WEBVTT - Pratt, Bass and Nithya on Homelessness 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.280 And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.880 on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wings in Culver City. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:07.880 John, a new. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.320 Report from the State Legislative Analysts Office has shown in 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.360 the last seven years as governor, Gavin Newsom has increased 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:20.240 spending in the state of California by one hundred billion 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:21.279 dollars a year. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.640 Accountability, accountability, accountability. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.880 Well, at least we have all of this to show 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:27.280 for it. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.760 I don't know why we're so damned sheepish. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.640 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.720 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.320 two two two. All right, let's go back to the 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.960 sound of last night's debate between Spencer Pratt, who is 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.480 running for mayor of Los Angeles of reality TV fame, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.840 incumbent Mayor Karen Bassie wants another four years, and socialist 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.440 councilwoman Nitthia Rahman. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.960 I feel like I've got the Jeopardy board here. All right, John, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:02.480 our topics are the fires, crime, homelessness, the budget, housing 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.680 SB seventy nine, or Hollywood. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:07.720 Let's do homelessness. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.000 Oh boy, here we go. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.120 We're going to talk about homelessness. Four years ago when 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.080 we did a debate. It was a number one topic. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.960 It is right up there again. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.080 Karen Bess did a great job. Good job, Karen. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:24.080 This is an. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.679 Issue that continues to challenge the city, homelessness. Many residents 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.720 say the homeless in their neighborhoods make them feel unsafe. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.520 They feel the homeless have more rights than the residents do. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.839 So these are two yes or no questions for each 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.119 of you right now. Getting off the street is voluntary? 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.479 Should that change if a bed or a shelter is available, 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.840 Mister Pratt, We're going to start with you, yes or no. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.280 It's illegal to live on the street, so yes, everyone 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.880 needs to go inside. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.200 A may Or Bass, everybody needs to go inside. Making 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.800 it illegal and arresting people is not the way to 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.120 say solve this problem. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.080 Miss Ramen, really, because when we did that, we didn't 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.840 have as much of a problem as we have now. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.520 What could she point to from her four years is 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.320 mayor that has made homelessness better. Having the cops look 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.120 the other way as they break every rule in the 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.640 book has given us the bedlam that we have on 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.680 a daily basis. Ms. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.119 Ramen, Yes, people people need to go inside when they're 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.800 offered shelter they go inside. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.280 It is unanimous here Colleen does not like Nithea. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.400 Who does what if Colleen lives in Sherman Oaks. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.639 Next question, do you support the ordinance that restricts encampments 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.920 in front of schools or daycare centers? 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:46.640 Mayor Bass? 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.840 I'm going to start with you, yes or no? Ms Raman, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:50.400 Yes or no. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.520 I you know I support keeping our streets safe. I 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.600 did vote against the structure of this particular ordinance, and 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.000 it is because yes or no, it does not the way. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.560 This ordinance was structured. It does not keep our children safe. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:08.960 It doesn't keep our children safe. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:09.160 No. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.040 Why does it take that long to get a yes 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.400 or no out of this lady? 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:21.519 Because it doesn't sound good when you are asked, should 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.720 we make sure there are no homeless encampments near schools? 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:30.320 And she says no, so she has to qualify it, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.840 even though she has voted against clearing homeless encampments in 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.960 front of schools over and over and over again. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.640 You know, having her on the stage, maybe Joe Pollock 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.280 is onto something. It does make Karen Bass look reasonable 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.560 standing next to this complete whack job lunatics. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.360 It doesn't keep our children safe enough. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.480 It's a simple yes or no question, mister Pratt, Pauline 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:57.840 is done. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.320 What I was saying is she's fighting because she doesn't 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.280 think there's a difference between one foot or five hundred 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.760 feet for kids' safety with drug addicts. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.880 From machete out in front of yes or no. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:16.240 I love my Spencer Pratt. He's so fantastic. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.880 Can you remember another time in any mayoral debate that 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.599 we've covered over the last decade where someone said the 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.960 term machetes on the stage? 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.960 Well, Daddy Trejo, he did cut an ad for Kevin 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:32.040 da Leone, didn't He? 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.840 Yes, he did, But I think I already took it 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.560 off the wall because it did not think it was 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.719 ever going to be relevant. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.840 Again, of course, we do not want a camments in 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:41.520 front of schools. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.480 Although we did see Kevin de Leone at the governor's debate. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.440 Yeah, what was he doing there? 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.800 He had a big fu beard going on. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.440 Of course, we do not want a camments in front 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.960 of schools, parks, daycare. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.159 I don't views where you talked about how is that 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:01.960 a hard question? 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.960 That's a layup where you talked. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.960 About inside safe. Let's go into that a little bit. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.840 You've suggested that there has been progress made, but even 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.200 the Los Angeles Homeost Services Authority, which the city contracts with, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.279 has said that upwards of forty percent have left and 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.479 gone back to the street. I mean there's a concern 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.640 that a lot of money is being spent. There's been 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.320 some progress, certainly not enough. I'll have you defend your program. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.640 So Conan, I declare a state of emergency on day 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.200 one because I know that what Angelinos want to see 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.840 are their streets clear. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.400 So when are we getting to that? 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.640 Yeah, what's the deal with declaring a state of emergency? 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.960 You can declare a state of emergency if you don't 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.159 do anything to combat the problem. You can make as 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.440 many declarations as you want. Nothing's going to improve. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.080 Well, the point of the state of emergency was to 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.120 have a big problem. That means nothing. At the same time, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.840 it also means that there was zero oversight of the 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.240 money she was spending because it's an emergency, and that's 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.320 how we got to motel rooms that cost seventeen thousand 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.880 dollars per bed per month. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.279 So it was a license to burn money. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.120 Yes, Insight Safe is the only city wide program that 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.919 we have had that has reduced homelessness two years in 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:26.400 a row. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:27.719 Prior to that, there. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.599 Was nobody's buying that. Nobody who lives here believes these 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.440 numbers who out. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.440 There on planet Earth outside of maybe people who work 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.080 for her, is buying into that nonsense. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.360 She is saying that it's eighteen percent better than it was. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.479 If that's true, nobody's noticing it. And you want to add, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.720 you want to know how that's not true. Look at 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.560 the place where it's the most visible, skid row. It 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.080 ain't eighteen percent better there, it's worse. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.200 Prior to that, there was no citywide strategy and homelessness 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.040 was going up year after year. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:05.719 We need to have an in touch. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.159 They also change the methodology of how they count in 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.400 twenty twenty four, but we're not going to get into 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:11.360 the details of that. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.200 I'll tell you something else. It's not just seeing people 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.600 on the streets, it's seeing the remnants of people living 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.840 on the streets. La is dirtier now than it has 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.760 been in my entire life, and it's not even close. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.480 There is trash everywhere, there is graffiti everywhere. Nothing is 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:32.320 being kept up. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.800 You know, I'm going to be as bold to say 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.640 that in a couple of years. If things really turn 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.320 the corner up in Oakland, the city of LA is 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.800 going to be known as the city of Dumpy. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:45.280 We need to. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.920 Have an entirely new system that is frankly independent. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.280 Have a new system. You're in charge now. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.880 We need to have an entirely new system that is 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.640 frankly independent that in the city of Los Angeles, because 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.840 we need to build out services once we get people 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.600 off the street. The same report also said that sixty 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.559 percent of the people in insight say stay inside. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.080 Imagine being a bass voter and listening to this and going, yeah, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.920 you know what, she's good enough. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.240 This is LA. But that is a low bar. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.800 So it is a program that is working. Absolutely. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.760 Does it need to be there, we go, she's back 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:35.200 at it. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.439 Absolutely? Does it need to be better? Does it need 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.800 to be more cost effective? And we're working on that 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.880 right now. By building temporary structures on city owned property. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.920 We can do this Los Angeles. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.200 We have been doing it for the last three years 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.120 and it's the first time homelessness has gone down. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.600 I don't know about that. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:01.040 I'll tell you if her performance, which is been universally 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:08.440 regarded as atrocious, is good enough to get a second term, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.080 we're done. I don't think you understand what kind of 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.720 ridicule is coming our way when the Olympics come to town. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.800 But it's not gonna be fun. And you know what, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.439 We're walking into this eyes wide open. It's not as 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.600 if she has everyone snookered into thinking that she was 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.760 doing a bang up job as mayor. We're all aware 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.320 that she's a failure. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.840 Councilmember, Ramen, So you promise to clear half of the 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.079 encambments by the Olympics and all of it by the 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.840 end of the term if you get elect bitter Yeah, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.040 my question to you, you've been in. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.080 I do like that. The Telemunda guy calls her Ramen. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.360 My question to you, you've been in the city council 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.680 for five years. Why are we barely seeing this plant yesterday? 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.960 I think it was posted on your Instagram and is 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:57.880 just realistic. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.720 Absolutely, it's really oh it too. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.080 Well. They have a lot in common with Shang in 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.120 any number of ways. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.840 Absolutely, at least she's got a badonka donc Absolutely. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.840 It's realistic, and it's realistic because I've done. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:13.760 It in my own district. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.480 This is exactly the plan that I've I've operationalized in 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.240 my district to get. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.080 I go to Sherman Oaks A lot people are not 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.400 happy with your job performance. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.360 She did get re elected. How that happened, I don't know, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.600 because everyone I know that lives in that district or 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.400 has the business in that district, has some sort of 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.559 horror story involving her in her office. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.040 To get a fifty four percent reduction intensity came in 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.240 my district in three years, ok, in three years, yes, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.320 and I am one council member and proposing a plan 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.120 for an entire city. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.840 At this she is the head of the Homelessness Department, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.320 the Homeless Committee in Los Angeles. She has been in 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.480 charge of since twenty twenty three. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.840 And before she was elected to the council, she came 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.559 from one of those phony, blooney homeless groups. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.120 And proposing a plan for an entire city at this time, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.480 it is absolutely realistic. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:12.960 But what I want to go back to. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.240 Is the idea that we are satisfied with our homelessness 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.240 system right now. I don't think anybody in Los Angeles 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.240 right now can say that we are satisfied with spending 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.160 extraordinary amounts of money on our homelessness response and getting 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.800 only incremental progress. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.320 In response, I want to change that. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.560 Let's use the dollar you're in the city council right now. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.360 She is so bad. I'm telling you, I know that 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.480 she is of the belief that Spencer Pratt and Karen 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.960 Bass are working together. I am now starting to think 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.120 that she and Karen Bass are working together because she 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.040 is so bad that she makes Karen Bass look like 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.559 an adult standing next to her. So what you're saying 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.000 is she's the ugly friend at the bar one hundred percent, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.800 or the kids call them the grenade. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.920 Let's use the dollars that we're spending. Let's actually build 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.319 out a real system that can get as many people 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.000 indoors as possible. Let's not put them into one hundred 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.480 thousand dollars a year motel. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.760 Rooms for a year or more per person. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.800 This system is not fiscally sustainable, and we must work 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.240 to end this crisis with urgency and with accountability right now. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.960 So you'll make it into sure they've been so clear 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.760 all of the comments. By the end of your term, 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:30.240 if you get a. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:31.160 Yes, that's correct. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:37.080 Absolutely, Come on, who's believing that nobody? 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:38.440 Yes? 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:38.760 Mate? 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.160 I have to respond because I know the statistics she's 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.080 talking about in her district, But the statistics are there 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:46.840 because of inside Safe. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.400 They both want credit for the failure. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.440 Oh my god, because she is called on inside Safe. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.200 Repeter, you didn't understand, Johnny, this hits the different when 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:00.480 you live in the city. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.040 As someone who used to live in Los Angeles County, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.600 it's entertainment for me to watch. I guess I go 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.360 there for the airport and go to the office and 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.280 for entertainment and for restaurants and those sorts of things. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.880 But my god, I am so glad I do not 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.400 live in that city on a day to day basis. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.120 I wish I could say. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.040 That because she has called on Insights Safe repeatedly, I 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.520 took the initiative to go into her district to make 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.840 sure that that encampments were How. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.280 Many stories have we done of naked people attacking people 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.079 on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks in the last four years? 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.040 How many have we done in the last two weeks. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.800 Clear, we absolutely need a new system and it has 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.640 to have a comprehensive approach. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.840 And there's no rooms for one hundred thousand dollars. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:59.120 You're right, they're more than that. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.719 We need to move on. So, mister Pratt, you have 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.040 been cytical of what you. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.920 Consider seriously with the squabbling that's going on in the 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.160 blame game, Spencer Pratt looked like the adult. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:13.440 In the room. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.520 Oh, one hundred percent. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.760 You have been cytical of what you consider failures of 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.160 the current administration on this issue. You advocate for what 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 some have called get help or get out of the way. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:30.680 What is that and how do you do it? 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.400 I don't know who made up that name. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.200 Yeah, I don't know how you say. Some have called 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.040 what you want to do this? What does that mean? 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.800 Yeah, that's a weird way to ask a question. Colleen's 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.880 been around for a while. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.480 First off, let's I just want to say, Counsel of 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.760 Robin acts like she doesn't have any authority with this homelessness. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.680 She was the third most powerful person in city council, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.920 she runs the homeless housing thing. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.960 She acts like this is just may or best. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.920 First off, inside safe, I like to say, inside is 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.480 safe makes all of us outside unsafe. The reality is, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.760 no matter how many beds you give these people, they 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.000 are on super meth. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.840 Fact Jack true, they are on fentanyl. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.920 The DEA statistics says ninety three percent of this is 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.600 a drug addiction problem. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.640 Yeah, I would agree with that. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.640 As someone who has seen many homeless people on the 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:29.440 streets of Los Angeles. The answer, of course is duh na. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.920 Councilman Robin's plan for treatment. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.720 First, I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.640 her and we can find some of these people she's 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.360 gonna offer treatment for. She's gonna get stabbed in the 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:40.520 neck these people. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.120 I needed this debate, I really did. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.520 Oh my god. I love the fact that these two 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:55.760 women are getting at least a glimpse into reality because 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.960 they both exist in these bubbles where everyone is just 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.760 as Kookie left when as they are, and that's all 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.400 they hear all day long, and they give each other awards, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.680 and they congratulate one another, and they thank each other 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.840 for their leadership, and they never hear the alternate point 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.640 of view. And right now they're getting it in the 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.360 face like a two by four. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.640 Well, and there's this kind of rule in your inelected 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.600 office that you have to talk as politely as possible 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.640 about this program. Right now, Spencer Pratt is talking about 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.800 this program the way every single resident talks about this 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.640 program to their neighbors and to their friends. They all 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.440 are sick and tired of the drug addict bombs and 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.520 they use way more harsh language than that. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:42.840 But we're governed by the FCC. These people do not 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.600 want a bed. They will Fennel or Superman. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:52.280 Super math. You take super meth. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.000 You can leap tall buildings in a single bound, or 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.120 at least think you can. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.760 These ideas costs US over four hundred million dollars to 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.120 house for. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.160 Sixty seventy What did you say? 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.960 Three thousand people for four hundred million is absolute failure 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:07.880 for both of them. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.240 They're a team. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:15.320 So he came prepared. Oh yeah, and he brought the receipts. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.200 So somebody just emailed this wondering if he did his 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.359 debate prep by watching the two person debate that happened 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.040 the night before at the Sherman Oaks home Owners Association 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.359 and realized that he knew exactly where they were going 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.080 with every single one of these questions. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.679 Oh, he does his research. When he came in for 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.000 the hour and we interviewed him on just about every 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.399 subject that the next mayor of Los Angeles is going 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.119 to face. During one of the commercial breaks, we were 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:51.240 talking about housing and I referenced something that Palmer Lucky, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.919 who was a billionaire, put out on X about what 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.240 he would do to solve the housing problem in Los Angeles, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.439 and it was an interesting take. Essentially said that a 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.240 lot of the areas with the worst crime are central 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.920 to the city and they're close to public transit, they're 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.000 close to the freeways, they're close to a lot of 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.880 things that people need and use. And if public safety 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.680 became your number one priority and you made those areas 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.560 safe to live in, well, there's a lot of existing 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.240 housing right now that normal people won't live in because 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:27.399 it's too dangerous that suddenly becomes available overnight. And he 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.919 was taking notes and he had an eight in and 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.040 he goes, remind me later tonight, we're going to read 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.080 that thread and we're going to talk to him and 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.160 we're going to figure out how to incorporate this into 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:45.000 our platform. He's not someone who just is cavalier about 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.280 these things. He studies, he does his homework, and he 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:49.320 shows up prepared. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.120 So Council Member rom And you have thirty seconds story. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.879 I want to just say to everybody who's watching today, 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.080 you're going to watch today as Mayor Bass and Spencer 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.520 Pratt attacked me because they want to run against each other. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:06.719 In the general election. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.879 Each of them thinks that running against each other is 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.680 what's going to help them win, and they don't want 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.439 to run against me because my ideas, which are based 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.800 on real results in my district, which. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.920 Are based on what Mao had to say many moons ago, which. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:25.199 Are based on real data, a real analysis of the system, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.440 and a focus on accountability and using every dollar as 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.640 effectively as possible, which. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.880 We have done in my district. I want to take 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:33.639 the city wide. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.560 This is why this is happening today. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.440 Becaus, and we're out of time. I'm going to give 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.359 each of you thirty seconds to respond to this. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.280 Can I start with you, and then I'm going to 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.120 go to Mayorbell. First off, Mayor Bass and I are 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.800 definitely not working together. I've blamed this verson for burning 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.000 my house and my parents' house and my town and 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:56.960 all my neighbors down. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.280 I am not working with Mayorbas. Second off, if. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:05.200 I'm it just keeps getting better and better. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.640 Johnny eight hundred two two two five two two two 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.280 is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.480 five two two two If you'd like to email the show. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:17.560 You can do so at Johnny don't like show at 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.080 gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't like show at gmail 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.480 dot com. And Randy. 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