WEBVTT - Conversations About Transients 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.360 Watch up and welcome back to another episode and no 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.480 Sillers podcast with your host now funk that with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:16.239 low glasses, Malone. So tell me again about tell me 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.280 how all of this shift happened to AMP, Like start 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.040 from the you're getting up, pulling up, like, tell me 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.400 the whole story. Like I know you were scared of 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.880 petrified right now, but it's funny now because nothing happened 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.800 to you, but something mentally happened. To tell me the 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.000 whole story. So I went to the store and I 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.640 just like throwing something to the store, store to the 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:45.440 amp m ampm right, getting some blunts, which is what 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.559 you were trying not to say. Ship. You don't want 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.320 to come across like who gets over so people could 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.920 judge you. It's okay, yeah, I want to go get some. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.480 So as I'm walking in, there's a guy sitting outside 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.680 in the front and he's sitting there and so I'm 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.720 walking and he's like, are you my mommy? And so 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.160 like I'm looking at him, and it's crazy because I 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.080 wanted to be like, hell night, your motherfucking mommy, but 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.480 I just looked at him, looked he looked to me 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.400 like he was like in his like twenties, he's huge, 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:26.120 but I didn't realize it. Yeah what what what? What? 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:31.800 It was like? It might have been like Mexican white, Yeah, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.640 like yellow here, yeah, blind here. It was curly though. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.360 He was kind of like he was mixed. He has 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.399 some black in him. That's why he thought I was 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.679 with his mommy. I guess stupid. Yeah, So I'm like no, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.440 you know, I'm thinking, well, I didn't say no, but 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.600 I'm looking at I just looked at him and kept 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.480 walking in the store. So whatever. So I'm at the 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.960 counter like literally getting ready to pay for my ship 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:02.800 and he comes in and he's like he's got his 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.640 head all. He thought she was his mom because you 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.800 didn't tell him I'm not your motherfucking mama. I see. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.880 I guess that's what I should have did. So he 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.239 like he thought you was his mom. So always coming 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.120 for a hug first, I'm like, okay, this nig is 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:24.800 tripping whatever. I'm like, didn't hug you. I'm gonna hug 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.840 my fellow brother. You're not gonna I will for sure 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:33.280 hug my fellow brother if he comes out like hug 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:41.160 doing for sure with huge. If he needed a hug 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.840 out with huggie. I know how tough it is to 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.320 be a black man in America. Boy, Okay, keep going 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.120 on doing all that at the counter, you know. So 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.519 he's coming in and he's like asking for a hug, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.680 like coming over, and I'm like move like you know, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.639 I'm like back up, you know, and he's like yeah, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.880 I'm like back up. So every time he like because 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.320 he would back up, and then he's spinning hit some ship. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.520 What was that? What was the intendant doing at the register? Nothing? 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.400 And it was a guy in there too, right, So 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.239 so it was another customer that's a guy, and it 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.160 was a guy that was at the register. No, it 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.880 was just one guy in the um. It was a 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:29.480 girl as she was, I could imagine. So he's spinning 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.200 around and so I'm just trying to pay for my stuff. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.360 I can get out of there. So then he comes 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.280 over more and he and I'm like back the funk up, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.680 and then he just like starts walking towards me and 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.560 I'm like move, like move and he's just coming and 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.320 so I'm getting ready to like hit him, and then 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.040 he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it? 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.840 And I'm like run that back. So he's walking up 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.880 to you. Just give me that one more time. So 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.120 he's walking, so he spins around. So he's spinning around, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:06.120 hands out. He's like when I tell him, like back up, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:11.040 and he's like, oh, his mom didn't get my hook, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.480 not this niggers mother. You know. I'm just saying I'm 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.200 trying to think it was okay. I'm trying to say 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.880 what's in his mom? So he backs up, he spends, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.920 and then he comes towards me more and I'm like 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.680 back up, like you know, move, I can't remember exactly, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.159 but I'm just like move. And so he comes in 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.640 and so now I'm backing away from the register and 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.760 it has the row of like the chips and the 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.279 drinks and stuff. So now I'm round on the outside, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.360 but I'm not turning my back because I'm like, so 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.760 he chasing. He's you're backing around me? Did Yeah? I did. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.719 I didn't pay for him yet. I didn't get a 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:01.440 chance to if I I kept trying to right anyway, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.680 he kept pushing up, like coming closer. So I'm like, oh, no, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.000 i gotta get out of here. So um, he's he's coming. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.479 He's coming at me, and so I'm like move, like 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.559 I think, I said, like, I'm like something like because 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.080 or he's seen my fist, because next thing I know, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.280 he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it? 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.000 Do it? And yeah, and he's like coming and come 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.400 in and he's and he's steady, and I'm just like 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.119 going back because I'm like, I don't want to turn around. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.560 Nik is gonna do. Then I wanted to hit him, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.039 but then I was like, what if he grabbed me 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.279 and he's strong, like he's huge. They're not doing that 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.279 the dude, Yeah, yeah, what if anything? What was the 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.120 dude doing the other customer in the store, the dude, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.400 I'm wanting there's another reason why I was like, let 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.880 me not look like watching him. He's backing out of 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.520 the store while I'm on this side. So then the guy, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.279 the dude, the transient chases me outside, and I parked 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.680 on the side and I didn't want to like go 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.040 to my car because I didn't know if he was 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.000 gonna chase me over there something. So I started backing 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.600 out towards the pump, and then he's coming and he 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.600 trips and falls and and that's when I just run 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.960 to the car. He rolls over and he's like just tripping. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.440 Everybody's like looking. So I guess, um because I called 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.600 my dude, but I guess people called the police. So 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.600 I called him and get up here. Now. Yeah, it was. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:34.599 It was. It was crazy. That sounds unbelievable the video. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.839 So the m so they gave me. She's like, are 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.320 you okay? Did the police get the guy? So the 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.000 police yeah, so um they got him down the street 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.760 because my dude went back up there and so he 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.440 ran and so he was running it. So so you 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.679 fin that you're due killer trans I wasn't. No, I wasn't, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.120 but I respect because I had to be scared. I 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.240 just called him like I'm like in tears, like you know, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.000 because you don't know what are you thinking. I got 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.160 into like a fight with like some bitches at the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.840 store or something, you know, and I'm like, no, trying 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.159 to grab me. It's like now, it's really good man. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.720 So it was. It was crazy. So he um they 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.960 had to do down the street. One of his homeboys 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.880 happened to drive past, like, hey, you know you straight, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.320 and he told him what happened. He said, you know what, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.040 I'm gonna drive down there and see what's going on. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.400 So he came back and he was like, they're having 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.080 a hard time putting him in the car because we 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.600 kept seeing all these police cars like go by and 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.960 so um. Yeah. And so they were supposed to come 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.480 to the house so I could follow a report. They 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.280 never came to that because they really can't arrest him 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.120 like that. I can't because he didn't do anything right, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.880 So you gotta wait into that to be like intoxicated 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.119 like that. Like he had a knife, He had a knife? 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.680 What kind of knife? A pocket knife? Did you have 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.280 it out on you? He didn't pull it out on me. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.560 He hadn't won him. Yeah, but you could have a 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.640 pocket knife, a pocket knife and legal. They sell him 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.520 at the store. This nigga, who else what he was 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.840 gonna try to do to me? You can't arrest nobody 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.160 because of what they might could do. See, that's why 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.320 I don't likes you like that, because if you don't 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.720 do something, if they might do something, then if you 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.880 do something before they do something, you're exactly. I just 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.800 want to make outlaw life so great because I wouldn't 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.920 have gave a just bust his ass, like drove off 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.480 like nothing happened. But if you but if you if 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.720 you are a law abiding person, then yeah, I guess 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.800 that thing about the law though I was scared, like 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.720 I was sure, Yeah, I mean like a huge due 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.679 like what if he what if he ate that punch, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.480 just grab and not want to let me go? Where 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.320 everybody was acting, he could have did anything like yeah, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:50.040 nobody's helping me now. So I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:56.800 m hm no ceilings g l Red. Who's getting chased 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:02.200 by transient? Hey Red, Hey it's not Bread who didn't 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.680 do anything while she was getting chased by a trend? 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.199 What's happening, Bread? What you would have did if you 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.599 was there? Be that nigger? Be that they get to 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:19.319 talk about what you No, I don't think so. Not 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.599 the way he was, not the way he was like 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.280 seemed like he was peaceful and he was coming to 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.400 get a hug and jas. It was just he didn't 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.760 realize that. You just didn't realize he was a straight 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.760 tantrum in the story because his mother, what if he 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.079 really thought you was his mother. She's not not my 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:42.439 I'm not his mother. You high that you don't know 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.920 that that's not your mama. You don't need play exactly 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.720 why are you here? You need to go find your 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:53.000 mother because I'm not hurt. No, no, I'm no, sir. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.640 The reason that story to me is important. So all 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.480 on the news and ship, all on the news. It's 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.000 been new the article at the dudes, Brandy watched the news. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:06.520 So I watched the news a lot. But um, everybody's 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.439 running like politics, you know. It's all the politicians getting 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.080 voted and all everybody's campaigning right now, and a lot 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:21.319 of people are campaigning on homelessness. And I stayed downtown 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:26.880 right forever, and the only thing it made me was sad. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.120 I was never scared. But I am a guy. I'm 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.320 six three, a gang member, kind of familiar with violence 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.640 to some degree, fightings and ship, you know, so it's 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.000 not as scary to see somebody I might have to whip. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.520 They ass that's okay. But I guess to a regular 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.040 person who's not super vested in it, it probably looked crazy. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.920 But I noticed it was a lot of politicians running 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.920 with cleaning up the homeless, you know issue in Los Angeles. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.400 And I know there's different people on Twitter, they all 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.599 saying the same thing. Oh man, you know, l A 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.559 got this horrible homeless population. But I know every state 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.640 has a homeless population, a huge one because housing in 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.959 America is out of control. But what I think makes 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:15.320 California special, especially Southern California, is it's so close to money. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:21.480 Mm hmmm, Like all of those homeless encampments. All the 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.360 encampments are close to like money. It's like if you 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.840 went downtown like the loftice three thousand dollars and across 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.160 the street is homeless people. That's why I couldn't get 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.240 with that. Like I'm not about to pay No. Three 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.719 thousand to come downstairs to smell pistons ship when I 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:43.559 have a bomb mass like penthouse upstairs somewhere and I 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.640 come down to that, that's not gonna I'm not That's 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.439 not a feeling, and I wouldn't want to see that. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:53.360 It's some I've seen um encampments like over going towards 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.040 UM like Santa Monica, Covert City type area, like just 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.280 in yeah everywhere. Oh and then over there off the 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.760 one on one freeway. Yeah, right over there, that's a 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.560 whole little the whole little thing that remember when they 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.560 had that fire, seeing all them damn homents people come 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:11.960 up out of there, and they had that fire right 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.800 there them. That's because the rent is so high in California. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.559 These big businesses, these big property management, these big companies, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:26.760 they're raising the rent. They're driving to me homeless homelessness. Well, 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:31.640 it's tricky to me because I don't think everybody is 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.360 homeless because they can't afford housing. I think some people 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.040 and and the reason I noticed. Let me stop saying, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.640 I think I've so when I stayed downtown, I stayed 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.679 on six and may like right close to skined Row, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.560 not far, but as soon as you cross Los Angeles, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.720 people sleeping on the streets. You walk one block over 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.719 to where the studio is that still on Maple, and 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.480 it's pretty much that's where Scared Roll start. You see 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.719 all these tents and makeshift homes and everything like that. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.960 So a lot of nights for ten years, I would 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.160 just walk and clear my head. So I would just 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.320 walk through Scared Row. I mean, it's not I'm from 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.480 watching Confident watch my whole life, so it's not, as 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.520 you know, homeless. It's not scary to me. So I 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.920 will walk and I would talk to people sometimes, you know, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.080 just to holler at them, to check on them. Sometimes 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.880 I knew people, and people just gave up on the 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.640 challenge that's life. Don't have family, don't have anybody. Yeah 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.520 that was I met two people that was like that, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.920 but most people I met that just gave up on 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.240 the challenge of life. It's like, y'all will come down here. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.360 They never said I was gonna do drugs, but I 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.240 could tell at that point they was doing some type 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.480 of drugs for me, and they was like, I'm just 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.160 giving up, Like as long as I could find a 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.800 way to get some food, I had somewhere to sleep. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.760 Like the challenges of everyday life, of maintaining you know, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.679 rent family, all of these things, these pressures. A lot 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.719 of people go down there. And then different people I 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.760 noticed when I talked to them too, also came here 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.640 to be homeless, Like they left cold places where they 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.520 were homeless because of the tough situations and it was like, 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.320 let me go to l A where it's better weather. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.679 So I met a lot of different people, um, and 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.040 one thing I realized was people how people gave up. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.800 And it's easy to say, oh, you can't give up. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.160 You know, you can't give up, but it's like life 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.520 is tough and and you know, I know, we programmed 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.160 to keep going, and we programmed and make it easy, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.560 and really life is really really tough. Some some people, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.640 some of us make it look easier than it is, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.480 but it is tough. There has been multiple times that 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.080 I feel like I almost cracked. I stayed in the shelter. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.800 Did you have what was that about? I definitely want 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.040 to hear this ship. It's so crazy. Yeah, I stayed 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.720 in a UM like a dirty day emergency shelter. Um, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.800 it was fighting with somebody. No, did I fight win anywhere? 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.120 Or why did you leave somebody? And then said you 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.240 needed to go to a shelter, the fine temporary housing 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.240 you just fight with somebody? Um, I wasn't fighting with anyone. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.120 I just really didn't like I didn't have anywhere to 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.640 go as far as like UM where I could call 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.520 my own. So I wanted to try to up the 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.200 campaign of getting your own place, even though you wasn't 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.400 financially what I mean I was. I didn't have I 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.560 wasn't working, I had my son. UM. I could have 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.040 went and stayed with my grandmother, but my mom and 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.480 my UM sister, my stepdad was staying there. My mom 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.640 was finishing up school, Like I just felt like, Okay, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.920 you know what I need to take this. I need 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.400 to do what I need to do to try to 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.680 better myself. So I went and stayed in them, in 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.440 the homeless shelter so that I'm able to UM get 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.840 like a transitional apartment. So I had did that, and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.920 I mean, honestly, it was one of the best things 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.280 I did. Once I transferred to the transitional home. It 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.320 was like a place for like UM women, like young 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.520 women with children, like one child. I think you had 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.200 to be like between the ages of eighteen and twenty four. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.320 They had like programs like parents and programs. They had 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.680 like a like a hall where you know, you eat 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.240 with your kids, had a daycare like it was like 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.600 a whole like structure type of thing. So like it 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.920 worked for me, I think a lot of people, UM. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.560 I guess when you stay from there, then you're able 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.040 to get like permanent Section eight. I couldn't just stay 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.440 there to do that, but I used the resources to 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.640 be able to UM to move, you know, to move 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.360 you know, end up moving like to Guardina and end 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.160 up working. So I didn't do the section eight. But 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.000 when I was in the shelter, UM I had to 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.480 share a bed like with my son, and a lot 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.040 of the women did. But there was a woman like 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:58.240 she would be tripping like every night, like schizzo or whatever. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.240 So eventually it was like the second night they ended 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.240 up UM taking her like taking her away or whatever. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.760 And I don't know what happened to her, kid, but 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.600 she was like just really like she was going through 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.200 it like she really was. So I know that a 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.080 lot of times people are not just homeless because they 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.119 can't pay the rent, like it's just so issue or 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.200 like you said, they've given up where they don't know 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:29.200 where to start. Yeah, you know, so that's crazy. I 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.280 never know you went through all that red. That's deep. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.000 Go ahead, Bread, tell me your story. Let me hear yourself, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.679 Let me hear your story. It was like I was younger, honestly. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.160 It was around the time that my um at one time, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:43.440 I know a lot of people don't know this, but 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.680 a one time both parents UM both one was in incarcerated, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.560 UM one was like dealing with UM no drug issues 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.000 or whatever. So at one point, UM we were living 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:06.399 like like hotel motel people's houses ship until one point 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.520 my mom was just like, you know what, Um, I 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.560 stayed with She's not really my god mom per se, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.040 but you know, she ended up being like the person 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.840 that my mom trusted with us being there, So that's 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.280 what gave us, you know a little bit of It 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.000 was a lot, especially being youngest. I think I was 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:30.600 like maybe like and my brother was like six or 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.760 something like that, if I'm not mistaken, And just to 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.800 see that like all the homeless ship crackheads, all this 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.760 ship and you're just like watching all this stuff and 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.560 you're not knowing what it is, but you you know, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.240 it's a particular smell or you you know, it's just 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.760 a lot of different things and you're like, what the 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.159 fuck and you don't know, like what's going on? So 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.760 that ship was scary. But um, luckily, like I said, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.480 she got it together and we were able to stay 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.680 with someone that she trusted or whatnot. But yeahs is 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:09.159 not at all. So y'all were both homeless. Yeah, so 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.000 I don't know if this quite qualifies as me being homeless. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.840 But my mom when she first went to the fence 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.119 the first time, and they gave her a year and 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.040 they took her, you know, our house, all our belongings, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.840 and we stayed in the motel for like a year 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.600 and my dad came and got us, and she was 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.800 like that, yeah, but my stepdad was there, and I 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.000 think it and I got a lot of respect for 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.639 my step pops. Clarence was like a trooper, but I 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.160 think that was just a lot. He didn't have any 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.239 kids and then to have this lady's kids and they 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.760 have been together probably about a year or two maybe 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.680 if that long, you know what I'm saying. So we 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.359 were standing in the motel on Long Beach Boulevard, um 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.840 in competent and the mob actually, and it's called the 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.200 Royal ind it's right used to be a gun store 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.719 on Long Bease Boulevard. Stayed there for a whole year 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.320 and then my dad came and got us. But it 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:13.040 was crazy. Um. One thing I always tripped about when 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.920 I stayed downtown is the more people you talk to, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.359 you hear all of these diverse stories. And one thing 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.920 got tripped off of more than anything is it wasn't 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:30.880 a simple solution. It's not a simple fix. And sometimes 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.480 I worry that this country has a real fear of 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:39.080 homeless people. And that's really a scary thing to hear. 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:46.040 You're saying like they just I don't want to deal 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.880 with them. They're scared, like they just are really scared 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:55.680 in a sense, or I just think people. You know, 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:01.880 it's funny, man, I think every day, this particularly this country, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.840 becomes more and more inhumane, Like the concept of humanity 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:12.000 is fleeing. It's going to these bare minimums of existence 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.119 to whereas as long as you're breathing, and that's cool. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.679 You know, it's like they want to prolong like an 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:23.719 agony or something. But I've been looking at different solutions 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.440 that politicians been talking about on the news because and 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.080 they've been saying ship like they wanted to build like 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.119 a like a guy that owned this huge building and 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.440 like near Boil Heights or like in that area, and 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.600 he was like, Okay, we want to turn this huge 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.920 building into like a like a dorm for transient and 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.000 then but all of the community, you know, they were 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.520 on the news protesting it, like we don't want them here. Yeah, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.000 I seen. I remember they were talking about taking the 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.240 little the little tiny houses, like making a little like 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.920 encampment and doing all the little tiny houses. But yeah, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:03.240 people don't want them in there? Should people? And I 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:08.280 was weird because it's like these are human beings. Like 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.040 I was watching people that was doing well for themselves 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:18.960 and making a living complain about homeless people having like 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.359 a place to like to stay. They didn't want them 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.240 to be there because it was in their community, and 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.760 they were like protesting it. And you know, the news 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:32.240 was running a story and everybody I could tell was 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.399 just looking at it. But it didn't. I thought I 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:36.720 was the only person that a hit like, damn y'all 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:42.639 protesting homeless people having a place to stay like a dorm. 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.639 It's in your neighborhood because you have a fear of 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:51.760 what they could become. They can bring the property value 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.119 down or I mean maybe they're looking at like that. 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:57.359 It probably won't. But what I'm saying is that really 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.080 like it, But you think about how fucked up as 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:03.960 a human being because you have to be to where 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.200 I don't want you to have nowhere to live because 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:10.000 you're gonna bring the value of my property down. But 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:15.280 that's how unfortunately, I don't know it's if I don't 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.359 think it's set up that way. I think there's an 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.280 issue in humanity, like that's something wrong, Like my money 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:23.920 is worth more than some other person having a home. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.280