1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're plugged in, buckled in, you're set, you can understand 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: and comprehend, and you're settled. And well, I don't know 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: about that, but you know your papers are in the 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: usual messy places. And another day to fake it. It's 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: day eight of the state of emergency for Los Angeles 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: over a homelessness and over the weekend our mayor went national. 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: But so it's eight days of talk now. Last way, 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: she declared a state of emergency on Monday, and then 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: a few days later she issued an executive order. Finally 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: got to look over the weekend what that is. But 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: it's just about quote, speeding things up when it comes 12 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: to building some kind of housing or opening some kind 13 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: of housing. But but everything, and you're gonna hear this 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: a thousand times, everything so far is about building housing 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: for the lunatics you see in the street. There has 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: been nothing about forcing them into mental health treatment or 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: drug treatment. In fact, she's specifically said in one of 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: the interviews over the weekend, we are not going to 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: be coercing anybody. Well, then it's obviously going to be 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: a failure. Meet the press is where she showed up 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: with that hack. Chuck Todd. Oh, he is asking her 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: the questions, and that question was in the mix. John. 23 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: But what we're seeing here and stop me at this 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: sounds like a repeat. It looks like she's doing what 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: they did during the pandemic, just try to get them 26 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: into hotel rooms. It's right, there's no forcing. It's exactly 27 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: what Garcetti was doing. I didn't see anything here well 28 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: bart pandemic. Before the pandemic, Garcetti was trying to build 29 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: all this stupid you know, set call to something home. 30 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: When the pandemic hit, then the hotel push led by 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: Newsome began, and Garcetti hit some of that, and only 32 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: because the hotel industry was going out of business and 33 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: nobody could travel. Everyone thought that congregate shelters would pass COVID, 34 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: And then we found that the homeless don't like shelters 35 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: because would you really want to bunk next to a 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: crazy person unless you're crazy too. The crazy people don't 37 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: want to be indoors with each other. This we know 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: the hotel ideas of failure already a failure. Look at 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: San Francisco, Oh my god, and they moved a few 40 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: people out and they destroyed several hotels. We thank all 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: the all these crazy people do is destroy whatever they're in. Yes, 42 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: and if they don't have the freedom to destroy it, 43 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: they don't want to be there. They don't want to 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: share like a bunk room or you know, some kind 45 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: of dormitory style living with with other crazy people, because 46 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: it's it's you know, crazy people keep you up all night. 47 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: So this idea that they're gonna have private rooms with 48 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: private baths is now the hot idea and the only 49 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: thing around or decrepit hotels that don't have much business 50 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: anymore anyway. But like I said, they did that during 51 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: the pandemic. Right, they're going to go from servicing prostitutes 52 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: of pamps and customers to homeless people. So we'll be 53 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: again with Chuck Todd in question one, which is dealing 54 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: with Bass versus Garcetti. Here we go, what's going to 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: make what you're doing more successful than what mayor Garcetti 56 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: attempted to do? Well? I think a few things. First 57 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 1: of all, it's not just about the money. Of course 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: money is needed, but it's really about the arcane, bureaucratic process. 59 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: You talk to developers and it's just so difficult to 60 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: get anything done. So when I declared a state of 61 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: emergency and issued following executive directives. It basically allows the 62 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,119 Speaker 1: process to be centralized. It allows time certain for building Chuck. 63 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: The other day, I did a press conference on a 64 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: piece of land where the builder had been working for 65 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: sixteen years and it just finally broke ground. So it's 66 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: about bursting past the bureaucratic maze and developers having no 67 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: idea when approvals will be done. So now I'm requiring 68 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: that reproval approvals and the process be moved within thirty 69 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: to sixty days. You know that story is true and 70 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: no reason to believe it's not. Can you imagine the 71 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: dysfunction of the livestock that passes for city employees. That 72 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: a guy could try to build a building for sixteen 73 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: years that spans almost the entire Via Ragosa and Garcetti administrations, 74 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: and he's trying to build one building. So you're saying, 75 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: we'll give this part a chance that may build. There 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: is no because, like you said, it's about housing well, 77 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: and that's the wrong approach here. When you have people 78 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: that are mentally ill and addicted, and as we've talked 79 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: about at length, they could have drugs that lead them 80 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: to a point where they have no longer the survival instinct. 81 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: And if that's missing, they don't care about your stupid 82 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: hotel room. No, the real trauma and walking the streets, 83 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: the real danger, The thing everybody I know is afraid 84 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: of is the crazy people in the streets. And because 85 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: the drugs they take make them extremely unpredictable and violent, 86 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: the mental illness makes them the same. And if that 87 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: isn't number one and number two on the list, then 88 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: the rest of it is what. We're really incompetent. We're 89 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: really lazy, we're really stupid as government, and we're just 90 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: gonna be trying. We're gonna try to be a little 91 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: less lazy and stupid and incompetent. You know, instead of 92 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: sixteen years, maybe it'll take eleven and then we'll claim, 93 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, a thirty one percent increase in the amount 94 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: of time. You know, it's not gonna make a difference. 95 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: If it takes that guy sixteen years and he can't 96 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: build one project, what are the odds anything is going 97 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: to be done in the next four years. Besides, who's 98 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: going to build an apartment building for homeless people? There's 99 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: no money in that. That's what she's talking about. All 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: this stuff about building. No, no, it's it's about government 101 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: vouchers for people who are somewhat poor, and now you 102 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: put them into existing dilapidated buildings. But she's acting like 103 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: there's going to be all new, shiny high rises built 104 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: for the homeless and their vouchers. I don't think that's 105 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: really going to happen to you. No, well it hasn't happened, right, Well, 106 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: they've tried it a couple of times. Right. But but 107 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: but the whole, the whole system is broken. Government. Government 108 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles is a fiction. It just employs thousands 109 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 1: and thousands of people. It absorbs billions of dollars in 110 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: tax body, but it doesn't actually do anything because nobody 111 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: hired is interested in doing anything. They don't have to, 112 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: and so they don't, and they create all these complicated rules. 113 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: I mean, people create complicated rules. Are really just a 114 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: really really crazy people. Right, There's nobody I know who 115 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: creates a complicated rule in order to get what they 116 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: want done. Everybody I know wants to make it the quickest, easiest, 117 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: most efficient, most productive way to solve an issue. That's 118 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: what goes on in the real world. And then you 119 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: open the government tour and it's incomprehensible what they do. 120 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, who are these people? Who are these children? 121 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: What schools did they go to? How did they learn 122 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: to do this? And they think it makes sense, Well, 123 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: according to the regulations where you have in the rules 124 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: and the protocol, it's like burn those their failures. They 125 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: don't work. All right, Let's get to question two, which 126 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: is the one of course on a lot of people's minds. 127 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: What if the homeless do not want to go to 128 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: your hotels or your other rooms and such. Let's listen, 129 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: what do you do about people that don't want to leave, 130 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: that don't want to move, that don't want to go 131 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: into shelters. Well, you know what we have found in 132 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: the community organizations that we're bringing in to do this 133 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: work is that you can get ninety five percent of 134 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: the people housed. People will go. It takes a while. 135 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: You have to do outreach, and what the community programs 136 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: do is that they work with people who were formally unhoused. 137 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: People are unhoused for a variety of different reasons. Some 138 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: are profoundly mentally ill, some are profoundly addicted. You have 139 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 1: to address the reasons why they wound up on house 140 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: while you house them. So we're going to launch a 141 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: program on Tuesday called inside Safe, which is going to 142 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: address the people that are in the tents. Now. It's 143 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: not going to address everybody, but it is going to 144 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: address hopefully a significant number. But we're going to put 145 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: them in motels and hotels immediately. It's interesting, it's lessons 146 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: that we're learning. Stop, this is a blizzard, this is diarrhea. 147 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: He said the same thing about five years ago. Oh, eventually, 148 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: if you keep working on people, they'll go inside when 149 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: no one's buying that anymore. What this does, This feeds 150 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: the homeless industrial complex. If she noticed, she kept referring 151 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: to the outreach workers, these organizations that they contract with 152 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: to do this stuff, and they've made no dents in this. 153 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: These organizations have. Their approach is a failure without some 154 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: kind of force. You have to have some kind of stick. 155 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 1: The one thing that we must have said a hundred 156 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: times is Karen Bass is going to do exactly the 157 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: same thing Garcetti does or did, and exactly the same 158 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: thing that everybody currently in office would do and is 159 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: a part of Remember, these are their friends and relatives 160 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: and friends of friends and political donors and political allies 161 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: who run these nonprofits going to these nonprofits outreach. They've 162 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: all failed, they have all failed. They've eaten billions of 163 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: dollars of your money. You go, look at the box, uh, 164 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: look at you look at this. Look at the box 165 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: that the deductions on your check. You look at how 166 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 1: much you're paying property text, Look at how much you 167 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: pay in sales text. Look at all the wacky fees 168 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: that go on all that funds this, this ridiculous system, 169 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: and it's clearly a failure. Once you get to seventy 170 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: thousand people on the street in the county, it is 171 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: a failure, and they keep coming. The problem is right 172 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: there in the beginning of that quote. She took that 173 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: ninety five percent from the homeless service providers and ran 174 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: with it with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. Oh, yes, 175 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the homeless will accept housing of 176 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: as difference to them. Where'd that come from? Made it 177 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: basically made up? And Chuck sits there like like a 178 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: lump and just nods along. There's no sich thing as 179 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: ninety five percent will accept anything to number. No, they lie, 180 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: she's lying. She knows she's lying. The problem would have 181 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: been solved years ago if that were too statistics, you 182 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: know what, Her staff tells her how to answer these questions. 183 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: And this works with her and every other politician. Okay, 184 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: what if he starts asking about you know, or what 185 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: if people don't want to go into the shelters, they 186 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: don't want to accept treatment, what do you what do 187 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: you say? Well, ninety five percent will yeah, yeah, yeah, 188 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: that's what you say. That that's the answer. And Chuck 189 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: Todd doesn't know any better. And because he's a left 190 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 1: wing progressive, he's just going to get in line and 191 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: continue the fiction, continue the propaganda. There is no Chuck 192 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: Todd does not have a desire when he gets up 193 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning to press politicians into telling the truth, 194 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: or to present the truth to a politician who doesn't 195 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: know any better. That's not his job. His job is 196 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: to push along the progressive train and make his million 197 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: dollars and then wake up again next Sunday. There is 198 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: no desire among anybody in public life to fix anything 199 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: in your life. None, because they don't have what do 200 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: they have to all Right, we will play more when 201 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: we come back. The next question will be are you 202 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: ever going to use any kind of enforcement to sweep 203 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: up and clean out these encampments, because she says that's 204 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: what we're doing. First, we're going out to the tent, 205 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 1: the tenth Encampments. John Encannet's Karen Bass and Meet the 206 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: Press calf I AM six forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio 207 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: app Well, we collected some audio from Karen Bass. He 208 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: appeared nationally on Chuck Todd's Meet the Press. I don't 209 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: know if anybody watches that, but it's on the NBC 210 00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: network on Sundays, and she answered questions about her Inside 211 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: Safe program. Inside Safe is the program that's the big 212 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: and it's so far we've we've gone through two questions. 213 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: It takes am about two minutes and she not one 214 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: single thing she said is any different than when Garcetti said, 215 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna put him in hotel rooms. Yeah, well you're 216 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: gonna make them go to the hotel rooms. No, they've 217 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: all gonna work on them and they'll come. That's what 218 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: they've been doing. They've been doing that for years. As 219 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: much as Garsetti has been a loaf. That's what these 220 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: outreach people do with all the millions and tens of 221 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: millions and hundreds of millions of dollars it's spent. They 222 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: go out there and they talk to these people and 223 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: try to get him to come inside somewhere, and they're 224 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: told by many no, And they do this all day, 225 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: every day, and it doesn't work because we hope hard 226 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: of it thinks. After a while, they just take the 227 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: money and don't do it anymore. Yeah, probably there's that. 228 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: I think. I think didn't David Goldsteam and expose on 229 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: something like that where he caught some of the workers 230 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: rather than handing out the food to the homeless, they 231 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: were throwing them in dumpsters. Yeah, that was I think 232 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: one of them. Yeah, that was Losso, wasn't it? Or 233 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: something right after a while, because who takes these kind 234 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: of jobs? Really mean you're you're gonna you're gonna lose 235 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: your even if you had the desire to do good, 236 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: and most people don't. After a while, you've talked to 237 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: hundreds of homeless people, they've almost all said, no, are 238 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: you really gonna try to contact as many as possible 239 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: and be as persuasive persuasive as possible? Are you going 240 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: to No, You're gonna get tired and board. However, this 241 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: might pay well, and you can't get fired, so you 242 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: start driving around. That's what that's what they saw. I 243 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: remember seeing one of the TV reports. You drive around 244 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: and instead of trying to give homeless people food, you 245 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: throw the food in a dumpster, and then you drive 246 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: around again and again and again. There's your day, paid 247 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,839 Speaker 1: for by the taxpayer. All right. The next question from 248 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd deals with using any kind of enforcement to 249 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: get people out of the encampments. Are you still going 250 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: to allow LAPD and sanitation officers to do the sweeps 251 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: of encampments? No, these are not sweeps at all. This 252 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: is getting people to move on their own. But then 253 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: after the person leaves, sanitation is absolutely going to have 254 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: to be there, no question about it. But this is 255 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: not coursing people. This is not ticketing people are incarcerating people. 256 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: This is moving people from tents to hotels or motels. 257 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: That's been a garci. That's what they've been doing for 258 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: ten years now, a failure. That's what they You will 259 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: just get the low hanging fruit the numbers. Do you 260 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: realize all these people have been approached many, many, many times. 261 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: She acts like this is a new idea. It's like, 262 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: do you think that these workers haven't approached every single 263 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: person on the street five twenty thirty times. That's a 264 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: good question. The answers, no, they don't want to move. 265 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: If you and I were bold, you know, we go 266 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: to skid row and ask people have ever been visited 267 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: by a homeless worker? And of course yes. But you 268 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: think I would say yeah, every day, every week, three times? 269 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: Yet a cigarette? Okay? Imagine I'll personal personalize this to me. 270 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 1: If I'm walking the street every day and somebody comes 271 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: up to me and tries to convince me to go 272 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: to a vegan restaurant every day, all right, morning, afternoon, evening, 273 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: knock on my door, wake up in the morning. There 274 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: they are. Would you go to a vegan restaurant with me? 275 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: Would you go to vegan No, I'm not going. It 276 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: doesn't matter how many times you asked me, I don't 277 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: want to go asis. Yeah, that's what it is. They 278 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: don't want to go. Picture a bunch of John Coe 279 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: belts and tents being asked every day if they'll go 280 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: to a vegan restaurant, and then you get the definition 281 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: of insanity. You're selling them something they don't want. You 282 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: think they should want it, right, you know, there are 283 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: people who think you should eat vegan for a hundred 284 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: different reasons. That's fine, I don't want to. And you 285 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: could keep telling them, well, you know, you go inside 286 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: and it's warm, and it's trying, and there's better food. Okay, 287 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: I believe you. I don't want it. I don't want 288 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: to go. I like it out here. May not be 289 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: your thing, it's my thing. And again, the raisons are simple. 290 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: They're left alone to their devices of drugs and alcohol 291 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: and no rules and living off the grid. Anytime you 292 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: put people in these hotels or these shelters, there's rules 293 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: they don't want, and that's been the real rebellion. Now 294 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: these next two, I would say, would be a little different. 295 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: It looks like Chuck Todd actually asked Mayor Karen Bass, 296 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: do you have any thoughts about what New York City 297 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams said that some people who are really 298 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: severely mentally ill have to be taken in against their will. 299 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: Let's listen. Do you think we need to bring some 300 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: institutions like that into play to help you in Los Angeles? Well, 301 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: let me just say that one of our challenges in 302 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: LA is the division between the city and the county. 303 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: The county provides the services. We're doing this process jointly, 304 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: so we know that the people on the street. Again, 305 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: there's not enough services, but there will be some. But 306 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: in the state of californiagislature passed something too that says, 307 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: if somebody is profoundly mentally ill, you know they can 308 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: be they can be hospitalized. Uh that's weak, but but 309 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: she's right about that. And this is kind of maddening 310 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: to The county is supposed to use whatever tax money 311 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: they grab to provide the mental health services. The city 312 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: of La was the one that's supposed to build a 313 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: housing I know it sounds weird, but that's kind of 314 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: how it divides out. So there've been complaints over the 315 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 1: years about each not doing enough on either end. Oh yeah, 316 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: because it's a total failure. The city has failed almost completely, 317 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: but it's only part of the overall failure of government. 318 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: The county and the state has failed too, because there 319 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: is no difference between a Newsom, a Garcetti, the La 320 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: County supervisors like Janis Hahn or eldest A Lease or 321 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 1: Sheila Cull, that whole crowd. They're all the same person 322 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: and they if they don't bedrock leaf. They're not going 323 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: to force anybody, no matter how dangerous, no matter how 324 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: crazy they are, no matter the severity of they're mental owners, 325 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: the severity of the drug the drugs that they're taking 326 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: in the fentnil and the myth, they will not take 327 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: them off the street. Tough luck. If you don't like it, 328 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to keep walking down that sidewalk anyway. 329 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: And so those bats newsome Garcetti, the whole La County 330 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: border supervisors, nearly in the entire La City Council. These 331 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: people should not be in power at all. There's something 332 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: wrong with them. In most cities in the country, in 333 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: most towns right don't have these problems because they don't 334 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: allow it. And I was just driving through Beverly Hills 335 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: the other night, and actually even West Hollywood is in 336 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: pretty good condition. And we can go down the list 337 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: of cities that border or embedded inside the city of 338 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: La and they don't have any of these problems or 339 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: very little, and when they have a problem, they take 340 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: care of it. I happen to be in the Westchester 341 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: area of Los Angeles yesterday walking in an area near 342 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: the airport, and first time because I've walked there before. 343 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: There's a golf course there up against the golf course 344 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: ten tenths That was new. Did not see that like 345 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: a year ago. That's new. I'm like wow, And they're 346 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: right up against I mean the fence separate them from 347 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: a golf course. But that's going to be an environmental 348 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: eyesore right now. This last clip we have there's also 349 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: kind of interesting to listen to because she seems to 350 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: kind of give a timeline about her getting people inside. 351 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: Let's listen, give me a metric which you should be 352 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: judged in four years on the homeless situation. Is that 353 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: number of people on the streets, number of tent encampings. 354 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: What's a fair way to judge your success or failure. Well, 355 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: a fair way to judge it would be encampment should 356 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: be significantly down, if not eliminated, and there should be 357 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: housing being built underway at a much more rapid pace. 358 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: And there should not be forty thousand people we're unhoused 359 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: many Boy, that was vague. Huh, there shouldn't be forty 360 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: thousand people. Maybe it'll be forty five thousand people. She 361 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: says the first year she's gonna get seventeen thousand inside 362 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: that's kind of into motels. I guess so because there's 363 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: no inside safe that's the program. There's no housing that's 364 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: going to be built. And you know, I know what 365 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna find out the same thing that Garsetti tried 366 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: to pull. Seventeen thousand people may be taken off the streets, 367 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: but ninety percent of them might be for a day 368 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: or two, but they're gonna count them. They're gonna spin out, 369 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: they're gonna go back in for a few days, they're 370 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: gonna spin out, they're gonna go back in, and you're counted. 371 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: Each time. She's going like an impressive number. She will pull. 372 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: Guarantee she will pull the same tricks, and that nobody 373 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: in the media is gonna bother to check on the truthfulness. 374 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: Maybe a report comes out, there might be a rogue, 375 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,239 Speaker 1: like like Rod Galprin, who is well, he's the one 376 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: that told us that this is kind of the problem 377 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: with the counting. He was the only one and what 378 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: was his job, controller controller city controller. So he did 379 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: his own independent audit and he exposed all of Garcetti's lies, 380 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: and Garcetti just laughed it off. And so one person, 381 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: one rogue, employee. Government may issue report says Karen Bass 382 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: is full of poop on this, and she'll laugh it 383 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,719 Speaker 1: off and it'll go back and you'll see ironclad prediction. 384 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: Bet anybody a thousand dollars four years from now, same situation. 385 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: All right, We got more coming up, Johnny ken CAF 386 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: I Am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app 387 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: But it is the breaking news this hour. We'll have 388 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: more on it next hour. But the Supreme Court Chief 389 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: Justice John Roberts has temporarily halted the end of Title 390 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: forty two. It was supposed to be lifted later on 391 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: this week. Roberts gave the Department of Homeland Security until 392 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: five pm tomorrow to respond to the appeal by nineteen 393 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: Republican attorneys general and state of Federal court ruling from 394 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: last month ordered the program wrapped up on December twenty one. 395 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,959 Speaker 1: Goal line stand. There a goal line stand at least tomorrow. 396 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: So if they give him something tomorrow that he feels 397 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: comfortable with, I suppose then he might lift his halt 398 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 1: on this. But you know this now, Title forty two 399 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: will stay in place. The way we're just talking about 400 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: that seventy thousand people in the streets are a complete 401 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: failure of all the levels of government here in the city, county, 402 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: and state. Same thing with the border. The presidents and 403 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: the Congresses for many years have completely failed and we 404 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: were looking at and we still may be looking at 405 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people pouring over the border in 406 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: the next few days if they lift Title forty two, 407 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: which is the block that keeps a lot of immigrants 408 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: on the other side of the borders. It's a phony block. 409 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: It's claiming health emergency, COVID restrictions, but it's a block. 410 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: And the reason the Supreme Court is weighing in on 411 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: it now is because of the compete complete failure of 412 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: Congress and the President and with both parties for many 413 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: years never getting a law passed that would actually seal 414 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: off the border once and for all. We have a 415 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: very generous legal immigration system. There is no need for 416 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: all this illegal immigration. And this doesn't happen in most nations. Yes, 417 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: I think if you ask most people, logically, you don't 418 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: allow illegal immigration. You do what you have to do 419 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: to keep the border secure from people entering the country illegally, 420 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: and then you have a legal immigration policy. That's what 421 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: a lot of countries have right do it well. But 422 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 1: in here everything is lopsided and upside down. And now 423 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: you got leaders like Newsom will be talking about him 424 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: next hour or two saying, oh, no, it's the Republican's 425 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: fault because the border is broken, the immigration policy is broken. 426 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: It's all chaos because of them. No, it's chaos because 427 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: of you. Trump tried to bring a little order to 428 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: it with several policies that seem to have an impact. 429 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: There's still people getting into the country illegally, that's for sure, 430 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: but clearly not not two and a half million, which 431 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: is what we saw this last fiscal year. Holy mackerel. 432 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk about this in the three o'clock hour. 433 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: It's still bad. We don't have Deborah Mark here today 434 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: because it seemed a little over the top. The memorials 435 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: and sadness, my God, for the death of a mountain lion. 436 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: I thought it was Princess Die all over again. I 437 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: did too. I see The Times actually has a headline 438 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: long Live the King la Times readers remember and mourn p. 439 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: Twenty two like they knew him. In case you don't 440 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: know who this is, this was a mountain lion that 441 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: found its way into Griffith Park ten years ago and 442 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: somehow managed to cross a couple of freeways to get there. 443 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: No one could remember or have any evidence of a 444 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: mountain lion living in this small an area for that 445 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: many years, which is why this animal was extraordinary. But 446 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: they've humanized it like it's a cartoon, like he talks 447 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: to people. I know, I'm forgetting that. He just ate 448 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: some chihuahuas and god knows how many other tibawos he 449 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 1: ate too. Well. They think it's because his brain was 450 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: kind of They think behavior the last year got loopy 451 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: because he had so many internal problems. His organs were failing. 452 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: He got hit by a car probably they think this 453 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: led to his bad behavior. But he's also got old. 454 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: I mean he was in Biden territory, he is. He's 455 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: ten years old I think, or twelve years old. Well, yeah, 456 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: that's old for a for a mountain lion. It is 457 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: old from mountain lion, you know, which is what happens. 458 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: Don't you see Biden grabbing small dogs? Biden at a 459 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: chuala the other day right there, really awful. He was 460 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: chopping down at boodle. It was really weird. Schnauzer or 461 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: what's a shit suit? He was having a shit sandwich. 462 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. They caught him when he was two years old, 463 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: and they put the tracking device on him in March 464 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: of twenty twelve. And every now and then they would 465 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: shoot him with a tranquilizer because the batteries run out 466 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: of the tracker. But you know, I guess people would 467 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: come across him every now and then. But why does 468 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: he become he beat? He says he The Wall Street 469 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: Journal did attribute he gained local fame over the years 470 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: by proud the Hollywood Here Hills and appearing in backyards, 471 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: usually late at night, along the hunt for deer and coyotes. Well, 472 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: I guess if he ate a few coyotes, that's not 473 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: a bad thing, is it. No coyotes, that's good. Yeah, 474 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: people's chihuahuas while they're walking them, that's bad. Yeah. That 475 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: gets the public will turn on you real fast. So 476 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: this time they decided to go get him because he 477 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: was eating the chihuahuas, and they did an evaluation on 478 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 1: him and decided that he should be euthanized. That it's 479 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: not I guess the quality of life was too. Well. 480 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: The theory was he used to live in the Santa 481 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: Monica mountains somewhere, and somehow he crossed the freeway like 482 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: the four or five or the one on ones and 483 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: he ended up in the urban area, Yes, and was 484 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: sort of fenced off now in the city of la 485 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: And so that's why he's so frequently showed up on 486 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: people's video cameras, as security cameras and was always looking for, 487 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: you know, local food. Do you want me to read 488 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: some of these? They're hysterical. What the readers said about P. 489 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: Twenty two for the Elsaguendo Times, Yeah, Cerrita Collette of 490 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: Highland Park, grief is just another form of love and P. 491 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: Twenty two was so loved. His presence reflects our inherent 492 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: connection and why we need to wake up. There is 493 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: something profound about P. Twenty two's magnitude, this collective grief 494 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: of ours. Language won't suffice are like stifled writers or something? Yeah, exactly, 495 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: I wanta bees. How about John John Ozias of Hollywood. 496 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: There's a certain kind of character found in the stories 497 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: that Hollywood tells. They can be broadly seen as man 498 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: against world types, but they all seem to miss the point. 499 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: They're not actually against the world. What they are is 500 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: determined to live in on their own terms, and the 501 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: world seems against that. But for all the stories of 502 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: this type Hollywood has written, it's hard to think of 503 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: one more compelling than the one actually lived by p. 504 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: Twenty two. I could think of more compelling stories. He 505 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: didn't really do anything. He just wandered around and when 506 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: he got hungry in an animal. That's why I'm saying, 507 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: why do we always forget that these are just wild animals? 508 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: Comes on around the world by the many, many millions 509 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: every day all day. That's what animals do. They walk 510 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: around and they eat something smaller than they are. Why 511 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: is this another woman? We all adored him, considered him 512 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: part of our neighborhood family. He was equally fearsome and 513 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: comforting and would be supremely missed. Wow. Another one p. 514 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: Twenty two was ambassador of the wild Lincoln community and landscape. 515 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: His life was invaluable to us all invaluable, yes, motivating 516 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: our deepening, heartfelt care for the remnant green world and 517 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: its denizens. Wow. I bet you. These are people who 518 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: wear masks all day they are These are writers of 519 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: some kind. I mean yeah, First Times didn't print all 520 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: of them. It took the best ones. It sound like 521 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: one of the writers wroted unsuccessful wanna be writers, and 522 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: so they finally, they finally got noticed in the Elsgando Times. 523 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: For a minute, I joined in the grief shared by 524 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: thousands of Angelinos today. P. Twenty two Stollar Hearts spurred 525 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: action to create an environment where we, the interlopers, could 526 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: coexist with him, one of the indigenous inhabitants of the land. 527 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: There's that again. Yeah, humans shouldn't exist. Why don't we 528 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: all diet? It comes down to I have noticed that 529 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: all these annoying activists and their their particular issues usually 530 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: comes down to what are we doing here? Why don't 531 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: we die? Why don't we move away? We only cause trouble, 532 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: we only cause damage. It really is the same thing. 533 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: For much of this The Times did decide its own 534 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: writer op ed elegy for a big, beautiful la Cat. 535 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: Like a lot of Angelino's, I found myself consumed last 536 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: week by the fate of p. Twenty two. The Mountain 537 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: Line was discovered of taking up residence in Griffith Park. 538 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: I read this for about like fifteen seconds, and I 539 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: got nauseous. This editorial, Yes, it's like you. You foolish, 540 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: silly person. I mean, what are you doing. I didn't 541 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: notice that this Mountain mind got a lot of coverage. 542 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: I remember hearing the name P. Twenty two a couple 543 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: of times years. Yeah, a couple of times, and I 544 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: knew they had the program and they was on social media. 545 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: Did you have his own account? He probably did, right, 546 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. There's not things I keep track of. 547 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: There's a whole other world that everybody keeps track of 548 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: that I don't. And eventually occasionally these things, you know, 549 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: pop up into my view and you find out. It's 550 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: like there's a lot of crazy people that have been 551 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: following this thing very intensely, almost religiously for a long time, 552 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: and I just stare. It's like, I don't get it. 553 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: You didn't see the end of David Uhland's writing then. Now, 554 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: when I learned P. Twenty two was gone, I wept. 555 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: This was not a matter of misplaced emotion. I was 556 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: not projecting. I was mourning a local hero, beautiful who 557 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: made his own path and persevered. Whatever else it is, 558 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is a place of aspiration. P. Twenty two 559 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: was part of that lineage. A saint of the city 560 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: in the most elemental. That's how we end. There is 561 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: an instagram by the way, I figured that. Yes, boy, 562 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: that guy's a little overwrought, isn't he really emotionally balanced? 563 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: Huh uh? An old mountain lion finally goes down and 564 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: this guy is is weeping and blubbering. And I guess 565 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: part of the context here is that the mountain lions 566 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: are starting to fade away in terms of that's why 567 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: they're protected, so they're trying to I mean, you kind 568 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: of feel that way too, like about the drafts and 569 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,239 Speaker 1: the African animals. Right now, you get pretty worked up. 570 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: But if he's twelve years old, he's nearing the end 571 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: of his life cycle. Yes, I know, I know, but 572 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: they think, I mean, all the all the other mountain 573 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: lions are going to die too. We're not going to 574 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: know about it most of the time, right, But I don't. 575 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: I don't understand when people attach certain significance because a 576 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: mountain lion is famous. It's somebody I saw on the news. Well, 577 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: there was one that got hit by a car. It's 578 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: like a month ago, if again, another p something. Yeah, Now, 579 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: I just it's just more about the people. And I 580 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: couldn't help myself because you you sent the story to 581 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: both Debra Mark and I when this happened over the weekend. 582 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: But she had written to me on the corporate email 583 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: and I wrote back to her and I said, oh, 584 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: sorry about P. Twenty two, And she writes back, Yeah, 585 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: I'm sad about P. Twenty three two, And I wrote back, P. 586 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: Twenty three got killed two the twenty three Oh, she 587 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: just gotta mistyped. Oh, it's a typo. I guess it was. 588 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't know who twenty three. I think that's I 589 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: think that's what she does. She tracks. She tracks all 590 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: the mountain lines because they all have GPS sensors. Right. Well, 591 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: they didn't euthanize P. Twenty three, did they No? But 592 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: I think she tracks them all. Oh, I see that's 593 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: what she does at home. Okay, we got more coming up. 594 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: Johnny ken KF I am six forty live everywhere in 595 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Alright, come up after three o'clock we'll 596 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: talk about this decision coming out of the Supreme Court. 597 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: The Chief Justice has temporarily halted the planned lifting of 598 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: the Trump era Title forty two health program I was 599 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: scheduled to happen in just a couple of days. But 600 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: for now he's telling the Department of Homeland Security to 601 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: come back to him with something else about this. So 602 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 1: we'll get to that coming up after the news at 603 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: three o'clock plus, the El Segundo Times had a reporter 604 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: who got the inside on Gavin Newsom's visit to the 605 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: border last week. That's right, she had like the inside 606 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: exclusive to ask him questions and sit down with them 607 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: and find out what this was all about. Oh, it's 608 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: eye opening. We get into all of that in the 609 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: three o'clock hour. The New York Post did a pretty 610 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: good story. Three reporters, Steve Moore, Casey Mulligan, and E. 611 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: J Antoni did some research and the headline of the 612 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: story because this is always intrigued John and myself for 613 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: some time now, particularly when the pandemic hit and a 614 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 1: lot of people ended up on an unemployment and of 615 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: course they added money to the unemployment than they extended 616 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 1: the unemployment. And we are all about that it pays 617 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,720 Speaker 1: not to work in Biden's America. And here's the proof. 618 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: Did you know that families earning half a million dollars 619 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: a year can receive Obamacare subsidies or that in some states, 620 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 1: unemployment insurance benefits can be equivalent to a job with 621 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: an annual pay of one hundred thousand dollars. They write 622 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: it shocking but true. It might explain why so many 623 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: businesses can't get workers back on the job almost three 624 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: years after COVID nineteen hit. Today, they're at least three 625 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: million fewer Americans working than there were in twenty nineteen. Now, 626 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: of course, they do admit there were many reasons for 627 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: the worker shortage, but in a number of states, welfare 628 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: pays more or nearly as much as respectable middle class jobs. 629 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,800 Speaker 1: And they do admit later on the story that you 630 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 1: can generally only stay on unemployment for about six months. 631 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: But they think that there are some people that just 632 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: go take another job for a while and then go 633 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: back on imployment again. Yeah, and looking at these numbers, 634 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense. Well, yeah, that's what you 635 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: can do. There's a lot of ways to work around 636 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: the rules, and you're also assuming that the bureaucracy enforces 637 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 1: the rules that they check. Twenty four states, unemployment benefits 638 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: and Obamacare subsidies for a family of four with no 639 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: one working are the annualized equivalent of at least the 640 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: national median household. So that's what people are weighing. I mean, 641 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: how much am I going to lose by not working? 642 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:33,839 Speaker 1: And it looks like I can do just as well 643 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,399 Speaker 1: as if I took that job. And they were looking 644 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 1: at jobs like electrician, firefighter, truck driver, machinist, or retail 645 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: associate to compare to this. Listen to this. A family 646 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,320 Speaker 1: could make almost a quarter of a million dollars annually 647 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: and still qualify for Obamacare subsidies in every state. And 648 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't states the value of unemployment benefits and Obamacare 649 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 1: subsidies exceeds the salary and benefits of the average teacher, 650 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: construction worker, electrician, firefighter, truck driver, machinist, or retail associate. Well, 651 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: why get up in the morning. New Jersey is a 652 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 1: state where a family can earn the equivalent of one 653 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year of both parents are collecting 654 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits and Obamacare subsidies for healthcare. In Connecticut, the 655 00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 1: benefits can reach as much as eighty thousand dollars a year. 656 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: They of course, they say their numbers don't even include 657 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: the rampant fraud payments that exceed one hundred billion dollars 658 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: a year. This means families that are not technically eligible 659 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 1: for food stamps or continued unemployment benefits are still receiving them. 660 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,840 Speaker 1: The fraud payments. That means people aren't making up fake jobs, 661 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: that they don't have it anymore, and nobody's checking on 662 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: it all many states, working twenty dollars an hour job 663 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: for forty hours a week would mean a reduction in 664 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 1: income compared to two parents receiving their unemployment benefits and 665 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 1: their healthcare subsidies until the employment runs out. There's very 666 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: little incentive to go back to work. The median annual 667 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 1: household income and benefits in New Jersey is ninety three 668 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,320 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, but if you take unemployment and Obamacare subsidies, 669 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,360 Speaker 1: that's worth one hundred and twenty two thousand, thirty percent 670 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 1: more for not working in most occupations in New Jersey. 671 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,560 Speaker 1: I should go back to New Jersey. I don't remember 672 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: it being that good. Uh No, I don't remember being 673 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: that good too. I remember when I lived in New 674 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: Jersey working. I don't remember that you can make you 675 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: can make six figures stay at home. I thought you 676 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 1: were on unemployment for a while. One of your at 677 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 1: at the yeah before radio, yes, radio yeah yeah yeah. 678 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 1: And this is how I know you can gain the system, 679 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: because I gained the game the system I was. I 680 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: left home. I had a lost year in Chicago, and 681 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: I worked at all kinds of odd jobs. I left 682 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,839 Speaker 1: the last odd job, filed for Illinois unemployment, then moved 683 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,239 Speaker 1: back home, went to broadcasting school, and eventually got my 684 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 1: first radio job. For eleven months, along all these changes, 685 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 1: going from Chicago unemployed, living with my parents, going to 686 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: broadcasting school, I got a newspaper job for a few months, 687 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: then I got a radio job. All that I never 688 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: informed anybody in Chicago. They just kept sending the check 689 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,320 Speaker 1: to my parents' address eleven months. I did it just 690 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,800 Speaker 1: to see, right. I figured out one day they'll say, sorry, 691 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,560 Speaker 1: no more money for you. Yeah. And you know what 692 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: I did is when they every once in a while 693 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,560 Speaker 1: they send me a green form to fill out and 694 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: put down that you're looking for work. Oh yeah, I 695 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,239 Speaker 1: put down. I went to McDonald's and was looking for work. 696 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: I tried to be a taxi driver. Yeah, who's going 697 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: to check that? Nobody said, Because they were in Illinois. 698 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,880 Speaker 1: I was in New Jersey and I knew that they 699 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 1: weren't good and actually tided me over at my first 700 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: radio job because I was technically parked time for the 701 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,719 Speaker 1: first two month, so there wasn't much money, but I 702 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: got the unemployment checks. So they have this chart. Surprising 703 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: to California is not the worst state as it normally is, 704 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 1: but called income equivalent and hourly wage equivalent. And basically 705 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: what this chart of all the states is is how 706 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 1: much you would have to earn more than to beat 707 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: out the unemployment money. And for the state of California, 708 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: it's seventy one sixty three dollars or an equivalent hourly 709 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 1: wage of eighteen dollars an hour. So that's how well 710 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,919 Speaker 1: you can do for a while on unemployment rather than working. Yeah, 711 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: and people are doing this this it's not a theoretical exercise. 712 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: There are reasons that you have millions of people choosing 713 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,800 Speaker 1: not to work. And also, what did I read the 714 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,800 Speaker 1: other day, You know what the most likely demographic for 715 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: people not to work, you know, excluding children and the elderly, 716 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,839 Speaker 1: is men thirty five to forty four, men thirty five 717 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: to forty four, especially in blue collar jobs. And all 718 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,319 Speaker 1: the researchers are puzzled. Well, I think this is part 719 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: of the answer right here. Why should they work? Once 720 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,760 Speaker 1: you figure it out and people talk, people start downing 721 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: each other. It's like, hey, this is how you how 722 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,280 Speaker 1: you screw it the system and they're not even breaking 723 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: any rules. All right. We got more coming up town 724 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: and Ken kf I Am six forty live everywhere on 725 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app and Mark Runner live in the 726 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,560 Speaker 1: twenty four hour calf I Newsroom. Hey, Ken, did you 727 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 1: know that gold is the only currency that's held its 728 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: value since the dawn of money? Well? 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