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Speaker 1: to Joel Pollock. Welcome back, Joel. Love having you on
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, good morning to you.
Speaker 1: And Shenanigan's declaration for the state of California and the
Speaker 1: leftists that run it feels so sorry for a lot
Speaker 1: of Californians. But they voted what they get what they
Speaker 1: voted for. And uh they reaction to Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: hitting the around sprinting he is fifty million dollars to
Speaker 1: fight Donald Trump's agenda in the courtroom. Tell us all
Speaker 1: about this. I read your article on it over at
Speaker 1: bright Bart Joel.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just back it up for a second.
Speaker 2: So it is true that California as a whole voted
Speaker 2: for the mismanagement of Gavin Newsom and the Democrats. That
Speaker 2: is true. But I'm going to defend my community here
Speaker 2: and say that my community did not vote for wildfires
Speaker 2: that destroy the entire town, for fire hydrants that don't
Speaker 2: have water in them, for police that don't show up
Speaker 2: to direct traffic, and an evacuation, for a mayor that
Speaker 2: goes overseas when she knows there's an extreme weather event coming.
Speaker 2: My part of the town voted for the mayor's opponent,
Speaker 2: Rick Caruso, who is a real estate developer, who managed
Speaker 2: to defend his property using private firefighters. So there's some
Speaker 2: political diversity in California.
Speaker 1: Pockets of sanity, Joel, pockets of sanity.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, but I want to blame my neighbors.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, And I didn't I know. It's
Speaker 1: paint with a broad brush, Listen. I lived in Chicago
Speaker 1: for eight years, man, and it's difficult to be a
Speaker 1: conservative there. But you know what, the rest of the
Speaker 1: state is more conservative and they feel ill served because
Speaker 1: of the massive population. The city of Chicago's corrupt as
Speaker 1: it is, But I get it. But on that note, Joel,
Speaker 1: while we're there, do the folks that invited this type
Speaker 1: of mismanagement, and have they woken up after the realities
Speaker 1: were unfolded the mismanagement, the you know, the misspent money,
Speaker 1: the water that isn't flowing, and in the reaction to
Speaker 1: the wildfires. Do you think that's going to have an
Speaker 1: impact longer term?
Speaker 2: Well, it's really just too early and too close to
Speaker 2: me personally to speculate about politics.
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you what's going on.
Speaker 2: So the residents of Pacific Polisades are really waging a
Speaker 2: baliant fight to rebuild the community after the wildfires of January,
Speaker 2: and without the intervention of the Trump administration, it would
Speaker 2: not be happening because the city and state governments don't
Speaker 2: know how to build anything, and they are throwing up
Speaker 2: all kinds of roadblocks that only the residents working with
Speaker 2: the Trump administration have been able to overcome. And you know,
Speaker 2: in the beginning, they didn't want to let people go
Speaker 2: to their property even to start sifting through the rubble
Speaker 2: or start clearing it out. When Trump was here on
Speaker 2: January twenty fourth, he told the mayor that residents needed
Speaker 2: to be let in right away, So that happened. Then
Speaker 2: they can't sort out the system of permits that would
Speaker 2: allow the Army Corps of Engineers to start clearing the debris,
Speaker 2: or that would let people hire private contractors to clear
Speaker 2: the degree from their own sites. That's also something that
Speaker 2: Trump administration has had to intervene to do. And we're
Speaker 2: still getting the run around from La County. I remember,
Speaker 2: we have Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County, two
Speaker 2: lairs of government, both dysfunctional in their own special way,
Speaker 2: and we are having to figure out how to make
Speaker 2: them work finally for the benefit of the residents who
Speaker 2: want to rebuild. And if they don't work, you're just
Speaker 2: going to have empty lots on the most beautiful real
Speaker 2: estate in the world, really, because this little portion of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles is built on a hillside that overlooks the
Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean that is at the base of the Santa
Speaker 2: Monica Mountains. It's really spectacular and it's an incredible community,
Speaker 2: wonderful people. But we've had to band together and help
Speaker 2: each other out to figure out how to circumvent the
Speaker 2: red tape and how to deal with politicians who are
Speaker 2: functioning as big city politicians do in Democrat jurisdiction. The
Speaker 2: latest scandal is that they hired this consulting firm supposedly
Speaker 2: to rebuild the city. They did it behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: No one knows what the firm's supposed to do. No
Speaker 2: one knows how much they're supposed to earn from this.
Speaker 2: And they're from Evanston, Illinois, which is my old stomping ground,
Speaker 2: which to ask me, doesn't really know how to manage
Speaker 2: very much either. No, these consultants are going to come
Speaker 2: in and tell us what to do with our town
Speaker 2: after they basically mismanaged Evanston. You know, Evanston didn't even
Speaker 2: have a city manager for several years. It's spent one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars just on looking for a city manager
Speaker 2: because they couldn't find one, and they had one for
Speaker 2: a while, but she was too pro police for the
Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter crowd, so they rejected her. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's Evanston, Illinois, and what they're going to send us
Speaker 2: someone and knows something about rebuilding. They also got tied
Speaker 2: up in this corruption scandal during Hurricane Sandy because two
Speaker 2: of their consultants were discovered to have defrauded New York
Speaker 2: City using reimbursements for housing and for travel expenses. They
Speaker 2: pleaded guilty so we were bringing this group in to
Speaker 2: rebuild LA. It's just nuts. And I think that we
Speaker 2: are applying a level of scrutiny here to these elected
Speaker 2: officials in California that they've never actually seen before, because
Speaker 2: you're right in a sense that the electorate generally takes
Speaker 2: what they're given here in California because they say the
Speaker 2: right things about social issues. They have the left wing positions,
Speaker 2: and they fight those nasty Republicans and the bad Orange Man.
Speaker 2: But it turns out the bad Orange Man cares more
Speaker 2: about the residents than Democrats do. So I do think
Speaker 2: people are having a change of heart. But really we're
Speaker 2: not focused on the next election right now. Right now,
Speaker 2: we're just focused on clearing the debris and getting the
Speaker 2: houses going again.
Speaker 1: Well and apparently not landscaping. Recording an article I read
Speaker 1: about Gavin Newsom, he's prohibiting people from planting a vegetation
Speaker 1: within five feet of their homes. Yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: So clearly newsen doesn't understand what caused the fire and
Speaker 2: how the fire is spread. But they're gonna blame climate change.
Speaker 2: They're gonna blame vegetation near people's homes. You know, my
Speaker 2: house did very well, we've got lots of plants around
Speaker 2: our house. My house did not burn even though it
Speaker 2: was in the center.
Speaker 1: Of the fire.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's because some of the vegetation actually kept
Speaker 2: the fire off the house. So there are some species
Speaker 2: evidently that are fire resistant. Ficus trees, for example, they're
Speaker 2: very thirsty, they drink a lot of water. They kind
Speaker 2: of destroyed my vegetable garden, but they're very fire resistant
Speaker 2: for that reason because they store so much water in
Speaker 2: their trunks and branches and leaves and so forth, and
Speaker 2: so telling us what to plant, that's what the state
Speaker 2: has decided it needs to do. There's no reevaluation of
Speaker 2: overall water policy, overall forestry emergency services, a crazy insurance
Speaker 2: policy that has resulted in insurance companies leaving the state
Speaker 2: and dropping consumers. So they're not focused on anything that
Speaker 2: really matters. They're just going to try to regulate their
Speaker 2: way out of the pr crisis that just created for them.
Speaker 1: Well, do you anticipate the rumors were flying in the
Speaker 1: during the raging part of the Fire's Joel that somehow
Speaker 1: this was I don't want to say intentional. There's conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorist out there all over, but look, there was all
Speaker 1: kinds of dry vegetation, sparks happened, and wildfire's raised. It's
Speaker 1: been happening in California for a long time. Hew Bad
Speaker 1: Religion wrote a song about it. So you have all
Speaker 1: this awareness of potential for fires. But like what happened
Speaker 1: in Lehina, with those homes that are now, they can't
Speaker 1: rebuild them the way they originally built, and they're planning
Speaker 1: on remaking that entire city into something it wasn't before.
Speaker 1: Conveniently they've burned all to the ground. Do you anticipate
Speaker 1: these rules and regulations having an impact on maybe the
Speaker 1: size of homes and whether or not they can be
Speaker 1: equipped with Oh, I don't know, gas lines or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, is this going to be the fifteen minute
Speaker 1: city remaking, Joel?
Speaker 2: That's what people are afraid of. People are worried about
Speaker 2: that kind of intervention. I don't see that happening just yet.
Speaker 2: But I do think that they're going to try to
Speaker 2: put a stamp, put a kind of liberal or climate
Speaker 2: change stamp on whatever the rebuilding is, and they're not
Speaker 2: really going to address the fundamental issues, which are the
Speaker 2: poor design of the water system, the poor design of
Speaker 2: some of the roads. For example, there's one part of
Speaker 2: town that only has one road in, one road out
Speaker 2: for thousands of residents. They're not going to change that,
Speaker 2: going to change the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy and how
Speaker 2: they deal with brush and brush clearance and fire breaks.
Speaker 2: They need to the residents want them to, So maybe
Speaker 2: it'll happen if residents continue to be as active as
Speaker 2: we've been. But left to their own devices, the local
Speaker 2: officials would simply remake California in their image, and that's
Speaker 2: the problem. Their policies have led to this disaster well.
Speaker 1: And the frustrating part for me, just being an outside observer,
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of money, literally millions, if
Speaker 1: not billions of dollars allocated for clearance projects to get
Speaker 1: rid of the brush, to do forest maintenance, responsible for
Speaker 1: its maintenance, and anytime they try to engage in one
Speaker 1: of those projects, environmental groups would pop up and sue
Speaker 1: them to stop it in its tracks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there have been huge problems with that. In fact,
Speaker 2: fire creders have told me that they are frustrated with
Speaker 2: the fact that environmental groups won't let people clear brush
Speaker 2: in certain areas that would reduce the risks not eliminated,
Speaker 2: but the risk of wildfires to structures and reduce the
Speaker 2: risk of the out of control blazes that we've seen
Speaker 2: where you know, one structure goes up and then there
Speaker 2: are embers that fly and hit the next structure. So
Speaker 2: we have a problem in California where because of the
Speaker 2: beautiful weather and the beautiful natural resources the coastline, the
Speaker 2: mountains and what have you, people get the idea that
Speaker 2: we can make life perfect here by creating a utopia.
Speaker 2: So that's what we plan for. So Gavin Newsom wants
Speaker 2: to get rid of all the gas powered cars and
Speaker 2: have an electric vehicle future. By twenty thirty five, you
Speaker 2: can only buy electric vehicles, but he doesn't think about
Speaker 2: the worst case scenario. And actually, the EPA is in
Speaker 2: my town right now clearing out electric vehicles because it
Speaker 2: turns out that the lithium ion batteries are pretty hazardous
Speaker 2: and a fire. So it's just a misorientation. The purpose
Speaker 2: of government, the first and fundamental purpose, is to protect
Speaker 2: the lives and property of the people. So you've got
Speaker 2: to deal with that before you deal with whatever pie
Speaker 2: in the sky utopia you want to create. Because frankly,
Speaker 2: we're human beings, and only God can create perfect things.
Speaker 2: We create imperfect things. And so when we create our
Speaker 2: imperfect things, we need to create systems that deal with failure,
Speaker 2: not systems that are guaranteed to succeed, because we can't
Speaker 2: guarantee anything excellent.
Speaker 1: Observation Joe Pollock from Breitbart Do you have do you expect?
Speaker 1: And I know many people were kind of caught with
Speaker 1: their pants down because they didn't have insurance. They couldn't
Speaker 1: afford insurance. Perhaps maybe the insurers left the state because
Speaker 1: of the the the outrageous risk analysis there actually said,
Speaker 1: you know, we shouldn't be here because of the fire risk.
Speaker 1: Do you anticipate an exodus of a lot of people?
Speaker 1: They just going to give up. I can't rebuild. It's
Speaker 1: going to take too long. I have I have to
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 2: I think a few people will say that, but I
Speaker 2: think most people are committed to rebuilding because Specific Palisades
Speaker 2: wasn't is such a special place. It really was a
Speaker 2: small town in LA where everybody knew it body, where
Speaker 2: kids played baseball incessantly in the public park, and where
Speaker 2: people went to church on Sunday and the farmers market,
Speaker 2: and it's just an idyllic place. People really loved it.
Speaker 2: It was a down to earth community.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The New York Times has really defamed us. They've said, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's a bunch of rich people.
Speaker 1: Most people in.
Speaker 2: The town, although they are rich on paper because of
Speaker 2: the value of the property, they didn't start out rich.
Speaker 2: And many of the homeowners, especially the elderly homeowners, bought
Speaker 2: right after the Second World War, when most of the
Speaker 2: housing stock was just two bedroom bungalows. So this is
Speaker 2: a town of ordinary people, some extraordinary people, but it's
Speaker 2: really just a great American town, and people want to
Speaker 2: preserve that. So I think most people are going to
Speaker 2: try to do that if they can, if the government
Speaker 2: doesn't get me away.
Speaker 1: Ford Park Company. Joe Pollock. Obviously, this is a This
Speaker 1: is so personal to you because you live there in
Speaker 1: the heart of where all this happened. It had to
Speaker 1: have impacted you psychologically, pacted your life, like the death
Speaker 1: of a loved one kind of thing, or like living
Speaker 1: through the horrors of World War two. If you were,
Speaker 1: you know, in London being bombed, I mean, what how
Speaker 1: do you cope with that? Joel? We just move forward.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're Americans if you drive around the town
Speaker 2: right now, you'll see American flags on a lot of
Speaker 2: the destroyed property. Is a giant's American flag. I mean
Speaker 2: it must be like fifty feet by one hundred feet
Speaker 2: or something, hanging from one of the homes on the
Speaker 2: hillside overlooking Sunset Boulevard. You can't drive into town from
Speaker 2: the east without seeing it. So we're Americans rebuilt. We
Speaker 2: don't give up. But California sureius trying to make us
Speaker 2: do that, But we're not going to give up.
Speaker 1: Joel Paul Locke, Senior aut at Large, Breitbart Bookmarket, Breitbart
Speaker 1: dot Com. God bless you, Joel. I wish you all
Speaker 1: the best of luck in the world helping to rebuild
Speaker 1: your community, and I appreciate your optimism in the face
Speaker 1: of all this tragedy and all these seemingly insurmountable hurdles.
Speaker 1: I wish you like all the luck in the world,
Speaker 1: my friend. Thank you, sir. I'll look forward to having
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