1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: Calls media. This ain't tardiness for you, because this pod 2 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: starts whenever you started. But for poor Matt who has 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: to edit this. I try to get this thing into 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: him as early as possible. But I was slowed down 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: because when I was about to start recording, I just 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: heard what sounded like with a high speech chase and 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: some like dodging of cars and screeching and stuff. And 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: then when it didn't stop, I realized, like, oh, there's 9 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: a street takeover. Some dudes is outside doing donuts right 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: down the street. So the thing is, since I still 11 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: live in city limits, that's gonna happen. You know, little 12 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: burnout circles. You could do your YouTube searches on that. 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: And I wasn't so like excited or mad as much 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: as I was just annoyed, like, hurry up, bro, you 15 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: becoming nimby quickly, which is probably what's gonna be the 16 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: tap end this week anyway, to live and die in La. 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, what's going on with the six two 18 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: six hook politics? Y'all? I am from the six two six, 19 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: and that's so neatly about twenty minutes east of east 20 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: Lost in between the inland and the coasts. I talk 21 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: about being from this area of town almost all the time. Now, 22 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: those who know me by junior high would say, were 23 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: you talking about you're from the Inland Empire. Well, we 24 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: moved to the Inland Empire while my parents were still together, 25 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: and then by the time high school started, my parents 26 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: split and at that point I was in a joint 27 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: custody situation. And since I really didn't have a desire 28 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: to stay out in the Inland Empire, I definitely leaned 29 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: towards more and spending as much time as I could 30 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: at my pasta's house back in lat Point, there where 31 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: I found most of my origins. Now some of y'all 32 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: are like I thought you was from the east side 33 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: of South Central I was. We moved a lot, you 34 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: understand what I'm trying to tell you. But since I 35 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: ain't really put in no work out there in South Central, 36 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: always say I was born in South Central. My family 37 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: is from South Central I. However, as you hear in 38 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: every song, I say, is from the six to six. 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,959 Speaker 1: Now the six to six is the area code now. 40 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: When I was there as a child, it was the 41 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: eight one eight, but eight one eight is now associated 42 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: with the valley where miles of gray is from on 43 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: the daily side Ice up there in North Hollywood and Chatsworth. 44 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: My brother lives out there now, Granada Hills. That's the 45 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: great one eight, you know what I'm saying. But A 46 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: one A used to be where I was at. Then 47 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: we got our new area code all and this is 48 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 1: all important for a number of reasons, one of which 49 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: the experience of being someone black in this area. Now 50 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: this is a little LA history. Okay, we had redlining, 51 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: we had zoning laws, and then we had white flight. 52 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: Now a lot of this happened before I was around, Right, 53 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm backing into what I'm about to talk about. Just 54 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: stay with me. Now, this is a to live and 55 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: die in LA episode, So I'm gonna be very specific 56 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: to CALLI. Then we're gonna get national later. Like I've 57 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: mentioned so many times before, my family came here from Wali. 58 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: My father's side came here from Texas, from Dallas, you know, 59 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: after Jim Crow. They came because of the watch Towers projects, 60 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: and then they settled in this band of streets that's 61 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: essentially from the northernest part gauge. None of this matters 62 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: if you're not from here all the way down to 63 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: an area called Watts and some of us, some of 64 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: us were in Compton and then east all the way 65 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: to Inglewood, where someone like A D Smoke is from. Right, 66 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: So this area is south central, right. But as times change, 67 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: as migration happens, as people spread out, and because again, 68 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: like I said, we had redlining, and then white flight 69 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: black people started dispersing. One of the areas they dispersed 70 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: was up northeast of Los Angeles. Right now, I'm going 71 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: to get into the more specific history around that white 72 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: flight a little later, which created the city of Altadena, 73 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: which is what we're about to talk about. Because didn't 74 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: catch on fire, y'all heard anything about what's been going on, 75 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: since that's what this show is about. But I'm going 76 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: back into why I'm only talking about Alta Dina and 77 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: not the Palisades. Hint is blackness. So my memory was 78 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: if you were a part of an African American community 79 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: that had moved into this area that's called the San 80 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: Gabriel Valley, which has been I mean, it was Mexico, 81 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: so it's very Latino. But when it became an incorporated 82 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: city again it was there had to be a displacement 83 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: of the of the Mexican population with white people in 84 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: cities like San Dimas, Covina, stuff like that. But that 85 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: was a little further north of me. I, like I said, 86 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: was in La Point there Belinda, but where the black 87 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: people were were up a little higher in a city 88 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: called Dwarti or d'warte, which is so funny to me 89 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: because they're all Spanish terms. Right now, as you go 90 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: west back towards La proper city limits, this part of town, 91 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: the ward is is is a little north if you will, 92 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: butting up against the foothills. What's strange about La which 93 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: is very unique, a unique part feature of this city 94 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: is there's actually a mountain range that goes through the city. 95 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: It's what separates La from the Valley and the Hollywood Hills. 96 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: Is a part of a mountain range Angelus Cress all 97 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: the way out to Mount Baldy and mountain like it's 98 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: there's a mountain rangelits a city. It's very so but 99 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: butting up on the foothills again, as you go west, 100 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: you start hitting Monrovia, then the city called Arcadia Sierra Madre. 101 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: Then you hit Pasadena, and right north of Pasadena was Altadena. 102 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: Now if you again were a black family that moved 103 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: out this direction. You have to now find where's the 104 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: Baptist church, where you're gonna get your hair cut, where 105 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna get your hair grease, right, because some of 106 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: this stuff is not so much racial as it is practical. 107 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: Like one of the hardest things. I remember when we 108 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: first moved after I got married and my wife was 109 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: in you know, refer to her by her prefix was 110 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: in her PhD program. We were living in Irvine, which 111 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: is South Orange County now as in the OC, as 112 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: in all the TV shows, Real Housewives, all that Orange County. 113 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know where we can get 114 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: just some tortillas, where I'm gonna get some hair grease 115 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: like this just the practical sense of even the stores 116 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: don't sell the products I need. So as far as 117 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: I was concerned, I had no idea. I never connected 118 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: the dots between Pasadena and the Tournament of Roses Parade 119 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: being white as all get out. I never thought about 120 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: it because Pasadena Altadena was so black to me John 121 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: Meyer High School, like like it was just it was. 122 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: It was such a black space for me. The thought 123 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: never crossed my mind either, why it was so black right, 124 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: because in Pasadena there's a lot of bloods up there, 125 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: but those are really nice homes. It's a gorgeous like 126 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: there's like redwood trees and big his like have to 127 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: be five hundred year old pine trees that like line 128 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: the streets. It is beautiful. Sona mop Session is on 129 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien needs a friend. I do listen to that 130 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: show because I think it's hilarious. Uh, she lost her 131 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: house during the Altadena Farres because she lived in Altadena. 132 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: I remember feeling like it was so bizarre to me 133 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: to see anyone not black in Altadena because it was 134 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: all I knew. But his little history, Like I said, 135 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: I never thought about why prior to the nineteen sixties. 136 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: I'm reading from LAist, which is one of our independent 137 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 1: news sources out here. I highly recommend supporting that them 138 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: at La Taco. I've talked about them before. Prior to 139 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, Altadena was predominantly a white neighborhood because 140 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: of redlining. Right, I've talked to you all about what 141 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: red lining is. I don't need to go through that, right, 142 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: but racial covenants in Pasadena prevented black families from moving in, right, 143 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: so we could not be in there. But around this 144 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: time you got to remember, like there's such thing as 145 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: a black middle class now, right, this is post segregation. Right, 146 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: We're working, we're megan going to college. Now we're making 147 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: a little money, Like I don't got to live in 148 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: the projects no more. Right. But then the passing of 149 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: the Fair Housing Act, which was part of the Civil 150 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: Rights Act, made discriminatory housing acts or practices illegal, right, 151 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: which meant that it ended the legal practice of redlining. Now, 152 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: redlining didn't just affect black people. It affect it affected 153 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: Jewish community too. Like there were rules over your like 154 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: your mortgage. They was like you are not allowed to 155 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: sell this house to a Black family, a Mexican family, 156 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: and Jewish family. You could sell it to whoever you 157 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: want except for them three Like so even if you 158 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: wanted to that, like the real estate would not allow you, 159 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: the mortgage company will not allow you. You cannot sell. 160 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: Zoning laws that were essentially like, hey, we don't need 161 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: unsightly things inside of our communities like a nuclear power plant, 162 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: like a landfill, or a black or Jewish family like this. 163 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: This was these were the laws. Right. Civil Rights Act 164 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: ended that, which prompted white flight because if there's anything 165 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: white people in the sixties did not want, it was 166 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: to live with us, right, So once the neighborhood started turning, 167 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: they just left. Right. So we was like, uh, I mean, 168 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: that's it's a nice house you got there. I can 169 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: actually afford it now and there's no law that says 170 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: you can't sell it to me, right, So this is 171 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: a good moment for anybody, Right, So the pro so 172 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: the white flight happened. Right. Black families moved in and 173 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: created the first middle class neighborhood that included to include 174 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: black residents in the area known as the Meadows Neighborhood. 175 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: And then the black population went from one percent in 176 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty to four percent in nineteen seventy. And then 177 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: Altadena now is eighteen percent black. Right And for an 178 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: area that is pretty nice if you bought a house 179 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: in the sixties, Oh, they became mansions later. Right. So 180 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: a lot of my friends mad Lib, who's not my 181 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 1: friend but a legend, right, the homie DJ Severe that 182 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: DJs for the Dodgers, like, this is their parents' house, 183 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: their grandparents' house. Like I said, this is where the 184 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: barbershop was. This was where if I wanted to, like 185 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: get a smoke turkey leg. Like, right now, I live 186 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: on the East Side. I live in a Latino community. 187 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 1: It's really hard for me to go get a smoke 188 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: turkey leg in any of these stores because they only 189 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: use them during the holidays. I use them all the 190 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: time if I just want to make greens on Sundays. Right, yesterday, 191 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm in shopping and I was like, and since she 192 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: works in an office and I work at home, I 193 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: do a lot of cooking, right, But every once in a while, 194 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: I get a little frustrated because I'm like, where the 195 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: lorry's at, Like I need some like I need some 196 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: season in that we use, you feel me? But you 197 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: got to go to the other side of town for that. 198 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: And then we actually had some cool like overlap because 199 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: I was looking for some bull yon, right, because you 200 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: know that's what we when you're about to make some gumbo, 201 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: you know what I'm little they look like little nuggets, right. 202 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: Apparently you can get it as just a powder. I 203 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: ain't know that so anyway, and apparently Mexicans use it too. 204 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 1: So out to Dina, I feel like for most of 205 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: us was like, yo, this was like LA's best kept secret. 206 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: Unless you was from here, you feel me, this gorgeous 207 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: upper middle class and middle class neighborhood that was black 208 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: as hell as far as I was concerned. Right anyway, 209 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: as you guys know, the beginning of this year, it 210 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: caught fire. Now why it caught fire could be negligence. 211 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: It could be a combination of negligence and climate change 212 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: and a thing that was just bound to happen. Like 213 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: we said in the Last To Live and Die in La, 214 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: the block is literally hot. All these overlaps about the 215 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: La fires, it's that, dude. We get the Santa Ana wins, 216 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: which is something that normally happens, but it coincided with 217 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: fire season. As time and fire season usually they none 218 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: of them ever happened in January. This this is why 219 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: this was so bizarre. January usually rains, right, but times 220 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: are changing, right, and when this happened, it's like it 221 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: just becomes it's completely out of your control. Right. We 222 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: stopped doing control burns because we ain't listen to the natives. Right, 223 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: We're butting up our neighborhoods into these areas that don't 224 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: have indigenous plants, right, so they can't stand the fires, right, 225 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: we're not clear and brush. For some reason, we still 226 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: build a wood. The wind started blowing. The ground is dry, 227 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: and then apparently there was a power line that faltered, 228 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: and that was it. It is what it is now. 229 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: I got a homie that works. He climbs pos the 230 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: Homi journey big like he works for power companies and 231 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: he fixes power lines, and he's like, ultimately, the only 232 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: way to fix this is to make them underground. But 233 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: he's like, there's parts of the city that is underground 234 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: as far as like the power lines. The problem is like, 235 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: if there's a problem with it, He's like, he says, 236 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: if there's if there's a problem in the line, in 237 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: the line somewhere underground. He causes his wife and he says, 238 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: I'll see you in the morning because I'm probably gonna 239 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: have to get old because you have to hunt for it. 240 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: He's like, if it's above ground, we could just look 241 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: and go, oh, it's right there, and then go straight 242 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: to it. But if it's under we got to go 243 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: under the ground, go through all those things. He was 244 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: just like, it's just it's it's harder work for us. 245 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, that's not the city. The city has 246 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: above line powers, and as you know, the Pacific Palisades 247 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: and Altadena because of these two uncontrollable fires just absolutely 248 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: leveled our city in a way that has not been 249 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: seen in a long time. And then there was drama 250 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: around like the water and you know who owns the 251 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: water and all that. We covered all that already, right, 252 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: But the question is, after all these fundraisers, after all 253 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: these donations, after all these we will rebuild out to 254 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: Dina's not for sale? How's it going? What's up? Well? 255 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: I mean, has it? Okay? We raised millions of dollars? 256 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: Did they get that money? Are they rebuilding? Is out 257 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: to Dina? Truly? In fact not for sale? See when 258 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: disasters happened, like you don't hear about after the news 259 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: cycle ends, after the cameras leave, like what's going on now? 260 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: Part of the problem here was after the fire stop, 261 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: the ice raids started, we ain't had no time to 262 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: do nothing else. It's been a ill year here in 263 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: La like it's been and hord fam So let me 264 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: tap in real quick with y'all and be like, okay, 265 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: what's been going on in the six two six? Next day? 266 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: All right? We bite now I got good news and 267 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: bad news, and I'm pretty sure you could probably guess both. Now. 268 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: It was actually kind of hard to find this information. 269 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: I think this is one of those Ah, it's so crazy, 270 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: Like it became so clear as I was researching this 271 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: that there is so much writing on how this information 272 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: is fun like this. You need this to be a 273 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: feel good story or you need this to be a disaster, 274 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: depending on your agenda or political views. So it was 275 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: very hard to find. There's no such thing as neutral information. 276 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: I hope you've learned that by being a part of 277 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: the policy. It ain't no such thing as neutral information. 278 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: But there's also no such thing as unbiased information. But 279 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: it was so hard to find truthful information that was 280 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: willing to paint the whole pitch. Sure. That was the 281 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: hardest part because two things are going on here. There 282 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: is a reality in America that there's two realities that 283 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: have consistently followed disaster. One is the initial responses. We 284 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: really come together and we raise a ton of money. 285 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: The second problem is nobody knows where the hell that 286 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: money goes, and investors come and take everything. It's just 287 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: what it continues to happen. So I'm pretty sure you 288 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: could guess all it is. Now, I'm gonna start with 289 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: the good news. Okay, the good news is things like this. 290 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: There's a According to Last, which again is one of 291 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 1: our local journalistic outlets. A coalition of architects created around 292 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: two hundred free individual plans to help people rebuild after 293 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: losing their homes in the Eating fire right. And it's 294 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: a larger effort to assist out to Dina's Black community 295 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: and preserving the cultural legacy in our neighborhood. There was 296 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: this fear that, as you will find out, is not unfounded, 297 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: that this being like the last, the first and last, 298 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: like Los Angeles proper middle class, long lasting home owning community, 299 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: that something like this would further destroy that we've been 300 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,239 Speaker 1: priced out. Black people have either been priced out or 301 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: just outnumbered, like all over LA. When I say outnumbered, 302 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: I say this with no shade. But it's the Latino community. 303 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: There's just so many of them, right, so it's not 304 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 1: so much. And of course there were struggles going through 305 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: the nineties. We've talked about this so many times. There's 306 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: been so much beef between our communities. We learned better, 307 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: like we've learned to work together. There's even at our 308 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: civic level, there's like understandings around what like districts you're 309 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: willing to run for and represent, Like there's there's been 310 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: an agreement around a lot of our civic leaders to 311 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: be like, Okay, we're gonna make sure we're gonna preserve 312 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: leadership to be black here as long as you preserve 313 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: leadership to be Latino there. And they've made choices to 314 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: not run in districts that have been like, so there's 315 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: a lot of like black and brown unity, which was 316 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: why that like, uh, that recorded audio that came out 317 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: a few years ago with our city council Latino leaders 318 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: being hell of racist was such an outrage with the 319 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 1: people because we fought really hard to build unity among 320 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: our communities. Right. So this thing is called the Rebuild 321 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: Readiness Package, right, which gives honoms a head start in 322 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: reconstruction in the process and connects them with architects from 323 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: the Southern California chapter of Get this, the National Organization 324 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: of Minority Architects, which is also called ARE, which is 325 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: known as SoCal NOMA, which I had no idea existed. 326 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: How dope is that it's apparently a national organization, Like 327 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: it says a minority architet text of architects of color, 328 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: and they said, listen, we're gonna We're gonna create these 329 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: individualized plans like it. You think it's expensive to buy 330 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: a house, try building it from scratch. Do you know 331 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: how much? Do you know how much architects make? I 332 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: didn't look it up because I think you can instinctually 333 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: know it's they make fuck off money. Right. But if 334 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: you black, if you're a person of color and you 335 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: see something happening like this, this would be a great 336 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: time for you to push the culture forward. And this 337 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: is good news we have now. They can't buy it 338 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: for you. They can't. They can't buy it the materials 339 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: for you. They can't do all that, but we can 340 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: at least get you ahead start what it costs money. 341 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: It costs a lot to build a house. But at 342 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: least we could pull this off the budget line. Here 343 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: again reading from this article. Before the LA fires out, 344 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: Tadna's population was fifty eight percent people of color. Around 345 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: eighteen percent residents were black. According to the last census data, 346 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: the community was a part of an unincorporated Like I said, 347 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County has black home ownership rate nearly twice 348 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: as high as the national average. Around seventy five percent 349 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: of black Altadena residents own their homes, according to the 350 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: UCLA Center of Neighborhood Knowledge. That is remarkable. This is 351 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: why that was such a historic loss. Seventy five percent 352 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: like own their homes. Bruh, that's crazy. The cities where 353 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: black people are right now, they in South Carolina and Atlanta. 354 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: That's a different story. This la bro, seventy five percent owns. 355 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 1: That's a big deal. Right, let me see him and 356 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: give you some more. So the packages have, like ok say, 357 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: they contained information about the person's property, including the size, zoning, class, invasion, 358 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: and historical record. They also contain a timeline for how 359 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: much each of these phases of the rebuild is expected 360 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: and to take an action plan to stay on track. 361 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 1: Like dude, they project managed it for you, bro. That's amazing. 362 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: There's some good news. Some other good news would be 363 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: how much money was raised. Russell Westbrook, Tiffany Hattish, these 364 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: stars came in, giving away food, giving away clothing. One 365 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: of the dopest things get this was an historic home 366 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: relocation project, which was you remember them old school? Well 367 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: you don't remember that. None of us do them sears 368 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: pre made box homes. You co order a house, put 369 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: it together and ship it somewhere. This happened out here, 370 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: and there was a home in Los Felis, right, which 371 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: is gentrified, baby gentrified, one of the most gentrified areas, 372 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: hipster areas of LA. Right. There was a relocation project 373 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: to give eating fire victims faster alternative than rebuilding from scratch. Right. 374 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: So there was this nineteen ten craftsman style home that 375 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: was on Poppy Fields Drive that was taken to Altadena 376 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: at six fifteen am a few months ago. Right, So 377 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: the home was taken apart, reassembled and placed on somebody's plot. 378 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: That's amazing. Right. Fifty million dollars was raised through them concerts. 379 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: You remember all them concerts, all them things that was 380 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: going on, all this stuff. We raised a lot of 381 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: money and people really came through. This is where the 382 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: National Guard showed up and did a lot of good things. 383 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: This is where like your federal tax dollars at work 384 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: kind of worked the clear debris. You know, there's community 385 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: coming together. Nonprofits have stepped in. There was one called 386 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: Dora Hope that was able to give a high one 387 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to this little music school to be able 388 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: to get a new piano. Like people have truly come together. 389 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: It was really an amazing thing. Roughly one hundred and 390 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: twenty organization split about fifty million dollars from the first 391 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: round of fire aid that was released on February seven, right, 392 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: and so you get this big pot and then they 393 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: were all given to very small or not very small, 394 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: all given to different organizations. Now, the issue with that 395 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: is a lot of times when money is raised, there 396 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 1: is a black box, I mean, niggas starts shutting up 397 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: about how the money is distributed and where there's a 398 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:52,919 Speaker 1: vacuum of information. There's a lot of tomfoolery. Now I 399 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: am on the board of a nonprofit. This is my 400 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: second nonprofit. I've been on the board of one of 401 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: both of them in an international peace building humanity organizations. 402 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: There is such thing as operations costs. There is a 403 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 1: reality that like people do work here, they do need 404 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: their salaries. Right, There is only so much a not 405 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: for profit organization can generate in for profit ways. Then 406 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 1: the rest of it has to be generated through donations 407 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Now, niggas don't be reading the 408 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: fine print, and that fine print becomes the degree for 409 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: which that print is fine. Foining is the degree for 410 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: which you know this organization is shady or not. I'm 411 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: saying this from like experience. For example, when I worked 412 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: at Preemptive Love, which is a now non existent org 413 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: because the bits of it that was like really about 414 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: that life got folded into the one that I work 415 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: at now search for common ground, the leftover bits, not 416 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: leftover bits, but the former founder of Preemptive Love, he's 417 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: got a new one called Humanite, which there was never 418 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: a question about this fool's commitment to the struggle. So like, 419 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: no shade towards Jeremy and the kids commitment to the struggle. 420 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: Man they out there, especially right now, all bets are 421 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: off cuse like whatever old beef y'all had, that shit 422 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: is done. Now you know what I'm saying, Gods is 423 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: being starved, Like forget about the beef. Let's save some lives. 424 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: And there wasn't even beef anyway. All I'm saying is 425 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: at Preemptive Love, when you donated, it was very clear 426 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: on the website that like, look, because we work in 427 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: conflict zones that are sometimes ran by not so shady individuals, 428 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: they're ran by anti government organizations, or they just ran 429 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: by just straight up thugs that the West might call terrorists. 430 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: If I'm gonna get food, if I'm gonna get aid, 431 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get sheltered into this part of that country, 432 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: you gotta pay some people off. There's gonna be some 433 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: suitcases full of cash that it just is what it is. 434 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: Your money might have gone to a terrorist. Rolex, I 435 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you now. Me in you 436 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: being from America sounds very weird. But if you've ever 437 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: worked in gang interventions, if you ever worked in inner 438 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: city neighborhoods, if you've ever tried to I mean, I 439 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: could talk to the Homi JB about this. I'm gonna 440 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: give a little bit of story about this without giving 441 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: any names. But if you work in these environments, especially 442 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: these inner city environments, you have to tap in. Even 443 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: if you're doing good stuff, you have to make sure 444 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: it's okay. Ain't gonna do nothing. You know you are good, 445 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: you know you solid with us, you know what I'm saying. Like, 446 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: even if you're coming in, you doing a pancake breakfast, 447 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: you doing a little a little kickball match for the kids, 448 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: you the city. You're the city and you're about to 449 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: set up a little stage with some face painting and 450 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: giveaway backpacks. You need to talk to Pooky and them. 451 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: You gotta go talk to og Silent. You have to 452 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: go tap in and pinning all your reputation with them. 453 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: They might just be like twenty racks and were still 454 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: robbing you. They might be like twenty racks and then 455 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: getting ten racks to another set and then the set 456 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: come rob you or like nah, you solid, but yeah, 457 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: like I mean you like it's a business. The amount 458 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: of money we about to lose by you doing this 459 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: nice stuff means we can't do our criminal activities right now. 460 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: So like yeah, you know, you just you know, you 461 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: pay us off and you good and then maybe next 462 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: time when they see that, like you know, you really 463 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: about the community, you really one of us, You really cool? 464 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: Then you be solid, then you like are you good man? Nah, 465 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: whenever you need it, just make sure you tap in 466 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: before because I can't guarantee you know, some of these 467 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: young niggas, some of these like hop out boys, I 468 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: can't guarantee that, but like I'll put the word out 469 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: and then everybody you'll know. Once I put the word out. Nah, 470 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: he's solid. They good. They could go through here right. 471 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: Sometimes your donations, I'm gonna tell you, is going to 472 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: that nigg you feel me. You have to be real 473 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: about it. You have to be real on your website 474 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: that like this percentage of your donations is going to 475 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: operation fees. Now, if you really a real one, you 476 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: gonna explain to me what your operation fees. You should 477 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: have a charter that says your donations for each particular 478 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: thing and what they're gonna go to, and that there's 479 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: a wall between these type of non restricted funds and 480 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: then the funds that can cover payroll. That's supposed to 481 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: be clear. It's crazy that I noticed stuff, but that's 482 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: supposed to be clear. The problem is when there is 483 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: a crisis like to eat and fire, stuff be moving 484 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: so fast, people be moved so hard that it's real 485 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: easy for shady individuals to come through and claim eighty 486 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: percent as operation fees nigga eighty But they could still 487 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: say they raised you know, this much and they gave 488 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: away this much, and this leads to a lot of 489 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: like misinformation. This was one of the hardest things for 490 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: me to find out, which was where this money went 491 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: now because and to this day and to this moment, 492 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going to be very specific about it because 493 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: I don't trust the sources I've read, like it's so 494 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: hard to find truthful sources about where to hell the 495 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: money fifty million dollars went some now within that, some organizations, 496 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: like I said, are very transparent about it. Yo. Here, 497 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: here's a website, here's where it is. There's so many 498 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: websites right now that LA put together at the about 499 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: the mutual funds, about recovery. LA has been very clear 500 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: about building websites as to where how to apply for funds, 501 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: where to get it at, and when we can pay 502 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: it out. But the people that put together that music festival, 503 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: I don't even know who the I don't know where 504 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: the money is and I can't I can't find it. 505 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,239 Speaker 1: That's crazy, right, But it doesn't mean how doesn't mean 506 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: individual people haven't got donations, because there's also a website 507 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: that of first hand accounts of people are like, yeah, 508 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: I got my money from this and this. You know 509 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The local news stations, this is what 510 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: I meant earlier. The local news stations. You go to Fox, 511 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: you go to ABC, you go to all of our 512 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: local news channels. They want to feel good stories, so 513 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: I could see those like oh no, which leads us 514 00:34:15,400 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: to the bad news next. All right, right, the easiest one. 515 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: Let's just say, out of the strangest perfect storm of 516 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 1: perfect situations, given the situation, you in your house burns down, 517 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: but you had insurance. Your insurance was up to date. 518 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: They agreed to a certain amount whatever shortfall came in 519 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: through donations, you got one of these like pre made 520 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 1: two hundred like floor plans and architectural thing from Noma. 521 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: Who gonna build the house? Nigga ice raids. So even 522 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: if you have the money, even if you got it 523 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 1: set up, ain't nobody there to build the house? Is 524 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: fam because you got dang it? Do you understand what? 525 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: You understand the situation these people was in. So the 526 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:02,320 Speaker 1: bad news is, even if you had everything, the workforce 527 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: has been chopped in half because foods is scared to 528 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: go to work because they gonna get snatched up by 529 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: a hop out boy. What is anyway sit that to 530 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: the side in our imaginary situation. That's saying that the 531 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: insurance actually paid out. That's not what happened. Now, this 532 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:27,360 Speaker 1: is psycho according to NPR, and this organization called Circling 533 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: the News, which it took me a while to figure 534 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: out if they was like an actual legit thing, but 535 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,839 Speaker 1: I double checked a lot of the stuff they were saying. 536 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: We got some things in there. So first problem is 537 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:44,480 Speaker 1: the insurance. Let's just say you had insurance, or at 538 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: least you thought you did when you went to go 539 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: make your claim. What you might have found out is 540 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: that the company you worked with wasn't gonna renew your 541 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,479 Speaker 1: policy anyway because they've closed the entire zip code. People 542 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: woke up to realize that they house insurance. What in 543 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: house insurance. There's stories of people who went through seven 544 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:12,960 Speaker 1: different brokers that was like we uh we uh, we can't, 545 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: we can't cover it. Some people was like, look, I'm 546 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: not unin, I'm just uninsured, Like I don't know, I 547 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,719 Speaker 1: don't know what I'm having. I'm gonna have to figure 548 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: out the money to build this house. And that's if 549 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:31,879 Speaker 1: you plan on rebuilding right. Other insurance brokers after they said, 550 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: you know, we can cover you, but we can cover 551 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 1: about three hundred and fifty dollars per square foot, which 552 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,520 Speaker 1: is like done, done, Donet's not enough it's not at 553 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 1: all enough to equal the worth of the house that 554 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,759 Speaker 1: they had. Now here's my situation. I'm actually in this 555 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:59,319 Speaker 1: situation now. Uh when a company like State Farm, which 556 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 1: was all over in Who's decided they just wasn't gonna 557 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: cover California no more. Your mortgage company just picks up 558 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,040 Speaker 1: a company for you, and all they do is cover 559 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: hazard pay. It's the equivalent of your car insurance just 560 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: being the basic coverage, where it's like, this really ain't 561 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: covering shit. Right, Most people in Altadena found themselves in 562 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:35,760 Speaker 1: that situation. Right. So, California, obviously, of most of America, 563 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 1: has the highest fire risk, but its insurance is cheaper 564 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: than in many other states. Watch this. In fact, the 565 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:53,719 Speaker 1: insurance industry agrees that it says companies have been retreating 566 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 1: from California precisely because they aren't allowed to charge enough 567 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: to cover the risk. The real issue is the inability 568 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: to get adequate rates, says the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. 569 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: There was this nineteen eighty eight law right that was 570 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: on our ballot that said it prevents the arbitrary insurance rakehikes, 571 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:24,640 Speaker 1: meaning insurances as you know now or as you should 572 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: know is a scam, right, You paying monthly into something 573 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: and then when you need them, they ain't got the money. 574 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: People was getting their insurance checks this also happened, and 575 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: then saying don't cash the check till Tuesday, and then 576 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: you cash the check on Tuesday and the check bounce. 577 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,480 Speaker 1: Why because they ain't got the money. Because insurance is 578 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,839 Speaker 1: a scam. We're supposed to all be paying into this 579 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,840 Speaker 1: thing monthly, right so that if something go wrong, according 580 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,040 Speaker 1: to my policy, you pay me out. But the insurance 581 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: company is saying, well, y'all not giving us enough money 582 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 1: for if something happens, we're gonna be able to cover y'all, 583 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 1: so give us more Moneyuntry was like, or the state 584 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:06,319 Speaker 1: was like, you have enough, and what the hell? Kind 585 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,839 Speaker 1: of maybe you shouldn't approve that many. Maybe the whole 586 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 1: system is bullshit. If what you're saying is you ain't 587 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: got enough money to ensure your insurance, I don't seem 588 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:27,640 Speaker 1: like my fault. That seemed like your fault. It's like 589 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: it helped me help you. So people was getting the 590 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: insurance checks nine hundred thousand dollars and then couldn't cast 591 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: because the insurance company broke an insurance company is saying, well, 592 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 1: all of y'all are casting y'all's things, to which other 593 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,319 Speaker 1: companies were like, we're just not gonna be here. We 594 00:40:46,400 --> 00:41:25,880 Speaker 1: can't cover it now. Congressman John Garrimindi, who served as 595 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: the former insurance commissioner, told Altadena residents under California Proposition 596 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,960 Speaker 1: one oh three, the insurance commissioner has the clear authority 597 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:41,040 Speaker 1: he can compel insurers to pay claims fully and promptly 598 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: and block any rate increase until survivors are made whole. 599 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 1: There should be no dog gone rate hikes for companies 600 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,480 Speaker 1: that break their promises, because, as you know, if you 601 00:41:54,880 --> 00:42:05,360 Speaker 1: use your insurance, your rate goes up. It's it's insane. 602 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:13,359 Speaker 1: So companies are leaving, So the insurance left, and if 603 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 1: they do pay out, they're not even paying a fraction 604 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,759 Speaker 1: of what it is now. That's if you're willing to 605 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,359 Speaker 1: try to rebuild, you only get in a fraction of it. 606 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: And even if you get in a fraction of it, 607 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: they still raising your rates. Nonetheless, our heart desire was 608 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,200 Speaker 1: to protect out to Dina. But what are you gonna 609 00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: do if you truly have no other option? Now, some 610 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 1: of the insurance companies were paying out ways for you 611 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 1: to rent your rent somewhere until your house got rebuilt. 612 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,239 Speaker 1: But you gotta remember, you got to you gotta meet 613 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,880 Speaker 1: the shortfall. Now, do you have a spare five hundred 614 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars to meet the shortfall? I don't, So that 615 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: would mean your only option is probably sell because you 616 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:08,160 Speaker 1: got to start over. But the signs popped up everywhere 617 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: ol To Dina not for sale. Let me tell y'all something. 618 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,680 Speaker 1: Alsadena's absolutely for sale. More bad news, y'all. First, of 619 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:21,640 Speaker 1: all of the houses that are rebuilt, watch this five percent, 620 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,880 Speaker 1: five percent of more than nine hundred rebuild permits submitted 621 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,880 Speaker 1: to Olta Dina have been approved, indicating that rebuilding efforts 622 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,040 Speaker 1: are still at its early stages. In contrast, check this out, 623 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,839 Speaker 1: around twenty five percent of the nearly four hundred rebuilds 624 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:49,520 Speaker 1: permits in Pacific Palisades are already approved, showing a different, significant, 625 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:54,719 Speaker 1: different progress between the two regions. Because racism is going 626 00:43:54,960 --> 00:44:00,600 Speaker 1: racism five percent, bro. So let's just say you in 627 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,759 Speaker 1: a perfect situation where you got the money, you got 628 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 1: the plans, you figured out the insurance. Now you want 629 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:13,080 Speaker 1: to permit becaus is waiting on permits only five percent. 630 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 1: You've not even approven. So even if you could figure 631 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,879 Speaker 1: it out, the city not approven the rebuilds. Now why 632 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,400 Speaker 1: they not approven the rebuilds? I don't know. I'm just 633 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:27,960 Speaker 1: saying the Palisades ain't got that problem. Eye roll Anyway, 634 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:33,560 Speaker 1: Altadena is absolutely for sale. So roughly this is according 635 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,400 Speaker 1: to the La Times, about one hundred and forty five 636 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:41,080 Speaker 1: burned lots have sold so far, around one hundred are 637 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,360 Speaker 1: currently being listed, and dozens more in escrow. The identities 638 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,360 Speaker 1: of every single buyer isn't clear, since many are obscured 639 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: by trusts or limited liability companies, but real estate records 640 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: and local sources suggest that developers are buying alliance share 641 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 1: of the lots. Yeah, this is what happens. This will 642 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:09,680 Speaker 1: happened in Katrina, This will happen in Beaumont, in Houston, 643 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,120 Speaker 1: outside of Houston, in the floods, they just swoop in 644 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:20,800 Speaker 1: and buy it. Who are these limited liability groups right now? 645 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:28,040 Speaker 1: This is far out pacing Again the Palisades, where less 646 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,000 Speaker 1: than sixty lots have sold since the fire, and roughly 647 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,600 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty are sitting on the market, sometimes 648 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 1: for months. Why because they can rebuild oh, man, but 649 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,279 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Like you sell to the 650 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,759 Speaker 1: highest bidder. Somebody come in here with a cash offered, right, 651 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,239 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? There was a story where 652 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,839 Speaker 1: one lady says she at her house listed and one 653 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: agent called me and said he has someone looking to 654 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:06,520 Speaker 1: buy one hundred lots. Right, this is how we lose 655 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: our neighborhoods man now. According to realator dot com, roughly 656 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,359 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five properties were sold in Altadena 657 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: in the first five months of twenty twenty five, with 658 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,759 Speaker 1: more than half of them being bought by investors. For comparison, 659 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 1: only about fifteen percent of the buyers in Altadena were 660 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: investors starting in twenty twenty four, and according to the 661 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:35,440 Speaker 1: latest data available on realator dot com now, the medium 662 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:40,480 Speaker 1: price of a sale for a house in Altadena so 663 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 1: far this year six hundred and seventy five thousand, roughly 664 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,319 Speaker 1: half of the previous year, which medium sale was one 665 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: point two five million. It's kind of a no brainer. 666 00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,040 Speaker 1: Of course you're going to buy these houses. Now what 667 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,520 Speaker 1: they said was happening. It wasn't so much people buying 668 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,680 Speaker 1: up one hundred lots to turning them into complexes. It's 669 00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: more like people being able to buy four and five 670 00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,600 Speaker 1: lots toss up these houses. And it's not people, it's 671 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,680 Speaker 1: investment firms. Who are those firms? I don't know. Maybe 672 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,600 Speaker 1: Blackstone right, Blackstone is who bought up most of our housing. 673 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,320 Speaker 1: But for us to be in this housing crisis and 674 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:27,600 Speaker 1: then investors just buying up the I know they're not 675 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:36,680 Speaker 1: doing that in Palisades. So yeah, you can go to 676 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: Recovery dot La County dot gov to see a little 677 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,640 Speaker 1: more information on it. But at the end of the day, 678 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:51,120 Speaker 1: man like to live and die in La man, what 679 00:47:52,200 --> 00:48:01,359 Speaker 1: they supposed to do? This is how That's how Citi 680 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:07,840 Speaker 1: has become corporate towns Man, disaster hit investors come in 681 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,520 Speaker 1: and swoop it all up. We pay for insurance to 682 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,640 Speaker 1: try to protect our houses, but the insurance don't be 683 00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:21,280 Speaker 1: paying out. You even have somebody that donate the architectural plans, 684 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:28,239 Speaker 1: but the city not approving the rebuild permits. What we're 685 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,839 Speaker 1: supposed to do on me? I don't know, man, That's 686 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:43,120 Speaker 1: what's going on. And out to Dinna though hood politics. 687 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,680 Speaker 1: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. 688 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,080 Speaker 1: You better listen to these credits. I need you to 689 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,880 Speaker 1: finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay, 690 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,520 Speaker 1: so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded 691 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:06,200 Speaker 1: in East Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap 692 00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,920 Speaker 1: in with me at prop hip hop dot com. If 693 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,279 Speaker 1: you're in the Coldbrew coffee we got terraform Coldbrew. You 694 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,880 Speaker 1: can go there dot com and use promo code hood 695 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,600 Speaker 1: get twenty percent off. Get yourself some coffee. 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