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Speaker 1: coming up after two o'clock. Hown't know what I do

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Speaker 1: with it. Oh, here it is. I know what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do. I just forget the word. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: the Echo Park Lake vagrant situation where two hundred people

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Speaker 1: were kicked out of the park discussed encampment and you

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Speaker 1: had insane activists terrorizing the neighbors because they were so

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Speaker 1: allegedly angry over this. Well, they put up a chain

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Speaker 1: link fence around Echo Park Lake. But the old city councilman,

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Speaker 1: the cruise ship dancer, mitcho Farrell is gone. And now

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Speaker 1: they have this communist guy who's the councilman, Hugo Sodo Martinez,

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Speaker 1: and he wants the chain link fence taken down. And

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Speaker 1: then what's going to happen? Wow, there's all kinds of rhetoric.

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Speaker 1: He's very unhappy that the unhoused have been their little

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Speaker 1: encampments have been disrupted. So, boy, you're you're in for

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Speaker 1: hard times an Echo Park Lake because of the nut

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Speaker 1: you elected. We'll explain all this coming up, Johnny kenshow

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Speaker 1: CAFI city councilman was MITCHO Farrell, better known as the

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Speaker 1: cruise ship Dancer because that's what he used to be.

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Speaker 1: Not very bright, but you know, he's running for reelection

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Speaker 1: and he thought, Wow, everybody's mad at me. I'd better

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Speaker 1: get the homeless people out of the park, which he

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Speaker 1: did and then he anyway, and what replaced him was

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Speaker 1: this councilman, Hugo Soto Martinez. Now you may you may think,

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Speaker 1: and I understand why you think, is that our show

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Speaker 1: is just full of hyperbole. Right, call people names. It's

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Speaker 1: just a lot of hyperbolean exaggeration. And I understand why

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Speaker 1: you might think that. But it's not true. If we

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Speaker 1: call somebody a socialist or a communist, it's because they

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Speaker 1: actually are where they have beliefs which line up very closely.

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Speaker 1: And one guy that we've told you about is now

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Speaker 1: the new councilman, Hugo Soto Martinez. Now Hugo Soto Martinez

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Speaker 1: is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Well,

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Speaker 1: they could drop the word democratic. They are, it's a

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Speaker 1: socialist organization. In fact, they say so if you go

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Speaker 1: on the website. When he was running for office, they

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Speaker 1: put an announcement saying DSA LA endorses our chapter comrade

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Speaker 1: Hugo Soto Martinez. See they're embracing the the communist terms

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Speaker 1: our comrade because Hugo is a socialist, a union organizer,

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Speaker 1: and he's fighting to make a Los Angeles for all,

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Speaker 1: to accelerate the left words shift in Los Angeles city politics,

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Speaker 1: to elect a long time socialist union organizer, to activate

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Speaker 1: hundreds of our members in a diverse rent or heavy district,

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Speaker 1: and DSLA is running a socialist election campaign to support him.

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Speaker 1: We want to bring more socialists together to tax the

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Speaker 1: rich and build a Los Angeles for everyone. Well, that

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Speaker 1: includes homeless people, which is why the Democratic Socialists of

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Speaker 1: America gets so violent in their protection of homeless people.

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Speaker 1: It's funny that somebody the activists are rich kids. But

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Speaker 1: you know, that's some weird pathol ology that I don't

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Speaker 1: have time to get into right now. I don't really

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Speaker 1: understand it. Christopher Ruffo is a writer that we've had

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Speaker 1: on frequently, and we had him on when Seattle is

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Speaker 1: Falling Apart several years ago, and he wrote about these

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Speaker 1: groups and Christopher Ruffo has said that ANTIFA is the

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Speaker 1: paramilitary wing of the Democratic Socialists of America, which now

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Speaker 1: has three candidates, not three candidates, has three council people

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Speaker 1: as part of the La City Council. So it's not

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Speaker 1: Republicans Democrats anymore. It's Democrats and Democratic Socialists of America.

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Speaker 1: There's three of them on the council. One of them

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Speaker 1: Hugo Sodo Martinez. Mike Bonden's office was filled with this

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Speaker 1: crowd as well. He might as well have been a member,

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Speaker 1: even though he wasn't officially. And this is all a

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Speaker 1: lead up to telling you that Hugo Soto Martinez says

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Speaker 1: that a channeling fence which is surrounding Echo Park Lake

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Speaker 1: is going to be removed. This is what the city

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Speaker 1: put up after they took out two hundred people who

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Speaker 1: are living in these disgusting encampments and terrorizing neighborhood. Because

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Speaker 1: Soto Martinez says, we will take down the fence and

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Speaker 1: will take painstaking care to do it right with more transparency,

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Speaker 1: transparency so the city can see once and for all

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Speaker 1: that the criminalization and segregation, that criminalization and segregation don't

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Speaker 1: solve homelessness. I see, so getting homelessness, homeless people out

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Speaker 1: of the park is considered segregation. Now they have a

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Speaker 1: civil right to live with the parents and children playing

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Speaker 1: in the playground. This is how extreme and how nuts

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Speaker 1: he is. Nitthi Araman is another one, and of course

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Speaker 1: you've seen what she allows. She allows homeless people, criminals,

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Speaker 1: gun runners, gang gang members who sell guns to live

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Speaker 1: in tents directly in front of schools in Los Felis.

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Speaker 1: So this is like the worst form of anarchy. And

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Speaker 1: that's what the DSA is is their anarchists, hence their

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Speaker 1: connection to Antifa. Antifa is the group that'll set fires,

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Speaker 1: destroyed buildings, they have the weapons. The DSA is the

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Speaker 1: legislative wing of this anarchist movement, and everything is about

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Speaker 1: destabilizing and undermining our peaceful way of life. America is illegitimate.

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Speaker 1: Capitalism is illegitimate. Owning property is illegitimate. These are all

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Speaker 1: the tenets of the communists in Russia. These are the

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Speaker 1: tenets of the communist government in Cuba, and they somehow

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Speaker 1: have gotten a foothold here and in certain districts. So

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Speaker 1: now Echo Park Lake is up for grabs again. The

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Speaker 1: police had arrested one hundred and eighty people, and the

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Speaker 1: La Daily News points out, including journalists, that's a no, no,

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Speaker 1: they got a you know, a lot of some homeless people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of activists. That was, you know, an attempted

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Speaker 1: riot basically by the activists. Soto Martinez said, it was

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Speaker 1: a violent displacement of unhoused individuals and peaceful protesters. The

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Speaker 1: thing is the city and you know this is this

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Speaker 1: is dopey Mitch O'Farrell and Dopey Garcetti. They removed one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three people in the encampments. Only seventeen

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Speaker 1: of them got long term housing. This is according to

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Speaker 1: a report by UCLA. So all that hubbub, all the

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars that we put in finally shut down

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Speaker 1: a park, removed nearly two hundred people, only seventeen of

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Speaker 1: them get long term housing. I don't know where all

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Speaker 1: the other one hundred and sixty seven people are, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: the fence is going to come down. And now what

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Speaker 1: And with the left wing media, I mean City News Service,

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Speaker 1: which I'm sure is filled with supportive socialists, say that

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Speaker 1: the protesters blasted the city for forcing the homeless residents

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Speaker 1: out of an area that had grown into a supportive

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Speaker 1: community during the pandemic, including a vegetable garden, working showers,

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Speaker 1: and a shared kitchen. So apparently, if you plant a

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Speaker 1: vegetable garden in a public park, you're free to run

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Speaker 1: around naked, snort meth, inject fanton hill, commit illegal sex acts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know how many sex molesters they find

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Speaker 1: in these homeless encampments. You know how many guys they

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Speaker 1: find with with violent records. I mean, how many drug addicts,

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Speaker 1: how many mentally old people. But hey, if you if

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Speaker 1: you had plant a vegetable garden, ayls forgiving cool just

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Speaker 1: keep they just go ahead, go ahead, squatt in the sandbox,

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Speaker 1: do what you want. Don't worry about the kids and

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Speaker 1: the mothers trying to enjoy the afternoon. You planted the

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Speaker 1: vegetable garden, therefore your noble. Anyway, that's you go, Sodo Martinez.

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Speaker 1: He's now gonna help destroy for a second time, Echo

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Speaker 1: Park Lake unless somebody stops him. And there is somebody

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Speaker 1: very upset about this, and we're gonna talk to him next.

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Speaker 1: His name is Riley Montgomery. He's a resident. He was

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Speaker 1: with us almost two years ago to talk about the

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Speaker 1: mayhem that was going on in the park when they

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Speaker 1: finally closed it, and Riley's not happy about Part two,

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Speaker 1: the sequel, The Vagrants return, and we will discuss things

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Speaker 1: with him in just a few minutes