WEBVTT - Karen Bass sits down with Elex Michaelson 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.960 And very happy Wednesday to you. At twelve oh seven 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.680 in the West, it's the John Phillips Show, mister Randy 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.000 Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.559 John, we are now less than two weeks away from 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.200 the elent the end of election season in Los Angeles 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.880 City and County continue to underperform the state of California 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.440 when it comes to getting those ballots. In the state 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.000 of California is at six percent. LA City in La 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.239 County are at four percent. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.880 Which is interesting because Spencer Pratt is the one that 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.920 is generating all of the interest in this election. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.280 Yes, but is that interest from people who can vote 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.360 in Los Angeles or is that interest from the people 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.200 on the internet that can't vote in Los Angeles. Very 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:46.800 good point, Randy. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.920 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.480 jellphone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.120 two two. Well, speaking of the City of Los Angeles, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:04.160 La Mayor Mother Oos gave another disastrous interview, this time 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.400 to CNNs Alex Michaelson. Here's the short version. It did 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:14.040 not go well. She's out of her element if she's 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:14.640 not rhyming. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.760 Let's hear Karen Bass in her sit down with CNN's 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.160 Alex Michaelson. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.200 So when you talked to Jake Tapper in twenty twenty three, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.800 you said that your goal was to end street homelessness 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.400 in LA by twenty twenty six. It's now twenty twenty six. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.320 And we haven't ended it. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.440 We have not ended it, and we're not close to 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:36.200 ending it. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:42.319 Four more years. By the way, Gavin Newsom did the 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.760 exact same thing that he was mayor of San Francisco. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.000 How are you so off? 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.640 Well, basically, when I said that have you a valley girl? 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.000 I thought you were in Baldwin Hills. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.400 Remember when Barbara Ferrer took on the valley girl persona? 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.040 The evidence is like feel clear on that? 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:04.960 Well, what do you think she was like at You 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:12.240 See Santa Cruz. I don't want to know because that's 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:17.040 like the biggest party school in the UC system. So 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.160 what was she doing? 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.280 Well, just because you know her as the lady with 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.640 the white lab coat doesn't mean when she was an 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.640 undergraduate at You See Santa Cruz, she wasn't dancing on 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.760 tables whipping her braw around her head to mony mony. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:41.519 Next side. He always paid interesting visuals on this show. Well, basically, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.760 when basically. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.400 Well, basically, when I said that it was. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.600 This is true. On the old Loveline show before it 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.320 ended with Doctor Drew and Mike Catherwood, they used to 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.120 have a bell they would play when they'd have a 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.360 caller who called in, and they hit the bell every time. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.760 Someone would say basically because they would say it about 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.120 seventeen times when explaining how they got in STD. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.840 Oh my, well, basically, when I said that it was 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.480 at the beginning of my term, I am very committed 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.120 to achieving that goal. I didn't anticipate some of the 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.360 bureaucratic barriers that I would experience. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.360 Well, you should have gotten some advice from Shang E Tao. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.040 The breaucracy is real. Could have learned a lot. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.520 But I am prepared to take those on now. And 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:38.840 let me just give you. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.280 You know, this first four years was just getting the 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.880 training wheels, figuring out how this city works. The next 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.440 four years it's gonna be great. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.000 It's not like spring training in baseball, where you get 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.880 a whole month to work the kinks out. You said, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.000 if elected, you would end street homelessness in four years, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.720 and now there's a bomb on it corner. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.840 But I am prepared to take those on now. And 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.240 let me just give you an example. Los Angeles made 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.880 a decision probably twenty twenty five years ago to not 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.960 address street homelessness, to focus. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.359 Well, twenty five years ago, this wasn't that big of 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.520 a problem. No, no, this has become a massive problem 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.120 in what the last ten years, pretty much since twenty fourteen, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.280 because that is when we de facto legalized drugs, and 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.520 you could go all the way back to about twenty 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.040 ten when we started depopulating the prison system. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.440 It was a combination of those two things prison realignment 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.440 Prop forty seven, Prop Fifty seven. The moment we decriminalized 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:52.719 drugs and we decriminalized retail theft, it exploded. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:57.200 To focus solely on building. And granted, I have fast 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.720 tracked forty two thousand units of a fourth did. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.680 You say granted or granted? I don't know. Let's listen 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:03.279 to that again. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:04.880 And granted, I. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.080 Makes for a hell of a countertop. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.680 And granted, I have fast tracked forty two thousand units 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.920 of affordable housing, but it still takes a couple of years. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.200 So basically, and that fast tracking was in an executive order. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.160 She wrote about two weeks ago. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.719 Okay, But even though she's giving some of them units 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.240 to sleep in, they're just storing their stuff there, and 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.440 they're still hanging out in the encampments because that's where 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:35.680 the drugs and the fun are. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.760 But it still takes a couple of years. So basically, 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.320 the policy of La that was. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.360 The second one. I need a bell. Are we gonna 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.000 hear about chlamydia next? Oh? I missed that show. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.600 So basically the policy of La City in La County 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.960 was we could accept straight homelessness as long as we 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.640 were building. We didn't anticipate the problem tasticizing. In my 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.600 three and a half years, for the first time, two 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.159 years in a Row Street homelessness has decreased in our city. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.080 Nope, and that's with how many of them dying on 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.239 the streets per day between five and seven in the county, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.320 you know, so you're looking at a few thousand that 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.880 are dying because of overdose or other issues every single year. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.960 In my three and a half years, for the first time, 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.279 two years in a Row Street homelessness has decreased in 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.880 our city. There hadn't been a decrease before. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.919 Also, some important context. When Karen Bass took over, she 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.840 installed her friend Valicia Adams Kellum. Excuse me, doctor Valiicia 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.960 Adams Callum is the head of LASA, who changed the 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.640 methodology of how they count the stupid homeless count, and 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.240 who also, through a whistleblower complaint, was hiding about how 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.120 ineffective Karen Bass's homeless plans were. Huh. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.800 And that's one thing that you should be able to 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.920 notice because you see it on a regular basis. It's 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.360 like when someone loses weight. You're used to fat Al Roker, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.200 and then all of a sudden, Al Roker loses a 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.360 ton of weight, and he's this thin guy doing the 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.960 weather and you go, oh, look, Al Roker's thin now, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.520 or maybe not thin, but not as fat as he 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.600 used to be. You live here in Los Angeles, You 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.920 drive around the streets, you drive around the freeways, you 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.960 have your eyes open, You're aware of your surroundings. Don't 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.920 you think we would all feel it and see it 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.720 if the number of people living on the streets was 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:41.760 actually in free fall? 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.400 Let me tell you, as a resident, unfortunately of the 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.440 city of Los Angeles, you can see it. You can 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:48.960 smell it. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.880 You can smell it right here. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.800 And you can feel it. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.720 In my three and a half years for the first 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.320 time two years in a Row Street. Homelessness has decreased 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.480 in our city. There hadn't been a decrease before. That 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.400 is a quality of life issue that impacts all Angelinos, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.080 whether you are unhoused or whether you run. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.320 Can we stop using that term, No, she is wed 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:15.800 to that. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.520 Term, or whether you run a business. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.679 By the way, lassit doesn't even like that term anymore. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.600 They say. The appropriate term is people experiencing homelessness. Okay, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.480 how about this. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.640 If they actually have a house, whether it be a 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.640 unit that was given to them through Project Inside Safe, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:39.520 a bed at a homeless shelter, a couch to sleep on, whatever, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.559 But they have a domicile where they could live if 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.760 they wanted to, but they prefer to hang out in 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.640 the encampments because that is their preference. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:52.240 What do you call that? 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 Or whether you run a business and your business can't 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.480 function because there's tenths outside, whether you're a peer that's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.960 trying to navigate through tenths to get to. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.600 School, all of this is still happening every single day. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.800 Or whether it's residents where it has decreased the quality 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.720 of life. So this is a problem. That all Angelino's experience, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.040 and we have got to have a commitment that this 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.320 has to end the. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.760 City you're in charge. This is so pathetic. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:35.840 Where she's making the argument, well, I know, I promised 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.360 that I would fix this problem in four years and 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.840 I didn't even come close. However, I'm making a dent 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.679 in it, and you need to give me four more years, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.760 because only if you give me four more years can 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.320 I make the problem go away. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.800 I don't think she can make the problem go away 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.720 at this rate in forty more years. No, no, she 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.839 can't because she's part of the problem. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.920 The city and the county never made that commitment before. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.520 And I found something that surprised me. I found a 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.440 lot of people who work internal in this system who 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.600 were very resistant to ending street homelessness. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.040 You mean the homeless industrial complex who you are bringing 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:24.240 the brinks truck to. Shocking that the service providers don't 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.760 want to solve the problem because that's how they get 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:33.480 their funding. Part of Karen Bass's problem is this, she 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.360 is one of these people who buys into the false 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.600 idea that the high cost of housing is causing the homelessness, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.520 which we all know is not true. It's drugs, it's alcohol, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:51.640 it's mental illness, a combination of the three. But she 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.880 cannot move away from that position because part of the 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.640 reason that she has the money to run for reelection 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.120 is because the developers like her, because she gets to 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.880 spend money on homeless housing. The homeless services organizations love 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.440 her because she makes it rain for them. She keeps 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.720 it all going. This problem is never going to be 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.000 solved with that woman in that office. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.800 But you promised that it would go away one hundred 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.080 percent and it's only gone down about seventeen point six percent. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.679 So why should people trust you that you're going to 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:28.640 be able to get to the hunting? 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.080 Because great question, Alex Michaelson. Good for him. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.640 So why should people trust you that you're going to 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:35.240 be able to get. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.200 To the hunt because, let me just tell you, for 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.120 the first time, we've had a decrease at all. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:48.240 No, if you were selling a product and car companies 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.320 get in trouble for this all the time, they put 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:56.040 ads in the newspaper, buy this suv because it gets 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.880 thirty miles per gallon, and then in real reality the 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.760 car comes nowhere near thirty miles per gallon. It gets 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.960 I don't know eighteen nineteen miles per gallon, and you go, now, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.480 wait a minute, that's not what the salesman promised me. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.920 That's not what it said on the sticker. That's not 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.480 what the car company said in their literature. They promised 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.920 thirty miles per gallon. The FTC if people file complaints, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.040 comes down on the auto manufacturers like a ton of 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.760 bricks when they do that, because you cannot make a 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:39.040 false claim in writing in your advertising and then expect 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.640 the consumer to just deal with it when your promise 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.760 doesn't come to fruition. That's how you get class action lawsuits, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.280 that's how you get government regulators knocking on your door. Yet, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.160 for Karen Bass, she can make these totally outrageous promises 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.240 that you know are not going to come true, and 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.640 then she just moves on to the next one after 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.000 she gets called out for not fulfilling her first obligation. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:12.160 I drive on Vano And Boulevard from my home on 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.160 the west side of the San Fernando Valley to Bourbank 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.000 Airport pretty regularly, and the last few times I've done this, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.800 I've started counting the tents that I see just on 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.040 Van Owen going through the Valley to get to that airport. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.440 The amount of tents have not changed. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.560 No, it looks like outside of a Best Buy on 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:32.400 Black Friday. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.640 There was not a decrease before at all, because there 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.480 was no commitment to get rid of street encampments, and 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.920 we had encampments all over the city. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.600 We still do. It. Used to just be in skid row, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.240 but now they're everywhere. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.959 So I would ask for people's trust in the sense that. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.240 We did drop a tea there. She likes to do that, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.840 doesn't she Usually she drops the d That's the first 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.680 time she's dropped the tea. I trust Bass. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.959 So I would ask for people's trusts in the sense 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.040 that we have absolutely made progress. We know what we 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.559 need to do now to in street homelessness. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.959 We need I finally figured out what to do. I'm 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.880 going to need four more years to implement it, though. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.960 Okay, then why aren't you doing it now? If you've 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.960 cracked the code, why is it that we have to 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.520 wait until after election day in November. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.280 We know what we need to do now to in 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.760 street homelessness. We need to end the failed policies of 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.040 the past, which is all we're going to do is 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.720 focus on building, and we are going to ignore street homelessness. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.160 That is what the city in the county has done 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.640 for years, ignored street homelessness. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.720 Well, she's really trying to throw everybody but her under 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:47.440 the bus. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.880 And by the way, when she talks about the quote 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.680 mistakes of the past, what she's talking about is incarceration. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.239 If we're ever going to get out of this crisis, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.760 what we're going to have to do is put many 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.000 of them in prison because they're breaking the law on 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.360 a regular basis. They're doing it in plain side, and 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.400 the cops and the system are being told to look 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.040 the other way. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.080 What would you identify as sort of the biggest obstacle 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 that you learned maybe being in the job, and how 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:17.880 are you going to tackle that differently in the next 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:18.360 four years. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:23.080 The biggest obstacle is the resistance to building interim housing so. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.840 Basic, you mean putting up shelters in single family neighborhoods 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:32.240 that attract crime. Gee, I wonder why there's resistance to that. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.440 That one's hard to figure out. And by the way, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.480 this was a policy of the former mayor Eric Garcetti 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.480 who created the Bridge Home system, where we needed a 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.080 shelter in every district. But don't you worry. If we 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.360 build these things, we're going to make sure to clean 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.960 up the area in front of the shelter. And that 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.440 did not happen. I received things on both ends. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.600 So basically it was an three. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.560 Where's that bell? 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.440 So basic it was an ald or nothing type policy. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.280 I think probably. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.160 She added a D there. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.320 I guess if she drops the D she can pick 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.000 them up and use them when she wants to. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.640 So basically it was an ald or nothing type policy. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.720 I think probably for a good reason. We didn't want 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.920 people to languish in shelters, but the shelters of the 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.200 old was a big room with cots all around. That 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.520 does have to end. But now there's new and improved 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.520 shelters where you can house multiple people. It's not a 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:33.280 motel room. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.000 You can have oy way. Your hope plan's been motels. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.200 So why aren't you changing that strategy right now while 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.920 you are in charge of the government for at least 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.200 the next six months. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.520 When she had the big reveal of Project inside Safe, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.960 wasn't the snooty fox mentioned by name? 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.600 Oh yes? And there were yelp reviews that were complaining 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.440 about the specific kinds of porn that you could order 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:04.400 on the TV. We got a lot more of this 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:10.199 unedited twenty minute interview with Karen Bass sitting down with 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.080 Alexmichaelson and it did not go well. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.720 And we'll give you a hint. She drops more ds. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.720 Remember when Jeffrey Tubin dropped the D. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.439 We don't need to get into that. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.960 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.480 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.360 two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.560 you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.280 gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.440 dot com and Randy. If you want to go back 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.720 and listen to yesterday's program where we spent a lot 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.640 of time talking about the gubernatorial election, you can do 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.600 that quite easily. 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All right, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:07.920 let's go. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.680 Back to LA Mayor Karen Bass's sit down interview. We 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.480 see it ends Alex Michaelson. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.400 But now there's new and improved shelters where you can 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.080 house multiple people. It's not a motel room. You can 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.200 house multiple people. 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.320 Where they got to figure this out four years ago 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.280 just by having a one conversation with the Union Rescue Mission. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.359 Where they do have a modicum of privacy. And one 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.960 thing that we have specialized that we have absolutely conquered 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.600 in my time, which is we know how to get 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.760 people off the streets. We know how to get there. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:47.560 Where what evidence do you have to prove this? Every 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.359 single day that I drive into this radio station and 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.560 we're right on the dividing line of LA and Culver City. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.200 Once you cross Venice, you're into Culver City. But when 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.480 you get off the ten Freeway at Robertson, you're still 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.360 in the city. And what do you see as you're 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.840 getting off the freeway a massive encampment that has been 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.200 there for years and years and years and years and years. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.359 Under the freeway there's a homeless encampment that has a 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.240 loading dock for stolen bikes. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.480 Which is, we know how to get people off the streets, 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.280 we know how to get them to accept the services 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.600 that they need. And the only people. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.520 That forty percent of the people in your Signature program 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.560 are back on the streets three years later. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.679 And the only people that refuse at this point, and 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.159 it's a very small number, are people who are so 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.280 profoundly ill they don't even know they're homeless. Or you 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.040 have the criminal element, and that's a very small element 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:43.160 of the homeless population. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.000 But sure about that? What planet is this Disney broad 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:54.280 living on. Well, if you admit that there is a 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.600 massive criminal element to the homeless population, the public would 0:21:58.600 --> 0:21:59.800 want to put them in prison. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:05.959 Do you remember some time ago we had then Anaheim 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:10.640 councilwoman Lucille Kring on this program who talked about touring 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.920 the Santa Ana River. That's the river that runs right 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.480 through Orange County to the ocean and goes right by 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.760 Angel Stadium. And she said when she was interviewing the 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.320 people who were living in the river, almost to a person, 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.439 they were let out of prison early. It was a 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.800