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Speaker 1: It's Steve Lacy there Bad Habits on one O two

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Speaker 1: point seven. It is Kiss FM, LA's number one hit

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Speaker 1: music station. Ryan Seacrest City and Tanya with you and

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Speaker 1: speaking of Los Angeles and all the hit music coming

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Speaker 1: out of here, we've got our mayor on the line

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Speaker 1: with us. Now, Mayor Karen Bass, Hello, Mayor? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am doing just fine? How are you? I'm doing well?

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Speaker 1: But you know, I gotta tell you something sometimes when

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Speaker 1: we play some of the songs here on Kiss FM,

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Speaker 1: I do picture you in like a suburban being driven

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Speaker 1: around listening. Does that ever happen? Nice? That makes us happy? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Uh well, listen. There's something I really want to have

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Speaker 1: you on with us to discuss. Was the la usd

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Speaker 1: striking situation. But before that, you know, we too many

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Speaker 1: times start our days and we see this horrible news

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Speaker 1: of kids being shot and not being safe in schools

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Speaker 1: and places on the country. It rocks us to the core.

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Speaker 1: This when in Nashville happened very close to where my

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Speaker 1: niece was in school, about ten minutes away, and they

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Speaker 1: were on lockdown. Oh, when everything was active there in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: And you can't you can't help but think if you've

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Speaker 1: got kids and your kids are going off to school

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Speaker 1: here in southern California, this goes through your mind, right,

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Speaker 1: So what do you say to those parents? Well, you know, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and as a parent, I mean, it's just chilling,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry to hear that your niece had to

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Speaker 1: experience that. You know, we have been lucky so far

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Speaker 1: in LA Unified, we've not experienced that, and fingers crossed

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Speaker 1: that we won't. But you know, the sad thing is

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Speaker 1: is that until we have national laws in place, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have the best laws in California and in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: but still this has to be dealt with as a nation.

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Speaker 1: And I'm very worried, especially with the House of Representatives,

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Speaker 1: how it has taken such an extreme turn to the right,

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Speaker 1: was the Republicans taking over, that there's not going to

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Speaker 1: be much hope that we would get significant legislation passed

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Speaker 1: out of this House today this year, when when this

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Speaker 1: news is breaking, Um, what goes through your mind, your

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Speaker 1: your mind personally, well, just just the fear, just imagining

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Speaker 1: the terror that those parents must steal, especially as they

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Speaker 1: wait and you know they always have to wait hours

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Speaker 1: and hours before they know whether their children are alive,

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Speaker 1: and that's something that is just gut wrenching. Mayor Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass with us now here on kiss FM. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: it was a tense and tough three day strike, as

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Speaker 1: people know here in southern California, they were so directly

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Speaker 1: impacted by it. In Los Angeles. You stepped in, you

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Speaker 1: mediated we got to a place of an agreement. What

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Speaker 1: were those those initial days like for you where you

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Speaker 1: didn't you didn't step in, and what what was the

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Speaker 1: determining factor for you to get in and fix this? Well,

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Speaker 1: actually I had stepped in quite early. It just wasn't public.

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Speaker 1: Both parties decided it would be best for it not

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Speaker 1: to be public, so we didn't say anything until toward

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Speaker 1: the end. But I will tell you it was a

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Speaker 1: real education for me, and I think it probably was

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Speaker 1: not just for those of us in Los Angeles, but

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Speaker 1: around the country. I mean, here you have people who

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Speaker 1: work in our schools and take care of our children

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Speaker 1: every single day, and their wages are so low that

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Speaker 1: many of them experience housing insecurity. Many of them are

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Speaker 1: in and out of living in their cars and moving

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Speaker 1: from place to place, and that's just unacceptable. And the

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Speaker 1: thing I think also that people might forget about this

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Speaker 1: part of the workforce is that they are parents and

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Speaker 1: their kids go to LA Unified. So not only are

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Speaker 1: they of the first responders with our kids, but they

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Speaker 1: are also parents of LAUSD children. How just in terms

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Speaker 1: of your role, how did you specifically as the time

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Speaker 1: went by, how did you get it to to be

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Speaker 1: two parties agreeing to something here for a solution? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that what was most important is

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Speaker 1: that the union was very clear that this was going

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Speaker 1: to be a line in the sand. Their workforce had

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Speaker 1: to be paid wages where they could support themselves. And

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Speaker 1: then the superintendent who agreed with that. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: was a monumental raise. The question was how can the

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Speaker 1: district afford it? So with that alone, I think there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of common ground. The superintendent agreed that

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Speaker 1: a significant raise was necessary. He agreed that health insurance

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Speaker 1: should cover not just the employees but their families. That's

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Speaker 1: a big deal. But the biggest obstacle was just doing

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Speaker 1: the math. And so that made me feel like over

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Speaker 1: time we were going to reach agreement. We just needed

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Speaker 1: to stick with it, you know, dig deep, look at

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Speaker 1: the finances come up with several scenarios, several different ways

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Speaker 1: of financing it. And so that happened, and I believe

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Speaker 1: the union will ratify the contract today. That's good news.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting to hear that you were involved early on.

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Speaker 1: We just didn't know, you know, because I felt relief

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Speaker 1: when I read the news that you stepped in and

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that you were already behind the scenes exactly.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very much so. But you know what, I'm

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Speaker 1: not somebody that jumps in front of camera, you know,

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Speaker 1: to me either. Really, I had no need to grandstand,

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Speaker 1: even though I was being hit by the press for

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Speaker 1: quote unquote not being involved. It was more important for

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Speaker 1: me to get to resolution than it was to worry

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Speaker 1: about whether I was being criticized. So that's a relief,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's good. It's actually great to hear you

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Speaker 1: say that. Thanks for coming on. I know you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot going on, but we really wanted to reflect

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Speaker 1: on that moment because we had very emotional listeners calling

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Speaker 1: in saying, actually, what you said, I've got to have

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Speaker 1: two jobs. I can't afford to sleep somewhere. This is crazy,

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Speaker 1: and it really you know, when we heard the are

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Speaker 1: almost and tears from our listeners calling in, from moms

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Speaker 1: calling in who are working. It was very striking and

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Speaker 1: very moving. And you know, one thing that we have

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Speaker 1: to figure out in our city. You shouldn't have to

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Speaker 1: get to the point of living in a tent in

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Speaker 1: order to get help. So I am very, very worried

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Speaker 1: that right now we're going to see another real big

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Speaker 1: increase in homelessness because of the protections, the COVID protections

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Speaker 1: going away and massive evictions taking place. And so one

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Speaker 1: thing that I would love to follow up with you

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Speaker 1: is to let listeners know that the city council did

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Speaker 1: pass protections for tenants, and I'm just worried that people

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Speaker 1: love to give you that information so that your listeners,

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Speaker 1: the ones that we're calling you in tears, know that

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Speaker 1: there is help from the city available. Well, that's great

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Speaker 1: to hear and we will absolutely love to have that

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Speaker 1: follow up with you. Mayor Karen Bass, thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming up. I'm just looking here. They're telling me that

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Speaker 1: you are the fourth So I've been here for I

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Speaker 1: don't have tens of years, but the fourth mayor we've

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Speaker 1: had on Mara Han Yad Dragosa, Marika setting now, Mayor Bass,

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Speaker 1: I'm very very proud to know that. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for coming with us. I'm always happy to be on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. You take your care of goodbye. Like Mayor Bascott,

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Speaker 1: the right energy, ye, good energy in the morning. Right,

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Speaker 1: Interesting because I thought when I read oh she stepped

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Speaker 1: into mediate, what was the like? Why right now? Why

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Speaker 1: this hour? What was the straw this hour? Turns out

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Speaker 1: she said she was involved from the get go, right.

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Speaker 1: It was almost like she came in to save the day.

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Speaker 1: But nope, she was there the whole time. Um, all right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: Mayor Han, you're taking me back. What do we talk

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Speaker 1: to Mayor Han about? That was very early on when

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Speaker 1: we were doing the show from Hollywood and Highland. Oh

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Speaker 1: do you remember the conversations. I can't remember what challenges

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Speaker 1: were we were facing then with Mayor Han two thousand

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Speaker 1: and five or early two, big challenges. All right, I

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Speaker 1: gotta you know what I got for you. Stacked up

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Speaker 1: five oh fifteen minutes non stop. Kiss next