Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast with Matt Gates and Dan Ball.

We're doing something completely different on today's episode of Anchorman. We're doing something completely different on today's episode of Anchorman.

We've been talking about the homelessness challenge in California from almost every angle.

We've talked to lawmakers, community advocates.

We've talked to people in the law enforcement and first responder community.

But we hadn't talked to someone who had actually lived out the experience of being homeless

in the state of California day in, day out.

We didn't know what to expect when we met Jackie recently,

and we found someone who is deeply caring, deeply thoughtful, and who thinks about a lot of the questions

that may be on your mind and maybe on the mind of people who are having to somehow wrangle

the intersection of great wealth and opportunity among some, and then others who have fallen

through the cracks. In this discussion, I found a piece of

my own humanity and I hope you will too. This is my favorite interview I've done on Anchorman. Enjoy.

So I'm here with Vish and I'm here with Jackie and we met Jackie. Vish and I were at a comedy club

in La Jolla, California and we met Jackie on the way out and you were at a comedy club in La Jolla, California, and we met Jackie on the way out,

and you were like just as interesting as everybody we just heard from in the comedy club.

So we wanted to come chat with you, and what we always like to do is just ask folks who you are,

where are you from?

Just tell us a little bit about your life.

I mean, there's a lot to pick from. So if there's anything particular, I'm originally from North California. My mother's up there in Cloverdale.

Turn 50 this year. So, you know, I've got that century of of experiences to draw from but um you know i've

just i've just had an extremely varied and colorful life so there's anything you want to know about

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