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Speaker 1: How are you all right, John, Thanks for having me back. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's the state of Echo Park Lake? What's happening here? Well,

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Speaker 1: and then they're scolding everybody else for not being compassionate.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like somewhere, not too long ago,

431
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: the world became inverted. Coming up again Assemblyman one alanis

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00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: after three o'clock to talk about a possible repeal or

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00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: at least major adjustment of Prop. Forty seven, and he'll

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Speaker 1: be on it in a little bit. Ken is away

435
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: today and again coming up after three o'clock one allamis

436
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: is going to be on. He's an assemblyman and from Adesto,

437
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,719
Speaker 1: I think, isn't he Yeah, he's from Adesto. Uh remember

438
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: that Scott Peterson Garry Kanda territory, those good old days.

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00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: Huh wan alanis is going to come on. He's got

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00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: a bill to drastically reformed Proposition forty seven, which is

441
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: the root of a lot of evil in this state,

442
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: because God, what did it do? It reduced the the

443
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: amount of the amount of stuff you can steal from

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00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: a store. Remember the minimum is nine fifty. You can

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00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: steal nine hundred and fifty dollars worth of stuff from

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Speaker 1: a store and it's not a felony, and they wouldn't

447
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: even arrest you anymore for it. It's a misdemeanor. And

448
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: even if by chance they arrested you and you got convicted,

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00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: you don't get any jail time because it's only a

450
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: six month jail term, and in La County, a six

451
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: month jail term or last means you don't go to jail.

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00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: Not making any of this up. So really, you can

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00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: go every day into a store and steal nine hundred

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00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars worth of stuff and never get punished

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00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: for it. And so why do you think we've had

456
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: so much shoplifting going on, so much sheft, so much theft.

457
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: Also Prop forty seven did something terrible and it used

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00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: to give prosecutors a tool, some leverage where they would

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: go to you know, a guy would have been accused

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00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: of drug crimes and say, look, we keep will either

461
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: put you in jail or you go get treatment, and

462
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: most of them would take treatment. Well. Prop forty seven

463
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: took away that bit of leverage the prosecutors had. So

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00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: where do what do you think these people did? Stayed

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00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: on drugs and they're living out in the streets. It

466
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: was just some of the homeless people that you're dealing with.

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00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: That's it was. It was a terrible law. It was

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00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: sold to the public as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. Yes,

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00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: that's an exact quote, these Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,

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00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: and a judge no longer had the ability to order

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00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: drug rehabilitation programs rather than incarceration. Wow. So could all

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00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: that be reversed by a Republican assemblyman's idea and a

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00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: democratic legislature. Most of the public is against Prop. Forty seven.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that after three o'clock. Did you, Deborah,

475
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: did you hear about the guy in Uganda? His name

476
00:30:50,680 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: is Musa Asaiah Cassarah. He has twelve wives, one hundred

477
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: and two children. How many grandchildren? Glad you asked? Five

478
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight grandchildren. He's sixty eight years old,

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00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: and only now he feels enough is enough? How do

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00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: you entertain twelve? Yeah? I know at that age. I

481
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: mean not saying sixty eight is old, but you're definitely

482
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: not in your prime. Why would you want to Well,

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00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Why would you want to? One wife

484
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,479
Speaker 1: can be exhausting? Well, you know, as I'm sure your

485
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: husband knows. Yes, but then you maybe you have you

486
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: have different wise for different reasons. Yes, one for just

487
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: child production or maybe a few, yeah, hundred and two. Wow,

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00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: don't these women run when he comes knocking at the door. Well,

489
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: maybe they're so excited to see him because it's their turn,

490
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: but they know they got nine months now they're going

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00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: to be pregnant. I can't relate. And the thing is

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00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't even work enough to feed everybody. He says

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00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: two of his wives have left because he couldn't afford food, clothing,

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00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: and education. I don't blame them. Well, wait to say,

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00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: if your wife number eleven, right, Yeah, and there's already

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00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: ninety two kids in the family. Wouldn't you say, now

497
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I'll find someone else and you know, start fresh. Yeah,

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00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: I mean, what what is he doing to entice these women?

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00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's got down the stairs. This

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00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: is definitely a Pete Davidson situation. He must be unusually gifted. Um,

501
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: he says, Um, his health is failing. Yeah, I bet

502
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: it is. So he wants all the wives to take

503
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: care of him. Yeah, and they're and they're running out.

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00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: He married his first wife in nineteen seventy two, when

505
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: they were both seventeen, and his first child is born

506
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,239
Speaker 1: a year later. He doesn't know the names of all

507
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: his children. Well, I don't think I would know the

508
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: names of all mine if I had one hundred two.

509
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: In no way. He can't even recall the names of

510
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: some of his wives. He apparently has one son who

511
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: keeps track of all this, And we need he needs

512
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: a name of a child or a wife. His son,

513
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: Shaban Magino, knows he runs the famili's affairs. He was educated. Um.

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00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: They they have monthly family meetings to try to limit

515
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: the disputes. The village is only four thousand people, So

516
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: he's he's a he's what about he's about twelve percent

517
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: of the whole village. What a stud Yeah that that

518
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: you can say. Um. A lot of his family try

519
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: to do chores for the rest of the neighborhoods. Rest

520
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: of the neighbors in the village. They spend their day's

521
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: watching firewood and water, traveling long distances on foot. That's

522
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: all they do all day, the whole family idea. Oh,

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00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: I hear an echo of myself too. Hello, hello, hello, hello.

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00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: Oh that's okay, it went away. That was creepy. I

525
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: have no idea. I don't know. Was that was that

526
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: inside your head? There? No, that was inside your head.

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00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: Let's take a tour inside Depra's head. He would be scary.

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00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: How are you you? You? Let's not um. Oh I

529
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: said that two of his wives have left him. Another

530
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:51,919
Speaker 1: three um moved to another town because of overcrowding. Well,

531
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: I mean, what does he have to offer these women?

532
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: Not mine? She's not making any money anymore. His health's

533
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: so good, right, so they're getting nothing, he said. His

534
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: wives now take birth control. Well, never mind, he says,

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00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: I have learned learned from my irresponsible act of producing

536
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: so many children that I can't look after. This guy

537
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: made one hundred and two kids. And now he's saying

538
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: he learned, well, he didn't know. He didn't know about

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00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: a condom. No, he says, my wife. My wives are

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00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: on contraceptives, but I am not. So he never took

541
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: any precautions. Used to be a cattle trader and a butcher,

542
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: and so he had money and status in the village

543
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: and claims that villagers would offer their daughters to him.

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00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: Some of them were under eighteen and child marriage was

545
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: not banned in Uganda until nineteen ninety five, and polygamy

546
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,479
Speaker 1: is allowed under certain religious traditions. So the kids range

547
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: from age ten to fifty. The youngest wife is about

548
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: thirty five. That's pretty old for having twelve wives, right, Yeah,

549
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: you think you think there'd be a nineteen year old

550
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: in there. Um. Most of his family lives in a

551
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: rapidly dilapidating house. How do they fit? How can he afford?

552
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine it's it's a mansion like yours. Hey,

553
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: I saw the view you posted the other day. Okay,

554
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: little miss mountain top. I don't live on the west side, yes,

555
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: but you live the high high in the mountains. Uh.

556
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: He's got a one house with a cargated roof that

557
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: is rusting away. And he has two dozen thatched mud

558
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: huts nearby. So I guess maybe every wife gets her

559
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: own mud hole. That's exciting. Yeah, they can only feed

560
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 1: the children once a day. Oh that's sad. Or that's

561
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: according to wife number three, Zabina. And if she had

562
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: known he had other wives, she would not have agreed

563
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: to marry him. And then and then he brought in

564
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: the fourth and fifth wife, and then he had twelve

565
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:17,959
Speaker 1: and she's very upset, unbelievable. I don't know, no wonder

566
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: the guy's in bad health. Oh waited a second blame

567
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: the why? Oh you got twelve wives that are unhappy

568
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: with you? Okay, well just one husband who is God

569
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: knows what what is his day like? Well back in

570
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: the day, I'm sure it was pretty fantastic for him.

571
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: Oh I guess so when he was when he was

572
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: thirty years old. Yeah, they couldn't get enough of him.

573
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up one Alanus, the assemblyman from Modesto.

574
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Speaker 1: He's got an assembly build that would lower the felony

575
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: threat of I can't it's the felony theft threshold. You

576
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: say this theft threshold threshold. Do it again? Do it

577
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: like five? Felony theft threshold. Felony theft thresh threshold. Don't

578
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: you ever make fun of me on the air again,

579
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Speaker 1: John go Belt