"Stole $1,000 A Day" - Ex-Skid Row Addict EXPOSES California's Homeless & Drug CRISIS! | PBD Podcast | Ep. 534

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Patrick Bet-David sits down with former Skid Row addict Jared Klickstein, who shares his harrowing journey through nearly a decade of homelessness, drug addiction, and crime in California.

Jared reveals how policies like Prop 47 and billions in wasted funds enabled theft rings and deepened the state’s homeless crisis.

He details his time working with cartel-linked drug operations, stealing $1,000 worth of goods daily, and the nonprofit corruption fueling the homeless industrial complex.

Jared’s firsthand account exposes the dark realities behind California's growing addiction epidemic and offers bold solutions to break the cycle of homelessness and crime.

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1:01.2	I lived in California for a long time, and it breaks my heart when I see the percentage
1:07.5	of homelessness increasing.
1:13.6	I met smart people out there.
1:18.6	I met talented people out there.
1:20.6	They are not being helped.
1:24.6	They are only being hindered by policy at this point.
1:32.7	He's in charge of the fifth largest economy in the world. He's quoted as saying,
1:37.1	Clean and sober is one of the biggest devastation this country ever made. It's crazy. People will do what you let them do. Because I wanted to find that, how did you end up here? Yeah. That's what I
1:43.0	wanted to know. Do you remember the first time you used heroin?
1:45.3	I remember putting the straw to my lips and smoking it and, you know, knowing my mom died from this.
1:52.7	A heroin addict will risk his life for heroin. A meth addict will just risk his life for anything.
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