest owners of my life. But how long did he
Speaker 1: own them?
Speaker 4: Not not even what a full year?
Speaker 1: If that, it's been one of the greatest ownors of
Speaker 1: my life. But also I'm out, like what, he needs
Speaker 1: a pardon?
Speaker 4: He needs a pardon, Dominique pay attention to it.
Speaker 1: Followed the money funny though, because yeah, and so he
Speaker 1: bought it from the best family. Then he goes to
Speaker 1: the White House to celebrate the Dodgers because he owns
Speaker 1: the Sparks too. Walter the guy that's selling it to
Speaker 1: the Kushners, uh and the and and mister Iger. He
Speaker 1: owns the Dodgers. He owns the sparks, He owns the
Speaker 1: Professional Women's Hockey League, and racing teams and UH Club Chelsea.
Speaker 1: So you would think he's just collecting teams, but this
Speaker 1: one he spins off.
Speaker 4: But he's not. But the thing is, Dominique is not
Speaker 4: just him that's involved in these group of people. There
Speaker 4: are there's foreign money that's involved in it too, there's
Speaker 4: other private equity firms. He's just the face of it.
Speaker 4: He's just a face. This is just a representation of
Speaker 4: where everything is. Think about it, Well.
Speaker 1: Bob Biker, but Bob Biger, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: a face or not a face, but he was a
Speaker 1: CEO of Disney forever in a day. Just step down.
Speaker 1: So that's just like it's hard for me to believe
Speaker 1: that the Kushners and Iger would just be like symbolic
Speaker 1: owners with no strategic plan or corporate influence.
Speaker 4: And look at and look at how he stepped down
Speaker 4: and moved away. Everyone pay it. It's real simple, It's
Speaker 4: real simple. These people, there's a class of people that
Speaker 4: is accumulating as much of the wealth as they can.
Speaker 4: They don't want to pay taxes. You taught you discussed
Speaker 4: it earlier. With billionaires here. They don't believe their tax
Speaker 4: dollars should go towards schools, to roads in things of
Speaker 4: that nature. As a matter of fact, California is the
Speaker 4: fourth or fifth biggest economy in the world, right, they
Speaker 4: feel that your tax dollars needs to go towards their
Speaker 4: investments and reinvestments in which they are they are monetizing, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a whole mindset that we could
Speaker 1: do an entire show on because they rely on the
Speaker 1: human resources of this state to run their businesses. As employees,
Speaker 1: those people are educated through the schools that they benefit from.
Speaker 1: They drive on the roads that our tax dollars pay for.
Speaker 1: That is what they benefit from. They use more water,
Speaker 1: more power, more human and other resources than anyone else
Speaker 1: because they have bigger corporate footprints, because they have huge
Speaker 1: homes and huge businesses. So obviously, to anyone with common sense,
Speaker 1: they should be paying to maintain the systems that allow
Speaker 1: them to accumulate the wealth that they have. Instead, they
Speaker 1: want to defund them. And you know, I have a
Speaker 1: problem with that. But to your other point, Paul, you know,
Speaker 1: the the ESPN article does note that Walter is under
Speaker 1: federal investigation for tax fraud.
Speaker 4: So follow the money.
Speaker 1: I mean, Trump just got himself to preemptively pardon himself
Speaker 1: for all current and future IRS crimes, not whine. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the same deal that mister Walter uh thinks that
Speaker 1: he can get mister Mark Walter perhaps thinks he can
Speaker 1: get you know, forever immunity from IRS prosecution with this deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're speculating right now. We have no proof
Speaker 1: of that, but it certainly is an interesting coincidence.
Speaker 4: I'm allegedly gonna throw something else out here for y'all allegations, right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make sure I'm not. I'm not the station.
Speaker 4: They ain't dominique. This is allegedly some of my thoughts.
Speaker 1: I used an opinions expressed by Paul Lee or.
Speaker 4: They they they're, they're their their their unions are an
Speaker 4: issue for them. They want to break that stuff up
Speaker 4: to right because a functioning middle working class is it's
Speaker 4: not subservient for what they're trying to do. They have
Speaker 4: to destroy that overall, which in turn is it's not
Speaker 4: a race. They use culture, it's a class war. And
Speaker 4: until people understand what this is, where does tax dollars go?
Speaker 4: And who gets taxed. This goes back as far as Rag,
Speaker 4: as far as Reagan. If you want to argue Nixon,
Speaker 4: mag is nothing new.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree with that, Paul. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I do think that union breaking is not allegedly union
Speaker 1: busting is is clearly part of the MAGA agenda. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be that easy. If they're
Speaker 1: trying to break the players' unions at the NBA and
Speaker 1: the NFL, I don't think that's that easy. But who knows.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they, you know, overturned obs. I didn't
Speaker 1: think a lot of things. I didn't even think this
Speaker 1: dude would get elected or selected. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I have underestimated the idiocy of people time and time again.
Speaker 4: Skin because when they're able to use and this goes
Speaker 4: way back when people when they are able to use
Speaker 4: skin color as currency. Remember, after the Civil Rights Act
Speaker 4: was signed, the Democrats never won the white boat again.
Speaker 4: And why did that happen, even though FDR's new deal
Speaker 4: gave the benefits towards the working class of people and
Speaker 4: rebuilt the country from the depression that we were in.
Speaker 4: Why because they were able to divide and conquer what
Speaker 4: you're watching now in this country is it's a class
Speaker 4: war people. It's a reason ten of the eleven last
Speaker 4: recessions started under certain regimes and administrations.
Speaker 1: Just follow the money, follow the money. Indeed, it's always
Speaker 1: great to hear from you, Paul. And wow, that's a
Speaker 1: block Puster story that I definitely missed, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's got long tentacles, folks, and lots of suspicious, coincidental
Speaker 1: sort of implications there. Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
Speaker 1: That's the number Paul called. I encourage you to do
Speaker 1: the same. I'm Dominicq Depriema and this it's KBLA Talk
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty. Yes, indeed, we are for you. If you're
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Speaker 1: hop on the YouTube where we have lots and lots
Speaker 1: of conversation and information shared. All these updates I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. If I don't get to them today, I
Speaker 1: will get to them tomorrow. It's just it feels like
Speaker 1: a troubling time, particularly in Mississippi. But Mississippi can be
Speaker 1: a symbol right for the ongoing struggle for freedom for liberation,
Speaker 1: for safety, it's talking about. This case is the latest
Speaker 1: well I don't even know if it's the latest Asia fortune.
Speaker 1: It's what I'm talking about. This is a woman who
Speaker 1: is found hanging from a tree in a backyard in
Speaker 1: an abandoned home in Jackson, Mississippi. This was last week.
Speaker 1: Her body was found August third. And the one thing
Speaker 1: that is a little different, the police department says there's
Speaker 1: an active and ongoing investigation. Usually when they find black
Speaker 1: people hanging from trees, they hurriedly say it was suicide.
Speaker 1: They did not do that this time, which is notable.
Speaker 1: Her mom doesn't believe it was suicide. Most of us
Speaker 1: never believe that it's suicide when black people are hung
Speaker 1: from trees, because well, the history of America. They did
Speaker 1: arrest this guy, well, they didn't arrest They questioned the guy.
Speaker 1: They didn't arrest him. They questioned a guy, Terence Anderson.
Speaker 1: They said he's a person of interest. He is He
Speaker 1: was her baby daddy. Apparently, according to his brother, they
Speaker 1: have a five year old together and that child lived
Speaker 1: with him. But they have not named him as a suspect,
Speaker 1: and there is an ongoing investigation. So that part is good.
Speaker 1: And within the past few months there have been several
Speaker 1: black people found hanging in Mississippi. I think it's four,
Speaker 1: it might be three, but this latest one Taser fortune
Speaker 1: is getting a little bit more conversation, which is good
Speaker 1: and hopefully it makes us say, what's going on in Mississippi?
Speaker 1: What is going on in Mississippi. Mississippi is where one
Speaker 1: year old baby Cohen was shot by police, and this
Speaker 1: is obviously a part of their history, part of the
Speaker 1: history of the Deep South, Mississippi in particular, but we
Speaker 1: don't know much about police are keeping tight lipped on
Speaker 1: her death. But now remember, within the past year, Trey Reid,
Speaker 1: a twenty one year old student at Delta State University,
Speaker 1: was found hanging from a tree. As well, there is
Speaker 1: a hanging of an unhoused white man in Vicksburg, and
Speaker 1: those two have both been ruled suicides. But the other
Speaker 1: thing that's casting a shadow over Mississippi right now is
Speaker 1: Nolan Wells, and I do have some updates on that.
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep track of all of it, but
Speaker 1: it's hard not to look at Mississippi's pass I understand
Speaker 1: why Nolan Well's mom is trying to say, hey, I
Speaker 1: didn't say. I'm not trying to say this death was
Speaker 1: possibly racially motivated. She's just saying she wants to know
Speaker 1: what happened, but she's being vilified for supposedly racializing this.
Speaker 1: We'll have add more on that, you know, I will
Speaker 1: tracking this. Let's go to Ron calling us from Richmond.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ron, Good morning, my bay here with your homegirl.
Speaker 3: How you feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm blessed. You was just thankful to be here so much,
Speaker 3: with so much madness going on in the world right now,
Speaker 3: still dealing with mister Orange over here in this White
Speaker 3: House and all this other madness. But I'm just thankful
Speaker 3: to be here. I was so glad she was able
Speaker 3: to get that week off, get you some rest in.
Speaker 1: Absolutely got to go traveling. Got to see what it's
Speaker 1: like to be in a country with no military. That
Speaker 1: was wild.
Speaker 3: Wow, I heard that. That's the business. Oh yeah, did
Speaker 3: you did you have to cancel your trip to uh
Speaker 3: to South Africa, to South Africa this year? Did you?
Speaker 1: It was actually meant to be East Africa. It was well,
Speaker 1: actually no, it's Southern Africa, You're right, not the country
Speaker 1: of South Africa. Zambia and Botswana. Yes, we did. We
Speaker 1: canceled because of the Ebola crisis. It's still ongoing. We
Speaker 1: wanted to go desperately, but we don't want to die,
Speaker 1: so we had to And because Trump has defunded, you know,
Speaker 1: all the medical aid on the motherland, it was harder
Speaker 1: for them to get that disease contained, so we had
Speaker 1: to cancel.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what's up. Yeah, I'm watching you on my
Speaker 3: TV right now. I got tape delay, so but you're
Speaker 3: still kicking those shout outs to all the folks out
Speaker 3: there watching my girl worldwide. All my Bay people, may
Speaker 3: y'all support the homie dominate the premium, all my frisk
Speaker 3: old people, y'all tune in, go to YouTube, all that
Speaker 3: good stuff. Indeed support Mark good. Yeah, I'm gonna shout
Speaker 3: you out every chance I get. You know how we
Speaker 3: do it up here. You know how we do it
Speaker 3: up here in the Bay. So I got you. Don't
Speaker 3: even trill and shout out to miuth Clated, shout out
Speaker 3: to Miles Cleerbated that birthday yesterday, man, Happy birthday again. Brother.
Speaker 3: I know you got got your party. Yell on the turnative.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna stop yapping. I'm glad you're back. I
Speaker 3: miss you that whole week I was having withdrawal. I
Speaker 3: tuned in that money, like, wait a minute, what this
Speaker 3: cat doing here? I should have known. I should have
Speaker 3: known you took that break.
Speaker 1: So that cat for holding it down. Uh, And thank you, Aron,
Speaker 1: Appreciate the support, Appreciate the love and reminding the Bay area.
Speaker 1: We're still doing our thing. We're still doing our thing. Man.
Speaker 1: I was just updating on since you brought up the
Speaker 1: Africa trip, two thousand people have died so far miles
Speaker 1: in that Ebola outbreak. That's a lot of folks. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of folks and it's still going on. So
Speaker 1: you know, your safety, the safety of our beloved KBLA
Speaker 1: delegation and our own safety has to be the top priority.
Speaker 1: And praying for those folks because that is that outbreak
Speaker 1: is still going. They do not have a cure for
Speaker 1: this strain. Scientists start trying to figure it out and
Speaker 1: it's a small world. After also pray for Congo, Democratic
Speaker 1: Republic of Congo where they are dealing with that four
Speaker 1: thousand cases, two thousand deaths. Hopefully the world will come
Speaker 1: to its census shortly we're talking negotiation. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: this conversation, We've got a world renowned expert and author,
Speaker 1: Mari Taharapor joins us next on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty