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And it looks like another success for 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: Tracy Park, the West Side councilwoman here in Los Angeles, 12 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: replaced Mike Bonnen. She had cleaned up a large homeless 13 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: encampment in Venice and now Culver Boulevard the median in 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: the Delray neighborhood. This was a grassy medium uses a 15 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: jogging trail and there's homes on either side of the street, 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: and in the middle you have the median. Eight you 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: add all these tents, it's a nice area. I driven by. 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: I drove by that many times over the years and thought, 19 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: you know, that's a cool, little wide, little medium there. 20 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: You can jog, walk, play, And we had a guy 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: on this is the Delray neighborhood of Los Angeles, so 22 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: it's not Culver City, it's part of LA and he 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: reached out to us. They had a change dot org 24 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: petition sent to Tracy Park some time ago, and we 25 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: brought him on the air to talk in detail about 26 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: what it looked like there. And we're going to continue 27 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: to update because it was picked as one of the 28 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: places under the Inside Safe program of Mayor Karen Bassetti 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: to start cleaning up and we're going to get an 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,279 Speaker 1: update on it. Hey, Tracy, how are you. Hey, guys, 31 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: I'm doing well. How are you? We're good? All right? 32 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: Tell us the story. Were you aware of this place 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: when you were running for office or were you contacted 34 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: about it after you were sworn in? You know, I 35 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: was aware of it during my campaign and I had 36 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: actually spent quite a bit of time in that neighborhood 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: meeting with you know, residence and property owners that had 38 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: a growing concern, So it was on my radar. But 39 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: after I was sworn in, we certainly heard from that 40 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: community and understood what a priority it was for them 41 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: and I was very pleased to be able to partner 42 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: successfully once again with Mayor Bats and bring her inside 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: safe initiative to that area. And you got everybody to 44 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: agree to go indoors or did some of them just 45 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,839 Speaker 1: disperse and go off into the wilds. So we were 46 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: able to get forty eight people to voluntarily agree that 47 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: they were ready to come inside. And those folks have 48 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: all now been placed into interim housing where they're getting services. 49 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: And I think there maybe one individual left that we 50 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: are continuing to do outreach and engagement with and we 51 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: have a place ready and waiting for him. See it's 52 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: the one person. What does he want? Well, I guess 53 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: you could live with one person. Are they going to motels? 54 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: Where are they going? So you know a lot of 55 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: these folks are in fact going into motels. That is 56 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: the primary resource that we have available at the scale 57 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: that we need. We do have other auctions for folks 58 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: and we are supplementing the motel program with that as needed. Now, 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: going back to your first clean up that was around 60 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: the bridge home in Venice Gret, Now has the city 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: been able to keep the vagrants from returning to that 62 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: neighborhood because that's always the next big fear once you 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: remove the original encampment that after a few weeks, they're 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: going to start filtering back in that area remains completely 65 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: clear and free of encampments. So when when a tent 66 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,119 Speaker 1: pops up, what happens now? Like, where have the tent 67 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: pops up on Culver Boulevard here in the Median? Somebody 68 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: calls up and says, hey, this guy came back. Yeah. 69 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: So what we are going to do is we have 70 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: been working closely with the neighbors before the process, during 71 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: the process, and we will continue that going forward, and 72 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: if and when we receive information about repopulation in that area, 73 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: we are going to immediately deploy resources and services so 74 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: that we can stay ahead of this. Are you surprised 75 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: that you've been able to pull off these two cleanups, 76 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: because I can tell you, you know, we have talked 77 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: for a lot of years and to many people involved 78 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: in this industry and residents and reporters, and a lot 79 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: of people made it sound like it's just too difficult, 80 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: and you've been able to take care of two fairly 81 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: large encampments, and everybody said, oh yeah, sure, we'll go inside. 82 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't happen in a day, necessarily, but 83 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: it seemed to me relatively quick. Is it easier than 84 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: you I thought it was going to be once you 85 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: get a hold of them and explain their options. Well, 86 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: so let me preface this by saying what we were 87 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: suffering from here on the West Side for a lot 88 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: of years was a lack of leadership. But no, this 89 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: isn't easy at all. And you know, just to give 90 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: folks a sense of perspective, it takes our office and 91 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: staff hundreds of hours of time preparing to roll these 92 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: initiatives out, meeting with our service providers, our city partners, 93 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: getting the effort ready to go and coordinated, lining up 94 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: the resources, and then executing the plan. And so you know, 95 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: this is something where I was elected on a promise 96 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: to address this crisis with the compassionate urgency that was necessary, 97 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: and I came into this position determined to see that 98 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: promise through. And I have got also think and acknowledge 99 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: the mayor and her team for their leadership and determination 100 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: to get this work done. And I am incredibly grateful 101 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: that they have been willing to partner with me and 102 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: we see the eleven to bring the resources we need 103 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: to actually see this happen. Well, what's next, because the 104 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: question I have for you, I want to put you 105 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: on the spot, But what about that below the wetlands 106 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: and all those RVs. So it's a good question, and 107 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: a lot of folks have inquired about that. We are 108 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: certainly well aware of it. I think you know you guys, 109 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: and I talked about that back at the beginning of 110 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: my campaign. So we are working on a citywide set 111 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: of protocols as it relates to the RV encampments, and 112 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: it is something that we are actively planning for and 113 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: compiling resources, and we are hoping to be able to 114 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: start the process of addressing that issue in the near future. 115 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: I don't have a specific timeline that I can share. Well, 116 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: imagine you've got a lot of projects still to work 117 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: on all over the West Side. You must be getting 118 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: inundated with calls and emails and requests. We are, and 119 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: we are being responsive, and we are trying to let 120 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: everybody know that we are here to help, we are 121 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: here to serve. We are out around the district every day, 122 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: and you're right, we have a lot of problems and 123 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: a lot of locations and a lot of big challenges. 124 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: But I am confident that I have assembled the best 125 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: team in the city. We have hit the ground running 126 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: and we are just barely getting started. What kind of 127 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: timeline do you think that your council district will look 128 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: significantly different with the homeless problem? You think a year 129 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: from an hour? How long do you think? I think 130 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: it already looks significantly different. It by being honest, and 131 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, the feedback that we've been getting already is 132 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: that people are noticing the difference, they're feeling it. You know, 133 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: I have got folks that are out walking around in 134 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: venice speech, you know, our texting messages of gratitude that 135 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: you know they're already feeling safer and are happy to 136 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: be able to take their families out and enjoy our amenities. 137 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: You know, it's really hard to put an exact timeline 138 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: on this. We have an immense crisis in this city 139 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: and it is going to take a tremendous amount of 140 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: resources to deal with it just in the short term, 141 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: but frankly, we are looking at still years ahead when 142 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: it comes to getting the long term, affordable and permanent 143 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: support of housing resources online that we're going to need 144 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: to end this problem once and for all alike, all right. 145 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: See always good to talk with you. Thanks for coming, 146 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on again. Good work. You're welcome anytime. 147 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: Have a great day, all right. City Council and Tracy 148 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 1: Park replaced Mike Bonnen John's council district and another encampment 149 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: has been dismantled. This was in the Delray neighborhood of 150 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. This horror on culver bul of Oar the 151 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: medium there which we talked to a resid about to 152 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: change dot org petition was put out and she says 153 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: that they have forty eight people cleared from the encampment 154 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: in some sort of hotel space. One guy left. One guy. 155 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: I'll go get him. You should go talk to him. 156 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: Your chance for money's next with a keyword Johnny ken KF. 157 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: I am six forty Live Everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You 158 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: could stay in by Bomb Shelter. Listen to CAFI. There's 159 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: a winning keyword every weekday from six am with Handle 160 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: all the way to six pm with Tim Conway and 161 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: next chance to win next hour at three twenty. It's 162 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: a thousand bucks. You could buy yourself a new tent 163 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: and bicycles. No, don't be buying tents for encampments. We 164 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: just got done talking to Tracy's Park, and so for 165 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: our vagrant population can enter as well. I was reading 166 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: that the people that they got off of the median 167 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: in the Delray neighborhood of Los Angeles on Culver Boulevard 168 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: were sent to a motel room and they were given 169 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: a refrigerator, a microwave, and yes, a hygiene kit. A 170 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: hygiene kit. Yeah, let me give it. A refrigeration. They're 171 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: giving them little refrigerators and a little yeah, little microwaves 172 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: so that they can, oh, as they're taken over to 173 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: the moteel. Yeah, because some motel rooms don't have those things. Oh, 174 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: I see, they're trying to give them a little space 175 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: where they can. All right, all right, no complaints. Okay, 176 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: you want a free microwave, a free refrigerator, and a 177 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: hygiene kit. I mean that's like, that's a pretty good 178 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: game show prize package there. Well, here's something we don't 179 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: talk about often, the permanent supportive housing business, because allegedly, allegedly, 180 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: these folks in these motel rooms will will somewhere down 181 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: the road be moved into quote what they call permanent 182 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: supportive housing. It's also part of the homeless industrial complex. 183 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about something called skid Row Housing Trust. 184 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: It's a business that's been around a nonprofit for over 185 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: thirty years, and they specialize in finding people what you 186 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: might call permanent supportive housing. They run a bunch of buildings, 187 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: twenty nine of them. Well, the update is they're on 188 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: the brink of financial collapse. They're CEO, she's interim Joanne 189 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: Cordero is trying to assure the employees that they can 190 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,719 Speaker 1: make it through because maybe some philanthropic and housing organizations 191 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: will give them some money, but the charity needs charity. Yes, 192 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: exactly right. They are considered one of the pioneers in 193 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: supportive housing on skid Row with these buildings that they run. 194 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: But when you skim through this story, you find out 195 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: part of the problem. Okay here it is keeping the 196 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,359 Speaker 1: buildings in good condition and assuring residents had habitable units 197 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: can be difficult and costly. Cordero said, you get residents 198 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: who have some kind of a meltdown, they destroy their unit, 199 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: and then we figure out how to get them the 200 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: services they need, and they come back and they destroy 201 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: the new unit that they just got into, and then 202 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: they destroy the third unity I'm surprised she said this 203 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: because the truth, if you're playing this up to success, 204 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: you're saying, all right, in permanent supportive housing and how 205 00:11:58,320 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: they're getting the help they need and they're getting their 206 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: back together. But she's saying, oh no, some of them 207 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: destroy the unit over and over again. It costs us 208 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: to repair it. Because these are crazy people. One of 209 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: the major costs they have that is sinking their company 210 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 1: is they need to constantly reconstruct the units that they 211 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 1: give to these lunatics. I mean, when you've been given 212 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: three permanent units and you've destroyed all three of them. 213 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: And by the way, they get a chunk of their money, 214 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: they did from our taxes, from one of the propositions. 215 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: H Okay, so think about this. They taxed us. We 216 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: voted on this, all right, we collectively said yes to 217 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: over a billion dollars to build housing. They build the housing, 218 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: and then these insane vagrants go in and destroy the place. 219 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: Then they get another shot. Then they get another shot, 220 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: they destroy all three units. Yeah, this is how she 221 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: described it as maintenance needs outstripped revenue. Hundreds of units 222 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: remain an onion habitable condition. Okay, after tenants left, creating 223 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: a vicious cycle of declining rates. The building occupancy is 224 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: down to seventy eight percent. Why didn't we know about 225 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: this years ago? Before? The fascinating before, yeah, before we 226 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: paid the billion dollars, is that there's hundreds of times 227 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: these lunatics that we're supposed to feel compassion for, are 228 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: are our brothers and sisters? Are just violent psychotics. We're 229 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: destroying everything in sight. Maybe it's a minority of the tenants. No, 230 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: we're trying to say, we do get through to some people, 231 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: but yeah, well some people destroy the place three times over. 232 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: Why would you give a second and third one? I 233 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: don't know. I was surprised that the CEO said this, 234 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: because you would think they always could a good spin 235 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: on this because she's going out of what we're doing. 236 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: It's sad they were on the financial drink because this 237 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: is embarrassing. Right, They've gotten millions and millions of tax 238 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: dollars and they're going out of business, and they're everyone's saying, 239 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: well why, And finally you have to explain why because 240 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: they're constantly rebuild the unit every time. Right, why else 241 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: would you be going out of business? There's no other reason. 242 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: I shouldn't laugh but this is what we're faced with. 243 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: And you would think permanent housing supported. Permitive housing means 244 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: these people have moved from the shelter in the motel 245 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: and they're in a mature they're more mature place now. 246 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: No people put them somewhere where they might be able 247 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: to get their lives back together. But it's apparently some 248 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: percentage of them were just ripping up the units. Yes, 249 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: it's all horse scrap. None of this rehabilitation stuff works. 250 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: They're psychos. They're drug addicts a wrug. Most drug addicts 251 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: never recover, they never get off the stuff. Most psychonics 252 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: never become normal. It's a permanent, permanent state. Why do 253 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: you think they're out in the streets to begin with? 254 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: Why do you think the family is giving up on them? 255 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: When you're out of the street by yourself, all your family, 256 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: all your friends have given up on you. Um. They 257 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: they've reached out to remember path John people assisting the homeless. 258 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're CEO. They've reached out to them to 259 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: see if they're interested in buying the properties. And the CEO, 260 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: Jennifer Hartdeat said, I don't want to get into the 261 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: similar situation right because maybe the revenue is not able 262 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: to meet the needs of the building. That's another disguised 263 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,119 Speaker 1: way of saying, over and over again. Can you imagine 264 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: how long could you afford your house if you went 265 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: around destroying all the rooms at it, and then you'd 266 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: call a construction crew to fix it, and then the 267 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: next day you went in and destroyed it all over again. 268 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: How long? How long would you afford the house? So 269 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: I'm looking for baillouts from rich people or rich organizations, 270 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: or for some of these other homeless industrial complex nonprofits 271 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: to come in on the buildings. So it's it's it's 272 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: a foolish business, ridiculous business. And they all know it too. 273 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: The thing is this the CEOs, they all get paid anyway, 274 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: so it doesn't really they've known this was been going 275 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: on for years and years, right, they know a lot 276 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: of this money is wasted, all these donations, all the 277 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: tax money, it's wasted. But they paid themselves six figure salaries. 278 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: So it's like, hey, I'm cashing the checks, right, I 279 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: know this doesn't work. I'm cashing the checks until the 280 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: day came where they're bankrupt. Now they're telling the truth. 281 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: Now they tell us that the homeless destroy the place, 282 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: all right when we come back. There's been a twist 283 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: in the public defender from Orange County who was found 284 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: dead outside of Mexican Beach Resort where the Mexican officials 285 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: say he fell off of balcony at the hotel. Did 286 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: he fall? His wife doesn't believe that. She's been doing 287 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: interviews and there's a new story associated with what happened 288 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: to the couple during this trip to Mexico to celebrate 289 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: an anniversary of their wedding. Johnny Ken caf I A 290 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: I'm six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, the 291 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: Moist line is returning tomorrow, so you have a little 292 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: more time to get a message in. Use the iHeartRadio app. 293 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: Use the microphone icon. There are called the toll free 294 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: number one eight seven seven moist eighty six one eight 295 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: seven seven six six four seven eight eight six h 296 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: The answer is four Jean co Belt four Google picks 297 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: for Bert back Rack. Yeah, it was ninety four. Yeah, 298 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: that's only only one point. I met him once, did 299 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: you really? Yes, he's song book he was a part of. 300 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, incredible number hits. It's an incredible number, especially 301 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: in sixties and seventies. Uh No, he was. He was 302 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:37,120 Speaker 1: a dad at our school. Wow, he had several wives 303 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: and he I was gonna say, because you're not exactly 304 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: the same age, he has had a much younger wife 305 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: your kids age, I think. Yeah. I think there was 306 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: a kid in one of my son's classes and he 307 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: had a party. I think it was at at his 308 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: house in the backyard, and I talked to him for 309 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: a little bit, Burt back Rack's backyard. Yeah, and what 310 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: struck me even even then. He was probably eighty years old, 311 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 1: but I remember seeing him from the back and he 312 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: was just so slim that he came across much younger 313 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: than he was, right, you know, because he was really 314 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: in great shape. He was very slim. He was just 315 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: very casually in a pair of jeans and a shirt, 316 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: and only until you went up close, you know, and 317 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: you realize, oh my god, this guy's eighty. But it 318 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: was a lot of energy, a lot of life, fully 319 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,479 Speaker 1: fully involved so and I mean music career. Yeah, there 320 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: are very few people that had more hits that melodies. 321 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: He would write the melodies to all the hit songs. Yeah. Yeah, 322 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: his partner Hal David wrote most of the lyrics. Yeah, 323 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: a lot of Dion Warwick Songs b J. Thomas h 324 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: two Academy Awards. Yeah, yeah, no he was, he was 325 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: something else in music. Now we're gonna update you on 326 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: a story we did talk about a couple of weeks ago, 327 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: but there's been a new twist and the wife in 328 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,719 Speaker 1: the story has made an appearance on Good America to 329 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: talk about it because she's trying to draw attention to 330 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: what happened to her husband. These are a couple of 331 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 1: public defenders from Orange County. Elliott Blair and his wife 332 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: went to Mexico to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. He 333 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: didn't make it home alive. In fact, he was found 334 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: on the ground, says January fourteenth. Apparently had fallen from 335 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: the third story at Las Rocas Resort and Spa in 336 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 1: Rosarito Beach. This is one in the morning. He's an underwear, 337 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: socks and a T shirt beneath the open air walkway. 338 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: The Mexican official said, sorry, it appears that your husband fell. 339 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: That was their explanation for what happened. The wife is 340 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: not accepting that answer. And then there was some problems 341 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: dealing with getting the body, and apparently Mexican officials wanted 342 00:19:55,240 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: to cremate it immediately. That's a bad sign there. Somebody 343 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: wanted to cover up evidence, right. So Kimberly Williams is 344 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: the wife, and she is quite certain that her husband 345 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: was a victim of some kind of brutal crime. And 346 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: just to make it clear, she was not a suspect. 347 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: I did finally find out because I'm thinking, well, if 348 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: you were a staying in the hotel together and he 349 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: ends up somehow outside in the walkway and then goes 350 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: off the railing and known he wasn't there, she said, 351 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: you got to knock at the hotel room door saying 352 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: we think your boyfriend fell from the balcony outside here, 353 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: And that's how she found out about her husband's death. 354 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: The twist and a new update is that apparently when 355 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: they were on their way back to the hotel from 356 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: a night out celebrating their wedding anniversary, they was stopped 357 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: by two police officers. This is only an hour and 358 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: a half to two hours before Blair was found dead. 359 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: They rolled through a stop sign while driving back from 360 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: the restaurant of the hotel. They didn't have the unidentified 361 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: sum demanded by police, but they gave one hundred and 362 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: sixty Bucks and they were let go, but the police 363 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: asked them, where are you staying? Naha? Could that'd be 364 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: a clue that they came back for more money, so 365 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: the cops knew that they were staying at this particular hotel. Yes, 366 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: And did they come to the hotel ask him for 367 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: more money? And when he refused, did they beat him 368 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: up and throw him over the side. Yeah, because I 369 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: don't have We don't know what the balcony was like. 370 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to fall off a balcony unless 371 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: you're doing something really stupid. You'd have a balcony for 372 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: their room. It was a balcony and like a common 373 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: area outside the door and opened the balcony area walkway. Yeah, 374 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: at the end of the at the end of the 375 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: walkway down the hallway. Now, apparently Blair's wife told police 376 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: he left his hotel room of the night of his 377 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: death to shoo away noisy pigeons, but It's family disputes 378 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: the pigeon story, saying Williams had instead remarked to investigators 379 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: that Blair commented during the day about pigeons and the 380 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: hallway ceiling. How can I see the police comments don't 381 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: add up with what she says happened. I don't know, 382 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: but you know there's corruption and crime in Mexico. You've 383 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: got to be careful when you go to some of 384 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: the resorts and you travel to some of these places. Yeah, 385 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: you got to bring shakedown money, bribe money with you. 386 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: Because they told the two police, the police officers that 387 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: they were lawyers, you would think that would have them 388 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: pull back from getting involved with lawyers, right, they just 389 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 1: want money. Yeah, I don't know. So they're trying to 390 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: say he was drunk and he fell. The family was 391 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: told his body was embalmed at the behest of Mexican 392 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,959 Speaker 1: prosecutors not allowing blood to be drawn for an independent 393 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: toxicology report. So that's another strange twist to the story. 394 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:06,120 Speaker 1: Now they've done a private autopsy, right, and Elliott Blair, Well, 395 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 1: that's the name of the name of the victim. And 396 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: Williams is the wife, right right, So the family for 397 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: Elliot Blair. The attorney for Elliot Blair case Barnett, said 398 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: the autopsy confirms that he was murdered that night, and 399 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: the evidence suggests that he may have been attacked by 400 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: more than one man. Yeah, this is something that he 401 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 1: may have been beaten about the head there was, so, 402 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, this is in line with her 403 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: suspicions and also the discrepancies between her story and the authorities. 404 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 1: And remember, you're dealing with a situation where the authorities 405 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: originally shock down this couple for one hundred and sixty 406 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: dollars and they wanted more than that, and they knew 407 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: of their location at the hotel, right, So it's it's 408 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 1: certainly really suspicious, and they want to they embombed the 409 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: body without mission, and then they wanted to cremate the 410 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: body without permission. That all this stinks. Yeah, I can imagine. 411 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: I mean, she says she got a knock at the 412 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: hotel room door in to security guards that excuse me, 413 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: is that your boyfriend down here? I turned to the side, 414 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: I didn't see them there, So I ran out the 415 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: front door and they're pointing over the side of our 416 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: front door to the ground, and that was my elliot 417 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: down there. That's a nice way to break the news. Wow. Yeah, 418 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: I mean, this is all highly suspicious. Of course, good 419 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: luck getting an investigation to sort this out. Yeah, you're right, 420 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: you're not dealing with the American justice system, which isn't 421 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: the best, which is a very good either, right, But 422 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: in a foreign country, particularly Mexico, with all of its 423 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: other problems, your chances of getting the answers that you want. 424 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: They're hiring a private investigator, you know, who'll go down 425 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: there and interview people and check out the scene. But 426 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: I it's going to be hard to find something really 427 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: damning unless you know, somebody confesses, or if somebody saw 428 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: something and tells you something. Yeah, I've said, he likely 429 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 1: consume five or six drinks over six hours. She thinks 430 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: he could not have been so drunk to fall over 431 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: the balcony by accident. So the story they're trying to 432 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: tell is that he got annoyed by the pigeons once again, 433 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: and he ran out there to shoot them away, and 434 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: he just because he was so drunk, he just went 435 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: off the balcony. Yeah, that sounds preposterous. No, No, you're which, 436 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: you're with your wife on your anniversary night. I don't 437 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 1: think you're worried about the pigeons. That's what the hotel 438 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 1: is trying to convince. The cutting and six strinks over 439 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: six hours is not debilitating. And you know, the tooth 440 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: is Mexico doesn't want stories like these to get play 441 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: in the US because they don't like the idea that 442 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: there is a belief that you could be a victim 443 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: of crime if you go there as a tourist. So 444 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: this could be another way of trying to tamp down 445 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: on the chances of this story becoming what it's becoming. 446 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: Because now she goes on Good Morning America blaring all 447 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: this out, and it was probably the advice make a 448 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,239 Speaker 1: big stinker of this, right, make a big story. All right, 449 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: we're coming up Johnny ken k if I am forty 450 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Well, we'll be talking again 451 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: about the big story here. Locally for restaurant owners in 452 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the Alfresco Dining program, which allows them to 453 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: set up outdoor dining, became big during the pandemic. There's 454 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: a way around the indoor dining problems until, of course 455 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: they do. The dopes panned outdoor dining too, but it 456 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: came back quickly after that. Well, the problem is the 457 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: city of La is drafting rules where you have to 458 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: start over with the permitting process. It's incredibly gonna custom 459 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of dollars to keep the restaurants open 460 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: serving outdoors. Why just let them stay the way it is. 461 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: It is like a shakedown. Why do you have to 462 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: charge them thousands of dollars just to keep the status quo? 463 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: Because we need money for the homeless. Yeah, so that 464 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: the homeless can then destroy the apartments. That are enough 465 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: with all the parking fees we collect, man we want 466 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: to collect from the poor. Restaurant attack can start over 467 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: again with permitting alice bureaucracy for outdoor dining. At last, 468 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: the government. It's organized crime, is what it is. It 469 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: really is organized crime, from the council people to to 470 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: to the bureaucracies. It's just incredible how much money they 471 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: shake down. All right, So we'll have a guest on 472 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 1: after three o'clock who knows a lot more about this. 473 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: And I heard there's talk to allow those who already 474 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: got the permits during the pandemic to be grandfathered in. 475 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: And I have to start this whole crazy process over. 476 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: There was some sort of public meeting last night and 477 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people voice their Anglico because this is 478 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: just entire wrong. It's wrong, It's absolutely wrong. It's theft operation, 479 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: one of my favorite stories. And you know, people smuggle 480 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: in drugs they smuggle in people from south of the border. 481 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: But this is a new one. Is that an egg 482 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: in your pants? Are you're just happy to see me? 483 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: It's been a big increase in people smuggling in eggs 484 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: from Mexico. Eggs seizures are way up at the border. 485 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: Eggs seizures. Now you have a choice. You can either 486 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: declare the eggs. You have to declare you know products, 487 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: you have food products. You have to declare the eggs 488 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: you have in my pants, But then they confiscate them 489 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 1: and they need to destroy them. A small number of 490 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: cases people don't declare them and they find them during 491 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 1: the inspection. But you can face a fine if that 492 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: turns out to be the case, So you take your chances. 493 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: There have been well, let's put this way, a carton 494 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: of eggs a year ago two dollars and thirty five cents. 495 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: It jumped to seven thirty seven. Now it's down to 496 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: about five dollars and seventy four cents, but that's still 497 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: a lot. They're blaming it on the avian flu problem. Well, 498 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: by the way, that's the reason I want you're bringing 499 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: in eggs from Mexico because there could be other strains 500 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: of the Avian flu coming in with your eggs. Well, 501 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: I think they killed fifteen million chickens. They did kill 502 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: a lot of chickens. Deborah more cried for every month. 503 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: But part of the reason eggs dozen eggs two thirty cents. 504 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: That's why people are going there and trying to smuggle 505 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: the eggs in. Really, you can't find something else eat 506 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: besides eggs. I mean, come on the smuggle, I mean, 507 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: come on. Nutrition, yeah, I know, but to smuggle them, 508 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: give me a break. Figure out something else. Whites. When 509 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: a guy wants an omelet, you know egg whites can. 510 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: There are so many different egg replacements out there. You 511 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: won't be able to tell the difference replacement. Yes, you 512 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: won't be able to. If you want egg whites to 513 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: put in your smoothie, go go to the market and 514 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: you'll you'll find cottonses every day place. Whatever you make, 515 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: you have egg white scrambles and stuff. I put like 516 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: seriously in there. You can try. I mean I don't 517 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: in eggs. I E. Well, nuts, Oh, ground turkey is good. 518 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not talking about turkey slices. Ground turkey 519 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: is good with eggs. Yeah, A little spinach in there. 520 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: It's good. But oh, for three, it's one of my 521 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: favorite dishes. You do not eat ground turkey with eggs 522 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: and spinach? I do? I love really, Oh, it's one 523 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: of my favorite dishes. Do you put it in a tortilla? 524 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: Then get the protein, you get the iron? I don't. 525 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: I don't understand you anymore. No, I don't put it 526 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: in a tortilla. I mean I could see. I mean 527 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: I don't like the turkey or the eggs, but I 528 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: could see that would be a nice little rap. Part 529 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: of the egg price problem is California's cage free lie. Yes, 530 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: that brings topic. Eggs in the Midwest go for three 531 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: dollars and five cents, and right now California it's five 532 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: sixty two. Right, But do you remember we passed the 533 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: proposition twelve about the right the cage free hens. Yeah, 534 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: And so it has caused egg prices for Californians to 535 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: go up because it's it's now too expensive to raise 536 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: chickens by giving them a Well that's that. That's a 537 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: dumb law, because I really don't care if the chickens 538 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: are all well holed up together. Well, you should care. 539 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: How would you like to be huddled up with other 540 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: humans and in a little cage. I wouldn't be, But 541 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about that because I've got 542 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: a chicken. That's their tough low. It's mean, and I'm 543 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: glad that we passed that. Deb Mark will be glad 544 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: to know nine other states of enacted laws similar. So 545 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: I have to take an effect. Yet that Debor is 546 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: willing to pay the ex You're two fifty on your eggs. 547 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: If I ate eggs or for my family, absolutely suggests 548 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: send your Ralph's bill to Deborah Mark Terakfi and then 549 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: she will make up the difference for all the eggs 550 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 1: you bought. No, I didn't say that, but there are 551 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: plenty of other things that you can eat. You don't 552 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: have to go and smuggling eggs. For crying out loud, 553 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: try an avocado. I like that list of Deborah approved foods. 554 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: Here's where, here's all the substitutes you can eat. Because 555 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: I disagree, I'm just giving you alternatives. It used to 556 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: be with John's hamburger, you were pushing for well, if 557 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: you're going to slaughter them, slaughter them humanely. But now 558 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: you've taken us to the level. Now where we don't 559 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: slaughter them. We just take their eggs. But we got 560 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: to make sure they have enough room in the cave. 561 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: But I don't think you should slaughter them to begin with. 562 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: But they have to have their own permanent housing, yes, 563 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: now their own one bedroom apartments. I'd imagine if you're 564 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: a good egg laying hen, you get to live a while, right, 565 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: so they can get a lot of eggs out of you. Yeah, 566 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: and then you might be too old to be waded 567 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,959 Speaker 1: for chicken food. Now supermarkets have run out often white eggs, 568 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: now erry brown egg What is the difference between a 569 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: white and brown egg because my my grocery store is 570 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: often at of white eggs that they have very few, 571 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: but they have lots of brown eggs. And I never 572 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: understood the difference. I don't either. I'm gonna google that. 573 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,719 Speaker 1: You don't know, Yeah, I don't actually know. You just 574 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: wanted bad eggs, you know. The first time I saw them, 575 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: I was like, huh okay. The egg shell color depends 576 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: on the breed of the head. Then, generally speaking, white 577 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: shell eggs come from hens with white feathers, while brown 578 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,239 Speaker 1: shell eggs are produced by hens with brown feathers. But 579 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: there's no other real difference, I suppose huh yeah, many 580 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: California egg farmers have shut down. Those in other states 581 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: have decided the cost of complying with Prop. Twelve isn't 582 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: worth it. So that's that's another reason for egg shortages 583 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: and high prices. And what happened did the bacon thing? 584 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: Remember that problem too. I think the same thing with 585 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: the pigs. They have to have more space in there though. 586 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: These animal nuts, animal activist nuts, are depriving us of food. Now, 587 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: oh please, there's more than enough. Again. You can live 588 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: without bacon. You can live without eggs. Trust me, you'll 589 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 1: survive everything. He's lived without a house, to live without food. 590 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: Have a smoothie, absolutely, you know all the things you 591 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: can put in a smoothie. You can get so much 592 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: more protein than frigging eggs and bacon, all right. Our 593 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: guest next is Eddie Navarette, executive director of the Independent 594 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: Hospitality Coalition. They are an advocate and a support for 595 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: independent restaurants. And the topic here is with the outdoor 596 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: dining program. The City of la is basically telling the 597 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: restaurants they have to start over, apply for new permits 598 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: with new fees and new bureaucracy just to continue their 599 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: outdoor dining. We'll get into it next John and Ken 600 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: caf I Am six forty live everywhere, the iHeart Radio 601 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: app