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AM sixty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Happy Saturday Tea, It's Tiffany Hobbs. Here Saturdays with Tiffany from five until seven pm. Thanks for hanging out with me on this. If you're in southern California, another dreary day and as I look at NBC Channel four, what to expect tomorrow's scattered showers it seems for the Oscars right in time for that red carpet arrival, and throughout the beginning of next week some more rains. So the warm weather the
sunny skies did not last very long. I hope you enjoyed it last week while you were out. I personally now have the sniffles because all this back and forth with the weather is wreaking havoc on my immune system. I'm trying trying to keep myself healthy. I hope you are too. And whatever you're doing today, again, thanks for joining us well. As I was telling Neil during the
Fork Report, this is a full show. It's all over the place, but it is expected to act as a reprieve for you from kind of the heavy hitting news of the week. I have a mixture of stories in store, from again, what happens to you if you should die on an airplane on a flight, if you're up there thirty thousand feet in the air, what happens to your body? Or unfortunately, if a passenger dies near you, what that might mean for you as an accompanying passenger on that plane.
And a story that's making its round in the news about a person who in fact did die on a plane and what happened to the passengers who are unfortunately seated near that person. We're all kind of asking the questions now of what happens to us if that tragedy should occur, A question I didn't think I'd be asking myself, but that story has definitely been very interesting. We're also
going to talk about the fentinel fold. We're going to take a deeper dive around six point thirty, and it's our new segment Deeper Dives, where we really look at some sort of longer form story, spend some more time on it, do some investigative journalism, and in this case, we're going to investigate what the fentinal fold is. It's not the newest dance craze. It's not something that you can put on, but it is something that is a consequence of what people are putting in into their bodies.
And you have undoubtedly seen it. This Finnyl fold. It is all the rage around southern California, and the optics that it provides are absolutely horrendous. Horrendous also horrendous. Home burglaries are up across the San Fernando Valley, across the Eastern Valley as well, and I'll tell you some tips to how you can keep your home and your property safe, especially if you have cameras. Why the cameras you have may not necessarily be the best for being able to
spot some of assailant. So I'll give you some updates about what's going on with those home burglaries. At five point thirty, we're going to talk to Rick Poliitzi. He is the producer of The Simpsons, a former producer of The Simpsons beloved series, and if you are a watcher of the series, you know they have a fun Halloween
special every year. Well, Rick Polizzi used one of those aspects of that Halloween special, a tree house, created a tree house himself twenty four years ago, a life size one, a huge one, and it was made for his two daughters. And now, after twenty four years and lots of fun with that treehouse in the neighborhood, the city is demanding
that Rick take it down or else. So we'll be talking to Rick Polizzi at five thirty so he can give his side of this story and any updates that have happened since he was told last week that it had to come down. At six o'clock, we're going to talk to a woman named Judy Mancuso. She's with the animal advocacy or organization Social Compassion, which deals with legislation
for our furry friends in California. They have a twenty twenty five list of campaigns that they're working on, things that you will be able to vote on in the near future, and Judy is going to be here to tell us about that campaign as well as how their work with Social Compassion integrated with what was going on with the Eaten fire and Past Palisades fire, what they were doing out there to support victims of that fire. And we're going to start with and update about what's
going on with former Chief Kristen Crowley. As you know, after what happened in the Palisades fire occurred, there was a lot of controversy. We've been talking about it. Every show has been talking about it at nauseum. That's not the news. You know that, We all know that. But there are updates to this story and they seem to be unfolding by the day. And so what's going on
on is that Kristin Crowley was fired by the mayor. Well, Kristin Crowley, as a public servant, was told, hey, you can appeal the firing because of your position, and if an overwhelming majority of the city council votes in your favor for that, during that appeal process, you can be reinstated as the LAFD chief. Well, Kristin Crowley took a few days where we all were wondering what she was going to do, and just this week she announced that she is in fact going to appeal her dismissal as
La Fire Department chief. So what that entels is she needs ten of the council's fifteen members to be reinstated as chief. There are fifteen members on the city council. She needs two thirds of She needs two thirds of them to be able to say that they overwhelmingly support her reinstatement. If she gets it, that would be effective immediately. The council was expecting to meet just yesterday. They called a special meeting Thursday evening for Friday. Now here's the kicker.
Many firefighters, many of whom represent the LAFD union, different unions that support our public servants as well, said, you know what, we weren't informed of this special meeting that was supposed to be held on Friday. You can't go and schedule this meeting without fore warning us so that we can make provisions in our schedules to be there.
So the pushback actually required the city Council to reschedule this meeting, and now the new meeting to address the appeal will be this coming Tuesday, March fourth, at ten a m. There was a ten day window of when the city Council could meet, and this new date still falls within that window and allows for everyone who wants to be there, who has a say, to actually be there. The thing is, there are very clear lines being drawn, and there's one really big line being drawn in the sand.
Those lines are about support for Kristin Crowley or support for Mayor Bass. And the one line that has to do with who's on what side in terms of support is seeing developments daily. What we're seeing is that more city council members in the last week have come out in support of Mayor Karen Bass's decision to dismiss Kristin
Crowley as fire chief. However, on the other side, in the other corner of the ring are the actual firefighters and the firefighters Union LAFD Firefighters Union, who say unequivocally they support Kristin Crowley and that they want her re stated. And I don't know about you. I'm no firefighter. I'm not a fire expert. I know nothing of firefighting outside
of appreciating the work that they do. But I am inclined to believe firefighters when they say that they feel that their fire chief or their department heads were treated unfairly, and that is in fact what they're saying. I'll tell you specifically what the fire department or the fire union said in a statement they released last week regarding how they feel about Kristin Crowley and how they feel about
Mayor Karen Bass. But we'll do that on the other side of the break, and then we'll come back with what's going on with that bicyclist group that beat that man in the mid Wiltshire district in the Hancock area right over there, Hancock Park area, right over there where Neil was today for his remote. There are some updates to that story, including the victim speaking. We'll get to all of that on the other side of the break.
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Kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with You. It's Saturdays with Tiffany from five until seven. Thanks for hanging out, and I was just giving you an update about what's going on with former LAFD chief Kristen Crowley. She has decided to appeal and to let you know where the people stand. The line drawn in the sand there in one corner is the group of people are the group of people who
support Mayor Karen Bass's decision. On the other side, you have people who are in full support of former Chief Crowley and who are vocal and becoming more and more vocal. It seems as days go by about that support and how they feel about Mayor Bass's decision. One such group is the LAFD Union, and I believe them because they do the work that they are talking about. They are the ones boots on the ground literally who have worked with Kristin Crowley, know what this work entails, know the
ins and outs of the department. I don't know if anyone on the city Council has ever been a firefighter, but I don't think they have. And I say that with pretty sure, pretty short assurance. I'm pretty close dollars to donuts that no one on the city Council has been a firefighter and has not been a fire chief. So I am inclined to believe the Firefighters union and firefighters who are speaking out saying that Kristin Crowley and their words is being scape goaded. Here is the actual
statement from the LAFD Union. They said last week quote our rank and file firefighters on the ground strongly support Chief Crowley. They know the truth, We have her back, and we will fight for her right to set the record straight. This is the first city council meeting that we are aware of, perhaps ever, that has been scheduled on twenty four hour notice for a Friday at five pm. Side note that meeting has since been rescheduled for this
coming Tuesday because of the pushback from the union. Back to the quote, it's obvious that some on this city council are attempting to bury this issue when nobody is watching and holding them accountable. City council members will have to ask themselves if this is the way they want to decide the fate of our fire chief. What's happening
is wrong, and everyone knows it. End quote. Those are pretty strong words from the fire Department Union, and I believe them because they are firefighters and they know again what being a fire chief fire department chief requires, So for them to speak out so strongly, so passionately, and so quickly, I am inclined to go with what they are saying as being truth. So we'll see what happens
at this meeting coming Tuesday. I'm sure we'll have some updates from our KFI newsroom from all of our hosts, because I as we've seen, these updates continue to keep coming. They are becoming a bit more bombastic every time we report. Let's get into something else that's becoming a bit more bombastic, and that is crime. Crime around the city. Crime around
the city is going buck wild crazy. It's everywhere Hancock Park, San Fernando Valley, and it's coming to you if you're not careful, but it probably is because it's out of control. And we're gonna give a little update about what's going on with that bicyclist who was pulled out of his car in the Hancock Park area. What's going on with him?
It was so vanilla like, all I wanted to do was go to the show, get my tangerine juice, Oh.
The Lakers.
Baniam says it all started when a group of cyclists took over the intersection as he tried to drive through. Baniam says he honked to alert one of the riders.
Then I'll try to like notify the kid that it's turning red. I'm going to be right behind you and trying to tell him that you know I'm behind him and make sure he doesn't hit me. And his friend got upset.
The cyclist then threatened benigh him, saying he had a gun in his bag, before smashing his right tail light. Sensing the situation escalating, Baniams stopped the car and got out, but before he could react, the group surrounded him and began beating him. By the time police arrived, the cyclist, believed to be between sixteen and eighteen years old, had fled.
To do that to someone and leave my son in the middle of the street, like if he was a nothing.
Then i AM's mom, Yes, miil Yell, was out of town when she got the call. She says she felt powerless.
My heart was breaking.
The worst thing was to hear him crying.
Then i Am suffered injuries to his head and face. Nearly a week later, he is still in pain, struggling to sleep due to his injuries and PTSD from the attack.
Daily it gets better. Every day I find something else to be happy about.
So far, two teens have been arrested, but police are still searching for others.
I hope that it's a sign for either them or their friends to maybe put down the violence.
It's not. It's not a sign. It's not a sign for them to put down the violence, because if you engage in this type of violence, then this is a choice you're making. That's your line in the sand. And these kids, this group of about fifteen teenagers as they continued to be identified. Their ages are validating that these are in fact kids as they are making these choices. This is the pattern that they are participating in. Unfortunately,
they probably have done this before. Unfortunately, they probably will do this again. There's a lack of remorse when it comes to crime, and it's evident with these sorts of issues. We see people being pulled out of their cars or having their cars rammed with these bikes, these little motorbikes all across the city, especially kind of in denser populated areas where these bicyclists and these mini motorbike riders like to traverse. This poor guy was just out trying to
get his tangerine juice. He just wanted to watch the Laker game, get a bite to eat, make it a very vanilla evening. And he couldn't even do that because these kids caused all that havoc. Let's say he did, in fact decide to stay home. Well, here's the thing. Home isn't safe either, because knock knock burglaries are on the rise all across southern California and especially in the San Fernando Valley.
These crews police tell me our hitting homes between dinnertime and midnight and pat They don't care if you've got cameras. They are after certain things in your home and we'll stop at nothing to get them. Shattered glass scattered across the floor, the living room in disarray, all signs of a break in, my kids bedrooms.
Drawers were pulled, Everything was on the floor. Everything that we had in the house, as far as jewelry was gone. All designer purses were gone.
This Canoga Park homeowner asked us not to use her name because the burglars also stole her license while she and her family were away in Big Bear for Valentine's Day. Around seven thirty that night, they got notifications from their security system, but the cameras were offline.
It was just strength that the Wi Fi went out for that little bit of time and then it went back up.
LAPD says this is one of twenty seven burglaries that occurred over seven days in the LAPDS to Panga Division, which covers Canoga Park, West Hills, Chatsworth, Wineka, and Woodland Hills.
That high number.
Lieutenant Doug Humphrey, LAPD Detective Commanding Officer, says there's been a recent spike in both residential and commercial burglaries at night two weeks prior, he says, crime was down.
We believe that this is coordinated crews. We make that determination based upon what we consider the mo what tom of day that they're hitting, the fact that they're usually coming in multiple cars and there's multiple suspects.
The organized crews are after certain things.
Small items of high value and significance, something that they could trade sometimes on the on the open markets like the Facebook marketplace.
Would you have one.
By one, Humphrey says, there are things you could do to better protect your home. Lighting is key, audible alarms, and cameras in the front and back of your property.
Having infrared cameras where these burglars are current at night, but we have black and white images. Sometimes it is in sufficient for us to really follow up and get a good lead on.
Investigators work to track down the thieves. Neighbors are looking out for each other online.
An hour after me, there was another woman down the street hit and same thing. They only took the designer bags and all of the jewelry, but the house was completely ransacked. They came in through the back patio, shattered it. Same exact situation, and then I just started to see a pattern on the Facebook Crimebuster's page that they were all doing the same thing.
Now, police tell me they are responding to all these calls, but say staffing shortages are making it more hard difficult for them to reduce crime. Still, they tell me that's not stopping detectives and investigators and officers from working overtime to protect this community.
Staffing shortages again, another LA City department that is suffering under all of the things needed and necessary to make departments flourish to be able to protect the citizens of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. So really quickly again, if you want to secure your home quick little rundown, make sure you'd lock all your windows and doors. Don't leave without doing that. You don't live in Mulberry. Lock everything up. Ensure that your home is well illuminated on
the outside, no dark crevices and corners. When you get these cameras, make sure that they don't just do infrared tracking. Make sure that you have a better equipped camera system, and then just be on the lookout, keep an eye out. The new bill makes it so that in California you won't be able to necessarily use a little extra intimidation, if you know what I mean. So you're going to have to figure out other ways to be able to
protect your property and your family. Speaking of property, when we come back, we're going to talk to Rick Poliitzi. He's the former producer of the Simpsons who built a really cool treehouse out there in the valley and now the city wants him to tear it down immediately after twenty four years with no issue. We'll get his side of this story, what's going on, and hopefully some good news when we come back. I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs Here with You.
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Kf I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Tiffany Hobbs Here with You. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. And doesn't that music just puts you in a place. Raoul's smiling. It just feels good. The Simpsons just a series beloved by everyone, kid, adolescent, adult, one of those things you can put on and really enjoy with the
entire family. I remember the first episode, and I remember one of those first few episodes when they introduced the pet dog, Sanna's Little Helper, it actually propelled me to ask my mom for a dog, and I got my first puppy. So The Simpsons was not only a beloved series to watch, but influential in the homes of children everywhere. And it still lives on today. And it doesn't just live on in visual form on the screen, but it lives on through them of one of its animating producers,
Rick Politzi. He's an animation producer of The Simpsons, a three time Emmy winner for that. He's an author of the book Spinnekin, which deals with board games and his
love of board games. And even though Rick Poliitzi has had all of these career accomplishments, he could have just sat back, put his feet up, and enjoyed kind of a sunset perpetually from all of the money he undoubtedly raked in from being a producer on The Simpsons, Rick decided that he wanted to give back and give back in a big way so that children in the Los Angeles area and families could enjoy the spirit of Halloween.
I love Halloween. It's one of my favorite seasons and I know, I'm always looking for something to do, and it seems that after COVID that was few and far in between the available things you couldn't do. But Rick Politze twenty four years ago created something that has become a beloved treasure all over LA and it's located there in Sherman Oaks in his front yard. It was a beautiful tree house that many people visited. He also is
the creator of the very popular Boney Island dedicated to skeletons. Again, I love Halloween. So these are things that are just speaking to my heart and my personal interests and maybe
yours as well. But even though all of these accomplishments and all these creations are wonderful and encourage families to come together and kids to get out and enjoy themselves in a fun and free and safe way, the city is now asking Rick Politze to tear down this tree house, and not only tear it down, but tear it down
immediately lest he faced some very harsh consequences. So I want to welcome Rick Politze too the Saturdays with Tiffany's show so that we can get his side of the story about what's going on with this treehouse and what's going on with the city. Why all of this pushback now twenty four years later, and hopefully we'll get some good news. I have my fingers crossed because I've been refreshing, refreshing, refreshing, trying to get some updates on this story. So welcome
Rick to the show. I really appreciate you coming on.
Well, thanks for having me on, Tiffany, I appreciate it.
You're so welcome. And I found Rick. I knew the story because Tim Conway Junior covered it last week and I was listening and I went, oh, my gosh, no, not the treehouse. I've never actually visited, but I've always wanted to go. Just I better. I think I might have to come tonight at this point because we're in dire streets. We're up against the clock here. But you know,
I saw the story. One of the local outlets carried the story and the social media posting of that story, and you were in the comments interacting with people, which I really appreciate that you made yourself available to people to discuss what was going on, and I said, gotta have them on. So Rick, what the heck is going on? Why now? After twenty four years with the city of La do this and demand this of you.
Well, it's you mentioned Boney Island. We did that at the house. So my family and another family put this on and it was a free, family friendly event. I'd never cared for gore or scares or people jumping at you with chainsaws, so we wanted to. Yeah, we wanted to do something fun and funny, and we turned our front yard into like a skeleton carnival called Boney Island. So there were rides, the skeletons were going on and they're singing, telling jokes. You felt like you were at Disneyland.
That's what everybody would tell me. And almost anybody you saw on TV and movies were always here with their families because it was not amazed. It was a you know, just free flowing. But anywhere you looked there were little jokes and fun vignettes, so everybody flocked to it. One neighbor across the street who's always looking out her window.
You know, it's always that one.
Yeah, and she kept trying to get it shut down. She didn't want people on the street in front of her house and didn't like the crowds, which I understand. It got crowded. We were a victim of our own success. But kept calling the city trying to get us shut down, and when the city didn't do it quickly enough, she called the city saying that the treehouse we had was being run as a cafe. And so the city came out and said, she's crazy. There's no cafe here. You
can barely turn around in it. But do you have a permit for this? And so I said I didn't need one. I built it with a friend and he was in construction, so it was it's really well built. There's a show called Treehouse Masters on the Discovery channel animal Planet. They came out and did a story on it. It's you know, it's been in commercials and TV shows. But I've just been battling this thing. I'm trying to
get the zoning for it, which we ultimately did. It cost us about fifty thousand dollars and I thought we were home free, and they said no, Now you just need to get the building permit. And that's what's been so tough. So it's a criminal case. Now. We went to pre trial last month and it was just so frustrating and horrible. We didn't get to say anything. So now they set the trial for March twelfth, and I'm not going back. That's going to be another you're doney
twenty thousand dollars. I got to stop the bleeding, so I'm not going back to court. I'm tearing it down myself. So they dismissed the So they dismissed the charges, which you know, I'll probably tear it down in the next few days if I don't hear from from anybody. But it's gotten anybody from the city. I tried to go to the city council meeting yesterday. They wouldn't let me speak. It's just frustrating, but there's been a ton of articles and just so much support that I'm shocked that so
many people were here. It was It's great to hear, but I got to get this. I got to get this resolved before the twelve.
And let me ask you, Rick, when it comes to the financial burden, the fifty thousand and now the twenty plus thousand that you would incur to continue to try to save the treehouse, have you thought of maybe doing some crowdfunding. I know we're up against the clock here in many ways, including here on our shows. So just you have you thought about doing crowdfund funding people volunteered in any way.
No, I don't want anybody to have to pay for this. Oh bless you something I built. There's no reason anybody should have to donate to this. It's silly. It shouldn't have really gotten this far. But it was just you know, you know, pay this thousand dollars. Fine, here, now we need to bring surveyors out to get your year zoning permit. It was always one thousand here, two thousand, and it added up to fifty. And I just said, you know, you know, we should have been spending that money on
our kids or or or vacation. Yeah, it's silly to just keep dumping this into the city and lawyers. It's ridiculous. Also, the city said if we go to trial next month, they're going to come after us to pay the city legal fees. So that's even more of a taxic gear tactic. Like it just seems overreach of the government and somewhat bullying. You know that they can't. And also Boney Island, the city shut that down. We now do it at the
Museum of Natural History as their fundraiser. Okay, So I'm just saying, I'm trying to help the city raise money. Can't the city work with us? I mean, this is ridiculous that it's come this far.
It is ridiculous, And you would expect, like you say, for a city that says it has it's constituency's best interests at heart, that they would in fact extend some sort of support wave, some sort of fee or whatever it is, so that you could continue continue to provide this free and safe service for kids. The alternative. The alternative is bleak, So why would they put you in this situation?
But it's going to go to a landfill? Basically you have to tear this down in the next few weeks. But also Tiffany, they are they with these Palisades and Altadena fires. They're saying, we're going to have one stop shopping, so when you want to rebuild, it's going to be so easy to get a permit. I have been working for years trying to get this permit for a tree house, and I can't get return calls from anybody. They're not even returning calls or inquiries when we email, so it's
been so frustrating. I just feel bad for fire victims that they're going to run into this mess as well, because there's no way they're expediting building a whole community quickly if they can't even give me an answer for the treehouse.
I love that you said that, Rick. Can I keep you on for another segment because I want to get into the good of the treehouse, what prompted it. I want you to be able to talk about the good things and things that stood out, and as well, I have questions about you being a New Orleanian. It's Marty gross season. I wonder if I want to talk to you.
I want to talk to you.
I want to talk to you about New Orleans because I love it too.
Right, I'm here for whatever you need.
We'll do all that. On the other side of the break, hang on kf I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're talking to Rick Poleet's the owner of the treehouse in Sherman Oaks that unfortunately will be coming down soon. It's been a wonderful main stay and staple of the community for the last twenty four years. Really sucky story, but we're talking to him. We'll get some more details about that. On the other side of the break.
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I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven o'clock and then Michael Monks comes aboard, so stay tuned for that. We've been talking to Rick Poliitzi. He is an author, he is an animation producer for The Simpsons. He's creator of Boney Island, which you can now see at the Natural History Museum every Halloween season if you're a lover of Halloween like I am. And he is the constructor of a very popular and beloved tree house in his Sherman
Oaks neighborhood, in his front yard. In fact, that has been available to anyone and everyone to come and experience for the last twenty four years, and unfortunately now the city of Los Angeles is demanding that he take it down because one nosy neighbor across the street stuck her nose and Rick Poliitzi's business and everyone who enjoys that treehouse and what he does there and demanded that that
tree house come down. What just you know, there's so many words for that neighbor, and I know you don't want to say him because you're an upstanding guy. You built this treehouse, so you're obviously upstanding. I can't say it because of FCC regulations. But we don't like her very much. How dare she ruin a good thing?
You know? It's annoying And right now I am talking to you while I'm inside the treehouse. Oh Rick, there were some people. There's some people around, and you know, people come by all the time and I let them go in it. I don't, you know, I let them take a look and take pictures. But yeah, very frustrating that this, with all the blight in the city, this is what the city atturn he chooses to go after. You know, it's just frustrating and it's a head scratcher.
I agree. It's like when you're driving down the street and you maybe turn too quickly and go through the crosswalk on a red light or something, and whoop, here come the police. They pull you over, but there's literally a murder happening across the street and they bypass that to come and get you. It's like, yeah, bigger priorities.
Yeah, they keep The city attorney keep saying we're not dropping it, We're worried about safety and squatters, and so I'm like, God, have you gone to any underpaths? I mean, I'm navigating through tents and stuff, and you're worried about my treehouse that has double locked gates that you're worried about a squatter there. Come on.
You know, it's kind of a backhanded compliment to you, Rick that your construction skills are really good.
The buck it is, you know, it is.
It is, and that, unfortunately has become synonymous with our city leaders as evidence with what's going on with the fires and with now Chief Crowley. But let's not talk about that. Let's do some good news and kind of take a look back at a retrospective at the Treehouse. You again, are from New Orleans, Louisiana, Marty gras Is this Tuesday. I know New Orleans, well, not from there, but it's my second city. I claim it. I love it, and I know that when it comes to Halloween, New
Orleans does it big. They love their Halloween. Were you influenced by being born and raised there for what you created with Boney Island and with the Treehouse here in Los Angeles?
Yeah, because you know in New Orleans it was really a small town. Even though it's, you know, a pretty famous place. Everybody knew their neighbors, you know, and here in La it just seems more standoffish. So I love Marty Gras. In fact, I was a king on one of the parade.
Parade what parade it was the Crew of.
Mid City Okay, and uh it's it was the fifth oldest parade in the in in Marty Grass I was. Yeah, I'm not saying I'm famous, but it was just a thrill. And I've written on floats in parades, So I loved it, and I love the I love I love having people around. It just feels a lot of a lot of people keep to themselves. So that's why I wanted to do
Boney Island as this big free for all fun. It was you know, it was free, there was no charge and it was, like I said, family friendly, So everybody showed up, and uh, that's what I really That's what I really liked about the way we did it. We didn't have a maze, we didn't have people jumping and scaring you. So it was a big Halloween celebration.
Got you now, I did see that. Since this story broke last week, council member Nathia Rahman, who's from your district, extended her help. What does that mean? It's kind of vague her help. What is is what is she planning to.
Do well this? I contacted her office last April or May, so almost a year ago, and I talked to three different staffers, three you know, a couple of zoom calls, emails, and ultimately they said there's nothing they can do to help. So that was I think in maybe April or May. And so I know that they put out a statement saying we've been trying hard to do it, but I have not heard from them, and they just simply dropped
the the idea of helping last May. Now that it's gotten a lot of publicity and stuff, I think they may be trying again, but I have not heard back from them. I just need to hear that the city attorney would dismiss a silly case like this in criminal court, or the Department of Building and Safety can give me an exemption on something that is one hundred and fifteen square feet and it's you know, it's they're calling it
an adu. So they're telling me I need to get soil samples structural architectural drawings again, which is going to be another ten twenty thousand, And that's still not a guarantee that they're going to come back and say, okay, keep it. They're going to say you got to take this out and remove this. And they're saying you can't have landscape lights in your tree. They're saying that that's a no no, we'll never approve that. So it's just a bunch of little nitpicky things. And and you know,
my family, most everybody's still in New Orleans. They're constantly calling to say, you know, come back home. Yeah, they're always doing that. And they kept calling during the fires, you know, where's the fire now? And I had to keep telling them, God, it's okay. The mud slides are putting out the fires. Don't worry about us, don't worry about us. Everything's fine. But boy, I am tempted to go back.
And a lot of people are just down. Take a lot of people are tempted right now, and they're weighing your options about whether or not to stay in LA In thirty seconds or less, Rick, can you tell us what to look for look look out for for you next? Where can people find you social media. If you have that kind of a quick little wrap.
Up, sure you can go to my website. You can see pictures of the treehouse as well. It is Rick ri c K Polizzy p Isn't Paul p o l I Zzi ricpolizy dot com and you can you can see pictures. Also. I'm always around my house and if people are walking by and we're chatting, I let him go in the treehouse and take pictures and just hang out. I like having people around and that's why I built it as well.
Beautiful. Thank you for everything you did, Rick and continue to do. Thank you for Bony Island. You know, you're just a stand up guy, and I'm really sorry that this is happening to you and that the city is coming after you. Of all people, you're probably one of the least deserving people to have this kind of pressure and this kind of monkey on your back when it comes to what's going on. So I'm really sorry for it.
Yeah, that's nice to say. That's nice for you to say. I agree with you, and hopefully things can get resolved in the next few days.
Got it. So we're talking to author, producer, architect King of Marti Gras. Dare I say King of Marti Gras At one point, Rick Polizi, who just detailed everything that's going on with his treehouse. You can catch that tree house in the next couple of days. Go out there, you can google him. You can find him on rickpoliit Ce dot com, ri I c K p S and paul O l I z z I dot com. Get
out there, see that treehouse. Maybe drop a couple bucks in a way give back to Rick Poliitze because he's given so much to the city of la and we are all better for it. Rick, thank you so much for coming on the show tonight, and I look forward to what you do next. All right. KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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