Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: It's Andrew's last day today. And we started the show
Speaker 2: by talking about something that we neither one of us
Speaker 2: know anything about, which is horse racing. And the reason
Speaker 2: I know that Andrew doesn't know anything about it is
Speaker 2: because we were talking about it and he was saying,
Speaker 2: how come there can be all this pageantry and all
Speaker 2: this stuff for this race that's over so quickly and
Speaker 2: then boom the fever dream ends and everybody goes home. Well, apparently, Andrew,
Speaker 2: and I'm learning this from our talkback line. There there
Speaker 2: are other races and.
Speaker 3: Tompson, come on, now, you guys are way off. I mean,
Speaker 3: whoever's talking your friend there with the yeah?
Speaker 4: Whoever is talking yeah exactly, who ever's.
Speaker 3: Talking your friend there with the Oh, there's no halftime show,
Speaker 3: there's no pre races, and there's races all day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, and you're drinking and having a great time. You're betting,
Speaker 3: you know, and eating.
Speaker 4: Come on, thank you.
Speaker 5: I wish I'd known that they too, this friend of yours.
Speaker 5: They need to get them off this radio station, telling
Speaker 5: your luggy it's his last day. Whoever called in this
Speaker 5: is Eric who also wanted the disabuses of this notion
Speaker 5: that was only one race.
Speaker 6: Hey, Andrew re Mark, just hearing your guys talk about
Speaker 6: the Kentucky Derby, just so you know there are multiple races.
Speaker 4: Boy, well you're going to know this for next year,
Speaker 4: aren't you.
Speaker 6: Andrew gre There's racing all day, And in fact, there's
Speaker 6: a race that takes place after the Kentucky Derby. It's
Speaker 6: not the last one for the day. Each of those
Speaker 6: winners that runs into the Kentucky Derby have won multiple
Speaker 6: other races throughout the year and have come together because
Speaker 6: those are the best of the best.
Speaker 7: And of course it is the.
Speaker 6: Start of the Triple Crown which kicks off through the
Speaker 6: rest of the summer.
Speaker 4: That is so cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you Eric for calling in and setting us straight.
Speaker 5: You know, when I said, you know, I felt this
Speaker 5: was a safe space not doing this on Conway's show,
Speaker 5: I bit my tongue.
Speaker 2: I had no idea, I knew that I knew nothing.
Speaker 2: I said that I knew nothing about it, So at
Speaker 2: least I feel like that's my high ground. But it
Speaker 2: is true sometimes you just avoid this stuff that it
Speaker 2: gets into the culture, like it was all over TV
Speaker 2: and stuff. So somehow you feel like it's safe to
Speaker 2: comment on it, but then when you actually get into
Speaker 2: the specifics, you run aground, as we did.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 5: I do appreciate the KFI fans for keeping us in
Speaker 5: check though with it.
Speaker 4: Yes, the more you.
Speaker 2: Know, well done, so I promised you, and so I
Speaker 2: will get to it now. The President sat down with
Speaker 2: Kristin Welker from Meet the Press and talked about any
Speaker 2: number of things. One of the more controversial things. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the stuff that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has done and is doing is super controversial. But the
Speaker 2: controversial thing in this instance is the deep rotation of
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants and due process that might be owed them
Speaker 2: and constitutionally dictated due process. And here's how that came up.
Speaker 8: Your Secretary of State says, everyone who's here, citizens and
Speaker 8: non citizens deserve due process.
Speaker 7: Do you agree, mister? I don't know.
Speaker 9: I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
Speaker 7: Well, the Fifth Amendment, I don't know.
Speaker 9: It seems it might say that, But if you're talking
Speaker 9: about that, then we'd have to have a million or
Speaker 9: two million or three million trials. We have thousands of
Speaker 9: people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and
Speaker 9: some of the worst people on earth. But is some
Speaker 9: of the worst, most dangerous people on earth. And I
Speaker 9: was elected to get them the hell out of here,
Speaker 9: and the courts are holding me from doing it.
Speaker 8: But even given those numbers that you're talking about, don't
Speaker 8: you need.
Speaker 7: To uphold the Constitution of the United States as present?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant
Speaker 9: lawyers that work for me, and they are going to
Speaker 9: obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said
Speaker 9: is not what I heard. The Supreme Court said, they
Speaker 9: have a different interpretation.
Speaker 2: So he is, let's speak frankly, he is very much
Speaker 2: buoyed by the fact that Americans put him in office
Speaker 2: in part because of his strong stands toward immigration and
Speaker 2: an immigration problem that was clearly out of control. And
Speaker 2: so in service of that, he is doing things that
Speaker 2: do appear to fly in the face of the Constitution.
Speaker 2: I mean, essentially, no person is supposed to be deprived,
Speaker 2: as the Constitution says, of life, liberty, or property without
Speaker 2: due process of law. I mean, that's one of the
Speaker 2: things that's underpinned life here. It doesn't matter what the
Speaker 2: person's American citizen or not. And the other thing I
Speaker 2: would just quickly say is that those trials that he's
Speaker 2: talking about. You know, the immigration court moves very quickly.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been to traffic court. It's like traffic court, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's quick. It's not like a murder case, which goes
Speaker 2: on over weeks. Whether you've p prove this guy's part
Speaker 2: of MS thirteen or not, that's not the way it works.
Speaker 2: So this gets to be controversial. But I mentioned the
Speaker 2: first part because I do think he's got a lot
Speaker 2: of the American public who's sort of like, eh, whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, do whatever you got to do. So it's
Speaker 2: a real inflection moment for him.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I said right away that no one's coming back, and
Speaker 2: particularly this Garcia who is in the El Salvador in prison,
Speaker 2: he is not coming back. I don't care how many
Speaker 2: court orders there are. I believe that he's not coming back.
Speaker 2: And there are a couple of reasons. One I just stated,
Speaker 2: which is the public essentially is in the again in
Speaker 2: the main because I know there people feel very strongly
Speaker 2: about this and should feel very strong about him, and
Speaker 2: the guy was poor without due process. But there's also
Speaker 2: a portion of the population, and the big one, which is, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't care about this guy.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 2: He's gone probably better than he be gone with a
Speaker 2: core process, Without a court process, they'd probably get rid
Speaker 2: of him. And most of the public again who voted
Speaker 2: for Trump put him in office because of his immigration stance.
Speaker 2: But the bigger reason that he won't be coming back,
Speaker 2: and this, as I say, I think is staring us
Speaker 2: clearly in the face, is that he represents a mistake
Speaker 2: on the part of the administration. The administration has said
Speaker 2: we deported him by mistake. Yet there's no way to
Speaker 2: bring him back. Apparently not. They're not inclined to bring
Speaker 2: him back. They don't like to embrace mistakes. Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: as you know, certainly doesn't want to steer into a mistake.
Speaker 2: And so I would say, regardless of court order, that
Speaker 2: this he who's down in El Salvador. He was first
Speaker 2: in that super max facility. Now he's in a different place.
Speaker 2: He's not coming back. And this entire now, I don't
Speaker 2: know anything about him, I mean, beyond what we have
Speaker 2: all read. So this is not a question of him.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the process, how it will proceed
Speaker 2: in the future. I think may have been determined by
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court decision and by some of these other
Speaker 2: court decisions along the way. But what I'm saying is
Speaker 2: this one guy who's become a cause celeb. Remember, he's
Speaker 2: become a huge deal. That's another reason that Trump doesn't
Speaker 2: want him back. And again, from Trump's perspective, this guy
Speaker 2: is just a pain, he's a problem. Moving on. No,
Speaker 2: he's not coming back. You think Donald Trump wants that
Speaker 2: guy stepping off a plane to all the photographers in
Speaker 2: media showcasing the fact that he was mistakenly deported without
Speaker 2: due process. No, he doesn't want any of those things.
Speaker 2: And for that reason, I think I can state with
Speaker 2: confidence he won't be coming back.
Speaker 8: On tariffs, So small businesses say they are being hurt
Speaker 8: by the Chinese tariffs, and some could be forced to show.
Speaker 4: How many businesses have been helped.
Speaker 7: Are you looking at doing relief for small business?
Speaker 9: Why do you always mention that you know, you pick
Speaker 9: up a couple of little businesses. What about the car business?
Speaker 9: They're going to make a fortune because of the tariffs.
Speaker 9: Do you know that the union, the head of the union,
Speaker 9: who is no fan of mine Faine Sean Fain. I
Speaker 9: guess his name is right. He didn't endorse me the
Speaker 9: team suits did. A lot of people did, a lot
Speaker 9: of unions did, but he didn't. He couldn't stand me. Now,
Speaker 9: he was saying, Wow, what's Trump's done for the automobile?
Speaker 9: I can't believe it. I assume he's going to probably
Speaker 9: now say the next thing you can say, is I
Speaker 9: endorse this guy. He's the greatest I've ever seen. He
Speaker 9: can't believe it's happened. He said, We've been waiting forty
Speaker 9: years for somebody to do what Trump is doing, So
Speaker 9: why don't you mention the big car industry instead of
Speaker 9: mentioning somebody that's doing strollers.
Speaker 2: Well, I will get back to this when we come back,
Speaker 2: because I'm actually shopping for a car right now and
Speaker 2: I had a long conversation with a guy who owns
Speaker 2: a dealership here in southern California. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: when we come back. And more from Trump and his
Speaker 2: sit down with Christian Welker.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of talking Trump and his sit
Speaker 2: down with Christian Welker from Meet the Press, and they
Speaker 2: talked about tariffs at some length.
Speaker 9: You know, you pick up a couple of little businesses,
Speaker 9: what about the car business? They're going to make a
Speaker 9: fortune because of the terriffs. Do you know that the union?
Speaker 9: The head of the union, who is no fan of mine,
Speaker 9: Faine Sean Fain. I guess his name is right. He
Speaker 9: didn't endorse me. The team suits did a lot of
Speaker 9: people did, a lot of unions did, but he didn't.
Speaker 9: He couldn't stand me. Now, he was saying, Wow, what's
Speaker 9: Trump's done for the automobile? I can't believe it. I
Speaker 9: assume he's going to probably now say the next thing
Speaker 9: you can say, is I endorse this guy. He's the
Speaker 9: greatest I've ever seen. He can't believe it's happened, he said,
Speaker 9: We've been waiting forty years for somebody to do what
Speaker 9: Trump is doing. Why don't you mentioned the big car
Speaker 9: industry instead of mentioning somebody that's doing strollers?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm just asking you about small businesses.
Speaker 8: Are there any discussions about giving any relief to small businesses?
Speaker 7: They're not going to need it, okay? Are they're going
Speaker 7: to make so much money?
Speaker 9: Are these if you build your product here, remember there
Speaker 9: are no tariffs. If you build your product here.
Speaker 7: It's very easy.
Speaker 4: It's very simple. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The sad part, it really is sad for so many
Speaker 2: small businesses and the component parts and a lot of
Speaker 2: the things that involve everything from you know, crocheted blankets
Speaker 2: to automobiles involve component parts. You know, thread that comes
Speaker 2: from China or you know, beads that come from Vietnam,
Speaker 2: whatever it might be. And so those small businesses that
Speaker 2: are involved in so many things, the list is long
Speaker 2: that are affected negatively by these tariffs. I mean when
Speaker 2: I say negatively, I mean many of these small business
Speaker 2: people are having to close down. So it would be
Speaker 2: nice to see some kind of dispensation, some kind of way,
Speaker 2: some kind of relief for small business owners who are
Speaker 2: dramatically and negatively affected by these tariffs. There was mentioned
Speaker 2: in a conversation with Mayor Bass was communication with Donald Trump. Now,
Speaker 2: Mayor Bass has a tough hill to climb. I mean,
Speaker 2: you've got a huge, huge budget deficit in the city
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, and you know, it's a billion dollars
Speaker 2: shortfall almost and the mayor's taking a pay cut, and
Speaker 2: she's saying that the office staff are not taking their
Speaker 2: regularly scheduled cost of living adjustments, et cetera. And she
Speaker 2: apparently spoke also to Donald Trump and commented on communications
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 10: Have you talked to President Treffer? When was the last
Speaker 10: time you talked to President Trump about the needs of
Speaker 10: your city?
Speaker 11: Well, I will tell you that I'm in contact with
Speaker 11: representatives of the administration. But I talked to President Trump
Speaker 11: when he came out to LA and it was a
Speaker 11: few days after his inauguration, and just.
Speaker 1: A contact, okay.
Speaker 10: And the contact you have with the administration, w you
Speaker 10: just characterize them, the contact as constant ongoing. Do you
Speaker 10: have any trouble getting through to anybody?
Speaker 4: Is what I'm asking.
Speaker 11: No, I haven't, And you know, it definitely has benefited
Speaker 11: me served twelve years in Congress that I've seen a
Speaker 11: number of my former colleagues receive appointments in the administration,
Speaker 11: and so.
Speaker 7: It's not been constant.
Speaker 11: There's not been a need for it to be constant.
Speaker 11: But I've not had difficulty getting through, and so I'm
Speaker 11: just very optimistic. I mean, the effort is going along
Speaker 11: very well now.
Speaker 2: No, I mean the reality is that these fires have
Speaker 2: been devastating. The January fires have devastated both the California
Speaker 2: budget and has it really put the mayor in an
Speaker 2: extremely tough position. And it's not just rebuilding, it's all
Speaker 2: the issues around rebuilding, which we can talk about a
Speaker 2: little bit again. There's there's been theft, and there has
Speaker 2: been well there's been there have been impediments. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's been, you know, various obstacles to rebuilding. Right, You've
Speaker 2: got essentially huge areas of the Palisades and of the
Speaker 2: Eton Fire area in Altadena that are toxified because of
Speaker 2: the fires. So that was Mayor bass On communicating with
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. And now this was fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: The timeline on rebuilding and recovery in the fire affected areas.
Speaker 7: Well little over one hundred days.
Speaker 11: The rebuilding the recovery is going very very fast.
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, if you.
Speaker 11: Compared to other fires that have happened in our state,
Speaker 11: we are to six months to a year ahea of
Speaker 11: other locations. So at this point in time, the Army
Speaker 11: Corps of Engineers have cleared eleven hundred properties, So that's
Speaker 11: eleven hundred families that can start rebuilding now. A couple
Speaker 11: of weeks ago, I was at a property with the
Speaker 11: family and construction was already underway. So we had over
Speaker 11: six thousand properties destroyed in Palisades, and I will tell
Speaker 11: you within two months we had water and power back up.
Speaker 1: Because there are still.
Speaker 11: A couple of hundred people that live in Palisades whose
Speaker 11: homes were not impacted. So we've had other devastating fires
Speaker 11: in California.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're living in the Palisades
Speaker 2: or the Altadena area and your place was not affected,
Speaker 2: as the mayor has just mentioned, on the one hand,
Speaker 2: you're lucky. On the other hand, it's awful. I mean,
Speaker 2: your community is burned out, there is no one around,
Speaker 2: You've got construction vehicles everywhere right now, they're not even
Speaker 2: construction vehicles. You have this clearing of what I was
Speaker 2: mentioning toxic debris. It's a pretty rough ride for people,
Speaker 2: even those who survived the fires and their structures survived.
Speaker 11: A couple of one hundred people that live in Palisades
Speaker 11: whose homes were not impacted. So we've had other devastating
Speaker 11: fires in California, and so my comparison as to how
Speaker 11: we're doing is based on those other fires, and in
Speaker 11: many cases, we're six months to a year ahead of
Speaker 11: where other cities.
Speaker 2: Were, And there's been a lot of these executive actions
Speaker 2: on the part of the mayor to make it easier
Speaker 2: to address a lot of these issues. For example, the
Speaker 2: permitting process has been made much much easier. There's a
Speaker 2: self certification that's going on. It's focused primarily on the
Speaker 2: Palisades rebuilding, and they want to drastically reduce the time
Speaker 2: spent on permitting and so they're trying a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff aggressively to allow the rebuild to happen. They're also
Speaker 2: trying to use use AI to help support the review
Speaker 2: of project plans and building and zoning codes. So again,
Speaker 2: these are all things that are done to try to
Speaker 2: speed up the rebuild. But it's a hugely steep mountain
Speaker 2: to climb, so much to rebuild, so much to consider,
Speaker 2: And I haven't mentioned Malibu. Malibu and the Coastal Commission
Speaker 2: notoriously difficult when it comes to anything that you're going
Speaker 2: to do in Malibu. And now you're faced with what
Speaker 2: property owners are going to rebuild where, what bar you're
Speaker 2: going to make them clear. I mean, you've heard probably
Speaker 2: of the septic issues. All of Malibu's on septic, so
Speaker 2: they're all kinds of attendant issues to be faced by
Speaker 2: many of these homeowners and property owners as they rebuild.
Speaker 2: Not easy and Alta Dina. I don't need to tell you.
Speaker 2: They've been affected, probably most dramatically by in the aftermath
Speaker 2: burglaries and problems they've faced with looting of many of
Speaker 2: the locations in the Altadena area. And they're looking at
Speaker 2: a really tough rebuild there for commercial buildings and homes
Speaker 2: that were burned out in that fire. So we continue,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's one to be watched, and I'll be
Speaker 2: impressed if they can continue the pace they're on. I
Speaker 2: must say the clearing of all of these various properties
Speaker 2: and all that toxic waste has occurred at a really
Speaker 2: great rate. I mean they've really click clacked along, and
Speaker 2: that's a good sign. So when we come back, I
Speaker 2: have a mentee. It's scary to think that I'm a
Speaker 2: mentor to anyone but my mentee. And this is the
Speaker 2: power of being a mentor when you just ignore your
Speaker 2: mentee and just claim credit for their success. That is
Speaker 2: what I've done, and she joins us. She is a
Speaker 2: new podcast. She is a great product of the foster
Speaker 2: care system with a great personal story, but now she's
Speaker 2: broadened that and she has a podcast that is really exciting,
Speaker 2: and her life itself is a testament to a positive
Speaker 2: and the many positives that can exist in the foster
Speaker 2: care programs.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here on this Sunday afternoon. It is Foster
Speaker 2: Care Awareness Month. And I'm proud to say that my mentee,
Speaker 2: Nancy Mogi, is a product and a delightful successful product
Speaker 2: of the foster system. And she joins us. Now, Hi, Nancy, Hi.
Speaker 12: Mark Hyberbank.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard anybody say Hi, Burbank
Speaker 2: when they've been a guest here at KFI. I really
Speaker 2: emphasize what a success story you are because you came
Speaker 2: from such a rough time, man. I mean, your mom
Speaker 2: was a sex worker, in drugs and all of this stuff.
Speaker 2: And you were, as I say, in the foster program,
Speaker 2: fostered by this family, and you bonded with that family
Speaker 2: and they went on to full adoption with you some
Speaker 2: years after you had been with them.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I can't take all the credit. I must give credit
Speaker 13: to my family. It takes a village. There was an
Speaker 13: amazing community of friends, family, friends, cousins. That just came
Speaker 13: a part of it, seeing that I needed a home
Speaker 13: and a place to grow, and it led me here
Speaker 13: a cam I.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you've done really well. I mean, how old
Speaker 2: are you now?
Speaker 12: Twenty five quarter of a century.
Speaker 4: And I've met you when you were seventeen.
Speaker 12: I didn't even graduate high school yet.
Speaker 2: It was crazy because I was m seeing a foster
Speaker 2: of care related program and you came up to me afterward.
Speaker 2: And I still feel the way I felt then, which is,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can help anyway, but I'm
Speaker 2: happy to try to connect you or try to give
Speaker 2: you advice along the way or whatever. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of all I've done. Not much. You've really created a
Speaker 2: path for yourself. Tell me what you're up to now,
Speaker 2: and tell me about the new podcast.
Speaker 13: So you know, when I saw you standing up on
Speaker 13: that stage years ago, that showed me that there was
Speaker 13: a possibility for a career or just a pathway to
Speaker 13: stand in front of a stage, use a microphone and
Speaker 13: make an impact. Kept up with all the work you've
Speaker 13: done and I kept seeing that impact and you've actually
Speaker 13: been an amazing help.
Speaker 12: So you I got to give you.
Speaker 13: Credit while we're on air, and you know, I remember
Speaker 13: I've been telling her, I want to share my story.
Speaker 13: I want to do something. You kept telling me, Well,
Speaker 13: you got to make something yourself. You can't just you know,
Speaker 13: hop on other things. You got to create your own thing.
Speaker 13: And then I created The Future's Foster Podcast because I
Speaker 13: wanted to be a microphone for all the amazing people
Speaker 13: I've met in the system, so we could really create change.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because the system that you talk about is
Speaker 2: a controversial one. I mean, here's one sad story after
Speaker 2: another in the foster system. That's why I love your story.
Speaker 2: It's a story of triumph, it's a story of success.
Speaker 2: But tell me about the does the podcast then talk
Speaker 2: about the pitfalls, the soft spots as well as the
Speaker 2: success stories.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we don't hide away. We talk about it all.
Speaker 13: Each story is different, whether we're talking about a happy
Speaker 13: adoption story about foster youth to incarceration to you know,
Speaker 13: success story. There's so many different paths people can take
Speaker 13: into the system. And even if you were a part
Speaker 13: of the system, we've all experienced sadness, you know, close
Speaker 13: feelings of family, being detached from family, and we just
Speaker 13: really want to create a community for those people who
Speaker 13: feel at their lowest and just share the burden.
Speaker 12: A little bit.
Speaker 2: That's so lovely. You've got just such a great attitude too,
Speaker 2: and I think that comes across in your work and
Speaker 2: in your communication skills and the way you communicate.
Speaker 4: It's called the Future is Foster.
Speaker 12: Future is Foster. Everywhere you get podcasts.
Speaker 4: And where do you get your guests? Can you do
Speaker 4: you do people contact you?
Speaker 12: Or yeah, You're.
Speaker 13: More than welcome to email us Info at the futurest
Speaker 13: Foster or follow us on Instagram the futureist Foster podcast,
Speaker 13: slide in the DMS comment on a photo. We want
Speaker 13: to share as many stories as possible because every story
Speaker 13: is important.
Speaker 12: We just need more people.
Speaker 2: Info at the Future is Foster dot com dot com. Okay,
Speaker 2: so tell me about your life a little bit in
Speaker 2: the last because I just think the way you've reconstituted
Speaker 2: yourself with that family went out of as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: sort of the ashes of a childhood that had all
Speaker 2: kinds of problems. You did really rise with this family
Speaker 2: and went to school, had an education. You have a boyfriend,
Speaker 2: I think here, yeah, and that's its own. How long
Speaker 2: have you been with your boyfriend six years.
Speaker 12: Wow, almost six years.
Speaker 4: Just about isn't that great?
Speaker 12: We've grown together truly.
Speaker 13: And I met him when I was fourteen and I
Speaker 13: was in the system. I had just moved with my
Speaker 13: family to Riverside and you know, going to court here
Speaker 13: and there, and he really stuck by and watched me
Speaker 13: and helped me grow.
Speaker 12: And now we get to grow together.
Speaker 4: Wow, what a great story. And what does he do?
Speaker 12: He works at Google. He's an engineer, Okay, And everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 12: you're there and with a big job.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 13: I stuck through in the beginning when he was sending
Speaker 13: job applications.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, you've been there.
Speaker 12: I love a success story mark.
Speaker 4: Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2: So you guys, are you're forming a life together?
Speaker 4: You live together or what do you live together?
Speaker 12: We're forming a life together.
Speaker 13: We're figuring out how you do this whole adulting, living together,
Speaker 13: growing together. We're in such different fields and life goals.
Speaker 13: You know, I'm over he's over there coding today. I'm
Speaker 13: over here hopping on Kfi, like just trying to figure
Speaker 13: out how to mend and grow together.
Speaker 12: And best support each other.
Speaker 13: Because he didn't know about the foster care system, or
Speaker 13: had the same traumas as I did, so we're both
Speaker 13: learning and growing together.
Speaker 2: It's just so fascinating and exciting to kind of watch
Speaker 2: you in this world with a I guess you just
Speaker 2: have such a such positivity.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think you're you learn that.
Speaker 2: I mean, we all know that it's better to be
Speaker 2: positive than negative, Okay, I know that it's.
Speaker 13: Just as much energy, you know, to be positive than
Speaker 13: it does to be negative, So why not choose the
Speaker 13: brighter outcome?
Speaker 4: But you really live it.
Speaker 2: I mean, ever since I've met you, you just live
Speaker 2: the positivity, which is really cool. All right again, it's
Speaker 2: called The Future is Foster podcast. It's available anywhere podcasts
Speaker 2: are available, and if you're interested in connecting with Nancy,
Speaker 2: it's info at the Future is Foster dot com.
Speaker 12: That's it.
Speaker 2: It's not at It's not Info at the Future is
Speaker 2: Foster podcast. It's okay, The Future is Foster. Info at
Speaker 2: the Future is faust. So you're looking for potentially anywhere.
Speaker 13: Social workers, adoptees, prospective adoptive parents, people who know nothing
Speaker 13: about the foster care system and want to just come
Speaker 13: and talk about what they know. Really everything, no story
Speaker 13: isn't a good story.
Speaker 4: Are there other.
Speaker 2: Sort of high profile examples of of foster success stories
Speaker 2: like yourself?
Speaker 13: You know, I think each story is a little different.
Speaker 13: Not everyone gets to be adopted. Some people age out
Speaker 13: and then they go on to make a big impact.
Speaker 13: One of my biggest inspirations is Tiffany Hattis. She's a
Speaker 13: really big comedian and you might you might know her sure,
Speaker 13: and she has a really big success story because she
Speaker 13: took everything she went through and then created a nonprofit
Speaker 13: called the She Ready Foundation to inspire other people to
Speaker 13: grow through what they go through.
Speaker 2: I just I just love it. Congratulations on everything. Thanks
Speaker 2: mach and to follow you on Instagram. It's the Future
Speaker 2: is Foster?
Speaker 13: Yeah at the Future is Foster? Or at Nancy wanted Nancy?
Speaker 12: If you want to want to why not over here?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Nancy Molgi, Thank you so much. Love seeing
Speaker 2: you always you only occasionally and once in a while
Speaker 2: you'll fire up the batbeam and I'll be there for you.
Speaker 12: As soon as you got a microphone for me, I'll
Speaker 12: be there.
Speaker 2: Otherwise you're I think you're great on your own, So
Speaker 2: good luck with the Future is Foster podcast.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on.
Speaker 2: To man Mark Thompson here, and you know it's Andrew's
Speaker 2: last day. As I was mentioning at the top of
Speaker 2: the program, he's our stalwart news person a lot of weekend,
Speaker 2: a lot of weekday fill in, a lot of He's
Speaker 2: he can do it all. He's one of those valuable
Speaker 2: people at a broadcast facility where you can just you know,
Speaker 2: ask him to do anything and he can do it.
Speaker 2: But he's not going to be doing it here anymore.
Speaker 2: So we're, you know, kind of sad to see him leave.
Speaker 4: You make it so so sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, maybe I've underscored the sadness when it's
Speaker 2: actually a new beginning for you. Yes, that new chapter,
Speaker 2: a new chapter, right, But nonetheless, I'm I'm going to
Speaker 2: miss you. I also recall that you you're involved in
Speaker 2: voiceover work too, aren't you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I my voice will still be around,
Speaker 5: I just won't be in a news capacity right anytime soon.
Speaker 2: I remember we were sharing voiceover stories because yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: it's very hard to get a voiceover job. I audition, audition, audition,
Speaker 2: I still spend most of the time auditioning.
Speaker 4: You don't get anything.
Speaker 5: I know, Will Arnett has everyone's job.
Speaker 2: Now a lot of celebrities are involved in voiceovers. Now,
Speaker 2: there were always celebrity voices, but now on another level.
Speaker 2: I mean it was sort of viewed like doing commercials,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Was viewed as you know, a little bit
Speaker 2: in the old days, it's something you didn't want to do.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to be a pitch man
Speaker 2: for somebody, you know, And now there is no shame
Speaker 2: in it. I mean you just see celebrities crossing over
Speaker 2: in every way. Yeah, the biggest movie stars, the biggest
Speaker 2: TV stars, and then, as you say, somebody like Will Arnette,
Speaker 2: who has a lot of voiceover work already and you know,
Speaker 2: even more now with his rising profile as a result
Speaker 2: of you know, his podcast and TV work.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you're right, there's a lot, a lot being taken.
Speaker 5: By the way for you know, not a shameless plug
Speaker 5: for Mark Thompson, but I love following you on social media,
Speaker 5: Like I love tuning into your stories on Instagram because
Speaker 5: you voice over like wherever you are or whatever you're doing,
Speaker 5: and it is so fun to watch.
Speaker 4: Thank you man. I need to do more that it
Speaker 4: is it is.
Speaker 5: You do that stuff on the fly sometimes and I'm like,
Speaker 5: this is so funny.
Speaker 2: No, I just I think the scene is always better
Speaker 2: if there's a little narration around it. So yeah, you're saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram, I'm Mark Thompson TV. So it was
Speaker 2: actually Conway. Conway said to me. I walked in one
Speaker 2: day and I've been off Fox for a while, and
Speaker 2: Conway said, Thompson, when are you going to drop the TV?
Speaker 2: So I did, at his prompting drop the TV from Twitter.
Speaker 2: But I couldn't drop the TV from Instagram. It wasn't
Speaker 2: as easy. So oh, it's Chris Merrill coming up. Yeah, okay, yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: I will totally do a cross with Chris. I want
Speaker 2: to mention one other thing before I get to that,
Speaker 2: and that is that the in and out in Alhambra
Speaker 2: is now closed for construction. I know I should have
Speaker 2: asked you to sit down before I told you this,
Speaker 2: but in the San Gabriel Valley this affects a lot
Speaker 2: of people. The location on North Atlantic Boulevard in Alhambra
Speaker 2: temporarily closed because there are so many improvements to the
Speaker 2: parking lot and drive through lane that they can't keep
Speaker 2: the facility open. So if you go to In and Out,
Speaker 2: we're Atlantic and Garfield Cross before Huntington. It's a big
Speaker 2: intersection and a drive through line that is massive as
Speaker 2: our most around In and Out, be aware that that
Speaker 2: location will be closed. In and Out still a family
Speaker 2: owned and operated restaurant chain, four hundred restaurants across the
Speaker 2: West and completely owned by Again, the family wasn't the
Speaker 2: owner of In and Out.
Speaker 4: She's a lindsay, Yeah, she's a granddaughter.
Speaker 2: Did they do a reality show around her something? She's
Speaker 2: kind of a personality in her own right, as I recall.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was a documentary or just
Speaker 5: like a like a like a featured piece that they'd
Speaker 5: done on her. She's pretty grounded individual though. She's got
Speaker 5: like her grandparents, like work ethics. That's terrific values. That's
Speaker 5: really cool. It's it's probably not easy to stay grounded
Speaker 5: with all that. I was looking at. Who's Will Smith's son?
Speaker 5: The yeah Jaden, Yeah, and he was at the was
Speaker 5: a Paris fashion show or maybe it was the New
Speaker 5: York Fashion Fashion show and he was wearing this thing.
Speaker 4: You can find it. Just google the Jaden and.
Speaker 2: You'll see he's wearing this like house like thing on
Speaker 2: his head, and that got me sort of on a
Speaker 2: deep dive. And I watched him like going in and
Speaker 2: out of clubs and all the rest, and he's ultra
Speaker 2: stylized and ultra you know, he's got something.
Speaker 4: Equivalent to that. Very trendy. Yeah, yeah, thank you, very trendy.
Speaker 2: But I mean he puts the tea in trendy, okay,
Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, to be fair to him,
Speaker 2: it's got to be hard. You're growing up in this
Speaker 2: uber celebrity family with Jada Pinkett and Will Smith as
Speaker 2: your parents. You have a lot of money, a lot
Speaker 2: of privilege, a lot of access, and a lot of scrutiny.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are looking at him, and so
Speaker 2: maybe i'd start, you know, tweaking out like that. Also,
Speaker 2: it's starting to putting these like crazy outfits together or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always noticed that Hollywood kids are with it.
Speaker 5: Nepo babies is what they call them. It's always harder
Speaker 5: for them because they're always in the shadow.
Speaker 2: You know, Yes, it's true, but I mean you do
Speaker 2: have a fork in the road. You can try to
Speaker 2: remain kind of somewhat normal. A lot of those actors
Speaker 2: I think of like a Scott Eastwood or you know.
Speaker 5: I think Demi Moore and Bruce Willis's kids are pretty
Speaker 5: grounded individuals.
Speaker 2: It's got to be hard, and it does come from
Speaker 2: the parents on some level, right, I mean, the parents
Speaker 2: help keep you grounded. So I have a lot of
Speaker 2: friends who who done well, and they always, to a person,
Speaker 2: almost are pretty tough about laying a lot of money
Speaker 2: on their kids. They want their kids to remain grounded
Speaker 2: and to have careers and to have aspirations that they
Speaker 2: pursue that aren't just served up for them by their
Speaker 2: rich parents.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That seems like the right thing to It seems like
Speaker 2: the right strategy, the right blueprint to pursue.
Speaker 4: So is Chris is next? Is he around? I don't know?
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, oh hello.
Speaker 2: Yeah you are, as I've always said, uh, a true
Speaker 2: talent of broadcasting.
Speaker 4: So you're a yeah right? So what you very grounded?
Speaker 14: That's because my parents kept me away from the celebrity life.
Speaker 4: Chris marril is not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are truly your day's drive from celebrity, would
Speaker 2: you say, Chris.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, never never have ahead on you that that
Speaker 14: the nepotism advantages.
Speaker 2: What what What kind of business are your parents in?
Speaker 14: By the way, uh So, the joke is that my
Speaker 14: grandfather on my mother's side was an electrician. My grandfather
Speaker 14: on my father's side was an electrician. My father was
Speaker 14: an electrician. I'm a giant let down.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 2: But do you have some electrician type skills?
Speaker 14: I mean, I can do basic, basic stuff just And
Speaker 14: the reason I do this is I never worked in
Speaker 14: my dad's shop or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 14: I mean, when I was a little kid, I used
Speaker 14: to put price tags on things that would go on
Speaker 14: the shelves, you know, as far as I went. But
Speaker 14: what I found is that as I've gotten older in
Speaker 14: trying to bond with my father now, we spend a
Speaker 14: lot of time doing projects. And of course we always
Speaker 14: sort of fall back on electrical projects because that's his
Speaker 14: you know, that's.
Speaker 4: His sure, sure, you know.
Speaker 14: So, so I find that we do a lot of
Speaker 14: real basic wiring around the how any house I've had,
Speaker 14: you know, We'll we'll replace outlets, we'll run some new wires.
Speaker 14: If it gets into three way wiring, it gets a
Speaker 14: little beyond me and I have to have him jump
Speaker 14: in and help me out. We replace some circuit breakers,
Speaker 14: you know, just just basic stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's I mean, what's tricky about it.
Speaker 2: I've always felt electrician, you really need an electrician most
Speaker 2: of the time when you're dealing with anything that involves electricity,
Speaker 2: because it's dangerous.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's tricky.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And it's it's something that struck me a few
Speaker 14: times that at some point I'm not gonna have Dad
Speaker 14: around and I'm gonna have one of those projects come up,
Speaker 14: and uh, and I'm and I'm gonna wish I did. Sure,
Speaker 14: I'm gonna have to hire somebody, and it's it's gonna
Speaker 14: it's gonna be painful, not only because I'm gonna have
Speaker 14: to pay for it, but also it's it's just a
Speaker 14: reminder of the things that that he and I were
Speaker 14: able to do together.
Speaker 2: And then, well, don't move on. The guy's still alive,
Speaker 2: isn't he. I mean, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 14: He's funny because he's not that old. He's he's only
Speaker 14: seventy one, but he talks like he's ninety one. So
Speaker 14: he's got he's got these little every time he has
Speaker 14: a medical problem, he says, well, can't use my left
Speaker 14: arm anymore. And I said, this is true, he says,
Speaker 14: I can't use my left arm anymore. So I guess,
Speaker 14: I guess this year I won't be fishing. I'll just
Speaker 14: sit on the boat with you. And it's so funny. Again,
Speaker 14: he's only seventy one, and I go, Dad, I think
Speaker 14: we could probably do something about that. Let's talk to
Speaker 14: your neurologist. He goes, Now, it just happens when you
Speaker 14: get old. He just gives up.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 14: The time I was home, we did some we did
Speaker 14: some wiring, put in some put in some outlets, change
Speaker 14: out some breakers, and did that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: So that's great.
Speaker 14: I look forward to those I look forward to those things.
Speaker 14: I have to do all the work, but I don't care.
Speaker 14: That's terrific.
Speaker 4: That's how we love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those bonding type yeah experience is really cool. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: Chris Merrill is next. Chris, love listening to you. Always
Speaker 2: enjoy you, my friend. Thank you, and Andrew wishing wishing
Speaker 2: you the best. My friend. You are you know somebody
Speaker 2: who I've spent many an hour with on the radio,
Speaker 2: and I'm last looking forward yeah to to a lot
Speaker 2: more good news from your world in the years to come.
Speaker 4: So thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for everything you've done for us here at
Speaker 2: kf I. So Chris is next. K thank you, Matt,
Speaker 2: thank you everybody. Nicky would even get to you, We're
Speaker 2: supposed to, but we didn't. We'll get to know you
Speaker 2: on the air more in the future, Robin as well.
Speaker 2: I'll look forward to seeing and hearing everyone on Tuesday
Speaker 2: Night with Conway.
Speaker 1: Until then, KFI A M six forty on demand