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Speaker 1: There is a saying doing the same thing over and

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Speaker 1: over and expecting a different result is the result of

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Speaker 1: senseless insanity. How do you make sense of the senseless?

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Speaker 1: My name is Theo Henderson, hosting creator of the podcast

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Speaker 1: called Weedian House, coming to iHeartRadio on December fifth in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Seventy five thousand people are in house on

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Speaker 1: a given night, Yet we continue to demonize and criminalize him.

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Speaker 1: Nimbis and fickle politicians create a destructive circus to advance

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Speaker 1: this message. Thus, Weedian House message is cleared to be

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Speaker 1: the elephant cleaner delegated to clean up the excremental pile.

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Speaker 1: Activists for years have stated that dignified housing is a

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Speaker 1: human right, that substant usage is a disease that requires

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Speaker 1: treatment and compassion and non incarceration. Stigmas such as mental

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Speaker 1: health hurdles are not the cause of houselessness. Sim Put,

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Speaker 1: the major cause of houselessness is the cost of living

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Speaker 1: and stagnant wages. A recent study by the Tuscan Pem

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Speaker 1: of Collaboration to End Homelessness supports this. It also shows

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Speaker 1: an increase of elderly women facing houselessness. The topics that

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Speaker 1: our show will cover is houselessness and the pernicious myths

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Speaker 1: that pervade our conversations. From a human perspective, education isn't

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Speaker 1: empowering too to use to fight against the arrows of misinformation, cruelty,

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Speaker 1: and calls for criminalization. On my podcast, we're going to

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Speaker 1: debunk the myths around houselessness. We're going to remember and

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Speaker 1: humanize the community who have passed on spotlighting Houselessness Remembrance Day.

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Speaker 1: More importantly, we're going to look at the ways we

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Speaker 1: criminalize the un housed, because if you can demonize in

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Speaker 1: you can criminalize weed in house covers far more than

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Speaker 1: my story. Unlike the mainstream media's way of speaking over

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Speaker 1: the house, my podcast centers their voices the conversation. Houselessness

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Speaker 1: is not a monolith. To quote my gateway into activism,

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Speaker 1: Surely Chisholm, we must reject not only does stereotypes that

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Speaker 1: others hold of us, but also the stereotypes we hold

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Speaker 1: of ourselves. Society creates the expectation, responsibility and decisions, and

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Speaker 1: if one fails to live up to them, blame is

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Speaker 1: a sign. We live in a capitalistic society where there

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Speaker 1: are winners and losers. Houselessness is trapped by these rules. Hence,

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Speaker 1: some people facing houselessness believe in the lies set against

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Speaker 1: them and will work diligently in their own oppression. Weedian

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Speaker 1: howse is the bomb in our society's gilead. You are

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Speaker 1: cordially invited to listen, learn, and empathize. Listen to Weedian

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Speaker 1: House starting December fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts