Daniel Guss on the hit job the LA Trying to do to Spencer Pratt

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is, I guess put in your email and you can have it sent to your email box. All right, let's start out and talk about what's going on right now between Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles and polling second currently and the Los Angeles Times, who I knew would be out to assassinate his character like clockwork, and that's exactly what they did. They have a new hit piece out on Spencer Pratt alleging that he is not a resident of the City of Los Angeles. They say he's residing in Santa Barbara County. What they leave out of the picture is the most relevant portion of the entire story, which is, if your home burns down in a fire and you have to take up residence somewhere else on a temporary basis, your legal residence is still in the city where your house was, and in this case, it's in the City of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, of course, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Scidents of the Pacific Palisades, the City of Los Angeles and his opponent, Karen Bath and Nathia Rahman are responsible for the conditions that led to its destruction, and they're responsible for the year and a half now of delay of getting it rebuilt. And don't for one second believe anybody in your audience that this was some innocent oversight by Richard Winton of the La Times, who has participated in a series of group Politzer Prize wins, and Noah Goldberg, who is a veteran City hall reporter and all of their LA Times editors and Jessica Levinson at LMU. In my opinion, I don't speak for you or KBC. This was an act of sabotage. My opinion only.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the reality of the situation. And I've never had a home burned down in a fire, thank God, knock on wood, not that there's any around me. But if my home or to burn down in a fire, and I were to lose everything that I owned down to my toothbrush, I would imagine that I would need to take up temporary lodging somewhere else. I don't know many people who live in my city. In fact, I don't think that there's anyone that I know who lives in my particular zip code who I would feel comfortable enough asking if I could move in with them. I would move in with friends or family in a different city, or maybe even a different county. If I chose to rebuild, then maybe I would move back to my original house. I don't know that I would do that given what I know these people are going through right now in both Pacific Palisades and Altadena. But how can you fault someone for moving to a different city if they're faced with a crisis. It's not like they chose to move to a different city or a different county. You do so because there was an emergency that made it so that you can't live in the house that you own.

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Speaker 3: Right, And let's be clear, Let's be abundantly clear, this was a temporary move, both in fact and in practicality. They moved to where family was, Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi. They moved where they could go with their two tiny children, who the La Times is reportedly stalking along with other family members, so that you can figure out where to wake up in the morning until Bath and Ramen get through the environmental and the permitting and the occupancy rules that had been established. And the La Times knows this damn well because they made this obnoxious comparison to the Pratt's tragedy, to the criminal case against former LAC the Council Richard Council member Richard allercon from the early two thousands. So the La Times and Jessica Levinson can't say that they don't know the rules as they applied to the Pratts, about where you set up your domicile and where you intend to wake up tomorrow morning. They can't know those rules for the Pratt fam They can't know those rules for the allercan situation, but not know the same exact rules for the Pratt tragedy, which is not criminal. It was a tragedy through gross negligence of the City of Los Angeles. And don't tell me that Winton and Goldberg and Levinson and all the LA Times editors didn't know that they did. They had to know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that happens now on X. When one of the reporters, so Noah Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times, tweeted out a link to their article, they got community noted by X. Here is what X said in the kimmunity note. LA City clerk guidance for wildfire displaced residents directs keeping the original residential address like Pratt's Palisades lot for voter registration if relocation is temporary, updating only the mailing address to preserve city residency and eligibility.

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Speaker 4: They got community noted.

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Speaker 3: Right, They got community noted from Twitter or X, and they got the community noted from the city clerk. And here's how you know that this is dirty journalism by the LA Times. How did they not know this? They spoke to a guy by the name of Mike Sanchez, a good guy who's a spokesperson for the La County Registrar Recorder. The only thing that they got in their article was the status of Heidi's voter registration and she's not running for office. But they had Mike Sanchez's attention for a quote for the La Times, and they didn't ask him what the domicile rules were for official candidates for office. A seven year old kid would know this, John and Randy, there is no way that a pulletzer multiple pullet surprise group winner like Richard Winton and Noah Goldberg didn't know. And they put it out there knowing it was gonna waft, as I said in my article, like a fart storm, even though it's been debunked from this station to this station, and this station and ABC seven thankfully not associated with KABC Radio. They just put it out there. Oh, Spencer Pratt's eligibility to run for mayor is in doubt. No, it's not. And the people at ABC seven know it also, and the people at CBSLA you know it also. This is a hack job. It is malicious in my opinion, and I understand that Pratt's people are seeking a correction. In my opinion, the LA Times and every media outlet that parroted this owes him an apology. And for anybody who asks, why are my sidewalks broken? Why are there homeless people crapping in front of my home or my business? This is why you have been lied to. Now and this is just the latest example.

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Speaker 1: If the LA Times is so concerned about the residency of candidates for public office, then fine, okay, you investigate Spencer Pratt and the LA City clerk verifies that he is legally registered at the correct place, which is his burned out lot in Pacific Palisades. Now go do Adam Scheff, who claimed on belatforms that his home in Maryland was his primary residence. Now go do Eric Swalwell, who said the same thing on How about Lafonza Butler, who was the temporary US Senator, the appointee of Galven Newsom to fill one of the state's vacancies in the United States Senate?

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Speaker 4: Why not her?

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Speaker 1: They don't seem to care about any of these Democrats who have potentially lied on bank forms. But man if they can go kick a fire victim. They all stand in line, right.

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Speaker 3: And let's go back even further than that. A number of years ago, when I was investigating into the finances of former LA City Council President, Herb wasn't who by the way, I like him personally. I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog, but I like him personally. When he moved into the city of Los Angeles, I believe his previous residence was in the unincorporated part of the county in Ladera Heights, which he now uses as some sort of rehab home. He had three residences within like four months within Council District en. He literally had three of them. And where was the La Times on that when Herb Wesson went from one residence to the other residence to the other within council District ten. I reported on it, and even after I did, they never picked it up. So this is very clearly a hitchub by the LA Times. So the next time they whine about, oh, you know, protecting democracy, oh and our LA Times guild a blah blah blah, they are not here serving the public. They are a failing public relations machine that serves the politicians, the ngngos and the labor unions, not the people who actually subscribe or who advertise on it. You're one hundred percent on point there.

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Speaker 4: Here's what I think it is.

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Speaker 1: I think in regards Spencer Pratt as a threat to Karen Bass, there are at least two polls that I can think of where he has pulled in second place, and the only one that I've seen where he hasn't is that ridiculous LMU poll that I don't think is worth the paper that it's written on. And because they now see their endorsed candidate, the candidate that they got behind the last time around, Karen Bass flailing and failing and in what the twenties in the latest poll or whatever it was, they see her as someone who could potentially lose to Spencer Pratt, and they are freaking out right.

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Speaker 3: And she could lose in the primary, but oh God forbid, she checks boxes that they feel beholden to protect as opposed to her on the job performance. And when you are Karen Bass, and you make a moron like Antonio Viragoza seem steady, if not competent, and Eric Garcetti seem intelligent, if not reliable. Yeah, this is motivated by the boxes Karen Karen bass checks and the off the deep end of you know, failures of Nithia Rahman. So yeah, and here's another thing. Spencer Pratt is running as a Republican. But I listened to an interview with him the other day and he said, I don't even know a conservative. I'm running as a Republican. I'm paraphrasing Spencer Pratt, he said, but the support you see for me is from Democrats who have been fed up with this. It doesn't matter if it's a deer in our next to his name, his you know, his taucus are people who are freaking sick of it. And that poses a threat to the La Times and the people who it wants to protect. But is actually hurting with this idiocy.

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Speaker 4: What's going on with the owner? Because the owner said that he was going to try.

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Speaker 1: To turn that into a balance paper, and clearly he's failing at that objective. Not only is he failing at the object of making it a balance paper, he's getting community noted on social media. He should be embarrassed with the paper that he's putting out.

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Speaker 3: Right, and so Patrick Soon Shong, the arguably the wealthiest guy in LA has been losing hundreds of millions of dollars and is planning on taking the La Times to be a public entity. I mean, he's going to have an initial public offering supposedly later this year or early next year. But what he's doing with this money hemorrhaging entity that nobody could or should trust. And he's doing a limited IPO where he is bundling the La Times with this Cockamami gaming company and these other entities which may or may not make a profit. I don't believe they've made a diamond profit, and he's bundling them together in a limited IPO where you don't really know what you're getting. And there will be a window where he has to start disclosing this stuff. In order to get brokerage places you know that will sell the stock on the market, He's going to have to start disclosing that stuff, and he's looking for a way out. I have never met the man. He seems capable and competent and decent in interviews when he's not canceling them at the last minute, like on your show, where he would have actually faced rigorous questioning. So he's got this this white elephant that he's looking to dump on investors. In my opinion, I went to grad school. I know the difference between economic economics and econometrics, where economic theories are put to practice in a world of in videas and tesla's and bitcoin, where you can make a fortune overnight, I personally wouldn't put a dime in it. And I'm going to make a prediction something's going to happen that's going to cancel the IPO. I don't know what's going to happen to The Times, but this business is in trouble. This owner wants to get rid of it and is only adding to the chaos of its untrustworthiness. Add it may be an existential threat to the La Times.

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Speaker 5: In my opinion, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Tell you what this character assassination of Spencer Pratt reminds me of more than anything, is what that rag of a newspaper did to Larry Elder when he ran for governor during the recall of Gavin Newsom, when they referred to him as the blackface of white supremacy, and they talked to everyone who Larry Elder ever knew, worked with met whatever trying to find dirt on him to drag his name through the mud. I was one of the ones that they contacted. They reached out to me when they were participating in this character assassination, and I didn't respond to any of those reporters by email. I didn't respond to them in any way, shape or form, because had I done that, I would have responded with something vulgar, and I didn't want to do that. I particularly didn't want to put something like that in writing. But these people are truly despicable.

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Speaker 3: Right Larry Elder, if you've ever met him, Orleo Terrell for that matter, Larry Elder is a decent, even killed guy who will talk to a stranger and shake your hand and want to know what you think about this or that. And then the La Times did exactly what the La City Council did when they quote unquote honored him for his career in broadcasting. One day, they brought him in to give him one of those calligraphy flax and they just hammered this guy. So you think, oh, gee, he checks one of the DEI boxes. But he's conservative, but he was a judge. But he is a famous and respected African American broadcaster, in the city of Los Angeles, and the LA City Council just savaged Larry Elder and that's what they're trying to do now with Spencer Pratt because he's male, he's white, he's heterosexual, and he's relatively young. And yeah, it's the same same thing. It's about views, not not accomplishments and merit.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Guss, editor of The Gust Report. You can get him online at Daniel Gus dot substack dot com and follow him on Exit the Gus Report. Daniel Guss, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 3: Nice see time for the California Crime Blodder.

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Speaker 4: And this edition takes us to the Inland Empire.

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Speaker 2: There was a huge, massive, six alarm warehouse fire and I didn't even know we went up to six alarms and what do you know?

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Speaker 4: It was urson?

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Speaker 2: You don't say, yeah, one of the employees at the paper warehouse decided to light everything on fire.

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Speaker 4: He sounds like a real doll. For more, here is CBSLA.

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Speaker 7: We have an arrest tonight after a massive warehouse fire in Ontario. Please say, and employee set the fire at Kimberly Clark facility, and our Leslie Morine is live at that warehouse with the latest all this investigation and some concerned tonight that the fire could lead to shortages.

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Speaker 2: Leslie, Okay, don't panic, she said, could lead to shortage. We do not need to be all going to Costco right now and buying all the TP because of this warehouse fire.

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Speaker 4: Oh we're going to go through that again.

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Speaker 8: Huh yeah, Pat, we know this warehouse stored it to.

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Speaker 4: How many people do you think still hoard that stuff? Oh? I'm sure plenty.

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Speaker 2: I will just say this isn't my decision, but in my household, someone's had it on autoship every month, no matter if we're in town or not. And I probably have seven full cases of toilet paper in my garage in case the worst happens.

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Speaker 1: Have I given you my theory on why we all fought over toilet paper during COVID?

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Speaker 4: Please? Do I think we all fought over it?

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Speaker 1: Because at the very beginning of COVID, there was a video of two women in a grocery store fighting over items, and the item they were fighting over in particular was toilet paper.

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Speaker 4: And that video went everywhere.

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Speaker 1: And so people saw the news and they go, oh my gosh, there's a shortage of toilet paper. Look at these two women fighting over it. And I think if they had been fighting over avocados, I think there would have been a run on avocados.

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Speaker 2: Just everyone thinking there's going to be a shortage of toilet paper leads to a shortage of toilet paper.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Pat, we know this warehouse stored tissue and toilet paper. And Tonight analysts with Bloomberg, a well respected business outlet, our reporting that this could lead to shortages right here in southern California.

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Speaker 4: I'm big was this warehouse?

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Speaker 1: How is there a massive toilet paper warehouse right under our nose and we didn't even know it.

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Speaker 8: It's huge to shortages right here in southern California. All while Ontario police are releasing more information on the employee they say started this fire.

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Speaker 4: I guess he didn't get the rays he was asking for.

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Speaker 1: Boy talk about a guy who really wanted to get back at the boss.

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Speaker 5: This does not look good.

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Speaker 8: A massive fire at an Ontario warehouse, and tonight police confirm they have arrested the person they believe started it.

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Speaker 9: And the suspect is Jamil Abdul Kareem. He is a twenty nine year old resident of Highland, California.

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Speaker 8: Please say the suspect worked at the warehouse for a third party distributor, NFI Industries. Tonight, the company tells us they are cooperating with the investigation. The fire was reported around twelve thirty Tuesday morning at this one point two million square foot concrete warehouse owned by Kimberly Clark.

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Speaker 2: One point two million square feet of toilet paper torched up.

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Speaker 1: So wait a minute, So he wasn't a direct employee of the toilet paper company.

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Speaker 4: He worked for a third party.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because distributors are going to be picking up toilet paper from the massive warehouse to take them to the distribution center where then someone picks them up and takes them to ralphs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're mad at your boss, this net wouldn't necessarily be the facility to light on fire.

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Speaker 4: So who do you think he's mad at, Charman? I don't know Cott now.

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Speaker 10: The fire was reported around twelve thirty Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: They have a bad run in with some Scots. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Speaker 8: The fire was reported around twelve thirty Tuesday morning at this one point two million square foot concrete warehouse owned by Kimberly Clark, and it burned for hours.

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Speaker 3: It is a paper product warehouse, so there was an extremely large fuel load.

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Speaker 10: Fire official.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it all went up real quick.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's just all hope they get this figured out and back online before the McRib comes out back online. Warehouse burned down, buddy, there's nothing left fuel load.

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Speaker 8: Fire officials said they knew immediately the fire was suspicious because of how out of control that fire was burning.

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Speaker 2: What did they do spray gasoline all over the pallettes and palletts and palletts and toilet paper.

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Speaker 4: This sounds like a professional job.

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Speaker 2: I mean sure if somebody professional wanted to take out all the toilet paper. Maybe maybe there's something more to this, maybe like the one brand that they don't carry at this warehouse is Kirkland, and so Kirk's now get to see a huge increase in sales because that's the only place you can get the TV.

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Speaker 1: Well, but Kirkland doesn't have their own factories. They just take some other product and slap their name on it.

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Speaker 8: Despite a sprinkler system and alarm system being set off, twenty employees were inside and able to safely make it out, but police say one person was missing.

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Speaker 4: There was an employee and guess who was missing the arsonist.

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Speaker 2: Yep, when you when you're not safely evacuating when your place of work is on fire, it's a little suspicious, no kidding.

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Speaker 9: There was an employee reported missing. That employe was later found it. We did make a connection that that employee that was missing and found was confirmed to be the suspect.

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Speaker 4: Did he have the lighter in his hand?

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Speaker 1: If they're confident calling him the suspect, I'm sure he had all kinds of incrimiment, incriminating objects.

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Speaker 10: As the building erupted a ball of fire.

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Speaker 8: People living nearby evacuated their homes, including mother Camille Marks.

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Speaker 5: Everything's okay, though, you know what, We are safe.

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Speaker 11: I had to grab my two kids and run out of the house pretty much as fast as we could. I wasn't sure if it was going to hop over the little.

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Speaker 2: Think you live in a quiet neighborhood. The big employer is the giant toilet, paper warehouse, and all of a sudden, it's a flaming.

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Speaker 4: It's backdraft.

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Speaker 11: I wasn't sureff it was going to hop over the little ravine back there.

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Speaker 10: No one was hurt and no homes damaged.

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Speaker 8: Homeowners were left cleaning up ash fell for miles across the Inland Empire.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, anybody out there that has a pool, that's going to be a pain in the butt.

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Speaker 1: And it's not as if everyone in this area isn't aware of the fact that we're in one great, big fire zone. This is how you get back at somewhat if you're pissed.

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Speaker 8: Homeowners were left cleaning up ash fell for miles across the Inland Empire.

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Speaker 12: Something like this that just puts lives in danger.

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Speaker 10: I'm back out here live.

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Speaker 8: It may be hard to tell, but we're still seeing a good glow coming from this warehouse. We know fire crews are still unseen. They'll be here throughout the night mopping it up.

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Speaker 10: As for the suspect, he is being.

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Speaker 8: Held without bail facing.

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Speaker 10: A multiple felony arson charges.

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Speaker 2: Arson is such an incredibly destructive crime. You can cause so much damage by lighting things on fire. Honestly, at this point, we got to take away your thumbs.

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Speaker 1: No, it should be worse than that. We should have Old West justice. This guy should be strung up in the town square. Oh boy, you could wipe out the entire state.

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Speaker 4: With a fire.

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Speaker 8: He is being held without bail facing a multiple felony arson charges. Many people have questioned what will happen with all the employees who worked here. We're told they will be moved to nearby warehouses.

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Speaker 2: If your line of work is that you move around the pallettes of toilet paper, are you qualified to move to a similar warehouse and move around all those palettes of sketches along the ten Freeway.

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Speaker 4: Well for their employment prospects, I hope. So that is the biggest warehouse I've ever driven past.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever driven from Las Vegas to Reno along the freeway there between those two towns, right as you get close to Reno, oh my god, those buildings just go on forever, and it's one after another after another after another.

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Speaker 8: Reporting life from Ontario, Leslie Maddinsidia.

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Speaker 4: So there you go.

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Speaker 2: The latest on the Ontario TP warehouse that got lit on fire because of an insane arson is who worked for one of the distributors.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we need to follow up on this because in terms of the motive, I don't know what it is, but there's something out there that tells me that there's more of this. Well, the problem with arsen and is half the time the motive is some bizarre sexual thing.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's the case here. I don't know. Let's follow up on this one, though, and find out when we figure out more information. Eight hundred two two two five two two two and oh boy, that was fast, Randy, we have an update on the arsenist.

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Speaker 2: The arsonist himself apparently posted a video of him lighting the warehouse on fire on his Instagram that was discovered by reporters, including at the California Post, and he says in the clip, all you had to do was pay us enough to.

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Speaker 4: Live there you go. He wanted to raise.

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Speaker 1: And so he decided that he would light the entire building on fire to motivate management to give him a five percent raise. If he would have just got that Alameda County thirty dollars hour minimum wage, he would have never lit all the toilet pay apron on fire.

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Speaker 4: He should have just gone and taught at la USD he'd get a raise every single year. Idiot.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time to reopen the California crime blodder.

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Speaker 4: If the cat's dumby. We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. The hell no, baby boy, let me get up one out of here. It's the California crime blow there and ready. This would involve squatters.

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Speaker 2: Imagine you go to buy a home, you close escrow, you're ready to start your new life. You open up the front door with your keys, and someone's already living in there. That might take all the fun out of the process for Mare. Here's NBC seven in San Diego when.

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Speaker 13: The South Bay. A woman's video has gone on viral on social media after she purchased a home then realized somebody was already living in it. The video has.

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Speaker 2: Wait, this wasn't part of the inspection, and it's not even a deadbeat relative.

00:32:13
Speaker 4: You just inherited a stranger.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: You know.

00:32:15
Speaker 5: I know.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: When you're going through the process of buying a home, you're supposed to check for termites. You're supposed to check for all kinds of other infestations. How about a human infestation.

00:32:26
Speaker 4: I guess that should be part of the checklist.

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Speaker 13: The video has gained millions of views and is drawing attention to an issue that appears to be increasingly common in the courts. NBC seven's Ignazio Domingas has the details.

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Speaker 14: You wouldn't know if Pedema has been buying and selling homes for more than twenty years, but nothing could have prepared her for a recent purchase in Tu La Vista.

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Speaker 15: Oh my gosh, I walked in and first of all, he wrote profanity towards me.

00:32:53
Speaker 4: Oh oh, so he's not a friendly neighbor.

00:32:58
Speaker 5: That was, you know, pretty pretty bad.

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Speaker 4: It smells horrible in her, Katie, do you want to verify with this woman just alleged.

00:33:08
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

00:33:12
Speaker 4: There are people that are just animals.

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Speaker 13: It smells horrible in her.

00:33:19
Speaker 14: Inside the boarded up property, an alleged squatter who refused to leave.

00:33:23
Speaker 15: He just seemed too comfortable knowing that he walked into a property that was basically boarded up, ready for sale and he knew it. Just seems like he was too comfortable with the whole situation. Just seemed too casual.

00:33:37
Speaker 2: It seems like this is not the first vacant he decided to pop up into.

00:33:42
Speaker 4: A frequent flyer. You might say this is awful. She says.

00:33:46
Speaker 14: She tried to negotiate with the man cash for keys, but he refused.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: You can't negotiate with a squatter. Well, what point do they become just a terrorist. You can't negotiate with terrorists. If you have someone who's just going to take over your house and go, this belongs to me. I didn't pay for it, Get out of my space. You don't negotiate with that kind of person. You send someone in with a badge and a gun and you have them take them away.

00:34:21
Speaker 4: She says.

00:34:21
Speaker 14: She tried to negotiate with the man cash for keys, but he refused.

00:34:25
Speaker 15: You know, he wants to have you know, gas and electric. He just calls or he goes on the app and he puts it under his name. And because this is a homeowners association, they pay for the water.

00:34:35
Speaker 5: So in essence, wait.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: A second, the HOA, that's the most decron draconian thing you can imagine when it comes to any kind of form of government, is just cool with the squatter getting the lights and the power and the water turned on.

00:34:49
Speaker 1: How did the karens in an HOA allow a squatter in there in the first place. The whole point of finally giving in and agreeing to buy in an HOA community so the Karens know what's going on in your neighborhood every second of your life.

00:35:06
Speaker 15: So in essence, I'm paying for his water because I'm paying the HOAC while he's squatting.

00:35:10
Speaker 2: Wait, you still have to pay the HOA even though you can't move in because someone's illegally living there.

00:35:17
Speaker 4: Hoa's are the best. Have I mentioned that.

00:35:20
Speaker 5: While he's squatting in the property.

00:35:23
Speaker 14: Prole the option was it take the case to court. That took longer than expected.

00:35:27
Speaker 15: And then now you're in the court, you're finding the complaint and you're talking about another couple of months.

00:35:34
Speaker 14: Nearly ten months.

00:35:35
Speaker 2: Seriously, we have gone way too far in the wrong direction on tenants rights where this is allowed. I think my reaction to just about every story that we're doing today is we should go back to the Old West. Mike Wyatt Earp would put up with a squatter, ask Chad Bianca.

00:35:58
Speaker 3: Is wow, Wow, what help you?

00:36:02
Speaker 5: You're talking about another couple of months.

00:36:04
Speaker 14: Nearly ten months to be exact for EDMA. Eventually the Sheriff's Department was able to go in it was.

00:36:11
Speaker 5: It was in pretty bad shape.

00:36:13
Speaker 14: Trash damaged walls and a spray painted slur.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: Oh no, boy, she wasn't lying. We talking racial or sexual?

00:36:23
Speaker 4: Who knows.

00:36:25
Speaker 14: Most cases that go through the legal system face months long proceedings.

00:36:29
Speaker 12: Crosses can take a while. It can take six months to twelve months. It just depends on how busy the courts are.

00:36:35
Speaker 14: According to data from the San Diego Superior Court, between January and December of twenty twenty five, more than nine thousand unlawful detainer cases were filed. Only one judge handles all those cases.

00:36:48
Speaker 2: That's a big problem. You get nine thousand squatters just in San Diego County. You know, Shani Lovera Ilo Rivera wants to go after all the vacant homes and he wants to tax anyone that has a vacation home. How about you get the nine thousand squatters out of the properties that San Diegans could be living in.

00:37:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, because every home that has a squatter in it who's totally nuts can't have a normal person in it.

00:37:17
Speaker 12: And if they are slaughter the police are not intervening. The court system is your only recourse as an owner.

00:37:23
Speaker 14: Okay, I've been called che Lew Steke, Nacio Domingez NBC seven.

00:37:28
Speaker 13: And Mendez says she has fixed up the unit and has rented it.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: Out there you go.

00:37:34
Speaker 2: You had another case of squattron, this time in San Diego County,