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Which Candidate for Mayor Will Fix Homelessness in LA?

#caruso#streetneighbors#upn#urban#unhoused
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0:00 again [Music] right so Walter who are you uh voting for for mayor of la oh wow that's fast I don't vote in L.A because I don't live in L.A dude you got a boat or die bro yeah you gotta vote how come you don't vote what are you P Diddy you gotta Vote or Die yeah I don't I don't I don't live it they don't they don't allow non-la residents to vote for LA mayor I don't know if you understand how that works because you live in OC yeah that's true I do oh wow that's where all the cool Koreans live I can't believe you drive all the way out here for this dude I think what he's saying is thank you oh yeah thanks for coming home

0:50 well who do you uh do you guys know who's running for mayor who's up for the two like the two main candidates from Rich dude and some black lady yeah that's all I know okay okay guess their names now the billionaire Rich dude right yeah yeah one's uh one's a Caruso one's a Debbie or Deborah one's a Debbie yeah Debbie Downer it's uh yeah it's Rick Caruso and Karen bass yeah I seen that name but they both have I think one of the most important things right now is everybody wants to know what their plans are for the homeless situation that's kind of like because that's one of the biggest issues we're ████ dealing with yeah so what's Rick Caruso gonna do well Rick Caruso being probably one of the richest people to ever run for me this guy's like a net worth of four Bill wow he's uh he's a he owns like so much real estate and like a bunch of different things just put them on his real estate then yeah got so much

1:40 real estate that's okay that's hold that point because it's really pretty funny so um this dude he he built the Grove he built like Americana a bunch of other like really put them in the Americana oh yeah keep them at the Grove put them at the Grove right now in in L.A alone there's oh there's maybe around like 45 000 homeless people that's not that much there's probably more yeah but that's the count they're using for you know but there's definitely more there's definitely more what's the official term you're supposed to use unhoused in the house no I think there's even more like even more PC yeah really more unhoused neighbors yeah but Street neighbors Street neighbors oh Street neighbors is it outdoor living by choice yeah it sounded some more like that really City campers I don't know dude I

2:30 live in the Capitol you'd be hearing some crazy terms I want to know the cleanest possible like PC tournament do you think they I don't think it's unhoused I think it's do you think unhoused people really give ████ you mean this is like how latinx people don't call themselves latinx it's urban camping now but then Tyler Creator got a problem with the word Urban in the industry anyway because you know what I mean what about Suburban no we already decided I think you can use urban when you're using it right we're gonna start calling it I hope so no one yeah when you're talking about a city not wearing FUBU yeah yeah remember remember at one point we did have UPN so I really feel like Urban isn't about my God how can you remember that it's so freaking Channel 13. Urban People's network was that what it stood for yeah they took on Buffy the Vampire

3:20 Slayer after the WB canceled it yeah Urban about Buffy the Vampire Slayer what's Urban about UPN it was a coup for them to get Buffy because WB canceled them and then but at that up to that point there was I think all only um black and Latinos on the shows on UPN was hanging with Mr Cooper on my ABC on Friday night well that wasn't on upm what the hell was on UPN the magic hour not much was on up is UPN just down here I've never heard of that I feel like cops it was our channel 13. channel 13 yeah up north I don't know what channel it would have been I don't think maybe by channel six you guys probably had some good channels dude Channel 6 was PBS where it's all like learner ████ yeah that was ████ that's a ████ TV channel uh ████ uh Mr Rogers Neighborhood what the ████ was that put it on the card again

4:12 he was trying to teach you how to Dougie there's a key someone needs to Loop that and put music over machine it that way that's pretty good yeah Mr Rogers was on there yeah so we're agreed we're agreed that the PC term from now on moving forward is Suburban Commandos Suburban Commandos with 45 000 homeless people everyone's like what are your plans how are you gonna take care of it

5:02 um obviously uh Rick Caruso his plan involves a lot more money right now I think the budget that they have allocated for this currently stands at like 300 mil for fixing this problem which they aren't but with Rick Caruso's plan he wants to kind of demolish the uh sort of like the council that's been ████ holding everything up it's gonna kick everyone out that's already not gonna work because they're not moving but his plan is he's gonna house I believe 30 000 people within the first year of being in office and it's gonna cost almost 900 million dollars dude he built the Grove he could do it is that like hotels that's kind of true dude interim housing so it could be it's like kind of like transitionary places to live and then there's some I believe there are some permanent but most of it's temporary you hear the hotel thing where like uh I don't know if it's California down here when the rooms hotel room key yeah yeah they were gonna

5:53 force you to give them up to yeah I think in Sacramento they're buying old hotels redoing them and they're going to try to get some housing in and then kind of get you to go where you need to go mental physical job you know whatever's needed to right that's what kickstarted which seems like a good plan I had a politician I don't know ████ but that's part of the plan for both of them they're both like I think that's just kind of what you do I think Austin Texas did it that's assuming that the like the ones that want a place to live they'll take it but there's a lot that don't just want to stay outside that's that's um some people not to be rude or to feel like they're not on this planet yeah you know that's you can't even like like I feel like that's what you normally try to do you're just trying to go out to you know skid row and just look at people like who's reading me

6:44 yeah so that's that's how you pick them out huh so Caruso definitely has a lot of uh money obviously he spent more on his campaign than every other opponent combined sick damn I suck I haven't seen none of his campaigns he spend more you're in Nevada get up over here and watch ████ cable TV I know you're watching piano PBS with your Mr Rogers Mr Cooper so one thing is he is gonna he's gonna declare a state of emergency as soon as like he goes in office but they have been saying you can't do that because in order to do that you need the approval of the council that you're trying to ████ erase what if he racism then he doesn't either well you can't he it won't happen like there's just no way what are all these checks and balances for anyway bro it's to keep this problem ████ going so they can get paid bro damn what about Karen's plan what's her so Karen's is is

7:35 different it's just a lot smaller I think um hers she's she's in her first year she thinks she'll do 17 000 people indoors uh her plan is gonna cost 292 million and a lot of it is using the current stuff that was already supposed to happen except she's gonna go in and make sure it happens for realsies this time that's what she said that's kind of what her thing sort of of course both politicians are gonna be pretty vague because they want you to call them out later when this ████ doesn't happen but her plan as Vegas it is does say she'll use the existing system not dismantle it as much as Caruso's trying to do but she's gonna try to employ everything that was supposed to happen but really ████ what kind of malls has she built she's not built anymore not even a Westfield not even a West here we've got some Outlets she may have a ████ Guitar Center I love how he lists the largest mall company in the world

8:28 generating more income yeah I'm like she doesn't she hasn't contributed to the malls she's already in politics I believe she's like uh she's a house like a rep or something or has she been killing it or whatever she's doing I don't know what that means so she's already apologizing reps you know oh repetitions three erections just happened as soon as you said reps she owns an orange theory let's just say that so that way I could get behind that I love their program she brings her heart rate up yeah yeah yeah yeah I think whatever politicians get in office they should just make a a vowel and they carry through that we stop forming like committees and giving them hundreds of millions of dollars to talk yeah because you guys know that I think it's like 10 years ago we voted for a super rail like bullet train I voted for that

9:19 LA to San Francisco yeah yeah I wish they set aside 300 million just to talk yeah that's that's it and then they build it from like Modesto to Fresno two places no one wants to go shout out to Modesto and Fresno so they started well they know their budget it ballooned to I think two something billion but 300 million was allocated just to talk they got some good talking though yeah that was some great conversations and like I'm like what just it's like if they can eliminate that they'll all have and if I ever moved to LA one day I'll I'll vote for that person you're never gonna move the main thing is a soft cost it's the whole thing where um people let's say you're given this budget right and then you hire your guys right beneath you and you just constantly keep paying them to just consult yeah they don't actually build anything so that's why like I think with the the previous plan of like here's how we're gonna attack

10:09 homelessness like 10 of it got done in the course that they were supposed to finish all of it and um it ballooned to the fact that like the homes they were making for homeless people cost more than homes me and you could buy in the market yeah like it got that high dude it'd be like paying us 10 million dollars just doing what we're doing right now great and we there's no action and we'd be like hey we'll get you I think you're on to something a discount five minutes give us five million just to talk that's basically what they're doing take more dude you started with 10. I'm gonna run for mayor worse than that it's paying us it's paying us 10 million to talk about someday doing this yes like we'll never actually have cameras we'll just be like hey wouldn't it be tight right all right see you next week how would we do it so that's main the main thing is that it this to me it doesn't sound any different than the last election everyone's gonna say I can do this I'm going to try to do this so far in

10:59 history California has a bad rap of who do we believe more how do other cities do it I heard uh Houston cleaned up their homes in like six months or something well so there's a guy that was gonna run he was actually running for mayor James uh Joe busque you know and he used to be a cop and then uh he his plan was very I mean it was pretty ambitious but one thing in his plan that the rest of these guys didn't have is he said that I'm gonna put all these resources out I'm gonna give them uh you know place to stay attract to get of mental help to get a job to put them on like a a path they can actually become a citizen of society but if they don't want to do that I'm arresting them oh wow that's kind of cool actually I don't know if that works out here on the way it's really why but just a ████ not me yeah yeah really yeah I think they're too ████ yeah I think a West Coast because sometimes you just need like a Asian mom in the back beating the ████

11:49 out of you and you kind of do what I think Snuggery yeah I actually actually hit up his ████ person to be like hey you want to come on JK I've come through and they were like yeah and then he dropped out of the race because he got one percent ████ like of the support like people didn't want him because I think his solution is to um it's too mean it's too mean yeah you know if Chris is the guy that did the Grove I think he also has a place in blender Pasadena I think it's if it's the same guy his he does he does yeah his father started Dollar Rent A Car and so that's how he got started his his you know Fame Fortune yeah but why I like Caruso I'll say one thing is do you guys remember when the college Scandal broke out about people parents paying oh yeah yeah yeah and then so one of them was Lori Laughlin and her husband the Massimo guy her daughters were on the Culpo they were on Caruso's yacht in Florida because carusa's daughter is the same

12:40 age as Lori loughlin's out and they're all friends right before the story broke Caruso called his daughter and goes get her off the boat now throw her get her get her off now and then the story broke she was flying back but then of course the word got out that she was on cruises because Caruso is the president of the um Board of Trustees at USC and so he didn't want anything to do he didn't want any impropriety to do I'm like you know what to me that's proactive he's getting stuff done so if I were to live in LA and vote I would vote are you sure he didn't want off the boat because just because maybe she couldn't swim it could have been bad as well but I don't want to go that far because she was she got in on a fake rowing thing she did I think she was did they call it the coxson I don't know just yells Paul that's called the coxin it's a coxin yeah I could be wrong that you're

13:30 right who comes up with these ████ names [Music]

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