1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Hey, Ken, did you know that gold is the only 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: currency that's held its value since the dawn of money? 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Well I did, thanks to our friends at Legacy Precious Medals, 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: the most trusted name in gold investing. Investing in gold 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: protects you against inflation and gives you a hedge against 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: stock market volatility. Don't leave your retirement to chance. Called 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: Legacy Precious Medals today at eight six six six nine 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: one two one seven three or download your free Investor's 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: guide now at by Legacy goold dot com. That's by 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Legacy Goold dot com. Well, my ballot's in the mail. 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: I just got my email this afternoon. Oh you're one 12 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: of those it's in the mail. You're one of those. 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: No no, no no, no, no, no no, you're misinterpreting what 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: it's being sent to me. I don't have it yet. 15 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: Oh I have not sent it in yet. You know, 16 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 1: most people don't have it. They're just starting to do this. 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,279 Speaker 1: They send you that, you know, that ballot tracks thing. 18 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: You got that too. I thought you mailed it in, 19 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: but it's being mailed to you, right, Yeah, I don't 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: have it yet, corrected, But they're telling me it's in 21 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: the mail. To come to me very soon. If I 22 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: don't get it within seven days, it's gonna let somebody know. 23 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah in one hour. We got a few 24 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: things to do to talk about with the gas prices. 25 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 1: We'll also bring on the moistline people, and we'll also 26 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: throw a hack in the dumpster. John co Belt is 27 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: leading the way today. This is very personal to him. Okay, yeah, 28 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: that'll come up. Well, we'll tell you about it. We're 29 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: going to talk now with Sam Kinons. He wrote a 30 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: piece for Los Angeles Magazine. It is comprehensive about why 31 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: we have so much homelessness in Los Angeles, not only 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: the history of it, how we got here, but how 33 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: deep and widespread the problem is, and why it is 34 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 1: extremely depressing and dispiriting, or parts of it that it's 35 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: hard to believe that all this has actually happened. Yeah, 36 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: he makes the case that LA's homelessness crisis response has 37 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: actually spread across the country. You see the same response 38 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: adapted in many other parts of California and even in 39 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: other states, and it is a horrible response. He spent 40 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: a lot of time talking to a woman by the 41 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: name of Estella Lopez who works for what they call 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: a business improvement district which encompasses skid row, and that's 43 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: got to be quite the job. But I'll read you 44 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: one paragraph before we talked to Sam. In Lopez's view, 45 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: what created today's skid row includes municipal abandonment combined with 46 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: meth amphetamine, the abdication of drug addiction and mental illness treatment, 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: misguided charity, and the city settlement of court cases that 48 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: in practice now limited enforcement of laws governing drug sales, 49 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: street habitation, pimping, and assaults. In recent years, skid row homelessness, 50 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: marked by meth abuse in tents has spread across southern 51 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: California and many parts of the US. By twenty eighteen, 52 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: tent cities emerged in mid Wilshire, Santa Monica, Highland Park, 53 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: South Central and along freeways. A strip of tents on 54 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: Venice Beach has actually become known to locals as I've 55 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: never heard this one done. Methlehem, Bethlehem. That's just the Bethlehem. 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: It's Methleham. All right, let's get Sam cut one's aunt. 57 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: Sam welcome, How are you very well? Thank you for 58 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: having me on your show. This is an astonishing article 59 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: that you wrote here. Great, I can't I can't. I 60 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: can't imagine how much work you put into this, how 61 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: much you've seen with your own eyes. Um, there's so 62 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: many different things we want to ask you. Why why 63 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: is it You've made it clear that a huge component 64 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: of this is the meth and the mental illness. Why 65 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: is everyone so resistant to addressing it? Why are they 66 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: are so afraid of the blowback from these homeless advocates 67 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: who only want housing. Why why are they so afraid 68 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: of them? It's clear to yeah, go ahead, Well, I 69 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: think it's it's in part because, um, a lot of 70 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: folks are afraid of of stigmatized homeless as drug abusers 71 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: and so on. That meaning that if people come to 72 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: view them as that, they may then shy away from 73 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: various attempts to approaches strategies to help them. My feeling 74 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: is that, um, that we need to address the problem 75 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: as it really is. Housing costs are certainly part of 76 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: why people end up homeless and why people have difficulty 77 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: coming out of homelessness, but there's many, many others that 78 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: certainly drug addiction is a big one, and certainly this 79 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: methemphetament that's coming out of Mexico in the last ten 80 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: years that my book The Least of Us, which is 81 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: the book that really broke this story. UM talks about 82 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: how the method, the way they're making met down there 83 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: in the last ten years, really has created a methemphetamon 84 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: that is very quickly creates symptoms of schizophrenia, paranoia, delusions, 85 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: you know, this kind of thing, and very quickly leads 86 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: to kind of inability to guide one's life, and very 87 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: quickly then very often leads to homelessness. Even though when 88 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: it doesn't lead to homelessness, if you end up homeless 89 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: for another reason, say in operation, you can't afford, say 90 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: aging out of foster care, of many different domestic violence, 91 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: although it's so prevalent now, the quantities of meth coming 92 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: out of Mexico are staggering, and that very quickly, once 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: you're on the street, meth is almost a way of 94 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: allowing you to fend for yourself on while you're on 95 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: the street. End very quickly, then you fall into kind 96 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: of a again. The mess psychosis then makes it very 97 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: difficult to get out of homelessness. But the reason people 98 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: I believe are reluctant to talk about this issue is 99 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 1: because they feel that if you, if you, if you 100 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: talk about a drug addiction and mental slash mental illness 101 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: as a as a part of the of the reasons 102 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 1: for and the reasons why people are homeless and stay homeless, 103 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: that you will be stigmatizing them and the people will 104 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: be less willing to help them. This kind of thing. 105 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: I think that's probably not true, but certainly, even if 106 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: it is, we need to address this as it really is, 107 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: not as we kind of wish it were. That. I mean, 108 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: that just doesn't seem rational to me. They're out there, 109 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: their brains are fried by this myth. It is producing 110 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: schizophrenic like symptoms. It's clear that's what's occurring. Everybody sees 111 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: it almost every day. You have to you have to 112 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: treat this, this this horrible conditions. You need you need 113 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: sort of conservative ship. You need to be able to 114 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: take these people in for treatment, because clearly they don't 115 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: have the wherewithal to seek it. They're just so they're 116 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: just so strong out. Yeah, I mean, I think that's 117 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: that's some of the you know, the synthetic drugs that 118 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: are coming out of Mexico. As the saying on the 119 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: street goes, um they change everything, and um. One of 120 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: the things that do change is is whether or not 121 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: people are actually able to make rational decisions in a 122 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,559 Speaker 1: tent encampment where they're living in where they're they're maybe 123 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: freezing to death. Certainly in some parts of the country 124 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: there's a very common um of losing losing digits to frostbite, 125 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: where they're being pimped out, beaten um, living without sanitation, etcetera, etcetera. 126 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: And you find people still saying, no, I don't want 127 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: to leave, or no, I'm flying here. And and a 128 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: lot of this has to do with the with the prevalence, 129 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: the enormous prevalence and supply of the two synthetic drugs 130 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: that really typify our synthetic drug era which we are 131 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: fully in right now, um, which are fentonel and and 132 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: enough of sentiment, And it does call into question whether 133 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: people actually have the ability to make a rational decision. 134 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: I was in southern Indiana recently and a few several 135 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: months ago, and I'm talking with a woman there who 136 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: is whose daughter literally froze to death rather than leave 137 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: the tent encampment. She had a five year old at home, 138 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: her mother was raising the five year old. She would 139 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: beg her daughter to come leave the cold. This was 140 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: in January and the girl wouldn't do it, and two 141 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: weeks later the mother got a call that she had 142 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: frozen to that This kind of thing is really calls 143 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: into question whether or not we need what like issues 144 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: of commitment, you know, how how can we commit people 145 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: who are are really not functioning for themselves are a danger, 146 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: certainly of themselves and quite possibly to others at times. 147 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: Can you hang on, Sam? Sure? All right? This is 148 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: Sam Canonis, a writer for LA magazine. It wrote quite 149 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: a story you have to read about LA skid row 150 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: and how the way it's been addressed by LA politicians 151 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: and activists has made it spread to other parts of 152 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: southern California other parts of the country. Here's another great paragraph. 153 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: The loudest narrative on homelessness comes from far left activists. 154 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: That homelessness is caused by how how high housing prices, 155 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: and the only solution is to is affordable permanent housing. 156 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: Until enough of that is built, people should be allowed 157 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: to occupy sidewalks. Those with other ideas have been cowed 158 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: into silence. I think that sums up perfectly the problem. 159 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: That's what we've seen for too many years. Now we'll 160 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: talk more. This is at Lamagazine lamag dot com. We're 161 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: talking with Sam Kennez, a writer for Los Angeles Magazine. 162 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:41,239 Speaker 1: You go to lamag dot com and there's a long article, fascinating, 163 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: but it's a good reads. Get a row nation how 164 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: LA's homelessness crisis response has spread across the country. It's 165 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: it's a great read. It's very detailed on Howe's one 166 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: of you just don't see often enough. You've talked about 167 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: Michael Schellenberger. He writes from the same perspective, but it's 168 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: rare that you find this. And the paragraph I just 169 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: read is that the activists, they control the argument most 170 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: of the time. They shout the loudest, and the politicians 171 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: tend to bend their way and their solutions are horrible. 172 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: This idea of housing first, when you really, in many cases, 173 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: especially with skid Roll and other parts of the city, 174 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: you have a real like drug problem with method just 175 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: out of control. Let's get Sam back on here. Following 176 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: up on the paragraph Ken read, here's another line that 177 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: you wrote. Activists have picketed the homes of elected officials, 178 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: screaming obscenities through bullhorns, egging the houses of some homeless 179 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: activists twice shouted down the city council over the summer 180 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: as they were prohibiting tent encampments within five hundred feet 181 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: of schools and daycare centers. Yet they had to get 182 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: police and riot helmets. These protesters vaulting over barriers. What 183 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: explains the vicious anger of these activists? It seems I 184 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: don't understand why they're this enraged and they get I'm 185 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: not sure I'm actually the guy to explain it to you. 186 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: I have to tell you I don't. I'm not. I mean, 187 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: in some cases, I suspect it's it's youth, you know, 188 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: and and and youth is prone to rebellion and this 189 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um. But honestly, it all I'm trying 190 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: to describe what I see. I went to one of those. 191 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: I went to the first of those council meetings, and um, 192 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: and it was remarkable, And then the second one was 193 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: even more remarkable. Should we say? And I but I 194 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: you know exactly, I think it gets beyond wanting compassion. 195 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: There seems to me at times, people who are kind 196 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: of wanting to show how radical they are want rebellious there. 197 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: But truthfully, I think you'd have to you'd have to. 198 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: I haven't really interviewed any of the answer. I really don't. 199 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: I can't answer your question very intelligently, I'm afraid. Well see, 200 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: and let's talk about this part of you wrote permitent 201 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: supportive housing, and it's become the monstra in the last 202 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: couple of years. This idea is no good anymore about shelters. 203 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: The activists and a lot of the politicians don't like that. 204 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: They want permitive supportive housing. Talk about what you wrote 205 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: concerning you know what that in reality is, well, permanent 206 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: supportive housing is the idea that you would give people housing, 207 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: build people housing for people that would also include a 208 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: variety of services, job counseling, addiction treatment, variety of things 209 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: like that. And the truth is, as many people I've 210 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: spoke to said, that's not a bad idea if it 211 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: comes after a continuum of other forms of housing that 212 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: lead you out of the street and are more like 213 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: more controlled. But the problem with permanent supportive housing as 214 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: it works now, it seems, is that people are taken 215 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: from the street directly to this kind of housing, and 216 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: this kind of housing them they're allowed to use drugs. 217 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: There's no there's no stabilization of these folks beforehand. So 218 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: there needs to be a couple of stages, maybe at 219 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: three or so even um before in the minds of 220 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: people I talked to, before you get the permanent support 221 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 1: of housing. You just can't put someone from a tent 222 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: and put them into permanent support of housing and expected 223 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: on the whole that will lead to a successful recovery 224 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: from drug addiction or problems with mental illness. You need 225 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: stages and so they're just But the problem is the 226 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 1: idea is people don't like the idea of you put people, 227 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,719 Speaker 1: putting people in in in the housing that may be controlled, 228 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: where they or their actions may be controlled at them. 229 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: And there any good way to get past what people 230 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: like or don't like or what they believe, especially when 231 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: it comes from these crazy activist groups, because what they 232 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: are promoting is unrealistic in some cases simply doesn't work. 233 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 1: I mean, when are we going to get past everybody's 234 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: feelings and look at what's exactly happening in the world, 235 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: Because unless we get that, that's a great question. Again, 236 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: I don't think as a reporter I'm the guy to 237 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: answer it for you. That's uh I think, um, uh yeah, 238 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: I would basically leave it at that. I'm you know, 239 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm trying to report the story as I see it. 240 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: Where where this all leads, where it ends, where how 241 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: it will be resolved, that kind of thing. Um, I'll 242 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: I guess I'll report on it when one Yeah, I 243 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: mean you quote the city controller Ron Galprin's report that 244 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: less than twelve hundred units have been produced in five years. 245 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: Estimated costs for several projects exceeds seven hundred thousand dollars 246 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: per unit. They haven't, They've hardly built any transitional housing. 247 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: To get him detailed, that's the problem. I'll bring a 248 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: lot of minds of people. The problem is really what 249 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: you just said, that there's no transitional housing. There's no 250 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: taking people from the street and getting them into a 251 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: more controlled environment where they are away from dope, where 252 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: they are able to kind of stabilize. And then that 253 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: kind of true transitional housing can take several forms, and 254 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: then eventually at the end of all that, a permanent 255 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: supportive housing option may be a very very effective way, 256 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem to be to work well if 257 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: you're just taking a person right out of the tent 258 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: and putting them right into a permanent supportive housing where 259 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: in fact there is no rule about whether or not 260 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: they can use drugs, and so many oftentimes people end 261 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: up using drugs while they're in this permanent supportive housing. 262 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: You know, it just seems like the city government is 263 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: completely collapsed, that they just aren't capable of doing any 264 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: of this. You can write eloquently and you have about 265 00:15:54,760 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: the ideal, but they can't do anything. It seems to 266 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: be useful. It's it's it's an interesting So I answer 267 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: that it's an it's an interesting um stalemate. It seems 268 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: has has affected the city hall, where a lot of 269 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: politicians are very afraid of the I of activists, um 270 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: mainly because they're full timers. They don't stop, they're always, 271 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: you know, they're not they don't have another job essentially. 272 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: And and number two, it seems to me that that 273 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: on the other side, there's a lot of people who 274 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: look at look at our tent encountenance, look at what's 275 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: happening in are you know, along the freeways or in 276 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: mon Ventas Beach or everywhere we see it all over, 277 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: and wonder, how on earth this is okay, How on 278 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: earth this is a proper result? This is a result 279 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: that we want. And I think a lot of people 280 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: are beginning to really see this is I can be 281 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: a very compassionate person, but I don't see how in 282 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: minds of a lot of people. I don't see how 283 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: when I'm seeing on the street equals compassion. Yeah, and 284 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: so well, we're running out of time. Sam, you wrote 285 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: another good part here because I know this is part 286 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: of your research about the drugs in particularly meth, and 287 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: you talk here about how in twenty thirteen the traffickers 288 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: in Mexico mastered something called P two P which allowed 289 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: them to make far more of the drug and make 290 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: it even more potent, and the price really dropped, and 291 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: this had a big effect on places like skid Row. Yeah. 292 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: P two P is the is an ingredient in one 293 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: way of making metham stutament. That's a fairly old method. 294 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: They didn't need to use it because they had another 295 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: ingredient or another method is far easier for a long time. 296 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: But now the Mexican government put the kabash on mat 297 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: on that ingredient, and so they switched to this method 298 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: of making method stutoment that requires this ingredient called P 299 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: two P. The one benefit really to them of this 300 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: is that if you have the chemicals, you can make 301 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: twop yourself. You don't need any any them actual chemical 302 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: and you can make it in such enormous quantities that 303 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: you can then just dwarf any any production that you 304 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: used to make with the other methods with the other method, 305 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: you can make it with P two P. And so 306 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: what you're finding is the supplies out of Mexico since 307 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: oh nine, but really since about twenty twelve thirteen when 308 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: there was a widespread mastery of this method, have spread 309 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: in quantities that they are just staggering all across the 310 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: country where where Mexican methom foundomen never used to reach, 311 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: say before two thousand and thirteen. You're seeing it in Kentucky, 312 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: you're seeing in Vermont, You're seeing it in various places 313 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: all across the country. But one of the first places 314 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: it landed in a huge way was skid Row LA 315 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: in about twenty thirteen. By two thousand and fifteen, people 316 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: in the streets, their constants on tell me that by 317 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: two thou fifteen, it had actually replaced crack as the 318 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: dominant drug on skid Row, which crack had been in charge. 319 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: Kind of skid row for thirty years at that point, 320 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: and now it's really a secondary importance. Meth is the 321 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: thing because the supplies out of Mexico are so just staggering, 322 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: there's so much of it, and that's why on the 323 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: street very often it is almost free. The problem is, 324 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: of course, it creates these symptoms of as I was saying, 325 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: of schizophrenia, and it's doing so where wherever this meth reached, 326 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: as it reached across the country, whenever it reached say 327 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 1: into Kentucky or into West Virginia or what have you, 328 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: you found it created homelessness and it also created this 329 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: rapid onset symptoms of schizophrenia, basically meth and deuce psychosis. 330 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: All right, Sam, we gotta go, Wille, thank you so 331 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 1: much for talking to us. Lamag dot com is where 332 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: you can find Sam Knoas story, skid Ronation, how LA's 333 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: homelessness crisis response spread across the country. Thanks for talking 334 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: to us, my pleasure guy. Thank you. Now he turned 335 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. Joe Biden made a speech today on 336 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: the economy. We're gonna play with a very short clip. 337 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: See if you can figure out what's wrong. Let me 338 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: start off with two hours may in America, made an America. 339 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: Not a joke. Ma'st not hied Berboly. I'm not joking 340 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: about that. And you know, you know he said that 341 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: like twice in a day. We'll give you the other quote. 342 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: Not a joke, He'll have just say, not a joke. 343 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: Did you pick out what was wrong? John? No? Um, okay, 344 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: let's then play it again. Let me start off with 345 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: two hours. Oh, I got it made in America. No, 346 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: that'd be three made in America. I got it now. 347 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: Ma's not hied Berboly, I'm not joking about that. You 348 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: think I was on the teleprompter, sobo he miswrote it? 349 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Or did he just off the top of his head 350 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: two words made in America. Well, well maybe he combined 351 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: maiden maiden made made in America made. Yes, he also 352 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: said the same thing, and this got walked back. I 353 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: know you hate that phrase. Yeah, by the White House 354 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: Press secretary today this is really making the rounds. He 355 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not joking. See 356 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: there it is again when he talks about the potential 357 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological chemical weapons because 358 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: his military is you might say significantly underperforming. We haven't 359 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: faced the prospect of arm again like this since Kennedy 360 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: and the Cuban Missile crisis. Clearly, this became a big 361 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: story overnight. So well, you know what's weird is the 362 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: Cuban missile crisis, which was from nineteen sixty two, and 363 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: that's when the Russians put missiles in Cuba, which is 364 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 1: ninety miles from Florida. And were they nuclear? I don't 365 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: think they were. Were they We didn't know? I mean 366 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: the way this is written, it suggests that it was. Yeah, 367 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 1: maybe we didn't. I have to look it up. But 368 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: the thing is that that was a really dramatic episode 369 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: in American history. In fact, they made like television shows 370 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: and movies out of it, and there were many documentaries 371 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: because it was a test of John Kennedy when he 372 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: was very young and inexperienced, against the Nikita Kruscheff, who 373 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: who was old and cold and ruthless, and everybody was 374 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: scared that Kennedy wouldn't make the right decisions, wouldn't be 375 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: able to stand up to Cruz Jeff, and he would 376 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: end up destroying America. And it was a real standoff, 377 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: and that was that was extreme tension. That really was 378 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: the world on the brink of maybe ending. For him 379 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: to say right now is just like the sixty two crisis. 380 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't feel that way. It's not being covered that way. 381 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: In fact, the first thing is did he really mean that? 382 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: And and the White House officials are going, we don't, no, no, 383 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: he didn't really mean that. Now now and if he 384 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: didn't mean it because he's senile, which is what I 385 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: think is happening U, then you realize we got a 386 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: president who's announcing armageddon just casually, randomly, without any real provocation. 387 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: It's it's the sixty two Cuban missile crisis. Again. Spokes 388 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 1: Hal said today, we have not seen any reason to 389 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have 390 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: indications that Russia is preparing to immediately use nuclear weapons. 391 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. That's the opposite of what the 392 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: president said. Now, the press secretary is just a hired hack, 393 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: so she's saying that we're he created another fire though 394 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: that they wanted to put out. Oh well, this is 395 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: not This is not a good thing to have a 396 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: president announcing that we're on the on the verge of 397 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: nuclear armageddon. Into the world as we know it. Yes, Well, 398 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: if somebody's got to put him in a net, take 399 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 1: him away. What if he wanders out and declares war 400 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: against Russia or announces we are going to fire nuclear weapons. 401 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: Maybe it is fevered, in fevered reminance of his brain. 402 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: He thinks we are at the Virgin nuclear war. Maybe 403 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: he must have believed what he said. Right. And another 404 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: fire that the president's trying to put out is the border. 405 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: So we have some audio from a Democratic US Senator 406 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly from Arizona. Arizona, like Texas, is getting overwhelmed 407 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: at the border right now with migrants. He is in 408 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 1: a fierce reelection campaign to try to hold on to 409 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: his seat in Arizona. So he's having a debate with 410 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: his opponent, and this is what he said about Biden 411 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: and the border. I've been strong on border security, and 412 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: I've stood up to Democrats when they're wrong on this issue. 413 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: It sounds including by the way, including the president. You know, 414 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: when the President decided he was going to do something 415 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: dumb on this and change the rules, you know that 416 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: would create a bigger crisis. You know, I told him 417 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: he was wrong. That's it. He just told him. He 418 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: was wrong. Yeah, you couldn't have been more forceful. You 419 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: weren't on the news every day explaining what he's taught 420 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: talking about is reversing of the Trump policies system going 421 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: on for a year and a half. This is what 422 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: helped open up the border. Except quietly in a room, 423 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: you go, mister president, you're wrong. Yeah, And I think 424 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: right now with Kelly Buddy didn't say anything the last year. 425 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: But now he's in a tough reelection fight and Arizona 426 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: is another ground zero place he's got to say. Of 427 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: course I pointed this out. It was dumb to roll 428 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: back the immigration rules. All right, that's what he did. 429 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: That's what Biden did it since he came into office, 430 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: right And I think his opponent in that race, Blake Masters, 431 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: said well, then you know you must be the most 432 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: ineffective senator in history. If, yeah, you didn't. You didn't 433 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 1: affect any chance. You didn't get Biden to go back 434 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: to some of the policies dealing with asylum and things 435 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: like that. And believe me, if you had a number 436 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: and wouldn't have to be that many of Democratic senators 437 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: who were going out every day and criticizing the border 438 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: and demanding and taking the news media down there. If 439 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: you had a significant number or this would end. But 440 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: all these Democratic candidates have their nose up Biden's butt, 441 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: and nobody wants to offend because you know, he's the 442 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: leader of my party's he is my president. And so 443 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: this is what I said. This the ovidioto pisses me 444 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: off about all these people in public life. They know better. 445 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly knows this is a disaster. So do most 446 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: of the other Democrats outside of the whack jobs who 447 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: want this to happen because they want to destroy America's 448 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: standing in the world because we're legitimate, right, there's a 449 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: group like that, But most of them who were normal, no, 450 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: this is terrible. Eric Adams knows it's terrible in New 451 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 1: York City, and now that the problem was dumped on him, 452 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 1: he's starting to squawk. But if it wasn't dumped on him, 453 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: he wouldn't be saying anything. We were talking in the 454 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: last segment that Joe Biden is claiming we're on the 455 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: virgin of armageddon, most dangerous nuclear situation since the Cuban 456 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: missile crisis in nineteen sixty two, and I checked, Yes, 457 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: the Russians were caught through spy photography. They were building 458 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: nuclear missiles that they were going to launch out of Cuba, Okay, 459 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: and they were it would have been able to shoot 460 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: them to the east coast because they were upset. Now, 461 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: I mean Florida's right there too. Everybody was worried. We 462 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: had nuclear missiles in Turkey and Western I were trying 463 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: to think of what the range of missiles was, you know, 464 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: sixty years ago in terms of being able to shoot 465 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 1: off from Russia to hit US. But having them in 466 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: Cuba that clearly would make it nervous because they would 467 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: have the range to do that to hit the US. 468 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: So that's so I wondered. But yeah, then Kennedy made 469 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: a deal remove the Cuban missiles and we will not 470 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: invade Cuba, and he also secretly agreed to remove missiles 471 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: from Turkey. I'm looking at it side by side stories, 472 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: Fox News, El Segundo Times. This is about the stabbing 473 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: that occurred yesterday on the Las Vegas Strip. We're two 474 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: people were killed and six others were injured. The suspect 475 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: and it's not really a question this is the killer 476 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: is Yanni Bodios. Now. The Times reports that he took 477 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: a bus Thursday morning to the Wind Hotel to inquire 478 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: about a job, and he approached the showgirls and he 479 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: told him he was a chef, and he asked if 480 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: they would take a picture with him and his knife. 481 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: He thought they were laughing at him, making fun of 482 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: his clothing, and then he stabbed two and then he 483 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: went on a stabbing rampage and stabbed several other people. 484 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: One of the showgirls, mariss Diovanni, died from her injuries. 485 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: He was quote let looking to let the anger out, 486 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: and he attacked several of the people and he fatally 487 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: stabbed amand by the name of Brent Hallett in the back. 488 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: Eight victims in total, two dead, six injured. He was 489 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: arrested a short time later, and then you know, the 490 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: time story goes on to talk about more of the 491 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: details with the show girls, and they just felt uncomfortable 492 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: and backed away from him. And that's why he went nuts, 493 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: because I get they were saying, now he withdrew the 494 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: knife if you've seen his picture to his little shocking 495 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: looking Barrios traveled from California two days before the attacks, 496 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: went to the strip after he was told by a 497 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: Freddy couldn't stay at his house. He asked a janitor 498 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: at the hotel to contact immigration authorities he could go 499 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: back to Guatemala. He also told a security guard he 500 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: was trying to sell knives he could make money to 501 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: go back home. Now Fox News has made it clear 502 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: that this stabbing suspect is in the country illegally. The 503 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: Times kind of danced around it, right, Yes, contact immigration authorities, 504 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,719 Speaker 1: I want to go back to Guatemala. Yeah, nobody an 505 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: illegal ailigen and he's probably a vagrant too, because he 506 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: got kicked out of the house he was staying in. 507 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: He had nowhere to go. He ends up in Vegas. 508 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: He can't get a job. The show girls he thinks 509 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: of making fun of him, so he snapped and he 510 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: started stabbing people. That's what happened, and that's why it's 511 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: so difficult. It is so difficult to do this job 512 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: because you get to Los Angeles Times and you know 513 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: you're not getting the full truth and you're not getting 514 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: it presented in a clear way. The lead paragraph should 515 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: be an illegal alien, homeless person stabbed to people to 516 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: death and injured six others. So right away you know 517 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: why this happened. We have it happened because we have 518 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: an open border. We have it because laws aren't enforced 519 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: and homeless people can wander around and do what they want. 520 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: And it was a random attack. It wasn't a family member, 521 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: it wasn't you know, some other domestic situation. It wasn't 522 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: a robbery. It was just a lunatic allowed to wander 523 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: the streets. And we have enough of our own lunatics. 524 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: We don't need them coming over the border. The La 525 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: Times won't tell us that. Now. Again, well there's one 526 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: more nugget makes it give Times completely ignored. And Fox 527 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: News doesn't have the details, but says, not only was 528 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: he in the country illegally, he's got a criminal record 529 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: in California. Like to know what that is. Yeah, I 530 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: don't think they were able to obtain any details on 531 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: it yet. And The Times didn't even mention that he 532 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: has a criminal record in California. But he was here first, 533 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: he made his way to Vegas. They either didn't do 534 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: the work to find out, or they did the work 535 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: and want to cover it up because again, they don't 536 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: print truth anymore. And this goes on in many stories 537 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: all day long on their website or in every print edition. 538 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: If you're still reading, it's all day and it's subtle. 539 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: There's some of the information there late in the story, 540 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: and it's it's in a word salad, it's in gobbledegook. 541 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: It's just enough for them to say, well, we addressed 542 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: that issue. I believe it was implied. It's like no, yeah, 543 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: because he contacted a janitor and said he wants to 544 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: get back to Guatemala. Up there you go. You see 545 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: that's his native country. That gives you the idea he 546 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: might be in this country illegally, not necessarily, but you know, 547 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: you got to you gotta decode all this. Like when 548 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: I'm looking at La Times stories, I'm going very slowly 549 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: and trying to decode it, and I'm looking you have 550 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: to read the whole story because you got to find 551 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: out where the real meat of it is that they're burying. 552 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: Or they have like a string of wordy euphemisms to 553 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 1: describe a certain condition, or you know, the well like 554 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: this like this immigration, this legal alien right? How complicated 555 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: do they make it to try to figure out what's 556 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: going on? Are we contact immigration authorities to get back 557 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: to Guatemala? What are they travel agents? One earlier version 558 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: of the story was that a security guard one of 559 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: the casinos there just told him to a step in 560 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 1: front of a train, get out of here. It's a 561 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,479 Speaker 1: little unfriendly, yeah, not a little unfriendly. Yes, But that 562 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: wasn't Las Vegas hospitality there. 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