Most DISGUSTING Things About Living in LA | Feat: Fleccas Talks | Ep 26
Los Angeles has fallen. I’m not joking when I say that. Homelessness is rising faster than the city can keep up with, drugs are rampant, the water is polluted, soil is beyond repair, and the people are desperate. Austen Fletcher, host of Fleccas Talks, joins me today to discuss why we both moved out of Los Angeles and why we are never going back. AUDIO ONLY VERSIONS OF THE PODCAST: ⇩iTunes, Google Play, Spotify ⇩ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slightly-offens-ve-uncut/id1450057169 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbVobnHs7q8pSRCtPmC41?si=iwqsjNOhQGGYgQE8_1bfjg Google Play: Search Slightly Offensive Uncut ⇩ FOLLOW FLECCAS TALKS ⇩ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIpwPuJsrboNnf200oV8cWQ Instagram/Twitter/FB: @fleccas ⇩ KEEP INDEPENDENT MEDIA & JOURNALISM ALIVE ⇩ Go to https://get.blazetv.com and use promo code "ELIJAH" to get $20 off a year subscription to all the great shows on Blaze Media, including this one! _________________________________________________________________ ⇩ BOOKINGS & INQUIRIES ⇩ ➤ EMAIL: ELIJAH@SLIGHTLYOFFENSIVE.COM _________________________________________________________________ ⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS ⇩ ➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/elijahschaffer/ https://www.instagram.com/officialslightlyoffensive/ ➤ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer ➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/officialslightlyoffensive ______________________________________________________________________________________ ⇩ OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT SLIGHTLY OFFENS*VE ⇩ ➤ MERCHANDISE: http://slightlyoffensive.com
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Like, you don't have to watch us, but you can listen to us, which is a blessing.
Okay, so we both made some content recently at an encampment, which, by the way, before we get into this, I want to say, I don't, I'm not saying there's collusion here, but we were trying to make our video about this homeless encampment.
And I don't want to even talk about what we did until I say that we looked at this homeless encampment on Google Earth on the satellite, and it's like actually a car lot on Google Earth.
I know someone might be saying, oh, well, hey, don't you think that the car lot was like before the encampment was there or like the car lot went out of business and the encampment took over?
But it's kind of weird because when I went to the encampment, they told me that they've been piling up trash there for four years and asking the city to remove it.
And I don't know if the Google Earth photos were taken before those four years, but it's like kind of weird.
I don't know what the Google Earth photos when they were taken.
Oh, three years.
Todd's saying three years ago, the photos were taken on the Google Earth and it shows that it's not a homeless encampment and it almost looks like it's doctored a little bit.
And this is like this giant, terrible homeless encampment that we covered is on satellite, doesn't exist, even though it's been there for over four years.
Yes, Flock is Fleeks is on the yes this the guy not the knife the spoon guy.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Sorry.
I told her it wasn't that important.
We were just in the middle of a show.
Um but I was gonna say that the weird thing about Los Angeles is people want to know how we know what the poop is human poop.
And I want to get into this a little bit.
This is this is why we left Los Angeles.
This is why we left Los Angeles.
I was going to have us talk about our videos first, but I think it's more important to tell the personal stories of why we left LA.
And the one thing that I want to start out with is because I know how to identify human poop on the floor versus dog poop is probably reason number one of why I moved out of Hollywood, which is pretty much just as bad as downtown LA in a lot of ways.
They have their own, they're different though, kind of.
Yeah, there are different, there's different types of dump.
With the with the human dump, a dog doesn't dump on the wall.
That's a big giveaway.
So whenever you see like a streak and it looks like someone took a tomato and threw it against the wall and whatever, like imagine like a brown tomato.
It explodes on the wall and it has it has a width.
But it does.
And what's even weirder too is like dog poop doesn't come out in like five or six wet piles, like here, here, here, and here.
And it also, like, what's really weird is, you know, the poop emoji, and people are already probably disgusted by this, but the poop emoji, like you go, who does poop like an ice cream cone?
Human feces on the street is either on a wall or it's like, isn't don't you mean it's like soft and like conish?
And I don't want to get into the Google collusion stuff, but there's a smiley face on that poop, that emoji, the poop emoji.
And it's like when you see dump on the road, it doesn't look like a smiling poop.
And it's like they're trying to soften it up in the same way they're trying to like normalize children like in the sex stuff and they're trying to ease into that.
We used to walk around and we call it Mad Maxing because you walk around at night and it's like living in a Mad Max movie because everyone's burnt out from the desert, like up to something and like zombieing down the road at you.
And so the Fox News contributor came out to LA throughout throughout their shoes too.
But also, we got to talk about this.
Okay, let's talk about the homeless problem.
Now, I'm not into being savage about, like, I get people hit hard times.
I understand this, but there is a 16% overall increase in the entire city of Los Angeles this last year in homelessness, despite having billions of dollars being put into it.
And we're talking about a homeless problem.
We are not talking about, I'm mad because a homeless guy is sleeping outside my favorite coffee shop.
We're talking about entire shantytown villages, like full-on permanent encampments in anywhere that there's available space.
There's groups and large swaths of people just living.
And the thing is that they're all catching on fire.
They really are.
They're catching on fire.
There's been like several fires in the last week.
Recently, one got so hot.
A guy was cooking weenies in his, and someone unfortunately parked their Ford C-Max, the electric one next to the tent.
He's just parking on the street.
You're trying to go to a coffee shop.
The guy had his tent.
He lit his tent on fire.
It melted the side.
It melted in the whole Ford C-Max and blew up its battery.
It's talk about if rape culture exists, it probably exists in Los Angeles because I feel like I'm going to get raped in Los Angeles.
Like, I, the genuine thing is, you would purposely, it was almost like a, like, because you know, like, when you're younger and you punch like your friend until they say like mercy or something, or like, or like you hurt each other, like walking through downtown LA is like sort of like the game of mercy, but it's like for adults, like you walk around, it's like, how much can you handle before you just like cry out?
Like, you got to get out of there, right?
Because you walk around, there's like some mentally ill guy who's like, probably got like, I don't know, if you don't believe in demons, you don't, I do.
And I would say that probably about a third of them were in the guy that I walked into one night.
Yeah, the security guard agreed that the place was satanic.
And this is the thing.
It's like, it would be me like going into hell and being like, why do you keep saying hell is satanic?
And it's like, because it's like where Satan lives.
And it's like, why do you keep saying Los Angeles satanic?
It's hell.
It literally is hell.
And it's like that weird hell, though, where like you want to try to survive it because you feel like you're in the end times or something like that, like it's an apocalyptic world.
But we did it.
We made it to a, we made it to an ice cream shop.
We walked past, you know, the molten sea and the flames of fire and the human poop and the demon-possessed people.
Yeah, it was, it was so humiliating because you have your ice cream.
This is probably not a good position when I'm like talking about ice cream, but you have like, you have your ice cream and you're just walking past people that are dying and you're like licking it like.
And there's like people with typhus on the street like, must suck to be dying on the streets of LA, huh?
She said that she was like crying one time because she realized that this city is so calloused and it's so sad that there are just people dying of disease at a young age just in like dumpsters.
And it's not considered abnormal to like call the police.
Like, there's just like a dead person in my business.
And the police just go like, okay, all right, we'll come get them.
We turned a corner and they were selling like almost ironically, like there was like a rack of, like in a clothing store, there's a rack of shirts and there's like three shirts on it.
And it was like white, red, and yellow.
And they were, and it's just like a yellow t-shirt and it's like 44 bucks.
And it's like a pair of white shoes that look like a shit.
Like the shoes, the shoes were like 100 and something.
They looked like heads, like just white shoes with white laces.
And then like the pants were like 100 bucks and they're just straight pants.
And it's like, here there's a person dying with a needle in their arm, like breaking windows, and there's dump on the road.
And here they're selling me like a $44 cotton t-shirt.
It's like, I don't know.
Is that juxtaposition?
I think for the people who are asleep, they walk by and they see the shirt in the window and they're like, oh, yeah, like things are good.
Things are moving here.
And they don't see that.
Like they value that over that when a normal person from like a different country would come by and be like, oh my God, there's someone dying on the road.
But we go, but in LA, people don't understand how savage and sad it really is.
Like people go like, it just sucks that I have to like step over dead people.
I'm trying to buy my cotton t-shirts.
Like, can someone do something about this?
Like, I'm just trying to waste money on t-shirts.
And there's this narcissistic culture here that people go, oh, it's just the Democrats.
It's really not.
It's all just the people.
People here don't care about each other.
There's a really genuine cold-heartedness and callousness in LA that people don't look out for each other.
They're in it for themselves.
They're not even after the American dream.
They're after their own heart's desire because the American dream, that's the key model, it's America, right?
It's the dream of the America.
It's not just you.
It's our country moving forward to better itself, to gain more civil liberty, to advance our property, to basically preserve our historic sites, to create a strong nation, beautiful parks, and these kinds of things.
But in LA, it's like, look, I don't care if the whole city's falling apart, as long as I have my $32,000 designer couch in my house and I live in the top floor of a penthouse, if everyone's dying below, I don't care because I have what I want.
I'm on TV.
And in LA, too, because we're so good at fabricating the way our city looks, it's where Hollywood is.
Everyone knows that people think LA is doing better than it is because of the way it looks on movies.
That when they don't care anymore, because it's like, dude, we're all screwing it over and we don't care because we're just going to keep lying in our studios and producing and we're going to keep living a lie.
It's like, and it's right in front of them.
But it's like, it's not that they're like blind to it.
And I think that's, but I think I get what you're saying too because I've become much more content with little since I've actually lived in LA, not only because the houses are little and we can't afford a lot, but it's like with the houses all have bugs in them.
They do.
I moved in.
Listen, why do they, why do we have so many bugs in LA?
Yeah, if they want to gas the buildings, they should just call in like some German, you know, people.
The Germans are pretty good at gassing things and stuff and history, and they could have bring in some, what are they called, Terminators for the German Terminators?
So Fleckas Talks has always been very DIY, do-it-yourself.
You know, the spoon, all you really need is a spoon and something to record audio and a friend to hold your phone.
So I want to expand that and encourage citizen journalists or people who, not even citizen journalists, just anyone who wants to tell a story that needs to be told, whether it's homeless San Diego, whether it's the people in Hong Kong, whether it's people who are dealing with the recovery of the hurricane in Puerto Rico.
I have a few people reaching out to me along those lines.
Just get your story out there.
Send it to me.
I'll help you edit it.
I think that citizen journalists and street reporting will replace the mainstream media over time because they don't really tell the stories that we can tell.
And all you really need is a platform.
I have a decent-sized platform.
I want to tell the truth.
Everyone send me the truth and I'll edit it for you.
And I think it's really important for people to understand that, of course, what we do, there is a bias, but it doesn't come from a bad heart.
We are there, but there's a bias, meaning we're there to show something.
We are there to show what?
The bias is to show the truth.
And I tell people that I'm biased towards the true story.
And sometimes the true story isn't good.
Sometimes I'll go to events and it's not what I thought.
I go in an event thinking, okay, this is probably what it's going to be like.
But the difference between the bias of us and them is that we're trying to move towards what's really happening at this place, what's really going on there.
And so then people think that you and I are lying because our stories are different than the media.
But I was, I mentioned this on another show recently.
When I was in the lobby in Portland at the last Portland Proud Boys clash to go document that event, I was listening to vice producers in the lobby.
And the vice producers in the lobby were going over the story they were going to tell.
Like with their camera crew, like, here's what we're going to tell.
We're going to get this shot and this is what we're going to do.
Like they already had an idea of how they were going to portray an event that hadn't happened yet.
But you and I just go to events and go, where's the truth leading?
So in my video, I wasn't there myself, but we covered it like we mentioned before.
There was a rat.
So my biggest fear my whole life, not biggest, but rat fear, biggest rat fear, is a rat running at me and then like jumping and going on me and maybe going up my pants or something.
And that's basically what happened in that clip.
A rat jumps on guy's foot.
And I worded it that way to kind of make it more clickbaity.
I had the thumbnail as the rat in the air.
That way I can engage some apolitical people who are like, I don't really care about politics, but like rat jumps on guy's foot.
I didn't mind Los Angeles has fallen because that's just like taking it a step further.
It's like Los Angeles has kind of fallen.
And that's what we notice in there is that there was people, this is what's crazy.
There was people in that encampment with, have you heard of schistosomiasis?
Okay, so it's like a, it's like a, like a, uh, what are those things called?
Um, parasite that's found in freshwater snails.
And it like embeds itself like into your muscles and stuff.
And it's really painful.
And it's in the LA River now.
Um, uh, trechomycin, I think it's something another one is a parasite from like beef or maybe it's from from pigs is also found in the water.
And uh, and the people were saying that they caught it, but the city officials, this is what's really crazy from from the clip we were just watching.
She was saying how the city officials are coming in and they know this and they're telling the people, but they're not giving it out to the press.
And it barely got leaked to a local radio station, but the national press doesn't know about this, that we literally have new diseases in our water and that the water is now so polluted with these diseases and they can't be killed through boiling the water that literally you could use basic sterilization techniques to try to clean the water in the LA River and it's so far gone that you can get sick even after it's sterilized.
And the dirt is so dirty, they're dredging it out and then they're trying to filter to clean the dirt and then they're throwing it on the sides of freeways and it turns into goo.
And then when you clean up the trash, it helps the community because there's like a thing Rudy Giuliani did like a broken window theory in New York where it's like if the community looks like trash, people are more likely to commit crimes and treat it worse and it gets worse.
So hopefully cleaning up that area gets rid of that disease goo.
I think like 36 million or maybe I know it's over 10 million and just in LA.
And so when you look at this, you know, we have somewhere between one to two million illegal immigrants just in Los Angeles.
You know, these are not according to the bias studies, but actually just university studies that are looking at this.
This place has some serious problems.
But the issue is we have a Democrat supermajority that keeps, you know, putting propositions in, for instance, that go, well, we're going to go use rent control, right?
This new proposition.
We're going to have rent control.
So then all the private businesses go, before this kicks in over the next two years, we're going to spike rates up as high as possible.
And what we're finding is that Democrats, the more they try to fix these problems, the more that it makes them worse because the government can't fix broken people.
The government can't fix a broken society.
California has fallen.
Los Angeles has fallen.
And it's not because we don't have rich areas like San Jose that are nice, right?
It's not because we don't have a good economy.
It's because in the midst of having a good economy, we have the worst poverty, the worst satisfaction, happiness rates, highest oppression, highest suicide.
You know, we have really big issues.
Some of the highest rates of illegal immigration and a lack of morale.
A lot of people here hate America.
They hate their own country.
And so it's like having a big economy is not what really makes us great.
The internal workings, when you're in here, it's not a nice place to live.
And people, so that's just anecdotal.
That's appealing to emotion.
But it's true.
It's not a nice place.
It's not enjoyable.
You feel heaviness here.
And that's just feelings.
That's not evidence.
It's true.
When you survey people's well-being, they're not doing well.
There's a few people that are doing super well, which is what happens when leftist ideologies take over.
And they go, you're being partisan.
It's not.
That's not true.
When leftists, when communism, these things, you always get this bourgeoisie class that rises up and they get super rich.
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