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Speaker 1: Saying that's my name, Raymond Burr, Raymond br Okay, excellent,

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Speaker 1: the rest of the world. But definitely, you know, us

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Speaker 1: as Angelino's, we have our own things that are happening

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00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: within our city specifically, so that's something very important which

428
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: every city has, but definitely want to address like some

429
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: reasons or some you know, issues that we may have

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00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: within our own city. Speaking of specific issues for Angelino's,

431
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: I have been distressed and I had in episode fourteen,

432
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: I had made a promo with these in May owner

433
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: and cook Michelle Lu and her restaurants, they may be stroke. Unfortunately,

434
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: due to the coronavirus hysteria She's Panic, as well as

435
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: the anti Chinese sentiment that has been defacing her business.

436
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: She is in a bit more of a frightened state

437
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: and will not be joined us this interview. Has you

438
00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: experienced any of this anti coronavirus sentiment, because you can

439
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more than to the audience

440
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: what's going on. Basically, I have like an interracial family,

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00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: like a iracial family. My children are half Asian, they're

442
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: specifically Chinese Namames descent. And you know, this is a

443
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,439
Speaker 1: population within California where it's a large Asian population. It's

444
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: about twelve percent of the population. And a lot of

445
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: people have close ties to China here or are of

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00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: Chinese descent, and it's been really hard for my children. Specifically,

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00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: my son is very very he definitely looks as if

448
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 1: he's of Asian descent. Yes, so he did get beat up.

449
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: And wait a minute, he got beat up. What happened?

450
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: This is like a nine year old child. He came

451
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: home one day and he's just like you know, the

452
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: kids had specifically said these are their words, chiang chong coronavirus.

453
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: You know you're part Asian, like you're part Chinese, and

454
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: you gave this to us. And like I saw a

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00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: bruise on my son's shoulder and they had said, like

456
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: I asked him, like, well, what happened, and he said

457
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: that they kicked him. So they had him on the

458
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: ground kicking him just because he's party Asian. Do you

459
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,239
Speaker 1: think that this has anything to do with because I

460
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: have become alarmed and I don't know what many citizens

461
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: have because Megan mckang has a different viewpoint. She's thinking

462
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: that we live in a PC culture and it's not

463
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: a big deal. But President Trump has been known to

464
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: say the Chinese virus. There are some insiders that in

465
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: around his administration call it the Kung flu virus. Do

466
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: you have to think that his leadership or lack thereof,

467
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: has been instrumental in a lot of these uptick and

468
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: anti Asian attacks. Well, definitely. And I think that when we,

469
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, stand by the rhetoric of like naming viruses

470
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: after ethnicities, I mean, we can't do that. You know,

471
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: viruses exist in every continent, in every community everywhere, and

472
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, we can't label viruses like that. And I

473
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: think it's it's definitely affected Chinese Americans or Chinese people

474
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: who not only live in Los Angeles but live you know,

475
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: around the world. Possibly you know, the effects of it

476
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: are very devastating, devastating for them because like I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: like my son is a nine year old child, and

478
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: other children are bringing the sentiment, and I mean he

479
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: doesn't understand. He's just like, it's just a virus. I

480
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with this, you know this, He's

481
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: even Chinese un to me. So, you know, his family

482
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: doesn't even speak, you know, speak that language specifically, and

483
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: hasn't been in China for quite some times. It's very

484
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: removed from that, but still because he's of Asian descent,

485
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: part Asian descent to you, you know, people are children.

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00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: Other children are beating him up for this, partly because

487
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: children will reflect and do the good of us as

488
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: well as the worst of us. I've looked through history

489
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: and I haven't found it, but I remember the influenza

490
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: of nineteen hundred. No one ever called it the Honky virus,

491
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 1: or they never called him you know, white people virus

492
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: or any of that. So I was become disconcerted because

493
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: I have heard kids talk about ebola and they would

494
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: use it as to use that distigmatized African people, and

495
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: particularly a bully was in the Congo. And so this

496
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: is not unknown, but this is definitely a resource that

497
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: has been used and tapped into by people who are

498
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: using it for political gain. President Trump has said recently

499
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: that he doesn't want the Asia community picked on, but

500
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: this is a little too little, too late, because he

501
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: has also had rhetoric against the Muslim people. He's also

502
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: had rhetoric against Latinos, calling them rapists and ms for

503
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: thirteen's and it's kind of thing. So it seems to

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00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: be in line with a lot of Americans that has

505
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: a lot of fear and ignorance, which I would like

506
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: to speak on. Do you notice any other fear and

507
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: ignorance that's going on, because I can tell you say

508
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: a few, but what what do you have? Basically, people

509
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: are and it's okay to be, you know, scared. I

510
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: feel like scared is a natural reaction to something like this,

511
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: of course, but if you're panic, like panic buying guns

512
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: or things like that, I feel that that doesn't or

513
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: panic buying all the supplies at the grocery store, please

514
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: don't do that because it makes other people panicky as well,

515
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: and it kind of creates this domino effect. And you know,

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00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: we're people, the truckers and the grocery storers and food

517
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: service workers. They're doing their best to help us. And

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00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, are you going to drink up twelve gallons

519
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,479
Speaker 1: of milk? Yeah? Because I mean if you freeze it,

520
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be processed cheese, right, So doing things

521
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: like that it's not helpful. It's actually in a lot

522
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: of cases where they're panic buying, it's actually going to

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00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: be pretty wasteful xactly, you know in the end, because

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00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: you're not going to eat up like fifty you know,

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00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: things of string cheese in two weeks. It's just not possible,

526
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: and so your stuff is naturally going to rot. So

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00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: just to be mindful of that. Because panic buying, it's

528
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,959
Speaker 1: like you're buying things where you should be saving your

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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: money because this is a national crisis and emergency. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of money may be wasted

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00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: in that way. Definitely. I will add on a couple

532
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: of things, so to be clear, the coronavirus is not

533
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: in the air, and I have had when I won't

534
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: mention the store, but it was very annoying because the

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00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: owner is running around with masks, and I want to

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00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: speak on that because a lot of the medical masks

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00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: that has been taking away from healthcare workers that are

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00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: treating people that need it. If you do not have

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00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: the coronavirus, you're just panic buying and taking these as

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00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: that these probably we could use to help save some lives.

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Speaker 1: And secondly, as you can see here, it's not necessary

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00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: to have over fifty boxes of hand sanitizer when we

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00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: don't have. We have people in the unhoused community that

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00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: need these as well. They have hand washing stations by

545
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: the city, but there's no water in it, no one's

546
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: taking care of it, and many of the unhouse have

547
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: no clue of what the hell's going on. So it's

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00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: also add that they usually don't stock it with soap,

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00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: and I'm supposing they do that because they know, like,

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00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: oh maybe on house people will bathe themselves there, but

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00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you need to bathe. You know, everybody that's

552
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: a human decent right bathe yourself. You want to bathe yourself,

553
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: especially during this time. It's important to stock those bathrooms

554
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: up because they do need to and open them. Keep

555
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: them open, please, because they need to keep clean as well, right,

556
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: and they want to keep cleaning. That's that's the irony

557
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 1: of the whole situation that they're blaming on house people.

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00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: People are act think panicking, and here I have a

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00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: San Francisco a mayor that's saying that unhouse people go

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00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: home to go to the bathroom because they're It's just

561
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: it's the ridiculousness. So they are going to open up

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00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: the recreational areas they are supposed to be opening up

563
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: forty two, but as of today, the Alpine Recreation Center

564
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: has not opened the bathroom. This is for people that

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00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: have disabilities. I went last night, I believe it or not,

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00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: to show restroom. They won't open the bad They never

567
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: opened the bathrooms for people with disability anyway, and they

568
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: refuse to open it through to this coronavirus. I had

569
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: a challenge with the Starbucks, which I will elaborate further

570
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: on in an interview. But that's another issue. Well, I mean,

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00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,320
Speaker 1: you want to stop this part of the virus, and

572
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you have adequate supplies

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00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: for all members of the community. And that's a big

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00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 1: important thing I felt. And I feel like you had said,

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00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: like we're all in this together, so there has to

576
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: be you know, it's like all this Chinese you know sentiment,

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00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't just affect Chinese American people. You know, all

578
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: this homeless sentiment, it doesn't just affect homeless people. It

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00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: doesn't oh you know, people aren't able to pay the

580
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: resus doesn't just affect how people. We have to be

581
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: all in this together as Angelinos and just across the world.

582
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: You know that there's a difficulty here. Let's band together.

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00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: There's things that are very specific to our community, and

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00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: there's things that are happening around the world. You know,

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00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: this virus is happening around the world, and it can

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00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: ban us as you know, unite us all. And I

587
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: feel like that should be that should be more of

588
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: what's coming out of this, because this is just kind of, uh,

589
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, unbelievable. You know, there's a sentiment that they says,

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00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: if America gets the cold, the rest of the world

591
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: gets the fluke. And as we see this now that

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00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: that's a very true reality. The coronavirus has crippled a

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00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: lot of people that have lies on a lot of

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00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: jobs that are one or two paychecks away, and they

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00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: are trying to do with the shelter in place, and

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00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: yet they still are facing evictions. Uh, scruple list. We're

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00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: leaving the leaving the responsibilities to greed and capitalistic The

598
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: capitalistic society is always going to be winners and losers,

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00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: and the people that are not doing well and that

600
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: are barely hanging on, we're relying on them. For example,

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00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: the people in the grocery stores. We've been arguing about

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00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: that they should have a livable wage, and we've had

603
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: pushback on it. I think it's a crude sense of

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00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: ironing that we're depending on them to stay open and

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00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: have them work all these hours, and we gave them

606
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: a couple of dollars to a sage our guilt in

607
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: this pandemic. They deserve more than a couple of dollars.

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00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: They deserve a livable wage. They are basically keeping us alive.

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00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: If they were to go on to strike tomorrow, this

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00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: cold economy would collapse. So think on that. Is there

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Speaker 1: anything else would you like to share from your book

612
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: that you wanted to talk about? Yes, so there's a

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00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: new book that's in the works, are in the progress.

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00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: So I basically I do have a story about trying

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00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: to tell specifically and Chinese American identity, and I would

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00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: like to read a little excerpt from it. And I

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00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: mean this book, yes, made in La it is by

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00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: Angelinos or Angelinos about Angelinos, but you can find commonality

619
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,479
Speaker 1: in it throughout any community because we want to also

620
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: like cherish the landscape of Los Angeles, but also especially

621
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: since we're in this pandemic, you know, we're all in

622
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: this together, we really are. And the third installment is

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Speaker 1: called Art of Transformation and after this coronavirus and after

624
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: this pandemic, there will definitely be some transforming right for

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00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: us as a society and all societies in all cities.

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00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: Just something that I wanted to say, But this story

627
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: is called the Portion of the Three and the Kabuki Mask.

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: They didn't belong among the rice patty straw hats, paper umbrellas,

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Speaker 1: and floury silken Chinese collar shirts. The red and white

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00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: lacquer of the kaboo key mask grew hot and glimmered

631
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: in the sun that tilted through the window. I asked

632
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: my mother why she kept them there? Why put them

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00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: next to the mediocre jade bracelets and plastic amulets of

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00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: juvial Buddhas. Would they have been better suited a mile

635
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: away in one of the air conditioned shops of Little Tokyo.

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00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: She just grinned as she unwrapped the paper mache mask. Florence,

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Speaker 1: my dear daughter, Money is money, Bas said, as he

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Speaker 1: wiped down one of the glass countertops of our non

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Speaker 1: air conditioned souvenir shop, gray bellows of smoke from smoldering

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00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: incense sticks attempted to claim every whisper of fresh air.

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Speaker 1: I should have been kneeling my slender body at the

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Speaker 1: altar of the front of the shop, my delicate hands

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Speaker 1: and calloused fingertips, placing tangerines in one of its white

644
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Speaker 1: porcelain bowls with indigo flower print. I should have filled

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Speaker 1: one of the vases with fresh marigolds, not yet dried

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Speaker 1: out from the California heat, or lit more incense sticks

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Speaker 1: and placed them sticking up in the rice that occupied

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Speaker 1: a single bowl, and from the medium sized smiling gold Buddha.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if I had prayed, a gust of wind would

650
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Speaker 1: have forced its way in and dried the sweat on

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Speaker 1: the back of my neck so that all my long,

652
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: black pint straight hair wouldn't stick there. Maybe then I

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00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to blink away melted and smeared eye makeup.

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00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: A brisk wind would have been the only way that

655
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Speaker 1: I would get some air conditioning, because Bob wasn't going

656
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Speaker 1: to pay for shit. If money is money, why won't

657
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Speaker 1: you fix the air conditioner, I asked, Bob gave me

658
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Speaker 1: a fleeting glare. So this one is basically my story,

659
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Speaker 1: is that there's a Chinese American souvenir shop and the

660
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Speaker 1: father has a KABOOKI mask, which is clearly like Japanese Yes.

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Speaker 1: So the moral of this story is then I can

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Speaker 1: read another little excerpt, but the moral of the story

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Speaker 1: is is that not all Chinese Americans or Chinese people

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Speaker 1: feel or think the same, and also definitely not all

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Speaker 1: Asian cultures are the same. So when we speak about

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Speaker 1: individuals having a very specific Angelino identity, having a very

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Speaker 1: specific ethnic identity, we want to be careful how we

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Speaker 1: portray it because it's up to them to portray their

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Speaker 1: own identity and how they feel about that identity. And

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Speaker 1: that's what this story is about. So as we go

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Speaker 1: into this coronavirus crisis and we're using that Chinese anti

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Speaker 1: Chinese sentiment, that is not the way necessarily that everybody identifies.

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Speaker 1: There's very clear distinction between Chinese and Chinese American identity

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Speaker 1: and both everybody's able to create their own perception what

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Speaker 1: they find themselves to be, and viruses are different. Viruses

676
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Speaker 1: don't do that. So dead is dead? Was it your

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Speaker 1: Chinese black white rich On house and House? So let

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Speaker 1: us be clear that we're all in this together, And

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Speaker 1: it has been my hope as well as what I've

680
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: been doing with this podcast has been trying to educate

681
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: people that have engaged in tribalism, has believed in certain

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Speaker 1: things about certain groups of people, that that doesn't matter.

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00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: Now it's over for that, because if you fear that

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Speaker 1: I am a threat or you can't give and let

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Speaker 1: me use the restroom because I'm a human being and

686
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: you don't see me as a human being, then you

687
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: are guilty of that. Conversely, I'm guilty if I think

688
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: all Asian people are responsible for the coronavirus. This negative

689
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: chain of fact will harm all of us because again,

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus and dead is dead. The coronavirus will not discriminate,

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Speaker 1: It will get equal opportunity. Death is what is on

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Speaker 1: the menu. So thank you for all, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your coming in, and I'm social distancing all right, you know,

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Speaker 1: thank you all for listening, and may we again meet

695
00:42:52,760 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: in the light of understanding. Racist attacks continue to rise

696
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Speaker 1: as Corona threat grows. A unhoused man was violently attacked

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Speaker 1: dies at sat Anna Park. Police are searching for several

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Speaker 1: people who attacked him on Saturday night. Numerous subjects were

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Speaker 1: seen attacking him and fled before the police arrived. San

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Speaker 1: Francisco Mayor London Breed acts the house community to poop

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Speaker 1: at home as the coronavirus spreads throughout the nation. In

702
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Speaker 1: her own words, please we urge your homeless residents of

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Speaker 1: our great city to please poop in their homes during

704
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Speaker 1: the crisis. Return to your homes and relieve yourselves there,

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Speaker 1: not out in public where you might spread the virus.

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Speaker 1: In other news, the third Los Angeles Police Department officer

707
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Speaker 1: tests positive for coronavirus Central Division. The officer exhibited symptoms

708
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,919
Speaker 1: which include sneezing, coughing, respiratory droplets, fever and as now

709
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Speaker 1: pink eye. Third case within the department. He's a pretential

710
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: danger to uhouse community members because most nimbies and people

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00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: called the police to set upon them. In other news,

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Speaker 1: the unhoused community has gone days without water and food

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Speaker 1: as charities closed a bid COVID nineteen in Ipsich, Australia.

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Speaker 1: Food manager Jason Button is concerned about the amount of

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Speaker 1: people and the lack of food and resources to do it.

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Speaker 1: Panic buying is the blame of this. Lastly, ninety eight

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Speaker 1: police officers in New York City have the coronavirus. And

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Speaker 1: this is on House News. This is CEO Henderson from

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Speaker 1: media in house. This is another episode. We're dealing with

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Speaker 1: the aftermath of what the coronavirus. Mark Arceti at eleven

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Speaker 1: fifty nine ordered a shelter to home act. That means

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Speaker 1: it's punishable by jail time and fines and I guess

723
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Speaker 1: other interesting punishments for already a very belieguate population. So

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Speaker 1: I'm asking on the street, I'm asking different residents what

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Speaker 1: is going on and how are they dealing with the coronavirus.

726
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask a couple of questions. So, Harvey, Harvey,

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Speaker 1: what how are you dealing with the coronavirus? Well, so far,

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Speaker 1: we're doing all right over here. Nobody's gotten sick. It's

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00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: been quiet. Foot traffic is very low. The lawyers that

730
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: usually come through here are not coming through here anymore

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Speaker 1: because they were told that the courts are going to

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Speaker 1: be closed. So yeah, foot traffic and regular traffic that

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Speaker 1: goes down the street is very quiet, very peaceful, very

734
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Speaker 1: eery kind of silence. I've been walking around. My question

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Speaker 1: is how the city came and explained to you what

736
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: the coronavirus and how it affects you. Guys. No, they

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00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: haven't even shown up at all. I would have thought

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Speaker 1: I would have said something about it, because they showed

739
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Speaker 1: up with sanitation yesterday and they didn't show up today

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00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: of course because they changed their schedule of when they

741
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Speaker 1: can come by here, and that's Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Wednesday and Fridays are the days that they

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Speaker 1: don't show up here. So they didn't say anything as

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Speaker 1: from Monday, Tuesday or Thursday. So yeah, nobody has said anything,

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00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: not even come by here. That's crazy. I noticed there's

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Speaker 1: a hand washing station further now, are there any portable

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00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: bathrooms at any rush showers? I heard that they would

748
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: brun the roll out of these things out. Have you heard?

749
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Speaker 1: Haven't seen it? No, I haven't seen any of it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I did see the wash stations down there, which I

751
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: don't know why they put them down there when it's

752
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: not that many people that are living down there. They

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00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: should have brought them up here where there's more people

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Speaker 1: up here. But I guess they figured that they want

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Speaker 1: us to walk down there to wash our hands and

756
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: walk back up all we're getting our hands dirty again.

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Speaker 1: So that was a stupid move on their behalf. But

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Speaker 1: as far as showers and quart of potties and all that. Nope,

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00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: they haven't shown up, and I doubt if they're even

760
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: going to show up because that's an eyesore out here.

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Speaker 1: I talked to one of the unhoused residents that she

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Speaker 1: said that there is a shower spot placed out in

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Speaker 1: city Hall. Is that true? I really don't know because

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Speaker 1: I haven't been down there. If there is, why would

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Speaker 1: it be over there? What would be the reason to

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00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: put it over by city Hall? Unless they want to

767
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: videotape you going into whatever it is that you're going into.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty stupid. That's still, to me, considered policing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what was wrong? Why not bring it out here where

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Speaker 1: we're at versus walking over there? You see what I'm saying?

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00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: That to me smells fishy. So yeah, I know I

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Speaker 1: haven't that, but I will today this afternoon. I'm going

773
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Speaker 1: to take a walk over there see if there is

774
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Speaker 1: a mobile shower out there or how long are they

775
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 1: going to keep it out there? Very good question also

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Speaker 1: that with the court, the city has been sued by

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Community Network and Office, a Catholic worker, and

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Speaker 1: they had been into very embattled meetings with Neuri Martinez,

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Speaker 1: Mike Feuher and Captain Barber, and these names are very

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Speaker 1: important for the in house community because they are the

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00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 1: ones that have enacted legislations against the unhoused. They've been

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00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 1: criminalizing the unhoused. Neuri Martinez is known for saying that

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Speaker 1: if we take all of their things away, then they

784
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: will leave. Mike feuer has tried to expand on forty

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00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: one eighteen D to make it even criminalizing and having

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Speaker 1: a five hundred foot radius against unhouse nearing schools, churches,

787
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Speaker 1: and insinuating that all on housed people, all sixty thousand

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00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: unhoused people, are child abusers and criminals, which leads into

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Speaker 1: where Captain Barber was also stated that on house people

790
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: are not good neighbors, but with the criminals accenting things

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00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: that they are trying to put in progress, they will be.

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Speaker 1: So my question for you today is that what do

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Speaker 1: you think about the new forty two places that are

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Speaker 1: opening parks erect for shelters where people are five twelve

795
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Speaker 1: inches apart from each other. They just opened up the

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Speaker 1: door for the virus to just enter without knocking. That's

797
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: the most stupidest thing that the city and or county

798
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: has ever made in moves. Now that smells more like

799
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: they're trying to really kill us. Hence why I've been

800
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: saying it in the past that my area I call

801
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: it Auschwitz. It's the new version of it. No offense

802
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: to any Jewish people or the community, is just that

803
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: this is what it's looking like in my eyes, that

804
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: this is the new version of Auschwitz. It's just that

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00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: our Hitler happens to be the mayor of this city,

806
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: and his underlings are the other employees, they're the ss

807
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's stupid. I mean, I'm not

808
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: going I'm not going to go I'm fine here. Everybody

809
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: that's here in this area where I'm at, we're fine.

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00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: We keep the area as clean as possible. Sanitation even

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00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: said so the other day that, yeah, you guys are

812
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: really keeping it clean, and you know the whole bit.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I'm worried more about is that they

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be picking up the trash out here? That's

815
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Speaker 1: what I'm worried more about. I mean, not to so

816
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: much of the virus because here, as you can see,

817
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,959
Speaker 1: we're standing outside and there's a breeze going by here.

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00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: So I don't think that virus will leave and linger

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Speaker 1: anywhere here where we're at. Maybe in other areas, yes,

820
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: but not here, I don't think. To me, so, I

821
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Speaker 1: think that's a very good point. I'm noticing that many

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Speaker 1: encampments are very clean despite the belief system that's out there.

823
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: And the reason why that the sectional accumulation of trash

824
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: is because the city refuses to pick up the trash

825
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: because they want to paint the broadbrush that unhoused people

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Speaker 1: are a problem and a thirty. Here's another question I have,

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Speaker 1: as you touched on it, is that if you are

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Speaker 1: packed in so tightly, like most shelters from the eighteen

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Speaker 1: hundreds usually continue to do, the standard code is usually

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Speaker 1: a common occurrence. There's been a recent outbreaks where a

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Speaker 1: couple of shelter workers have been caught the coronavirus. If

832
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: we have that like that with parks and recreation, this

833
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: is going to be a problem. And most unhoused people

834
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Speaker 1: are doing social distancing on their own, and you're not

835
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,959
Speaker 1: going to allow them to carry and bring their belong

836
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 1: agains because you're going to use that as an opportunity

837
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 1: to throw their things out. Do you think that's a

838
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: fair assessment. Yeah, that's that. Yeah, you just hit it

839
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:57,720
Speaker 1: on the nail right there. It's it's a new ploy

840
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: for them and for them to start crying to the

841
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: state again for more money, and the taxpayers again for

842
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: more money. I'm hoping that the taxpayers will really look

843
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: open their eyes and look at what Garcetti and his

844
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: clan have done, which is nothing. I mean, why do

845
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: why want to be indoors? What's wrong with me is

846
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: living in my tent. That's indoors. I'm not bothering anybody.

847
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: Nobody's bothering us. I mean, we're not in an area

848
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: where it's filthy. So yeah, it's the most stupidest thing

849
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: that the city and the county could ever do with

850
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: taxpayer money, because that's now a new way to start

851
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: arresting and putting people in jail for nothing, for absolutely nothing.

852
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: They call it love. They may call it tough love,

853
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: they may call it soft love. But they're thinking that

854
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: this is love. But the problem I have is, like

855
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: most of the jails and hospitals and things, it has

856
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: still that model from the eighteen hundreds, and there is

857
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: lies the problem. I had a problem today going to Starbucks.

858
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: I went to Starbucks and I had to go to

859
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: the restroom. They have two large tables blocking the area,

860
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: and when I went in, they stopped being Do you

861
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: know what they said? They told me that beast on

862
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: the coronavirus that I could use the bathroom, but if

863
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: I bought something, then I could use the bathroom. I

864
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: informed them. I said, wait a minute, I thought Starbucks

865
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: was already suit with this. So you mean to tell

866
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: me that the cure is buying a Starbucks coffee in

867
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 1: order for me to use the bathroom? Do you think

868
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: that's true? Yeah? Big, That's happened to several people out

869
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: here that's gotten to Starbucks to go use the restroom,

870
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: and the management or one of the workers have stopped

871
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: them from using the restroom and told them exactly that

872
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: you have to buy something in order for you to

873
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: use our restroom, or to even use their power to

874
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: charge up your phone or tableat or whatever you have.

875
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: They have now taken all of the tables the charges

876
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: out of those that start about clover Bere. So, I mean,

877
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: it's like it's becoming ridiculous. We've lost our humanity. But

878
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: this really right there, took it over the top. I

879
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: was so angry about it. I says, you know, what

880
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to report this this this doesn't make any sense.

881
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: And yesterday I had to go to the bathroom. And

882
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: I had to go to the bathroom in Chinatown and

883
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: it's late there are no bathrooms. There are the ones

884
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: that are available during the day, they're closed. The one

885
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: I usually go to he's closing to like in the

886
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: late part of April. So I went to a restaurant

887
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: called Full Moon to use the restroom. And do you

888
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: know they did the same thing to me. They told

889
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: me that even if I bought something to go out

890
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: to the alley and use the bathroom, that is the

891
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: most stupidest thing. Yeah. Yes, this is Theo Henderson from

892
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: Wide and House and I thank you all for listening.

893
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: This was Harvey. Thank you very much, Thank you very much.

894
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: Thank you and maybe all again meet in the light

895
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: of understand. Yeah, this is Ceo Henderson from Median House.

896
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: We're in the studio today. We're practicing social this to thing,

897
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: so in the studios I have I'm going to let

898
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: her introduce herself. She's been a very big proponent and

899
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: we were talking about the coronavirus earlier and we were

900
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: talking about it reaching all of us. The title of

901
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: this podcast is called We're all in the same boat.

902
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: We're in this together. So we are going to get

903
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: some insight on what it is like for the unhoused

904
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: looking into shelters as an option. I personally will not

905
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: be going to shelter one I have injuries. And then

906
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: I also feel that shelters have had always a bad

907
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: historical president with me as well as the Nimbis and

908
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: the Matro that we always need security and police officers

909
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: because we're criminals, and I don't like feeling like I'm

910
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: in prison because you guys feel like it went on normally.

911
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: Most importantly as well, it's also is a health dangerous

912
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: that follows it as well. If you're wanting to help me,

913
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: you can get me a motel room where I can

914
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: have my own place, where I don't have to put

915
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: my belongers in the trash can and I can be

916
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: able to do my own hygiene needs. I can go

917
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, not worry about having to plan a

918
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: mission impossible course to find a bathroom. So, without further ado,

919
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: let me introduce my guests. So tell us for the audience,

920
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: how would you like to be called in your if

921
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: your pronouns if you like. So my name is Victoria.

922
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: She hers fine, So yeah, thank you very much for coming.

923
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: She traveled fast distances. But the reason why I brought

924
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: her here because she's very important to the WDEA and

925
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: House movement, because she has been on an investigation on

926
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: how these shelters are. So she's going to tell us

927
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. So what's going on? So

928
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: I personally went to the North Hollywood one first and

929
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: it was full, and I figured they wouldn't let me

930
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,399
Speaker 1: take picre just in there, and also I don't want

931
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: to come off as intrusive because there are still people there.

932
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: I it wasn't. It's just a recreation center. We've all

933
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: been to one, so it was an emergency. So it was.

934
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: It was, but very fast. Of course they didn't have

935
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: They didn't make a wall to separate everybody. It's just

936
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: a bunch of army beds with a piece of cloth

937
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: over it. There's no real sense of privacy. I do

938
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: have video footage and photos. Samely with the bathrooms. They

939
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: didn't even section it off. I from your your from

940
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: your podcast, I've heard I forgot their name, but a

941
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: trans person talked about that being an issue, like, so

942
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: they're just exposed. I mean, it's a pool place, so

943
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: you're not It wasn't made with the intention so normally

944
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: you'd have a bathing suit, but no one's walking in

945
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: there with a bathing suit. So even there's no even

946
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: real door between the outside and the actual bathroom. So

947
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: for me, it was just I mean, I had a

948
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: feeling with life that, but it's just you're putting a

949
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: bunch of people sick and not sick in a gym.

950
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: There is police there. One of the vehicles, it looks

951
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: a bit kind of undercover, and I saw Allied Services

952
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: or the private security one. I was a parsed. They

953
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: actually had nurses on the scene. Can I back up

954
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: a little bit because I want the audience to understand

955
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: Allied University has had an open hostile relationship with unhoused

956
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: people and particular like for example, they have been and

957
00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: folded into the Chinatown Business Improvement District employees. They go

958
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: out of their way terrorizing unhoused peoples, trying to make

959
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: the grandmother have been trying to upset the community when

960
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: I was here in the park, and they have a

961
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: very close relationship with the police. So that's disconcerting as well.

962
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: They are not business improvement district and police officers have

963
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: really should not be in the forefront of any shelter anyway.

964
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,959
Speaker 1: But I digress, but please continue. No, I absolutely agree

965
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure what to add.

966
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: I just I just I saw that the conditions were

967
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: not ideal. I'm not surprised it was built in like

968
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: ten seconds. What are the shelters do you go to

969
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: beside No Hollywood? Oh? Actually the North Hollywood I was

970
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,439
Speaker 1: not able to get into. So it's the Granada Hills

971
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: one that I'm mostly talking about. Oh, okay, the at

972
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: least on Monday when I went, I was surprised the

973
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:33,479
Speaker 1: beds weren't filled. However, Granada is very inaccessible. I am,

974
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: I do. I definitely have a certain level of privilege.

975
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: I simply ubered from North Hollywood to Granada Hills. And

976
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: it's the same thing that I said about the North

977
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Hollywood one. It's not ideal. There's no real ability to quarantine.

978
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: The motel on house people have been saying what they wanted,

979
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: so clearly they weren't built. While talking on house people,

980
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: they just did it themselves. Well, that's the problem. That's

981
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: been the problem for so long. And I was on

982
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: a meeting and it's like, it's very apparent that is

983
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: a very patronizing, a paternialistic idea about unhoused people. For example,

984
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: one of the leaders said that they feel comfortable if

985
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: the police were on the bus with unhoused people, and

986
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: that showed me his privilege and his shelteredness. The second

987
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: thing that I have is like, because the reason why

988
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: many times many of these shelters are inaccessible, we must

989
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: acknowledge the part that we as society has played on

990
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: against unhoused people. The nimbiism has dictated the viewpoint of

991
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: unhoused people as criminals. Case in point. And in that

992
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: same meeting, someone and I got pretty I rate about it,

993
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: and I want to tell our audiences. One of them

994
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: was saying they would worried about unhoused people creating burglaries

995
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: on property and how can we assure these people? And

996
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: I tell this answer to you is publicly, we're in

997
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: a pandemic where people are dying and it is not

998
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: due to the unhoused people. But we don't care about

999
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: some material position possession because it's irrelevant at this point.

1000
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: People are dying by almost a thousands. It's a global pandemic.

1001
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: And if you have to hold your hand and coddle

1002
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: you for your biases, then that says that something we

1003
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: need to really re examine, and most importantly the ones

1004
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: that are helping unhouse people. Let's understand this. Unhoused people

1005
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: need to be heard and need to be listened to

1006
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: instead of being patronized and told that we should be

1007
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: able to Grin and Barratt and these different shelters. I

1008
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: have a question. Did you hear about the thirty unhoused

1009
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: people that are affected with the coronavirus in the shelter?

1010
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: To be honest, I did not. That is one of

1011
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: the reasons why many, especially the CDC director has stated herself,

1012
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: we social distance ourselves. We also were required to be

1013
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: in motels. The only reason why that I think they

1014
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: could be is could be greed and just basically the

1015
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: disdain that people have unhoused people do did you notice

1016
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: that there were garbage cans there for unhouse people to

1017
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: put their belongings. What do you think that says as

1018
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 1: a message to the unhoused community that I mean, I've

1019
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: seen sweeps that it's inappropriate, but you know that your

1020
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: belongings are trash and that's that's not for us to determine.

1021
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: That's what is yours is yours. It should be respected.

1022
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,919
Speaker 1: But yes, I did notice that, I mean out of shelter.

1023
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: You can't bring all your things into there. That's another

1024
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: stumbling black white unhouse people might not be using those shelters.

1025
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: But the second thing is that it's the message to

1026
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,439
Speaker 1: me as an unhoused person that is always you're trying

1027
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: to always let me know where my place was because

1028
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: my stuff is garbage at a moment's know that you

1029
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: can dump it in the trash and the security and

1030
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: business improvement district and the police officers are always the

1031
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: first person to be called or they're calling the police

1032
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: on us. So that is also another subtle dig at

1033
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: unhoused people that we are all criminals and drug addictions.

1034
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: So what else other things have you talked with any

1035
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 1: on the unhoused or what was your perspective when you

1036
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 1: first saw this? Did they have any reason to want

1037
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: to go to the shelter? No? I mean that's the

1038
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: big thing. Like when you actually ask like on house folks,

1039
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: then you definitely hear that a lot. I remember one

1040
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: person I spoke with, I mean they said that their

1041
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: minded them a prison. And I've known some residents in

1042
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: like Echo Park, for instance, and I get Echo Park

1043
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: is beautiful, Like I love walking around parks and just

1044
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: being outdoors is nice. I mean I talk like a

1045
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: lot of crap about like la poluted air and stuff,

1046
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: but I do like going out. I get it. So, yeah,

1047
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: as the parks is not just for the house nimbi's

1048
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: to have an Easter egg hunt, It's also for un

1049
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: housed people as well. They are citizens, they have the

1050
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,479
Speaker 1: right to enjoy it. But we are in a house

1051
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: and epidemic as well as a pandemic, and if we

1052
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: are in this together, then we have to start to

1053
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: break down and dismantle some of the stumbling blocks. One

1054
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: of the stumbling blocks I think is the house community

1055
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: has got to understand you may be out pretty soon

1056
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: if this pandemic continues. You may be having your things

1057
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 1: out there in Echo Park in a tent, and then,

1058
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: as as funny as it is, someone may be calling

1059
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: the police on you. You You may not get that job

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Speaker 1: that you hate to see on how it's people are

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Speaker 1: out here in the in the wilderness. Most importantly, you

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Speaker 1: may be considered a drug addict or a drug dealer

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Speaker 1: or whatever, so we are truly in this together. Also,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about the coronavirus implications. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to presume, but could you tell us if you

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind your ethnicity, no, absolutely, yeah I'm Vietnamese.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, So as a vieman these because we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about this, there's been a lot of anti

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Speaker 1: Asian sentiment. Do you want to discuss a little bit

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Speaker 1: about that and why that is dangerous? Because I'm leedi

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Speaker 1: on houses against this and I've been making some episodes

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Speaker 1: and I really want to talk about this so we

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Speaker 1: could understand that these walls, these tribalistic walls and playing

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Speaker 1: fingers are playing it's inappropriate. Please. Oh yeah, thank you

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Speaker 1: for asking. I'm I'm honestly mostly frustrated with Asian people

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Speaker 1: who suddenly want to talk about racism throughout this end

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Speaker 1: this pandemic, when they were quiet the whole time, when

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Speaker 1: like black and LATINX people were talking about racism. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that was my big issue on it. Of course, of course,

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Speaker 1: I don't like think it's fun like the racism towards

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Speaker 1: Asians because of this, like, of course, that's not okay,

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Speaker 1: It's just this shouldn't be the first time Asian people

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Speaker 1: are talking about racism. I think you should have cared

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Speaker 1: before it became relevant, or we should have cared before

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Speaker 1: it became relevant. But yeah, I mean I've heard a

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Speaker 1: couple of cases where like some Asian people have like

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Speaker 1: actually been physically like harmed and stopped. That is unfortunate. Like,

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Speaker 1: of course, I think that's disgusting. Yeah, well said, I

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Speaker 1: do have that issue, and I also have one of

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Speaker 1: the issues is because we're in this pandemic, people are

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Speaker 1: returning back to the old biases. I had a very

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Speaker 1: friend of mine that has listening to some very problematic

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Speaker 1: things and it's blaming unhoused people for the coronavirus. So

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Speaker 1: let's be clear, and house people are not traveling overseas

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Speaker 1: with the coronavirus. Let's be clear. The Asians Americans not

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Speaker 1: in total, are not the ones with coronavirus. The coronavirus

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Speaker 1: has been out before the coronavirus pandemic. It's just taken

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Speaker 1: another mutation, and it's been always been here. It's been

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Speaker 1: here at least with late five or six years. So

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Speaker 1: we need to be clear about that they didn't just

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Speaker 1: pop up and move hand china and oys or like

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Speaker 1: some of the conspiracy theories says that it was in

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Speaker 1: a lab, and you know, it's just feeble attempts to

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Speaker 1: make sense of superstitious ideas. So I wanted to say,

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Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to tell the guests

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Speaker 1: about the coronavirus or the shows, or to get us

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Speaker 1: to bridge this divide that we have together. I just

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Speaker 1: something that I've been thinking a lot about is this

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01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: is clearly a health issue and it should be responded

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Speaker 1: with health care, not with policing. And the big thing

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Speaker 1: is shelters are not an answer. I'm not saying anything new.

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Speaker 1: You and other unhouse folk have been saying this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the unhoused need a house. It's not unsheltered people, it's

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Speaker 1: unhoused need We all have the right to quarantine, we

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Speaker 1: all have the right to housing, affordable housing. We're not

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Speaker 1: saying new, but that's what I just feel that I

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Speaker 1: totally agree. And the most importantly is that coronavirus does

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Speaker 1: not discriminate by age, gender orientation, what color eyes you have,

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01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: if you have one hand or not. It does not care.

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Speaker 1: Death is death, and so we al must take the

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Speaker 1: necessary our precautions. But we cannot give way to racism, bigotry,

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Speaker 1: and tribalistic ideas or societal bias about unhoused, anti Asian,

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Speaker 1: anti blag or anti anything of a sentiment that is

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Speaker 1: being dispersed out here in our society, particularly by President Trump.

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Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from Weedy on House and I

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Speaker 1: thank you all for listening. May we again meet in

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Speaker 1: the light of understanding. This pandemic has affected me as

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Speaker 1: well as you on many similar levels and differently as well.

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Speaker 1: For me to be in House and the precedented global

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Speaker 1: pandemic rivaling a scientific fiction movie is sobering. It has

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01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: been said that in true moments of crisis, one learns

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Speaker 1: who one really is. Places like Starbucks telling me, as

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Speaker 1: an unhoused man that I was not allowed to use

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Speaker 1: the restroom as a human being, as well as not

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Speaker 1: to shower as if I was being scolded as a child,

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Speaker 1: which I was not going to do anyway. The fact

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01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:12,839
Speaker 1: that organizations like about my father's business and food justice

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Speaker 1: activist goes out of her way on cold nights, in

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Speaker 1: particular to a scared ill domestic abuse survivor to make

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Speaker 1: sure she is fed. Let's look at the character of

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01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: our city leaders having to be pressured into have to

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Speaker 1: do their jobs to help all of Angelino's, not just

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Speaker 1: the house ones. Let us look at their response. Their

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Speaker 1: response is to allow societal biases and discard medical advice

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Speaker 1: on how to place unhoused people. For example, the CDC

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Speaker 1: director has stated that it is very unwise to displace

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Speaker 1: unhoused people. Put them in motels where they are able

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Speaker 1: to have access to running water, bathrooms, and they don't

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01:09:54,560 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 1: have to deal with that ridiculous sixty gallon rule the

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01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 1: unhoused and shelters instead of motels and hotels. The message

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01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: with the sixty gallon waste basket tells us all you

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Speaker 1: want to know about how we see the young housed.

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Speaker 1: Now here is a sobering thought, what if it will

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Speaker 1: be you? Rent is due on the first through the fifth,

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Speaker 1: and if you're not wealthy and can afford to pay

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01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: the back rent with a non existent job to do

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Speaker 1: the city's mandate, it will be you. I hope the

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Speaker 1: lesson out of all of this is understanding and compassion

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01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: that the more majority of unhoused people had circumstances like you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm facing now and there is an abysmal support

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Speaker 1: system for the unhoused community. The only solutions that many

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Speaker 1: of our society, maybe you have also touted is the police,

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Speaker 1: the Business Improvement District and NIMBIS. If your thought process

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01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 1: were about using the police and they're just great to

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01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: be dealing with the unhouse crisis, that is not a

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Speaker 1: crime to be in house, then you follo in that

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01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:08,799
Speaker 1: number as many of you are faced with sleeping in cars.

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Speaker 1: Remember there are businesses that call to have the young housed,

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Speaker 1: with families harassed. As you lay awake at night trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out what you will do, get out of

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Speaker 1: bed and go get a sixty gallon garbage bag and

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Speaker 1: put all of your life belongings in that in ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: If you have families, put their things in there too.

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01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 1: Remember how you heard about people discouraging you to give

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Speaker 1: money to the young house because they will use drugs.

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01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: Maybe they will say that about you, even friends. You

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Speaker 1: will have to sit there and steal in their arrogance

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Speaker 1: and ignorance. Let's take another example. If you were employed

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Speaker 1: and you turn down in unlivable ways to find housing,

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Speaker 1: you will be told that you don't want to work.

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01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: If you thought this was a nightmare, then wake up.

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01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:09,560
Speaker 1: The unhoused community has endured this and more. This is

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Speaker 1: Sto Henderson for the weedy Young House and I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening and may we again truly meet

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Speaker 1: in the light of understanding. Special thanks to Carla Green,

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Speaker 1: Carlo Snieto, jed Period, Lissa al Sadero, Lady M, Sarah CHISLM,

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Speaker 1: Victoria Harvey, Raymond byrd cced Zen and Mario, Michelle lou

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Speaker 1: and all of the unsung heroes that have came in

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Speaker 1: and checked on me during this pandemic. As well as

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Speaker 1: my entry, I also want to take a special things

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01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: out to la USD workers who has assisted to make

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Speaker 1: sure that I was okay during this pandemic that looked

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Speaker 1: in on me. If you would like to sponsor or

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Speaker 1: you are looking for sponsors and you would like my

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Speaker 1: po podcast, here are the rules. It's very simple. Ludian

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Speaker 1: House does not believe in discriminating against anyone. We don't

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01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,599
Speaker 1: believe in putting people down or blaming in finger wagon.

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Speaker 1: If this is a message, with the exception of Starbucks,

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Speaker 1: who has done that, that goes against the very values

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Speaker 1: and core values of Wdian House Productions, then please give

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Speaker 1: me a contact. I'm on Twitter, I'm also on my

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Speaker 1: email as well as I'm also on YouTube. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all for listening and I hope we will get meet

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Speaker 1: in a lot of understanding