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Speaker 4: It is Saturdays with Tiffany. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 4: The city, the city definitely has its moments right as
Speaker 4: you look outside.
Speaker 2: We had stormy weather this morning.
Speaker 4: I woke up and went, what it's April, But April showers, right,
Speaker 4: and then we do get our May flowers in the
Speaker 4: sense of we do see the brighter side of things.
Speaker 4: We can go from gray and gloomy to sunny and
Speaker 4: beautiful like it was earlier today.
Speaker 2: And you know, on behalf of everyone in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You know what we have to say now, now that's rain,
Speaker 2: what do we have to say? Yeah, we needed this,
Speaker 2: we needed this, we needed this, we needed.
Speaker 4: This, And I'm sure we'll hear that a few more
Speaker 4: times before the end of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: It reminds me the rain and then the aftermath with
Speaker 4: a beautiful sky that things can in fact get better,
Speaker 4: and we're going to actually start today's show off.
Speaker 2: We're going to start the show off.
Speaker 4: With something that has gotten better for a whole lot
Speaker 4: of kids in the Palisades area. We're talking about Palisades
Speaker 4: High School. Specifically, they went back to school for the
Speaker 4: first time since those January fires practically destroyed their campus,
Speaker 4: and they didn't go back to Palisades original site. Of course,
Speaker 4: we now know that that was practically decimated and again
Speaker 4: the forecast for when it will be rebuilt is showing
Speaker 4: a multi year project. But they were able, these students
Speaker 4: to come back together at their new repurposed building, and
Speaker 4: that building is the old Seers Building in downtown Santa Monica,
Speaker 4: and this now ends their very first week back at
Speaker 4: that building. And these kids have been through a hell
Speaker 4: of a lot, a hell of a lot, but it's
Speaker 4: good news after a tough start to the year. And
Speaker 4: we have one of those students on tonight with us.
Speaker 2: Her name is Jean Haney.
Speaker 4: She's a senior and the daughter of my buddy Marvin,
Speaker 4: and she is here. She's going to talk to us
Speaker 4: about what Palisades students like herself have gone through and
Speaker 4: what this first week back has been like, because can
Speaker 4: you imagine she was a senior, she's a senior now
Speaker 4: she's spent the last few months doing remote learning. And
Speaker 4: then you think about these kids and what they've dealt
Speaker 4: with the last five years since the COVID closures. These
Speaker 4: are the students who had remote learning be a cornerstone
Speaker 4: of their education of their entire school year from twenty
Speaker 4: twenty to about twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: In all honesty, so this is a lot. This is a.
Speaker 4: Lot, and they're getting a restart. We're going to talk
Speaker 4: to Jeane just in a moment.
Speaker 2: I think she is. She ready for US Raoul. She's
Speaker 2: on Geen Hani.
Speaker 4: Basketball player extraordinaire, senior at Palisades High School and all
Speaker 4: around cool kid.
Speaker 2: Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome.
Speaker 4: The last time I saw you, and you might not
Speaker 4: remember this, you were probably eleven or twelve, and I
Speaker 4: got to see you then and I saw a bright student,
Speaker 4: really really sweet young lady. And now you are a
Speaker 4: senior embarking on the final push, the final stretch of
Speaker 4: your senior year. Congrats on practically being finished with high school.
Speaker 5: Gene, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 4: As we said, it's been an unprecedented year. It's a
Speaker 4: term that we've used far too much in the last
Speaker 4: five years. Unprecedented because these things keep happening that are
Speaker 4: out of the norm. After dealing with those COVID closures
Speaker 4: when you were in middle school, and now this tell
Speaker 4: me about those first few days in January with the fire.
Speaker 2: How did you find out?
Speaker 6: Oh, so I found out about the fires. Actually, even
Speaker 6: though we were on winter break. I was at school
Speaker 6: when the fires started because we had basketball practice, and
Speaker 6: I remember driving up to Med School and just seeing
Speaker 6: this big cloud of smoggers humongous. I was in the
Speaker 6: car with all of my teammates and we get out
Speaker 6: the car and they're telling us, Oh, it's fine, like
Speaker 6: you can just go to the gym. So we go
Speaker 6: to the gym, and then like practice hadn't even started.
Speaker 6: We were just putting on our basketwatches, and then they
Speaker 6: tell us you have to evacuate the fires. They're getting
Speaker 6: too close, and they're making sure everyone has rides and
Speaker 6: making sure everyone is.
Speaker 5: Out of the palace. Stage is crazy.
Speaker 4: Wow, It definitely sounds chaotic, and there's been lots of
Speaker 4: stories about what people experienced, but we haven't heard very
Speaker 4: many stories from students like yourself.
Speaker 2: And you're on the basketball team.
Speaker 4: You got some skills, my friend, And how did this
Speaker 4: affect your team with practices and games?
Speaker 6: Well, our games were affected. We honestly couldn't have any
Speaker 6: home games. So all the other schools we just played
Speaker 6: at their gymnasiums and they were honestly really kind giving
Speaker 6: us backpack school supplies. All the schools that we played
Speaker 6: were very helpful, especially Fairfax and UNI.
Speaker 5: They were all very kind letting us u.
Speaker 6: Their gyms practices we had at Brentwood. Brentwood Basketball has
Speaker 6: been so helpful, letting us practice their joint practices.
Speaker 5: Whatever we needed. They were always there to help.
Speaker 6: And our teammates we were just there for each other
Speaker 6: emotionally and just there together.
Speaker 2: It's just yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 4: And you guys spent months doing remote school, so when
Speaker 4: you resumed after Christmas break winter break, you guys immediately
Speaker 4: went online after kind of working out the kings and
Speaker 4: figuring out how you were going to do it. When
Speaker 4: did you hear of the possibility of starting at the
Speaker 4: Sears building.
Speaker 5: I heard about it.
Speaker 6: Maybe it was after the first month of us being
Speaker 6: online because they were looking for other locations anywhere we
Speaker 6: could have school. I know there was talk about West
Speaker 6: La College and getting trailers out there for our classrooms,
Speaker 6: but I mean Indiana. Ultimately they decided on Sears just
Speaker 6: because it was easier.
Speaker 4: And do you think it actually has been easier since
Speaker 4: you've been there? Has it been easy to navigate? Has
Speaker 4: it been easy for you to find your classes kind
Speaker 4: of reacclimate to the environment.
Speaker 6: Honestly, yes, Like the first day of school, I had
Speaker 6: all of my classes, and at.
Speaker 5: First it was tough because they didn't really draw a
Speaker 5: map or anything.
Speaker 6: But with the help of ASB and like the security guards,
Speaker 6: we were able to find all our classes. And it's
Speaker 6: pretty easy to locate them. There's only four floors including
Speaker 6: the basement, and it's just a circle, so all the
Speaker 6: classoms are pretty close to each other.
Speaker 4: And you got that nice small right there and the
Speaker 4: third street promenade right so you guys can live and
Speaker 4: head over there and have a good time.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Campus lunch off campus lunch is really amazing, so many options.
Speaker 5: It's delicious.
Speaker 4: Oh Gene, that makes me so happy to hear that
Speaker 4: not only is your first week back a welcoming one,
Speaker 4: but that it is giving you so much joy and optimism,
Speaker 4: and you and all of your fellow students deserve that.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Gene, and we wish you collectively from our
Speaker 4: station and all of LA and Orange Coli and everyone
Speaker 4: who's listening a wonderful scene your year.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. It means a lot.
Speaker 2: You are so welcome, sweetie.
Speaker 4: We've been talking to Gene Haney, she's a senior at
Speaker 4: Palisades High School, and she just gave us a bit
Speaker 4: of a rundown on how that first week back after
Speaker 4: the fires actually went as they acclimated to the Seers
Speaker 4: Building in downtown Santa Monica. When we come back, we're
Speaker 4: going to talk more about how malls around Orange County
Speaker 4: specifically are being repurposed to be used as apartments and
Speaker 4: entertainment centers. So and speaking about these malls, these department buildings,
Speaker 4: they can't just sit dormant forever, and now local city legislation,
Speaker 4: local city leaders are using these buildings for housing and
Speaker 4: other ways that can benefit the community. And we'll talk
Speaker 4: about all of that on the other side of the
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Speaker 2: Its Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4: Six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome back
Speaker 4: to Saturdays with Tiffany and a beautiful Saturday it is.
Speaker 2: We just talked to Gene Haney.
Speaker 4: She's a senior at Palisades High School and as we
Speaker 4: now know, Palisades doesn't have their home school operational because
Speaker 4: of the fires, and they have since moved to that
Speaker 4: Sears building in downtown Santa Monica near the Third Street promenade,
Speaker 4: and they just finished their first week back. So we
Speaker 4: heard from Jane about her experience as a senior, as
Speaker 4: a basketball player, big star on campus that gene Haney
Speaker 4: and how that experience has been and fortunately she said
Speaker 4: it's been great. She even said they get to go
Speaker 4: off campus for lunch. So some perks definitely being there
Speaker 4: over at that Seers building. And in talking about malls,
Speaker 4: malls around the country, department stores that stand alone promenades,
Speaker 4: all of these places are struggling to keep to get
Speaker 4: and to keep foot traffic.
Speaker 2: The decline is.
Speaker 4: Evident whenever you walk into a mall, I know when
Speaker 4: I do, it feels like a relic of years past,
Speaker 4: and yet I love it.
Speaker 2: I love the nostalgia of malls.
Speaker 4: I love the feel of malls, the size, the accessibility,
Speaker 4: everything that goes along with malls.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 4: But I am in the minority because malls are failing well.
Speaker 4: Vacant malls around the country, and specifically in Orange County,
Speaker 4: are being repurposed for housing and entertainment.
Speaker 2: Let's hear more about that.
Speaker 7: This morning, the sound of an excavator echo through what's
Speaker 7: left of the Orange mall, specifically the former JC Penny.
Speaker 7: The mall shut down a year ago. Now just two
Speaker 7: structures remain, a crumbling shell of JC Penny and an
Speaker 7: empty Sear's.
Speaker 3: A lot of our residents have a lot of memories
Speaker 3: that are wrapped up in this amazing property.
Speaker 6: But unfortunately, with changes in the retail landscape, this has
Speaker 6: become a blighted building.
Speaker 7: Aaron Schols what the city says, what was once a
Speaker 7: dying mall is now a site of transformation. The owner,
Speaker 7: Integral Communities, plans to redevelop JAZ Penny into a mixed
Speaker 7: use space.
Speaker 6: Our plan is to bring residential here.
Speaker 1: We're still working with the city.
Speaker 7: It's a ways off twenty miles west. The Westminster Mall
Speaker 7: is eerily quiet. Lights are on, but most stores are gone.
Speaker 7: The city is also eyed. Redevelopment proposals from the mall's
Speaker 7: owners are under review.
Speaker 2: Motion carries five zero.
Speaker 7: One proposal to add three thousand residential units just cleared
Speaker 7: the Planning Commission and now heads to the City Council.
Speaker 7: And it's not just here, dead and dying. Malls across
Speaker 7: the country are being reimagined and everything from Chula Vista
Speaker 7: to to Brea to Crenshaw, I mean and name a location,
Speaker 7: you can find some redevelopment activity centered.
Speaker 5: Around the mall.
Speaker 7: But Scott wild A real Estate consultants, as malls aren't dying,
Speaker 7: they're evolving.
Speaker 1: Still experiences that people get when they go to the
Speaker 1: mall that you just can't replicate anywhere else.
Speaker 8: It's a part of the landscape that I think is
Speaker 8: going to be here.
Speaker 7: But mixed use portions of that are the way of
Speaker 7: the future.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what you should.
Speaker 7: Expect going forward. Nationwide, more than two hundred malls have
Speaker 7: added housing on sites once home to department stores. That's
Speaker 7: according to Georgia Tech professor Ellen Dunham Jones, who studies
Speaker 7: small redevelopment.
Speaker 4: All right, so in talking about malls, as you can hear,
Speaker 4: we don't want to just let them late dormant.
Speaker 2: We want to.
Speaker 4: Repurpose them because they are huge swaths of land and
Speaker 4: they have the resources, they have the infrastructure already built
Speaker 4: in to be able to make them usable. I'm hoping
Speaker 4: that that is something that can be repurposed more in
Speaker 4: the future, especially with our homeless problem. Hello, no surprise
Speaker 4: to anyone. And in speaking even more about our homeless problem,
Speaker 4: remember that situation with the trees being chopped down in
Speaker 4: downtown LA. A person going around with a chainsaw and
Speaker 4: chopping down trees and really messing up the visual landscape
Speaker 4: of downtown LA and the Westlake district. Well, he's been
Speaker 4: caught and unfortunately he is a part of the homeless population.
Speaker 8: Suspect now facing charges of felony vandalism. I witnessed user
Speaker 8: port Leo Stalwarth is live in downtown LA where police
Speaker 8: officials just released details on this arreth.
Speaker 9: Well, my friend, detectives released everything except on motive. I
Speaker 9: haven't covered a story this bizarre. I gotta be honest
Speaker 9: with you, since old Yeller was a puff. Yeah, it's
Speaker 9: been a minute, okay. And in terms of detectives, they
Speaker 9: are searching for a motive, they don't have one. I
Speaker 9: just mentioned that. Here's more. Detectives say multiple trees chopped
Speaker 9: down since mid last week in downtown LA and it
Speaker 9: was not part of some city cleanup or other project.
Speaker 9: Police napping a suspect, forty five year old Samuel Groft,
Speaker 9: who was arrested yesterday, which was Earth Day.
Speaker 2: How ironic arrested on Earth Day? Right? The stories right themselves?
Speaker 2: What is that? What is poetic justice is what it's called.
Speaker 4: It is poetic justice in every sense of the word.
Speaker 4: And you know, but it doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 4: these trees are now gone.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Of course, we can celebrate that the person has been found,
Speaker 4: and that's great, and I also worry about copycats because
Speaker 4: we know that our city loves a copy cat. But
Speaker 4: now what then goes in place of those trees that
Speaker 4: are gone? And I know Mayor Bass has pledged, she's
Speaker 4: pledged that trees will be those trees will all be replaced.
Speaker 4: But it's kind of one of those things where you
Speaker 4: go don't hold your breath, because who knows how long
Speaker 4: that's going to take. But the optics are so important
Speaker 4: that those trees probably will will be replaced quicker than say,
Speaker 4: in other areas that aren't getting the same sort of coverage,
Speaker 4: wouldn't you say, Andrew, Yeah, yeah, easy, easy yeah. When
Speaker 4: we come back, we're going to talk more about city projects,
Speaker 4: and this one does not have the same sort of
Speaker 4: happy ending. Unfortunately. This one is in fact perpetrated or
Speaker 4: orchestrate it by our city leadership under Mayor Bass, and
Speaker 4: it has to do with Los Angeles unfortunately being victim
Speaker 4: to these budget cuts that Mayor Bass described in the
Speaker 4: press conference earlier this week, because we are in a
Speaker 4: huge deficit in the City of Los Angeles, and in
Speaker 4: this case, these budget cuts are going to affect many, many, many,
Speaker 4: many departments, including Los Angeles Animal Services. So I'll tell
Speaker 4: you what's actually going to happen, who is standing up
Speaker 4: and trying to fight back, and what we can expect
Speaker 4: unfortunately in the near future, if these proposed budget cuts
Speaker 4: go through. All of that and more. On the other
Speaker 4: side of the break, it's KFI AM six forty live
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Speaker 4: you until seven pm on this beautiful Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Saturdays with
Speaker 4: Tiffany Okay Raoul Okay Raoul on the board with the music.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm in like a like at a festival,
Speaker 4: but there's not nearly enough smoke in the air for
Speaker 4: me to be able to, you know, fully enjoy this
Speaker 4: sort of music. This comes with a drink and some
Speaker 4: extracurricular activity, if you will. And if you do do that,
Speaker 4: then I suggest you do that for our next story,
Speaker 4: because you might need something to bring you down from
Speaker 4: the anxiety this may cause if you are an animal
Speaker 4: lover like myself. And a few weeks ago, about a
Speaker 4: month ago in fact, we had Judy Mancuso of Social
Speaker 4: Compassion and Legislation, remember her. She was on talking about
Speaker 4: the legislation that her organization has enacted has created to
Speaker 4: respond to the fires, specifically in other disasters in terms
Speaker 4: of being able to make sure that animals are searched
Speaker 4: for during and after disasters with ample time, not just
Speaker 4: to rush and move on to the next thing or
Speaker 4: form of cleanup or recovery, but to make sure that
Speaker 4: these animals on properties are able to be recovered. And
Speaker 4: they have posted at nauseum social compassion and legislation about
Speaker 4: this next story. This next story comes from Mayor Bass
Speaker 4: and Mayor Basses saying that because the city of Los
Speaker 4: Angeles is broke and beyond broke, we are boroke two
Speaker 4: syllables boroke.
Speaker 2: We will need to cut.
Speaker 4: They will need to cut many different departments and many
Speaker 4: different facets of different departments as well, including Los Angeles
Speaker 4: Animal Services.
Speaker 2: And what does that amount two?
Speaker 4: Well, it amounts to the closure of lots and lots
Speaker 4: of shelters and LA.
Speaker 6: Mayor Karen Bass's proposed budget could hit LA Animal Services hard.
Speaker 3: Tonight, animal advocates are speaking to Fox Lovin's Genus Silva.
Speaker 3: These budget cuts are a knee jerk reaction.
Speaker 2: This is not leadership.
Speaker 8: Leadership finds ways to increase revenue. Animal advocates are pushing
Speaker 8: back against proposed budget cuts from Mayor Karen Bass.
Speaker 2: What is going on is disgusting and we need to
Speaker 2: do something about this.
Speaker 10: This we cannot let we cannot allow this to happen.
Speaker 8: Susie Ross, a volunteer at a local animal shelter, and
Speaker 8: Renee Rustin, founder of Starred Rescue Exam, are both alarmed
Speaker 8: by this letter from the Interim General Manager of the
Speaker 8: Department of Animal Services. The letter outlines the serious consequences
Speaker 8: of the mayor's proposed budget cuts, including the closure of
Speaker 8: three animal shelters, Harbor West Los Angeles and West Valley.
Speaker 8: It also details that one third of the department's positions
Speaker 8: fifty seven filled jobs and sixty five vacant ones, will
Speaker 8: be eliminated.
Speaker 6: This shelter system is so overburdened and to cut the
Speaker 6: budget and fire staff members is.
Speaker 4: Ludicrous, perfect absolutely and then some this is a terrible
Speaker 4: consequence of not having any money. And it seems that
Speaker 4: again our most vulnerable in our population will fall victim
Speaker 4: to these sorts of cuts, in these sorts of quote
Speaker 4: unquote helpful strategies, and who is it helping? Who is
Speaker 4: it helping when it in fact is hurting or it
Speaker 4: has the potential to hurt so many So, just to
Speaker 4: recap what you heard, LA Animal Services may be one
Speaker 4: one of the departments hit the absolute hardest, hit the
Speaker 4: absolute hardest, and three shelters. At least three shelters would
Speaker 4: be closed. That would result in an uptick in animals
Speaker 4: being put to sleep. There's just not the manpower, just
Speaker 4: not the staffing ability to be able to maintain something
Speaker 4: like this at this size. And if all of this
Speaker 4: does in fact go down, there will be money saved, yes,
Speaker 4: but at what cost? And they're looking at about sixteen
Speaker 4: hundred layoffs in total to mitigate the one billion dollar
Speaker 4: budget deficit one billion dollars?
Speaker 2: How are we paying for the Olympics? Can someone tell
Speaker 2: me if.
Speaker 4: We are in the hole one billion dollars And that's
Speaker 4: a conservative estimate, because if it's one billion they're telling
Speaker 4: us it's probably two billion really on the books. And
Speaker 4: then some how are we able to then pay for
Speaker 4: the Olympics and all of these things that are supposed
Speaker 4: to welcome thousands and thousands and thousands of people in
Speaker 4: tourism over the next few years. I don't know Laasla
Speaker 4: Animal Services would see a nearly five million dollar cut.
Speaker 4: Have you been to an animal shelter lately? They seem
Speaker 4: like they're already dealing with the cuts. And that's the
Speaker 4: that's just their status quo, that's their baseline. They are
Speaker 4: often understaffed, there are long lines, long wait times, Facilities
Speaker 4: aren't always the most modernized or updated. Resources aren't the
Speaker 4: most plentiful. And if you've visited any sort of La
Speaker 4: Animal Services shelter, God bless them. They're doing the best
Speaker 4: they can with what they have. But it already seems
Speaker 4: like they don't have a lot.
Speaker 2: So to cut.
Speaker 4: Even more than to close fully these shelters would be
Speaker 4: absolutely devastated. And that is also according to City Controller
Speaker 4: Kenneth Mehea, who says that this is something that should
Speaker 4: not happen. What shelters would close, the Harbor Shelter, West
Speaker 4: LA and West Valley Shelters, Harbor, West LA and West
Speaker 4: Valley Shelters would close.
Speaker 2: In total.
Speaker 4: That means that sixty two employees would be laid off.
Speaker 4: That may not sound like a lot, but that number
Speaker 4: includes animal care technicians, animal control officers, veterinary technicians, and
Speaker 4: even more. And it doesn't stop there because there are
Speaker 4: vacant positions that have been sitting unfilled for a while.
Speaker 4: All of those sixty in total would be eliminated. So
Speaker 4: we're talking one hundred and two positions within Laasla Animal
Speaker 4: Services that would go out the door as soon as
Speaker 4: these budget cuts are instituted. It seems very hypocritical. Right
Speaker 4: after the fires, we had our legislation, we had our
Speaker 4: LA leadership touting the response that they feel they gave
Speaker 4: through LA Animal Services when it came to recovering the
Speaker 4: pets who were affected by the fires. Yet and still
Speaker 4: they're looking at closing so many shelters. It makes me
Speaker 4: think of Pasadena Humane. Pasadena Humane Society, they just had
Speaker 4: their wiggle waggle walk right, raised all that money, lots
Speaker 4: of press out there saying how valuable animal shelters are.
Speaker 4: And while Pasadena Humane is not on this list, they
Speaker 4: are not in danger of being closed. So many others
Speaker 4: are not being given that same sort of respect, that
Speaker 4: same sort of consideration, and now this is what is looming.
Speaker 4: And one person, Susie Ross, who's a volunteer at a
Speaker 4: local animal shelter, said that the situation is unacceptable. She said,
Speaker 4: quote what's going on is disgusting and we need to
Speaker 4: do something about this. We cannot allow this to happen.
Speaker 4: The organization's Social Compassion and Legislature who we had on
Speaker 4: Judy Mancuso, the executive director of that about a month ago.
Speaker 4: They have shared ways in which you can contact your
Speaker 4: local leadership. You find out who the representative is in
Speaker 4: your district, and they are saying reach out to that
Speaker 4: representative and make your voice heard.
Speaker 2: Tell them this.
Speaker 4: Is unacceptable, it's disgusting, and that you don't want to
Speaker 4: see this sort of thing happen. There are also quite
Speaker 4: a few petitions circulating. They're trying a social media push
Speaker 4: to draw attention to this, and I'm being told as
Speaker 4: well that Monday will be the next hearing about whether
Speaker 4: or not these proposed budget cuts will result in the
Speaker 4: closure of three of these animal shelters that we have listed.
Speaker 4: So hopefully Monday we'll get good news, and then on
Speaker 4: next Saturday, I'll be able to tell you that none
Speaker 4: of this is happening and we do care about our animals,
Speaker 4: and that we'll have to move on to another way
Speaker 4: to earn money for the city. Here's the way you
Speaker 4: want to earn money for the city.
Speaker 2: Have a baby.
Speaker 4: If you have a baby, President Trump is saying he'll
Speaker 4: give you a five thousand dollars baby bonus, and if
Speaker 4: you donate it to the City of la He's not
Speaker 4: saying that I am. If you donate it to the
Speaker 4: City of La then maybe you can help with the deficit.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you more about that when we come back.
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Speaker 4: It's Saturdays with Tiffany until seven o'clock and producer Kayla
Speaker 4: and I are having a little chat about a movie
Speaker 4: that we saw this previous weekend or I did last weekend.
Speaker 4: You saw it a few days after I did. And
Speaker 4: the name of that movie is Sinners. Sinners a very
Speaker 4: good movie. Would you recommend it? Kaylen, ten out of
Speaker 4: ten will recommend.
Speaker 10: I need to see it again, and I want to
Speaker 10: see at least two or three times in the theatersang.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 4: And the fact that we're willing to put ourselves back
Speaker 4: into theaters where people are where they have very little etiquette,
Speaker 4: very little theater etiquette says a lot about the caliber
Speaker 4: of the movie. And Kayla was describing her experience really quickly.
Speaker 2: Kayla, was it a good experience at the theater for you?
Speaker 2: I spent I went to ipic.
Speaker 10: So that's a pretty penny and the dinner was even
Speaker 10: more so. But the crowd was a little bit, a
Speaker 10: little bit rowdy, a little bit responsive to the movie,
Speaker 10: as if the movie could hear what they're saying, and
Speaker 10: a lot of side conversation every single time something happened
Speaker 10: in the movie just hear oh this is is like,
Speaker 10: oh God, be quiet please. So that was a little fun.
Speaker 4: What would you say, your ticket, dinner, everything cost you?
Speaker 10: Well, the dinner was about one hundred and thirty, but
Speaker 10: I like to eat.
Speaker 2: So I treated radio money is good.
Speaker 10: And the tickets were about fifty five okay my partner
Speaker 10: and I okay.
Speaker 2: What's that about two hundred?
Speaker 4: About two hundred with a nice tips for a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so okayle if you wanted to make that money back,
Speaker 4: or or just have an extra stream of income, would
Speaker 4: you be interested in possibly getting pregnant for a hefty
Speaker 4: sum of five thousand dollars?
Speaker 10: Noah, put you on the spot. Now, five thousand dollars
Speaker 10: isn't really a lot. It doesn't go far, it doesn't
Speaker 10: go and especially in la oh, you know.
Speaker 4: It takes about what two three hundred dollars just when
Speaker 4: you wake up exact la, just to enjoy your day.
Speaker 4: If you're just living a normal existence, isn't it worth
Speaker 4: if you have a child, I imagine it costs a
Speaker 4: lot more rawul you have a child. Does five thousand
Speaker 4: dollars go far? How far does five thousand dollars go?
Speaker 3: I mean it's like five dollars in today's economy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it, no way, I'm just no way.
Speaker 4: You think about school, if you go to public school,
Speaker 4: then sure you're not necessarily paying, but you're paying for
Speaker 4: all of the things that go along with having the
Speaker 4: child at school, all of their clothing and all of
Speaker 4: their food and everything. You talk about medical expenses, insurance,
Speaker 4: you talk about unforeseen circumstances, birthdays, Christmases, all the things
Speaker 4: in between. Five thousand rau woll you're saying doesn't stretch.
Speaker 4: It's practically nothing.
Speaker 3: Nope, Because if it's like say, I'm a single dad,
Speaker 3: or we break up or whatever, eighteen years, five thousand dollars, No,
Speaker 3: it doesn't even equate.
Speaker 4: I saw a stat and I don't have it pulled
Speaker 4: up in front of me. So if you want to
Speaker 4: go into our lovely talk back and correct me, you
Speaker 4: can do that.
Speaker 2: I give you permission.
Speaker 4: But I saw that it says that the average cost
Speaker 4: of raising a child from birth to eighteen hovers around
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: No, well it's three times at at least.
Speaker 4: See, I thought he was going to say that was
Speaker 4: too high. You're saying that's lowballing it.
Speaker 2: That's low balling.
Speaker 3: I tell my daughter all the time, I'm like, you're
Speaker 3: the Ferrari that I'm supposed to be driving for sure.
Speaker 4: She's like, thanks, Dad, that makes me feel great. Yeah,
Speaker 4: no pressure.
Speaker 2: She ignores me.
Speaker 4: So if two hundred and fifty is low balling it,
Speaker 4: and rauh wool our resident child expert, and I see
Speaker 4: you in there too, Regita Diagasino is saying that it's
Speaker 4: three times as much, then this proposal by President Trump
Speaker 4: to give a five thousand dollars baby bonus is not
Speaker 4: a good idea, which contradicts.
Speaker 2: The fact that he is saying that it.
Speaker 4: Is a good idea ten thousand dollars just to have
Speaker 4: the baby in the hospital.
Speaker 8: If you don't have health insurance, so you're not even
Speaker 8: getting a free baby.
Speaker 4: You don't even have you can't even have your baby
Speaker 4: for five thousand dollars. Right, Okay, that's good to know
Speaker 4: that that's a wonderful form of birth control.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
Speaker 4: President Donald Trump has expressed support for a proposal to
Speaker 4: offer a five thousand dollars baby bonus to new mothers.
Speaker 4: So if you are a mom or want to be
Speaker 4: a mom, and you have a child, he is saying
Speaker 4: that this could be a gift to you in the
Speaker 4: form of five thousand dollars, and not because he wants
Speaker 4: to reward you for your pushing or reward you for
Speaker 4: all the.
Speaker 2: Pain and all the everything.
Speaker 4: No, it's to reverse declining birth rates in the United
Speaker 4: States because we are not having enough babies. You look
Speaker 4: around and you think it's crowded. I look out at
Speaker 4: the freeway right now, and I say, there are way
Speaker 4: too many babies. But apparently we're not having nearly enough
Speaker 4: babies to keep up with the rest of the western world.
Speaker 4: And President Trump proposed the idea last Tuesday, April twenty second,
Speaker 4: and he said, quote sounds like a good eye idea
Speaker 4: to me. It's part of a broader discussion to encourage
Speaker 4: more Americans to have children because there's been that decline
Speaker 4: in birth rates with the numbers plummeting since nineteen seventy nine. Well,
Speaker 4: if it's any indication what Raoul and Brigita said and
Speaker 4: of how much a child, one child today could potentially
Speaker 4: cost you from zero before zero. According to Brigitta, you
Speaker 4: can't even have the baby. They're gonna stuff that thing
Speaker 4: back up in you can't even have the baby until
Speaker 4: you have ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Then five thousand dollars is probably.
Speaker 4: A kind of an insult to what it actually does,
Speaker 4: in fact cost to have a child. So we'll stay
Speaker 4: tuned on all of the pushback and see if that
Speaker 4: number inflates any I highly doubt this will go through.
Speaker 2: It's a stipend.
Speaker 4: They're going to have to rename it, of course, and
Speaker 4: say that it's something else and hopefully pair and we'll
Speaker 4: get some sort of assistance. But you know, we'll stay
Speaker 4: tuned on that. And five thousand dollars isn't going to
Speaker 4: buy you many I Pick visits, according to Kyla, saying
Speaker 4: that they're about one hundred dollars a pop. But I
Speaker 4: think the moral of this entire segment is go see cinners.
Speaker 4: That's the moral of the entire segment. Obviously, Yes, dah.
Speaker 4: When we come back, we're going to jump into our
Speaker 4: Deeper Dives segment and we're going to talk about prom.
Speaker 4: It's prom season, talk about spending money on your children.
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Speaker 4: The history of prom, the traditions, and also the average
Speaker 4: cost of prom in twenty twenty five. As they said
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