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Reasonable Doubt

BARD - Downtown L.A., Fentanyl Alley, and the Wildfire Land Grab Bill

Reasonable Doubt

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True Crime, Comedy, Business, Talk Radio

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Gary reflect on the surreal state of downtown Los Angeles, from billion-dollar skyscrapers overshadowed by fentanyl use and homelessness to the slow erosion of iconic landmarks. They also dive into a controversial wildfire recovery bill that would have allowed the state to acquire burned land for low-income housing—until public backlash forced lawmakers to pause it.

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0:00.0

This is beyond a reasonable doubt with your hosts Mark Geregous and Gary Smith.

0:10.5

GPS, how are you?

0:12.1

I'm great, Mark.

0:12.7

How are you?

0:13.7

Wonderful.

0:14.6

It was fantastic seeing you, albeit for too little yesterday and being back and having a spectacular week and just things are

0:26.6

great. Yeah, exactly. It's nice to have several people back in the building who haven't been

0:31.1

recently. Yeah, it is. It's almost like a homecoming. Yeah, it really is. It's been very nice. So, yes, I enjoyed seeing you yesterday as well, uh, albeit in an alley for 75 seconds, but. I'll be it in the, in the alley where I just was. I will tell you when I drove up today, Gary, let's see if I've got the picture handy that I can show you the, you might

0:58.6

want to just show it. Yeah, text it to me. I can throw it on screen. Okay, there you go. That was this

1:04.6

morning right in front. Oh, that's, that's spectacular. I'm going to put it up here in about 10 seconds

1:10.2

for those who are watching on

1:11.3

YouTube. And YouTube.com slash reasonable doubt podcast is where you can go if you want to see the

1:15.3

picture of hopefully an alive person. But, you know, with the blanket over it, you couldn't

1:21.0

tell right outside of our building. That is where I walk into work every day. So that's just

1:25.5

absolutely spectacular for a Saturday.

1:28.6

Yep, yep.

1:38.9

It's the, all of the discussions about downtown, you know, the guy I really feel sorry for.

1:47.5

I know it's horrible to say you feel sorry for a billionaire, but I do feel sorry for this guy. The owner of Korean Airlines who built this spectacular building across the street and spent, supposedly at

1:58.4

least, spent a billion dollars of his own money building this state of the art

2:03.8

environmentally conscious beautiful building in kind of a plaza across the street that is the

2:10.9

intercontinental it's a site to see i mean it's you know it's easy to take for granted because it is

2:17.3

across the street and we walk by it every single day.

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