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Speaker 2: of The Gus Report, which you could read online at

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Speaker 2: Daniel Gus dot substack dot com. You can also subscribe

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Speaker 2: the Gus Report. Daniel Gus, Welcome, John and Randy.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me back. And just a quick reminder,

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Speaker 4: Free, all right, So there you go.

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is, I guess put in

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Speaker 1: email box. All right, let's start out and talk about

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Speaker 1: what's going on right now between Spencer Pratt, who is

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Speaker 1: out to assassinate his character like clockwork, and that's exactly

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Speaker 3: Scidents of the Pacific Palisades, the City of Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the reality of the situation. And I've never

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Speaker 3: Registrar Recorder. The only thing that they got in their

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Speaker 3: John and Randy, there is no way that a pulletzer

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Speaker 1: If the LA Times is so concerned about the residency

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Speaker 3: And let's go back even further than that. A number

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Speaker 3: And she could lose in the primary, but oh God forbid,

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Speaker 1: Tell you what this character assassination of Spencer Pratt reminds

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Speaker 3: John and Randy, Thank you so much. I'll see you soon.

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Speaker 6: Hello, Hi, gentlemen, thank you for your time. Everything I've

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Speaker 1: Talking to anyone who's ever lived there or owned a

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Speaker 2: You know, we do fifteen hours of this show a week,

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Speaker 2: which means I plug our podcast fifteen times a week.

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Speaker 1: Jorge Celaire, who is the angel player involved in last

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Speaker 3: Nice see time for the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 4: And this edition takes us to the Inland Empire.

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Speaker 2: There was a huge, massive, six alarm warehouse fire and

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Speaker 7: We have an arrest tonight after a massive warehouse fire

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Speaker 7: in Ontario. Please say, and employee set the fire at

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Speaker 2: Leslie, Okay, don't panic, she said, could lead to shortage.

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Speaker 2: We do not need to be all going to Costco

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Speaker 4: Oh we're going to go through that again.

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Speaker 8: Huh yeah, Pat, we know this warehouse stored it to.

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Speaker 4: How many people do you think still hoard that stuff? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I will just say this isn't my decision, but in

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Speaker 1: Have I given you my theory on why we all

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Speaker 2: Just everyone thinking there's going to be a shortage of

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Pat, we know this warehouse stored tissue and toilet paper.

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Speaker 8: And Tonight analysts with Bloomberg, a well respected business outlet,

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Speaker 4: I'm big was this warehouse?

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Speaker 1: How is there a massive toilet paper warehouse right under

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Speaker 8: It's huge to shortages right here in southern California. All

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Speaker 4: I guess he didn't get the rays he was asking for.

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Speaker 1: Boy talk about a guy who really wanted to get

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Speaker 5: This does not look good.

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Speaker 8: A massive fire at an Ontario warehouse, and tonight police

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Speaker 9: And the suspect is Jamil Abdul Kareem. He is a

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Speaker 8: Please say the suspect worked at the warehouse for a

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Speaker 2: One point two million square feet of toilet paper torched up.

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Speaker 1: So wait a minute, So he wasn't a direct employee

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Speaker 4: He worked for a third party.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because distributors are going to be picking up toilet

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're mad at your boss, this net

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Speaker 10: The fire was reported around twelve thirty Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: It is a paper product warehouse, so there was an

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it all went up real quick.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's just all hope they get this figured out

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Speaker 1: Warehouse burned down, buddy, there's nothing left fuel load.

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Speaker 8: Fire officials said they knew immediately the fire was suspicious

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Speaker 2: What did they do spray gasoline all over the pallettes

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Speaker 4: This sounds like a professional job.

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Speaker 2: I mean sure if somebody professional wanted to take out

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Speaker 2: this warehouse is Kirkland, and so Kirk's now get to

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Speaker 1: Well, but Kirkland doesn't have their own factories. They just

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Speaker 8: Despite a sprinkler system and alarm system being set off,

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Speaker 4: There was an employee and guess who was missing the arsonist.

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Speaker 2: Yep, when you when you're not safely evacuating when your

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Speaker 9: that was missing and found was confirmed to be the suspect.

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Speaker 4: Did he have the lighter in his hand?

438
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Speaker 1: If they're confident calling him the suspect, I'm sure he

439
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Speaker 1: had all kinds of incrimiment, incriminating objects.

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Speaker 10: As the building erupted a ball of fire.

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Speaker 8: People living nearby evacuated their homes, including mother Camille Marks.

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Speaker 5: Everything's okay, though, you know what, We are safe.

443
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Speaker 11: I had to grab my two kids and run out

444
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 11: of the house pretty much as fast as we could.

445
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Speaker 11: I wasn't sure if it was going to hop over

446
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 11: the little.

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Speaker 2: Think you live in a quiet neighborhood. The big employer

448
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: is the giant toilet, paper warehouse, and all of a sudden,

449
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: it's a flaming.

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Speaker 4: It's backdraft.

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Speaker 11: I wasn't sureff it was going to hop over the

452
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Speaker 11: little ravine back there.

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Speaker 10: No one was hurt and no homes damaged.

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Speaker 8: Homeowners were left cleaning up ash fell for miles across

455
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Speaker 8: the Inland Empire.

456
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Speaker 2: Oh boy, anybody out there that has a pool, that's

457
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Speaker 2: going to be a pain in the butt.

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Speaker 1: And it's not as if everyone in this area isn't

459
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Speaker 1: aware of the fact that we're in one great, big

460
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Speaker 1: fire zone. This is how you get back at somewhat

461
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Speaker 1: if you're pissed.

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Speaker 8: Homeowners were left cleaning up ash fell for miles across

463
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Speaker 8: the Inland Empire.

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Speaker 12: Something like this that just puts lives in danger.

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Speaker 10: I'm back out here live.

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Speaker 8: It may be hard to tell, but we're still seeing

467
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Speaker 8: a good glow coming from this warehouse. We know fire

468
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 8: crews are still unseen. They'll be here throughout the night

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Speaker 8: mopping it up.

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Speaker 10: As for the suspect, he is being.

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Speaker 8: Held without bail facing.

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Speaker 10: A multiple felony arson charges.

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Speaker 2: Arson is such an incredibly destructive crime. You can cause

474
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Speaker 2: so much damage by lighting things on fire. Honestly, at

475
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Speaker 2: this point, we got to take away your thumbs.

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Speaker 1: No, it should be worse than that. We should have

477
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Speaker 1: Old West justice. This guy should be strung up in

478
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Speaker 1: the town square. Oh boy, you could wipe out the

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Speaker 1: entire state.

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Speaker 4: With a fire.

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Speaker 8: He is being held without bail facing a multiple felony

482
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Speaker 8: arson charges. Many people have questioned what will happen with

483
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Speaker 8: all the employees who worked here. We're told they will

484
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Speaker 8: be moved to nearby warehouses.

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Speaker 2: If your line of work is that you move around

486
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: the pallettes of toilet paper, are you qualified to move

487
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Speaker 2: to a similar warehouse and move around all those palettes

488
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Speaker 2: of sketches along the ten Freeway.

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Speaker 4: Well for their employment prospects, I hope. So that is

490
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Speaker 4: the biggest warehouse I've ever driven past.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever driven from Las Vegas to Reno along

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Speaker 1: the freeway there between those two towns, right as you

493
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Speaker 1: get close to Reno, oh my god, those buildings just

494
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: go on forever, and it's one after another after another

495
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Speaker 1: after another.

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Speaker 8: Reporting life from Ontario, Leslie Maddinsidia.

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Speaker 4: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: The latest on the Ontario TP warehouse that got lit

499
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Speaker 2: on fire because of an insane arson is who worked

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Speaker 2: for one of the distributors.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we need to follow up on this because in

502
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Speaker 1: terms of the motive, I don't know what it is,

503
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Speaker 1: but there's something out there that tells me that there's

504
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Speaker 1: more of this. Well, the problem with arsen and is

505
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: half the time the motive is some bizarre sexual thing.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's the case here. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Let's follow up on this one, though, and find out

508
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Speaker 4: when we figure out more information. Eight hundred two two

509
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: two five two two two and oh boy, that was fast, Randy,

510
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Speaker 4: we have an update on the arsenist.

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Speaker 2: The arsonist himself apparently posted a video of him lighting

512
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Speaker 2: the warehouse on fire on his Instagram that was discovered

513
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Speaker 2: by reporters, including at the California Post, and he says

514
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Speaker 2: in the clip, all you had to do was pay

515
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Speaker 2: us enough to.

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Speaker 4: Live there you go. He wanted to raise.

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Speaker 1: And so he decided that he would light the entire

518
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Speaker 1: building on fire to motivate management to give him a

519
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Speaker 1: five percent raise. If he would have just got that

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Speaker 1: Alameda County thirty dollars hour minimum wage, he would have

521
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Speaker 1: never lit all the toilet pay apron on fire.

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Speaker 4: He should have just gone and taught at la USD

523
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Speaker 4: he'd get a raise every single year. Idiot.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reopen the California crime blodder.

525
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Speaker 4: If the cat's dumby. We couldn't make this stuff up

526
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Speaker 4: if we tried. The hell no, baby boy, let me

527
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Speaker 4: get up one out of here. It's the California crime

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Speaker 4: blow there and ready. This would involve squatters.

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Speaker 2: Imagine you go to buy a home, you close escrow,

530
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Speaker 2: you're ready to start your new life. You open up

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Speaker 2: the front door with your keys, and someone's already living

532
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Speaker 2: in there. That might take all the fun out of

533
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Speaker 2: the process for Mare. Here's NBC seven in San Diego when.

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Speaker 13: The South Bay. A woman's video has gone on viral

535
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 13: on social media after she purchased a home then realized

536
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Speaker 13: somebody was already living in it. The video has.

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Speaker 2: Wait, this wasn't part of the inspection, and it's not

538
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Speaker 2: even a deadbeat relative.

539
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 4: You just inherited a stranger.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 2: When you're going through the process of buying a home,

543
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 2: you're supposed to check for termites. You're supposed to check

544
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: for all kinds of other infestations. How about a human infestation.

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00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 4: I guess that should be part of the checklist.

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Speaker 13: The video has gained millions of views and is drawing

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Speaker 13: attention to an issue that appears to be increasingly common

548
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Speaker 13: in the courts. NBC seven's Ignazio Domingas has the details.

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Speaker 14: You wouldn't know if Pedema has been buying and selling

550
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 14: homes for more than twenty years, but nothing could have

551
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Speaker 14: prepared her for a recent purchase in Tu La Vista.

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Speaker 15: Oh my gosh, I walked in and first of all,

553
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Speaker 15: he wrote profanity towards me.

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Speaker 4: Oh oh, so he's not a friendly neighbor.

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00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 5: That was, you know, pretty pretty bad.

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Speaker 4: It smells horrible in her, Katie, do you want to

557
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 4: verify with this woman just alleged.

558
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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 4: There are people that are just animals.

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Speaker 13: It smells horrible in her.

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Speaker 14: Inside the boarded up property, an alleged squatter who refused

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Speaker 14: to leave.

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Speaker 15: He just seemed too comfortable knowing that he walked into

564
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Speaker 15: a property that was basically boarded up, ready for sale

565
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Speaker 15: and he knew it. Just seems like he was too

566
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Speaker 15: comfortable with the whole situation. Just seemed too casual.

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Speaker 2: It seems like this is not the first vacant he

568
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Speaker 2: decided to pop up into.

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Speaker 4: A frequent flyer. You might say this is awful. She says.

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Speaker 14: She tried to negotiate with the man cash for keys,

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Speaker 14: but he refused.

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Speaker 2: You can't negotiate with a squatter. Well, what point do

573
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Speaker 2: they become just a terrorist. You can't negotiate with terrorists.

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Speaker 2: If you have someone who's just going to take over

575
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Speaker 2: your house and go, this belongs to me. I didn't

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Speaker 2: pay for it, Get out of my space. You don't

577
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 2: negotiate with that kind of person. You send someone in

578
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Speaker 2: with a badge and a gun and you have them

579
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Speaker 2: take them away.

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Speaker 4: She says.

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Speaker 14: She tried to negotiate with the man cash for keys,

582
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Speaker 14: but he refused.

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Speaker 15: You know, he wants to have you know, gas and electric.

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Speaker 15: He just calls or he goes on the app and

585
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 15: he puts it under his name. And because this is

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Speaker 15: a homeowners association, they pay for the water.

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Speaker 5: So in essence, wait.

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Speaker 2: A second, the HOA, that's the most decron draconian thing

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Speaker 2: you can imagine when it comes to any kind of

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Speaker 2: form of government, is just cool with the squatter getting

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Speaker 2: the lights and the power and the water turned on.

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Speaker 1: How did the karens in an HOA allow a squatter

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Speaker 1: in there in the first place. The whole point of

594
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Speaker 1: finally giving in and agreeing to buy in an HOA

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Speaker 1: community so the Karens know what's going on in your

596
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: neighborhood every second of your life.

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Speaker 15: So in essence, I'm paying for his water because I'm

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Speaker 15: paying the HOAC while he's squatting.

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Speaker 2: Wait, you still have to pay the HOA even though

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Speaker 2: you can't move in because someone's illegally living there.

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Speaker 4: Hoa's are the best. Have I mentioned that.

602
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Speaker 5: While he's squatting in the property.

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Speaker 14: Prole the option was it take the case to court.

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Speaker 14: That took longer than expected.

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Speaker 15: And then now you're in the court, you're finding the

606
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Speaker 15: complaint and you're talking about another couple of months.

607
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Speaker 14: Nearly ten months.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, we have gone way too far in the wrong

609
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Speaker 2: direction on tenants rights where this is allowed. I think

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Speaker 2: my reaction to just about every story that we're doing

611
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 2: today is we should go back to the Old West.

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Speaker 2: Mike Wyatt Earp would put up with a squatter, ask

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Speaker 2: Chad Bianca.

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Speaker 3: Is wow, Wow, what help you?

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Speaker 5: You're talking about another couple of months.

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Speaker 14: Nearly ten months to be exact for EDMA. Eventually the

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Speaker 14: Sheriff's Department was able to go in it was.

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Speaker 5: It was in pretty bad shape.

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Speaker 14: Trash damaged walls and a spray painted slur.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, boy, she wasn't lying. We talking racial or sexual?

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Speaker 4: Who knows.

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Speaker 14: Most cases that go through the legal system face months

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Speaker 14: long proceedings.

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Speaker 12: Crosses can take a while. It can take six months

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Speaker 12: to twelve months. It just depends on how busy the

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Speaker 12: courts are.

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Speaker 14: According to data from the San Diego Superior Court, between

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Speaker 14: January and December of twenty twenty five, more than nine

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Speaker 14: thousand unlawful detainer cases were filed. Only one judge handles

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Speaker 14: all those cases.

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Speaker 2: That's a big problem. You get nine thousand squatters just

632
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Speaker 2: in San Diego County. You know, Shani Lovera Ilo Rivera

633
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 2: wants to go after all the vacant homes and he

634
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 2: wants to tax anyone that has a vacation home. How

635
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: about you get the nine thousand squatters out of the

636
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: properties that San Diegans could be living in.

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00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, because every home that has a squatter in it

638
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: who's totally nuts can't have a normal person in it.

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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 12: And if they are slaughter the police are not intervening.

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Speaker 12: The court system is your only recourse as an owner.

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Speaker 14: Okay, I've been called che Lew Steke, Nacio Domingez NBC seven.

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Speaker 13: And Mendez says she has fixed up the unit and

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Speaker 13: has rented it.

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Speaker 4: Out there you go.

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Speaker 2: You had another case of squattron, this time in San

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Speaker 2: Diego County,