Homeless man takes over an LA Metro Bus Bench

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number? What eight hundred two to two two five two two two. Well, we are at top forty. But we do try to play the hits when requested, and every so often there is a news story that sparks the interest of the audience to the point to where.

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Speaker 3: Many, many, many, many many of you.

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Speaker 1: Email us links to the same story and Randy, there's a couple of stories involving the bums that the audience wants to hear us talk about.

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Speaker 2: Fox eleven has really been on it lately with this video that you see that is emblematic of everything that's wrong with Los Angeles that is going everywhere because all the touting of people like Karen Bass and Nitthia Rahman and Unses Hernandez that they want to help the homeless, all the most obvious examples of the homeless and the mentally ill and the drug addicted, there's no help for anybody, including the obviously crazy guy who has taken over a bus bench.

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Speaker 1: And apparently this man is now famous at least with this audience.

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Speaker 2: For more, here is Fox eleven in Los Angeles and Christina Gonzales.

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Speaker 4: Not unusual across Los Angeles County to find homeless people hanging out on bus benches, but we ran into a particularly distressing situation in Hollywood today. Fox eleven's Christina Gonzalez joining us live with the story you'll see only on Fox eleven.

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Speaker 5: Christina and we actually have been following this situation for over twenty four hours. The man you see behind us his back to us. He has been living on bus benches all around a block keys.

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Speaker 2: And he's not just sitting on a bus bench. There is a pile of garbage around the bus bench, something that looks like a ripped piece of foam he's using as a mattress. There's so much trash surrounding all of it. It is. It's very la it's very on brand.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you have to wait for the bus around a bunch of trash, I guess that'll prime you for riding the bus.

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Speaker 5: Here and he's now moved to the street. People here concerned because just last Thanksgiving, on this bus bench that you see right here, they found another un housed person who was dead. They just don't want history to repeat itself. Take a look at this.

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Speaker 2: That's another statistic for Karen Bass to say she reduced homelessness.

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Speaker 1: Now are they sure he was dead? Because it was Thanksgiving? It could have been the trip to fan and the Turkey.

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Speaker 5: My name is Christina. What's your name?

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Speaker 6: I like that. I'm David.

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Speaker 5: David, But what happened that you're your names.

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Speaker 6: I'm not the situation. I'm doing right here.

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Speaker 2: David Christina's really got a knack for talking to these people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if my boss sent me down to talk to a homeless person living at a bus stop, I'd be doing it from far away.

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Speaker 5: David says he's not moving from the Metro bus bench on Melrose and Vine.

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Speaker 7: He's a friendly sort of guy, but he's not all there.

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Speaker 1: Keith john you don't think you think so, boy, He's going out on a limb with that one.

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Speaker 5: Keith Johnson is part of a Citizen Homeless Advisory Group who has been following David for a while.

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Speaker 7: He was at bus stop at Melrose and Wilton.

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Speaker 5: That bus stop now cleared, with a different homeless person set up a few feet away.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was supposed to be Project Inside Safe, not Project bus Stop.

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Speaker 2: It's like they're not even doing the tents anymore. The tents are so early twenty twenties. In the mid twenty twenties, it's all about storm drains, living in the river and taking over bus shelters. You know, when the City of la and Nethea loves to tout that she got funding to put these little canopies over all the bus benches. Who knew that those were going to turn into little many homeless shelters?

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Speaker 1: What's coming next? Mid century modern homeless encampments? Is Gary going to design one?

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Speaker 5: David says he's been at this location a couple of weeks. Have they tried to offer you a place to stay?

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Speaker 6: What I got placing all down the world?

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Speaker 5: Off there?

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Speaker 6: Take it? Look at everything which is built?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy's completely insane.

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Speaker 3: He's showing them around like he's a realtor what I.

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Speaker 6: Got placing all around the world?

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Speaker 2: Off there?

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Speaker 6: Take it? Look at everything which built. I'm from New Jersey, New Jersey. The house soon nice, I'm Prendan.

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Speaker 2: He's got a house in Jersey. Then why is he on a bench in Hollywood?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: God, give him thirty more seconds. He'll start bragging about the pizza.

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Speaker 6: I'm Prendan. I'm from here and there. I'm from my mom and dad.

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Speaker 7: I tried two to one one yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: He pressed one for English. He waited at hold for an hour, then they cut him off. Yeah yeah, yeah, we know the story.

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Speaker 2: Here's someone who's in an obvious mental health crisis. So where are all the crisins? Response workers that we keep paying for because we say we don't need police.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't we employ like I don't know, a couple hundred social workers with bullet holes in them to send them down to places like U two.

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Speaker 8: One one yesterday, and then they refer you to LA Homeless Service Authority. I've also reached out to our city councilman's office.

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Speaker 7: They're homeless.

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Speaker 2: Hugo's not going to be any help.

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Speaker 3: Boy. This guy must be new.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, clap that up, City Councilman's office. They're homeless.

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Speaker 2: Not at this point. It was a brand new experiment in twenty twenty two. But you should really know now that if you vote for a DSA candidate, whether it's Hugo, clap that up or Unisses, are we going to get it? You should know that the one thing you're voting for is them to not do a damn thing about the homeless. I was going to say, this guy sounds surprisedly, not defeated, but give it time, maybe a week, maybe two, and he's going to sound like everyone else in town. Both Hugo and Unisses are up for reelection this year. Let's see if they stay in those jobs. Because that one's on us.

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Speaker 7: City councilman's office. They're homeless team.

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Speaker 5: We also reached out to city officials and Metro. Overnight, someone cleaned the bus stop and David moved to the cement next to the bus stop around the corner oftentimes.

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Speaker 2: And then he came back.

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Speaker 1: It is literally whack them all. There's whack of bum. But you don't worry.

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Speaker 2: They spick and spend the bus bench where he was sleeping all day, so it's nice and clean for him to come back to. It's almost like the homeless who are living on the bus benches have a turndown service.

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Speaker 1: Oh don't worry, there'll be bodily fluids back on that bench lickety split.

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Speaker 2: You haven't even seen the second half of this story. You are a soothsayer, sir uh oh.

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Speaker 8: Oftentimes the help comes from whoever they contract with, and they walk up to the.

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Speaker 7: Person and go would you like services? And if they refuse, that's it.

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Speaker 2: And how much are we paying all of these outreach workers to say that, oh, do you need some help?

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Speaker 1: Oh you don't, okay, Well I guess it could be worse. It could be Barbara Farrera's team down there giving him crack pipes.

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Speaker 5: As David told us the day before.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing going to stop me from doing it, and they know it, and I'm gonna see it right here. I'm a rugg bike. Were faithful and they can suck.

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Speaker 5: So he remains on the sidewalk. The delivery robots drive by, but you can see.

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Speaker 2: There's this great image where he's sitting on the bench, lying down on the bench in this pile of filth, and the food delivery robot the same oh is trying to figure out how to maneuver around him so someone can get their pizza.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone walking down that street is trying to figure out how to maneuver around him.

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Speaker 5: So he remains on the sidewalk. The delivery robots drive by, but you can see people stop to help, bringing food. We've also seen David and get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what did we say about not feeding the bears.

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Speaker 1: What we've done is in bolden these people so that he feels like he owns that bus stop. And if you felt like you owned something, you wouldn't let other people use it, would you.

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Speaker 2: I know it seems compassionate to be offering blankets and food and water to these people, but As long as you do that, they're never going to accept the help because you've just made them more comfortable taking over the public space.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that we should offer him is three hots and a cot and a clink.

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Speaker 5: We've also seen David engaged in what could be considered public.

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Speaker 2: Indecency, and I think you know what that is. And there is video of him on the sidewalk, laying on his back doing that, and that's not a crime. Oh my, sure you could say, well, it's not a crime to be homeless, it's not a crime to be loitering or taking over a bus bench. It's not a crime to be doing that in the middle of the street in Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what argument you make in defense of that.

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Speaker 5: We've also seen David engaged in what could be considered public indecency in decent exposure. Perhaps we can't show you, but that.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't Christina has seen some things.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it. Boy, she's gonna need a stiff one when she gets home.

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Speaker 2: Don't use that word.

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Speaker 5: That doesn't seem to surprise anyone in the area.

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Speaker 8: There's so many rough campers now here in Hollywood where they're not in a tent. They're just out here sleeping on a bus bench or a sidewalk.

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Speaker 7: What is our breaking point.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't have one.

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Speaker 1: This is la Yeah, you have to vote differently, Sarah, that is the breaking point.

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Speaker 8: Yeah. It's not helping them, it's affecting our businesses, our community, our neighborhoods.

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Speaker 5: We did reach out to the main office sent us a full statement, in part reading health, mental health and behavioral health services lie solely with the county.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't sound like locking arms to me.

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Speaker 3: Would you want to touch this guy's arms?

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Speaker 2: Remember how when Karen Bass got in she declared a state of emergency. Lindsey Horvat declared a state of emergency. They said, the era of the county and the city pointing fingers at each other is over. Well, here we are nearly four years later, and it's the county and the city pointing fingers at each other while somebody who obviously is not in his own right mind is just sitting there taking over the bus bench.

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Speaker 1: And we're spending a fortune on project inside Safe. Is Karen Bass there to give this guy a hand?

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Speaker 5: No, lie solely with the county. The mayor's office is asked the county to send mental health support today and in d let's show you video because some people late this afternoon showed up. They identified them as coming from the county. They spoke with him a few minutes, then they talked to us. He told us they know who he is. He has not accepted help. But then they said they weren't going to do anything unless we left.

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Speaker 2: This is the most outrageous part of this entire story is you have somebody who's obviously in a crisis, a danger to himself and everyone around him. LA County mental health employees say, well, we're not going to do anything as long as you're filming.

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Speaker 3: How is that even legal?

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Speaker 1: Unless the news stops talking about this, we're not going to do anything about it.

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Speaker 2: This is why they all got to go. The entire city leadership, in the entidy county leadership, they are all complete failures on this.

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Speaker 1: Well, and this is what they say about crime too. They say crime is actually going down, and they blame the local news, saying if the local news just spend less time talking about crime and more time talking about other things, the public would believe them help.

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Speaker 5: Then they said they weren't going to do anything unless we left because I didn't want a camera around. We offered to move farther away.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it in the public's interest to see how our tax dollars are being spent to quote unquote help the homeless, help the mentally ill and the addicted. You don't get to tell the free press to turn off their cameras.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's about that at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they care about this guy being on video being taken away to wherever it is that they're going to take them. I think what the city was telling her is stop talking about this. If you want us to do something about these stories, stop reporting on it, stop talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Good luck. I think we're like at two weeks in a row where every single day it's a new outrageous, insane homeless story coming off of Fox eleven. They're on it.

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Speaker 5: Because I didn't want a camera around. We offered to move farther away, but no, they left. They said they were not doing anything until we were gone.

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Speaker 2: They left. The mental health service people that we pay I'm sure a handsome salary in the county decided to not help the person who obviously needs help because the cameras were on I know I'm.

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Speaker 3: A broken record.

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Speaker 1: If you do not vote differently, If in that election for mayor you vote for anyone other than Spencer Pratt, you're voting for this. Just go into it eyes wide open.

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Speaker 5: Because I didn't want a camera around. We offered to move farther away, but no, they left. They said they were not doing anything until we were gone. And you see them leave there. So perhaps after we leave now they'll come back and they'll be able to do something. But it does speak to the reality of how difficult it is to help people who are not accecting help. Let alone to show you if that help does come through.

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Speaker 2: Why is all of this voluntary? This entire ideology of housing first and harm reduction and we can't help anybody until they ask for it has been and a complete failure.

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Speaker 1: And part of it is that our elected officials are weed to the idea that we have a homeless problem because of the high cost of housing. It is not going to get better until they get with reality and understand that these people. Their brains are fried. The politicians are the homeless.

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Speaker 5: Both in reality, being homeless is not a crime.

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Speaker 2: Well, how about the thing he was doing in the middle of the street.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you have to register as a sex offender if you do that in public?

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Speaker 2: It's on news video. How can you not take that video to the lapd And at the very least this guy should be locked up for that. There is so much evidence out there all the time of these people living on the street doing things like that or worse, and somehow nothing happens to them.

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Speaker 1: Imagine being a woman or a child living in that neighborhood and you're forced to see that on a daily basis.

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Speaker 5: It's not a crime. And unless he is a danger to himself or others, he's.

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Speaker 2: That's sure seemed like a danger to me.

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Speaker 5: No kidding, he's you know, they're not going to pick him up.

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Speaker 2: But you know what they say. They say, well, he's not a danger in himself. The way that the county likes to act here and the city as well, is that nobody's a danger un till they've already stabbed somebody.

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Speaker 1: How about this, We all pay for those buses. The people who are paying for those buses can't use the bus stop.

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Speaker 5: He's you know, they're not going to pick him up on what's called a fifty one to fifty on mental healthhold. So the options are limited with the way things are being done right.

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Speaker 2: Now, how is it that we can put Britney Spears in a conservatorship but not this guy?

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Speaker 3: Because that makes TMZ.

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Speaker 5: In Hollywood? On Christina Gonzales, he's still here Fox Loven News, Are you.

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Speaker 4: Just did a painful look?

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Speaker 9: There are?

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Of all the things that are outraged about that story, the one that drove me crazy is the La County Mental Health team refusing to do anything until the news camera's left, and then they still didn't do anything they left. How much are those people getting paid to do nothing? They are telling the news to stop reporting on it. Message received, So guess what when we return, we're gonna tell you about a different bum causing problems in a different part of California.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't like Show at gmail dot com and Randy ere monitoring the mail bag.

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Speaker 2: Barbera writes in at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com. Guys, I live in California. My husband and I just went to Carmel for my seventh birthday. There are no homeless in Carmel. I asked the store owner why that is, and she told us if any homeless show up in Carmel, the police are called and they are picked up and escorted out of town. Sounds good to us. The same thing is true in the city where I live. You won't find any homeless in Rancho Mirage. We send them someplace else. There are cities that tolerate this, and there are cities that don't. And the cities that tolerate this say they want to help these people, but obviously they don't.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to help them either. I just want them away from me.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Joseph in Los Angeles. Joseph below.

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Speaker 10: All right, one of the biggest problems with the homeless people is calling them homeless people, because then they think the solution is give them all. The real problem is it's addiction. It's in its mental disease. So they need to get them off of drugs or alcohol or help them out mentally to get them back up on their feet. I mean the majority of them are that there's a few that are down their luck. Then you get them back up on their feet, and you get them a job and you get them to take care of themselves. But we need to quit calling them homeless people because everyone thinks the solution is get them a house, and that's not the problem, because the drug you can't even afford is drugs.

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Speaker 3: It's funny that you mentioned that.

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Speaker 1: When I was a child, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents and they used to call them winos or bag ladies, and they didn't mean it as a pejorative. They just meant it as that's who we're talking about here. But it wasn't homeless, it was whyo, because the assumption is the person is living on the street because they drank too much wine. And even as a child, I understood that when they would refer to them. But then we cleaned up the language and we made it homeless, which I guess is more compassionate, But then you leave people with the exact wrong impression that the problem is a lack of housing.

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Speaker 10: Yes, and that's the problem. I mean they used to be called vagrant street people, hobos, all kinds of stuff. But the solution isn't housing, because they still have If you don't solve in any issue, if you don't solve the root cause, you're never going to solve the problem. So that's why they have to go after the root cause, which is the addictions and the mental instability and all that. And for the few people, the small percentage, they're just down their luck. Then you get them into a temporary shelter and you get them some job skills and they can go out there and get back on their feet again.

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call, sir.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, since the government doesn't want us talking about all the problems with the homeless cause anymore. Randy, let's find out what's going on in downtown La.

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Speaker 2: Matthew Seedorf has been on a roll lately. Matthew Seedorf discovered, thanks to jan Nala and the Clean La with Me guy, the woman living in the sewer drain and when you find out the backstory behind that woman, it is heartbreaking and infuriating. He found the people that are living in the sewers in Canoga Park, the people living in the river near the La River bike path, which is one of the worst bike paths in the entire country. And now another tip has come to Matthew Seedorf. Hey, have you ever seen what's going on outside the post office in MacArthur Park?

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Speaker 3: I can only imagine For more.

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Speaker 2: Here is Fox eleven and the incredible Matthew Seedorf.

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Speaker 4: Only on Fox eleven tonight, a US post office overwhelmed by trash and homeless encampments.

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Speaker 5: Sve is Matthew Seedorf with more.

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Speaker 11: It's unbelievable that this post office is even open. Customers maneuvering around trash and homeless encamments, The images shocking.

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Speaker 2: How does the post office put up with that? That's federal property.

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Speaker 1: And that's a heavily unionized workforce too. You think they'd be able to do something about this.

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Speaker 11: This is the entrance to the post office right here. Disturbing conditions right outside this downtown LA post office somehow still open, surrounded by trash, mounds of garbage flooding the parking lot, old TVs, stripped copper wire, and rats. What it's like here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they showed live shots of the rats running through the homeless in camb it It is it will make your skin crawl? Where is that lunatic fake doctor running the Department of Public Health when you need her passing out pipes next side rats? What it's like?

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Speaker 6: He here, girls and work.

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Speaker 11: Some people living here for years, others months.

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Speaker 7: So you don't know who are you talking to. You can't trust any day with me?

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Speaker 11: Does it's safe? Ariana Montero inviting us.

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Speaker 2: If it's not safe, then why are you there inside the rat infested homeless incamment, outside the post office, outside of the most gang infested park in LA Well.

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Speaker 1: How do they expect Cliff Claven to deliver the penny save or dealing with all of that?

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Speaker 11: Ariana Montero inviting us into our encamment inside a dog shelves, a fan, even a refrigerator.

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Speaker 3: Of course, because why not?

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Speaker 2: How do you guys get power? How is stealing power not a crime?

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Speaker 1: It's a crime associated with the homelessness and poverty.

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Speaker 2: If I don't pay my DWP bill, they shut off my power. We have people stealing power from the city of Los Angeles and nothing happens to them.

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Speaker 1: Nope, Because there's one set of rules for middle class and taxpayers, and there's another set of rules for the protected classes, and the homeless are among them.

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Speaker 11: Obviously, this is a post office.

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Speaker 5: We're blessed that they haven't said eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Right across the street, We're blessed that they haven't said anything about this monstrosity that we've created, because in.

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Speaker 3: La it's anything goes.

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Speaker 11: Right across the street is one of the busiest fire stations in the city of LA They say eighty percent of their calls are related to the homeless.

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Speaker 2: That is the number you need to remember. The fire station outside of MacArthur Park, right next to this post office. Their firefighters say eighty percent of all the calls they respond to are because of the homeless.

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Speaker 1: And fifty percent of all of the fires started in Los Angeles are started by the homeless.

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Speaker 3: According to the chief.

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Speaker 2: If you're wondering why the fire department is overtaxed and stretched so thin, it's because they're responding four out of five calls aren't even about an actual emergency. It's either a homeless person that oh deed, or it's a homeless person that started a fire.

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Speaker 11: Right across the street is one of the busiest fire stasians in the city of LA They say eighty percent of their calls are related to the homeless. Do you worry about your safety? It's crazy those this group from Guatemala, they say help from the city has been hard to find.

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Speaker 3: Okay, they need help from ICE.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was funny because the other day, I think it was Seedorf talked to someone who was from Guatemala that said, Hey, Guatemala is much nicer than here, I see Ada.

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Speaker 11: In a statement to Fox eleven, councilwoman unit Sees Hernandez.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, she's the one who says that the park is fantastic and it's children playing and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 11: Yes. In a statement to Fox eleven, Countswoman unit Sees Hernandez says they've been monitoring the area with outreach and a cleanup planned next week.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how when the news is about to report on something, so they ask for a statement. A place that has been ignored for months, possibly years, festering to the point where there are rats crawling everywhere. Oh, we're just getting around to that right now. We're cleaning it up next week. What are you talking about? And here's what's crazy.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are if you went through that encampment that you couldn't find active warrants or deportation orders for just about every single person there, and a.

00:27:40
Speaker 11: Statement to Fox eleven Countswoman Unit Sees Hernandez says they've been monitoring the area with outreach and a cleanup planned next week.

00:27:47
Speaker 5: I've just did it, bus stops.

00:27:49
Speaker 2: Here's what you need to do. All seven people that are running against unses Hernandez, play that video on loop. That's what you should be pushing out to all of your followers. If you want more homeless encampments full of rats outside of the post office and a fire station where eighty percent of the fires, the things they're responding to have to do with the homeless, then yes, give you nisses another four years. And if we do that, we're done.

00:28:16
Speaker 1: And it's like the bus stop people have to use that post office.

00:28:20
Speaker 3: What do you do if you own a business in that community?

00:28:23
Speaker 1: What do you do if you live in that community and you need stamps or you need to mail a package or something.

00:28:29
Speaker 11: I think, but encampments and trash remain outside the post office where some say they want help.

00:28:35
Speaker 5: I'll jump on it a second.

00:28:36
Speaker 2: At what point does the Postmaster General jump in there and start firing on all fours.

00:28:42
Speaker 1: Well, here's what would happen. They would turn it into a Trump issue and they would say, oh, look, it's Donald Trump going to war with California, and they would take the side of the encampment one hundred percent guaranteed.

00:28:56
Speaker 11: And they haven't done that yet. The counseloman says they're going to be out here as early as next week clearing it all up and offering resources at Tony Westlake Matthew Sedorf foxleven News.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: So there you go. That is the latest of what seems like daily updates from the complete failures of everyone running Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County to do anything about homelessness. Where a post office has been completely taken over by the homeless.

00:29:26
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com and randyearmonitoring the mail bag.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Al rights in from the Port of Oakland at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. Guys up here. As the AC Transit solved both the camping out and the vandalism problem by replacing bus stop shelters and benches with single steel seats, which are few and far between. But after all, benches and shelters are just signs of white privilege. Now, I'm sure Shey likes that, so let's have her say it. That's right, I like that.

00:30:11
Speaker 3: Let's go to Chris and Westlake Village. Chris.

00:30:13
Speaker 12: Hello, hi, guys. You know I called to say that it's the myth. It's the myth. Uh that is a big part of the crime.

00:30:26
Speaker 6: Now.

00:30:26
Speaker 12: I know most people know this, but meth is cheap, it's out there. People will not go into any treatment because they want to stay out so they can get their meth and their alcohol, which you can get for six dollars that if you panhandled. But it's the myth and meth, you know, it's it's a chemical, it's not an organic thing, and it makes people go insane. It destroys your mind and your body. It makes you go nuts. So that's why you're seeing all this out there. And as far as Nythia Rahman goes, you know, I do believe Randy that she is what you might call a fall guy or whatever. For Karen Vass, they believe the same thing. She's a Democrat Socialist of America. And in her interview I heard recently, she said, oh well, you know, we have what seventy four hundred LAPD and she gave that community policing spiel. So if you you know, La, if you vote Democrat, nothing's going to change. And the same thing for the governor, you know, I mean, I'm going with Hilton because he's already going after the fraud. What if Swallowell was governor, I mean, what would he do. He'd give the schools more money, not expose any fraud, you know. So it's like, come on, let's not be stuck on Democrats stupid anymore. It's over and I hope you guys have a great weekend.

00:32:07
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call, sir, you too.

00:32:10
Speaker 2: Now, John, just because he said weekend, remember today is Thursday, not Friday.

00:32:18
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is going to be the roll of the dice, all right.

00:32:23
Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for an update on California's totally corrupt Attorney General, Bob Banta.

00:32:28
Speaker 7: Bob Bonta.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: This guy, Bob Bonta is now getting sued by the California card Room Association because his regulations to ben blackjacket the card rooms took effect yesterday, and they're saying this is going to kill their business and also who asked for this? For more, here's CBS forty seven in the Central Valley.

00:32:50
Speaker 13: This April's Fool's Day is no joke for California card rooms. Today is the day the Department of Justice set up for card rooms to drastically adjust their table games, including getting rid of blackjack. Now the clock is ticking to comply or hit the jackpot in court.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: You knew that was coming, okay, And just to set the table here, Bob Bonta is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Indian Casinos. He used to be owned by the card rooms, and then the Indian Casino paid him more so now he's working for the Indian Casinos and he's trying to make life miserable for the card rooms.

00:33:26
Speaker 9: Bob Bonta, this is what I've been doing for the past twenty two years now. Providing for her family is great. I love it.

00:33:35
Speaker 13: Dona Sukanti Vong says there's a simple reason why she's been a car dealer at Club One casino and Fresno for so long, it's the familiar fasis.

00:33:44
Speaker 9: The best way to describe it, what.

00:33:45
Speaker 2: Do you think the regulars that the card rub and Fresno are like.

00:33:49
Speaker 1: Oh my, they might be getting into fights and ubers too.

00:33:54
Speaker 9: The best way to describe is kind of like those are shold cheers. Everybody knows your name.

00:33:59
Speaker 13: But now decie of consistency is being met with a range of emotions and future uncertainty.

00:34:05
Speaker 9: Scared, nervous, frustration, and pretty much why.

00:34:09
Speaker 13: In an effort led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta of the.

00:34:12
Speaker 2: Department that's not his name, can we get a correction?

00:34:16
Speaker 13: Bo Bonta, the Department of Justice wants to change the game at California's card rooms. The new rules taking effect today would severely affect how table games and non tribal casinos are played. The most notable who.

00:34:28
Speaker 2: Was being harmed by this outside of the perceived harm to their pocketbooks of the tribal casinos that think they have a hold on all the gambling in the state.

00:34:38
Speaker 1: This is what happens when your top cop, When the person in charge of the California Department of justice is for sale.

00:34:47
Speaker 13: The most notable alteration the essential elimination of the popular game of blackjack.

00:34:52
Speaker 14: It's such a dramatic impact on our business. I mean blackjack, so twenty percent of what we do.

00:34:58
Speaker 13: Kyle Kirkland is the owner of Club One. He's also the president of the California Gaming Association. The nearly ninety card rooms in the state employee around twenty thousand people.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to cut that in half.

00:35:10
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, unless they just go and they pony up more money than the Indian casinos and they buy them off again.

00:35:17
Speaker 13: The fear here and elsewhere is a massive loss of jobs and in some cases the inability to keep the businesses going.

00:35:25
Speaker 14: The Attorney General's own internal analysis says that over fifty percent of cardoon revenue employees are going to be affected. We think it's going to be.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: More job killer Bob bonta, everybody hop bonta.

00:35:37
Speaker 14: Because if you take away such an important chunk of our business, it's tough for us to continue to operate.

00:35:43
Speaker 13: Another issue tax revenue. Kirkland says the city of Fresno brings in around a million dollars each year through Club One and.

00:35:50
Speaker 14: There's dozens of cities that are actually reliant on carter tax revenue.

00:35:55
Speaker 13: The California Gaming Association is fighting back in court, one of two lawsuits filed this week seeking a temporary injunction of the new rules. For now, it's business ash and.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: I would love to see if those trial those cases go forward, what discovery looks like. Why exactly is this Bob Banta's cause?

00:36:14
Speaker 1: Da celab Well, maybe that would explain why he's already spent five hundred thousand dollars on a white collar criminal defense attorney.

00:36:23
Speaker 13: For now, it's business as usual, but the fate of cardroom felt is on the table.

00:36:28
Speaker 9: A lot of people have young kids too now that are working here. So you know, that's what we've been doing to provide. And I just don't understand where this is all coming from.

00:36:37
Speaker 2: Bribery.

00:36:39
Speaker 3: It's not that hard to understand.

00:36:41
Speaker 13: The California Nations Indian Gaming Association supports the DOJ's rule changes at cards.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: Of course they do, because they paid for this.

00:36:52
Speaker 3: The funny part is that anyone is surprised.

00:36:55
Speaker 13: Card rooms we reached out to them but did not hear back. We also contacted the eterne the General's office and also did not.

00:37:02
Speaker 2: Hear back, Oh, Bobby's too busy.

00:37:05
Speaker 1: This is how it works in banana republics, and I guess that's what we are