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It's the podcast on the 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: iHeart app pad. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 2: No excuse for not hearing us its openings on the Moistline. 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 2: Use the app the microphone icon to leave a message 10 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: for the John and Ken Moistline or called the toll 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: free number and do that one eight seven seven moist 12 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 2: eighty six. 13 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 3: One eight seven seven six six four seven eighty eighty six. 14 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 2: We're gonna bring on Blake Trolley from KFI News is 15 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: gonna tell us about this LA City Council vote to 16 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: expand their anti camping law to a couple of locations 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: in Woodland Hills dealing with the homeless problem. 18 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 3: Blake. 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually pretty much one location. It's one two 20 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 4: block area. I think just the way the zoning's written 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 4: it it kind of reads as two locations. But really, guys, 22 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 4: this is just two block area. Near it is a 23 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 4: trader Joe's and a hotel this past nine to five 24 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 4: today banning this camp. The five dissenting votes came from 25 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 4: city council members Marquise Harris Dawson, Eunica Hernandez, Nithia Rahman, 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 4: Hugo Soda Martinez, Katie Jaroslavsky. The camp, which sources tell 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 4: me has been around for two years again, sits behind 28 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 4: a hotel and a Trader Joe's, and it's just close 29 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 4: to a general business area. It's not the largest camp 30 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 4: at this time. When I actually when I pulled up 31 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 4: to it, I thought it was going to be a 32 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 4: lot bigger. But I've been told there actually was quite 33 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 4: a bit of outreach prior to this ban, and really 34 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 4: the people that are still there have just been stubborn 35 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 4: to leave. They don't want to accept the services and 36 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 4: the housing that Councilman Bob Bloomenfield's office has been trying 37 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 4: to offer. Counselman Bob Blumenfield, I spoke with him today. 38 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 4: He says his office has actually been at this for 39 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 4: months trying to get these people housed. Now, the reason 40 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 4: that Bloomenfield cided for this forty one eighteen is crime. 41 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 4: That is a reason that they can implement forty one eighteen. 42 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 4: A lot of times we see sensitive areas, but in 43 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 4: this case it was crime. I'm told there's been a 44 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 4: lot of crime there, including somebody being stabbed in the 45 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 4: eye with a screwdriver. 46 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, and yes that's crime. 47 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 4: Councilman Bloemifield. I spoke again. I spoke with him today. 48 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 4: He broke down more of these issues with me. If 49 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 4: we can go to buy one this. 50 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 5: Area has We've more than documented the criminal activity there was. 51 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 5: There's been a rape, there has been a attempted murder, 52 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 5: there has been a stabbing, there was all sorts of 53 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 5: drug activity. 54 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 3: Two years. It's not it's not a close call. 55 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 5: This this you know, preventing encampments in this location, to 56 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 5: prevent that kind of criminal activity from from continuing, is 57 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 5: critically important. 58 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,519 Speaker 4: Now, guys, again, I visited the homeless camp today. I 59 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 4: also visited surrounding businesses. I spoke with five businesses. All 60 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 4: said every single one of them said that they've had issues. 61 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: We'll go to this first story. This woman's husband owns 62 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 4: a restaurant. We'll go to her account on bite two. 63 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 6: I think we've been really lucky. I've heard a lot 64 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 6: of terrible things. I mean, the worst thing that's happened 65 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 6: to me is a homeless woman walked in and cursed 66 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 6: me out and walked out with a bunch of beverages 67 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 6: and I just let her go. 68 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 4: Stole a bunch of beverages and walked out. Yeah, was 69 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: that frustrating though a little bit. 70 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 6: But my husband said that it's not a big deal, 71 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 6: just let it go, so I did. 72 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 4: And when you look at her restaurant, she had this 73 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 4: like refrigerator, so she had the bottled soda, walked in, 74 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 4: cussed her out, grabbed the soda, and walk down just 75 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 4: a couple of doors over. Manager Kim Maiden, who manages 76 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 4: Pickwick's Pub, she really gave me a detail account of 77 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,119 Speaker 4: what her business is going through right now. 78 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 7: Bite three. 79 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 8: We have so many issues. We have homeless coming through 80 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 8: our doors all the time, coming in here, wandering around, 81 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 8: scaring customers, and they tend to not want to leave 82 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 8: and they'll sit to the side of the restaurant and 83 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 8: just hang out there. We're having crazy amounts of drugs 84 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 8: coming through, which has been so difficult because we're such 85 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,839 Speaker 8: a family establishment and people homeless come in here because 86 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 8: they want to use the bathrooms and do drugs in 87 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 8: the bathrooms and walk out and thrash our bathrooms. 88 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 7: Are you finding paraphernalia in your bathrooms? 89 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 8: We have fauth paraphernalia from people just coming in, and 90 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 8: so we have to double check the bathrooms pretty much 91 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 8: every five minutes because obviously they can come through the 92 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 8: back door and we never know that they've come in. 93 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 7: What do you think this does to business? Is this 94 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 7: hurting business for you guys? 95 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 3: It is? 96 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 8: I mean we're lucky in the sense of we keep 97 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 8: this such a family establishment. My staff are on it 98 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 8: all the time, and you know, we really take care 99 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 8: of the place. So we try hard to make sure 100 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 8: that none of it's really seen to the public eye. 101 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 8: But for the staff it's scary. We close early. I 102 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 8: close early now compared to midnight. We close at ten o'clock, 103 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 8: just so that my staff are safe, obviously because there's 104 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 8: a lot of drugs around here. 105 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 7: This is what doing the math, I mean two hours 106 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 7: of business. 107 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 4: This is a bar obviously ten to midnight, that's like 108 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: you know primetime, that's like morning radio of a bar. 109 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 7: So how much I mean, how much money do you 110 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 7: things walking out the door? 111 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 4: Or is not making it at this point of your 112 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 4: business because of those lost two hours. 113 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 8: Gosh, probably a good thousand a night that you could 114 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 8: probably bring in, but it's just not worth that. Staff, 115 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 8: safety's everything. 116 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 7: So there you go, a thousand dollars a night potentially. 117 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: And why didn't pick Bob Bluman felt two years to 118 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: close this down? I mean he admitted there was a murder, 119 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: there was somebody stabbed in the eye, there's a rape. 120 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 3: Two years it took. 121 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 7: Him, Yeah, I mean, you know, why don't get this? 122 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 3: What do you mean two years? You know? Again? 123 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 4: I think I think part of the effort was he 124 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 4: was trying to get outreach now that that was not 125 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 4: successful with these last stubborn you know, homeless encampments. 126 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: So arrest them, arrest them, say this is off limits, 127 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: this is an illegal encampment. 128 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 3: Why I don't understand. 129 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: People have to die, people have to get their eye 130 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: gouged out. 131 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 7: There's been a lot of issues with this, John. 132 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the manager, the sales manager for 133 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 4: the Marriott that's near this encampment spoke out ahead of 134 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 4: this and he said he's lost employees and businesses because 135 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 4: of the camp. 136 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 7: I actually spoke to people today who work at the hotel. 137 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 4: They didn't want to be named, they didn't want to 138 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 4: go on air, but they did give me some of 139 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 4: the accounts of what the hotel, this Marriott is dealing with. 140 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 4: They said people have been jumping the fence, hopping into 141 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 4: the pool, bathing in front of guests. 142 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 3: Ohoa. 143 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 4: They say they actually have to lock their doors in 144 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 4: the daytime, so those sliding glass doors are used to 145 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 4: when you pull up to a hotel, those do not 146 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 4: open automatically. You have to have a key, and homeless 147 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 4: people have been sneaking in behind guests. 148 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: How is Marriott powerless against the La City government. Well, 149 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: I mean there's no business interest that has any juice 150 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: to get the council to. 151 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 3: Stop this garbage. 152 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: It took two years and there's still people standing around there. 153 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 4: I think the issues really ramped up more recently. I 154 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 4: think the camp's been there for two years. The issues 155 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 4: have really recently more become a problem. But one thing 156 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 4: I wanted, one thing I do want to point out 157 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 4: is I did ask Bob Luminfield about this. I said, 158 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 4: you know, given what we've just heard all this testimonial, 159 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 4: why do you think people were against the vote. 160 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 7: If we can go to bite four. 161 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 4: Why do you think five council members voted to oppose 162 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 4: forty one to eighteen in this camp? 163 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 7: You know, I was just in the area. I went 164 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 7: to I. 165 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 4: Believe four businesses, maybe five, and every single one of 166 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 4: them said that they had issues with this camp. 167 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. 168 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 5: Well, obviously I don't want to get in the head 169 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 5: of my colleagues, and you could talk to them directly. 170 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 3: But I don't think. 171 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 5: Any of them were voting no specifically because of this encampment. 172 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 5: I think they were voting no philosophically because they don't 173 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 5: believe that you should prevent people from raping, being in 174 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 5: encampments murdering. He to only leave encampments voluntarily stabbing people 175 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 5: in the eye. I don't believe him. It's a different 176 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 5: philosophical view. I think we should shut up, you know. 177 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 5: I think everybody has a right to housing, but not 178 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 5: a right to be anywhere that they want to be 179 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 5: that and that when we have a situation like we 180 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 5: had here with serious crime implications, that we have an 181 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 5: obligation to do something about it. 182 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: Bloomingfield really is an idiot. I mean, he really is 183 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: a bloomin idiot. I think everybody has a right to housing. No, 184 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: you have to earn your your housing. There's never going 185 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: to be enough government housing to deal with They grant 186 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: drug addict and psycho stop it. 187 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 4: One of the things I did ask him about, and 188 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 4: I guess I am curious about this. This is just 189 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 4: an open question is did the other council members, so 190 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 4: all five of them who voted against us, have they 191 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 4: have they visited this site? It kind of does beg 192 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 4: the question, right because when once you visit one of 193 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 4: these sites, you speak with the business owners, you get 194 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:19,239 Speaker 4: an idea of what's going. 195 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 9: On in the area. 196 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 4: You kind of wonder if people voting on everybody voting 197 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 4: on this has had all of that information, all of 198 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 4: those accounts. 199 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 3: Oh, it's the same crowd votes know on all of them. 200 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: They're insane, they don't care about the encampment's they're insane. 201 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: They're not in any way connected to reality and sanity 202 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: and decency. 203 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do with them very much. 204 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: All right, Thanks guys like Trolly KFI News reporting on 205 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 2: a vote by the La City Council nine to five 206 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 2: to approve an anti camping law to apply to a 207 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: location in Woodland Hills. 208 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 3: As you heard, somebody got stabbed in the eye with 209 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 3: a screwdriver. There's been raped, been going on for. 210 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: Too long, and even a pretty far out there councilman 211 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 2: by the name of Bob Blumenfield. 212 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 3: He's the one that entered. Who's the resolution you went 213 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: to this stables. 214 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 10: I go to that Trader Joe's every week and last weekend, 215 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 10: as a matter of fact, there were a ton of 216 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 10: these campers right behind the Trader Joe's and myself and 217 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 10: a few people we stopped because we saw these homeless people. 218 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 10: It looked like they were either maybe beating a child 219 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 10: or a dog, so we were all kind of watching 220 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 10: to see what was going on. But then it looked 221 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 10: like maybe it was like a box. It was the 222 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 10: craziest thing. It's so scary, but it has grown because 223 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 10: I've seen a few campers there, but last weekend it 224 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 10: was crazy. 225 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 11: All right. 226 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: More coming up Johnny Ken kf I AM six forty 227 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: Live Everywhere iHeartRadio app. 228 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 12: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 229 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 12: AM six forty. 230 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: We're on the air from one till four. After four o'clock. 231 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: You go to the podcast Johnny canon demand. I just 232 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: want to add one thing to the homeless discussion, we 233 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: had the Blake trolley because they're apparently kicking the homeless 234 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: out of a couple of blocks in Woodland Hills, and 235 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: it was right where at Debra Shops at Trader Joe's. 236 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: Today today, I'm in Sherman Oaks. I'm near that zone 237 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: that we've done all those homeless stories on recently, and 238 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: I'm in line at the in and out and a 239 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: crazy homeless man is standing on the right side of 240 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: the line and I'm trapped in But it's the worst 241 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: place to be when there's an almemless guy causing an issue. 242 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: Is you cannot get out of a drive through line, 243 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: can't back up, can't go forward. You've got grasp medians 244 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: and curbs and all kinds of structures. And I'm trapped 245 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, oh, man, because he is sticking his 246 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: head right up to the window of people and he's got, 247 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: you know, and he's dressed all in black with a 248 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: black backpack and a hoodie on and black sunglasses, and 249 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: like there'd be no way to identify him, right if 250 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 1: he did something and took off. 251 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 2: And these are your un housed neighbors, Please welcome them 252 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: into your life. 253 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: I didn't like this neighbor. I was getting nervous about this. 254 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 1: I was thinking, man, if he comes to dear me, 255 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: I'll just run over his feet. You know, I'm not 256 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: going to be merely looking for human outreach. He is 257 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: sitting duck and he was harassing a woman who was 258 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: walking by to get to her car in the parking lot. 259 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, man, they ought to have a security 260 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: guard here. Well, as soon as I had the thought, 261 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: here comes a security guard sauntering along. He had gone 262 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: inside the in and out to get a drink. 263 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 3: He left his. 264 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,559 Speaker 1: Post, and he shoot the guy away and then kept 265 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: showing him away all the way out of the line, 266 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: out of the parking lot, out to the sidewalk, just 267 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: kept moving him down the road. And I'm thinking, all right, 268 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: he did show up and did his job, but this 269 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: is what you do. You keep shoe shoe shoo, keep going, 270 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: keep going, keep going. 271 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 2: All right, Well, we got a couple of good TV 272 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 2: reports to play for you as we continue the topic 273 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 2: of homelessness. 274 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 3: This one is. 275 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 2: From Fox eleven reporter Gena Silva. Where do you hear 276 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 2: what this nonprofit homeless outreach organization is doing? 277 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 11: These people are passing out crystal a mere pipe to 278 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 11: the homeless. 279 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 13: Tony Anthony couldn't believe it until he witnessed it himself 280 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 13: under the pipe. 281 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 11: No thank You'll appreciate that they have boxes other passing 282 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 11: it out, and I'm like, this a damn sun They 283 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 11: shouldn't be doing. 284 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 13: The workers from the nonprofit Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles riding 285 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 13: around in a golf cart through the streets of skid 286 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 13: Row passing out meth pipes Monday to father. 287 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 14: The broken used. 288 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 13: Pipes can be seen all over the place, a sickening 289 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 13: site for Tony, who lives in this area. 290 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: Look, I live. 291 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 11: Now, this is my community. 292 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: I want to see this. 293 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 13: The executive director of Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles refused an 294 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 13: interview with Box eleven News and wouldn't issue a statement, 295 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 13: but in a phone call, he said free meth pipes 296 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 13: is a safety issue and part of a harm reduction program, 297 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 13: similar to handing out clean needles. 298 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 3: They're passing out instruments of death. That's what they are, 299 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 3: instruments of death. 300 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 13: Well, this gentleman thinks it's a bad idea to pass 301 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 13: out math pipes to people experiencing homelessness. This man who 302 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 13: goes by the name Catfish. How many times have they 303 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 13: given you? 304 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 3: The front books. 305 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 14: Says it can save a life. 306 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 3: You the wrong pipe, I use the wrong pipe, You're 307 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: gonna die. 308 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 7: And you get the wrong needle and use the wrong needle, 309 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 7: you're gonna die. 310 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 3: I hope just my hair is saving your life and 311 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 3: a whole lot of other. 312 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 11: People that have safety issue you. If you walk down 313 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 11: skid row and see the people that's on methad fetter 314 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 11: mein and got thword all over their body, their teeth 315 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 11: falling out, bumps all over their face, running down the 316 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 11: street bug naked, there ain't no safety. They don't need 317 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 11: to be coming down here passing out these glass pipes. 318 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 15: When you enable people to stay in an addiction that 319 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 15: will kill them, that is not the right method. 320 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 7: In my opinion. 321 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 13: Andy Bail, president and CEO of Union Rescue Mission, believes 322 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 13: Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles is flat out wrong in their 323 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 13: approach to helping people living on the street. 324 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 15: Their philosophy is that people are free to do whatever 325 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 15: they want, and let's assist them in doing it in 326 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 15: a safe way. 327 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 7: Well, there is no. 328 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 15: Safe way to use a deadly substance, right There is 329 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 15: no safe supply of deadly feedanyl when even a little 330 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 15: speck of it can cause you to have an overdose death. 331 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 11: It's money and homelessness too. The mult people you dollar 332 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 11: on the street, the more the different organization get, the 333 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 11: more budget. 334 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 13: We looked into the financials of Homeless Healthcare. Los Angeles 335 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 13: tax records show in twenty sixteen, the nonprofit received five 336 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 13: point seven million dollars in government funding. 337 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 14: Three years later, it increased to eleven point nine million. 338 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 13: That same year, Homeless Healthcare reported a total revenue of 339 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 13: twelve point four million. Seven point two million of that 340 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 13: when to salaries and employee benefits. 341 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 11: Tell people in America, that's what I look at. You 342 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 11: can put it off on alcohol water one pipe where 343 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 11: they can your high. That's incurrently only good to get high. 344 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 13: Again, those who supported say this is a public health 345 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 13: practice that has existed for many years. We're just now 346 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 13: hearing about it, and they say again that it saves lives. 347 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,239 Speaker 13: Now we are told that a lot of local nonprofits 348 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 13: are doing the same thing, handing out free meth pipes 349 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 13: to people living in skid row. 350 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: It's all over their website. I just clicked it about 351 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 3: harm reduction. 352 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: Oh, but no, but that's a cover story for their racket. 353 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: They take in twelve million, seven million on salaries and benefits. 354 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: And you do not help anybody by feeding them a new. 355 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 3: Supply of meth. 356 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: By handing out new crack pipe or meth pipes, you 357 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: don't help anybody. 358 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 2: You heard the discersed on their website. On their website, 359 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: this is a first you can shop. You can buy 360 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: hoodies and hats and t shirts with their stuff. 361 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 7: That's right. 362 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,359 Speaker 3: It's a it's a business. 363 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: It is a business under the guise of a nonprofit 364 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: that kills people. When you hand out meth pipes to people, 365 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: it kills them. They'll die quicker. What an evil place. 366 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: I'm looking at their board of directors. The president is 367 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: Scott Fears. He's an MD and a PhD. Is the 368 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: associate professor of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration. 369 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 3: And at UCLA. Scott Fears, he's the president of this They're. 370 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: Intentionally handing out new meth pipes to people so they 371 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: can die of meth over doses. And they're making seven 372 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: million dollars in salary. That's what this is. The treasurer 373 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: guy in the middle of that story, was right. Telling 374 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: more for their budgets. That's what I'm telling you. This 375 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: is all a racket cookler. She's a fixed income investment 376 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: product manager with Capital Group. Jennifer lee Hyde a philanthropist. 377 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: Michael larr Is a past president of a Layer Architects 378 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: he's with, and then they have board members here. He's 379 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: another one, Doctor Carl King, a clinical psychologist. Roger Weiss, 380 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: a medical director from Pacific Host Psychiatric Associates. These are 381 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: all medical people handing out meth pipes so they could 382 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: die faster, and they're using our tax money. 383 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 2: The homeless industrial complex at work. More coming up, Johnny 384 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 2: KENKFI AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 385 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 12: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 386 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 12: AM six forty. 387 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: All right, Well, continuing television reports on the homelessness. We 388 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 2: just played you one unbelievable one from Fox eleven concerning 389 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 2: a nonprofit that's handing. 390 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 3: Out meth pipes. Two people on skid row. 391 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 2: Now this one, Ah brings us to Mayor Bassetti. We 392 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: haven't really talked about her in a while. Mayor Karen Bessett. 393 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 3: She isn't doing anything well. 394 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 2: She has this idea that we get to these problem 395 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 2: homeless encampments and we put these people in motels. NBC 396 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 2: four's investigative team, led by Joel Grover, did this story 397 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: on where some of these people are ending up and 398 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 2: it's not pretty. 399 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 3: Here we go. 400 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 9: When the city asked Kitty Plant to vacate her tent 401 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 9: in this Venison camp in last January and told her 402 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 9: boyfriend Thomas to pack up their stuff, it moved them 403 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 9: into the Los Angeles in motel to this room with 404 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 9: mold on the ceiling, bathroom pipes leaking on the floor, 405 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 9: and an ac unit falling off the wall. The couple 406 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 9: say their tent on Third Street was much cleaner than 407 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 9: their motel room. 408 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: I promise you this man made better accommodations for me 409 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,479 Speaker 1: on Third Street than they're making for us here innocense. 410 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 9: And most surprising is how much they say the city 411 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 9: is paying for their rundown motel room thirty six. 412 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 3: Hundred dollars a month. 413 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 9: That's more than this one bedroom apartment in West la 414 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 9: and way more than this one in Studio City. And 415 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 9: the city is paying even more at the Sahara Motel 416 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 9: for a room in good condition, where Faith Stevens is 417 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 9: being temporarily housed for forty one hundred dollars a month numbers. 418 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 3: The mayor didn't dispute. 419 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 14: This is not financially sustainable. 420 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 9: What do you think of all that money going to 421 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 9: a motel room. 422 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 14: I could be in a real apartment. 423 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 16: We're a one bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, and I 424 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 16: mean in a deluxe. 425 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 9: And for all that money, the Inside Safe program put 426 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 9: Faith in a second floor room, which she struggles to 427 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 9: get to because she's recovering from a car accident, even 428 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 9: though the day I met her, the owner said there 429 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 9: was this first floor room available. 430 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 3: What does it like to walk up and down those 431 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: stairs every day? 432 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 14: It hurts to have. 433 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 9: LA's mayor announced her Inside Safe program right after she 434 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 9: took office as a solution to end homeless encampments that 435 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 9: have cropped up all over La. Her plan was to 436 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 9: get the homeless off the streets quickly and into motels 437 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 9: until case managers can help find them permanent apartments. Can 438 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 9: you explain to taxpayers why they're paying so much for 439 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 9: these motel rooms. 440 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 16: We are doing it this way because, from the point 441 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 16: of view of most Angelinos, we have an emergency on 442 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 16: our streets and people need to get off the streets 443 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 16: and into housing asap. 444 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 9: The mayor is now budgeting two hundred and fifty million 445 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 9: dollars this next year for her Inside Safe program, but 446 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 9: admits the city can't keep paying so much to rent 447 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 9: those motel rooms. 448 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 16: So we're coming up with another way to provide housing, 449 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,919 Speaker 16: which is for us to enter into purchasing essentially motels 450 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 16: and hotels. 451 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 14: And needless to say, that takes a while. 452 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 9: And as for conditions at places like the Los Angeles Inn, 453 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 9: like mold on the ceiling and leaking pipes. Kitty and 454 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 9: Thomas would like the mayor to come visit. 455 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 14: I think that she might need to. 456 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 7: She might even say a night in one of these 457 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 7: and so she could see what we're saying in now. 458 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 9: Mayor Bess told me she will visit and address what's 459 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 9: going on. 460 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 16: The fact of the matter is, when we find out 461 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 16: the conditions are so poor, we will move the individuals. 462 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 14: We will look for other motels. 463 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 9: Most of the twelve hundred homeless people moved off La 464 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 9: Street since January remain in motels because they say no 465 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 9: one is helping them find permanent apartments. They say they 466 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 9: were promised they'd have a case manager assigned to them, 467 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 9: but that hasn't happened. 468 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 13: I've had three different people clubs me and tell me 469 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 13: that they're my case manager. 470 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, and I haven't really met with any of them. 471 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 9: But most of the unhoused I spoke with at various 472 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 9: motels remain hopeful. 473 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 3: I want to reiterate that I am grateful one million. 474 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 9: That the Inside Safe program will eventually get them an 475 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 9: apartment and a new life off the streets. 476 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 3: An amazing idea amazing program that they have. I want 477 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 3: to see it through, and they have my full cooperation. Well, 478 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 3: there's so much to unpack. I know that my mind 479 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 3: is reeling in twelve d years. 480 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 2: I don't know who to attack first, allest people betsetti, Okay, 481 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 2: you go ahead. 482 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, anybody who bitches about mold in 483 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: a motel room, you might want to get a job. 484 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: So you can pay for your own apartment and see 485 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 3: that you do better than go out and do better. 486 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 3: Don't stand there and say, oh, they're not giving me 487 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 3: a gun cut. 488 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: Place to live. My tent is better. You don't get 489 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: to live in a tent anymore. That just can't be 490 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: choosers cliche. Thank you, Yeah, I mean tents aren't an 491 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: option anymore. That's that's public areas. We don't want to 492 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: see tents in public areas anymore. So, yes, you get 493 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 1: to you go to the moldy hotel, and that's the 494 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: breaks again. 495 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 3: You go get a job tomorrow morning. There's plenty available. 496 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: Go working around, start scrubbing dishes, and work your way 497 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,360 Speaker 1: out of the Muldi motel. 498 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 3: I don't hear you're hearing this crap. 499 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 2: But what's also important in this story is the BASETI 500 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 2: plan is falling apart. Bassetti said, this isn't financially sustainable. 501 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 2: They're paying a lot for these motel rooms, which some 502 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 2: of them are apparently disgusting. But she's like, well, when 503 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 2: I became mayor, we decided it's an emergency. So the 504 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 2: priority is just get these people off the streets and 505 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 2: get them in any kind of housing, and then we'll 506 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 2: work on the long term housing. But that's very expensive. 507 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 2: You can take a long time. What's gonna happen if 508 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 2: this is true, some of these people are gonna leave 509 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 2: these motels because he'd heard those two people, we're better 510 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: off in our tent. That's I think what's slowly gonna happen. Yeah, 511 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 2: gonna unravel. 512 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 3: By the way, Joe Grover said, there was twelve hundred. 513 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 12: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI AM. 514 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 3: Six forty off the streets. That's nothing. 515 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: We've got well over forty thousand people living in the 516 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: streets of La so temporarily getting two percent off the streets. 517 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: And you're right, they're gonna end up get getting back 518 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: to their tents. 519 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, because it says no one's helping us find permanent apartments. 520 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: So they're just gonna give up and say, well, I 521 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 2: don't want to stay here anymore. And plus you remember 522 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 2: there were rules with some of these motels, and if. 523 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: She buys motels and you put these vagrants in there, 524 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: what are they gonna do. 525 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 3: They're gonna destroy the motels. That's another thing, something that 526 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 3: you're already destroyed. 527 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 1: But yeah, well right, but you're gonna you're gonna buy one. 528 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna spend a ton of money renovating, you know, 529 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: taking care of all the broken pipes and the mold 530 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: and the air conditioners falling off the wall. I mean, 531 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: that's exactly how that nonprofit skid Row Housing went out 532 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: of business because they couldn't keep up with all the 533 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: damage that the that the vagrants did to their new homes. 534 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: They kept destroying the apartments that skid Row Housing created 535 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: for them. 536 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 537 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 2: Well he really caught her, Joel Grover Bassetti, and acted like, well, 538 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 2: you know what am I gonna do? People said, just 539 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 2: do something. She had no, this was my idea to 540 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: make it look like we're doing something quickly. We're thrown 541 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 2: them into motels that are disgusting and we can't afford 542 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 2: them along. 543 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: She had no ideas because she has been a legislator 544 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: all her life. She's not a leader, she's not creative, 545 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: she has no ideas. She's not a real estate person. 546 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: So now she had the job, and she did exactly 547 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: what I thought. There'd be a few high profile Hey, 548 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: look what we're doing. We busted up this encampment and 549 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: that encampment. And if we've taken forty three people and 550 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,239 Speaker 1: we've put them there, and it's like everybody goes. 551 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 3: I remember, they did their. 552 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: Ninety day victory dance right ninety days in her term. 553 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: And since the ninety days, she's gone off the choiet 554 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: and they haven't done much more because they have nowhere 555 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: to put these people, and it costs too much to 556 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: put them anywhere, and these people behaved very badly. 557 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 2: It all comes back to the same thing. You got 558 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 2: to make these people responsible for themselves. Listen to all 559 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 2: their problems too. It's always these long. 560 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 3: Stories of all my hard shifts. What am I gonna do? Yeah? 561 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: Meantime, you have these these stupid, big, dangerous, destructive nonprofits 562 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: handing out meth pipes. I'm not done with that nonprofit. 563 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: There ought to be more coverage of that there. That's 564 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: a dangerous racket. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. 565 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: And you have some UCLA doctor who's the president, Why God, 566 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: that is crying out for an investigation, maybe a criminal investigation. 567 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 3: Handing out meth pipes to dying drug addicts. It's harm reduction. 568 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 3: How is that different? Heard that guy in the story 569 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 3: say you could get a bad pipe? 570 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: How is handing a meth pipe to a meth addict 571 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: different than than giving FENTONYL to somebody and killing them. 572 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 3: All Right, we got more coming up. Johnny KENKFI AM 573 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 3: six forty Live Everywhere iHeartRadio app. 574 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 12: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 575 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,360 Speaker 12: AM six forty. 576 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: There's talk about AM radio being removed from new cars 577 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: and trucks. What if there's a natural disaster, text is 578 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,439 Speaker 1: not gonna help you. No substitute for broadcast radio, And uh, 579 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: we're on twenty four to seven until the emergency passes. 580 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: And that's assuming the sound networks or even up and running, 581 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: which often they're not. 582 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 3: When emergencies occur. 583 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: Local broadcast radio KFI provides wal to wall coverage, life 584 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: saving information, and a live connection in the crisis, and 585 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: we stay on in the aftermath. Make your voice heard 586 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: on this issue. Text the letters AM to five two 587 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: eight eighty six AM, Text it to five two eight 588 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: eighty six, and tell Congress to keep AM radio in 589 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: all cars and trucks. Standard message and data rates apply. 590 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 3: Oh I just remembered Happy birthday to the Duke of Sports. 591 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, thank you Eric. Congratulations, thank he is seventeen today. 592 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 17: I wish, I wish take gratulations your birthday. 593 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,479 Speaker 3: I can. It's over tonight, it better be. I'm going 594 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 3: to be very upset if they lose on my birthday. 595 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 3: Oh that point, that'll be, That'll be the rallying crime. 596 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 11: Yeah. 597 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 3: I will be at a bar watching the game. So 598 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 3: because she did say Lakers and seven the other day 599 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 3: I did. 600 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 17: Yes, that was my original prediction. That the series has 601 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 17: gone unlike how I predicted. But I'm okay with how 602 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 17: it's going. All right, very good. I like a grown 603 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 17: man that celebrates his birthday. There's something nice about that. 604 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 17: What's wrong with that? I mean, hey, I made it 605 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 17: to twenty nine. That's that's an accomplishment in and of it, 606 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 17: in of it of itself. 607 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 3: You know, as long as you make birthdays only for children, huh, 608 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 3: yeah it is. It's totally true. But look, Mosquitoes have birthdays. 609 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 3: Mosquito birthday. They only a few months, right. 610 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 18: But they have a birthday. They were born on a break, 611 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 18: Yes they do. Don't think they end up celebrating it. 612 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 17: No, they don't. Every time they run into me. They 613 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 17: don't celebrate their next one. 614 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 18: Right, Wow, you can't do that in twenty twenty three, 615 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 18: you kill mosquitos. Yes, cancel, that's fine, cancel. And so 616 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 18: all right tonight, we've got the Dean Sharp coming on. 617 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 18: He's always cool. And then a very funny comedian, Ornie Adams, 618 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 18: very funny comic coming out at six o'clock. People playing 619 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 18: at the Hollywood improv tonight is Ornie Ornie Adams. Yeah, 620 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 18: I think you would like him. 621 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 3: Ken. 622 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 7: I think he's he's sort of like. 623 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 3: I just never heard that first name before, Ornie. Yeah, Ornie. 624 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 18: I think it's short for Orenthal, and you could understand 625 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 18: maybe why he changed it. 626 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 3: Yes, you're right, that connotation there, yeh, that's right. 627 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 18: Yeah, Like Doug Steckler said he had changed his name 628 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 18: his his legal birth name when he was born. His 629 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 18: parents game an odd name. His legal birth name was 630 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 18: eight off bad Sex. That's a really bad name. Horrible, right, 631 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 18: that's the worst day. Hey, meet a guy in the bar. Hey, 632 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 18: what's your name? Adolf bad Sex? Wow, jeez, you're not 633 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 18: going to get a date there, and then the strike continues. 634 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 18: We'll talk about that, okay, Conway doors. 635 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 3: Lakers come ons. 636 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 2: That's right, you're done, so good for you. 637 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 3: Las and five Crusher with the News Life from the 638 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 3: twenty four hour Cafe News Room. 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