WEBVTT - The Plan to Unseat Laura Friedman: Scott Alan Meyers on CA-30 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.760 Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state, 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.400 the homelessness and the city is out of control. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.039 The economy is sick, axes. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.200 Are high, housing is expensive, and businesses are leaving. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.680 Leaving California means fixing, and John Phillips is just the 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.239 man to leave the charge. It's The Fix California Hour 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.520 with John Phillips and Randy. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.080 Way and we continue at one oh five in the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.600 afternoon on The John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Weggs in 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:31.360 Culver City. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.360 You know, sometimes I don't really get the context of 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.199 some of the comments that are in the chats, and 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.840 then I'm realizing, oh, they're referencing some of the AI 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.040 pictures that we played during the breaks. 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When 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.399 we get to five thousand subscribers, we're going to the 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.080 Tijuana River and hit the like button. Share the show. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.000 Tell your friends, we want more people to be watching this. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.160 I want one of those YouTube plaques that Chris Silla's has. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.800 It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.839 the program. He is a candidate for the United States 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:39.360 House of Representatives to replace Laura Friedman. The seat includes Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.840 and mid Wilshire. You can follow him on x at 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.160 Scott A. Myers La Scott Alan Myers. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:46.800 Welcome. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.040 Thank you guys, Thank you for having me. That's what 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:50.560 you look like. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.280 Huh well, thank you so much for stopping by. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:55.320 We appreciate it. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.040 So let's start out with the new homeless numbers that 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:04.440 came out that show that the number of people living 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.360 on the streets in Los Angeles is going up, not down, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.400 despite the fact that we're spending millions and millions and 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.560 millions of dollars on these homeless services and Goos. The 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.480 same thing is happening in Long Beach, the next biggest 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.000 city south of Los Angeles. And you look at other 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.240 parts of the country that see their homeless populations going down. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.360 If it's going down around the country, one would assume 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.480 that it should be going down here in California. But 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.920 it's not. It's going up. And we spend more on 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.480 the homeless than any other state in the Union. And 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.000 despite the fact that Mayor Bass understands that these numbers 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.560 are going up, as do others on the council and elsewhere, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.960 instead of saying maybe we should try something different, maybe 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.320 what we're doing isn't working, they say they're going to 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:03.240 double and triple down on their policies that are failing us. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:04.399 Your thoughts. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.720 I think it was Daniel Patrick moynihan that said, if 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.560 you want to make something worse, throw money at it. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.720 And this is what we're doing. The other cities aren't 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.679 doing this. What does it matter whether it's forty three 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.079 thousand or forty five thousand or fifty thousand. I mean, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.119 first of all, the numbers are not reliable anyway. It's 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.800 taken over. They're counted over three nights every February from 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.800 six o'clock to nine o'clock, when people are huddled on 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.600 trains and maybe in underpasses not to be seen. What 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:47.240 would the count be if it happened today at six o'clock. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.560 I think we'd be well well over fifty five thousand. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.360 But it really doesn't matter what the numbers are. Clearly 0:03:54.400 --> 0:04:01.680 it's failing. And what we're doing is we're modifying prior 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.280 policies thinking we're going to get it right. We're going 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.520 to get this this concoction just right, and we're not. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.560 It's it's clearly, whether it's whether it's ninety five percent 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.400 or ninety eight percent or sixty percent, it's mostly a 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:24.480 drug problem and a drug tolerance problem. I'm here in Burbank. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:30.920 There's not a single encampment in sight why you can't 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.000 dangle a bag of myth from the corner of all 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.120 of an Alameda. If you're hunched over in a fentanyl 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.760 fold outside my office building, the cops are going to 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.800 pick you up and take you somewhere. Mayor Bass drives 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.760 right by these people every single day, every single day, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.520 she's passing out needles, making it easier passing out meth pipes. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.720 Making it easier. The word on the street is our 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.480 myth is breaking bad quality math. It's the myth in 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.200 the country, and it's really cheap. And fentanyl is a 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.840 dollar and it's three dollars in Santa Monica and it's 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.400 only about an hour and a half high. So it's 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:17.320 a drug tolerance problem. Why are we not interdicting the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:23.279 drug dealing gangs? You know, that's anyone's guess. You're smart guys. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.040 I'm a smart guy. We're trying to figure out why 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.760 is she tolerant of this? Why is Nithia? And Nythia 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.880 would be far worse, but why is there such tolerance? 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.920 And all I can think of is it's a system 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:43.040 of corruption, money laundering in a back door to get 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.240 out the vote, because these people are voting and we 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.320 know how they're voting. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.040 It seems to me as if and I've lived here 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.240 my entire life, there's always been homeless people in California. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.280 Our weather is better than other states, and I understand 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.239 that you're just always going to have a certain number 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.600 of people who are dealing with problems and living on 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:11.800 the streets. But to my eye, it really got worse 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.040 and it really started exploding the moment we started taking 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.320 a permissive attitude about drugs, the moment we said it's 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.280 okay to do drugs in public, it's okay to have 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.320 paraphernalia everywhere. We're not going to put you in jail 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.080 if we catch you with drugs. We're not going to 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.960 force you to go clean and sober. We're not going 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.880 to do all the things that we used to do 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.560 in this state when we would catch someone with drugs. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.040 We just allowed it to happen, and we convinced ourselves 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.360 that that was the compassionate response to it. The moment 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.160 we decided we were going to move in that direction, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.880 that's when it started growing exponentially. And that's when we 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.520 lost control of it. And instead of acknowledging the obvious 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.120 what's in front of our faces on a daily basis, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.560 our elected officials say it's a housing problem, which it's 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:02.120 clearly not. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.840 Yeah, well I don't I don't think the public agreed 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.040 to all of this. Of this, Uh, this lacks of 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:15.640 daisical approach to to drugs. It was it was the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:24.880 leaders and this and we the average moderate person. The 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.760 majority of people don't want to see this on their streets. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.320 They don't want to see it in their neighborhoods. They 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.960 don't want to see it on their playgrounds. It's the 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.520 leaders and the one of the problems in this city, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.720 this especially this city, is we can't get people like 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:48.880 Karen Bass, Nathia raman unsses Hugo to stand for for 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.200 five minutes before the press. There's no requirement, there's not 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.840 a requirement for any elective leader in this state to 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.440 meet with the press at any time or the public. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.840 They can hide, they can play the basement strategy all 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.600 through their all through their tenure, and the press is 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.720 not aggressive. The press s would be knocking on the 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.600 doors of these people. The press should just schedule a 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.720 press conference, but and and see if they show up. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.920 They don't show up, well that tells you something. But 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.680 we don't have a functional press in this city where 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.920 the La Press Club whatever happened to that. It's now 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.120 just a banquet, an awards dinner, exchanging, you know, exchanging 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:40.240 certificates and plaques every every year at some dinner. So 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.880 we don't have an aggressive press. We can't get answers 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.920 from Karen Bass if we if she was really required 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:51.160 to answer the answer questions and the city council was 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.080 required to answer questions we would they would have to 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.280 stand for these policies, and I think people would vote differently, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.880 and I think it would be just enough to overcome 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:07.120 our problems. For example, when Ethan Weaver ran against Nathia 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.960 Ramon in twenty twenty four, well, he was leading that night, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.960 but she eventually won. How much did she win by? 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.080 She won by exactly three hundred and fifty votes, over 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:26.079 over fifty percent. So it's access to these people. It's 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.600 a weak journalist who don't really know how to ask 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.640 a question, don't know how to follow up, and don't 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.960 realize that they've been head faked until the next morning 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.679 when they wake up and say, gee, I didn't get 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.000 really an answer to that question that I asked. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.280 We're speaking with Scott Allen Myers, who is a candidate 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:47.080 for the United States Congress in the Burbank Hollywood area. Scott, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.720 you're running against incumbent Congresswoman Laura Friedman, who comes from 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.200 the state legislature and the Glendale City Council before that, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.280 where throughout her entire career she has prided herself on 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:04.679 being an environmentalist. You look at other elected officials in California, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.560 from Karen Bass all the way up to Gavin Newsom, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.280 all of them regard themselves as environmentalists. We now have 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.120 an environmental disaster going on in Boyle Heights that is 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.200 also a public health disaster where we had a fire 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.679 that burned for over a week, dangerous smoke and chemicals 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.120 were being pumped into the air, and the government, led 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.839 by Barbara Ferrer at the La County Department of Public Health, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.440 went into that neighborhood and told those people that it 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:37.440 was safe. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.959 To breathe in those fumes. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.240 They stayed there because of the advice that the government 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.000 gave them, and now they're all sick. Their lungs are 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.160 filled with fluids, they're bleeding from the nose, they have headaches, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:51.679 they have rashes. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.400 It's a whole situation. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.600 And you look at Newsom and you look at Bissera, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.640 who's running for governor, who used to represent that area 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.360 in both the state legislature and the Congress. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.360 Neither one of them has been there. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.679 Neither one of them has shown up and taken their 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.480 lumps at those community meetings like they're supposed to. It's 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.800 part of the job when you're the governor, or you're 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.360 the next prospective governor. They just pretend like it's not happening. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.599 If you are a legitimate environmentalist, if you're legitimately concerned 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.120 about the health and well being of your constituents, wouldn't 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.160 you be at ground zero. Wouldn't that be a stop 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.520 that you have to take instead of ignoring it and 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.280 hoping that the problem will go away. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:44.920 Absolutely, But you know, everybody is an environmentalist. You cannot 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:51.280 find somebody who wouldn't care about the environment, Republican, Democrat, whatever, whatever. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:53.000 You know. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.720 I made a strange request of some friends on line 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.120 last weekend, and no one took me up on the offer. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.120 I even offered freeom munch. I went down. I went 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.600 down the Lineage fire area the middle of the day, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.120 about four o'clock actually, and I thought i'd walk up 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.480 to the building, maybe see some people protesting and talk 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.760 to some locals. And I got to a street called 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.600 Prado and I got out of my car, and the 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.720 moment I stepped out of my car, I couldn't believe 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:27.400 what I was smelling. But I continue to walk toward it, thinking, Okay, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.520 it's going to get better. No, it got worse. I 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.439 couldn't get near the building. I didn't have a mask, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.880 I couldn't get near the building. So I abandoned that idea. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.520 I wanted to get some pictures for the campaign. I thought, Okay, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.480 I'm gonna go to King Taco. I've never been to 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:47.480 King Taco. It's about a mile away. When I'm waiting 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:52.120 in line, I see that there's only outdoor dining, and 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.560 I'm thinking, I can smell that. I can smell that 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.880 almost almost as badly as as when I got out 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.560 of my car block away and there's no way I'm 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.600 going to eat. I got in my car and left. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.080 Buta Besarah's going to use the basement strategy too. I mean, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.360 the numbers are with him, the mathematics are with him, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.800 so he doesn't need to go and be seen there. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.720 Newsom doesn't care. What benefit is is it going to 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:21.800 be for him? Karen Bass needs to find some federal 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.960 impact and ask, you know, ask the White House, ask 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.040 the evil man Donald Trump, the Orange man, orange man 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:35.680 bad ask him for FEMA help because this is it 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.280 is so unfair. And there were people in their front 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.800 yard who are living there, like maybe four or five 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.160 six houses away. I saw them on the front in 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.200 the front yard, there's still people are living right next 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.640 to that, that lineage fire building. So yes they should, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.920 of course they should. But it's all about politics and 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.800 there's no benefit to Bessarah, there's no benefit to new 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.760 Some and Karen Bassa, as you know, got got boot out. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.520 But she needs to she needs to emerge and eat some. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.400 Oh did we lose him? 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:15.920 Oh? 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:16.960 Did we lose Scott? 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.200 I think we might have lost him. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.520 Well, let me see if I could bring him back. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.920 Let's let's just see what happens. Let's see if he can. Oh, wait, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.800 he's coming back. Are we ready? 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:35.800 I'm so sorry, that's okay, Yeah, go ahead, are we there? Yeah, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:44.760 you're back. Guys, Yeah, you're back. Could you hear me? 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:50.880 All right? I don't think he can hear us. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.120 Well, Scott Allen Myers was just trying to make sure 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:02.880 that we got to break on time. That's the first 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.600 time I had to hit the dump button since we 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:10.600 went live. Wait, Randy Economy didn't swear. I don't think 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.760 he did. Maybe he did. He did drop the phone 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:19.720 a lot. We want to thank Scott Allen Myers for 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.320 joining us on the show. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.720 Yeah, and you can follow him on X at Scott A. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.800 Myers LA. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:28.840 All Right, I. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.000 Want to talk to you, Randy, about what my next 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.440 question was going to be for Scott Allen Myers, because 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.400 I think it's an important one. Scott Allen Myers is 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.520 running in a district that was drawn to be a 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:48.240 Democratic district, where the Democratic candidate has a voter registration 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:54.880 advantage over the Republican and the mathematics should really create 0:15:54.920 --> 0:16:00.479 a situation where the Democrat can sail to reelection without 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.760 sweating too much. And you say, okay, well, why is 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.120 it that you even bother to run against them? And 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.120 the answer is, the voters deserve to have a conversation 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.280 about the future of their state, about the future of 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:21.600 their community. And if these people run unopposed and they 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.480 don't have anyone saying, now, what you're doing isn't working, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.440 this is a better idea. Let's consider this. If voters 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.520 don't have that opportunity to express themselves on that ballot, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.280 even if it's not enough to get to fifty plus one, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.960 there's got to be some way for people to register 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.680 their outrage, for people to register the fact that they 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.120 do not believe in what's going on right now in 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.960 this city, in this state and what's destroying our quality 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.160 of life. I think it's important for people like Scott 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.480 to put their name on the ballot and to do 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.080 what he's doing, because you look right now at the 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.720 mayoral election and in the general election, we're left with 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.640 an awful. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.520 Choice where we have Nithia or Karen. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:13.199 We don't have a viable option or any other option, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.320 I guess because no writings are allowed in a top 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.560 two system, and we're stuck picking between worse and worser. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:23.600 And it's just. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.719 It makes people feel totally depressed when you don't have 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.840 the ability to register your outrage. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.879 People deserve to have that conversation. And even when you 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.600 were facing odds that look that they're impossible, that doesn't 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.359 mean you give up. These races are very hard to 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.400 win until they aren't. And part of what you do 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.879 is every single time you put up the best possible candidate, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.040 not somebody that is going to compete heavily in the 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.359 primary and then just give up. In June, we've seen 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.760 plenty of that, Steve Garvey. You give it your all, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.280 You make every possible opportunity to get your message heard, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.280 and maybe you move the needle a few more points 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.400 this year. Maybe you move the needle a few more 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.720 points next year. 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It's 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.000 the big thumbs. 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.760 Up and play around in that chat room which is 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.560 getting kind of filthy on a Friday. 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:57.359 What are you gonna do? 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.560 All right, it's try to open up the California Crime Blodder. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:04.200 It's happened yet again. 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.800 Nice see time for the California crime Blodder. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.280 And this edition of The Blotterer takes us to Silver Lake. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.040 We started this week with a crime blodder story at 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.199 a pet shop, and we're ending this week with a 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:27.119 crime blodder story at a pet shop. And it was 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:33.280 probably the same guy for mar Here is ktla. 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.120 Now at ten thirty eight. Popular pet store is targeted 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.520 by thieves twice in less than a week. Burglar smashing 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.159 through the front window, getting away with cash, and the 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.639 company say, those thieves rolled the safe out in a 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.680 shopping cart. They didn't even cover their faces. 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.000 And it was all caught on camera. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.520 KTLA's Hailey Winslow live in Silver Lake with the latest Hailey. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:57.640 In the first smashing Grab you guys, the crooks went 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.560 into a jungle gym of wires and new exact which 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:02.919 one to pull to turn off the Wi Fi and 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.320 the surveillance cameras and this one. They took their sweet time, 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.359 seemingly unfazed by the alarm going off, the sun streaming in, 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:12.440 and the people walking by. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.000 Boy, they just slithered like a snake. 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.040 We'll see. There's no sense of urgency, more of a 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:21.040 smash and stroll. 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.320 Criminals leisurely roll a safe and a shopping cart through 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:25.080 a pet store. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.360 We've said it before and we'll say it again. Safes 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:34.520 aren't safe. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:36.159 Not even a little bit. Kids. 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:37.840 It's fine. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.200 If you want to know how safe safe are, ask 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:41.679 Karen Bass where her guns are. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.520 At forty five Thursday morning at the Urban Pet and 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.800 Silver Lake on surveillance, this guy smashes the glass of 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.119 the front door and slides in under the handlebar behind 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:56.000 him his partner in crime on a lime scooter. The 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.200 lookout then follow them. 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:03.199 Well, this is a very silver leg hipster kind of crime. 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:05.800 They got robbed by opie. 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.119 Him in with no masks or gloves. The bad guys 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.000 go straight to the safe and even look right into 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.760 the security camera before they duck out the back door. 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.640 This is their second strike in a week, first burglarizing 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.280 the Urban Pet Beverley location Saturday at four thirty am, 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:25.480 taking the cash from that safe as well. 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.439 The stature and the look of the first person who 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.000 comes in the store is a mirror image of the 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:32.600 person that was in the Beverly location. 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.720 Tim Percy is director of operations for the Urban Pets 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:39.400 four locations. Owner Zach Gray, who's out of town, started 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:40.800 this business twenty years ago. 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.760 I had ninety five dollars to his name. He first 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:49.320 started by having a dog obedience company. 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:50.919