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your support. In the last hour, I mentioned Adam Carolla,
stand up comedian guy does a podcast. You've seen him.
If you don't know the name, you've seen him, I
guarantee you. But he is originally from I think originally
from California, and he had testified. I mentioned this last
hour that he had testified in front of Congress about deipolicies,
and he talked about this was a while ago. He
talked about how he was delayed application to the Loss
Angeli's fire department because he was a white guy. They
told him your waiting list is seven years. And when
they finally called him back, so we went to work
in construction. He comes back and then they because they
sent him a letter saying you can now apply again.
And so he came in and he asked a woman
behind him in the line, how long has she been waiting?
When did she get the letter to come apply? And
she said she got it wednesday, like a couple like,
so within the within seven days ago. Right. And the
point there, in case it's you know, not obvious, which
I think it is, is that he had to wait
seven years and she did not. And the only reason
was because he was a white guy. I forget if
he said her race or not, but it doesn't matter
because what they obviously were doing was, you know, hiring
and promoting based on immutable characteristics that were not based
on merit. And the fire Department, along with the City
of Los Angeles, they've spent millions of dollars on these
DEI types of programs, and that means you lose focus.
You devote resources and manpower, hours, time and attention away
from your core mission, which is to fight fires. Like
that's the main point. The only reason you have a
fire department is so they fight fires. That's it, right,
But when you become distracted by the ideologically driven latest fad,
then you lose sight of the core mission. And that's
what apparently the LA Fire Department has done. Corolla also
yesterday did a podcast where he talked about he told
the story of Bill Maher, the host of Used to
Be Politically Incorrect, and then it's been real time with
Bill Maher. He's a stand up committee. And also, and
you know, Bill Maher has angered a lot of leftists
because they think he's been quote red pilled. And if
you're not aware of what that term means, red pilled
comes from The Matrix, the movie The Matrix, where the
main character Keanu Reeves is presented a choice. There's a
red pill and a blue pill, and the red pill
is that you or the blue pill is pitched. As
you take the blue pill, you go back to sleep,
and you are unaware of the Matrix, this false world
that has been constructed for you. If you take the
red pill, though, as Morpheus, the character said, you know,
you find out how deep this rabbit hole goes. And
that's where the term comes from. And so people say
they've been red pilled when they've sort of been you know,
their eyes have been opened to the way things really
are and what's really going on, and it's an awakening
of sorts not to be confused with woke but red pilled.
So Bill Maher is accused of being red pilled. I'm
not so sure he is on I know he's not
on a great many things, but on some things, on
common sense types of things, he has been. And so
where does this go back to? And Corolla says it
started when Bill Maher tried to get solar panels for
his house in California, and it took him like three
years to get solar panels approved for his house because
of all the red tape regulations and these officious busy
bodies that made him jump through hoops and delay and
delay and delay and just add more and more costs.
Corolla tells the story, I forget who the actor was,
but it was somebody famous, and he said that this
person wanted to get a swimming pool put in, and
in order to do that, you got to go through
It's something called the Coastal Commission or something in Malibu
and Pacific Palisades, and they required this guy to do
a double hull on his which means like, what does
that mean? Like you're putting in a pool. They basically
made him put in two right, you got to drop
one hull down, and then you've got to do another
pool inside of that pool. And the rationale was that
if the first pool leaks, then the second pool will
catch it so the chlorinated water or whatever doesn't seep
into the groundwater. Now, again this is at the coast,
So even if the water had seeped in, even if
it was chlorinated and it wasn't a saltwater pool, even
if it got into the groundwater, it would go to
the ocean, which is literally an ocean. There's a lot
of water in an ocean. That's why they call it
an ocean. That's why we say, man, that's as big
as an ocean, because ocean's are really, really big. We
don't even know where some of the floors of these
oceans are. So that's a red pill moment. And what
Corolla is predicting is that a lot of these people
who have lost their homes, that have the million dollar homes,
they are going to now have to run the gauntlet
of local government and they are going to realize the
actual cost of their policies because before they would just
do one project, maybe they do a renovation or something whatever.
But now like because a lot of these people that
sit on these boards and commissions and such, they don't
want you to rebuild. They yeah, they're sort of anti humanist.
They want that shoreline to be pristine. They don't want
anybody building on the coast at all. And some of
these homes like Malibuan and Pacific Palisades, they overlook the ocean,
they're right on the water, and they may not get
approvals to build. And this is like, I'm not so
short now. I just came across a post on the
Twitter machine by Matthew Peterson. He is the editor in
chief over at The Blaze, and he said Corolla is
one hundred percent correct about at least half of what's
going to happen. The California Coastal Commission, which has more
power than many a third world dictator, simply won't allow
a lot of rebuilding in Malibu and homeowners in the
Palisades and Alta Dina, which, by the way, that's where
the Beverly Hills nine o two one to zero house
was actually located from the TV show Beverly Hills nine
oh two one oh. It was located in Alta Dina
or Altadena, and that burned down. That's gone. He says.
The homeowners are about to walk through the gates of
local government hell as they learn how hard it is
to build anything in California, as well as how corrupt
and deficient their systems of regional government truly are. Corolla
should be right about the other hand, where this could
be like a red pill for some of these people,
he says, But I don't know. I hope so, but
I don't know if that's going to happen, he said,
As more than one friend has pointed out in the
last twenty four hours, there's something lost in all the
talk about the fires, and what has been lost is
a lot more than some random suburbs. Altadena had some
of the most beautiful homes and neighborhoods in California, representing
the best of early twentieth century California. He said. He
used to live nearby. He would wander the streets and
he would just marvel at the homes that were there.
The idyllic palisades were not full of the usual shoddy
McMansions or super megagaudy estates, but real communities and beautiful
suburban housing that represented the rise of post World War
two Golden age Southern California. The iconic Malibu Coastline has
stood as a symbol for millions for a long time.
It always did for me, at least, he said. As
commuting he talked about how you drive through there, didn't
matter the traffic. He just loved looking at the neighborhood.
And so much of that is now gone, and we
are right to wonder if it will ever come back,
or if anything like it can come back. What was
lost this week is much more than houses. What vanished
in the smoke and flames is the physical remnants of
an America culture, symbols that stood for the American dream,
and that has already suffered a spiritual and political death.
So acknowledge the loss and sadness, help and pray for
those who have suffered through it, and raise a glass
to a rebirth and renaissance in the country however you can,
with whoever is willing, until your dying day come. What may.
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people's lives lost obvious, but that you know, the neighborhoods represent.
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time of you know, risk taking, and you know head
west and look at us. We have arrived, I mean
the Spanish stucco architecture all like, all of that architectural
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to rebuild people in these neighbors. By the way, I
have a list here, Yeah, of the the famous people
who lost their homes. Paris Hilton's Malibu Beach home gone,
Matthew Perry, the late Matthew Perry, the home that he
died in gone. Chrissy Teagan and John Legend. They fled
their home in Beverly Hills with their four kids, four dogs,
and a pet bearded dragon. They took refuge at a hotel,
joining others like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, all the
same hotel, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill. According to the
Daily Mail. Others who lost their homes, actor James Woods,
Eugene Levy, John Goodman, The Top Gun, Mavericks star Miles
Teller and his wife Kayley, Adam Brody and Layton Measter
both actors, Ricky Lake, the former talk show host, Reality
TV stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montague the couple they
lost Theirs. Kobe Smolders from the show How I Met
Your Mother, Maria Shriver, Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, Anna Ferris.
All their homes were burnt gone. And so when these
people go to try to rebuild, Okay, yes, they I
guess have a lot of money. Oh they're going to
be able to afford it. Okay, not everybody will be.
And the insurance isn't there. A lot of the insurance
carriers started dropping fire insurance. This. Yeah, I was not
aware of this. I knew that the insurance industry had
been not writing, not renewing policies for various things. State
Farm canceled sixteen hundred policies in Pacific Palisades or did
not renew them because the state would not allow them
to raise premiums high enough to cover their exposure. And
so the insurance company is not going to write policies
if it means the bankruptcy of that insurance company. The
affected homeowners would then likely have to rely on a
state program called fare because, of course the Fair Plan,
which is an expensive last resort insurance program. But according
to Laura Powell, former leftist but still liberal Californian, she says,
the Fair Plan reportedly only has a surplus of two
hundred million dollars as of April twenty twenty four, and
was likely to become insolvent if a catastrophic event occurred,
and now it has. Now it has. This is such
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Back in April, State Farm said that it was going
to cut coverages for fire basically for homeowners. Sixty nine
percent of the policyholders in Pacific Palisades, sixty two percent
in Brentwood. These were all non renewals, and they said
they can't do it. They can't write the policies because
they can't charge enough money. Under the state rules, they
weren't allowed to charge enough money in the premiums to
cover their costs if they're was a catastrophic event. It
would wipe out State Farm and that would then have
the cascading impacts on all of the other homeowners, policyholders
and the entire industry. So they said, we can't, we
can't write the policies. So they just started dropping the coverage.
And that's a direct result of what first the wildfire
mitigation efforts that were not done right. State Farm assesses
this stuff and they're like, this is this takes too long?
You know how long it would you know how long
it took? I have the hang on, I had the
stat here someplace how long it takes to do Yeah,
here it is. How long does it take to do
a prescribed burn or a controlled burn in order to
clear out sort of the fuel the underbrush. It takes
According to the Forest Service, it takes an average of
four point seven years to get through environmental reviews, and
if it's a complex project, it will take seven years
more than seven years, seven point two years. That is
longer than the fire cycles. So you're never going to
be able to keep up with the wildfires because of
what government policy. These are decisions. These are decisions that
politicians make and bureaucrats make after being elected to do
so and then return to office even after they implement
these kinds of crummy policies, and the state of California
and the residents of Los Angeles are going to continue
to suffer as long as they continue to send people
into office that keep these policies in place. Let me
go over and get Larry onto the program. Hello Larry,
and how you doing as the peak? All right, sir,
what's going on? I want to speak on the take.
He's talking about the movie stars and stuff and whatnot.
Got the house burned up? Yeah? I mean they got
life changing money, man. They can uproot anytime they get
rid of Unlike for you and me, we can't do that.
And so is their loss any lesson. Don't care about that, man,
Them people don't care nothing about that. They got money, man,
really yeah you know that, No, I don't. The people
you named yea whose house got on fire, Yeah, they
got money, man. Yeah. So does money replace the home
videos of your kid growing up? And that's what it takes.
They're not going to reveal on it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Larry, Larry, Yeah,
that's what it takes. The up route, man, Larry. No,
it's this isn't uprooting Larry. No, No, Larry, Larry. So
let's so if you don't think, Larry, if you don't
think I'm making sense, I'm gonna try to We're gonna
try to have a conversation. No, Larry, Larry, you could
Larry hang on, No, don't, don't. Don't do that, Larry, Larry, Larry,
I don't, Larry. If we're gonna Larry stop, stop for
a second, I say what you're gonna say. Man, Okay,
first off, I could say whatever I want to say
in this conversation because Larry stop talking for one second.
I can say what I want to say. Larry, you're
being rude by constantly interrupting me something. Okay, Oh, thank
you very much. I will say what I want. What
I'm going to tell you, Larry, is that you and
I are talking about two different things. You're talking about
rebuilding a house. I understand that. I understand what you're saying.
You don't understand what I'm saying. So what I'm saying
is that with the loss of that house, it's not
just the house, it's everything. It's everything inside the house,
it's a it's an entire lifetime of the things that
you hold deer that has been lost. So he never
loves anything you hold. Dear too, you never loves anything.
Of course I have Larry. Of course I have Larry.
What does that have to do with anything? Because you
just move on, You don't just move on, and they
got the means and the money to do it. You cannot.
So Larry the example, Larry the example. I'm Larry, you're
the one that's getting agitated. I'm there, you go. That's
how they always end. Oh, Larry, good lord. I understand
using logic probably threw you for a bit of a
loop in that conversation. But I'll just flesh out the
point for people who are interested to hear it. And
obviously Larry was not. And by the way, I did
recognize that Larry was not discussing the topic in good faith.
Larry I think suffers from one of the deadly sins
of envy there. I think Larry just has envy for
the people who have a lot of money, these Hollywood
people and so there, which by the way, he's assuming
they've all got lots of money. There are a lot
of people that bought those homes forty fifty years ago
and they've just been living in these in these homes
for all that time where their parents lived in the homes,
and they got the home, and they don't have that
kind of money, life changing money, as he called it.
But yes, there were people that were rich, that are
rich that did have homes there, but also inside those
homes they had a lot of things that were literally irreplaceable.
One of the kind things I mentioned the videos home
videos of your parents, of your kids growing up from
thirty years ago. They're gone. All that stuff is gone,
literally everything that they own, burned up, everything. And so
for Larry to trivialize it and to dismiss it by saying, oh,
haven't you ever lost anything? Yeah, I've lost stuff. Have
I lost every single thing that I own except the
clothes on my back all at once? No, I have not.
I have not suffered that kind of a loss some
people have. It's devastating. That's why people do fundraisers and
stuff for that, because it is a traumatic event. And
at the root of that question that I asked is
a very human thing is to recognize that even if
someone has a whole lot of money, they have still
suffered a loss and that still impacts them. Why, Because
they are a human being, and I have empathy for them.
Even though I don't have any personal experience having my
house burned down and have nothing left, I can empathize
with them. That's awful. That's a terrible thing. And just
because they're Hollywood famous and rich doesn't make that loss
any less empathetic. And I would just ask Larry to
maybe search yourself and find out why you have this
kind of animosity towards somebody that you don't know, simply
because they have money, they still suffered a loss. Just
move on, you say, just move on. I'm sure they
will somehow over time they'll move on, but for now
it's a very devastating thing for them. I can't make
you care about your fellow human beings, but maybe you
could give it a shot. It's a new year. How
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Jonathan wants to know after hearing caller Larry, I need
you to tell me, Pete in great detail, where you
get your patients from. I always love it when antagonistic,
bad faith callers like Larry, who don't sound very bright
by the way, tell me that it's okay for me
to talk. And that's why I say Larry, he's an
example he's not the only one. But when he says,
oh right, yeah, you go ahead and talk, you go
ahead and say what you're gonna say, Like, I'm not
sure you're aware of the situation you have entered into here, Larry.
But this is a radio talk show, and I am
in the studio of said radio show. I control the microphone,
I control the phone lines. You do not, So I
get to keep talking long after you're gone, right after
you hang up on me, because he hung up on
me thinking that that made some point or something like,
I don't even understand why you hang up. If you
call into to challenge me, I welcome those challenges. In fact,
I say it all the time. Unchallenged ideas are easy
to hold. I say that for a reason because it
is through the challenging of the ideas that you arrive
at better ideas. You test them right, and if they
are found to be lacking, like Larry's was, then that
gets exposed. Now, what a logical rational person might do
is to then say, well, my rational argument has failed
with this test of logic, so I will therefore change
my position on this thing. Now, if you're just coming
at it from an emotional standpoint, as Larry obviously was,
then you're not going to allow logic to interfere with
your emotionally driven response or opinion. And that's what Larry
is operating. That's the position he's operating from. It's emotionalism.
It's a stunted way of thinking. I'm not saying like
these these issues don't have elements of emotion in them.
Of course they do. And we, being human beings, we
absolutely have emotions when we talk about certain topics or issues. Absolutely,
but logic requires you to set aside the emotionalism. And
I suspect what is driving Larry's emotions in this is
simple jealousy. That's the that's at the core he's it
sounds like he's got a lot of jealousy and envy
towards people who have a lot of money. That's what
that's that's what came across to me. Now, I could
have been I could be mistaken on that, but Larry
hung up, and so I wasn't able to plumb those depths.
And that's that's what I'm interested in. And so when
I've had enough of these conversations over the course of
my career here to know that sometimes people will engage
in a conversation if you can kind of, you know,
get them off of their defensive posture. And sometimes people don't,
and Larry didn't. He didn't want to. He wanted to
stay rooted in his emotional argument. And I'm not going
to try to move somebody off of that if they
are refusing to move. I'm not going to force somebody.
I'm you know, libertarian like that. I'm not going to
force somebody. But I can also appeal to him and
maybe someday down the road he thinks about this conversation
and this experience, and he thinks about his position and
the underlying belief that he has there is what is
animating this dismissiveness of the human toll that this has taken.
Maybe he reassesses that and comes to a different, dare
I say, nicer position? That's my hope. All right, that'll
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