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Speaker 1: This is Ceo Henderson from median House and this is

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Speaker 1: unhoused News. Our top story is mainstream media Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Times has created a problematic article endangering the lives of

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Speaker 1: unhoused people. The full story is that at the topic

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Speaker 1: of their article was talking about bicycles, which incidentally is

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Speaker 1: important enough that Jobaskino is criminalizing that now due to

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Speaker 1: the article. The article points to the address of unhoused

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Speaker 1: people and then it leads a subtle dog whistle to

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Speaker 1: vigilantes to go and look for unhoused people with creating

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Speaker 1: hostile situations. The conversation has been always ongoing about how

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Speaker 1: mainstream media the fourth estate contributes into the mass hysteria

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Speaker 1: and vigilantes of unhoused news. Median House has an episode

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Speaker 1: called Nimbiland that highlights that on YouTube as well as

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Speaker 1: the other social media podcast. Incidentally, during the George Floyd protest,

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Speaker 1: there was a big article from Los Angeles Times apologizing

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Speaker 1: for their role and to the racial antipathy that they

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Speaker 1: created into their reportings. It seems like they they have

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Speaker 1: resorted back to got because, as you know, fifty two

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Speaker 1: percent of the un house are black, one and four

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Speaker 1: are usually in use of force with the LAPD and

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Speaker 1: now due to the high hysteria of under anti n

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Speaker 1: House sentiment that is used as a platform for the politician,

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Speaker 1: La Times has joined the frame. They have always stated

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Speaker 1: that they are doing balanced reporting, but that is not

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Speaker 1: the case. It was incidents before that they were really

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Speaker 1: eager to try to have workshops. I guess, and they

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Speaker 1: have founded due to the fact that many of the

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Speaker 1: journalists do not look at independent journalists as on the

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Speaker 1: same caliber as mainstream journalists. However, they have been missing

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Speaker 1: the mark for some time, so I guess that's they're

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Speaker 1: correct in that. In other news, Median House have found

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Speaker 1: out that there has been a recall on City council

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Speaker 1: member Mike Bonnan. He is one of the people that

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Speaker 1: has not pushed out any forty one eighteen resolutions. He

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Speaker 1: voted against it and now they are coming for him.

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Speaker 1: Because of that, the hysteria has grown. KDL has created

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Speaker 1: more resolutions to circle unhoused people near Union Station, the

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Speaker 1: city Hall and other places. The main proponent of the

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Speaker 1: resolutions have been joked by Skying over one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty one and counting Mitchell Farrell, He's growing in his number.

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Speaker 1: Parker Korian KDL New Martinez. These are the ones that

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Speaker 1: have been pushing for the forty one eighteen resolution utilizing

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Speaker 1: anti huse sentiment stating that unhoused people are dangerous to schools,

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Speaker 1: as if all these sixty two thousand unhouse people are

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Speaker 1: going to attack school children and there are danger to society.

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Speaker 1: The last conversation that I point out is Instagram live stream,

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Speaker 1: but I posted how MacArthur Park had violated the Bulky

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Speaker 1: Order ruling and threw away an unhoused persons belongings and

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Speaker 1: left two belongings in their possession. For further details, please

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Speaker 1: look on the weed in House Instagram live as well

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Speaker 1: as check out the new current episode due to the

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Speaker 1: Veterans on House Veterans episode that should be I proposed

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Speaker 1: because today's Veterans Day. But incidentally, they have disdained and

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Speaker 1: discarded young housed just the same as civilian unhoused. This

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Speaker 1: is theo Henderson from Wiedian House and this is unhoused needs.

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Speaker 1: One of the harmful realizations about dealing with houselessness is

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Speaker 1: the fact that they have being nimbi's posing as activists

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Speaker 1: people that are leading the conversations with unhoused people have

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Speaker 1: There was conversations when some groups about ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: And what also alarmed me even further was when the

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Speaker 1: Once I was informed that they may be possible a

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Speaker 1: mentioned it to the group. The group understandably was concerned

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Speaker 1: Obviously they were in some key position, maybe the conversation

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Speaker 1: so what some of these activists have been saying has

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Speaker 1: They're saying that unhoused people don't want services. They're saying

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Speaker 1: but I shouldn't have to educate people that are supposed

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Speaker 1: not as these narratives that they're playing on. What it's

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Speaker 1: often not they're problematic. People are running up to me

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Speaker 1: stand with this. I don't endorse you're bringing narratives to

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Speaker 1: saying ninety percent of unhoused people are mentally ill. You

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Speaker 1: do not contact me for that. I do not endorse

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Speaker 1: when you're saying violence when I have to push people

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Speaker 1: and ask even house people, namely five incidents where house

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Speaker 1: people have done violence to unhouse people and you can't

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Speaker 1: the issues about gang violeuce game virus attack house people.

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Speaker 1: House people usually are the gang bangers that are usually

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Speaker 1: utilizing harm and fear too. But you don't see a

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Speaker 1: massive sweeps or displacement going on, and you don't see

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Speaker 1: bottom line is this, if you're here to help on

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Speaker 1: house people, you're here to see that crime happens to

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Speaker 1: every group and every strata. And when you overemphasize what

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Speaker 1: you've caused much harm. The second thing that you caused

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Speaker 1: have to get along and do cumby y'all. I can't

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Speaker 1: combay y'all with you or work with you in liberation

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Speaker 1: when you're one of the people trying to hold us back.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this morning to my friend about something I

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Speaker 1: pharaoh wasn't that bad, we should go back. These people

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Speaker 1: have these viewpoints, you have no business dealing with our

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Speaker 1: vulnerable population. This is Weedian Howes, this is what I

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Speaker 1: be attached to any more problematic people. This is Theo

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Speaker 1: Henderson from Median House. I've covered everywhere, pretty much almost

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Speaker 1: where the veteran on House are so without for Redo.

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Speaker 1: This episode is gonna be covering un housed veterans and

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Speaker 1: getting the story on why that they're unhoused and we

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Speaker 1: our unhoused in this fashion. We're gonna explore a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions and also introduce the term of the forty

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Speaker 1: and how it impacts them as the in house community

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Speaker 1: as well. This is THEO Henderson for William Howes. This

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Speaker 1: is a hot sunny Sunday as well. And you can

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Speaker 1: but I can smell it, but you can certainly see it.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of joy and a lot of

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Speaker 1: camaraderie in here in this community. This is a developing

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Speaker 1: in a light of understanding. This has been an outstanding

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Speaker 1: here and I have a couple of other people that

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Speaker 1: Share our Meal program, and I said, you know, it

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Speaker 1: And then we have been doing this for I will

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Speaker 1: say sixteen months now, sixteen months. Wow, what are the

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Speaker 1: good things? If you notice about this? The cookout? Has

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Speaker 1: it been a success? Yeah, I mean we are eight

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Speaker 1: five hundred something meals. It's been amazing. And so right

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Speaker 1: The people work in the fields and it's out there man,

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Speaker 1: and it was just like it's just like you know,

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Speaker 1: community that does things like this, the community cookout and

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Speaker 1: we do it Saturdays from three to six, and I

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of hunger. There's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: says help others Los Angeles. What's up with that? It's Ola.

432
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: It's a nonprofit organization and we basically help not just

433
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: the homeless, you know, our homeless brothers and sisters, but

434
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: also they're pets, so yes, yes, what do you go? Oh, man,

435
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: I know some people that have pants that will love you.

436
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: What do you do? Will provide food, flea, medication and

437
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: if they need to be taken to the vet, we

438
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: find the veterinarian that will assist with that and then

439
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: you know we'll get the funds for that. Oh, that

440
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: is wonderful. How long you guys have been doing this

441
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: well with the organization, Probably about maybe a year now,

442
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: but just you know, helping we've been helping the community

443
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: for about twenty sixteen, Yes, twenty sixteen. Yeah, it was

444
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 1: a turning point for us. Why was it such a

445
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: pivotal time. It's when my husband got his trade and

446
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: he was in the hospital for a month. So you know,

447
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: that was a very drastic, more drastic change than the

448
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,719
Speaker 1: days before that, you know. So, yeah, you said your

449
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: husband having a received track, was there like they did something?

450
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Of course, obviously something happened, but what it did deal

451
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: with housing and security of food and security the No,

452
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: it just started happening where his throats has started shutting

453
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: down and you know, he had to experience some issues

454
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: back in October. Then again in November. Then by December

455
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, there's nothing we can do but

456
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: place a track, and so ever since then it's been

457
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: but he was in the military. Ah, so yeah. So

458
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: this is why this is really touches both of you guys,

459
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: because you see the need, because there's like like your husband,

460
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: that there's so much needs like there there's the medical

461
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: ward over there that I was just informed that they

462
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 1: can't go ohere to give food to the people over

463
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: there in the medical ward. It's just like all of

464
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 1: these kind of conversations that tells you how the branches

465
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: are being unhoused, and the tentacles or or a big

466
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: yarn that you pull the string. That's so many nuances

467
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: to it. Then just on house people don't want help

468
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: or they should be criminalized, which on that same thing

469
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: is I've been interesting asking this question to all of

470
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: the service providers, But have you any intake or any

471
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: take on the forty one eighteen conversation that's coming up

472
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: this Wednesday. I'm not aware of that one. Well, to

473
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: make it a very condensed version. Forty one eighteen has

474
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: been shot down several times by activists and others because

475
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: of the unreasonableness of the city's response to the unhoused crisis.

476
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: Their response has always been criminalization. For example, Suriff Villainette

477
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: Waiver believes the unhoused people are coming in outside their

478
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: lawlessness of railing on the land, their criminals, their substance usage,

479
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: their mental ill and they all belong in jail. And

480
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: he has over twenty four hundred beds for unhoused people.

481
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: And to that end, he has enlisted the support of

482
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: the mayor, city attorney and people that are running for

483
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 1: mayor like Mike fuer Jo Boscaino, Mitchell Ferroll, and all

484
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: of the other city council members like Neuri Martinez to

485
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: create a amended forty one eighteen and forty one eighteen

486
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: says that it will be against the law for the

487
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: unhoused to be happening sidewalks, inside parks, outside parks, near daycare,

488
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: near schools, near any place in Los Angeles that has

489
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: the place where they have designated that they're not to be.

490
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: And the only place where unhoused people, even medically on housed,

491
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: will be able to be is outside of Los Angeles County.

492
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: So that means if you have a medical appointment and

493
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: you're on housed, you cannot be able to be in

494
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: here to go get to that appointment. If you do,

495
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: you're going to be villainized or you're going to be criminalized,

496
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: in cited and put in jail. It means if you

497
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: have let's say, for example, big people don't know that

498
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: people that have families, like unhoused people like you have

499
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: children and things like that. They have children too, They

500
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: love their kids. But according to Newery Martinez, they believe

501
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: the only people families that should be prioritized and people

502
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: that have houses kids, not the unhoused families that have

503
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: been struggle and dealing with houselessness, and they want to

504
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: give their kids a chance to go to the park

505
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: like any of the family, they can't be there. They're

506
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: going to run them out because they're un housed. So

507
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is this is coming up

508
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: in Winstead that they're going to vote on it. So

509
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: this is a rally cry for everybody to realize that

510
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: the city is really because of the Olympics as well

511
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: as the fiction moratorium is going to end on September

512
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: that they are going to be they don't have the

513
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: manpower to it, but they're going to have the evil

514
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: intent to be able to displace thousands of people. So

515
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: what do you think would be a good solution for you?

516
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a good solution anyway? No,

517
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: I think this is really like discrimination. I mean where

518
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: would they go? I mean, we have homeless people everywhere

519
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: and we don't have enough help. You know, I always say,

520
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, I might not be able to solve the problem,

521
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: but if I can't get up to do something about it,

522
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: just to help one person, because to me, each person

523
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: is one world. You're helping somebody and you're making their

524
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: day better. But if we all get together. Yeah, a

525
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: lot of the issue is mental health. Well not only

526
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: that necessarily, but we always say that there are people

527
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: that have mental health issues. But when I'm talking about

528
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: because I have this podcast for some time and I've

529
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: been in the house for eight years, people forget that

530
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: there are people literally with children. There have been women

531
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: that have been given birth kids out here in the

532
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 1: parks that have been living in their cars. They're living

533
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't even know that they're in house because

534
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: exactly it's over twenty two thousand families like just like

535
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: you guys, that you wouldn't know what. They're in house

536
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: and they're sweating bullets because this story is going to

537
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: be this, this is gonna happen. You're gonna be wondering

538
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: where your friends are, but they are not going to

539
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: be around, or they're going to be displaced or criminalized,

540
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: or it is the CPS or all these kind of things.

541
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: These stories are not getting told. We also have a

542
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: rising elderly population that nobody is talking about. They just

543
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: playing this drug dealing. It's just a drug addiction and

544
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: that's just not it. They're unhoused and you know, rent,

545
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: there's not enough jobs, too much discrimination, discrimination, They can't

546
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: keep up with rent because of the you know, the

547
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: race on everything exactly. And they are picking that whole

548
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: disability check or their retirement check to cover the rent

549
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: and then they're starving. We're not that's not anymore. Are

550
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: we even gonna have it? When my daughter gets to

551
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: that age that she needs it. Yeah, I look side

552
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: out at my aunt because she has swore to God

553
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: that they'll never look at I said, and I say

554
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: this to her all the time, and I really like,

555
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be eighty when I'm eighty, You're gonna

556
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: be long gone, and I can't tell you when I

557
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: when I look at you and tell you that Social

558
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: Security is not going to be here for me, So

559
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: you while you're here eighty, Yeah it's here, but you're

560
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: not gonna be eighty when I'm eighty. So speaking exactly,

561
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean, how much did they get? Does that even

562
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: pay rent? The utility bills, the food? You know, getting

563
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: around like you know their car. Yeah it's not enough. Yeah,

564
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: it all depends. It's sadly one of the things too,

565
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: like there's eighty seventy eighty year old elderly people that

566
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: are out on the street and they'll tell you the story.

567
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: It's not because they didn't work hard. It's not because

568
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: they don't want help. It's not they didn't even gotta

569
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: get it. Because eighty years old, they're telling them to

570
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: get a job. It's kind of ridiculous. But the fact

571
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: that is, maybe their spouses have died. People don't realize

572
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: that they've lived together in their housing. They can't can't

573
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: support the housing. Their children are not maybe they don't

574
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: have their children, or their children is gone, or they

575
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: are doing their own for acial struggles and they're out here.

576
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: So you know, in medical costs is ridiculous. If you

577
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: get a medical emergency, trust me, that oversees everything y is,

578
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: you have to pay for the medical care and then

579
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: you have a choice between medical care or house. You

580
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: know you're gonna live or die. So many of them

581
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: are choosing to live and then at the expense of

582
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: being displaced out of the street. So there's these issues

583
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: are swirling about this week week this Wednesday with forty

584
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: one eighteen forty one eighteen is only focusing negatively deliberately

585
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: on making it scene like the only unhoused people. They

586
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: don't want help. They are they're drug addicted, they're mentally ill.

587
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: We have a population of mental health issues. There is

588
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: no designing that we have a population that people that

589
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: are suffering from subsist usage. That's not an issue, but

590
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: you making it that's the only people and the other

591
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: people like the families that are living in the cars,

592
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: sweating bullets or going to school or when you're in

593
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: school now living in their cars or trying to make

594
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,959
Speaker 1: it and survive. While you're saying only hard working house

595
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: people should be able to get certain resources, is just wrong.

596
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: We have elderly, we have the youth, the people that

597
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: are aging out of foster care. This issue is just

598
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: not one two issues. This is a large sandwich that is,

599
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: this is a crap sandwich that nobody wants to eat

600
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: and they just keep pushing it down the table and

601
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: nobody wants to deal with it but throwing away and

602
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: creating new solutions. So what do you see with yourselves

603
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: doing with hold? Do you go to other encampments or

604
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: do you how do you guys do this? We go

605
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: to different encampments. We you know, we come here often,

606
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: but we also go like just right now, we just

607
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: got done doing Long Beach and just driving around all kinds,

608
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, all the areas in Long Beach which we

609
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: didn't see many because a lot of them are in

610
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: housing right now. But we you know, we we managed

611
00:34:54,360 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: to get you know, higien items, waters, cookies, We take

612
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: dog food with us. Sometimes we'd have cat food. Some

613
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: of them have you know, have cats. I know out

614
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: in Lemita they have a lot of pets and things.

615
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: I know that out in the valley they have a

616
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: lot of pets. And when he's just saying this just

617
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: makes me happy because now I know that there's somewhere

618
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: where they can get some of the help, especially during

619
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: the heat wave and things like that. Yes, we're all

620
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: trying to go more to the valley. Yes, so we

621
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: might be doing something soon closer over there. We reside

622
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: in Long Beach, Sost. But yeah, you know we take

623
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: we take everything, you know, clothing, tents, pillows, blankets, everything

624
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: that they'll need, you know, just just coffee the most

625
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: important one. Yeah, he likes to give coffee because he

626
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: noticed how how people change, you know, when when they

627
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: just have a mug and a coffee and a doughnut

628
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: or pastry. Everyone wants to be treated like a human being,

629
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: not like something you know, you just throw at something

630
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: at them. No, yeah, you know, we like to set

631
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: up and chat chat with the guys the ladies, you know,

632
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: get to know them when if they're willing to, of course,

633
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 1: and just get to know them as to why they're

634
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: out there, because the stories that they have is you know,

635
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: that's why you know where you're going back to what

636
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: you're saying. Everybody has the story as to why they're

637
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: out there. You know, I've heard many. You know. Well,

638
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: my spouse was really sick and I had to leave

639
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: my job and take care of her. Then she passed

640
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: away and I lost everything, and they because of the

641
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, the grief, and they're not having that support

642
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: or having a job and a house and lends. You know,

643
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: that's where they ended up. And it's I'm assuming it's

644
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: very hard to get back on your feet. And they

645
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: don't have a phone, they don't have an address, and

646
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: people look down on them, and it's like, how can

647
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: you look down at somebody who's already down on their

648
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: lut You know, we're all one foot out that door.

649
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: If the pandemic hasn't taught any of us that, I

650
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: don't know what other example it could. Because they cleet

651
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: down jobs, they shut down you're going out and being

652
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: able to support yourself. The eviction moorial term is going

653
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: to be coming to an end September, so there's gonna

654
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: be a lot of people that look there on unhoused

655
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: people that are going to be joinings and ranks of

656
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: unhouse people because there's very limited resources for you to

657
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: get housing or magically get back on your feet. Imagine

658
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: like the gentleman that I was talking to his day

659
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: was Gustavo. His wife had brain cancer and he took

660
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: care of her and then she passed away again and

661
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: he couldn't you know, again, couldn't cope with he had

662
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: the griefing issues, and then he ended up on the street.

663
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: So these things are a real thing that people forget.

664
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: All the texas of medical emergency. You could do it,

665
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: all of the right things you think you're doing. You

666
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: don't have to be on substanses, you don't have to

667
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: be mentally ill. You can have a family member that's

668
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: sick and you're caring for him, like the youngly eighteen

669
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: year old with three year old, but her grandmother was bedridden.

670
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: They were trying to evict her. So it doesn't take

671
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: you to being making bad choices. Life can happen to

672
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 1: you anywhere. Yeah, and it's you know, it's it's really

673
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: you're welcome. It's it's extremely sad. We really need more

674
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: of our neighbors to put a little bit on their

675
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: side to help and to see outside that box and

676
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: to see that the need that we have out here,

677
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, and ten dollars you know, a bag of

678
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: clothes union huh what hmm. Not to be judging, you know,

679
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: we can't really pass so much judgment when we don't

680
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: know nobody's their life and They're really their story. And

681
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: even if we did, who are we to judge? The

682
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: man in there is the only one and that's all

683
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: we need, you know, we just need to have more,

684
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: come for more from the heart and just you know this,

685
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: Yeah you can see, but see the need instead of

686
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: see oh my god, look at all that mess or

687
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, all of that. We need to see more

688
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: with with loving, with loving nice. It used to say

689
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost anything to be kind. It doesn't. This

690
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: is thank you very much for your touching stories as

691
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: well as your advocacy and your activism. This is Still

692
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: Henderson from Weedian House, and I thank you all for listening.

693
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: And it is my hope we meet in the light

694
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: of understanding. Let the go from This is Still Henderson

695
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: from we In House, and we're still here at National

696
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: Veterans Park. We have a grill and chill event here

697
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: with different people of all walks of life and different

698
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: stations of life giving back to the community. So I'm

699
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: going to go and do a little round robin and

700
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: introduce everyone. So speak a loud so everyone can hear you.

701
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: So here we go. Hey, my name is Ryan Higgins,

702
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: Doc Higgins. I'm I guess the Medico the row here

703
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: at the Veteran Row. My name is Francisco Widres and

704
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm a Marine Corps veteran Vietnam. Brian Thompson, I'm a

705
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: local resident here of the Brentwoin neighborhood next to the

706
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: soldiers home. Excellent. Thank you guys for stopping in and

707
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: talking with me today. So tell us a little bit

708
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: about what's going on here. We'll start with you and

709
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: then we'll come back around Ryan. Well, what's happening here

710
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: from a land youth standpoint or misuse standpoint, is this

711
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: is a about four hundred remaining acres of a national

712
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: soldier's home that was deeded in public trust to the

713
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: United States Government perpetuals when in eighteen eighty seven to

714
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: perpetually maintained as a soldier's home. And you know, there

715
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there that respect that

716
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,399
Speaker 1: right that it's one hundred and thirty four years ago.

717
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: But there's also people out there that say, well, that

718
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: was one hundred and thirty four years ago. But the

719
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is that one hundred and thirty

720
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: four years ago, whether it's back then or whether it's today,

721
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: there have been laws enacted in Congress and rules and

722
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: regulations that still maintain that this is nothing but a

723
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: national soldier's home. And unfortunately, especially since around nineteen seventy one,

724
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: there's been a massive diction of disabled veterans from this land,

725
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: which has basically coincided with the origin of veteran homelessness

726
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And that's a big deal because Los

727
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: Angeles is the nation's capital of veteran homelessness and it

728
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: has been since then. Well, let me bring this to

729
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: you because there are people that say when they always

730
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: say support our troops, God bless our troops. I know

731
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: you all have heard that. Well, you know, it's a

732
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: shame how they do our homeless veterans or they are

733
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: just or do you hear the news on how veteran

734
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: has comitted a crime or something and then they say,

735
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing that there was unoccupied buildings already here

736
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: to house and house people. What do you say to

737
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: these kinds of conversations? What is your perspective on these days?

738
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: I'll start with you as a medic here that what

739
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: do you what do you say when you hear people

740
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: talk about on house veterans. It's a shame how we

741
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: treat them. I think it's unforgivable. I think to steal

742
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: off the veterans, Uh, it's it's it's amount of treason.

743
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: Those should be strung up a shot for treason in

744
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: a country supposed to be a nation of laws, and

745
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: we go out there and we fight for the borers

746
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: to be secure and the nation falls from the inside

747
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,280
Speaker 1: due to a bunch of paperwork. That's it's ridiculous watching

748
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: a veteran dinas streets all this happens so well, and

749
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: can cover with these simple laws and push paper around.

750
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: You can't do anything for the man sitting there right

751
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: on the street. Right now, you have billions of dollars

752
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: at your access and it doesn't go to us. Well,

753
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: what is about? What is your perspective? Francisco? I lefting

754
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: you out of the conversations. Actually I agree with everything

755
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: that's been said, but I would like to correct you

756
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: in your introduction. You call this a national park. That's

757
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: because you were reading the plaque here that was placed

758
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: there by people we call lang ribbers that are manipulating

759
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: and changing things, always referring to this as a campus

760
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: instead of the gift land for veterans. So there's this

761
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: whole conspiracy taking place, using politicians, using the wealth of

762
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: large entities and the wealth of this Brentwood community to

763
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: maintain land use policy that results in this out here.

764
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: These people are eligible for veteran healthcare, but yet they're

765
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: outside right, and even those that are on the inside

766
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: are intense. This is in nineteen thirty two, this is

767
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and these people are intense while illegal

768
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: lease are using the property buildings that have sheltered and

769
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: heating in air conditioning. So there's something very wrong with

770
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: that picture. Thank you for educating me on that, because

771
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: I basically drank the kool aid myself if Jim Jones reference,

772
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking, like, okay, this is unfortunately. Some people

773
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: have fallen through the cracks, and you got the un

774
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: house out there. I see everyone that the veterans have

775
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: their flags, and then I'm hearing it's brought to my attention,

776
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: did you know that three different other buildings here are unoccupied.

777
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: There's nothing going on in these buildings where they could

778
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: be housing the unhoused veterans, And you're telling me about

779
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: the lane grab and the shady deeds. So it shows

780
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: you just because you're unhoused a veteran, they crap on you,

781
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: just like they crap on the unhoused people that are

782
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: not veterans. They just hide behind patriotism as if they

783
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: are really servicing and caring about the soldiers and troops.

784
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: So one of the other questions, so I'm gonna move

785
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: on to this, is that what got you here to

786
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: wanting to help the veterans here as a medic. I

787
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: came here originally just quick drinking. I was going through

788
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: a divorce, so I got hit with the housing market.

789
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: My life turned upside down and out, and I ended

790
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: up here trying to get help for drinking. I ended

791
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: up not drinking due to coming out here and working

792
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: with these guys and just being the medic for them.

793
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: So it's just kind of the circumstances. I was left

794
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: to the best I can make of it, and this

795
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: is what's coming of it. That's wonderful. How long have

796
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: you been out on the Are you still on the

797
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: streets or are you still are you still on the streets?

798
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: I supposedly have housing, but that's that's a whole other

799
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: argument issue. But yeah, but I've been here for about

800
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: six seven years. Well, it's good black. The mutual aid

801
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: is always helping people no matter where you are, and

802
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: I applaud you for helping people that are in with

803
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: skills that you have. Not everyone has the medic skills,

804
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that you have that to help people. So, uh,

805
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: let's let's get to you, and let's talk a little

806
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: bit about your story. How what got you out here? Well,

807
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm I was born and raised in Los Angeles and

808
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: I've spent most of my life living here next to

809
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: the Soldiers Home, you know, different neighborhoods. It's always been

810
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of a curiosity to me. Uh. And

811
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: I started going on next door when next Door was

812
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: coming out, reading on my social media group, my neighborhood

813
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: about these homeless people. And you know, you're talking a

814
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: little bit ago about drinking the kool aid, And I

815
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: was definitely drinking the kool aid, you know. Sadly, if

816
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: you'd spoken to me, you know, three years ago or something,

817
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: I would think, you know, they've been here too long.

818
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: We need the police to come out here and take

819
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: care of this. It's just not right. They probably going

820
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: to hurt themselves. And I started noticing as I was

821
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: reading these social media messages that there was this one

822
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: group of people that kept saying over and over again,

823
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: don't talk to these people. You can't help them. You

824
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: got to call the police. Trust me, we know where

825
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: the Brentwin community kills. And they go, why do they

826
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: what is this message? Keep the same thing? And I

827
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: thought they must be some neighborhood counsel, you know. No,

828
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: they're just a corporation. They're not any neighborhood council. And

829
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: so I started looking into it more and I started

830
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: realizing that their board members had a bunch of people

831
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: who are the illegal land users that are on this land.

832
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: And so that be began a research process which I

833
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: have about a ninety gigabyte repository of documents now, and

834
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: I began to learn that the land users here in

835
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: you know that in August twenty nine, twenty thirteen, that

836
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: had been ruled by a federal judge that they had

837
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: null and void deals and had to go These same

838
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: users who on September twenty eight, twenty eighteen, the VA

839
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: Inspector General ruled that they were fabricating that they were

840
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: doing anything for veterans if they were non complying with

841
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: federal law. Are these same people, many of them that

842
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: are on the board of this fake community council. So

843
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: a lot of my advocacy was trying to explain these

844
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: are veterans because they said they weren't veterans, that they

845
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: were pretending to be veterans. They said that nobody wanted

846
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: any help here, and they still try to say it today,

847
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: but it's falling apart. That's the same thing that they

848
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: utilized for a non veteran on house people. They say

849
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: this same thing that they don't want help, they don't

850
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: want less. And the reason why I'm saying this because

851
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: yesterday at Sportsman Lodge, the unhoused community was evicted from

852
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: Project Room Kick. They were in housing, they had in

853
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: a hotel, and they told them and they're telling people

854
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: now that these people didn't want help. I didn't want

855
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: any house, they didn't want any housing. And these people

856
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: who are crying, families and things of that nature are

857
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: are upset and have to be forcibly removed by police.

858
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: If they didn't want help at they didn't want housing,

859
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: why would they have to be forcibly removed by police.

860
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: I just don't make any sense. So they're saying the

861
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: same stories without veterans. What they say about non veterans

862
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: as well, it's the same game book. And I'm just

863
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: so thrown off. What I'm hearing is because this happened

864
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: right before World War Two in Germany. The Hitler, the

865
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: Chancer at that time institute of the same kind of policy,

866
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: beginning to move the homeless around. Eventually they were the

867
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: uh lab branches will for the camps. Yeah, you know. Accidentally,

868
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: another thing about what people don't know about Adolf Hitler.

869
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: Adolf Hiller got his inspiration from the Jim Crow policies

870
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: that they were doing with African American and my and

871
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: my families and my and my friends and ancestors uh

872
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: that were they. So he had a lot of inspiration,

873
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: a lot of things to cook together. But they did

874
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: definitely criminalize on house people in that period of time

875
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: as well as they're doing it now. But it's just

876
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: so it's just that they're usualizing a separation by utilizing

877
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: the saying, hey, these are veterans, we should support our troops.

878
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: They're they're overly patriotic. You'll see the flag, they'll have them.

879
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: They get up and across uh at tizzy when someone

880
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: bends and knee against the injustices. But yet they are

881
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: still crapping on people of veterans here out here, and

882
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: they just don't want you to know about it. And

883
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: you know a big reason too, I think that it's

884
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: becoming such a focus. Uh there's the obvious part of it, right,

885
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 1: which is veterans span it's a bipartisan issue in politics,

886
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: right and there are a lot of people who care

887
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: about veterans and are patriotic in this country. But the

888
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: other side of it is they're very they're a very

889
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: unique population because veterans are the only people that, if

890
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: they're homeless right now, have a lot of laws that

891
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: mandate for them to have housing. The fight, the fight

892
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: for non veteran housing is a bigger challenge right now. Yeah,

893
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: because because the people who are against this humanity can

894
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: say there's no law saying we have to do this,

895
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: but for veterans there is. And so if the veterans

896
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,359
Speaker 1: start getting housed, and that's you know, that's that's kind

897
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: of the the the big bang of what could house

898
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: the homeless population. Right, So there's a lot riding there. Yes,

899
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: we've always stated that that you solve this homeless veteran

900
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: homeless situation, you will have a model to use on

901
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: the general population, and it begins with the home. Everybody

902
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: deserves a home, but veterans have a home. It's just

903
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: somebody's got the keys. Well that's very much similar to

904
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: that project room key having a place, but they don't

905
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: give you the key. They just say you just you

906
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: just window dressing. It's basically instead of addressing me, yeah,

907
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: there you go. So one of the things, what do

908
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: you think can change this to start to wake up people?

909
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of people that look at it

910
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: from a zooming uh basically a half a well thought

911
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: out approach. They just basically say round them up, or

912
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: some of them have told me to my face that

913
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: put them out in the desert. They some of them

914
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: will saying, you know, throw them in jail. Uh. Some

915
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: of them, you know, have some other sinister ideas killing

916
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: them and all of that kind of thing. But so,

917
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: what do you think will uh can kickstart this, get

918
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: waking up people's consciousness and doing this. You know, days

919
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: could be spent answering that question. But what I can

920
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: say from the standpoint of trying to speak to let's say,

921
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: the general population or non veterans. As a non veteran,

922
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: we are the victims too. We're not the victims where

923
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: it's a matter of life and death like it is

924
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: for veterans, but we are the victims from the standpoint

925
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: that just regarding this National soldier's home right here, we

926
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: are paying over a billion dollars a year in federal

927
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: taxes for this place to be doing what it's supposed to,

928
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: which is how's veterans, how's disabled and homeless veterans? Okay,

929
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: it's not happening. Almost all this land is being taken over,

930
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: it's being given away. On top of that, we've had

931
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: the ahhh, homeless housing bonds program that we vote, many

932
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: of us voted for here in Los Angeles. That was

933
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: one point six or one point eight billion dollars, I

934
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: can't remember which that was what five or six years ago.

935
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: We have almost no housing to show for it. Okay,

936
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: then we have the federal government has appropriated through Congress

937
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: sit between about two thousand and seven and now about

938
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: a billion and a half dollars for this land to

939
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: undergo seismic improvements to buildings, construction projects to improve and

940
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: build housing and utilities in infrastructure, to house these homeless veterans,

941
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: None of them have happened, none of them. So what

942
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: I think we can do here is realize that the

943
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: victims are not just veterans. We're being raw and that

944
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: is a fact. And I guess the best way I

945
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: can sum up a solution to that or answer that

946
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: question is common sense. I think we need to tell

947
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: ourselves that when somebody tells us something that they're doing something,

948
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: we have to think about what they're saying and we

949
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: have to ask a question. And I can assure those

950
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: who are willing to do that that when somebody says

951
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: that they're doing these things, when they say, well, I'm

952
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: trying to understand we're spending a billion dollars for this,

953
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: then there's all the homeless housing bonds. These people say

954
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: they're building housing for years. It's not happening. It hasn't happened.

955
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: Where did the money go? Oh? Right? That's a common

956
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: sense question. And when these questions are being asked, these

957
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: people will not be able to answer them. And you

958
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: will see that the most simple questions of common sense,

959
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: the people who are behind these frauds are unable to

960
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: answer them. And the more of us that ask those questions.

961
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: There's a lot of power to that, right. There's a

962
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: lot of power to doing what you're doing. There's a

963
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: lot of power to the blood, sweat and tears of us.

964
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: But there's also an incredible amount of power as a

965
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: unified voice to ask these questions, whether you're sitting in

966
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: your armchair at home or you're out here doing what

967
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: you're doing. Because once we're asking those questions, it's going

968
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: to be a big crack in the ceiling of this.

969
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: Absolutely we have to do with all we have to do.

970
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: We have to do this, we have to doaisically really

971
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: get people to stop and listen. Because again I was

972
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: corrected about it because I'm thinking naively, oh, this is

973
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: a national veterans part. But once you're educating me on this,

974
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 1: it's like it's making me realize how connected a lot

975
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: of these things is and how concentrated greed and capitalism

976
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: have basically displaced everybody. We've been affected, the veterans, to

977
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: people that are naively just listening to what they've been told,

978
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: or to the unhoused that are not veterans, or people

979
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: that it's just like such a cluster, just a mess.

980
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 1: What to say. I want to add to that by

981
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: telling you that most families have a veteran in them,

982
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: and those that are in southern California in the venue

983
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: of this Pacific branch of the National Home for Disabled

984
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: Volunteer Soldiers, they are entitled to the use of this land.

985
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: And this land was deeded, as you said, in eighteen

986
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: eighty eight. It was set up in eighteen eighty seven,

987
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: but it was needed in eighteen eighty eight. On that

988
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: same day, in a separate trust, there was a beach

989
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: front property at the bottom of the California Incline donated

990
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:57,359
Speaker 1: for the residents of the home. So what does that

991
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: mean today? That means today, on those dogs afternoons in

992
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: Burbank and South Central and East LA, that families are

993
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: being robbed of the opportunity to get to get brought

994
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: over here and from here picnic or shuttle down to

995
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: your beach because it was yours and it was taken

996
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: back then. Land grab is nothing new. They've been trying

997
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: to steal it for years. Fortunately it was written in

998
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: such a way that they haven't been able to get

999
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: around it. So if you go to nh DVS dot net,

1000
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 1: I'll say it again, NHDVS dot net. You will find

1001
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of information, forensic research that brings up all

1002
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: the questions that Ryan talks about. And they're all uncontested.

1003
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: They're all uncontested. If they had had a chance to

1004
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: come back and tell them Ryan, you're wrong, they would have,

1005
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: but they haven't. This is uh. I see you have

1006
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 1: some newspapers here. What's what's what's the what's this? This

1007
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 1: is one of the local branded newspapers. Is uh, we

1008
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 1: put out a different articles, you know, Uh have none

1009
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: of us here veterans nervous one camera? Yeah, Caramera would

1010
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: love this. Well, don't you know that Broke Community Council.

1011
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: I was mentioning they their board members founded this newspaper. Oh,

1012
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: so they're putting out the hate mail or the hate

1013
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: high propaganda offered this I use this. Yeah, Now Brentwood

1014
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: Community Council unanimously opposes bond and shelter plan. Yes. Is

1015
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: that any type of surprise? You know? Greed? Nothing? And

1016
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: if you can see all of the pictures of the

1017
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,439
Speaker 1: veterans with their flags, they usualize and that as well.

1018
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: There are two Americans as you can see, so hid

1019
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: the Broke Community Council. There is actually a lot of

1020
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: homeost housing projects that they don't to post believe it

1021
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: or not, one I know is in shelter in the

1022
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,479
Speaker 1: desert exactly. That's what he's gonna say. Yeah, they don't

1023
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: oppose housing them in mar Vista, they don't oppose housing

1024
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: them down in Venice. They don't oppose housing them downtown

1025
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: or the desert like you said. And this is a

1026
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: shame too, because I wish that these other real neighborhood

1027
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: councils realize this, because when the Brown community councils in

1028
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: trouble here, they try to band with them and get

1029
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: together with them, and several against this exactly, But yet

1030
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: they forget that they never knew that they've been trying

1031
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: to stick them in their neighborhood rather than this home

1032
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: roll handing EA actually excellent, And you know they basically

1033
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: just trying to throw the hand and hide the rock,

1034
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: throw the rocket, hide in the hand basically. Yes, So

1035
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: I think you guys have definitely educated me, and I

1036
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: would love to they have this again, come back and

1037
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: follow up with you guys and seeing what other endeavors.

1038
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: And I actually I'm gonna put my nose to the

1039
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: ground and keep my finger on the pulse of this

1040
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: because I think this good story definitely needs to be

1041
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: not just a one episode thing, more of we talked

1042
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: about because the more we talk about it, the more

1043
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: we uplift this and put some like to this. I

1044
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: think people are going to be shaken and disturbed by this.

1045
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: Is there anything else that I missed out of this? No,

1046
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: we really appreciate those of the others that help get

1047
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: involved and get their boots on the ground. You know,

1048
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't like boots on the ground good. You know

1049
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: there are seventeen thousand children that we're almost fine. Yeah,

1050
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: in La count people, are you going to tell me

1051
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: that they chose to be homeless? You know, this is

1052
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: the same thing, whether it is veterans or non veterans. Worse,

1053
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: most at least most of these most people are not

1054
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: choosing to be a homeless They're not choosing to go

1055
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: to the bathroom in a street and to be harassed

1056
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: and to be assaulted, and to be cold and to

1057
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: be sick. They would rather be in a home. And

1058
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: we are mad. We are all mad, no matter how

1059
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: much money we have or no no matter where we

1060
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,919
Speaker 1: live or not. In this count, we are mad, whether

1061
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: we know it or not that we are spending all

1062
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: of this money as we struggle to make our own

1063
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 1: livings and struggle to live our own version of the

1064
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: American children and being rob and none of it is

1065
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: housing these people. It is actually only creating more import business.

1066
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: You know, there were on average, there were five thousand

1067
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: veterans living in disabled veterans living in here from around

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01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: the eighteen nineties to the nineteen seventies. That population has

1069
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: now declined here to approximately two hundred. Okay, And if

1070
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: you look at all the surrounding neighborhoods here in the

1071
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: West side, and one of the key differences is from

1072
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: the East side, is at least a third of them

1073
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: in the homeless populations are veterans. So it's no coincidence

1074
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: that there's this inversely proportional relationship between the eviction of

1075
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: disabled veterans here that you and I and everyone else

1076
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: here are paying the house here right and of being

1077
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: evicted and this you know, explosion that's now made us

1078
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: the nation's capital veteran pulitis. I'm believable. That's only work

1079
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: word I know, I think saying. But if I'm believable, goo,

1080
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: but sadly believable because I really went on house assistance

1081
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: so many fasts. This is Ceo Henderson for Median House

1082
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: that I think he's very likely off for listening, and

1083
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: I hope again we meet in the light of out

1084
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: the seven. Thank you very much. This is Cleo Henderson

1085
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: for Median House. So it was out of a lucky

1086
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: set of circumstances I get the interview mister John Adams.

1087
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 1: Mister John Adams. I was interviewing another UH again, mister Brown,

1088
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: and I had ran into mister Adams on my way

1089
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: out promise to go and see him in the l

1090
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: and I par time elapsed and then we reunite today.

1091
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: So this is his time. He's gonna tell us a

1092
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: little bit about his tough program and what's his motivation is.

1093
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about the barbecue over there. Now,

1094
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: I have to warn you with the FBI the UH

1095
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 1: food and beverage investigations, so I gotta check it out.

1096
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: I got to check out the food and understand, you know,

1097
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: I have to hang up with a healthy appetite and

1098
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: may take some leftore. One we got two hundred pounds

1099
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: chipping over there. So if you like chickens, go on

1100
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: about you know, that's not my key. So so tell

1101
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: you about Well what got you involved? Well, first of all,

1102
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Vietnam back and pretty much we got it,

1103
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:16,440
Speaker 1: and I know I'm try to carry my language. We

1104
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: got you like crap when we came back. Actually, when

1105
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: I came back, this thing was still up and I

1106
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: just had to have a way to get back. Uh,

1107
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: were you able to utilize and services or Martin? No, No,

1108
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: I I hit this place when I first got back

1109
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: to Vietnam, and that was the last time I hit it,

1110
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 1: I cause I moved downto Orange County, Okay. And it's

1111
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:45,479
Speaker 1: a totally different thing to go to the Long Beach

1112
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 1: or wherever I'm gonna go down. But what brought you

1113
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: back here? And what white white? Now? One way it

1114
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: gives me back. About four years ago, I started an

1115
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: organization that the Dog Wellness Veterans. We initially started out

1116
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: as a we're going for cannabis friendly organization in in

1117
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: order to our focus was to eliminate twenty two a

1118
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: day thing. So on twenty two a day to help

1119
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: about oh twenty oh, well, twenty two a day is

1120
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: representative of that number of suicide that is every day

1121
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: because of opioid overdose or hopoid UH complication twenty two

1122
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: to three. That twenty two veterans, twenty two veteran. Yes,

1123
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: that's a high number. What actually the number is probably higher,

1124
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: but the recorded numbers twenty two. The thing is we

1125
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: got people like people living here on veterans row. I

1126
01:03:55,080 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: didn't know about veterans Jordan four months ago, found out

1127
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:03,959
Speaker 1: about it. I came down and you touched my mind.

1128
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: I've been doing this out in the mnmer. We have

1129
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: a thea facility, we have a veteran facility, A mark

1130
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:16,560
Speaker 1: here for ye there, we have veterans villagy a lower

1131
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: liter the oldest verss of income based if you can

1132
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: believe so. I'm shocked a guy like myself got one

1133
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 1: hundred percent disabled. Yeah. Yeah, I can't let you because

1134
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: I meant too much, Mike. Now, it wasn't for the

1135
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: fact that I was married. Then was nothing. You got

1136
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: two incomes. Yet I didn't put me out here, Yeah, right,

1137
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: because I can't keep damn the goods Argentell, what all

1138
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: the rent get in the state of California If you

1139
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: have to make three point five times the rent in

1140
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: order to rent it? Well, the urban because three gren.

1141
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: We wanna come up for nine ten thousand dollars and

1142
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: a one off, right, I said you in the com

1143
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: we do most of our union, can't. We represent the

1144
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: dad disabled and nerd veterans primarily. We think that that's

1145
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: when we beat them. We get donations of and help

1146
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: the compans and stuff like that, and we just we

1147
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: just dropped off stuff down, have to drop to this

1148
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: morning can and now we're gonna give it chicken what

1149
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna investigate FIRS. I'm with that food and beverage investigations.

1150
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: So I have to make sure it's a good absolute

1151
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: And this is I mean, this is that's we committed

1152
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: to do this when your mind wander and if we can,

1153
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, and it's all fund based, if we can

1154
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: get the funds, if we can keep the doing so,

1155
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: if there any way where people are able to get

1156
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: a little we have a website or anything like that

1157
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: to look back onto Loves for Veterans, and there's a

1158
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: Lincoln therefore go fund me, and hey, we're looking for

1159
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: need to need to help in order to help these guys.

1160
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 1: You know, I would, I don't. I haven't seen him yet,

1161
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: but I was told that there's a woman, the two

1162
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: kids down here more than one. That's really. They weren't

1163
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: here last month when I was here, So you gotta

1164
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: check it out for everything. I'm gonna sat enough individual

1165
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, start having So it's just a perfect secution.

1166
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,959
Speaker 1: There's the city, the people having any legislation to people

1167
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: who using the school and they're not understanding. But how

1168
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: family's out there, camize you they're gonna go into my

1169
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 1: area because they don't want to get take it. They

1170
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: don't want to be primaized. And this is the reality

1171
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 1: is just not just the people always thinking people are

1172
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: mentally ill, suffer so many different kind of communities out

1173
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: there that you know, they have an elderly people just

1174
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: throwing not talking about seventy eight years old, and people

1175
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 1: are running around telling them to get a job that

1176
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: they're great. Where's gonna work, where's gonna live? You're a

1177
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: sad part about this? Next the ba. Yeah, but these

1178
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: guys we're not allowed in there. Yeah, and the big

1179
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: web inside are not allowed to interact with him out there? Correct,

1180
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 1: you know they can they get up to a bathroom,

1181
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: they get to get a plate with two foods on.

1182
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: He's here. If you're out here, out here. If you're

1183
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: in there, you're in there. You can't it's your meaning.

1184
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: Here's the crazy thing about you is that you can't

1185
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: even have your own the rights, and there is something

1186
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: wrong in the place. I was just informed that the

1187
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: guy was getting out of any water and out of

1188
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: the stead. Makes the complain ain't like everyone else does

1189
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: it in her partner, And now they're throwing him out

1190
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: now out there sun Monday, We're gonna be out here

1191
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,919
Speaker 1: on the ship exactly because he ain't about the water.

1192
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: The water was brown. These folks you want to drink

1193
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: brown water him with yataca bread. It's disgrace to think

1194
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: to the point that like myself, these men. Second question, Yeah,

1195
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 1: it's not like no, but that's that's a larger center

1196
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: of these folks have yours that suffer from business off ba.

1197
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:34,600
Speaker 1: Can I see that shirt again, because I'm wanted to

1198
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 1: fade it with your point. Your shirt it says to

1199
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: even back for the second half for their country since

1200
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: Nante thirty out. I don't know what I'm saying. You know,

1201
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 1: they don't care. I don't like no. I wanted to

1202
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: talk to you about it. See, I'm so glad you're

1203
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 1: bringing the goop because many people have this belief system.

1204
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: I grew up in the era of Nasty Rag and

1205
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 1: just hanged to say no. Then I remember in the

1206
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: community when I was in Chicago about the free strikes laws,

1207
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: and when the RACK epidemic ran out, I came out,

1208
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: and I remember the criminalization that went with it. And

1209
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: you mentioned something like, you know, you had the sensory

1210
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: trying to give people some kind of way to mitigate pain.

1211
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: What is your perspectives about something you said your mom

1212
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: with the veterans, How would you worry that some persons

1213
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,439
Speaker 1: a mom or parent would look upset about you try

1214
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 1: and help with them from what we had to do

1215
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: right now, we don't know that issue that could speak

1216
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: use And mainly because the we on my ear and

1217
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: I said my ear, the Vietnam ear. We're already in

1218
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 1: the yeah, and we were in the cannabis a long

1219
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: seven before, say right, right, right, right, But we didn't

1220
01:09:54,160 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: realize the medical as it was given up right, it's

1221
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 1: joking to get high. Yeah, I can't hear me, you know,

1222
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: no jokes about it. But then what you become familiar

1223
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: with them realizing it does have a medical I mean

1224
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 1: the rubs man talk about aunt prads, these these arms

1225
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: and the Paris rubs. So that James Bross plays out right,

1226
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 1: no more James Brow that ain't happen. But the fact

1227
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: that the fact of the matter is as soon as

1228
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 1: you can get a government doesn't realize the medical as

1229
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: a player. It has so many medical benefits for people

1230
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: that they could use it. And I want to also

1231
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: ask this, dude, is how do you think it helps

1232
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,799
Speaker 1: people that having the suicidal ideations or a suit title

1233
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: of pressing issues on their minds? What you think how

1234
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: the never want to help him? That? Okay, you shure

1235
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: a mellow state of mind? I mean have you ever

1236
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: seen I mean, you go in the bar, right, dude,

1237
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: stuffing you drunk? You know, come on, he might want

1238
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 1: to fight, yeah, you know, get in his car and

1239
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 1: kill somebody. It's like I go to a cannabis event.

1240
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: Everybody bag for the time, nobody fighting, Ain't nobody you know,

1241
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: jumping up and down. It's it's a totally different thing.

1242
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:33,719
Speaker 1: Now it does have a medical benefit. Somebody like myself

1243
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: go PTSD, my triggers, shut up. It's better for me

1244
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: to go. I gotta look. And it's straight up too. Okay,

1245
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 1: I love me and a tough ship. What what's a

1246
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: tough jet? You know? The little story ship? Oh? Okay,

1247
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: all right, the storage building. Yeah, y'all got your tough ship. Okay,

1248
01:11:56,320 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: tough after you? Okay? Ten or twelve? Yeah? Buck a

1249
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: TV xbox infrigerator. You got all that? Dang you got

1250
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 1: you off? We call a bumper, all right? Going mad

1251
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: caveat point being is when I get like that, you

1252
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: just go out there and rollably. Chill out somebody that's drinking.

1253
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 1: You don't gonna get drunk if you're gonna be fighting

1254
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: with his wife, gonna beat the kids. Nah, I'm chilling

1255
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: out me and my service doog. You sitting back there

1256
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: next to me, and I'm chilling you know, Uh, Marijuana

1257
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: is not a stimulator. You know. It's not gonna make

1258
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 1: you a gateway drug. If you gonna say, oh my god, well,

1259
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 1: if if it was a gateway drug, then I would

1260
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: be on some serious stuff because I've been. I initially

1261
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:48,160
Speaker 1: started smoking marijuana when out twelve years alcohol. You know

1262
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 1: what I said, Well back then you were smoking. Jump,

1263
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: come there and do what you're smoking. I sing through

1264
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: now and and quiet as cap everybody. You know we

1265
01:12:57,280 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: smoked while we was in Now he been the week

1266
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:01,560
Speaker 1: just the week, got it. Now we're so poked that

1267
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: you could take two hits and leave the moment. Yeah,

1268
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: I'm serious, but the medical aspects of marijuana are becoming

1269
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: more prevalent. He's put on town good before left within

1270
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: the last few years. I mean him products if you've

1271
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: seen on TV, and I'm not just only this kinda

1272
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: like clothing and you know, food like out of all

1273
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah, but yeah, it's becoming It's

1274
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: I mean, they say it's against the love. Why is

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: it a being traded on Wall Street? Why is it

1276
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,520
Speaker 1: a most time a billion dollars of business? A celebrities

1277
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: are putting any flat. I mean I just saw black

1278
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 1: Heson Tyson got his on this fifth three. He got

1279
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:51,400
Speaker 1: his own little set up out spring or a retreat.

1280
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: Oh really. I just saw Magic on TV this morning.

1281
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,720
Speaker 1: I was surprised and he was promoting a hip du so,

1282
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: I mean I thought you got magic, so you know what,

1283
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: you know what that work? That works? And I mean

1284
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:11,720
Speaker 1: we got celebrities Mike Tympson that will type something on

1285
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: a long I mean, we're all over so it's it

1286
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: doesn't have the same stick so much that back of

1287
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 1: the time when I was growing up, you know, people

1288
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,679
Speaker 1: all the refund do premad why did they talk about stinks,

1289
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: army sticks and all that kind of stuff, you know,

1290
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 1: And it just started with me exactly read I mean

1291
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: in that movie and just flipped everybody out they went

1292
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: and shout, you're gonna smoke with ye because we all

1293
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:45,479
Speaker 1: knew that it was Hey, whre's what it is. But

1294
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 1: I think the propaganda is a very strong and I

1295
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: was like, I'm thank you, thank you, sorry about it.

1296
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,639
Speaker 1: Real why I really emphasized it because I'm understanding why

1297
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: people are using hurt sufiss and the real issues and

1298
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 1: benefits of that happened. It's just like we have a

1299
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: society that loves to blame and shame and throw a

1300
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: finger wag and people that are sufferings that I don't

1301
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: max what capitalistsm have for people have a lot of

1302
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: trauma from war or living in a hard coxygan environment

1303
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: and they're a new lot of anything, so they could

1304
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: be able to level them back. And she was are

1305
01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: centered themselves in a better play and that's the move.

1306
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: And for example, like a parents like my love had cancer.

1307
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: You know, she took you know, some interesting things to cocktails.

1308
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: That mean people would have frowned that, but they helped.

1309
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: They had to get help mitigate her pain at the

1310
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: impiwort end of your life. So what you know, the say,

1311
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: I I've been there, done this, my mom has to

1312
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: They really cancer and earned last year okay, and this

1313
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 1: is no lining. They gave her a bottle of more fun.

1314
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: That's sucking with this, yeah yeah, yeah, And I can

1315
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 1: tell you more thing. It's very deceptive. It's more susceptive

1316
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: any trade. Because I got dabbed like five years ago

1317
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 1: and I had a certain things parts of my body removed,

1318
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you yeah, and they gave me for

1319
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: the pain at night when that more thing, I I mean,

1320
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 1: I was like, I can get used to this. You

1321
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: do you do? And that that's what happened. I stopt

1322
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: and like myself. And now I tell tell this story

1323
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 1: because it's a true one. Back into up until two

1324
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen, I was that was the big African.

1325
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,800
Speaker 1: I was a patient AFG independent and not working with

1326
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 1: the being. But I knew that hospital back and forth.

1327
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 1: So somebody could, oh, man, where are such and such?

1328
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:32,600
Speaker 1: I can tell him where to go three thousand and

1329
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: fourteen tables, turn all those hard stories that I had

1330
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:40,759
Speaker 1: been listening to all the va this Benione I started

1331
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: after the means and he was like who, And it's like,

1332
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: I said, that was an ADVERTI what at the same time,

1333
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: the school taking until I didn't realize what the what

1334
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: kind of state of mind I was in. That's what

1335
01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: it's troub. I mean, I was zone town and it

1336
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: wasn't until I realized until I brought it there everybody

1337
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: way And she said, yeah, I didn't. You know, I

1338
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 1: didn't wanna, you know, upset you or nothing, but you know,

1339
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: you know that's the real deal. And you were right

1340
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: to stone shut down. Want you not to quit cold Turkey?

1341
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:32,599
Speaker 1: Because the doctor I told him I wanted to en off,

1342
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: he said, oh, well you gotta, I gotta slowly stop

1343
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:39,600
Speaker 1: taking this one. Slowly stopped taking that on. You know.

1344
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 1: I quit. But that was the wrong thing to do.

1345
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why I was gonna say. I'll

1346
01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 1: tell you it was hard to get off. No I

1347
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: can quit. No I didn't. It wasn't hard. But the

1348
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: the things that messed me up at the time I

1349
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 1: was three hundred month. Oh okay, wn't no, whitn't My

1350
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: skin didn't have a chance too, you know it the

1351
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 1: elasticity and stuff. Man, I my stomach looks like one

1352
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: of them sharing dogs from China, you know. But that's

1353
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: what That's what happened to me, loose way too rapidly

1354
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:13,720
Speaker 1: out of you. But I'd rather do that than take

1355
01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: to the biddle. And that was the consequence that I

1356
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: had to deal with. I don't care about people. Ain't

1357
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 1: nobody looking at me but me and my wife, So

1358
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,360
Speaker 1: he ain't worried about it. And you know, Richard Roundtree

1359
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: days over, ain't no more Richie round Tree, you know,

1360
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: just chill seventy two years old. I gotta take a

1361
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: way to help her. This is I got. Like I said,

1362
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 1: you know, you takeing so much a the time to

1363
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: talk with us. Appreciate it. Is it? Okay? We call

1364
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: it come back and you know I tell you even hell,

1365
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 1: you can invite her. You know you can invite us

1366
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,600
Speaker 1: because I was part of about all your investigation. You

1367
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 1: can invite us to another event that you might have

1368
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:57,839
Speaker 1: it in a part of our would do that chicken situation.

1369
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: You better be on point though, absolutely the next one.

1370
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,800
Speaker 1: We can do something a little bit, okay, we don't

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01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 1: want to keep peaking. Oh okay, all right, surprise me.

1372
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 1: Let see what's asking all right, I'm looking at Uh yeah,

1373
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 1: we we have any any events like this? Yeah, the

1374
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: cat job, I mean we was doing once a month,

1375
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: but we're definitely raised. He get back and swing of

1376
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: things lovely, only just being up because I have it

1377
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,160
Speaker 1: what I do on Saturdays, I helped the unhouse ambility,

1378
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: the civilian on the house community do the same that

1379
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: and a little tokyo and I have a big power

1380
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: up all with just take actually solidarity and we know

1381
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 1: them and if you can do we can ask you

1382
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: to come down maybe oh absolutely you yeah, just let

1383
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 1: me know. Fr research perfectly, Just let me know because

1384
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: like I said, we have a lot of traces because

1385
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 1: we don't want to make sure it's getting done right. Oh,

1386
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:59,560
Speaker 1: absolutely welcome the emphasize that we work. Yeah, but we

1387
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: also gonna working with the local river sidetur we Okay,

1388
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: there are three rooms shelters out there and no support okay,

1389
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 1: and because a lot of times we have more food

1390
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 1: than we can put in one spot, so we're sharing them. Well,

1391
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: you know, we're fell love around little to you. I mean,

1392
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: like I said, our priority is veterans because the way

1393
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: they get idea. But like I mean, you consider what's

1394
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: happening right now. De Canistans sisters don't tell oh man,

1395
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:40,560
Speaker 1: that's scars thing, that stuff they pulling out. So we

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01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: stayed over there for twenty years. Yeah, now what don't happen?

1397
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,800
Speaker 1: What I tell you, I am deside advertised with ju

1398
01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: but I'm watching or repeat it. Tell we did the

1399
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: same thing to us when we came back to Vietnam.

1400
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna do the here. They gonna do the same thing.

1401
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna call these immigrants, all these refugees over here

1402
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: while you did not show, while you're looking for some

1403
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:13,759
Speaker 1: place to step, you know, I mean, what's risky building

1404
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 1: this mine st you know while that we're gonna have

1405
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 1: mighty dollars capitalists. Yeah, we're gonna help these immigrants and

1406
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 1: come over here and the refugees because the country is

1407
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:27,320
Speaker 1: getting jacked up by the Taliban. We got people that's

1408
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 1: on the string right here, Bark. We already had a Taliban.

1409
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: You have a personal Talibana even the rod exactly. You know,

1410
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: the Da Taliban has gommediately sing a Taliban. You know,

1411
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: it's I don't know what to be a fact. You

1412
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:42,600
Speaker 1: don't quote me on this, but they tell me this

1413
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,759
Speaker 1: building right you're is used with animal and human research

1414
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:48,719
Speaker 1: like they're doing right here with all these pets stuff

1415
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: coming out, And when you look at it, it makes sense.

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01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: Why would they need all that ventilation but just an

1417
01:21:55,080 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: ordinary building, you know. But instead of instead of saying, oh,

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01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: what am gonna fix the this campaus is you? You

1419
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,719
Speaker 1: just come out of eight person proposed to be for veterans,

1420
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: and they got what if the veterans stand over there?

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01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:13,680
Speaker 1: They gotta be over there and they're not even go

1422
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: to interact with people out here, or and when vice versa, yeah,

1423
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 1: yeah they gotta have on they little id tag you

1424
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: coum come up with right now, that's shit. But I

1425
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: guess they're saying to hell with it. They would tell me, yeah,

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01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 1: I hunger is the wors It don't matter whether they

1427
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 1: have it, don't matter, it don't matter I'm where. And

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01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: the fact that they did they see if that's what

1429
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 1: pisses came out cause you're yeah, they're they're like, don't

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01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: know you At a certain level, gentrification, I could excuse

1431
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: me right here out Yeah, I feel it right right now. Okay,

1432
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: you still over there, i'm'a put a tag on you.

1433
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: It's can make you seem like you're better or different

1434
01:22:46,280 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: than them, and I could be able to you can

1435
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 1: help me criminalize someone that looks different that I fink

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01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: they little talk your too? Did these many women out

1437
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:58,640
Speaker 1: here do the same thing? And then many women did?

1438
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:03,800
Speaker 1: And then in July, why are you letting them have

1439
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: a bathroom? And they don't have a bathroom. They got

1440
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: they got two parties and they don't even be clean.

1441
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: I'm parently, you know. I was so embarrassed last month

1442
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 1: and somebody I don't know who it was, somebody with

1443
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: a real strong constitution, babe, because the death there was

1444
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 1: so cool, went in there with a five gallon bucket

1445
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: and scooped it out. At first, I take the strong compete.

1446
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: I took ahead, and I couldn't have digg me, you know.

1447
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 1: But I mean, admittedly, when I was in Vietnam, we

1448
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: had to burn the burn the things, you know, you

1449
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,879
Speaker 1: just gotta hook drunk it out and threw a library.

1450
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 1: Man because of disa, they don't be building there talking

1451
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: away talk. It's sticking out of his way, but it's

1452
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 1: madness like a woman to Adam, I thank you very much.

1453
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna include this interview, but open up

1454
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: launch my invalidations on the chicken situation over there. Okay,

1455
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:09,759
Speaker 1: off the snuff, and I thank you all for tuning

1456
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 1: in and listening to Missy Adams. We're wanting to follow

1457
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 1: up and I interview him and in them hitting Apple

1458
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: minute for a minute as well. This is Leo Henderson

1459
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:21,600
Speaker 1: for William Howes. I thank you all for listening and

1460
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,599
Speaker 1: maybe again needing a light of understanding. Thank you very

1461
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 1: much for the time. Houselessness is like stage four cancer.

1462
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: It's growing and spreading all over the world in different

1463
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:36,920
Speaker 1: ways and different means. And the thing is the same

1464
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:41,720
Speaker 1: house and house veterans on house veterans, we all are

1465
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:44,559
Speaker 1: going to be a practified It doesn't matter what stemble

1466
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: or sign or bag that you're in, houselessness is. There's

1467
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: still the same when you're out here on the sideline.

1468
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:53,599
Speaker 1: So but the issue is this that before you become

1469
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 1: sometimes displaced, their circumstances beyond your control. And this is

1470
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:03,679
Speaker 1: when the conversation begins where people that are on housed

1471
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: or had experiences within house, have to tiptoe around fighting

1472
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: against and standing up for themselves because people believe that

1473
01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: you should be grateful or abusive interesting abusive circumstances or

1474
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: being threatened. I too can explain I have some challenges

1475
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: where people start to yell at you or disrespect you

1476
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: because you have had a paray of houselessness and they

1477
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 1: expect you to swail and quiver against their abuse. This

1478
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: this guest that's coming up, it's gonna tell us this

1479
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 1: story and how it. Maybe he may end up on

1480
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: house on the street. So let's hear it from his

1481
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 1: own words. Let's introduce ourselves. My name is Steel Henderson,

1482
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: who wed in house. What's your name? From the record?

1483
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:48,720
Speaker 1: Brand Hall? Mister Hall, tell us your story because your

1484
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: story is indicative, but it's very important and we would

1485
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 1: like to give so I'll try to be as concise

1486
01:25:54,520 --> 01:26:00,719
Speaker 1: as possible. I ended up homeless because of a because

1487
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 1: of a fail relationship after ten years in twenty fifteen,

1488
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 1: and I spent about six months on the streets without

1489
01:26:11,880 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: seeking any VA benefits. I got out in two thousand

1490
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 1: down in two thousand and four, and it wasn't until

1491
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen that I started, you know, going here for

1492
01:26:22,120 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: my healthcare, and I didn't even know about the VA

1493
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 1: at that point. So when I ended up here, I

1494
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: bounced around from program to program. First I was in

1495
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 1: the Haven which is closed now to twelve. After that

1496
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: it was the DOM for about thirty days. After that

1497
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,560
Speaker 1: I went to the two fifty seven Welcome Center and

1498
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 1: then finally ended up that won sixteen New Directions. So

1499
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: when I went to New Directions, I actually had the

1500
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: most success as far as being able to get back

1501
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,040
Speaker 1: on my feet. It was good program at the time.

1502
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 1: Now when I when I was ready to get back

1503
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: on my feet as far as moving away from the programs,

1504
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:16,480
Speaker 1: I found out about a property over at the Supolta

1505
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: VA think it's called Endy or New Direction Supulvida, which

1506
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 1: is a permanent supporting, permanent supportive housing situation where you

1507
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: pay rent, but you also have services and social work

1508
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: and if you need it. So in twenty sixteen moved there.

1509
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 1: It wasn't until about twenty eighteen then I started to

1510
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: notice some major issues as far as infrastructure goes, as

1511
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: far as the as far as the water goes. I

1512
01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:53,280
Speaker 1: mean this is this is a sample from the water

1513
01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:57,640
Speaker 1: over at the apartment. For people that are seen it,

1514
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 1: this looks round even though the light hopefully it can

1515
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,200
Speaker 1: catch the brown color to that that's what's coming out

1516
01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:06,640
Speaker 1: of the buffit correct. The way I noticed it was

1517
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 1: that I had gone on vacation for a couple of weeks,

1518
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: and I know it's not too uncommon to see to

1519
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: see discoloration of water, especially if you haven't turned it

1520
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: on for a while, but I wasn't gone that long.

1521
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:22,760
Speaker 1: So the first time I turned on the shower, I

1522
01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:26,839
Speaker 1: saw at least for probably about ten to fifteen seconds

1523
01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 1: until the water went clear, it was brownish orange red,

1524
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: very visible telltale signs of rust in the water at

1525
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: the very least. I mean, that's just visibly what people

1526
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:42,519
Speaker 1: were able to see. And it's not just my building,

1527
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:46,559
Speaker 1: not just my apartment, it's both buildings. And I've also

1528
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: noticed it at the VA hospital as well. That that

1529
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: issue of rusty water. Now, I started doing research and

1530
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 1: I found out that one of the side effects of

1531
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:04,799
Speaker 1: exposed to or consuming water with rust in it something

1532
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:13,240
Speaker 1: I think it's called coliform bacteria, and that causes gastrotestinal issues, diarrhea,

1533
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: possibly vomiting. I guess it would depend on the concentration levels.

1534
01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:20,600
Speaker 1: But for me, the thing that really stood out was

1535
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 1: that it can also can trigger headaches. Now I already

1536
01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 1: have I already have the issue of dealing with cluster

1537
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:35,800
Speaker 1: headaches and severe migraines with funnel sensitivity. Sound will bother me.

1538
01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of issues that affect my body

1539
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:43,880
Speaker 1: when it's me, when my head is hurting. So what

1540
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: I started to do was spread the word. As an activist,

1541
01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 1: I don't I don't take opposition lightly, especially when we're

1542
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:57,160
Speaker 1: talking about the establishment the system, so to speak. So

1543
01:29:57,360 --> 01:30:00,320
Speaker 1: that the first time I really got pushed back when

1544
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 1: I printed out a whole bunch of a bunch of flyers.

1545
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: They basically just had the influ what I just told you,

1546
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:09,000
Speaker 1: as far as you know the effects of consuming that

1547
01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: water being exposed to it. There was no solicitation. It

1548
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:18,800
Speaker 1: was literally a public service announcement. And what I did

1549
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:23,400
Speaker 1: was that I posted the flyers on doors, because to

1550
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 1: get in into people's hands in an apartment setting, you know,

1551
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:31,759
Speaker 1: it could be difficult. So within i'd say about maybe

1552
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:34,880
Speaker 1: about half an hour forty five minutes or so, the

1553
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 1: property management was literally right behind me as I'm putting

1554
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 1: them up on doors. They're tearing them down. So I

1555
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: go into so I go to the other building. There's

1556
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:46,960
Speaker 1: there's two buildings within that within that program four and five,

1557
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 1: went to five, posted them over there, came back to

1558
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:55,519
Speaker 1: four and I got the cops called on that, the

1559
01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 1: BA cops. So they knew that they wouldn't be able

1560
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: to to meet me with much resistance head on. I

1561
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 1: can be stuggorn in a positive way. However, once the

1562
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 1: cops got involved, I fell back. I didn't want to

1563
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:11,640
Speaker 1: give them any more ammunition to try to mess with me.

1564
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:17,599
Speaker 1: So after that, and I had taken the issue up

1565
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:20,560
Speaker 1: the chain, so to speak, I'd recorded it to the

1566
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,640
Speaker 1: same people, the property management that's supposed to be in

1567
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:25,880
Speaker 1: charge of taking care of those kinds of issues. That's

1568
01:31:25,880 --> 01:31:29,919
Speaker 1: an infrastructure issue. Now. The only thing that the property

1569
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 1: manager at the time offered was to clean my showerhead filters.

1570
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: I have a fifteen stage shower head filter that I

1571
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 1: have connected to the shower and then immediately after using it,

1572
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 1: you can take the filter out and it'll be stained

1573
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 1: red and orange, you know, brownish, just a nasty visible

1574
01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 1: And so that was the only offer on the table

1575
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: was that oh, we'll clean your filters for you. I

1576
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,880
Speaker 1: can do that myself. That's really not the point. Eventually

1577
01:32:02,320 --> 01:32:05,879
Speaker 1: working up that chain, contacting HAKLA, which is housing authority,

1578
01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 1: I wasn't getting any satisfaction as far as that goes.

1579
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: And I was actually getting pushed back from other residents

1580
01:32:13,720 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 1: that were like why you care, why you know, basically

1581
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: like kind of telling me the nailistics up the tamer down,

1582
01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 1: so to speak. And I had already experienced that. So

1583
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:31,520
Speaker 1: eventually I contacted Congressman Brad Sherman, who is the congressman

1584
01:32:31,760 --> 01:32:35,800
Speaker 1: for that for that jurisdiction out of the valley, and

1585
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:40,160
Speaker 1: I never got besides okay, I never got an official,

1586
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 1: uncustomized response. It was basically like an automated you know,

1587
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 1: thank you for contacting her office. I did see results

1588
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 1: that may or may not be attributed to that complaint

1589
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:56,280
Speaker 1: because about maybe about a year and a half later,

1590
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 1: that property management company they go by John Stewart Company,

1591
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:06,719
Speaker 1: they they either lost the contract or they didn't renew

1592
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 1: the contract for whatever reason. For me, it seemed like

1593
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 1: they were abscounting. They were trying to get away, you know.

1594
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 1: They they they knew that there was major issues that

1595
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 1: it was gonna take more than money to fix that.

1596
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:26,160
Speaker 1: So when the new property management company came in, rather

1597
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:31,400
Speaker 1: than dealing with the corruption of the prior the prior management,

1598
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 1: they ended up promoting the assistant manager to main property manager.

1599
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:42,360
Speaker 1: And she, uh, she has made it her her goal

1600
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:46,280
Speaker 1: in life to make my life as difficult as possible

1601
01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:51,440
Speaker 1: in so many ways. And we're talking federal level uh retaliation,

1602
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:56,599
Speaker 1: so uh to to bring you up to speed currently,

1603
01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:01,360
Speaker 1: I had. I was served. I was served with the

1604
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 1: ten day notice to quit in April of this year.

1605
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:10,560
Speaker 1: And not to get too deep into that story, but

1606
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:15,840
Speaker 1: basically I was being dang stocked, harassed, threatened by people

1607
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: that were obviously working on behalf or incahoots with property management,

1608
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: and they were It eventually got physical. I have good bearing. However,

1609
01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:30,760
Speaker 1: when things get physical, very hard to turn the other cheek.

1610
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 1: So the ten day notice to quit, which I didn't

1611
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:39,679
Speaker 1: really I didn't get to answer to any of the charges,

1612
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 1: you know, not officially, that went straight to a UNI

1613
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 1: or an unlawful detainer, which is an eviction. So when

1614
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 1: it went to court, as it turns out, the the

1615
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:58,280
Speaker 1: the law firm by the name of the Neighborhood legal services.

1616
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:02,679
Speaker 1: They were recommended to me by a new direction social worker,

1617
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:10,599
Speaker 1: and so they they pretty much uh I would say,

1618
01:35:10,640 --> 01:35:15,640
Speaker 1: they muscled me into accepting a settlement deal. Did not

1619
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 1: only win against half of the guidelines for a proper

1620
01:35:19,479 --> 01:35:23,840
Speaker 1: transfer of a substant voucher and numerous other things, but

1621
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:28,200
Speaker 1: it was sold to me as a settlement agreement. As

1622
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,719
Speaker 1: it turns out, after we had some some legal research

1623
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 1: done on it after the fact, you know, and finding

1624
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 1: all that out, it was actually a judgment against me.

1625
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: And so to fast forward to this point today, there

1626
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:46,240
Speaker 1: was numerous stays, and you know, at one point there

1627
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 1: was a share order noticed the vacate five days. I've

1628
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 1: always gone to court. I've complied with every everything that

1629
01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:56,920
Speaker 1: I was supposed to do. When I was supposed to

1630
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 1: move out on the fifteenth of this month, I had

1631
01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:02,680
Speaker 1: already moved everything out. I had done a plan on

1632
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 1: moved out of inspection. And because of one of the

1633
01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:09,840
Speaker 1: stipulations on the on the so called settlement agreement or

1634
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:14,960
Speaker 1: the judgment, should I say, to be more accurate, they

1635
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:16,680
Speaker 1: were supposed to give me what's known as a good

1636
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 1: standing letter for for hack leaf for my voucher so

1637
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:22,879
Speaker 1: I can transfer and get out of there. I was done. Anyways,

1638
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 1: what ended up happening was that they were gonna they

1639
01:36:27,520 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: were gonna try to get me to uh to vacate

1640
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:35,000
Speaker 1: the unit and then say, okay, now after you vacate,

1641
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 1: we'll give you the good standing letter. Well, according to research,

1642
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:43,000
Speaker 1: you mose your voucher if you're not if you're not

1643
01:36:43,160 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: living in your unit and when it's transferring. So it

1644
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: was a definitely, Uh, it was definitely a set up.

1645
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 1: Let's say I got the I got the documentation, I've

1646
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 1: done the research, and I've gone through at this point,

1647
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 1: it was definitely geared towards just getting me out by

1648
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:02,679
Speaker 1: making it as difficult as possible. So as it stands

1649
01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 1: at this moment, I'm looking at potentially a five year

1650
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: weight period to get my my my voucher. Redstated, I

1651
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:16,960
Speaker 1: can't afford rent. I'm on gr and foot stamps at

1652
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 1: this point. I'm waiting for U S S. I I

1653
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:25,559
Speaker 1: have disabilities and so I can't I can't. Uh, it's

1654
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:28,000
Speaker 1: very it's gonna be very difficult to find something for

1655
01:37:28,439 --> 01:37:32,679
Speaker 1: on a gr budget. Uh, any you know, and expect

1656
01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:35,080
Speaker 1: to live by myself like, no, it's gonna be a

1657
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:39,040
Speaker 1: group setting or a roommate situation, which I wouldn't mind,

1658
01:37:39,160 --> 01:37:46,879
Speaker 1: but very difficult to find. So, uh, that's that's basically,

1659
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:49,720
Speaker 1: that's basically the situation in a nutshell. If you have

1660
01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:53,760
Speaker 1: any questions or wow, you're giving me a lot to

1661
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 1: it's a lot of gas to tell you the truth. Yeah,

1662
01:37:56,640 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 1: there's so many stop and turn that I honestly, uh,

1663
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:03,479
Speaker 1: you probably have to come back every interviewing you to

1664
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:06,320
Speaker 1: get the shu more clarity. But I also thank you

1665
01:38:06,439 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 1: for showing us the water is it? Okay? We take

1666
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:11,840
Speaker 1: from tootos and some still shots of that and I

1667
01:38:12,040 --> 01:38:14,759
Speaker 1: from visible because we're in a darker so we probably

1668
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: don't have to show you and where the light, how

1669
01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: dark this water is and how bad it is, and

1670
01:38:19,640 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 1: imagine things, imagine drinking or taking a shower or doing anything. Ok,

1671
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,960
Speaker 1: let's be real. You know, I'm not sure you've probably

1672
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: cooked to cook with something like that. No one wants

1673
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 1: to cook them for me xaminated with Yes, And this

1674
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:34,639
Speaker 1: the skin is the is the biggest organ on our body.

1675
01:38:35,280 --> 01:38:37,320
Speaker 1: And so even taking a shower, you know, you know

1676
01:38:37,479 --> 01:38:41,439
Speaker 1: you're it's you're being exposed to it. Also, for a

1677
01:38:41,520 --> 01:38:43,759
Speaker 1: while I had a pure filter that I was filtering

1678
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 1: the water with, and I don't think that was even enough.

1679
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:48,320
Speaker 1: I mean as far as like just for peace of mind,

1680
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:50,720
Speaker 1: even even if it was cleaning out whenever's in there

1681
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: and the pure filter. I eventually just switched over to

1682
01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 1: bottle of water. And I should probably what I what

1683
01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 1: I was thinking about doing at the time was keeping

1684
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:00,760
Speaker 1: a log of how often I was having to buy

1685
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:02,800
Speaker 1: that water and then and then send an invoice to

1686
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:06,600
Speaker 1: property management. But every step of the way I was

1687
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:11,000
Speaker 1: met with resistance and hostilities, and it was very discouraging,

1688
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 1: even just as even if I wasn't an activist or

1689
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:17,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't speak up for myself that to to deal

1690
01:39:17,240 --> 01:39:21,360
Speaker 1: with that and then kind of deal with the conspiratorial

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01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 1: aspect of it being just swept under the rug, well,

1692
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: thank you very much story your story. Like I said,

1693
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 1: this is okay and you interview you and follow up

1694
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: on the situation one hundred percent. This is THEO Henderson

1695
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 1: for me in house, and I thank you all for listening.

1696
01:39:40,120 --> 01:39:42,320
Speaker 1: We're going to take some shots if it's okay with water,

1697
01:39:42,439 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 1: and then to show you just what the problem is.

1698
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: I can see I wouldn't even pitch so I'm damn

1699
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,360
Speaker 1: too that that what else will drinking music? Thank you

1700
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Speaker 1: all for listening, and they we again meeting the light

1701
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Speaker 1: of understanding. Thank you very much for your time. I

1702
01:39:57,880 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 1: really appreciate showing this the horrible I mean, I'm so

1703
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Speaker 1: sorry you got through the ball. Heaven helped the child

1704
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: never had a home. Heaven helped the girl who watched

1705
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:32,160
Speaker 1: the streets alone. Heaven helped the roses if the bombs

1706
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:43,920
Speaker 1: begin to fall, and he was so even. Helped the

1707
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: black man and he struggles one mording. Ever helped the

1708
01:40:49,439 --> 01:40:54,760
Speaker 1: white man, and he turns back way. Heaven helped the

1709
01:40:54,880 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 1: man who kicks the man has a crawling yup song. Ever,

1710
01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 1: Papus never dumps here. Even of the boys won't beat

1711
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:37,200
Speaker 1: twenty one. They have a man again that one ever

1712
01:41:37,360 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 1: enough people with the blacks against the ball. So e

1713
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Speaker 1: m Son and ever must all right, wha have sid

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Speaker 1: live ay love, We have one light and live