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Speaker 1: Welcome to episode twenty four a Weedian House the other Responders.

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Speaker 1: The reason for this episode is to highlight other tireless

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Speaker 1: workers that are not being recognized. These workers are the

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Speaker 1: workers that put their own money, their own time and

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Speaker 1: are not paid by the city, but yet they're hard

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Speaker 1: to earned. Contributions to make the people that are living

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Speaker 1: on the street or housing secure or food and secure

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Speaker 1: are usually met with police resistance, harassment at the behest

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Speaker 1: of the city city council members in particular, We're going

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Speaker 1: to highlight the stories of some of the unhoused that

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Speaker 1: are receiving some of this hard earned mutual aid and

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Speaker 1: from the first responders, as well as have interviews from

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Speaker 1: the first responders themselves and to show the frustration and

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Speaker 1: the futility of the city to work against the people

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Speaker 1: that they are elected to. Stay tuned to the Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is CEO Henderson from whedy On House. Today is

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Speaker 1: May twid and here we are in the studios with

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Speaker 1: one of the first responders. I like to call the

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Speaker 1: people that are stepping up in COVID nineteen and any

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Speaker 1: other challenges as first responders. It's just not always police

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Speaker 1: officers and hospital workers. This is the first responder that

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Speaker 1: is feeding a need out here in skid Row, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: She's feeding the young house that has been mostly forgotten

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Speaker 1: and ignored. So without further do I'm going to let

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Speaker 1: her introduce herself and tell us why does she feel

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Speaker 1: a need to come out and help us somewhere. My

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Speaker 1: name is Maxy Ceely with Sharing of Others, and we've

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Speaker 1: been on skid Row for about a year over year,

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Speaker 1: and we've been feeding the homeless out here and taking

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Speaker 1: care of the community before the pandemic. So now that

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Speaker 1: there's a pandemic, we need help. But we are out

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Speaker 1: here passing up maks, we give up food, we give

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Speaker 1: up personal hygiene items and hand sanitius, and the community

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Speaker 1: needs help. The community needs help. I mean, we can't

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Speaker 1: do but so much. We're a small organization, so we

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Speaker 1: need donations. We would like her, you know, donate and

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Speaker 1: sharing love attached at Sharing Love twenty nineteen Bidbak Sharing

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Speaker 1: of the Others. Our mainly address is sharing love with

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Speaker 1: Others ten thirty five. So Prairid having a sweet core

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Speaker 1: in Googold, California ninetye ver three zero one. But again

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Speaker 1: coming back to the community, there is a need out here.

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Speaker 1: The people out here don't have the services that they need.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of mental health issues out here. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people think that it's only drugs, but that's

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Speaker 1: not the issue. That's not the main issue to me.

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Speaker 1: My personal opinion is the mental health. So if we

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Speaker 1: could get help out here for the community, that would

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Speaker 1: be great. One of the questions you said, you've been

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Speaker 1: out here for a year. What started you to come

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Speaker 1: out here to meet this need? Well, I've had a

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Speaker 1: hard for help in the community since two thousand and four.

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Speaker 1: I was going through my own financial struggles and I

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Speaker 1: went to my pastor and I said, Pastor, we need

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Speaker 1: to do something for the community. But that's in the

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Speaker 1: and after that I started going to the missions and

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Speaker 1: different organizations volunteering. But when I was volunteering, I did

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Speaker 1: share the food. But I needed to talk to the people.

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Speaker 1: I needed to feel to care what they had to say.

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Speaker 1: I needed to connect with them and our volunteer organizations.

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Speaker 1: But since I didn't have that connection, I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to start my own organization and we've been sharing

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have one year since we are a non

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Speaker 1: We haven't missed one Saturday. We come out here in

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Speaker 1: the rain. When the rains, we are out here and

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Speaker 1: the community loves that. I remember one time we came

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Speaker 1: were able to feed the community. Community came out after

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Speaker 1: the rain and we fed them. There was another time

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Speaker 1: and when we came there was surprised and like, oh God,

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Speaker 1: bless you. You guys came out here in the rain.

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Speaker 1: So we feel the love. We have that connection. We

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Speaker 1: talk to them because they're human. They need a hug.

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Speaker 1: We used to hug them, not because of this pandemic.

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't hug them, they can't hug me,

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Speaker 1: but we have that urge. So I am just praying

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Speaker 1: you know. And one thing people would tell me because

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Speaker 1: that I have to be. I need to be careful, yes,

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Speaker 1: safety and for the safety of the community. Right so,

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Speaker 1: but we need your help, we need your health. So

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Speaker 1: if you would like to volunteer, you could please send

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Speaker 1: us a message what payfo page sharing the behinds. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say, do you find the work rewarding? But

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Speaker 1: you just already answered the question. What I admired, what

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Speaker 1: is that she could prepare these meals at her home.

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Speaker 1: Where I want to point out to you because you

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Speaker 1: don't have to be some dick millionaire or drop if

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Speaker 1: you really want to make a difference in helping unhouse people,

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Speaker 1: these small things mean the very a lot. As a

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Speaker 1: person that's been on house and on house, now, I

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Speaker 1: she chose one moment in time to say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make a difference, a positive difference, instead

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Speaker 1: of a negative difference in calling the police on them

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Speaker 1: or causing more misery for people that already are down

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Speaker 1: on their luck. Is there anything else that you like

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Speaker 1: to inspire anyone to say anything to get people to

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Speaker 1: want to cut out and volunteer or do anything to help. Well, yes,

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Speaker 1: I do want to kind of piggyback on what you said.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to have a lot of money, you know,

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Speaker 1: any little thing that you have to donate or the

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Speaker 1: help the community, you could start with that. If you

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, okay, and we would happy to have you

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Speaker 1: need financial support. So thank you very much. My name

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Speaker 1: is maxane Cee sharing that with others and thank you.

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Speaker 1: There you have it. This is Steo Henderson from Median House,

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Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening and maybe we

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Speaker 1: Henderson from weedy On House, and I have another resilient men.

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Speaker 1: I like your shirt, good color. Uh this is I

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Speaker 1: want to let him introduce himself before I put your names.

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Speaker 1: I'm very bad with names. My name is Keith. Keith. Keith,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about your story. So how

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Speaker 1: did you become unhoused? Well, I was, you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been an alcoholic for a long time. Okay, that's I

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Speaker 1: and I've gotten with some financial jeopardy, got in some

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Speaker 1: money to find a place for a job. And one

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Speaker 1: thing I do another in time goes fast. When you're

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I'm not. I mean I don't

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Speaker 1: period of time, you get comfortable out here. How long

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Speaker 1: have you been out here? If you know, my man half,

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Speaker 1: I think yours are you originally from here? I am

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Speaker 1: from here down the street from here. So things happen

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Speaker 1: You know, I look at I look at the motels

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I don't. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I believe that there's an agenda behind people giving.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you know that you and the food. You know,

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Speaker 1: for some people, I just don't trust in everything, and

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Speaker 1: I'd like to get off the street on my own accord.

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Speaker 1: If I can't, that's understandable. Well, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Keep someone's trying to get your attention to Seo Henderson

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Speaker 1: as you said, has some challenges. There's going to be

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Speaker 1: How are you coping with it? And what would you

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Speaker 1: going to become on housed. Well, honestly, I'm a little older.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a fear or this thing. I never have.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't. I never liked wearing the mask.

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Speaker 1: but there's carriers of this. I hear that that don't

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Speaker 1: Are you were reasonably in good health? Yeah, I've never

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Speaker 1: no problems. Okay, you know, well, I mean what drinking

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Speaker 1: sure that I got some damage to my liver and

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Speaker 1: thank you for your honesty, and I thank you for

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Speaker 1: your courage. I can tell you guys have a good

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Speaker 1: you for your time. This is CEO Henderson from We

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Speaker 1: the Unhoused, and I thank you all for listening. May

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Speaker 1: we again meet in the light of understanding. Thank you, Peter.

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Speaker 1: In House News, multiple people were arrested at South Bend,

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Speaker 1: Indiana's police breaks up in house campment in South Bend, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Protesters performed civil disobedience actions by stepping in front of

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Speaker 1: machinery and other tools to displace the young house. The

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Speaker 1: It's good to be back for another time. I rarely

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Speaker 1: are two left on that street and they were brand new,

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Speaker 1: and I asked them. I went back and I asked them.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, I interviewed them. Why were they take And

431
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: they were told by sanitation that the meat was contaminated,

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00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: that the tents were contaminated, that this stuff was contaminated.

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Speaker 1: And if Mayor Garcetti has a moratorium on sweeps, if

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Speaker 1: the CDC says by sweeping an encampment, you're spreading and

435
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Speaker 1: making this virus increase, then you're not doing the community

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00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: housed or unhoused any service by moving an encampment. And

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00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: people if you watch this and you are housed, and

438
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Speaker 1: you like calling the council office to have an encampment moved.

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00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: You're part of the problem too, because every time you

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Speaker 1: call and that encampment is moved, somebody is displaced. And

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00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 1: it makes our job hard too, because, as you see

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00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: you've been following us, we have to look around to

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Speaker 1: find our people. Yes, yes, and it's like a herculean

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00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: task because they're in hiding because they don't want to

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Speaker 1: be swept or taken all their belongings. And there's a

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00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: projection that need here. What got you into doing about

447
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: my father's missus? What was your inspiration? My mother? Talk

448
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: about your mother? Because I'm a mama's boy, so yeah,

449
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: got to tell me what happened. Well, we're both from Chicago,

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Speaker 1: so I had one of the Chicago mama's and my

451
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Speaker 1: mother was that lady. We were Air Force brats. My

452
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: father did pretty well in business. My mother, I say,

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Speaker 1: some kids in our neighborhood was struggling. I've had to

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Speaker 1: give away my birthday gifts and Christmas toys when my

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00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: mother moved out here to La and eighty five, I

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00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: think in eighty five my mother moved here her first

457
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: thing was to go down on skid Row. She had

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00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: heard about Ted Hayes, and she would have us go

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Speaker 1: down there every Sunday and set up tables and sometimes

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00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: she set up her own tables over a fourth and

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Speaker 1: Wall Street and we would feed the unhoused community. And

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Speaker 1: that's been my life. I started going into Sunrise Christian

463
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Speaker 1: Fellowship in Seami Valley, I think in the mid ninety

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Speaker 1: four or something like that, and Kim Kraft was my pastor,

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Speaker 1: is my pastor and longtime friend. Even there. He was

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Speaker 1: doing that in Seemi Valleys. So he's always even in

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00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: his ministries as a pastor, we've had to take care

468
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: of the less fortunate. So when he started, he was

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Speaker 1: with San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission for a while the director.

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Speaker 1: Then he started Hoping the Valley and I worked with him.

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Speaker 1: I've worked with Manny Flores, you know, hang out with

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Speaker 1: Laura Rathbone and you know, Laura kind of got Laura

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Speaker 1: Rathbone actually got me into encampments. Oh yes, do tell.

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Speaker 1: I was reading at the day Center and Hope of

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00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: the Valley and Laura and that's what she was getting

476
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Speaker 1: all like taking hundreds of unhoused people downtown, the city

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Speaker 1: hall and protests and get h passed. And one day

478
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: we were at work and she was like, you know what,

479
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, what she goes, you should come and go

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Speaker 1: with me tonight. I'm like, where we're going? And she's like,

481
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Speaker 1: I wanted you to go with me in Wait Coast

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Speaker 1: four forty five, which is the name of this outreach ministry.

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00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's the difference? She goes, You'll see and

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00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: we went into the encampments. Its raw because now I'm

485
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Speaker 1: not You're not coming to me or where I work

486
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: or my turf for however you want to say it.

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00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm coming to your home, to where you reside, and

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Speaker 1: I don't care where that is. You're allowing me into

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Speaker 1: your space, and it's raw. It's different. I've made I

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00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,239
Speaker 1: feel like I've always made really heavy relationships. You know,

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00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm like an ense. You know. If I don't connect deeply,

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Speaker 1: I can't connect at all. And I've made deeper relationships

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00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: because people are inviting me into their personal life and

494
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Speaker 1: to see the raw side of what it is to

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Speaker 1: be on house. Wow, that you've given us a mouthful

496
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Speaker 1: of it. I want to talk about the future because

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Speaker 1: it it's essential because my eye is always on the

498
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Speaker 1: future of the state of being, the houselessness. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we have a situation here, we have on house people

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Speaker 1: that are out here, We have a slow or anemic

501
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Speaker 1: city council, and we have in the in the horizon

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Speaker 1: over forty five percent of people that are housing secure

503
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Speaker 1: that will be joining the ranks of houselessness. And I

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Speaker 1: want to see what can we do and what are

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Speaker 1: you what are your thoughts on that, and how can

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Speaker 1: about my father's business meet the need and challenge. I

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00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: think one of the first things is we keep advocating

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Speaker 1: for affordable housing. We keep advocating for services that are needed,

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Speaker 1: you know, not just for the house, but for people

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Speaker 1: who are housing and secure. Because right now with the pandemic,

511
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: look at all the people on unemployment, and there are

512
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Speaker 1: people that are being evicted, moratorium or not so thank you.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, however they come down

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Speaker 1: the chute, they're going to most of are going to

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Speaker 1: land in my basket. What I think and what I

516
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: believe is we have to stop wasting money. So if

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Speaker 1: it's costing thirty million dollars in twenty nineteen to do sweeps,

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars would buy how many buildings ear you

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Speaker 1: know my dream? I say, find a beautiful four or

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Speaker 1: five acres puts make a mobile home park, beautiful, some

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Speaker 1: of the most beautiful home mobile home parks. Thirty million

522
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: dollars would build that, you know, and it would be cheaper.

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Speaker 1: It would Well, what about if you don't have a

524
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: mobile home, but if you're going to build a building,

525
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: you can buy mobile homes cheaper than then spending seven

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00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: hundred or one hundred for one what is it studio apartment.

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Speaker 1: You also had something about the homes that we were

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Speaker 1: driving one day. You were talking about how it would

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Speaker 1: be cheaper to make certain type homes. That's how I'm leading. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that if you had if you

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Speaker 1: use container apartments that's inexpensive, you could do three D

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Speaker 1: printing and build homes like we build like ten homes

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Speaker 1: right now. They'll be ready tomorrow. But I think that

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Speaker 1: we have to use these different I want to say

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Speaker 1: these abilities, these different I sound like Trump, we have

536
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: to do this stuff, but we have to. I believe

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Speaker 1: that we have to use the innovation, the technology that

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Speaker 1: we have. But I'm just saying to me right now,

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Speaker 1: the answer to this, thirty million dollars. You could make

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Speaker 1: a mobile home park with trees a park area. You know,

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Speaker 1: why do people have to sleep in their cars in

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00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: the parking lot? And that's mobile home park is still cheaper.

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Speaker 1: It's cheaper. I have another question, it's like one of you.

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Speaker 1: What you point out because it is expensive, is the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department budget. It's fifty four percent of

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Speaker 1: the city budget. Why are we spending over billions of

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00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: dollars paying them to criminalize on house people. I think

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Speaker 1: this is the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that that's another problem. I think that we're

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00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: spending way too much money on policing. You know, especially

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Speaker 1: if I could tell you that it's a waste. It's

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00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: a waste to spend tax dollars to do sweeps of encampments.

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00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: It's a waste of tax dollars to drive up and

554
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: down the street and racially profile my kids because they black.

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00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: You know, that's a waste. I used to be a

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Speaker 1: police officers, you know, back in the olden days. But

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00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: my job was to protect and serve, you know, and

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Speaker 1: the community I work in. You know, that was just

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00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: my job. You know, I think that there are people

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00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be these jobs. I don't know. When we

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00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: militarized our police department, I carried a twenty two twenty

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Speaker 1: two Smith and Wesson old Fashion centerized. That's rare I did.

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00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, you know, we're militarizing the police.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's afraid, afraid of what you know, And police officers

565
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: now are doing jobs that are not their jobs. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're doing work that's not the work of the police department.

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Speaker 1: The police department has become social services, they become social

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00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: mental health and you know, and I have seen good

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Speaker 1: officers trying to decide, you know, a pastor. I don't know,

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00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: maybe they need DMH. I don't know, you know, they

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00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: don't know. So, you know, I think the closest any

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Speaker 1: other thing any police officers should have to do would

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Speaker 1: be first day. Yes, you know, when I was a

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Speaker 1: copy if I made it there before the ambulance, you know,

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00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, let me stick my finger in this

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Speaker 1: bullet hole and you know that, you know, himage that

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00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: lead out. So you know, now they're doing all these

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00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: other things. So I think that the biggest problem budget

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Speaker 1: budgetary Police department aside is I feel like we're throwing

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Speaker 1: away a lot of money. You know, if I if

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Speaker 1: it costs thirteen hundred dollars for tenths, and you consider

582
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: that little Shana Rose made thirteen hundred dollars, and you

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00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: know for yourself we bought about seven hundred dollars worth

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Speaker 1: of food. How much did that cost the taxpayers? Zero? Nothing.

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00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: It came out of your pocket and you did it yourself,

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00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: so it cost them nothing. How much does it cost

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Speaker 1: to do the sweep? To take all that though, and

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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: that to me is fiscally irresponsible. So why should I

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00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: take a grant from anybody at the city? Why should

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00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: you get Why do you want to give me a grant?

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00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: So because you know I'm going to go to Costco

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00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: the restaurant Deeposts Martin find will buy some good food,

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00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: So what you gotta throw the taxpayers money way too.

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00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: It's just like the Cilly Hall council members that buy

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00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: these Christmas bits and the very next day and I

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00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: remember seeing this in Echo Park they swept them an

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00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: on rainy day after Christmas. So these issues are poor

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00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: examples of service. I'm going to conclude this interview with

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Speaker 1: the quote by Shirley Chisel, and she says, service is

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Speaker 1: the rent you pay to stay here on our serve.

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Speaker 1: And I asked our audience as well as our city

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Speaker 1: who is listening, is what type of service that are

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00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: you providing for the citizens of Los Angeles, California. Here

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00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: is a service provider that's providing a service long before

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Speaker 1: it was known, and she's just doing it out of

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Speaker 1: her own pocket and gets the least recognition. This is

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Speaker 1: Cero Henderson's from Median House and I thank you all

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Speaker 1: for listening. May we again meet in the light of understanding.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to episode twenty four. The other

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Speaker 1: first responders. Too often we give credit to the poor,

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Speaker 1: working class medical personnel as well as the first responders

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00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: that work in stores, but we do this in a

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Speaker 1: very self serving and selfish manner. We do over six

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars flyovers, but we don't provide affordable wages for

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Speaker 1: them to live and survive. The gas station attendants are

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Speaker 1: not able to see their families because of COVID nineteen

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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: restrictions sometimes as well as the fact that we don't

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Speaker 1: pay them a livable wage. The first responders that in

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Speaker 1: this episode are people that are giving money out of

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Speaker 1: their own pockets and that still the city has worked

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Speaker 1: against them. The city, in concert with police officers, Nimbies,

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Speaker 1: and the Sanitation Department have used this format to terrorize

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Speaker 1: the display the un housed, to silence them from getting

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00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: a voice and coming together and speaking out against it,

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00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: because they know that they are afraid that once we unite,

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Speaker 1: that we're going to hold them accountable. Much likely killing

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00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: that will happen in Minneapolis. But it's still necessary for

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Speaker 1: us to remember. But our first responders here are people

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Speaker 1: that stepped up in COVID nineteen when the city didn't,

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Speaker 1: when the nimbies didn't. So let's remember that the next

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Speaker 1: time you see a food line or when you see

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Speaker 1: some of the unhoused out there getting services from these

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00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: extraordinary people. If you want to donate, please donate to

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Speaker 1: about my father's business and Maxine Seeley. Thank you for listening,

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Speaker 1: and may we again meet in the light of understanding

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Speaker 1: the dot dot