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Speaker 1: and react to all the crazy videos along with us

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Speaker 1: and Johnny. I'm going to need Henry Lee for this one.

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Speaker 1: It's happened yet again, another water main break in West Hollywood.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be kidding me, So now that's two gaping

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Speaker 3: holes in West Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: You get to stop using that phrase.

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Speaker 3: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 3: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five

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Speaker 3: two two two. Here's a headline that'll surprise exactly no

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Speaker 3: one in this audience. The bombs in Los Angeles are multiplying.

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Speaker 1: Homelessness is set to officially increase under Karen Bass when

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Speaker 1: the loss of numbers finally come out, probably tomorrow. Insiders

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Speaker 1: linked to our buddy Matthew Seedorf at Fox eleven that

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Speaker 1: the numbers are not good for one Karen Bass.

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Speaker 3: Here's my response to that. Who is surprised. It's not

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Speaker 3: like we don't live here. It's not like we don't

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Speaker 3: drive the streets of Los ange It's not like we

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Speaker 3: don't have eyes and ears and noses and we're not

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Speaker 3: aware of our surroundings. If the number of people living

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Speaker 3: on the streets was actually going down and not up,

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Speaker 3: it's something that we would notice. She kept saying that

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Speaker 3: the number of people was going down living on the

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Speaker 3: streets thanks to her project Inside Safe and other programs,

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Speaker 3: but no one felt it, no one saw it, no

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Speaker 3: one believed it, because it's not our lived experience. Our

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Speaker 3: lived experience is that they're everywhere. And now that's what

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Speaker 3: the count is proving.

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Speaker 1: If you live in the city of Los Angeles, you

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Speaker 1: can see it, you can hear it. And you can

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Speaker 1: smell it right everywhere you go, whether it's in the

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Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, downtown LA. It has not gotten

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Speaker 1: any better over the last four years. And let's not

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Speaker 1: forget when Karen Bass ran for mayor against Rick Caruso,

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Speaker 1: she promised she would end street homelessness by the end

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Speaker 1: of her first term.

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Speaker 3: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get help.

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Speaker 1: For you instead. The numbers are about the same. The

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Speaker 1: only difference is Karen Bass's buddy, her appointed chair of LASA,

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Speaker 1: Valicia excuse me, doctor Valicia Adams Kellum, is no longer

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Speaker 1: working there to fudge the numbers.

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Speaker 4: Here's something else that we learned.

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Speaker 3: It's not the high cost of housing that's causing people

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Speaker 3: to live.

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Speaker 4: On the streets.

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Speaker 3: How do we know this because the people living on

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Speaker 3: the streets aren't from Los Angeles, They're from other places.

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Speaker 3: Listen to this. This is from Kenneth shrub who's reporter

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Speaker 3: over at City Journal. He said, quote, I surveyed over

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Speaker 3: two hundred LA homeless for City Journal in May, finding

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Speaker 3: the majority or not from our city, many of whom

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Speaker 3: were doing drugs as I talk to Themlessness is up

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Speaker 3: in La because the nations homeless are attracted here by

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Speaker 3: our tolerance of crime and open air drug use. Our

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Speaker 3: permissive attitude about drugs is causing a bunch of broken

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Speaker 3: people from around the country to move here because they

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Speaker 3: know they can do drugs without the fear of going

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Speaker 3: to jail. If you do drugs in other states, they'll

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Speaker 3: you can do whatever you want, wherever you want, and

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Speaker 1: You've got two things going on at the same time.

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Speaker 1: You have the drug tourism that you just talked about,

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Speaker 1: which we also have corroborated by all kinds of anecdotal

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Speaker 1: evidence in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. And remember when

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Speaker 1: alex Vianueva did the census of all the people living

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Speaker 1: of shady rehab facilities who advertise on late night television

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Speaker 1: in Ohio that hey, if you've got an opiate addiction,

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Speaker 3: We are the carnival cruise lines of states, and we've

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Speaker 1: Listener twins Mommy for life. I love these usernames, drugs

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Speaker 1: and free stuff, the California Way. Richard writes in here,

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Speaker 1: drug diversion means getting you into drugs. Margie writes in

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Speaker 1: I work downtown and won't leave my office. I arrive,

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Speaker 1: know all kinds of stories to people who work downtown

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Speaker 1: that will not go out for lunch. They have to

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that downtown LA has turned into

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Speaker 1: I've been walking through a beautiful downtown all week. It

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Speaker 1: is almost the exact opposite of downtown LA. It is clean,

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Speaker 1: Downtown La is a hellscape.

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Speaker 4: And there's even blue jays where you are.

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Speaker 1: There are, which I learned something the hard way. If

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Speaker 1: you're in downtown Toronto and it's a Jay's game day,

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Speaker 1: you're not getting into any bar for happy hour. I'll

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Speaker 1: try my butt luck today, see if I can get

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Speaker 1: one of those nine dollars aparol spritzes for more. Here

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Speaker 1: is Fox eleven in Los Angeles, and you guessed it.

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Speaker 1: Usually the star of our a blocks Matthew Sedar.

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Speaker 2: Little arming number revealed by a Fox eleven exclusive investigation.

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Speaker 2: According to multiple inside.

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Speaker 3: Guy had a little muffin top. Yeah, no kidding. Too

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Speaker 3: many carbs and the homeless shelters, Well, you're.

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Speaker 2: With Walls's latest homeless count. The number of people living

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Speaker 1: I think it's more and that's by the way. Seedorf

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Speaker 1: but the unsheltered number is up about eight to ten percent,

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Speaker 1: which is the same number Karen Bass said it was down.

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Speaker 1: So he hasn't changed, and anyone that lives here will

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Speaker 3: And you also have to assume that to a certain

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Speaker 3: degree they're cooking the books because we always catch them

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Speaker 3: doing this. That's what she did with the after action

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Speaker 3: if there was some books cooking going on here and

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Speaker 3: that the number is going up, imagine what the real

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Speaker 1: It would not be impay you.

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Speaker 2: Think it's more right? What makes you think that?

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Speaker 4: I see it all the time?

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Speaker 2: After two straight years of reported declines sources Telfox eleven,

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Speaker 2: this year's count is expected to climb back to around

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four levels when it's released Friday.

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Speaker 1: I love and look at the numbers right there that's

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Speaker 1: on this chart from las up. And remember that these

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Speaker 1: were the numbers that Karen Bess was touting as her

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Speaker 1: doing a great job, spending a billion dollars a year

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Speaker 1: to get the number from forty five thousand to forty

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Speaker 1: three thousand and John, what else do we know specifically

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about numbers in the thousands of the

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Speaker 1: homeless population. These numbers could go up or down based

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Speaker 1: on how many of them die of overdoses in MacArthur

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Speaker 1: Park on a daily basis. Well, what's the number seven

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Speaker 1: of them die per day on the streets. Yes, seven,

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Speaker 1: So let's all open up our trustee calculator that your

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Speaker 1: your pocket. Turns that we do. Seven times three sixty

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Speaker 1: five means every year we're losing around twenty five hundred

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Speaker 3: Means the homeless population is gaining by more than seven

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely concerned.

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Speaker 4: We've been concerned over.

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Speaker 5: The last year that the numbers might go up because

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Speaker 5: of the cuts we've experienced.

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Speaker 1: Another no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's just take this argument here for a second

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Speaker 3: and explore it. She's gonna blame this on Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: She is going to say that the Trump administration is

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Speaker 3: the cause of California's homeless population or LA's homeless population

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Speaker 3: going up. There are fifty states in the Union. Why

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Speaker 3: isn't it going up in other places? Why isn't it

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Speaker 3: going up? Take West Virginia for example. West Virginia is

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Speaker 3: heart of Appalachia. Why is it that the streets of

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Speaker 3: Charleston don't look like the streets of la. Why is

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Speaker 3: it because if poverty and the high cost of housing

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Speaker 3: a massive problem. But when you look at the other states,

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Speaker 3: This is a state problem, it's not a federal problem.

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Speaker 1: Changes last week Mayor Karen Notice how she also blamed

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Speaker 1: cuts from the state. Yeah, sure, Karen.

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Speaker 2: Ass warned funding reductions to VASA following scrutiny over spending

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Speaker 1: And this is funding that was cut from lass at

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Speaker 1: the state and federal level, and the county divesting from

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Speaker 1: LASA because the LA Homeless Services Authority has no receipts

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Speaker 1: for where the billions of dollars have been spent. And

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass was fine with that.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, this is also her trying to

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Speaker 1: When Lindsay Horvath thought she might run for mayor, that

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Speaker 1: And then let's not forget the also complete lack of

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Speaker 1: success in Karen Bass's signature program Project Inside Safe, which

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Speaker 1: has pretty much kept maybe three thousand people in motels

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Speaker 1: indefinitely for the last three years. Very few to them

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Speaker 1: getting quote permanent supportive housing, which is a whole crazy

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Speaker 1: term in itself, and a lot going right back to

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Speaker 1: the streets. Forty percent to what she says, well, that

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Speaker 1: means sixty percent are still in the motels. And how

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Speaker 1: expensive are these mot tells. Here's the numbers, and these

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Speaker 1: came from Monica Rodriguez of the La City Council. Seventeen

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars per bed per month is how much we

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Speaker 1: spend on those motels. Seventeen thousand dollars a month for

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Speaker 1: a motel bed. How does that make any sense?

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Speaker 3: And don't forget about the fact that the homeless destroyed

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Speaker 3: these motels. They light them on fire, they turn them

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Speaker 3: into homeless encampments, they turn them into squalor, and then

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Speaker 3: the city is on the hook to repair them when

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Speaker 3: the homeless move out.

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Speaker 1: Richard writes in on YouTube, lost our experts at cooking

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Speaker 1: books while others cook meth.

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Speaker 2: I don't listen to numbers.

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Speaker 6: That's my eyes. My eyes are better than numbership.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it a lot going on within the streets

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Speaker 1: that has.

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Speaker 4: The gain inside.

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Speaker 3: Was that lady in the background looking a crack pipe? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Seriously, what does LA's fifteen billion dollar budget go to?

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Speaker 1: Garcetti said we will end homelessness in ten years. Well

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Speaker 2: While Martine digs through burned rubble for metal to recycle

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Speaker 1: Metal in Spanish is metal.

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Speaker 2: The numbers may be changing, but scenes like this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's definitely smoking a crack pipe.

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Speaker 4: That's what we thought.

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Speaker 2: Have it Downtown, we faced the brunt of it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, she did, I'm sure after a very lively conversation

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Speaker 2: The numbers may be changing, but scenes like this have it. Downtown,

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Speaker 1: The she kissed a dirty Downtown La Paul after smoking

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Speaker 6: None of it downtown is, you know, the heart of

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Speaker 1: I don't think we need more resources. No, I think

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Speaker 2: But as expected last year, our efforts ultimately couldn't keep

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Speaker 2: It's only now that we've seen a historic decline.

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Speaker 1: No, it's up again. What are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: What a profile and courage. I did great things by

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Speaker 1: To quote Lindsay Horrvath doesn't sound like locking arms to me.

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Speaker 2: I will never stop fighting until no Angelinos are sleeping

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Speaker 1: Hoops, Johnny. I've said it once and I'll say it again,

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Speaker 1: and I can't believe it every single time I say it.

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass is the worst mayor Los Angeles has ever had,

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Speaker 1: and that's saying something coming from this jackass, I give

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Speaker 3: I have lived in southern California my entire life, never

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Speaker 3: I'm a fourth generation Angelina. My family's been here since

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Speaker 4: Ever.

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Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of people who come here

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Speaker 3: There's never been this many homeless encampments, There's never been

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Speaker 3: So here's my question to you. At eight hundred two

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Speaker 3: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the Giant Phillip Show.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever seen La in this bad condition before

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Speaker 3: the city is dirty.

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Speaker 4: What say you?

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Speaker 1: At eight hundred two two two five two two two one.

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Speaker 4: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. It's

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Speaker 3: It's the John Phillips Show eight hundred two two two

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Speaker 3: And we have a new edition of the Accountability podcast

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Speaker 1: Accountability Podcast with John Phillips and Randy Wang talking Gavin's

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phones.

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Speaker 3: According to a new report there are more people living

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Speaker 4: What say you?

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Linda in Beverly Hills. Linda, Hello, No, Linda,

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Speaker 3: all right? Went bye bye. Let's go to Deb in

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Speaker 3: Santa Monica.

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Speaker 1: Deb Welcome, How are you doing?

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Speaker 7: Here's my gig? Can you hear me?

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Speaker 8: It's so good.

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Speaker 7: I've been here. I was actually born and raised in California,

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Speaker 7: disgusting as you said, and so disgusting and so appalling

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Speaker 7: that I am now getting out of California. I feel

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Speaker 7: pushed out, not by my own religion. I feel pushed

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Speaker 7: I feel like it's time to go. I feel pushed out.

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Speaker 4: Where are you going to go?

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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, that's another story in itself. My daughter's in

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Speaker 7: this stage, I don't know that I want to completely.

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Speaker 7: It's pretty crappy and I don't see anything happening in

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: James, Hello, Dying.

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Speaker 5: I am.

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Speaker 9: I am a private building inspector. I worked for different

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Speaker 9: I ended up perching a handgun just to keep it

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Speaker 9: Yeah, right, years ago, I thought LA might change. I

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Speaker 9: for an addict. I've got a long time in recovery.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with you more.

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Speaker 3: Our permissive attitude about drugs has attracted everyone in the

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Speaker 9: It looks like a third world country. And you know,

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Speaker 9: I pay eighty dollars a night to camp, and you

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Speaker 1: Oh, make sure you hit that dump button, Josh. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for the call, Sarah, I appreciate it. You know

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Speaker 3: Well, the caller raises a good point, though, because I

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Speaker 3: moved the Kings from Inglewood to downtown. They put in

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Speaker 3: LA Live, they put in the Disney Concert Hall. All

442
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 3: of these chefs were falling all over themselves to open

443
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 3: up restaurants in downtown La. You look at what happened

444
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 3: in Venice and in Hollywood, areas that were gangland in

445
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 3: the nineteen eighties, and people wouldn't go there, and they

446
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 3: became safe, and they became desirable, and people wanted to

447
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Speaker 3: live there, and people wanted to dine there, people wanted

448
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 3: to be entertained there. Tourists wanted to come visit and

449
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 3: see these places. Areas like Echo Park that used to

450
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 3: have gang injunctions suddenly was the spot that people were

451
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 3: wanting to build million dollar homes with amazing views of

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Speaker 3: downtown LA and the basin.

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Speaker 4: And we took it for granted.

454
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Speaker 3: We thought that it would always be like that, that

455
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Speaker 3: we would always be optimistic, that we would always see

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Speaker 3: the future as something that would produce better things for

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles. And then the caller was right. We started

458
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 3: decriminalizing drugs and we started attracting every druggie in the

459
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 3: country to move here, and these areas that were safe

460
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 3: and desirable became areas that any sane person would avoid.

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Speaker 4: And that's what we ended up with.

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Speaker 3: And now, instead of going back to what worked in

463
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: the nineties, we're pedal to the metal in the opposite direction.

464
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 3: And we have two candidates for mayor who have no

465
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,719
Speaker 3: clue what they're doing. In fact, one of them wrecked

466
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 3: the city and the other one wants to wreck it

467
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Speaker 3: even more than the old one did.

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Speaker 4: No, let's go to Christian Bellflower.

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Speaker 8: Chris, Hello, Hey, John, Hey Randy, Randy, keep your hand

470
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Speaker 8: hovering over that button.

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Speaker 1: I'm in Toronto.

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Speaker 8: I don't have a button, all right, I'll try to

473
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Speaker 8: keep it clean. I work in Bellflower. I lived in

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Speaker 8: Gardena in Long Beach my entire existence. And about eleven

475
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 8: o'clock in the morning on Lakewood and Imperial yesterday or

476
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 8: hey before yesterday, right in front of a Chick fil A,

477
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 8: this guy was rolling in his wheelchair. I was in

478
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 8: a stoplight, so I couldn't help it. You know. Look,

479
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 8: he stood up from his wheelchair, pushed it back that

480
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 8: foot or two, didn't cop a fleet squat, but just

481
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 8: slightly bend his legs, pulled his pants down, unloaded right

482
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 8: there on the asphalt, pulled his pants back up, sat

483
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Speaker 8: back in the chair, and rolled away right over it.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, well, I guess you took his probiotics.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. And we're

486
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 8: not talking the middle of the night in the downtown LA.

487
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 8: We're talking morning hours in a relatively crowded area of belflow.

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Speaker 8: It was the most disgusting, amazing thing I've ever seen

489
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Speaker 8: in my life.

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Speaker 4: Well, good luck moving any chicken in that environment.

491
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Speaker 8: Exactly. All right, guys, just wanted to share that with you.

492
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 8: And yes, it's going downhill quicker than it ever has

493
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Speaker 8: in the past.

494
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Speaker 1: Everyone eating lunch right now is very glad you shared

495
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: that story.

496
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Henry and Burbank. Henry, Hello, Hey.

497
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Speaker 10: Raredy and John I Mets. You're at the five k

498
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 10: year pen k for Union Rescula. She was actually doing

499
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 10: something to fick problem. Unfortunately, fortunately they are. But I

500
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 10: almost here since the late eighties, and I'm nostalgic now

501
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 10: for Viaa Crosa, which is sad because he was completely corrupt,

502
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 10: Like the city sort of functioned and I don't see

503
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 10: any functioning as a city anymore. And at the heart

504
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 10: of it, I do believe addiction is the highest problem

505
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 10: that leads to all the crime problems. And we're treating

506
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 10: this problem through all these NGOs and everything else, who,

507
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 10: of course get money back to the politicians. We're treating

508
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 10: it as a homeless problem as a housing issue instead

509
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 10: of what it really is, which is an addiction problem.

510
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 10: And it's depressing because it's a great city and it's

511
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 10: been ruined. And it makes me sad because my kids

512
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 10: were born here and know they're not going to stay here,

513
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 10: you know, And I'm not going to stay here, I

514
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 10: know how much longer. But Burbank is still nice, but

515
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 10: everything around it is I won't say the bad word.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that.

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00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you it's one thing.

518
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,239
Speaker 3: If your city's in a bad place because you got

519
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 3: hit by a hurricane, or you got hit by an earthquake,

520
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: or there was some kind of act of God that

521
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: leveled your town.

522
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 4: That's what happened in New Orleans. It happened sometimes.

523
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 3: But in Los Angeles, we weren't hit by a massive earthquake.

524
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: We weren't hit by a massive hurricane. Our problem is stupidity.

525
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 3: Our problem is ourselves. We elect dummies who destroy the city,

526
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: and then instead of electing people who will fix the

527
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 3: problems that the dummies created, we elect dumber people to

528
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: replace them, and then we expect there to be a

529
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: different outcome. Well, that's not how it works. You have

530
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 3: to start voting differently if you want this city to

531
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: look differently, because the crowd that's in charge will not

532
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 3: learn from their mistakes.

533
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 4: The crowd that's in charge are.

534
00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 3: Ideological extremists, so the fact that they're policies are producing

535
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 3: more homeless people and not less will have no impact

536
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 3: on what they're doing. If you're expecting Karen Bass to

537
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 3: find Jesus on this subject and come out and say

538
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 3: Project Inside Safe was a failure and a waste of

539
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 3: money and we're moving in a new direction, you're crazy.

540
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 4: She's never gonna say that.

541
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 3: She's gonna say, I need more money, I need more spending,

542
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 3: I need higher taxes, I need to double and triple

543
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 3: and quadruple down on everything that I'm doing that's producing

544
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: human misery. That's what she's gonna say, And the problem

545
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 3: will never be fixed if that's what you're doing. Eight

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Speaker 3: hundred two two two five two two two is telephone

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Speaker 3: number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two.

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Speaker 3: More of your calls coming up next right here on

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Speaker 3: the John Phillips Show. If you'd like to email the show,

550
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at

551
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 3: gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't like show at gmail

552
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 3: dot com and Randy, you're monitoring mail bag.

553
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: We've got another fine piece of AI generated artwork from

554
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: Mitch and Camio to describe LA's homelessness crisis. That's great.

555
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, he tried to put in

556
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: the generator Barbara Ferrara, and that's what came up. Little chick.

557
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: If you upload a picture of Ferrara and just say

558
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: put this lady in the scene, it works. I mean,

559
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: it might scare the crap out of you and people

560
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: might start emailing us AI generated pictures of Barbara Ferrara

561
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: doing who knows what, but hey, that's what the email

562
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: is for. Go nuts, everyone. Barbara Ferrara kind of looks

563
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: like Barbara streisand in that picture that's probably what the

564
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: AI was thinking.

565
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 3: Let's go to Nina in Pasadena. Nina, Hello, Hi, Hi,

566
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 3: So can you hear me?

567
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 4: Yes?

568
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 9: Okay.

569
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 11: Forty years ago, nineteen eighty five, I was an intern

570
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 11: with the Choral Foundation and we were assigned to go

571
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 11: work with a group of businessmen in skid Row. These

572
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 11: businessmen had finally become set up with the handful of

573
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 11: homeless that were sleeping in their doorways and driveways and

574
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 11: causing a ruckus. So here we were off and running.

575
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 11: We started getting the LAPD involved various city organizations, and

576
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 11: here we are forty years later, absolutely worse than ever,

577
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 11: because as soon as politics and money got involved, it

578
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 11: became its own machine, generating and join money and doing

579
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 11: nothing to solve the problem.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

581
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Speaker 11: I lived in La all my life, My parents, my

582
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 11: grandparents lived in LA and I have never seen it

583
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 11: as dat. I worked for thirty years of the City

584
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 11: of La and retire ten years ago, and back then

585
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 11: it was bad enough, And now it's I don't even drive.

586
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 11: I wouldn't even go to the city of La anymore.

587
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 11: I live in Pasadena. So yeah, it's awful, the worst ever.

588
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 3: Well, in the old days, that crowd would not put

589
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 3: up with this. But for whatever reason, the crowd, especially

590
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 3: the crowd that's in power right now in city hall,

591
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: they are perfectly happy to live like this. They are

592
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 3: highly tolerant of encampments being everywhere, open, drug use, crime, dirt, filth, graffiti,

593
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 3: everything that.

594
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 4: Comes with it.

595
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to bother them, and I, for the

596
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 3: life of me, cannot figure out why they're happy to

597
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: live like that.

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00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 11: Well, the city lets them and they pay them for it.

599
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 11: And the city councils comprised of ignorant children. These people

600
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 11: have no business being on a city council. They don't

601
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 11: even know how to run a budget, how a city works. Nothing.

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00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 10: It's ridiculous.

603
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 4: All right, thank you for the call.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Scott Myers, who's running for Congress I Burbank.

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Speaker 1: Scott, welcome, Thanks for taking Paul.

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Speaker 12: Can you hear me?

607
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: So are you in front of a murder scene? Scott?

609
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 12: You know I'm sitting outside a cafe in Burbank. My

610
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 12: wallet's on the table, not a care in the world

611
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 12: about anyone grabbing it and running away. It's we don't

612
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 12: have a homeless encampment problem in Burbank, Glendale, lamarad of

613
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 12: Beverly Hills, all these places. We have it in Los

614
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 12: Angeles and Santa Monica because these policies are allowing John.

615
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 12: You guys had it right. It's a tolerance of drugs.

616
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 12: People come here because we've got the best myth in

617
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 12: the world in the country. We have dollar fentanyl in

618
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 12: MacArthur Park and three dollars in Santa Monica. If Karen

619
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 12: Bass needs to do one of two things. She either

620
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 12: needs to if this homeless count is up, give me

621
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 12: official numbers are released. I guess tomorrow He's got two choices.

622
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 12: He either has to resign because otherwise she's going to

623
00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 12: usher Nifia Ramon in. Either resign or cut bait. Brandy,

624
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 12: you had it right stop financing this thing. You know

625
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 12: three years ago, Reverend Andy Bales who read the very

626
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 12: successful Union Rescue Mission. Those graduates of that mission came

627
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 12: out clean and they lived successful lives. This is not

628
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 12: a way that we are doing it in the city

629
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 12: of Los Angeles to remedy this problem. We have such

630
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 12: tolerance of drugs, Reverend Andy Bale said, if I he said,

631
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 12: if he were mayor, he would even bring in the

632
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 12: National Guard, invite the National Guard. He had to get

633
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 12: rid of the drug dealers, not the drug addicts, the

634
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 12: drug dealers. One thing that Karen Bass won't ever acknowledge

635
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,959
Speaker 12: is the drug dealing problem. She talked whenever she talks

636
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 12: about drugs, it's about rehab or rehab, or rehab or rehab.

637
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 12: What about those guys that are hanging out on this

638
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 12: creek corner waiting for the guy in the feth stupor

639
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 12: to come back to life to sell them another dollar

640
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 12: worth of fentanyl. I mean, this is open, it's open.

641
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 12: She sees it, everyone sees it. But she won't acknowledge

642
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:12,760
Speaker 12: the drug dealing problems that is ushered in this absolute squaller.

643
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 12: You guys are right. It's never been worse. And I

644
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 12: don't know how she's going to get out of this

645
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 12: unless she cuts bait, either by resigning or changing her

646
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 12: policies completely upside down.

647
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call. Let's go to

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Speaker 3: Kathleen and Rosemead.

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Speaker 5: Kathleen, Hello, hell them, sir, thank you for taking my call.

650
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 5: And I want to thank you for all the things

651
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 5: you say that are so true. You say him better

652
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 5: than I can. But my family came here in nineteen

653
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 5: hundred part Native American. I was warned the end of

654
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 5: this month ninety one years ago in him it. I've

655
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 5: lived here all of my life. I went to school here,

656
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 5: it was safe. I cannot walk in an area today

657
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 5: that I walked in for years, called whiteir and Arrows

658
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 5: Park because of the homeless and almost being attacked there.

659
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 9: I can't go there.

660
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 5: Anyway because it's eight dollars now to get in for

661
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 5: thirty minutes of walk.

662
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 9: So I lost both ways.

663
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 5: But I have never seen catch filed.

664
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call. I appreciated them

665
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: up against a heartbreak. The fixed California hour is coming

666
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: up next.

667
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 4: Don't you go anywhere