BHS - 7A – Moving Homeless Out of Camps | Paris Olympics Opening Day

Gavin Newsom executive order to state agencies to move homeless out of camps… but where? What to expect at the Paris Olympics opening games today. The secret Russians at the Paris Olympics. Metro adopts metal detectors; taller fare gate exits and more tap-to-exit stations while violent crimes and drug use rose.

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You're List Saints KFI AM six forty, the Bill Handles show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app bill Handle here,and the Morning Crew except for Neil Friday,
July twenty sixth, The Olympic starttoday in reference to that song or
that song in reference to the Olympic. And we'll talk about a couple of
a couple of issues with that that'scoming up next two segments. But first,

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something rather extraordinary. Some people arelooking at this, and that's Guyvin
Newsom, our governor who has orderedstate agencies to move people out of homeless
camps, get them out. WhoaThis is the most liberal governor in the
United States. Now, this hasto do with a case that the Supreme

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Court US Supreme Court handed down lastmonth, Grant's passed versus Johnson and Grant's
parents. Grands Grant's pass moved tojust get rid of homeless people. Just
you're out, We're done, can'ttake it any more public places. And
of course they went to court andthe lower court agreed with the previous laws

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that said that a city or acounty cannot move people out if there are
no shelter beds available, you can'tmove them unless there is there are shelter
beds available for those folks. Andwhat the Supreme Court said is it doesn't
matter, don't matter beds, nobeds available, not available. City,

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state can just toss those people out. It was under the Eighth Menment cruel
and unusual punishment, and the SupremeCourt said that is not cruel and unusual
punishment to move people out, allright. So based on that, the
governor, I guess, under politicalpressure because homeless people don't have that big
of a political base, said goahead, clean them out, and is

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ordering the state to clean out encampmentson state grounds, straight on state land,
and further tells the cities knock yoursocks off, go right ahead.
And there's a little bit of controversy, why, well, it's not so
much. The law law is nowsettled, all right. Supreme Court has
ruled that it is not cruel unusualpunishment, and municipalities and the state can

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move people out where. Well,the state doesn't run any homeless shelters anywhere
near state land, parks and recreation. State agency is able to toss people
out. Where do they go?Cities run homeless shelters, Cities have contracts

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with homeless shelters. Cities. Ithink Lama actually have homeless shelters, I
mean under its jurisdiction. County certainlydoes. State doesn't. So the argument
that those who are advocates for thehomeless is what does this do? What

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it does is wackam moole. Where'sthat molo? Whack wackam mole. Okay,
there you go, that's beating molesaround, right, Yeah, no,
I know that. I was justthat was a visual ad. So
the argument is where are you goingto put them? It doesn't mandate building

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shelters. It just says you cankick people out. And therein lies a
fair big problem because when you havethis many homeless, you know, for
example, southern California, which isthe homeless center of the universe, probably
you've got what one hundred and somethingthousand people that are homeless between La Orange

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County, and for the most partthey have no place to go. There
are some shelters, and there aresome very short term available shelters and sites
dealing with the homeless. Both churchEmission what do they call that, the
Mission downtown I think so which hasfacilities for the homeless people, but that

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doesn't do anything that's really temporary.You're they're a month and then they kick
you out, or three weeks andyou're gone. And the only answer is
permanent housing, which of course wouldcost us the entire budget of the state
of California. That's it. Canwe take care of homeless, Yeah we
can. Can we build homeless housing? Can we build permanent shelters? Can

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we build long term housing? Ofcourse we can. I mean it'll take
every dime we have and then it'lltake half of that to maintain them.
And so Supreme Court has come downand said, that's not our problem.
You don't have a fundamental right toeven camp out on state property and likewise

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city property. Oh my god,the poor people are getting nailed. They
are the ones that are affected bymost the most. Of course they are.
Yeah, there are very There arevery few wealthier middle class people that
are living on the street. Veryfew. So hey, welcome to the

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world. You know, if Iwere homeless, I would save enough money
to fly to Sweden or Iceland,throw myself literally into the first consulate I
can get my hands on and askfor asylum because they don't have homeless problems
over there, they have the safetynet we don't. As I've said many,

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many times, this is a verytough place to be poor. Not
as bad as South America. Imean, that's a real rough play Africa
that our definition of poor versus theirdefinition of poor India. Not quite,
but still, you don't have anyplace to live if you're homeless and you're

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living in southern California. The answerreally is you have to move out here.
You can't live in Southern California.You can't. You'll never be able
to ford housing. Ever, youcan go to Arkansas and get a really
crappy one bedroom for six hundred bucks, and if you happen to be living
on Social Security, you get thesame Social Security is in Arkansas as you

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do here in Southern California. Sobig hit to the homeless community. The
right to be homeless, the rightto have those encampments on public land is
gone, no more rights. Newsomis at the forefront. Although what Newsom

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did say is the state does careabout the homeless. We are there to
help. And you know how weare there to help. We go to
the local homeless advocates, the nonprofitssay go here, you take care of
it, or we tell the cityyou take care of it. Okay,

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that's an answer, all right.Coming up at ten thirty today, obviously
we're not going to be on theair, but at ten thirty the Olympics
start our time and opening ceremonies,and man, what an opening ceremony.
It's going to be far different thanany that we've ever seen before. They
actually had to get permission Paris fora waiver from the IOC, the International

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Olympic Committee, because according to therules, it has to be in a
stadium, and it's not because it'sgoing to be the opening ceremonies are going
to be along the scene the riversaying okay, three hours and forty five
minutes. Seven thousand athletes competing arethere, representing two hundred and six national
delegations. There'll be in ninety fourboats along a basically a four mile stretch

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of the river. It's actually awater parade and it goes either side or
under a whole bunch of Paris landmarks, including Notre Dame Cathedral, which is
getting close to being rebuilt. Imean, when we saw this thing on
fire a few years ago, whenit was a five years ago, I
mean, and was carried live allover the world. I remember watching it,

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and I got to tell you myheart broke because this thing has been
around since the thirteen hundreds and itis an icon of icons, so anyway,
they're rebuilding it. And so theperformers, the river parade goes past
that the louver or the louver,the plastic concord or the place de la

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concorde, if you speak French.Drones are expected to be flying above.
You know what a shocker that oneis. They'll be tableau at twelve tableau
and I can't wait for that.You wan't you think of tableau as for
exam ample pageant of the Masters,where you get a bunch of people standing

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like Simon says or musical chairs stop. So we'll be seeing twelve of those.
There'll be laser lights on the EiffelTower, illuminating buildings. One of
the newspapers said, this is theperformance of the century, the show of
the century. Now there'll be aFrench singing star. Well you've never heard

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of Aya Nakamura, Okay, French. And there are some big names that
they've tried to keep under wraps.We have confirmed and this just was confirmed.
Selene Deon or Celine Dion and LadyGaga will be performing and that we
didn't know. And they're going tobe performing a classic Edith Rice pf classic

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song together, so a French song. You know who eateth piofwise she was
a French sort of I guess theirversion of the Blues you know, my
man has left me, I'm drunk, I'll never be the same, that
kind of song, their version ofmy dog Blue just eyed, my wife

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done left me. Three and twentysix spectators are going to be watching the
show from tiered seating on the banksand the bridges, because you've got a
lot of the Saint Rivers. Sothree hundred and twenty six thousand people buying
seats and that doesn't count just liningthe banks. Eighty massive screens, one
hundred Heads of state will usually Ihead of state and they had a state
of the host country always opens upthe game and you'll have Zelenski there,

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the UK Prime Minister, Kiir Starmer, the new Guy, German Chancellor,
Italian President, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammedbin Salman, who is not going to
be there. Oh how about Putin? He is not invited and in Russia
has been banned for the fourth timefor the Olympics. Usually it's because of
the dope stuff. Actually, thefirst time out was Jimmy Carter ban them

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because or the United States didn't gobecause of Afghanistan, when Russian data is
yes, Afghanistan. This time out, the IOC said they're not coming because
of the attack, the invasion ofUkraine. And you also have Indian Prime
Minister Mody not coming, Chinese PresidentJi Jiangping not coming, Joe Biden is

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not coming. He's being represented byJoe Biden. Quite often you send a
high end representative. And it wasa little problematic because Joe Biden actually asked
if he could throw out the firstball of the Olympic Games because he doesn't
know the difference between do you getthat one? Yeah, the first pitch

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you want? Okay, never mind, Okay, I got it. I
got it. You know, whenyou have to explain a joke or when
people get it and you think youhave to explain a joke, you know
that's not working. A couple ofother things, and this I didn't know.
Okay. Under the Olympic Charter,this is the constitution of the modern

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Olympic Games. Here is here arethe rules, and here what what must
be included in the opening ceremonies.The entrance of the head of State has
to be there, The head ofthe International Olympic Committee has to be there,
okay, the playing of the hostcountry's national anthem. That makes sense

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as part of the opening ceremony.The revealing of the Olympic rings, okay,
the lighting of the Olympic cultrone acauldron, which of course we always
everybody enjoys as you have the torch. And by the way, you know
where the torch starts, any ideawhere that first light comes from. It's

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up at Mount Olympus in Green wherea sort of a magnifying glass lights a
torch and then it is carried ortorches are carried literally throughout the world.
Now, so the mon Olympus course, grease was the I mean, it's
just fascinating stuff. And then areyou ready for this one? And Amy,

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I had no idea. Part ofthe Olympic Charter, which has changed
also now includes the mandatory playing orrendition of Imagine by John Lennon. They
have to play Imagine or some kindof rendition that is that that makes a

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lot of sense when you think aboutit, You know, imagine there are
no countries, you know it justit, it makes sense, but it's
I'm watching it. Except that therewere no countries, we wouldn't have countries
to compete against. That's true.But the whole point of the Olympics,
of course, is that there thatwe're all one people and Joe Biden cannot

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throw the opening pitch. Okay,we're done. Okay, now, okay.
So two hundred and six countries aroundthe world are have been invited to
the Olympics. Not Russia. Russiaonce again is banned from the Olympics.

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And why is that? And bythe way, fourth time going fourth time
in a row. Well, theother times it was because of the doping
scandal. That was the big one, state sponsored doping scandal. You know
how doping is. The Tour deFrance was blown up because of Lance Armstrong.

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Can you imagine the country of Francedoping its entire team for an advantage
over the other athletes. So Russiagot tagged and it's been a pariah in
the world of international sports. Thistime they were banned just because of the
invasion of Ukraine, which makes thema paria in the Western world, and

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France being the Western world and theIOC part of banning Russia or did ban
Russia. Guess what, here's anothergo round for Russia. So how do
Russian athletes, of which they areobviously world class and in certain sports they

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dominate, for example, wrestling sinceWorld War Two they have won more gold
medals and wrestling than any other country. It's totally dominant. And if you
remember gymnastics, women's gymnastics used tobe in Romania and diving was Chinese.
Track and field has always been Americadominating. So certain sports are dominated by

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certain countries. And when Russia isout the door, well you know,
people come in and all of asudden, international athletes. So Russian athletes
are banned, yet Russian athletes aregoing to show up at the Olympics.
I mean, how does that work? Well, the way it works in

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the Olympic Games is even while acountry is banned for political reasons, in
this case, there's an end around. The IOC has created an end around,
and it is allowing athletes to declarethemselves neutral. We are not representing

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any country, and you'll see themmarch in the Olympic the opening ceremonies.
In this case it would be alongthe Seine, on the rivers, along
the Saint in boats going down theriver. And what they do. Their
flag is the Olympic flag, thefive rings, because they're not affiliated with

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any country, and everybody knows thatthese Russians but not technically representing Russia.
So if everybody knows this these areRussians, does Russia still get the benefit
of producing these world class athletes andin many cases getting gold medals. Yes,

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and no. Russia for the fourthtime is banned from the Olympics.
First, I think three times wasbecause of doping. And this was sponsored
doping. It wasn't just an individualor a team that runs off in the
corner and engages in doping to createa stronger, faster, better athlete.

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No, no, this was sponsoredby the state. This was the Russian
government that was involved in the dopingand tossed out goodbye, you're done.
Then this time around, because theinvasion of Ukraine, and this doesn't happen
all that often, but the invasionof Ukraine was an anethema to the entire
Western world, matter of fact,most of the world. So the retaliation,

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the response is Russia is not inthe games. We'll have no Russian
athletes, except there's gonna be plentyof Russian athletes. And how is that
possible? Well, because Russian athleteshave a couple of options. They can
be neutral. They can go inand not represent any country they are under

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the Olympic flag, because why wouldthey do that? Because you have people
that have been training their entire livesand all of a sudden and the gold
standard, the gold medal of allof these these athletic activities throughout the world

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is the Olympics. And then anothergo around is well, for example,
has happened to the American team severaltimes. Bohar is at Bohar Bohan Bogdanovich
basketball player, Bohan, he played, you played in the NBA, one

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of the premier players, and heplayed for Serbia. And a lot of
athletes play for where they were born, even if they've lived here, for
example, their entire lives. Theygo back and they play for the country
that they were born in and theydon't have much of a connection to those
countries. Yet I guess it's somekind of national pride, you know.

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If I were an athlete, Imean no, actually, if no I
could I could enter in the eatingOlympics, I would do okay. Would
I represent the United States? No, because I'm not good enough. However,
maybe I'm good enough to represent theBrazilian team, and I can do
that because I was born in Brazil. There's my passport, birthplace Brazil.
I'm a Brazilian national. Happened tobe an American citizen. At the same

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time, people wonder, how canyou be a citizen of two countries.
My niece has four passports. Youcan do that now. And so you
have Russian athletes who are going ifthey come from someplace else, that's one,
and there aren't too many of those, or they go as neutrals.

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Now, the ones that are goingas neutrals, that means they're leaving their
national team and still participating in theOlympics. Two ways of going about that.
One, let me tell you theresponse in Russia they are traders and
they should have no business going tothe Olympics. Or hey, they sort

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of kind of represent us anyway,and we're going to be really proud to
do that. Now, some teamsjust are not going at all. Russian
wrestlers and the Russian rests are avery big deal because They've dominated wrestling,
winning the most medals. The lastthirteen of the eighteen Olympic Games, they've
won more medals than any other country. The entire team declared this month they

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will not go to the Olympics.They simply will not participate in protesting of
the IOC. So what Russia's doneis they have tried to sort of counter
program the Olympics revive the World FriendshipGames, and that was started forty years

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after the first event for socialist statesand because the nineteen eighty four Summer Games
in Los Angeles where the Russians didn'tgo too, because that was in response
to Jimmy Carter saying Americans weren't goingto go to Russia in nineteen eighty because
of the invasion of Afghanistan by Russia. So the event was organized for the

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bricks nations that's Brazil, Russia,India, China, South Africa as the
bricks and most of the athlete athletesthere ended up coming from Russia and Belarus,
Belarus being an ally of Russia,so they put the two together when
it comes to politics, and thosegames kind of gave up because no one
went and those that did go tobricks were completely dominated by Russia. Artistic

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swimmer. I've always wondered about artisticswimming. You know, there's a certain
certain sports that I just don't get. I really don't floor Olympics or artistic
I mean floor gymnastics. You knowwhere they take that little they take that
little pole, a little stick,and you know they fly around walking around

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with with the toilet paper attached toit, and you got these big strands
and that becomes an Olympic sport.Breakdancing this time. I don't understand that
either. But what ended up happeningis the Russian athletes won all the gold
medals. And on this one,let me tell you how crazy it is,
because Russians tend to do this.The winner of that event, Alexander

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Maltzev, wore the Russian crest onhis chest and when we heard the national
anthem, he literally puffed his chestout. Yeah I'm a Russian. Oh,
by the way, just to letyou know he was. He faced
one other competitor, and when hecollected one of his medals in one event,

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he stood on the podium by himself. He won the gold because there
was no one else that competed againsthim. Well, none of that worked,
So you're not going to see Russiaat the Olympics, which is kind
of a shame because it's well duringthe Cold War where they did go to
the Olympics, that was fun becausethere was such animosity between the two kinds.

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That was Yeah, those days aregone, unfortunately. Kf I am
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