Not Everyone In Portland Is Thrilled To Have Homeless Folks Line The Streets
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I started going to Portland in 2008 or 2009, several summers, my wife and our boys, would |
| 0:11.8 | spend the summer there. |
| 0:12.8 | It's beautiful in Portland in the summers. |
| 0:15.1 | Just beautiful. |
| 0:18.1 | And then I noticed that Portland was becoming more like California than Portland. |
| 0:23.3 | The charm and quirkiness of the people of, say, Portlandia, the TV show, was giving |
| 0:29.8 | way to the filth and insanity that had engulfed California. |
| 0:38.3 | And normal people were moving out and crazy people were moving in and I mean crazy people. |
| 0:43.8 | So I had a listener event. |
| 0:45.4 | We flew up from Houston, stayed in the beautiful Benson Hotel, wonderful historic hotel. |
| 0:52.0 | And I took our listeners, we raised money for St. Jude, the charity for children's cancer. |
| 0:57.6 | And all the profits from the event went to, went to that charity. |
| 1:01.9 | And I wanted, one of the first things on our agenda was there's a massive food truck |
| 1:07.9 | park, the likes of which most people have never seen. |
| 1:10.4 | You go and get your food from the food truck and there's a park across the street. |
| 1:15.3 | There's all these food trucks to choose from. |
| 1:17.1 | And I mean, like a festival of food trucks, you go across the street and there's a really |
| 1:22.0 | pretty park. |
| 1:23.7 | So there's, I don't know, 30 or four of it, for 30 or 40 of us and we go get our food and |
| 1:28.3 | we go to the park and these homeless people start coming along and they start yelling at |
| 1:34.5 | each other. |
| 1:36.0 | And as our people would go put their food into the trash, these homeless people would go |
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