- [Interviewer] Kat in the Hat.
- Yes, sir.
- [Interviewer] With a K.
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] You're out here making your bed.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Downtown L.A.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Now, how long have you been out here?
- Like I said, about 8 years or so, almost 9.
February 13, 2009, Friday the 13th.
I got down here, yeah.
- [Interviewer] You even remember the day?
- It was Friday the 13th, of course.
- [Interviewer] Oh my gosh.
You were homeless on Friday the 13th.
- Well, yeah, no.
A little bit before that but yeah.
I chose it.
(mumbles) with my sister and they got me.
And I lost my job because of all that and, you know,
I went up here.
I came back for the program.
You get in the program, you put like 35% away.
You know, and they changed it.
You know, they don't have them like they used to.
So that's all right.
You know, I do what I got to do, you know.
I'm out here.
I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
So I'm still trying to fight
for my post-traumatic stress disorder.
- [Interviewer] So you got SSI?
- Yes, yes.
- [Interviewer] Now, why aren't you in housing then?
- Like I said, I'm on the list right now.
I'm actually on the list, finally.
- [Interviewer] So.
- So I got maybe two more months or so, maybe three.
They said six total.
And the next year they get a home too.
It's a Homes for Life Foundation.
- [Interviewer] Okay.
- So it's pretty nice.
God's watching over me.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- Like you said, I've been out here trying
to help the others and everything else.
I live God's way.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- I don't think the Ten Commandments are --
I think they're commandments.
I don't think they're suggestions.
I don't steal, I don't lie.
None of that.
Like I was walking down the street past that nice hotel
down there, by the -- what is it?
Biltmore and the gentleman had a Ducati.
I said, wow, that's a beautiful bike.
I said I'm not (mumbling).
I'd admiring it.
You know, and that's really how I felt.
You know, and I do.
If God -- to me, if God wanted me to have that,
he would give it to me.
And I kid you not.
The Bible says God will give you everything that you need.
I've gotten everything that I've wanted.
I have (mumbling).
- [Interviewer] Well, you seem happy.
- I have to be.
- [Interviewer] Eight years has got to be horrible.
= That's my problem.
That's my downside.
I'm bipolar.
And nothing gets me upset.
It doesn't matter.
Like I said, one Christmas -- I kid you not.
Christmas, because my street crew -- the kids I call my
street crew, my partner, stole everything I had.
Over $2,000 cash, my computer, my laptop, my phone,
my ID, my cigarettes, my lighter, everything I had.
My blankets.
I had nothing left.
I didn't even have a shirt left.
And I was still happy.
And I didn't even say a word back to him.
Because like I said, you just trust in God.
If you say something back,
that means you don't trust in him.
You know, you have to trust him wholeheartedly.
You know, so I trusted him, you know,
and it messed me up because it was such a treasonous
thing for me to do, I blanked it out.
I completely forgot about it.
You know, I woke up like the next day or whatever
with the rain coming down, I mean, a puddle --
I was in a hole but it was dirt.
Because of the rain, it turned into mud.
And then I came up here and I was sitting over
there by the grates.
I remember it was warm over there.
And I was sitting there with nothing else.
A guy comes up to me and says do you need anything?
I said, yeah, anything at all.
I have nothing.
And he handed me a 50-dollar bill.
- [Interviewer] Wow.
- That happens to me all the time.
- [Interviewer] Wow.
- You know, I have people --
I love music.
I love all kinds of music.
You know, so I always listen through the speakers.
And every month since I've been outside,
my speaker gets stolen.
- [Interviewer] Oh my gosh.
Your speakers get stolen?
- Yes.
In fact, like two months ago, a gentleman took my speakers
because he thought I took his stuff.
I don't --
- [Interviewer] So what kind of speakers?
- Nice speakers.
- [Interviewer] Oh, your boombox there.
- Yeah.
This one here's over $400.
- [Interviewer] Yeah, that's one of the nicer ones.
- I always get good speakers.
- [Interviewer] You like your tunes then?
- I love music, I love music.
But the gentleman thought I took his stuff,
so he took my speakers.
Okay?
And he took my phone.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- But when he took my phone --
I have medical marijuana.
MMPI.
I'm actually allowed.
Bipolar, it slows me down.
So she said do you want to smoke weed?
I said fine.
But she said (mumbling) some cigarettes.
And I went to go find them and on the way back,
I found a Galaxy 7 just laying there.
- [Interviewer] Oh my gosh.
- And he took my old one.
This one's even better.
- [Interviewer] You got your tunes.
- Okay.
So when I get the phone, I gave it to the guy
who said I took his stuff.
- [Interviewer] But, you know, you've been out here
eight years, you've been robbed many a times.
- Every month.
Dude, I wasted so much money.
I should be able to make it through the month no problem.
I can't make it through two weeks without
my stuff being taken.
And the stupid thing is that they think that
if they get you, that means they're smarter than you.
It's high and they're staying up all night.
No, I'm smarter than you because I go to sleep.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
(laughter)
- So I get my rest.
- [Interviewer] If you had three wishes,
what would they be?
- If I had three wishes, one would be that
all the churches were just got rid of.
Every one of them.
Because they're demonic.
It says in the bible.
Everybody reads John 3:16,
but nobody reads John 3:14.
Peter and Paul only built a church
because Peter denied him and Paul had the power to save him.
When he went against Ramos, you had people go up (mumble).
It says in the bible don't (mumbling)
and go on the street corner.
That's why there's churches.
And Jesus didn't come to preach for himself.
What do we do on Sunday?
We preach about Jesus.
We don't talk about God.
That's what he came for.
I want the truth to be known about the bible.
- [Interviewer] Wish number two?
- Wish number two would be --
wish number two would be for everybody to love
their brother more than themselves.
- [Interviewer] Good wish.
- That's what I do.
- [Interviewer] And wish number three?
- Wish number three would be end this life
and go meet Jesus.
I've done so much good already that I feel
that I'm ready to go.
I love God.
I think there's so many terrible things in the world.
I can't find anything like myself.
You know, I've been giving, giving, giving.
It's so outrageous.
I mean, they do.
I'm not talking about people like me.
- [Interviewer] Well, Kat in the Hat,
thank you for talking to me.
- Yeah, thank you.
- [Interviewer] I hope you get in housing soon.
- Yeah, I do too.
- [Interviewer] And keep jamming those beats.
- Yeah, yeah.
- They don't like if they play everything.
- [Interviewer] So you have a good day.
- Thank you.
You too, sir.
- [Interviewer] Be safe.
- God bless you, brother.
And that one up there.