1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,720 Speaker 1: We brought from one to four every day now and 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: after four o'clock you can hear us on the same 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app the podcast, Yeah, John and kennon demand is 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: what it's called. So listen there and just listen continuously 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: all day, every day for the rest of your life. 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: All Right, in fifteen minutes, another key word would be revealed, 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: so you'll have a shot at a thousand dollars in 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: the KFI cash refill contest. The end, TIFA people are back, 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: like they took a couple of years off, but they've 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: been making appearances in Atlanta and Boston. We're going to 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: talk about what happened in Atlanta because they got really crazy, 12 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: and they're going to tell you who the main suspects 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 1: are that we're arrested. To give you a pretty good 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: idea who these people are. And of course they come 15 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: from very privileged household, spoiled rich kids. It was the 16 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: New York Post headline, and we've been talking about that 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: for years. All these Antifa protesters come from wealthy families 18 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: and this is some kind of twisted to psychological rebellion 19 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: against their idiot parents. Yeah, it is. It's a case 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: of parent versus child than the usual backlash that children 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: have against their parents being carried out when they're older 22 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: and in a much more public way. So we'll tell 23 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: you all about this coming up later. So, the worst 24 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: agency in Los Angeles, one of the worst agencies in 25 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: the nation, is the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. They 26 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: are supposed to be ridding the LA area of homelessness, 27 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: and we've given them billions of dollars to do so, 28 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: and you've seen what's happened. Well, they got another new 29 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 1: head that's been hired, Valicia Adams Kellum, and she's well 30 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: known in the Venice area because she used to be 31 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: the director of the Saint Joseph's Center, which is one 32 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 1: of those outreach organizations. And you could see things did 33 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: not go well in Venice either. So there are a 34 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: lot of people in Venice saying, what the hell are 35 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: you talking about. We've already dealt with this woman for 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: years and her organization failed us, and now you're putting 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: her in charge of the LA homeless. She's been running 38 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: that Venice nonprofit since two thousand and eight, and they 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: were given five million dollars in the summer of twenty 40 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: twenty one to get those people off the ocean front 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: walk in Venice. We're going to talk now to Mark Ryavec, 42 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: president to the Venice Stakeholders Association, composing a letter to 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: the Elsa Gondo Times about the reasons that this was 44 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: not a good pick, and he's very familiar with this woman. Mark, welcome, 45 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: how are you. I'm fine, Thank you, thanks much for 46 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,839 Speaker 1: asking me on and happy New Year to the two 47 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: of you. Thank you well. Tell us about Felicia Adams 48 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: Kellum and Saint Joseph Center and what's your experience with 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: her and that organization. Well, first of all, I want 50 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: to say that I have some regard for Vlicia. She's 51 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: clearly bright, professional, well educated. But she's been a grand 52 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: disappointment for those of us here who've been concerned about 53 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: the huge homeless load that Venice has been carrying. And 54 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: she's been there for fifteen years, and during that time 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: she was not a good neighbor. She was not responsive. 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: There must have been several hundred times where residents would 57 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: call up Saint Joseph's, who has a contract to attempt 58 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: to help this population, and be told that told to 59 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 1: call the police. Someone going to be having a psychotic 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: meltdown in your front yard. She has counselors that are 61 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: supposed to treat with this audience, and for fifteen years, 62 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: the answer was call the police, not sure, We'll send 63 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: one of our counselors out to engage that person, to 64 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: create a profile on that person, to work with them 65 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: over a period of time, to call in the county 66 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: Department of Mental Health and there's psychiatrists and to get them, 67 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: you know, into psychiatric care. But we would get no engagement. 68 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: And it really was flabbergasting that they were the one 69 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: that was getting the county money from LASSA to treat 70 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: with at one point, supposedly over two thousand homeless people 71 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: in our community, and we could not get any engagement. 72 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: We couldn't get Valicia to acknowledge that that's what her 73 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: organization was being paid to do. And they're also you know, 74 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: other examples that really raised the question of whether she 75 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: should be taking on even more professional responsibilities, which which 76 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: come from a failed organization like LASSA, which has gotten, 77 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: as you point out, billions of dollars, and all we 78 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: have seen is a problem has grown almost exponentially. Her 79 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: organization was under a city mandate that was tied to 80 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: their building admit that because of where it was located, 81 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: it was going to attract homeless people. Their organization was 82 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: supposed to send out cleaning crews in the immediate adjacent 83 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: alleys and streets every day to clean up human feces 84 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: and betting and trash and food waste, and they basically 85 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: would not respond for years. And the other the other 86 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: problem that we experienced was that while we acknowledge she 87 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: and her team did a fabulous job at moving two 88 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen people off the boardwalk and cleaning it up, 89 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: she left fifty people. And I was out there today, 90 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: I counted forty three that are still on the boardwalk, 91 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: and those were the real problem cases. They are either 92 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: very mentally ill or very addicted. And you know, I 93 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: saw them. They're out there, talking to themselves, wandering around 94 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: bare it not probably clothed, and she walked away and 95 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: left them as though they weren't even there, And it 96 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: was really astonishing. So many of us question her appointment 97 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: at this point to lead the organization that's responsible for 98 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: funding all of these efforts across the county. Why do 99 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: you think she walks away and leaves the last forty 100 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: three behind? To suffer like that because they are very 101 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: difficult to deal with, and it's they are the ones 102 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: that are the most severely mentally ill. They are not 103 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: service resistant, not not to service resistant, they're housing resistant. 104 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: They don't some of them can't even conceptualize they're not 105 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: mentally present, and they need a concerted team of a 106 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: counselor from Saint Joseph who's on their case every day, 107 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 1: working with them, building the trust, bringing in County mental 108 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: Health and working to get them conceivably into some kind 109 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: of a psychiatric facility. And it's like it's too difficult, 110 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: so we'll just walk away into Clare Victory. We got 111 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirteen and we'll just leave these people 112 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: out there to their own devices and as a real 113 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: problem for the residents. I mean, there's a whole group 114 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: of these folks right now at a camped on the 115 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: side of a large senior center on ozone, right on 116 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: right on the boardwalk, and every night there's zombies and 117 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: they're screaming, they're making noise and inflicting their anguish about 118 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: being in that kind of setting on the seniors who 119 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: are living in the Saffron Center right there on Ozone. 120 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: On the boardwalk, and again her offices, the Saint Joseph's 121 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: Center is like four blocks away, and yet they have 122 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: never taken responsibility to be present all the time to 123 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: help clean up their own backyard and help people that 124 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: are in such dire circumstances get the help they need. 125 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how she's going to do it when 126 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: she has not a responsibility for the two thousand in Venice, 127 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: but there were in Venice. She's now responsible for the 128 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: for the sixty thousand that are in the County of 129 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Why do you think she got picked then 130 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: because she can point to those two hundred and thirteen 131 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: that we remember when they when the pandemics started, the 132 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: Garcetti and Bonnin and the rest of the city council 133 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: misread the CDC advice. It wasn't a law, It was 134 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: just a items that wherever you find homeless people, you 135 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: leave them. You don't move them because you risk spreading COVID, 136 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: when in reality, all of these most of these people 137 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: moved in from somewhere else to the boardwalk, and so 138 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: they already violated the COVID guidelines. But Garceti and Bonden 139 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: stopped any enforcement and so that for three years we 140 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: went from fifty homeless people in and around the boardwalk 141 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: up to two hundred and sixty or seventy. And I 142 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: credit her that, given the funding and the mandate, that 143 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: she did in fact play a critical role in cleaning 144 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: up the boardwalk, and then more recently it was her 145 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: team and I think some others, I think people helping 146 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: assisting the homeless path, maybe some loss the counselors came 147 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: in with Bass, with Tracy Parker and his councilperson and 148 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: for the first time in twelve years, completely cleared and 149 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: housed who anybody who wanted it off of the sort 150 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: of ground zero third and Rows Hampton right there by 151 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: Google and Sunset right by Google. And I think that 152 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: you can point to a model that works. And the 153 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: trouble is that Bass is going to have to change 154 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: her posture about imposing on these areas that are cleared. 155 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: Note that nobody can come back and allow the police 156 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: to keep it clear. We need to regain areas and 157 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 1: keep the pressure on people, the particularly the housing resistant 158 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: folks who actually don't want to go into housing, and 159 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: unless they're giving given some pressure to accept housing, shelter 160 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: family reunification, a tiny house, all the options that are 161 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: now available. They're can continue continue to choose to stay outside. 162 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: All right, Mark, thank you very much for coming on 163 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: the show and sharing your thoughts on this new appointment. 164 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. All right. 165 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: That's Mark Ryavecki's president of the Venice Stakeholders Association and 166 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: of course a long time resident to Venice, on the 167 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: appointment of a woman by Karen Bass and the county 168 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: to head the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency, which is 169 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: the worst. By the way, this job pays four hundred 170 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: and thirty thousand dollars a year more than the president. Yeah, 171 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: it's a racket. It's absolutely a complete racket. So Mark 172 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: has some questions is whether or not she'll be effective. 173 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: And of course they're starting their homeless count tonight. More 174 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: coming up, including a keyword for you to possibly win money. 175 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: John and Ken Cafe I Am six forty Live everywhere 176 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app All right, we'll be talking about the rich, 177 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: oiled snotty people who were arrested in Atlanta for causing 178 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: another Antifa riot. Will tell you who they are in 179 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: their backgrounds because as you tell you all you know 180 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: about that movement. Also coming up later on the show, 181 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: we'll check in with Alex Stone ABC News for KFI 182 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: for the latest of the Monterey Park shooting and then 183 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: last night's shooting at a couple of mushroom farms up 184 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: in the Half Moon Bay area of California. The same description, 185 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: an older Asian man open fire and it looks like 186 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: a case of anger in the workplace, Alex Will Phillison 187 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: after the News at three o'clock, We're just talking to 188 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 1: Mark Ryevek from the Venice Stakeholders Association. It looks like 189 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: they're going to continue the architects of failure, as former 190 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: La County Sheriff Alex Vieneueva talked about, and that they're 191 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: naming a woman to head up loss of the Los 192 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: Angeles Homeless Services Agency who comes from one of these 193 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: nonprofits out of Santa Monica, which we have labeled part 194 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: of the homeless industrial complex. They taken many millions of 195 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: dollars and show little results. And you know, you go 196 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: back to that situation with the boardwalk. It was when 197 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: Sheriff v went in there and started making a scene 198 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: over the homeless on the boardwalk that Bonden pushed the 199 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: Saint Joseph sent to people in there to be but 200 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: the word is aggressive, but to be more certain about 201 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: getting people off the boardwalking into some kind of housing 202 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: that sewer had festered for three years and nobody did 203 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: anything about it. And when the sheriff showed up with 204 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: his deputies and they started talking to the homeless, and 205 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: the media was showing up the covery doing that, it 206 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: was like worldwide coverage. Yeah, and then Bonden and Garcetti panicked, 207 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: and then they bought this volicia into Saint Joseph's into 208 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: the mix. And they've been around for years, Mark say, right, 209 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 1: but suddenly, you know, they got the award to really 210 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: and Mark said, there was a stand down during the pandemic, 211 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: all of a homeless problem that around longer than that. 212 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: But it was like, all right, well, don't stand down 213 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: so much now and getting some of those people off 214 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: the boardwalk because this looks bad for us, you know. 215 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: And then Bonner remember, did a victory lap over it, like, oh, 216 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm behind this all along because he's a shameless liar. 217 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: So this Felicia Adams Kellum is now going to run 218 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: LASSA and I just got to reach you one line 219 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: from Mark Ryovic's letter to the La Times, and she 220 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: said she has failed to comply with a city mandated 221 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: requirement to clean the streets and alleys around her building, 222 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: around her building that are frequently littered with human feces, 223 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: used syringes, mattresses, trash, and food waste left by the 224 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: homeless that are drawn to her facilities. So her offices 225 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: are magnet for the homeless and they leave behind the 226 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: feces and syringes and mattresses and garbage, and she doesn't 227 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: do anything to claim she sits in. I suppose a 228 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: nice office as a six figure salary, and just I 229 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: guess we'll still got a way through that to get there, right, 230 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: the feces of the needs, we got to walk into 231 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: the building. I think that would isn't amazing. I used 232 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: to think about that at City Hall, right, there's a 233 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: huge number of homeless people in the streets around city 234 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: Hall and all the workers have to go buy there 235 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: every day, and that doesn't motivate the city to do 236 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: anything about it in their own neighborhood. And that's why 237 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: this is a sickness. This is beyond description, beyond debate. 238 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: These these officials are sick, and they're also making a 239 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, they're taken in many millions of 240 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: that sat Joseph sent Ane hundred thirty thousand dollars. This 241 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: woman's gonna get running LASSA four hundred thirty. We talked 242 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: about this story last year. They wanted to disband LASSA. 243 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: Now suddenly there's a renewed energy to continue on with 244 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: this bureaucracy ridiculous. By the way, this is the fourth 245 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: leader they've had in the last couple of years. She 246 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: replaces Stephen Simon who was serving as an interim head, 247 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: who replaced Heidi Marston who resigned had accomplish Yeah, she 248 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: was a waste of time, and she replaced a guy 249 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: Pete or something who was who quit a couple of 250 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: years ago and announced, Hey, I'm great. I hired thousands 251 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: of do nothings. Homelessness got bigger, but I hired a 252 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: lot of people, and I'm proud of that. So even 253 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: though a good six figure salary, people flee from this 254 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: job and nothing. Now at another place where a homelessness 255 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: is a problem, there's somebody in cities in California where 256 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: it is San Diego has of course a big homeless 257 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: problem too, and they're gonna try something unique. I don't 258 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: know what I think about this, but they want to 259 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: lift a near fifty year old band in California on 260 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: pay toilets. And you know what's happened when with a 261 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: lot of places. I'm sure you're familiar with this, whether 262 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: there's just too many homeless people around, A lot of 263 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: businesses keep it locked. You have to have a combination 264 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: or some sort of key from the front desk. They 265 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: contain a neck you know, you can't even go into 266 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: like a CVS or a Starbucks. Yeah, because they got 267 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: to keep it locked up, because the homeless will hang 268 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: out in there, use drugs, got to stand in a 269 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: long line just to get a code, or you got 270 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: to buy something. They claim that with the money, they 271 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: can install and operate secure and well lighted restrooms around 272 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 1: downtown and in some neighborhoods if they can cover the 273 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: costs by charging people a nominal fee. And of course, 274 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: right away the backlash, it's inhumane to charge homeless people 275 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: the right to use a restroom. They'll just poop in 276 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: the streets. They do that anyway, don't they They do? Yeah, 277 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: they poop in the streets because they're mentally ill and 278 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: on drugs. So whether you have a toilet or not, 279 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: or you charge them or not, doesn't matter. They're still 280 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: gonna poop in the street because because their brains are fried. 281 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I guess they didn't follow that. 282 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: California outlawed pay toilet It's a long time ago there. 283 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: They were common in many places in the country, sheep. 284 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: Usually it was like a dime or a quarter. What 285 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: are the lation today? It's probably a dollar. No, I 286 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what the feet would be. 287 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: I gotta paid dollars to pee? How much is it 288 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: worth to you to your bladder? Just do like everybody else? 289 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: Does you know, go in the street? What does it matter? Yes, 290 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: says Pay toilets are still common in European cities, and 291 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: New York City has five pay toilets now operating five. Yeah. Well, 292 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: apparently the state had to exempt the city and they're 293 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: trying it out with five pay toilets. That's eight million 294 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: people in that city. They got five. They cost thirty 295 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month to operate portable toilets with security 296 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: and lighting security, they're not going to make enough money 297 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: from from toilets to cover that cost. I doubt it 298 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: all right, we got more covered up, John and Ken 299 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: camf I am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 300 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 1: We will update you completely on the shootings Monterey Park 301 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: and of course the one from last night in half 302 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: Moon Bay. Alex Stone ABC News for calf I will 303 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: join us right after the news had three o'clock. A 304 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: quickroom finder that the iHeartRadio app is a way to 305 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: connect to the Moistline also to check out our podcasts. 306 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: Use the microphone icon in order to leave a message 307 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: for the Moistline which is coming up in three days. 308 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: And of course the toll free number is one eight 309 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: seven seven Moist eighty six one eight seven seven six 310 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: six four seven eight eight six. Well, we haven't talked 311 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: about Antifa in a while, standing for what anti fascist is. 312 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: That was supposed to be the origins of the acronym, 313 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: which is an ironic name for this organization, because they 314 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: are the definition of fascists. Now there are some on 315 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: the other side. It will sell they don't really exist. 316 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: That's a figment of the right wing movements imagination. Those 317 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: people are lying because we saw the damage they did 318 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: in Portland, for example, they had six months of rioting, 319 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: they burned a federal building. So you got to do 320 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: something better. You can't just do it doesn't exist. It's like, yeah, 321 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: I watched it every night in the news, so stuff it. 322 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: But do they have a headquarters and the logo and 323 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: a letter head and they have a board that meets 324 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 1: So they have an internet? Yeah? Social media yes, so 325 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: when when when it's time to go and invade a city, 326 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: they just have to send text to each other. On 327 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: January eighteenth, a man by the name of Manuel Esteban 328 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: Paez arran from Florida, shot and severely injured a Georgia's 329 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 1: State Patrol trooper. This was another one of these occupy 330 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: thing called and remember the Autonomous Zones. He was eventually 331 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,239 Speaker 1: killed by return fire from police. Apparently, this group, this 332 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: story says they've been in their eighteen months in this occupy. 333 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: They wanted to stop the construction of a future Atlanta 334 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: public safety training center training cops, claiming that it was 335 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: some sort of protected forest land. That was their cover story, 336 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: but they called it stop Cop City. Well, apparently it 337 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: eventually resulted in this exchange of gunfire. And since this 338 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: man was killed. A group of Antifa activists went nuts 339 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: in Atlanta recently and started setting fires and creating chaos 340 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: and breaking windows, and six who were arrested are in 341 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: the spotlight because you could probably guess what their backgrounds are. 342 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: It's all rich kids, which they were, their white rich kids. 343 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: It's like some of the homeless activists around here that 344 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: all the city council people in the mayor are terrified 345 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: of their sons and daughters of the wealthy. One of 346 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: the leading homeless activists in Echo Park Lake is the 347 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: son of some rich Hollywood guy. I remember that night 348 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: when they were there trying to stop the removal of 349 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: the homeless in their possessions. It was a bunch of 350 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: young looking, rich white kids. They were just screaming, and 351 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: they drive around an expensive cars. Some of them still 352 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: live with their parents. So one of the people arrested 353 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: is Francis Carroll. He was already out on bail for 354 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: amestic terrorism arrest at the Atlanta a ton of his 355 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 1: own last month. He's the son of a yacht sailing 356 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar family and comes from the main city of Kennebunkport. 357 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: If you remember Kennebunkport, Maine. That's where George W. Bush 358 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: like to hang out. That was a big Bush family 359 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: place to go. He lived in his parents' mansion before 360 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: going to Atlanta. He's one of the six people that 361 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: was arrested for this string of property attacks, carjackings, assaults 362 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: on officers. Of course they've been bailed out. The next 363 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: person parents bail them out immediately. The next person the 364 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: spotlight is Madeline in quotation marks Henry Fiola, who apparently 365 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: identifies as non binary. Yeah, non binary person in the 366 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: picture appears to have some breasts and then Harry under 367 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: arms but anyway, No, she's really shown off the armpits 368 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: there and has she drawn a mustache under her nose? Yeah, 369 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: I think that's what it looks like. It's penciled in. 370 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: It's they not she, right. They studied archaeological stuff at 371 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 1: Oberlin College with a focus on decolonization. They are from 372 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 1: a wealthy Portland, Oregon suburb. Oberlin College is one of 373 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: the most left wing colleges on the planet. Is Yeah, 374 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: they're the ones. They're the ones who got sued because 375 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: they started a big ruckus against a bakery that I 376 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: think they wouldn't do a wedding cake for gay couples 377 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: something like that, and so they'vey ended up getting sued 378 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: and they lost the suit and had to pay millions 379 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: of dollars to the estate Oberlin College. The next person 380 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: is Emily Catherine Murphy. We got to look at her here, 381 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: a middle class vegan activists. Yeah, she used to serve 382 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: as the chair for the Chicago chapter of Al Gore's 383 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: Climate Reality Project. Quote. I have been to eco ideology, 384 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: eco ideology the hell that is? Here's our quote. I've 385 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: been vegan five and a half years now, and no 386 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: matter how much explaining I do, my own family still 387 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: doesn't fully understand what being vegan means. Ivan James Ferguson 388 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: a twenty three year old award winning classically trained claraetist 389 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: from Nevada. And by the way, the point is they 390 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: all came from all over the country and descended on 391 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: Atlanta to create this Mayhem study at the prestigious San 392 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: Francisco Conservatory of Music. He regularly performed in concerts in 393 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: California and Nevada. This is your six people who have 394 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: been charged in Atlanta with domestic terrorism, felony, interference with 395 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: government property, felony, first degree arson felony, secondary criminal damage, riot, 396 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: unlawful assembly and willful destruction of a law enforcement officer 397 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: in pedestrian and a roadway. They got a few other 398 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: arrests from wealthy children of wealthy parents. Teresa yu Schen 399 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: graduated from Barnard College. That's one of those exclusive liberal 400 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 1: arts colleges back East. Abigail scap Yak, scap Yak scap Yak, 401 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: I love that NAPE former Justice Department In turn, Marianna 402 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: hoite Lang, a violinist, graduated from Nymusician Madeline Kodat, a 403 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: Philadelphia daughter of the former provost and dean of faculty 404 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: at Lawrence University. Another one with like a male name 405 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: in parentheses, Matthias. I wonder if this is another one. 406 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: It was to be non binary and have like two days. 407 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems to come as a package. 408 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: I this is who's out there, and you thought these 409 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 1: people went away They did not know. But we talked 410 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: yesterday about what happened in Bain when a US congresswoman's 411 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: non binary child got involved in some mayhem. Yeah. I don't. 412 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand why why people's sexuality or they're eating habits. Well, 413 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,719 Speaker 1: if it's if there's a rebellion. Well, they're rebelling against 414 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: a lot of things. Obviously our capitalists, racist society, but 415 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: also the way that we put people into categories of gender. 416 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: They don't like that, right, so they create their own categories. 417 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: They do, and then they burn things sometimes. And we 418 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: have another violent vegans coming up in the news. I 419 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 1: really couldn't tell you you know how scared I am 420 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: every day. But that's another form of rebellion because they don't, 421 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: like I could add, meat eating, capitalist, racist society. I 422 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: keep it quiet only when you guys egg me on. 423 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: I don't really talk about it my everyday life. Last hour, 424 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: you rooted for the pig who killed the poor bog. Yes, 425 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: that's on the end. That's a form of violence and 426 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: activism there. No, it is not because I root for 427 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 1: the pig who's getting tais and about to be slaughtered. 428 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: But the guy died, okay, but it wasn't the fault 429 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: of the pig. We got more coming up, John and 430 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: ken k If. I am six forty live everywhere the 431 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. I always wonder what people think when 432 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: they tune in the middle of that. Yeah, really, it's 433 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: the first time they're listening on one to four every 434 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: day and after four o'clock the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 435 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: You got to type in Johnny kenn on demand all night. 436 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: After three o'clock, we'll check in on the shooting that 437 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: occurred up in Half Moon Bay. Another angry older Asian 438 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: male sixty six years old took his gun and killed 439 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: what appears to be a number of coworkers. Alex Stone 440 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: will have all the details after the news at three 441 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: o'clock on the story. And we got a couple of 442 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: nuggets to tell you back, I tell you about concerning 443 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: the Monterey Park mass shooting that occurred late Saturday night 444 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: from the Climate World. Bloomberg business Week had a headline recently, 445 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: wind turbine's taller than the Statue of Liberty are falling 446 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: over Oh Boy. On a calm sunny day last June, 447 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: Mike Willie was feeding his cattle when he got a 448 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,439 Speaker 1: call from the local sheriff's dispatcher, a motorist reporter that 449 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: one of the huge turbines at a nearby wind farm 450 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: collapsed in dramatic fashion. Wiley, as chief of the volunteer 451 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: fire department in Ames ninety miles northwest of Oklahoma City. 452 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: He went out to take a look at the scene. 453 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: The steel tower, which did hundreds of feet tall, was 454 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: buckled in half, and the turbine blades, whose rotation took 455 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: the machine higher than the Statue of Liberty, were splayed 456 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: across the wheat field below. Well, you don't want to 457 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: be standing under that. Huh. The turbine made by GE 458 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: had been an operation less than a year. What was 459 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: that like? Cheap construction or well, you would think with Ge, right, 460 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: you would think it would last. Another Ge turbines, same model, 461 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: collapsed in Colorado a few days later, and the owner 462 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: operator of that wind farm said it was a blade flaw. Well, 463 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to be anybody near these, anywhere near 464 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: these tagines if they're falling over, Imagine that's chopping into shreds, 465 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: it says. To develop meaningful amounts of power, the blades 466 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: on the turbine have to be big, and when big 467 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: blades spin in heavy winds, the tips can end up 468 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: hitting supersonic speeds, putting great stress on the materials that 469 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: are used to construct them. Big blades require tall towers, 470 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: which are subject to stress as the winds blow and 471 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: can gust during storms to velocities that test the strength 472 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: of the materials and the design of the towers. So 473 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: the energy that they're trying to harness is so strong 474 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: it can destroy the wind turbine itself. No, well, that's 475 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: something that want to be corrected. Of course. This article 476 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: also points out that it takes a lot of construct 477 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: action materials to make these towers, which is a considerable 478 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: carbon footprint compared to the amount of carbon free electricity generated. 479 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: The carbon emitted in manufacturing. Construction of the towers may 480 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: take years to counter ballance, and then of course that 481 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: they don't last that long. That makes the story even worse, 482 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: doesn't it. Right, It means that they're putting out climate 483 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 1: warming gases in excess of the gases that they're saving 484 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: by creating wind energy. Yeah, not to mention all the 485 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: copper that they have to mine and refine. Oh yeah, 486 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: you're right. So it looks like wind farms longitivity is 487 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: going to be an issue. The unpredictable nature of winds, 488 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: with the speed and direction changing abruptly, means that complex 489 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: transmission boxes must be attached to each turbine, and these 490 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 1: transmission boxes are stressed when high winds occur and suddenly 491 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: change direction and they need maintenance. Who's at the ready, Wow, 492 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: that's uh. I didn't realize you'd have to keep an 493 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: eye on these huge wind structure because the transmission boxes 494 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: regularly explode when the gusts of wind overstressed them, and 495 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: they create their own many environmental disasters from the transmission 496 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: fluids spewed on the ground. They then pointed out that, 497 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: of course, the big problem here is all of this 498 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: is unreliable. When the wind don't blow, you get no electricity. Yeah, 499 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: and because I think you know, they sold a bunch 500 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: of licenses for offshore wind structures off of the California coast. 501 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: I know. I mean there's high winds out over the ocean. 502 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: But boy, if they collapse like this, they got to 503 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: anchor them in the ocean bed. Yeah, it's gonna take 504 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: many years before they erect those, and nobody really knows 505 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: if it's going to work in terms of the stability. 506 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: Oh and of course we've talked about this many times before. 507 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: There were millions of birds who are killed every year 508 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: by the windmills, including the bald eagles. Now they get 509 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: sucked in and sliced up and what was the other one? 510 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: Some of them get burnt? Is that the uh those 511 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: solar panels, the solar panels, its massively large solar panels. 512 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: It gets really hot there and the birds does kind 513 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: of fly right in. But in incinerating the sky, you 514 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: just hear a little sound how and they turn into dust. Oh, 515 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, so if you're down there, you 516 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: don't get a cook bird you can catch. Now that's 517 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 1: making her laugh. No, I'm not laughing. I'm pondering. Okay, yeah, 518 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: I heard a noise. It didn't sound like a laugh. 519 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: But no, Well you can see her face, you see 520 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: she can hide behind the radio. I think she was 521 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: trying to suppress a laugh. No, I'm gonna laugh at 522 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: these come off and I'm not laughing at these birds. Okay, 523 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: very killed, man. I get cinerated. It's a great word, incinerated. 524 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: It makes a little sound too. I know you like 525 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: going pof. It does make some sort of a quick 526 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: yeah poof zab Were you have been bothered by people 527 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: that have those bugs app for things like on their 528 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: porch with the bugs going in here because they've just 529 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: been elexecuted or something, or did that bother you too. Really. 530 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: You know, I haven't really thought about it, but I 531 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: don't love insects, but I do try to save them 532 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: when I can, depending on the insect, you know, I 533 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: try not to murder them, but I hate flies, so 534 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: I can't be a hypocrite. So be insects. Its gotta 535 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: be tough getting through the day. Why, Well, it's just 536 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: there's a lot of natural animal death going around. I 537 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,239 Speaker 1: know you're gonna get upset over insects. Well, I try not. 538 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: They're very, They're very They're down at the very bottom 539 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: of my animal hierarchy. You had no problem committing that 540 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: genocide against the ants that are in your house. I 541 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: told you I hate ants. Yeah, you can call me 542 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: a hypocrite, that's fine, but it's straight ahead. 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