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Speaker 1: We're going to talk with Carl Demayo. Now.

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Speaker 2: Carl is a radio talk show host. He's also been

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Speaker 2: served as a politician in the San Diego area on

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Speaker 1: He is the chairman of Reform California.

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Speaker 2: His organizations have gotten politicians recalled and also referendums on

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Speaker 2: the ballot, very active over the years, and now he's

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Speaker 2: coming he's always running for State Assembly too, and he's

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Speaker 2: coming out against Proposition one. This is a reason to

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Speaker 2: vote in the March primary is Proposition one is going

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Speaker 2: to borrow over six billion dollars to fight homelessness. And

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Speaker 2: we've warned you two reasons, two reasons to be very

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Speaker 2: suspicious of referendums that want to authorize borrowing. One is

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Speaker 2: often the well like high speed rail. Right, We've borrowed

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Speaker 2: ten billion dollars for that and they never built anything

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Speaker 2: now fifteen years later. Secondly, with homelessness, we agreed on

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars in taxes in La City and LA

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Speaker 2: homelessness has exploded since. So either when you borrow money

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Speaker 2: in this state, either nothing happens or the problem gets worse.

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Speaker 2: And Carl says, don't trust Proposition one. Let's go on

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Speaker 2: the line here, Carl, how are you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, John? How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I am doing good? Tell me they always have a

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Speaker 2: good marketing line, right, And they claim that Proposition one,

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Speaker 2: if it passes, it's gonna provide like miracles to solving

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Speaker 2: the homelessness crisis. What is the claim? And then you

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Speaker 2: tell me why it's not going to work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the same people who created a homeless crisis out

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Speaker 3: in California that is unique to our state, by the way,

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Speaker 3: a credit card, because these are bonds to double down

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Speaker 3: on their filled policies. That's what Prop one is all about.

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Speaker 3: The ballot title says Prop one will provide mental health

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Speaker 3: treatment and housing for homeless people. That's the ballot title.

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Speaker 3: But that's really deceptive. What Proposition one actually does. Are

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Speaker 3: you ready for this? It raids mental health treatment dollars.

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Speaker 3: In fact, it cuts a third of mental health treatment

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Speaker 3: dollars at the local level, and it takes that money

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Speaker 3: and hands it over to you guessed it, rich politically

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Speaker 3: projects and give the keys away to homeless people with

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Speaker 3: they are dysfunctional. And so this is all called the

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Speaker 3: Housing First program. In the state of California, It's been

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Speaker 3: think Californians understand because the media doesn't want to point

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Speaker 3: average of double digits since twenty ten. In California it

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Speaker 3: like the other parts of the country. Instead of focusing

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Speaker 3: health and substance abuse. In California, we tell the providers

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Speaker 3: they're not allowed to do drug tests. They should just

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Speaker 3: give the keys to a unit, either your a hotel

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Speaker 3: a result, developers in the last ten years john have

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Speaker 3: seen a huge boomdoggle opportunity. They go to the politician saying,

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Speaker 3: let us build these expensive condos and you give them

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Speaker 3: And by the way, as a thank you, we'll give

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Speaker 3: you a big campaign contribution. If you follow the money

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Speaker 3: these developers routinely are bank rolling through their contra utions

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Speaker 3: the Democrat Party, political parties, even the Republican Party has

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Speaker 2: This is a big racket again to enrich housing developers

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Speaker 3: Again, the politicians are only going along as long as

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Speaker 3: If you get someone who's homeless treatment and they kick

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Speaker 1: Life of No, no, no no.

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Speaker 3: So don't focus on saving lives and getting people, you know,

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Speaker 3: or get them the mental health issue addressed. Instead, get

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Speaker 3: Prop one does that, And what's what's horrific about Prop

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Speaker 3: one is that it doubles down on this field strategy.

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Speaker 3: It borrows at a time when the state is facing

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Speaker 3: And I'm telling you right now, we have a mental

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Speaker 3: in California. It is going to be exponentially worse because

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Speaker 1: This is really evil.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that cow Matters story that came out

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Speaker 2: a nonprofit here in LA that got about.

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Speaker 1: One hundred Yes.

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Speaker 3: About the article, but I do know about the nonprofit.

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Speaker 2: Slumlord, right, Yeah, yeah, Well there's a couple of these stories.

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Speaker 2: This one is a nonprofit called Hopex. They got one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty million dollars in tax money. They rented

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Speaker 2: so they're back to being homeless. Hopix kept the money

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Speaker 2: I'm multiply this by who knows what, one hundred, five hundred,

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Speaker 2: This is why the homeless never get any help.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and to a bigger point in Los Angeles. Los

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Speaker 3: But the affordable housing costs per unit in California are

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Speaker 3: eight hundred thousand dollars easily in Los Angeles. A lot

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Speaker 3: John the cost per unit six hundred thousand dollars for

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Speaker 3: shipping containers. For God's sake, it's it's because a lot

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Speaker 3: of his money goes to these consultants and the politicians

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Speaker 3: It's going to make homelessness worse. We need to say no,

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Speaker 3: vote no on Prop one. We have more information at

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Speaker 3: our website, clean Upourstreets dot org. Clean Up our Streets

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Speaker 3: dot org and we're waging a David Rothas versus the

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Speaker 3: Liave campaign here because the housing developers are bank rolling

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom's Prop one Yes campaign, We're relying just on

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Speaker 3: on Prop one campaign. The op ed that I have

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Speaker 3: in the Southern California news group, you know, the We're

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Speaker 3: But we need to spread the word, So share that website.

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Speaker 3: Chipping a contribution at Cleanupourstreets dot org.

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Speaker 2: Very good, Carl, as always excellent work, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: To March fifth.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, John Ticker.

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Speaker 2: All right, Carl Demail. They do this on purpose. Newsom

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Speaker 2: knows what this is about. They all know what this

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Speaker 2: is about. This is a scam. They're effective at marketing scams.

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Speaker 2: They marketed high speed rail, they marketed Prop forty seven,

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Speaker 2: which has led to a huge increase in crime and

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Speaker 2: they run misleading ads, misleading campaigns. They always have an

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Speaker 2: Rob Bonta doing it now, we had Kamala Harris to

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Speaker 2: do it in the past, and in this case, it

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Speaker 2: is a racket two enrich housing developers who then give

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Speaker 2: the politicians a cut a kickback. That's why Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: is for this. Gavin Newsom is going to run for president.

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Speaker 2: He needs the housing developers to contribute to his presidential

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Speaker 2: as Carl said, takes money away from existing mental health

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Speaker 2: a million dollars a unit to build housing here in

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Speaker 2: a million each. It will cost tens of billions of dollars.

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Speaker 2: It's never gonna happen. Not to mention that, you know

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Speaker 2: borrowed money. Anyway, Vote No one Prop One I don't

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Speaker 2: know what else to say, you know, stop being a

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Speaker 2: They're building homeless housing for a million dollars perit a

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Speaker 2: And he's holding up We've got a picture of it here.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty one thousand illegal aliens, and those

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Speaker 2: What what a mess this country is? What a freaking

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Speaker 2: this restaurant owner's head. What a disaster. What just a

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Speaker 2: Another city run by clowns is San Francisco. There is

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Speaker 2: Erica Sandberg. She's an independent Jernalis stuff in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: We've had around before. She reposted the video and she's colorful.

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Speaker 2: Breathe another clan.

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Speaker 2: Boy oh boy, we went from LA to New York

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Speaker 2: now to San Francisco. More news about major, beautiful, thriving

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk with an independent journalist, Erica Sandberg out

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Speaker 2: of San Francisco. In just a moment, she had reposted

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Speaker 2: And nobody in government is embarrassed by this. Healthcare officials,

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Speaker 7: No, I don't know how whatever way I can put this,

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Speaker 7: at it. We have these enormous number of contracts with

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Speaker 7: nonprofit organizations that are some supposed to be helping do

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Speaker 7: the right thing, getting people into treatment, giving them the

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Speaker 7: right care, getting them mental health care and substanceutes. And

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Speaker 7: it's grift. It is positively just. I mean, nobody's minding

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Speaker 7: the store. There's no accountability, these these organizations aren't being

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Speaker 7: aren't being over there's no oversight, and clearly it's not working,

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Speaker 7: and millions and millions of dollars are being poured into

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Speaker 7: the system. It is you know, I think right now

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Speaker 7: it has reached the point where it's it literally can't

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Speaker 7: go on. We are we are really when I say

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Speaker 7: at crisis, like our city is falling apart, it is

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Speaker 7: still beautiful, It's still wonderful. There's still great areas. Not

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Speaker 7: saying that that's not true, because it is true. But

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Speaker 7: how you know, we need to be realistic here. We

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Speaker 7: cannot turn a blind eye. It's there. There aren't very serious,

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Speaker 7: very fatal issues happening.

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Speaker 2: Well, looking at this video, it's hard to wash it.

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Speaker 2: All you think is, well, when is somebody gonna grab him?

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Speaker 2: When is somebody gonna, like some big strong man wrap

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Speaker 2: his arms around this guy and then you know, have

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Speaker 2: some healthcare officials, you know, force him into an ambulance

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Speaker 2: and it never happens. Apparently he just went on like that,

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Speaker 2: smashing himself on the ground for two hours.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and he will die. We're all gonna die. But

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Speaker 7: she will te prematurely and suffer before that happens. That's

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Speaker 7: a guarantee. It's an almost guaranteed.

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Speaker 2: What do you think it's going to take for everybody

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Speaker 2: to drop this stupid ideology because it seems like a

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Speaker 2: religious cult. You know how you can't get people inside

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Speaker 2: a cult to realize that their lives have been destroyed

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Speaker 2: by the cult leader. I don't know who the cult

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Speaker 2: leader is here. But when do the people in San Francisco, politics,

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Speaker 2: La politics, all of it realize that they have they're

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Speaker 2: destroying the cities.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not that difficult of a problem to solve theoretically,

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Speaker 7: it's just putting it in to practice and changing people's minds.

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Speaker 7: You know, we have to stop the drug dealing. It

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Speaker 7: has to stop. I'm sure it's the same in LA

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Speaker 7: where there's the drug open drug scenes are so sick

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Speaker 7: and intense and free for all. Right, that's got to

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Speaker 7: stop on you. Once you stop that. If you come

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Speaker 7: down hard on the dealers, arrest, prosecute, make it as

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Speaker 7: unpleasant as possible for them to do business, a lot

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Speaker 7: of these problems.

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Speaker 3: Will leave that area.

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Speaker 7: They will No, They're going to go someplace else. Okay,

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Speaker 7: then that that area needs to deal with it. But

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Speaker 7: on a on a kind of a case by case situation.

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Speaker 7: You know, we're here, are you in San Francisco? Can

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Speaker 7: we scare these people out? Can we get them out? Yes?

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Speaker 7: It can be done. Will it be done?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 7: At the same time, the people who remain, who need assistance,

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Speaker 7: who try, we really need care. We've got to be

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Speaker 7: able to catch them. The Salvation Army is doing a

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Speaker 7: great job. They have a new program. I'm really excited

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Speaker 7: about it. But you know, where there has to be

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Speaker 7: a will.

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Speaker 1: Erica, thanks for coming on with us.

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Speaker 6: My pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Erica Sandberg, independent journalist. She's a host on San Francisco Beat.

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Speaker 2: If you want to go online on x Erica has

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Speaker 2: posted it and it originally came from something called Dodge Place,

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Speaker 2: tenderloin SF. That's the name of the account on x

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Speaker 2: where and it's because it's Dodge Street where the guy

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Speaker 2: is writhing. And it was December twenty sixth, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: day after Christmas. And I have never seen anybody act

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Speaker 2: like that. And if it actually went on for two hours,

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Speaker 2: that is astonishing that a man's brain could be so

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Speaker 2: disrupted that he would have this. He just kept tumbling

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Speaker 2: around and around and slamming his arms and slamming his

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Speaker 2: head and standing on his head and it just compulsively.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't stop it. I don't know what that drug is.

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Speaker 2: We're coming up, oh after three o'clock. Well, it's all

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Speaker 2: part of the same thing. I mean, this is what's

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Speaker 2: going on in the world now, you know, there are

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Speaker 2: kids going on Snapchat and they're buying fentanyl. They think

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Speaker 2: it's something else, they think it's xanax or adderall or percoset, whatever,

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Speaker 2: and they buy it. They take the pill, it's actually

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Speaker 2: laced with fentanyl, and they die. And we have a

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Speaker 2: woman named Amy Neville. This is what happened to her

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Speaker 2: son a few years ago, Alexander Neville, and she has

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Speaker 2: helped produce a film. It's a thirty minute film that's

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Speaker 2: going to debut in Orange County in San Juan Capistrano

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Speaker 2: tonight and it's also going to stream online beginning tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: and it's about the dangers of fentanyl buying it on

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Speaker 2: snap On Snapchat, they have sued the company snap It's like,

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Speaker 2: I think there's sixty parents that have joined together because

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Speaker 2: Snapchat has allowed this drug selling to happen. They know

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Speaker 2: it's been happening for years and they didn't do anything

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Speaker 2: to stop it, and these teenagers are dying. It just incredible.

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Speaker 2: The lack of care among so many of the adults

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Speaker 2: in positions of power and influence now, it's really shocking.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of sociopaths running things. That's ahead

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Speaker 2: after three o'clock.

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Speaker 6: Is the video we were just talking about in the

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Speaker 6: last segment, Oh, of the guy writhing in San Francisco. Oh,

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Speaker 6: you gotta watch that. You have to see that. You've

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Speaker 6: never seen this before. I guarantee it all right now.

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Speaker 6: In just a few minutes, we're gonna have Amy Neville

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Speaker 6: on it. As I mentioned, Amy is a mother in

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Speaker 6: Orange County, her son Alexander, died of fentanyl poisoning at

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Speaker 6: the age of fourteen back in twenty twenty. He bought

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Speaker 6: a pill on Snapchat. He wanted to ease his anxiety.

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Speaker 6: He thought it was a xanax, turned out to have

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Speaker 6: fentonyl and it killed him. And there was a whole

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Speaker 6: group of parents. In fact, sixty sets of parents have

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Speaker 6: sued the parent company of Snapchat. The company is Snap.

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Speaker 2: For allowing these drug pushers to sell fentanyl under the

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Speaker 2: guise of these other medications, and a California judge yesterday

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Speaker 2: issued a ruling allowing the lawsuit to continue. It's over

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Speaker 2: sixty young people who died of fentanyl overdoses, and the

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Speaker 2: complaint says that Snap and Snapchat's role in illicit drug

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Speaker 2: sales to teens was the foreseeable result of the design,

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Speaker 2: structure and policies that Snap chose to implement to increase

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Speaker 2: its revenues. Now often people try to sue social media

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Speaker 2: companies for the content online. You could imagine how many,

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Speaker 2: dozens of hundreds of ways you could get offended and

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Speaker 2: want to sue, But generally the social media companies are

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Speaker 2: protected under section two thirty of the Communications Decency Act.

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Speaker 1: That was a law passed.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was nineteen ninety six during the Clinton

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Speaker 2: administration when the Internet first came to be a widespread

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Speaker 2: public entity, when everybody originally signed on and started using it,

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Speaker 2: and the companies that had had services online where people

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Speaker 2: could post things, they needed protection because they said, look,

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Speaker 2: we're like the telephone company. You can't sue the telephone

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Speaker 2: company because someone did something illegal and offensive during a

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Speaker 2: phone conversation with you, So we need that same kind

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Speaker 2: of protection. And it did make sense up to a point.

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Speaker 2: But now when Snapchat allows drug dealers to sell fake

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Speaker 2: drugs that are actually relaced with fentanel and by the

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Speaker 2: time you get to sixty teenagers dying, you know that

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Speaker 2: there's something wrong with your business model. And what was

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Speaker 2: proven when those Facebook papers were leaked is that Facebook,

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Speaker 2: which owns Instagram, knew that a lot of their Instagram

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Speaker 2: sites were being used by anorexic girls and it was

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Speaker 2: either instigating or aggravating their anorexia because these girls started

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Speaker 2: idealizing these people that they were following. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: actually anorexia accounts where girls are showing how you know,

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Speaker 2: they weigh eighty pounds or seventy pounds and look at me,

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Speaker 2: and other girls are following them, and they're its aggravating

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Speaker 2: their anorexia. And then, according to the internal documents, the

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Speaker 2: engineers at Facebook, the executives of Facebook, knew this. But

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Speaker 2: these these girls are so hyper engaged they end up

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Speaker 2: seeing a lot of advertising. So they didn't want their

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Speaker 2: engagement numbers, their engagement time to be diminished, the amount

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Speaker 2: of ads that these girls see be diminished, and so

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Speaker 2: they decided not to interfere with that whole phenomenon.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what you've got here too.

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Speaker 2: You know, the drug dealers are getting bringing a lot

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Speaker 2: of traffic to Snapchat, and Snapchat doesn't want to get

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Speaker 2: in the way of all that potential revenue. There would

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Speaker 2: be no other reason for this, because they could they

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Speaker 2: could blot anything out. They do a blot a lot

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Speaker 2: of question. They bought a lot of things that are

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Speaker 2: entirely innocent.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Remember they were oh my god, during the COVID crisis

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Speaker 2: when they decided, you know, when the Biden administration colluded

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Speaker 2: with the Twitter to block any any post that questioned

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Speaker 2: the government's COVID policy. They were very effective at shutting

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Speaker 2: down COVID skeptics. Anyway, we're going to talk with Amy

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Speaker 2: Neville coming up, because they have a she has a

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Speaker 2: foundation now an honor of her son, and they're producing

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Speaker 2: this movie. And we'll talk about the movie too, because

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Speaker 2: it's having a private screening tonight in San Juan Capistrano.

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