1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: We're on the web page for John and Ken. You 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: can find the voter guide posted yesterday for the June 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: seventh primary. We give you guidance. No, it's not guidance, 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: vote the way we say you should vote. This is 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: a this is a direct order. Do not disobey. Don't 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: come up with any of your own ideas. Just follow 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: what we tell you. That's right. Oh, I have an addition. 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: I want to put on the Tracy Park for council 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: District eleven, the bonding seat. Okay, well, tell our producer 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: and the powers that be to put together the sure district. 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: We had her on the last year. I know, I 12 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: thought we're gonna get her on again, but I haven't. 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: We Well, we got to get her on again before 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: well immediately, Actually she's not Mike Bondon's choice to replace him. 15 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: Well exactly, Well, the recall Bonding people have endorsed herd yes, okay, 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: so uh and I'd met her and we had her 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: on the show, and there's some whack jobs running in 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: this race, so she's the best, all right. Well, speaking 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: of Boden's district, that's where this story comes from. We're 20 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: going to talk about the Bologna wetlands. This is a 21 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: new story, but obviously it's circling around the same issue, 22 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: the RV van card dwellers that pile up there on 23 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: the Bologna Wetlands and park on the side and create 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: a lot of trash and environmental damage. Two Playa del 25 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: Rey residents have filed suit against the county, the Board 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: of Supervisors in the flood Control District because the county 27 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: Board of Supervisor approved a trash collection project. They're gonna 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: put a big floating barge dumpster where the Bologna Creek 29 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: meets the Pacific Ocean. It's called the Bologna Creek Trash 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: Interceptor Pilot Program trash project. Right now, they use floating 31 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: mesh nets, yeah, I'm familiar with that. Yes, and they're 32 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: known as trash booms. Now, this is supposed to be 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: an improvement on the nets because they can catch more 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: garbage and are not likely to overflow. But a woman 35 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: we've had on a number of times, Lucy Hahn, Yeah, 36 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: she does like the idea. She's not in favor of 37 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: this lawsuit. So, you know, I think the overriding question 38 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: is get those people out of there, But we have 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: to find out first how much of this trash and 40 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: the necessary the reason for this project is because of 41 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: what has parked out there. All right, let's get Lucy on. 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: You're there, Yes, hi, Hi, welcome, Thanks for coming on again. 43 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Explain as background here, Um, even 44 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: without the homeless people are, is there a lot of 45 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 1: trash that ends up in the Bologna wetlands that has 46 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: to be accounted for. Where's that coming? Yeah, there's over 47 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: sixty thousand pounds of trash that comes from the city. 48 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: Bologna Creek is um after the outlet to all the 49 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: storm drains um in the city of La So when 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: it rains, the rain flushes all the trash into the 51 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: storm drain and then that flows riding into creek. So 52 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: that's a problem. All right, We get it all over 53 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: the beach whenever it rained. Okay, that's got to be 54 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: tremendously awful looking. It is awful looking. I mean we 55 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: saw I think we found a dead dead dog on 56 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: the beach the other day when it rained a month ago. Yeah, 57 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: a lot along with all the the water bottles and 58 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: you know, all the other trash and come from the 59 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: inner inland. I found it dead pelican, a dead Pelican 60 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: today walking the beach in Santa Monica. Oh broh, Yeah 61 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: it was. Actually they're probably eating all the trash from 62 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: the from the from the ocean and getting sick. Yeah. 63 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out what would have killed 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: this thing. Um, all right, so there's a lot of 65 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: garbage even without all those RV homeless people parked. Um, 66 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: that's true. There there is our garbage without them. But 67 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: but from the the RV's on Jefferson, there is a 68 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: catch basin storm drain there which washes when it rains, 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: washes the trash from that area into the creek too. 70 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: Trash goes there too. That doesn't help the problem, right, No, 71 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: not at all. Right, So there's this barge. See I 72 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: understand the mesh nets, the trash booms. I don't see 73 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: what you explain the barge because I don't really understand 74 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: what the bar it's actually. It's called the interceptor. It 75 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: basically looks like a boat, and um, they're going to 76 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: put it in the middle of the creek. There will 77 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: be uh like booms that go on either side of it, 78 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: and um, the trash will be funneled into the interceptor, 79 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: which is just like a conveyor belt and then there's um, 80 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: you know, like dumpsters in the back and that will 81 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: be removed, um every now and then when they get full. Yeah, 82 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: it says it's more than seventy long and nearly twenty 83 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: feet tall. So I would imagine what it has to 84 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: be big, even with its booms coming off of it. Well, 85 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: it's big, and when you look at it in the creek, 86 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: it doesn't look that big. It really is. It's not. 87 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: I mean with the lawsuit, I mean, you've got we're 88 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: very disappointed because we've worked so hard ever since twenty 89 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: sixteen to get the county to do something about our 90 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 1: trash because the nets don't work. And now we've got 91 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: something that we can implement that is free, free to 92 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: the county. The Ocean Cleanup is giving an interceptor free. 93 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: It's only for a two year period. And you've got 94 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: people that are complaining because their views impacted. They don't 95 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: really seem to care about all the trash that's on 96 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: the beach. So that's the big objection is that it 97 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: looks ugly. That's their objection. I've seen it. I don't 98 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: think it looks ugly. I mean, if you have a 99 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: view that could be impacted by something that looks like 100 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: a boat versus having a dirty beach. I'd rather I'd 101 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: rather have the interceptor there. All right, what about the 102 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: rest of these rejections. Is this just lawyer hyperbole? But 103 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: those they're claiming that it has significant adverse environmental impacts? 104 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: The interceptor does health noise, I wonder what those are? Okay, 105 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: So the noise, the noise, it's going to sound like 106 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: a refrigerator right right after the interceptor. But the closest 107 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: residence to the interceptors three hundred feet away, so they're 108 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: really they're not going to hear anything. Um smell, smell, 109 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: that's going to be if anything, it's going to be localized. 110 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: But you've got to realize that trash comes from inland 111 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: and is washed and then eventually comes to will come 112 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: to the interceptors, so it's not like it's going to smell. Plus, 113 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: there's the wind direction that they've already looked at the engineers, 114 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: and the wind is blowing away from the residences, so 115 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: if there is an order, it's going to be blown 116 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: away from them, not towards them. Well, isn't there another 117 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: way they can direct the trash so it doesn't end 118 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: up in the creek is really disgusting and kind of well, 119 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: this was the location was they've they've looked at all 120 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: different options. I mean, the people that live near the 121 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: location where it's going to put that are complaining. It 122 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: was the deployment. The delivery of this interceptor was held 123 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: back a whole year. It was supposed to be delivered 124 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, but they deleted it so they 125 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: could look at all the you know, the their engineering 126 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: spects whatever to see if they could move it to 127 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: a separate, different location. But they can't. They've already done 128 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: the engineering and they can't do it. So what we 129 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: have is that it needs to be where it is 130 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: now if we want to prevent trash them going on 131 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: to the beach. All right, Lucy, Now what's the update 132 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: with the people that are still parked there in their 133 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: vans and own cars and no, nothing new. Um, just 134 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: trying to get a hold of the city again to 135 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: see if um. You know, I was just wondering why 136 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: they can arbitrarily change and go against city council and say, 137 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: oh no, now now the rules need to be different. 138 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: I mean at first it was like, okay, you can 139 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: toll them right away, and now it's like, no, we 140 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: can't tow right away, and now we need outreach. Well, 141 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: we've had so much outreach there the sheriff was there. 142 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: Mean we need to get the sheriff back to motivate 143 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: them high. I don't know. Great, you hit a wall 144 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: stretch beyond capacity without reaching Yeah, once you go a 145 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: few times, they keep saying no. The answers no, you 146 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: have to accept that and then and then force them out. 147 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: That's the way it goes. They're not why would they 148 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,119 Speaker 1: say yes. There is no there's no consequence to saying 149 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: yes exactly exactly, and it's been done. I would we 150 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: try happy there exactly? So not that's a bad location. 151 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: I'm I'm just saying, do you think it would be 152 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: a helpful we get a new city council person in 153 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: that seat for that? Oh? Totally, Tracy Park, I mean 154 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: round floor? Who John just did We're gonna put it 155 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: on a voter. Yeah, we're gonna just wanted to see 156 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: what you thought. You think that she's going to be 157 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: helpful of that, and that to help that she's worked 158 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: with us, she knows she was down with us and 159 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: looked at that area. Um where the RVs are on 160 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: Jefferson Um. And she understands the problem. She gets it. 161 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: And she was also there when one of our a 162 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: co worker of mine, was daused with feces and urine 163 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 1: by one of the dwellers, the vehicle dwellers that live 164 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: on Jefferson. Right. I remember that story, right, Tacy was 165 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: walking with you, right, m hm hmm. Yeah, it was 166 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: pretty awful. She got my friend totally got dashed. It 167 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: was terrible, all right, La see, well, thanks for coming on. 168 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We know how hard you guys as 169 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: friends of the jungle, right, is it correct? Friends of jungle, 170 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 1: and you know, just wanted to let everyone know we 171 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: also with that with the interceptor. We have over five 172 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: hundred letters from organizations and residents visitors that want the 173 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: interceptor there. So you're very disappointed that there's a few 174 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: objects and they might spoil it for the rest of us. 175 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: All right, thanks for coming on, You're welcome, Thank you. 176 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: All right, he's on because apparently a couple of people 177 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: have sued to stop this big barge interceptor as she 178 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: called it, to collect the trash can. Some of it's 179 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: from the home most but a lot of it's the 180 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: city of La sewage dreaming. Everybody's upset with the way 181 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: the world is, and then you can't do anything. It's 182 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: like they voted down the desalination plant in Huntington Beach 183 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: the other day. Well, we got this huge water shortage. 184 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: Everybody's shouting about you got to do something, and here 185 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: the same thing. You got what'd you say, sixty thou 186 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: pounds of garbage? Yeah, I think so that get dumped 187 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: into the blown a wetlands from all over the city. 188 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's all the garbage that we the people, 189 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: lead behind, and then it goes into the blown a wetlands. 190 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: So this barge is gonna suck it all up and 191 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: put it in a dumpster. What else do you want 192 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: to do? I mean, there aren't a thousand ways to 193 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 1: do this. Any day now or any month now. LA 194 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: is going to release its homeless count numbers. Last week, 195 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: Orange County did. The one we're looking at today is 196 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: the Lovely Bay Area and the place it stands out 197 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: is Oakland. The population of homeless people living in Oakland 198 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: increase by twenty four percent over the past three years. Again, 199 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: they didn't do counts in twenty twenty and twenty one 200 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. So, and these numbers are comparing 201 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen. Oakland is run by one of those 202 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: idiot progressives, wellby Libby schaff who is completely unhinged. And 203 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: so this is what you do with progressive philosophy. You 204 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: claim you're compassionate, you claim you're you're doing what needs 205 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: to be done, and you end up with twenty two 206 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: percent more homeless. Yea, Oakland accounts for nearly half of 207 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: Alameda County's overall homeless population. San Francisco actually had a 208 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: very slight drop in the number of unhoused, at least 209 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: according to this count I think that's because just everybody left, 210 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: including maybe some of the homeless people. That city is. 211 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 1: Have you been there during the pandemic. It's like a 212 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: ghost down because you know what, some tourists are back, 213 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: but it's you know what the panhandling suffers. Yes, you're right, 214 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: they find the people to shake down for money and food. Yeah, 215 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, those were all a lot of 216 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,599 Speaker 1: wealthy people there. Yeah, and the people and some of 217 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: them they got out of town. Then they're not throwing 218 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: one hundred dollar bills around anymore. To the vagrants. Now overall, 219 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: Alameda County had a twenty two percent increase in its 220 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: homeless population. What really jumped out They made a little 221 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: pie chart where are unsheltered people living in Oakland? Where 222 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: are they living in? Here are the choices a tent, 223 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 1: a car, or a van, an RV on the street 224 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: or outside or in an abandoned building. It's interesting to 225 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: note that in twenty nineteen forty forty one percent we're 226 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: in an abandoned building. That's down though, at thirty two percent. 227 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: I guess because so many businesses left Oakland that ought 228 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: to be big in San Francisco, because there's just so 229 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: many empty office buildings now, you would think some of 230 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: the homeless would just take over and start breaking in 231 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: living in a lobby. In second place in this new survey, car, 232 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: a van, and RV together accounted for a huge percent. 233 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: Apparently was the biggest jump in a lot of these 234 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: Bay Area homeless counts. People living in their cars or 235 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: their RVs, which you're just talking about with the Bologna 236 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: wetlands there. I think these are people who drove in 237 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: from at a state. Oh I see, I'm just held 238 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: over somewhere and well came here because we got great 239 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: weather and we have an open door policy and even 240 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: goes and you can do your drugs. You can live 241 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 1: in the car. It's sunny every day. Yeah. But San 242 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: Francisco is an outdoor drug market. Yet they're homeless population 243 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: allegedly dropped by a slight percentage. That's like, that's like Walmart, 244 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: isn't it. That's like Walmart. Well, yeah, an outdoor Walmart 245 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: for drugs. Woh yeah, you know. And the numbers go 246 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: up or down this way or that way, it's still 247 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: an overwhelming number. Well, the point is they've gotten billions 248 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: and billions of dollars and it's still an overwhelming number 249 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: no matter how you look at it, no matter what 250 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: these percentages say, it's still disgusting, way too much, filthy, unhealthy. 251 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: They're dying in the streets, you know, they're terrorizing people, 252 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: unchecked mental illness and drug addiction. That's like, I can't 253 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: stand all these these numbers, nerds. It's like, well, it's 254 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: up eight percent, hair and down three percent. There's a few. 255 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: It's it's a humanitarian disaster here. It's discusting. Nobody should 256 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: live like this. He's San Jose homeless population also jumped 257 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: by eleven percent. That's right there. In the Silicon Valley 258 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: tech world. Overall, nothing's good. That's what I'm saying. We 259 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: gave these progressives their shot. They've had years of this. 260 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: We gave them billions and billions of dollars. They're bad 261 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: at their job. They don't know what they're doing. They 262 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: make everything worse. They're not smart. This is not an 263 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: intelligent way to get homeless people off the streets. It's 264 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: simply a stupid way. Everything's getting worse. So when do 265 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: we take the power away from them? Why? Libby chaff said, 266 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: we need more money. Oh, of course she said that. 267 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: That's what she said, she's got. They referred to it 268 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: as resources. Oh, investments, that's what she called. We gave 269 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: you a bunch of investments. We need more outreach. We 270 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: gave you have had a lot of outreach. She has 271 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: the IQ of a line of being just a moron. 272 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: They have to be removed. There's no more arguing with 273 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: these people. You give them more money and more money 274 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: and more money. You end up with a worse and situation. 275 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: And then they say, well we want more money. It's 276 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: like no, no, stop enough. You're bad, You're bad at 277 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: what you do get out. Yeah, they're they're claiming in 278 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: a companion story, I'm reading that San Francisco got a 279 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: slight dipping homelessness because they stepped up getting people into 280 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: shelters and well, I remember those hotels they put them 281 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: in we would say destroyed. There was a big investigation 282 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: by the San Francisco Chronicle that was really scary. Yeah, 283 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: there were these private hotel rooms that people got. They 284 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed the room. Yeah, and then they're declared not homeless. Well, 285 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: actually they are still homeless, but at least they're in 286 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: a disgusting hotel room now that they're ruining. Yeah. Hey, 287 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 1: coming up after four o'clock, find out what the California 288 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board plans to do with your gas powered 289 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: car and how soon they're going to do that, particularly 290 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: the possibility to be able to buy a new one. 291 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: There's an update on the whole story, and we'll get 292 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: it coming up with our guests after four o'clock on 293 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show. We have talked about this 294 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: from time to time, and it's back of it is 295 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: because now we have detailed documents dealing with the Black 296 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: Lives Matter Foundation. This apparently are these are newly released 297 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: tax filings and kind of the history of this is 298 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: after Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman and Florida, 299 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: this group started to form and then it really took 300 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: off after Michael Brown got into it with a police 301 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: officer in Missouri and he was killed in twenty fourteen 302 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: with the fake hands up, don't shoot story. Yeah, this 303 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: is the BLM Foundation's first public accounting of its finances 304 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: since incorporating in twenty seventeen. Before that, it had been 305 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: under the fiscal sponsorship of some other charity and it 306 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: wasn't required to publicly disclose its financials until it became 307 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: an independent five oh one C three nonprofit in December 308 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. And what we have found out in 309 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: these new tax filing information that's been released is they 310 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: have forty two million dollars in net assets, which is significant. 311 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: And of course, the co founder of the Black Lives 312 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 1: Matter Foundation is Patrich Colors. That name has come up 313 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: a lot because she hasually been doling out money to 314 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: people she knows. She's run off with so much money 315 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: and enriched all her family members, I mean the guy 316 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: who fathered her baby nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars 317 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: he got to help produce live events and provide quote, 318 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: creative services whatever that is. Was that the rioting in 319 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: twenty twenty? Was that the live event he produced? Or 320 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: was that creative services? He also paid a brother eight 321 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand for some kind of security services. 322 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: A consulting firm run by a board member by the 323 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: name of Shaaloma Bowers was paid two point one million 324 00:17:54,480 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: dollars for quote operational support. Oh my god. And she 325 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: also she also spent seventy three thousand dollars for a 326 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: charter flight. She did reimburse the organization for that flight. 327 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: Somebody must have flagged that and said, well, you can't 328 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, seventy three thousand dollars for a private jet, 329 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: Oh wow. Yeah. It was her brother, Paul Colors, who 330 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: got more than eight You don't want to grand for 331 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: security services. You know who they scammed. They scammed a 332 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: lot of corporations. The corporations were stumbling over each other 333 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: trying to get woke first, and then a lot of 334 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: rich liberal weenies also were writing big checks to this group. 335 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: I have heard there was a lot of silicon Valley money. 336 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: That yeah, man, a lot of a lot of progressive 337 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: tech people, and they all wanted to look good. They 338 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: all wanted to say up, yeah, I donated to BLM. Yes, yeah, 339 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: I'm very well. And I guess they didn't care if 340 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: they got hosed because they had way too much money anyway, 341 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: and it makes them look really cool. But it's the 342 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: six million dollars they spent on this studio city house, 343 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: sixty five hundred square foot property. She apparently held a 344 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: couple of private events there. They were saying that that 345 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: was supposed to be some kind of a sanctuary that 346 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: they were going to use for people that were fake 347 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: story needed outreach and media. They got ninety million dollars, 348 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: so of course they bought a mansion. I would two. 349 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: It's a home with six bedrooms and bathrooms, a swimming 350 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: pool of sound stage office space. Yes, we're supposed to 351 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: be a campus for black artists fellowship a campus. Yeah, 352 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: over there right now, we'd find all this fellowship going on. 353 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: What does that mean? That's what they're claiming that purpose? Oh, 354 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure sure there's a fellowship going on twenty four 355 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: hours a day. They kid fellowship. I love where they 356 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: got all these these words from Fellatoship. Well, I campus, 357 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: let's get out of here. You you you had suckers, 358 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: corporate suckers and tech suckers, everybody trying to look woke 359 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: virtue signaling, and you made this huge windfall. Also significantly, 360 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: during the last fiscal year, Patrice Colors was the Foundation 361 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: board's sole voting director good and held no board meetings. Well, 362 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: because there's no one to hold a meeting with now 363 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: the corporation is so one person board. It is incorporated 364 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: in Delaware. Joe, A lot of people do that. I remember, 365 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: even back when I was in accounting, a lot of 366 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: people incorporated in Delaware. There must be some very favorable Oh, 367 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: all the banks are incorporated in Delaware and all the 368 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: credit card companies are as well. That was Biden's main job, 369 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: is he would well he manipulate federal law and get 370 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: it passed in the Senate to allow Delaware to be 371 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: this haven for every corporation, every bank, every credit card. Yes, yes, 372 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: there wasn't He pushed that. Yeah, extremely favorable conditions for 373 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: corporation in Delaware. That's why it cracks me up when 374 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: whoever is running the Biden administration is constantly screaming about 375 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: corporations and the rich and they're they're greedy and they 376 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: don't pay taxes. This guy Biden, he was the king 377 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: of manipulating federal law in favor of corporations. Every Lots 378 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: of major corporations incorporate in his state because of the 379 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: treatment they get and the money that they save. Yeah, 380 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: he's just a gigantic fraud that Biden. Oh God. Further 381 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: information in this story as there's a board member by 382 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: the name of Sickly Gay Sicily i c l e. 383 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: Y communications professional with more than twenty years of experience 384 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: and nonprofits and philanthropic organizations. The quote here is, we 385 00:21:55,840 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: are decolonizing philanthropy. We as a board are charged with 386 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,400 Speaker 1: disrupting traditional standards of what grant making in philanthropy looks 387 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: like it means investing in black communities, trusting them with 388 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: their dollars. Trying to say like previous philanthropy was kind 389 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: of racist to his wife's right, So here's what we 390 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: have broken through and found the new way to reach 391 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: the people that need. The new way is me, my brother, 392 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: and my boyfriend. We're all running off with the money. 393 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: That's the new way. Yeah, that's that's the innovative way. 394 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: Oh and he says they they're abolitionists, the largest black 395 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: abolitionist nonprofit organization. Uh, we want to shift the moral 396 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: tide of this world towards one that does not have 397 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: or believe in. Get this, police, prisons, jails or violence. 398 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: No police, no prisons, no jails. That's their goal. And 399 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: they lead to no violence, right right, which equals no 400 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: violence at the end. If it did, what a wonderful 401 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: world we live in. But it doesn't really that and 402 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: all the all these white left wing rich people go, oh, 403 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: that just wonderful. I want to donate to that. Yes, 404 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: I believe in no police, no prison, so Jeff. And 405 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: then in the end we had no violence. Wait what's that? 406 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: Or do I hear upstairs? Hey, hey, is there somebody 407 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: in the house. Hey he's got a gun. Idiots. They 408 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: did spend seventy percent of their money giving out grants 409 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: to organizations, so basically, they gave money to a lot 410 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: of middlemen organizations like We Love Our Sons and Daughters Foundation, 411 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: Living Through Giving Foundation. You know, you listen to this show. 412 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: Sometimes we're very suspicious of a lot of nonprofits. So 413 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about those organizations, but they got 414 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: one got two million dollars. I wonder if they have 415 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: campuses because the ideas they work directly with the community 416 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: and they know how to spend the money to reach people. 417 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: So that's a lot of them. Does any of that 418 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: spent money to reach any community ever really do anything significant? 419 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: I mean, what are these programs? I keep asking in 420 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: this whether they're on the inside, in the in the prisons, 421 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: on the outside, what what is this? All these community 422 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: outreach intervention programs? What do they do exactly? And what 423 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: are the what are the benefits? How do you show 424 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: concretely what is the metric to say, here's proof this works. 425 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: I've never seen it and they just passed gas about it. 426 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: Things really exploded in fundraising after the death of George 427 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: Floyd in Minneapolis. That's where and that's when she started 428 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: buying these properties. Patrise Colors now owns three properties in 429 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, one in the Hills above LA all will 430 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: purchased in twenty twenty. Do you think the money's still 431 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: come in now? That's a good question. Now that the 432 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: crime has overtaken all the major cities and we have 433 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: bodies piling piling up by the hundreds and all these cities, 434 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: mostly young black men. You think everybody's still less sending 435 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: big checks to this group now that we know about 436 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: the mansions they ba and about how you know, the 437 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: boyfriend and the relatives all walked away with the big 438 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: cash prizes. Now, Colors resigned from the organization last year. 439 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: She was listed as an uncompensated founder and executive direct uncompensated. Well, 440 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: if you're buying homes, that's kind of the uncompensated, and 441 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: if you're handing money out to friends and relatives, that's nervy. 442 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: That's another way of So, you know what, why aren't 443 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: we doing this? I'm gonna set up a nonprofit you should. 444 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come up with like the the wokest, most 445 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:42,679 Speaker 1: progressive cause possible and start babbling about outreach and community, 446 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: community involvement and whatever else. Empowerment. That's why community empowerment. 447 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: Just blot all those buzzwords and just watch the money 448 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: rained down on me. And then I'm gonna go buy 449 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: a campus and a mansion out in Hawaii. That sounds good. 450 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 1: Growing up hill. John kobel Ken Shampoo camp by am 451 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: six Forting. Why have all over the place on the 452 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. It's a very very steep hill, Yes, but 453 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: we're rolling slowly. It's always it's like dippity doo is 454 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: here in southern California about the drought. He's got a 455 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: recycling a water recycling plant. Uh huh? Is he really 456 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: water recycle? Babbling away and his usual double speed dig 457 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: a hole, you dope. We gave we we authorized billions 458 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: of dollars to build reservoirs eight years ago. None of 459 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: the none of them, None of the money has been 460 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: spent yet. Why why don't you work on that, dan Is? 461 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 1: The desalination plant got tamed down at Huntington Beach. Yeah, 462 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: why don't you find a way to overrule the California 463 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,719 Speaker 1: Coastal Commission. They're they're blocking the desalination plant. We need 464 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: to decept them. Yes, the desalination plant would um convert 465 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: all the water in the Pacific Ocean into usable drinking water. Here, 466 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: that seems like a good idea, doesn't it. If it's 467 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: not going to rain for the next thousand years, how 468 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: about we take some of the Pacific Ocean water you're 469 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: big dope onto a different droute. The baby formulas shortage 470 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: Apparently the FDA is going to allow overseas manufacturers to 471 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: apply to ship their formulas to the United States. In 472 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: this country, the baby formula market is dominated by Abbot Laboratory, 473 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: something called Direct, ben Kaiser Group, and of course Nestling 474 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: and Gerber Business. But it could be weeks however, before 475 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: the products come to store shelves in the United States. 476 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 1: Manufacturers have to first to apply with the agency to 477 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: be able to ship their products to the US. Then 478 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 1: there's a review to assure quality control and safety. Meanwhile, 479 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: Abbott has reached agreement with the FDA to reopen that 480 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: plant in Michigan where they make many formula products. There 481 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: was a contamination problem bacterial, which is what closed that 482 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: plant down in February. That didn't help the shortage and 483 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: the crisis. Yeah, which do you think maybe that was 484 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 1: probably an overreaction that they didn't have to close the 485 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: entire plant for three months now, Yeah, it seems like 486 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: it could have been. Yeah, and that's what happens is 487 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: you have this this excessive regulatory machine that crushes a company. 488 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: Some mistake was made, it has to be fixed, but 489 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: you really need three months and then well, kids are starving. 490 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: I mean, you're really screwed because if you're not breastfeeding 491 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: anymore and there's no formula on the shelf, what are 492 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: you gonna do here? Yeah, and this is one story 493 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: where we're kind of different from what do you call them? 494 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: Third world developing world countries high percentages Republic of Congo 495 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: of mothers breast feed their children at least once. In 496 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: countries like ours in Europe, the percentage is much lower 497 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: because a lot of women work and would turn to 498 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: the workplace and don't want to be bothered pumping milk 499 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: at work. And yeah, well, I know, we have a 500 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: different culture. So that's why the formula is bigger in 501 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: this nation than in some other places. And this is 502 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: one of those things you're not supposed to talk about 503 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: out loud, but when women decide to go to work, 504 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: they now have to outsource care of the child to somebody. Right, Yeah, 505 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: it too, I guess would be formula, right. Yeah. And 506 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: the feeding because believe me, in the eighteen hundreds and 507 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: the eight hundreds and eight hundred BC, there was no laboratory. 508 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: It was one hundred percent of the women breast fed 509 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: because that was and in the animal world, one hundred 510 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: percent of the mothers breastfeed their children. If if that's 511 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: the system used, and that's the way it was, and 512 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: then when you decide, okay, I want to work instead, well, 513 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: there's a big consequence here, huge consequence because now you 514 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: have to hope that the whole formula machine works properly. 515 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: And this is why if you have a little bit 516 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: of a problem, which they had to have a laboratories, 517 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: you can't overreact and shut everything down because once women 518 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: stop breastfeeding, the milk dries up and you can't go back. Um. 519 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: And so this is one of the consequences of modern life. 520 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: And women choose this is that they don't breastfeed anymore. 521 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: You have to have the company make it. Well if 522 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: the company fails. Now one I saw another story that 523 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: some one of the other problem is that some women, 524 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: particularly they don't have enough insurance health coverage. They can't 525 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: get lactation instruction. Did you have that when you're yeah, 526 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: you had to practice somebody to do it. Yeah. Sometimes 527 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: it's difficult, I mean sometimes and the connection just doesn't 528 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: work right. I would imagine it varies from woman to 529 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: woman and and and you know they have their breast 530 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: pumping machines and the mom's got to sit there and 531 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 1: you've got this machine, and you know you have an 532 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: attachment to the breast. It's literally pumping and you fill 533 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: up these little bottles and you put them in the refrigerator. Yeah, 534 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: and it doesn't doesn't look like a lot of fun 535 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: at all. But again, this is this is the way 536 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: life works. Whoever designed the system, this is what we got. 537 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: All right. 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