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Speaker 3: Hey everybody, Neil Savandra in four Bill Handle this morning.
Speaker 3: Wayne will return on Monday as Bill is on vacation.
Speaker 3: Happy to be here with you on a foody Friday.
Speaker 3: That seems fitting, doesn't it. I will be with you
Speaker 3: tomorrow as I am every Saturday with the Four Reports
Speaker 3: starting at two to two five Tomorrow. We're out at
Speaker 3: the Oh gosh, we're gonna be at the Manhattan Beach Food.
Speaker 1: And Wine Festival.
Speaker 3: That's pretty awesome, right, All kinds of amazing chefs out there,
Speaker 3: great packages to go enjoy yourself. If there are tickets left,
Speaker 3: you can check out at m bfoodan Wine dot com
Speaker 3: MB Food and Wine dot com for the Manhattan Beach
Speaker 3: Food and Wine Festival. A lot of really cool things
Speaker 3: going out there, all right. Floridians are, of course picking
Speaker 3: up the pieces after Milton made landfall. Dangerous category three
Speaker 3: hurricane cut through the state as a Category one storm
Speaker 3: before moving offshore. Keep in mind, we still have folks
Speaker 3: in Georgia in parts of Georgia with power outages. Was
Speaker 3: hearing from some of them. Yesterday on our talkback features,
Speaker 3: saying that they are still battling with power outages. Nothing
Speaker 3: is being done in their eyes at some points there.
Speaker 3: Why is this important? Well, a couple things. They're fellow
Speaker 3: Americans that are sitting there dealing with all of this
Speaker 3: crazy weather. But also if people are looking to move
Speaker 3: out of Florida or get away, they're most likely going
Speaker 3: to be hitting into Georgia.
Speaker 1: And you know, Georgia is still.
Speaker 3: Having its own issues as well dealing with all that. So,
Speaker 3: deaths from Helene nationwide have reached at least two hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty seven people, according to reports from CNN and
Speaker 3: the Associated Press. That makes Helene the second deadliest hurricane
Speaker 3: in the US this century. In North Carolina, officials say
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty people are confirmed dead.
Speaker 1: Thus far.
Speaker 3: Sad thing about these numbers are always expected to rise
Speaker 3: as we get more information. All right, As you remember,
Speaker 3: COVID nineteen wreaked havoc, but not as much havoc as
Speaker 3: horrible it was that people died, not as much havoc
Speaker 3: as the decisions that are made. You know, I was
Speaker 3: once told that life is ten percent what happens to
Speaker 3: you in ninety percent how much you react to it
Speaker 3: or how you react to it, and so we get
Speaker 3: this pandemic, horrible thing with COVID nineteen. Our reactions are
Speaker 3: to it government wide, individually, getting the vaccine, not getting
Speaker 3: the vaccine, whatever it may be. Those are the things
Speaker 3: that we're going to be dealing with after when this
Speaker 3: becomes a yearly endemic type situation. So one of those
Speaker 3: things was California students. I was lucky. On a personal note,
Speaker 3: I was lucky. My boy is seven going on eight,
Speaker 3: and so it didn't affect him in the same way.
Speaker 3: He was still young and out of school, and when
Speaker 3: he did go into preschool, it was an outdoor school,
Speaker 3: so it didn't affect him same way, although he did
Speaker 3: have to wear masks and things like that. But if
Speaker 3: you had a kid that was in school and had
Speaker 3: to do with the garbage learning that goes with trying
Speaker 3: to learn out of school by way of video and
Speaker 3: the like, there was lots of problems. So the good
Speaker 3: news at this point is this scores are up. They're
Speaker 3: going up, especially with the Latinos Blacks, low income kids.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Los Angeles schools did better than the state average.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: We need more and more of this news. Some school
Speaker 3: districts like Compton saw big improvements. Wonderful, but with good
Speaker 3: news comes from not so good news. Most students still
Speaker 3: aren't meeting the state's expectation in math, English, and science
Speaker 3: the big three there to be able to have those
Speaker 3: numbers continue or to continue to have them wobble is
Speaker 3: not good. Still not back to where we were before
Speaker 3: the pandemic. That's crazy making. I had said on the
Speaker 3: air when this stuff was first going down that we
Speaker 3: will deal with the pain of the decisions made here
Speaker 3: in California and beyond for a decade or more at least,
Speaker 3: and we do not have footing. I was at the
Speaker 3: doctors the other day and I said, you know, I
Speaker 3: remember before the pandemic, you could get an appointment in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks for anything, dermatal, you're going whatever,
Speaker 3: You're going to go see a doctor for about two weeks.
Speaker 3: Now it's two to three months. And I go, what's
Speaker 3: going on? He goes, I don't know, but I don't
Speaker 3: think we've still made up for the pandemic. We're still
Speaker 3: seeing patients, still trying to catch up. So we're still
Speaker 3: not back to where we are before. The pandemic. When
Speaker 3: it comes to testing school testing. Some interesting things coming
Speaker 3: out of these studies are more California students are considered
Speaker 3: economically disadvantaged now, so obviously there's more people in that
Speaker 3: category due to not.
Speaker 1: Not coming out of the situation of the pandemic.
Speaker 3: So not only are we still seeing the kids, they're
Speaker 3: catching up in some ways getting better but not completely
Speaker 3: when the test course, but also you've got kids that
Speaker 3: are now set back because of home situation mom and
Speaker 3: dad maybe not working, or work has been cut or
Speaker 3: things have changed. Science scores are the lowest of the
Speaker 3: three subjects. Math and English alongside six and eighth graders
Speaker 3: showed some of their biggest improvements, which is a good
Speaker 3: thing because those are eighth graders. Obviously you're knocking on
Speaker 3: the door of high school. Sixth graders, you're knocking on
Speaker 3: the door of middle school or junior high as we
Speaker 3: say sometimes out here. So education leaders happy about the progress,
Speaker 3: but still trying to catch up. The main takeaway here is, yes,
Speaker 3: things are getting a better a little bit. It's taking
Speaker 3: a long time. It's very slow. Skills schools are still
Speaker 3: working hard to help the students recover from the pandemic
Speaker 3: and the impact on learning, but they still are at
Speaker 3: a deficit. Keep in mind they often lost money, they
Speaker 3: had issues. The amount of fundraising. If you're a p
Speaker 3: and you know about the amount of fundraising going on
Speaker 3: to a place that is supposed to be covered by
Speaker 3: tax dollars is insane. These poor teachers that are putting
Speaker 3: their own money into being able to get the most
Speaker 3: basic of supplies. So what was already a mess is
Speaker 3: it became a larger problem during the pandemic, and now
Speaker 3: after the pandemic is barely scratching its way back to
Speaker 3: the top. Something we're going to be dealing with, maybe
Speaker 3: not on the school level, but with local economies and
Speaker 3: everything like that.
Speaker 1: I say, for a decade or more.
Speaker 3: Somebody pirate porch pirating at my house. How nuts is that?
Speaker 3: RN camera All of our cameras went off, and you know,
Speaker 3: I got a really really good look at him, but
Speaker 3: I had something delivered. Now I feel bad for the
Speaker 3: guy because I'm building a haunted house for my kid's school.
Speaker 1: So it was just candles.
Speaker 4: It was like fake candles and not even real candles, like,
Speaker 4: so it's you know, it's a it's a sucky get
Speaker 4: but the soob like walked up and it just it
Speaker 4: just triggered, and I'm like, wait a second, it's a he.
Speaker 5: Just got burgled. Sucks. How horrible dare you? And they're
Speaker 5: not even like a young kid. He looked older and
Speaker 5: he may even be me HINTI.
Speaker 3: Wow, I'm flabbergasted. I'm blown away. I'm glad that he
Speaker 3: got something that sucked.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so smooth. Do you feel violated?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know that I go that far. I
Speaker 3: don't want the guy on my porch. But violation to
Speaker 3: me is like being in prison.
Speaker 1: I don't want that. But man, I was sure was.
Speaker 3: Zero to beature as punk. Well, ca, if I am
Speaker 3: six forty live everywhere in the.
Speaker 1: Eye hurt or I want to hit him in the eye.
Speaker 1: I want to cook him root in a nick funk.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I am six forty live everywhere on the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app Neil Savandra in for Bill Handle this morning,
Speaker 3: Wade will be to be back filling it. Oh man,
Speaker 3: I just want to.
Speaker 1: Or I'm.
Speaker 3: Mmm righting the sword flexes to wind downer you we
Speaker 3: can cry when we'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: All right, back to what does it so? Casual and entitled.
Speaker 1: You deserve the crabby candles punk.
Speaker 3: Then getting my good stuff might have been a phone
Speaker 3: charger in there, like you know, portable phone charger, but
Speaker 3: cheap like thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: But still, it's just it's your stuff. Sures you bought it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna track you down. I'm going to haunt you.
Speaker 3: I don't have money, but what I do have is
Speaker 3: a set of skills. I will find you and I
Speaker 3: will kill you, all right, Ay, breast milk silly host
Speaker 3: transitions are for kids. Breast milk for grown ups. Why, okay,
Speaker 3: let's talk about something you might not expect. A little
Speaker 3: weird adults drinking breast milk.
Speaker 1: I said, for good I will find you.
Speaker 3: You heard right. So here's the basics about this. People
Speaker 3: have been using breast milk for a long time.
Speaker 1: Did you know that. I mean not just feeding the babies.
Speaker 1: I will trik you down, but for all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: This is throughout the ages, not just baby food, but
Speaker 3: the first century. Pliny the Elder, and with a name
Speaker 3: like that, people were going to them all the time
Speaker 3: looking for information. He recommended it for fever, for gout,
Speaker 3: healing from poisonous beetles, because that's a problem, especially ringo.
Speaker 3: In the seventeenth and eighteenth century England and even in America,
Speaker 3: breast milk was prescribed for ailments ranging from consumption, which
Speaker 3: is what is that? Is that tuberculosis consumption? I think
Speaker 3: it's tuberculosis to blindness. Oh you're going blind, have some
Speaker 3: bow milk, that'll you'll be good to go back here. Now,
Speaker 3: in modern day, some grown ups are starting to drink
Speaker 3: it thinking it might be good for them. So here's
Speaker 3: the breakdown here. Breast milk is awesome for babies, right
Speaker 3: It's got fats, it's got proteins, vitamins, special sugars that
Speaker 3: helps babies grow and stay healthy. But for adults, we
Speaker 3: don't really know. It's a bit tricky. The good and
Speaker 3: the bad of this is. The good news is scientists
Speaker 3: are finding some cool stuff, some things that are in
Speaker 3: breast milk that might help with medical treatments.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful.
Speaker 3: The bad news is that drinking breast milk probably won't
Speaker 3: do much for healthy adults.
Speaker 1: So it's not like, you know, we went through the
Speaker 1: bone broth thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's still a big thing right now,
Speaker 3: But like, oh, bone broth is the most magical thing
Speaker 3: in the whole eyed world, and everybody's looking for that elixir, right,
Speaker 3: So it doesn't look like milk is that unless there's
Speaker 3: an issue that the things like these fats, these proteins,
Speaker 3: vitamins and sugars that they're going to help with you
Speaker 3: if you are not healthy, there's something if your body
Speaker 3: doesn't need these things the way a baby does, and
Speaker 3: it's not gonna do crap for you. So the weird
Speaker 3: weird stuff on all this is that some people are
Speaker 3: buying breast milk online. Now, I hope you would know this,
Speaker 3: but your old powd Neil is going to reinforce this
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: I believe what I'm saying it.
Speaker 3: Don't buy breast milk online. Okay, but why Neil? Well,
Speaker 3: I'm no Pliny the Elder, but I will tell you this.
Speaker 3: You don't know where it came from. You don't know
Speaker 3: it is, and it's it could be biologically hazardous because
Speaker 3: someone It's not so much that you want to buy it.
Speaker 3: I get it, you think that maybe's can be good
Speaker 3: for you. It's that somebody felt the need to sell it.
Speaker 1: We don't know them.
Speaker 3: That's the X factor there, so don't do that. People
Speaker 3: trying it for things like building muscle or curing hangovers,
Speaker 3: and for the science on that says that doesn't work.
Speaker 3: But researchers are seriously looking at milk new ways. They're
Speaker 3: making fake versions of bread breast milk sugars. Well, this
Speaker 3: is what formula is people that might help with things
Speaker 3: like heart disease or arthritis. They're using breast milk to
Speaker 3: check moms for early signs of breast cancer.
Speaker 1: Well that's but how does that help me?
Speaker 3: Yes, you want to chest the test the breast milk
Speaker 3: for the woman to see if her breasts are bad.
Speaker 3: But it's not like I'm buying it online swigging it
Speaker 3: and going uh oh, I taste breast cancer. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: there's nothing, there's nothing for me. So the bottom line here,
Speaker 3: it's amazing for babies, not necessarily a magic drink for us.
Speaker 3: And if you're a healthy adultult it's not going to
Speaker 3: do anything. And having said that, I will tell you
Speaker 3: that one host and I'll tell you who it was
Speaker 3: when we come back. One host here at KFI served
Speaker 3: her breast milk to dinner guests.
Speaker 6: Dud Dud, dud dud dun, dun, dun, dun, duh, it's
Speaker 6: not you and dun no no, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 6: it's another female host.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you when I get back.
Speaker 3: Let's get the news now with Amy King. I swear
Speaker 3: to God, I will find that guy.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 3: I will find him, and I will take that stupid
Speaker 3: jacket off that he was wearing, and I will punch
Speaker 3: him in the eye because porch pirating is one of
Speaker 3: the worst things in the whole wide world. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 3: Neil Savadra in for Bill Handle this morning. Wayne will
Speaker 3: be filling in starting again on Monday, so don't fret,
Speaker 3: my pet.
Speaker 1: You'll have him back on Monday, Big news Day.
Speaker 3: Obviously, things is still the repercussions of such a horrendous weather.
Speaker 1: Situation.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry a little preoccupied if you did in here.
Speaker 3: My house was porch pirate, and while I was on
Speaker 3: the air doing my duty to inform you, dirt bag,
Speaker 3: I saw it. My wife thought he was delivering something.
Speaker 3: He stole something. So it's preoccupying me because people are trash.
Speaker 3: All you got was prop candles for by kids schools
Speaker 3: Halloween haunt. So good on you, buddy. You stole from
Speaker 3: children any who, people with much worse situations going on.
Speaker 3: You've got Floridians picking up all the pieces after Milton
Speaker 3: made landfall dangerous category three hurricane. Of course we're still
Speaker 3: looking at the aftermath of that for those that were
Speaker 3: thinking of leaving and going to Georgia. Georgia still dealing
Speaker 3: with Helene and the aftermath, many of them still without power.
Speaker 3: Just insane, a situation we talked about earlier with Amy King.
Speaker 3: One person has died, twenty three people have been rested
Speaker 3: after an elevator had an issue, some technical issue at
Speaker 3: a Colorado tourist mine. So there's an old gold mine
Speaker 3: where people were, you know, they go and they check
Speaker 3: it out, and people were trapped a thousand feet underground
Speaker 3: for six hours. Can you imagine what your head starts
Speaker 3: to do after that. California officials have sees nearly one
Speaker 3: point seven million dollars worth of fentanyl this month in
Speaker 3: two traffic stops. So I get it when people complain
Speaker 3: about traffic stops, whether it's minorities or what, or whether
Speaker 3: they're a hass or whatever it is. But you know
Speaker 3: what I will tell you, it seems like traffic stops
Speaker 3: are the key to nailing people for the most part.
Speaker 3: It just they seem to produce so much anyway. So
Speaker 3: that was some of the headlines going on in some
Speaker 3: of the news bits you need to know right now.
Speaker 3: As far as the question I left you with, what
Speaker 3: female talk show host here at KFI actually gave breast milk?
Speaker 3: You'll have to listen to the podcast if you don't
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about, because I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go over the whole breast milk thing. Again, that's too indulgent.
Speaker 3: A little sure Kono would love it, but the regular listener,
Speaker 3: they're not going to dig that. So we were talking
Speaker 3: about breast milk. Adults are drinking breast milk. Now, it's
Speaker 3: a whole thing. Go back and listen to it on
Speaker 3: the podcast, Doctor Wendy Walsh gave breast milk in food
Speaker 3: to dinner guests. Now, if I remember the story right,
Speaker 3: she told it on the air.
Speaker 1: If I remember the.
Speaker 3: Story correctly, she basically was out of milk and a
Speaker 3: dinner party that she was throwing and just put her
Speaker 3: breast milk in there because she was breastfeeding at the time.
Speaker 3: So if you had that on your being go card,
Speaker 3: God bless you. You know what what is I because
Speaker 3: I'm talking about milk, and then I feel like if
Speaker 3: I do this story, I kind of want some time
Speaker 3: to do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna move some things
Speaker 3: around here, Amy King, you ready for news? Because I
Speaker 3: want to get into this but I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to try, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: cut it short. You got it, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: You got some news? All right? Well, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: I just want to be ready for you, that's all.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Will's ready, but I'm ready. Well,
Speaker 3: Will's always ready. He's ready to sing, he's ready to dance.
Speaker 7: He is singing and dancing, you guys and dolls.
Speaker 1: I was looking for a reason to plug it, and
Speaker 1: where's it at.
Speaker 7: It is in Alta Dina at the historic Barnesworth Amphitheater.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Amy King?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounded right to me.
Speaker 7: I think I think that's it, but I'll ask Will
Speaker 7: just to I'm trying to remember if that's the name
Speaker 7: of the theater.
Speaker 1: But it's going on.
Speaker 7: His opening night was last Sunday. Said it was really fun.
Speaker 7: Oh that's cool, and tickets are available.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody, Neil savedra in for Bill handle Wayne Resnik
Speaker 3: will be filling in for Bill starting on Monday again.
Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging out on this Friday morning. I watched
Speaker 3: someone parch pirate live while I was here working today.
Speaker 1: Oh it's infuriating. I tell the story. You can go
Speaker 1: listen to it, but man, oh really grinds my gears.
Speaker 3: All right, California pledge five hundred million, half a billion
Speaker 3: dollars to help tenants preserve affordable housing. Guess how much
Speaker 3: they got. The people in need got zero, not a nothing.
Speaker 3: So in twenty twenty one, California promised this half a
Speaker 3: million to help keep housing affordable. So how this works
Speaker 3: is the money was meant for Community Land Trust. These
Speaker 3: are groups that buy buildings and then they keep the
Speaker 3: rents low, right, so they figure this out. Big news.
Speaker 3: Think about that twenty twenty one pandemic. All that stuff
Speaker 3: is hitting people are in need of help. They were
Speaker 3: worried about the raising rents. And I'll tell you. I'll
Speaker 3: give you an example. Luke Johnson, eighty five years old
Speaker 3: out in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, that's
Speaker 3: the east central part of Los Angeles. He and his
Speaker 3: neighbors were excited about the program. Their landlord wanted to
Speaker 3: sell their building. This was a perfect opportunity. They hoped
Speaker 3: that a community land trust could buy it using the
Speaker 3: state money. Of course, the states saying, hey, we promised this,
Speaker 3: but three years went by the state didn't give out
Speaker 3: any money. Nothing. Why well, the program got stuck in bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: What are the chances The state agency in charge took
Speaker 3: way too long setting it up, so the money is
Speaker 3: basically consumed and they get nothing. So during this time,
Speaker 3: California's budget gets super tight. Lawmakers get frustrated that no
Speaker 3: money was spent for this program, so back in June
Speaker 3: of this year, they decided to cancel the entire program.
Speaker 1: Three years.
Speaker 3: Nothing, not a penny, they canceled the program. This leaves
Speaker 3: people like Johnson Luke Johnson in a tough spot. The
Speaker 3: community land trust can't buy their building because it doesn't
Speaker 3: have state money. Now Johnson and his husband might have
Speaker 3: to leave the apartment that they've called home for decades.
Speaker 3: I think, if I remember correctly on a couple other
Speaker 3: stories I was reading, is maybe even forty years or something.
Speaker 3: Housing advocates are disappointed, rightly so as those that are
Speaker 3: sitting in those plays is hoping for a little relief.
Speaker 3: They say, preserving existing affordable housing is important. Now, why
Speaker 3: think about it. How much do we hear of complaints
Speaker 3: that we need more housing, we need more housing. Well,
Speaker 3: preserving inexpensive housing is right up there with making more housing.
Speaker 3: Otherwise you're going to have people not being able to
Speaker 3: live where they are now, and that's going to be
Speaker 3: a compound the problem. It's not incredible math. So what's next. Well,
Speaker 3: at this point, the community land trusts are looking around.
Speaker 3: They don't have that half a billion dollar coming in
Speaker 3: that was promised by the state. They're trying to raise
Speaker 3: money from banks and charities. They're hoping to create a
Speaker 3: one hundred million dollar fund, and they're going to buy
Speaker 3: properties and keep them affordable. So what's the lesson in this?
Speaker 3: I was frustrating reading this through this last night and
Speaker 3: going this breakdown. This story is on a loop. It's
Speaker 3: over and over again. The big lesson. You know, even
Speaker 3: if you're not someone like me, I'm a smaller government guy.
Speaker 3: I like and think that governments are better when they're smaller.
Speaker 3: You have to agree with this that the government, whether
Speaker 3: it's federal, whether it's state or even local. The way
Speaker 3: it is now, it's too big to even manage and
Speaker 3: fulfill the programs they've already created, the ones that they
Speaker 3: already believe in, the ones that they've already promised, like
Speaker 3: this one. Even when the state wants to help White
Speaker 3: Wick do with housing, we hear about a day in
Speaker 3: and day out, we need more housing, more affordable housing.
Speaker 3: They're allowing ADUs, these additional dwelling units to go up
Speaker 3: on properties.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, that's what blew up in Long Beach
Speaker 1: the other day. You remember that that was an ADU.
Speaker 3: The money is continually mismanaged, The programs fail time and
Speaker 3: time again. And I'm seeing this trend, and maybe you
Speaker 3: are as well that more and more, on all levels
Speaker 3: of need, it's not the government, it's the private sector.
Speaker 3: They're either coming to the aid or being asked to
Speaker 3: come to fund or facilitate needs that the government has failed.
Speaker 1: For example, now this is on a national level.
Speaker 3: Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, love him or hate them, he
Speaker 3: and other billionaires have basically privatized the space program. They
Speaker 3: have privatized space travel billions of dollars. And not only
Speaker 3: have they privatized it, but they've improved it by being
Speaker 3: able to recycle and reuse parts of the rockets, so
Speaker 3: it got better.
Speaker 1: Being privatized.
Speaker 3: On the state level, this very affordable housing project that
Speaker 3: I was just telling you about that failed by the
Speaker 3: California state government, and what are they doing now? They're
Speaker 3: turning to banks and charities to help. Instead, they're going
Speaker 3: to the private sector to ask for help locally. Back
Speaker 3: in it was April, because I remember talking about it
Speaker 3: back in April. I think LA's mayor Karen Bass. Do
Speaker 3: you remember when she came out and she was appealing
Speaker 3: to wealthy Angelinos and she's asking them to contribute financially
Speaker 3: towards solving the city's homeless crisis.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that.
Speaker 3: You're a business, an entrepreneur, whatever you are, and you're
Speaker 3: in your home and the mayor is calling you to
Speaker 3: help solve that. Now, I'm all for the community coming
Speaker 3: together and using whatever resources we all have to make
Speaker 3: things happen, but it's compounded by the amount of money
Speaker 3: we've already had. They're looking for public private partnerships is
Speaker 3: what she was looking for, something called La four La.
Speaker 3: Now you remember this is after she had included in
Speaker 3: her first city budget as mayor here in Los Angeles
Speaker 3: an allocation of one point three billion for initiatives to
Speaker 3: address the homeless crisis. One point three billion was put
Speaker 3: into that budget. She devoted about a fifth of that
Speaker 3: money to Insight Safe Now you remember you hear this
Speaker 3: a lot. That's our signature program. Moved the unhoused into
Speaker 3: some of the city's largest, you know, from the city's
Speaker 3: most largest and most dangerous encampments, trying to get them
Speaker 3: and that's a goal.
Speaker 1: I'm down for that now I did.
Speaker 3: I know everybody loves to jump to conclusions about who
Speaker 3: everybody is when they make any because we cannot separate
Speaker 3: logic from your bias. We can't separate logical thinking, reasonable
Speaker 3: thinking from the R or the D that you vote for.
Speaker 3: I'm no longer a Republican, I'm not a Democrat. I
Speaker 3: don't adhere to either party. I vote and have voted
Speaker 3: for a long time for the person that I feel
Speaker 3: suits our need at the time. What's going on in
Speaker 3: the world, and this is locally and nationally, So if
Speaker 3: you're going to try and peg me, then you are
Speaker 3: the problem. Keeping more tax money in the hands of
Speaker 3: people doesn't mean turning our backs on those in need.
Speaker 3: That's the problem that everybody thinks, well, yeah, well, the
Speaker 3: tax always have to go to the government because they're
Speaker 3: the ones that are going to help people. Know, we're
Speaker 3: seeing the exact opposite now we are reversing it.
Speaker 1: But you know what it does.
Speaker 3: It makes people think different because it's their money, not
Speaker 3: their money they gave to another entity that is now
Speaker 3: spending it. They're going, how can I build a better rocket?
Speaker 3: How can we solve the homeless issue without all the
Speaker 3: bureaucracy and the red tape and the garbage that goes
Speaker 3: with well, we can't do that or the government.
Speaker 1: You've got a building.
Speaker 3: In downtown that's covered with graffiti because we can't use
Speaker 3: it for whatever reason. And I know there's some logistical
Speaker 3: issues for homeless people. And it was built by some
Speaker 3: financers out of China, I believe. And there's there's it
Speaker 3: just sits there. There's not They say we can't convert it,
Speaker 3: we can't do this. Meanwhile, it's that's saying it's better
Speaker 3: for the guy I saw the other day halfway in
Speaker 3: the gutter and halfway in a bus shelter on sunset
Speaker 3: boulevard not two miles from my home. That guy's better
Speaker 3: off than whatever they can't do in that building. You
Speaker 3: get that, get rid of bureaucracy, you get better management.
Speaker 3: These are the types of things that I think will
Speaker 3: excel when we come together. We're instead of digging our
Speaker 3: heels in in some kind of cult partisanship that everybody's into.
Speaker 1: So so mark my words.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you're on the left, I don't
Speaker 3: care if you're on the right or any part of
Speaker 3: the political spectrum. You gotta admit the notion of the
Speaker 3: government being the sole funder the big mommy or daddy
Speaker 3: and this guy the facilitator of the needs of its people.
Speaker 3: It's bloated, it's over right, and it's a failure. And
Speaker 3: if you see smaller government as some sort of Reagan
Speaker 3: ass kind of talking point type thing, you're missing the point.
Speaker 3: We have to invigorate progress where promises and blank checks
Speaker 3: that have been funded by our tax money have left
Speaker 3: huge deficits and Americans still on square one, going where
Speaker 3: is the help? And now the money's gone because in
Speaker 3: the hands of someone else it might have been better.
Speaker 3: I know, it's a little we the people, a little
Speaker 3: early for we the people on a Friday morning. But
Speaker 3: holy hell, it's it's not working. Over and over and
Speaker 3: over again. Tons of money, massive mind boggling amounts of
Speaker 3: money are going through the cracks because we think that
Speaker 3: this group of people that we elected are going to
Speaker 3: handle our money better than we can as a community
Speaker 3: seeing a need and taking care of something. And you
Speaker 3: know what, the ones that said, oh, this party is
Speaker 3: heartless and doesn't want to help people and doesn't want
Speaker 3: national programs or local programs are now the ones going
Speaker 3: to the people saying, hey, can you can you do
Speaker 3: this because we can't Neil Sevandri and for Bill Handle
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