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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mar Antonio Villa Ragos.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everybody. Oh, come on, say come on, you

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Speaker 2: know the words, come on, let's go.

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Speaker 3: You know I want fantastic, but I want it, you know,

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Speaker 3: but I'll tell you.

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Speaker 1: Can you fail?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 6: I like that.

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Speaker 1: I do too. There we're getting in the holiday moon here,

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Speaker 1: aren't we? Thank you?

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Speaker 7: Tony Vollard jingle bells a tradition with Johnny kensh Another

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Speaker 7: tradition is Hack of the Year that's coming up in

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Speaker 7: the five o'clock hour. Another tradition, Goolepool twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 7: is around the corner, along with results of Gholepool twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty two. Right, so we're keeping an eye on the

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Speaker 7: mayor of La the new mayor.

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Speaker 1: What are we calling her? The mayor formerly known as

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass, now known as Karen Garcetti, because so far

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Speaker 1: she has acted exactly like the late Eric Garcetti.

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Speaker 7: Well, he never declared a state of emergency, did he?

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Speaker 7: I don't remember that. Did he write executive orders over homelessness?

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Speaker 1: Well? Does it matter? It's early to decide that, But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out a few differences. Sure, sure, there

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Speaker 1: have been announcements and declaration. She appeared before the Board

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Speaker 1: of Supervisors today Wow to talk about them to be partners,

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Speaker 1: and they all slapped their foreheads and go They all went,

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Speaker 1: you mean we're in a homeless emergency. Oh, we didn't

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Speaker 1: see anything. Where where's these homeless shoes speaking?

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Speaker 7: So today kicks off Inside Safe, where they're supposed to

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Speaker 7: get people out of the hence and into some kind

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Speaker 7: of shelter. We believe it's hotel rooms. Let's go to

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Speaker 7: Blake Trolley, who covered this appearance by the mayor.

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Speaker 1: At the Board of Supervisors. So where the supervisors shocked

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Speaker 1: and amazed that there was a homeless emergency.

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Speaker 8: They played the same alarm throughout the meeting, you know,

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Speaker 8: talking about Inside Safe. The mayor ties today as being

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Speaker 8: the day she was going to make this grand announcement

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Speaker 8: about the program, and that's actually been pushed back until tomorrow,

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Speaker 8: so there was no announcement on it last night. I

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Speaker 8: was looking for a press at wa, Wait a minute's.

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Speaker 1: An emergency, I know, And Blake I'm reading here that

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Speaker 1: what she did after this is go down a log

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Speaker 1: beach to attend the inauguration of the new mayor.

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Speaker 7: There that doesn't sound like we're in an emergency.

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Speaker 8: Well, today she was in county territory, so she went

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Speaker 8: to the County Board of Supervisors meeting this morning pushing

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Speaker 8: for a motion to pass today, which passed unanimously, that

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Speaker 8: would really form a team between the city and the

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Speaker 8: county and responding to Bass's state of emergency.

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Speaker 5: It is a require a crisis that requires all levels

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Speaker 5: of government to come together. So it is with great

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Speaker 5: hope that I urge the Board to approve President Hans's

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Speaker 5: motion to lock arms with the City of Los Angeles

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Speaker 5: and our new emergency approach to homelessness to ensure our

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Speaker 5: efforts to bring people inside are matched with your experts

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Speaker 5: and resources and healthcare, mental health, substance abuse, public health,

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Speaker 5: and other social services. Because we all know getting people

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Speaker 5: housed is the number one priority.

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Speaker 3: But on day one, you get them.

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Speaker 5: Housed, and on day one they have services. That's the

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Speaker 5: only way for it to be.

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Speaker 1: Only successful, right, the only way it is.

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Speaker 5: The only effective approach to this crisis is one that

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Speaker 5: is you not unified and comprehensive, and is only possible

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Speaker 5: with a deep partnership between the city and the county.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So until they build enough units for seventy thousand

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Speaker 8: Well, here's the big takeaways, guys for what they're going

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Speaker 8: to be doing today. So the County's going to be

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Speaker 8: putting people in city meetings. So these are department heads

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Speaker 8: with services the county provides. These are critical you know,

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Speaker 8: sending staff to work with outreach teams in LA so

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Speaker 8: once people are housed, they can connect them with services. Again,

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Speaker 8: LA City does the LA City does the housing. The

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Speaker 8: you already do this? I mean, this seems like something

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Speaker 8: the red tape being cut. And then of course tomorrow

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Speaker 8: we're going to be getting that announcement about master leasing.

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Speaker 1: But there's it's stuff, I mean, that's what when I

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Speaker 7: It is like a reset they're starting over, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of feels that way.

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Speaker 8: I mean it's like, well, if you're already doing this,

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Speaker 8: that almost surprises me. Wasn't already a thing, you know,

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Speaker 8: if the city's providing housing and they're providing services.

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Speaker 1: Nobody thought of this before. I mean, I've heard one

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Speaker 1: So today they said, oh, okay, I will show up

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Speaker 8: You got Karen Vass who was a congresswoman, so she's

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Speaker 8: probably worked a lot more closely with these county supervisors

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Speaker 8: get done. So maybe this does signal a little bit

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Speaker 8: of a change in the tide, because yeah, we've you know,

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Speaker 8: I've been at press conferences before where you hear city

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Speaker 8: criticism of this that apparently has come up is cities

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Speaker 8: wide issue. So Jannis Hans she responded to that today

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Speaker 6: Majority of people experiencing homelessness are in the city of

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Speaker 6: Los Angeles. Out of the nearly seventy thousand people that

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Speaker 6: in the City of Los Angeles. That's been less than

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Speaker 6: thirty thousand in the rest of the eighty seven cities.

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Speaker 6: And I know Supervisor so Lease now feels this even

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Speaker 6: But I know I can't speak for my colleagues, but

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Speaker 6: to help them with county services. So we're doing that.

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Speaker 6: Your emergency decoration just means we are really going to

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: So all called an emergency decoration.

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Speaker 1: An emergency decoration, Well that's what I heard there. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's Christmas, so people are thinking decorations.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, guys, just gonna be a report back doing

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Speaker 8: two months and six months on progress.

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Speaker 1: Really all right?

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Speaker 8: Report back and one of well one of the one

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Speaker 8: of the items on that is including budget to see

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Speaker 8: if they might need more money to county just so

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Speaker 8: everyone's aware, is currently operating with a more than five

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Speaker 8: hundred and thirty million dollars budget for homelessness that was

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Speaker 8: passed in went into effect July first, that it basically

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Speaker 8: carries one year from then.

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Speaker 1: Has anybody said to you, either for the record or

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, what Eric Garcetti has been doing for

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Speaker 1: the last nine years.

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Speaker 8: You know, It's one of those questions you have when

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Speaker 8: you see this, when you see all these announcements, because

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Speaker 8: they do seem so obvious. It's kind of like when

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Speaker 8: you eat at a restaurant and you're like, I'm not

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Speaker 8: a restaurant manager, but this one seems like it's just

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Speaker 8: in meetings. Yeah, that just seems pretty obvious to me.

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Speaker 8: And a couple of questions that I have and tomorrow,

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Speaker 8: guys we can possibly touch base on this is how

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Speaker 8: is the state going to get involved? Because again, this

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Speaker 8: isn't even just a county issue. Homelessness is a state

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Speaker 8: wide issue. Karen Vass has talked about bringing all these

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Speaker 8: levels of government together, so I really want to know,

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Speaker 8: and I sent an email today about it. It sounds

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Speaker 8: what's next?

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Speaker 1: All right, Blake, thank you very much. Thanks guys. You

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Speaker 1: know what, Blake totly, I can't find you. You know

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Speaker 1: what this is? This is all staged. Of course, they

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Speaker 1: they all spin around and round. They all know each

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Speaker 1: other for decades. They all know there's seventy thousand homeless people.

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Speaker 1: They all know this. They all know that it's supposed

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Speaker 1: you got to help me out. First, impressions are really important.

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Speaker 1: I gotta look like I'm doing stuff. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: issue declarations and emergencies and I'm gonna have a meeting here.

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Speaker 7: In a meeting, we get a partner and we're gonna

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Speaker 7: lock arm.

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Speaker 1: Could you play along, all right? I just play along.

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Speaker 1: Make me look good here. I gotta look like I'm

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Speaker 1: moving around. But she gives it away. She thinks it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a big declaration that the only way it's

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Speaker 1: gonna work is housing with services. The only way, well,

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Speaker 1: she's never gonna build housing for forty two thousand and people,

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Speaker 1: before they need housing. This is going to be a failure.

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Speaker 1: And everybody else outside of the sycophants on the County

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Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors, that's what they ought to get in

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Speaker 1: her face about every you know, if we had, if

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Speaker 1: we had you know, real news media, we had an

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Speaker 1: have to go into Karen Bassa's face and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing with the mental patients and drug

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Speaker 7: All right, let me come back find out because you

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Speaker 7: heard it mentioned there in the comments by Janis Hahn,

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Speaker 7: who is now the chair of the Board of Supervisors,

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Speaker 7: that maybe other towns and cities in La County will

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Speaker 7: feel short changed now that the county is partnering Los

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Speaker 7: Angeles to work on homelessness. Well, one of them already

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Speaker 7: spoke up about Karen Bass's state of emergency. They feel

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Speaker 7: like they're going to end up with LA's homeless in

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Speaker 7: over her state of emergency. We'll talk about it, Johnny

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Speaker 7: The Mayor of LA declares the state of emergency issues

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Speaker 7: Prob the announcement came that they're pushing it off till tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: And instead I reached he's going to the inauguration of

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Speaker 1: To be there. Really Wait, well, an emergency emergency means

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Speaker 7: And then you come on, I got a sip champagne

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Speaker 7: Okay, Because I was looking for stories of them, you know,

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no coercion. Just she says,

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Speaker 7: ninety five percent of them will come.

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Speaker 7: Partner the story two about how much money it's gonna cost. Uh,

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Speaker 7: Projections by researchers say would take eight point one billion

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Speaker 1: A year for twelve years. How would you know that.

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Speaker 7: They took forty two thousand homeless people and multiply. I

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Speaker 1: then you will fail. And you could spend five, ten,

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Speaker 1: She doesn't even try to answer that question. She just

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Speaker 1: We've got to have housing. We're gonna build housing. Were

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Speaker 1: full into pep Rowley. It doesn't matter. You're not. First

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Speaker 7: So what council city council in the County of Los

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Speaker 7: the people up in Lancaster and what's that line that

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Speaker 7: But they're concerned that this is her plan to build

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Speaker 1: Homeless up there. Well, we saw the empty space in

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Speaker 1: think she's right that there's a lot of nobody associations,

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Speaker 1: yeah said, And you know what, They're never ever going

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Speaker 1: ever over my dead body Nimby. Yeah, we're all proud.

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Speaker 1: Nimbi's here. Not in my neighborhood. You go build a

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Speaker 7: The city is about the housing, right, That's why she's

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Speaker 1: You know, you know how the pandemic led to a

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Speaker 7: All right, we got more coming up townny ken k if.

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Speaker 7: I am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Big

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Speaker 7: By this morning's earthquake. And he'll be on right after

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Speaker 7: There's a place in Los Angeles which has suffered well,

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Speaker 1: That neighborhood in Los Angeles. John is Spanish maness, so

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Speaker 4: Get out of here, get my house, get out of here,

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Speaker 9: That's the terrifying moment. After Marcia Davolos came home just

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Speaker 4: Or he said that it was his place. In a minute,

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he torn up, like he torn up, and

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Speaker 4: It's just sad, you know, It's so sad that the

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Speaker 9: Police say they have not confirmed it's an unhoused person,

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Speaker 9: family a year ago, a man living in an encampment

436
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Speaker 9: confronted deb Keaton and said he was going to kill

437
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Speaker 9: her husband tonight. She has a message for her down

438
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Speaker 9: the street neighbor.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm so sorry that you went through that. If

440
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Speaker 10: you need a place to stay, you know, I'm right

441
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Speaker 10: down the street from you. I've been living in Veddics

442
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 10: for thirty years, and it gets bad, it gets good.

443
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 10: It's getting better now. It's it's gonna be much better.

444
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Speaker 10: I think now that we have new leadership in office.

445
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Speaker 9: And that was something they both spoke about, new leadership

446
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 9: in office, a new council member here in Venice, new mayor,

447
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 9: perhaps signaling they thought a change and a new approach

448
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Speaker 9: to the fight against homelessness.

449
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Speaker 1: Tracy Park is going to help as councilwoman, but she's

450
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: going to be outnumbered on most votes, probably thirteen to ten.

451
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, those socialist Democrats.

452
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Speaker 10: Yeah.

453
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Speaker 7: Three Now in the council. Don't want you bothering with encamping.

454
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Speaker 1: But but you know what she I think she can

455
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Speaker 1: direct some resources to eliminate for some of the encampments.

456
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Speaker 1: Do you use the right buzzwords? It's always good to

457
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Speaker 1: say that, well, it was good to see that channel tour.

458
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: Is that reporter's name, Lourie Perez used the proper construction

459
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: of police weren't sure if the men was unhoused. Now

460
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: always good boy, that makes me cringe and flinch when

461
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Speaker 1: I hear that phrase unhoused. So she's proper and politically correct.

462
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Speaker 7: It's time to say, once again, what world do we

463
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Speaker 7: live in? When you come home from time away from

464
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Speaker 7: your home and.

465
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Speaker 1: There's a guy in there in your shower, wrapped in

466
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Speaker 1: a towel, holding a sword, who won't leave. I could you.

467
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Speaker 7: Ten twenty years ago, imagine now that that could ever

468
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Speaker 7: happened to you.

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Speaker 1: No, No, that's and that's the challenge for Karen Garcetti,

470
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Speaker 1: and that's what she ought to be forced. She ought

471
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Speaker 1: to be forced to answer today, what do you do

472
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: to keep this from happening? Because this guy is not

473
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,719
Speaker 1: gonna want to go into one of your beloved motels

474
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Speaker 1: or shelters or whatever kaka maye bureaucratic buzzword you have.

475
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Speaker 1: So if he refuses, and you know he's not gonna

476
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna be in jail for a very long right,

477
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: I what what are you gonna charge him with? Exactly?

478
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: God knows. We spent a fortune with the swat team

479
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: and the helicopters and uh, the huge police presence to

480
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: pry him out of there, and it took hours. Now

481
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: we spent the money. Now what's he gonna get charged with?

482
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: And and then everyone's gonna say, well, you know, he's

483
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Speaker 1: not mentally competent and it's really not his fault, and uh,

484
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: he could have killed the one on another day, would

485
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Speaker 1: have killed the woman. But this is this is what

486
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: Karen Garcetti has to answer. Where are you putting this guy?

487
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna get out sooner than later from jail for this,

488
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: And then what are you gonna do? You're gonna force

489
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Speaker 1: him into mental health treatment, force him into drug treatment,

490
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: force him out of town. You're gonna force him to

491
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: do anything? Or can he go back to this poor

492
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: woman's house and break in again and take another shower?

493
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: This is the big test. What is Karen Garcetti, going

494
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: to do with a guy like this, No, this not

495
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 1: a guy like this, this specific guy. Is he out

496
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: on bail already? Because all I mean, and he's got

497
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Speaker 1: a sword. How do all these people get swords, all

498
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: these crazy vagrants? How often do swords show? I've never

499
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: held a sword in my life. Is there a sword

500
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Speaker 1: store on Venice Boulevard that they all uh, that they

501
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: all patronize? And then this woman down the street, deb Keaton,

502
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 1: she's got she was in the story. Shit, same thing happened.

503
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: They just walk into people's homes, all right. More coming up,

504
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: John and Ketshall.

505
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Speaker 7: Talking Tallex Stone ABC News for KFI about the big

506
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Speaker 7: earthquake up in northern California, Humboldt County, affecting some towns.

507
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 7: There many people without power, a couple of people reportedly died,

508
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 7: some injuries, some damage. Alex Stone will bring us up

509
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Speaker 7: to date. Six point four was the magnitude about two

510
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Speaker 7: thirty am, two day. It's a good thing Debor Mark's

511
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 7: not here. When they shake her up, you.

512
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Speaker 1: Think the usual phobia, you know, well, because earthquakes, that

513
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 1: one leads to the next. Oh yeah, she does have

514
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: that belief system right that, Well, she's often afraid of

515
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: little ones.

516
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 7: That little ones mean a big ones. Right now, this

517
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 7: was a pretty big one. Does this mean an even

518
00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 7: bigger ones coming on?

519
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: It's sending energy southward towards that, all right? Right now?

520
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: Because yeah, now, now now things are out of balance.

521
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 7: Oh man, you got your bunker. Will that protect you

522
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 7: in an earthquaker?

523
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: No? We we checked it out for whether or not.

524
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: Well seismic proof. I don't know. Is a basement a

525
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: good place to be during an earthquake? Not if the

526
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: whole house falls on you? Right? I suppose no, I thinks,

527
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: so I don't know. All right, So we'll talk about

528
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: that I'm worried about a nuclear blast.

529
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll talk about a politician disgraced, who's gonna well,

530
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 7: he just got paid one hundreds of thousands of dollars

531
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 7: John's tax money, City of Los Angeles. We'll tell you

532
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 7: who that is in the four o'clock hour. Well, we

533
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 7: did this story, and you know what, I forgot them

534
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 7: to get them to get the audio again. We did

535
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 7: this story in September, maybe it was October of last year.

536
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 7: This happened in Korea Town at a spa called the

537
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 7: We spa, and there's a woman who recorded herself. She

538
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 7: went up to the front desk to complain that in

539
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,959
Speaker 7: the ladies section of the spa there was a person

540
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 7: back there exposing his penis, naked, half erect.

541
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Speaker 1: She remember how loud she was.

542
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 7: She was like, yes, because the calm SPA workers tried

543
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 7: to explain that this person's allowed to be there. They

544
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 7: identify as transgender, they identify as a woman.

545
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: But that's I remember her yelling. You imagine that you

546
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: have to fight to get that point across.

547
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 7: There's amazing protected they were trying to tell her because

548
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 7: he identifies as a woman, doesn't matter that he has

549
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 7: that between his legs. He says, he's a woman, and

550
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 7: you must respect people's right to identify themselves.

551
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: You have to believe him. Why is that? Why is

552
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: it you have to believe him? You have the audio,

553
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: I'll play the audience. Want to be clear. Oh, here

554
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: it is okay.

555
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 11: It's okay for a man.

556
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 12: To go into the women's section show his penis around

557
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 12: the other women, young little girls underage.

558
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: You're spa condone.

559
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 12: That is that what you're saying?

560
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 11: Like I asked, it's so he can stay there.

561
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 12: He could stay there.

562
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 11: My ceentral orientation.

563
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: I see a.

564
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 11: You know, he's a man.

565
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: He's a man.

566
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Speaker 11: He is a man. He is not no female. He

567
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 11: is not a female. He is not a female. Not

568
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 11: a female, he is not a female suite.

569
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 12: Okay, girls down there, other women who are highly offended

570
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 12: for what they just saw, and you did nothing, absolutely nothing.

571
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 12: In fact, you sided with him. So it's an agreement

572
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 12: with men that just say they are a woman and

573
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Speaker 12: they can go down there with.

574
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 11: Their penis and get into the women section.

575
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 12: Is that what you're saying?

576
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 11: What really?

577
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: What law? What law?

578
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 11: So women can go into the man's with their breast?

579
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, get your money back. You're going man with

580
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 12: his penis, talk about he's a woman. He ain't no woman.

581
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: Give her her money back.

582
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 11: There's no such thing as transgender.

583
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 12: He has ay, he has a penis.

584
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 11: He has penis is hanging out.

585
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 12: Okay. No, I'm not one, actually not a woman who

586
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 12: knows how to stand up and speak up.

587
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Speaker 11: For my right as a one one.

588
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Speaker 12: I have a right to feel comfortable without a man

589
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 12: exposing himself. Okay, no, you go somewhere else.

590
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's right.

591
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 12: No, he's not a transgender.

592
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 11: He had a penis just a few days. Are you

593
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 11: are you?

594
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: Are you?

595
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 11: Are you?

596
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 6: No?

597
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, trying to calm him down. She should calm.

598
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 12: Down to see that I'm a woman. I think right

599
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 12: here on told only for women.

600
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: So how dare you sit up.

601
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 12: Here and tell me I don't have a right as

602
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 12: a woner. I'm telling you he has a penis, a

603
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 12: full antiestpoe okay, And I don't care what you got one.

604
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 11: Man, okay.

605
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: And if we went all right, well they got well.

606
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 7: The person in question is fifty three year old Darren

607
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 7: ag Merriager. And the reason he's in the news now

608
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 7: fifteen months later is they finally charged him. He's got

609
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 7: a long record sexual criminal.

610
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 12: Yeah.

611
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: So, and do you remember after this, I forget which

612
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: group they were with. They went there and they protested

613
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: because they called the spa transphobic, and this guy claimed

614
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: to be a victim of transphobia and showed up.

615
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 7: Says, oh, there was actual violence. The two sides were

616
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 7: fighting in front of the place.

617
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: And then it turns out that he was a registered

618
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: sex offender convicted for similar incidents in two thousand and two.

619
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, there was a warrant for

620
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: his arrest and another locker room incident in December twenty

621
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: eighteen at a laundry list of offenses that stretched back

622
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: two decades, including burglary and trespassing. So what he's done

623
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: is he's adopted this transgender ideable identity in order to

624
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: get access women's locker rooms and showers, right right which

625
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: the Sheriff's department was looking for him. He found out

626
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: about that, and apparently he's been on the run, they

627
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: find that's why they just caught him and they're charging him.

628
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: He disappeared after he found out that the La County

629
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department was now looking for him because the story

630
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: went public after he complained about his treatment at the SPA.

631
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: And that woman is explaining the obvious, this guy is

632
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: a man. And what is she getting in return. She's

633
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: being shamed, she's being ostracized, she's being lectured in that

634
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: in that condescending tone that these people have these days.

635
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 7: Can they identify as a woman, that's all. We can't

636
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 7: do anything about it. They get access to the female

637
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 7: parts of the spa.

638
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: And this this is there's been a number of stories

639
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: like this, and they're real, and these crazy people are

640
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: adopting the transgender label in order to facilitate their their

641
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: sexual assaults.

642
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 7: He apparently grew up in Riverside. They The extensive criminal

643
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 7: history includes three burglaries, two convictions for indecent exposure, and

644
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 7: two and o three a third exposure case. The marriager

645
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 7: is still contesting failure to register as a sex offender,

646
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 7: unlawful carrying of a switchblade, three trespassing convictions. Holy mackerel,

647
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 7: this this person has riff raft.

648
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 1: By the way, this guy six foot two and two

649
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: hundred pounds. Do you want her? Do you want to

650
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: be a woman and in at a spa or in

651
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: a locker room? And he got a six two hundred

652
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: pound You take your pick, describe any way you want,

653
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: but six to two hundred pounds. If he gets angry

654
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: and pissed off and he's he's got his his member

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Speaker 1: hanging out there, and you're the one who gets lectured,

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Speaker 1: haywire in America. This is this story, that conversation before

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Speaker 1: you need jerk defend somebody who identifies as a woman,

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Speaker 1: do your research, you know, really, apparently His last note

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Speaker 1: address was at the home of his seventy seven year

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Speaker 1: old mother out in Sun City. Of course she did

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Speaker 1: a good job. They all right.

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Speaker 7: When we come back, we'll be talking to Alex Stone,

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Speaker 7: ABC News for KFI about the big earthquake c up.

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Speaker 1: In northern California.

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