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Speaker 3: the writings of my guests this morning. Editor at large
Speaker 3: Rebecca Mansoor, who is colonists from Los Angeles, California. Rebecca,
Speaker 3: welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome, h Well, good to talk with you very early
Speaker 1: in the morning here.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it is and.
Speaker 1: Very difficult week.
Speaker 3: How how long have you been out? I been out
Speaker 3: in LA or are you? Do you live in the
Speaker 3: greater Los Angeles area? I guess we should establish that, yes.
Speaker 1: I do. I've lived here for nearly three decades. I've
Speaker 1: lived here longer than anywhere else in my life. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm originally from more your neck of the woods. I'm
Speaker 1: born in ra Is in Matur, Detroit, but moved out
Speaker 1: here in the late nineties and have never.
Speaker 2: Left how about that.
Speaker 3: So it's obviously closer and nearer and dearer to your
Speaker 3: personal experience with that much time there to see the devastation.
Speaker 3: It's actually been completely heartbreaking to hear the accounts of
Speaker 3: longtime residents like yourself who have literally lost everything, because
Speaker 3: they're just every day there's more and more interviews with folks,
Speaker 3: and it's just hard to really put yourself in a
Speaker 3: position where you are, you have everything going in your
Speaker 3: life and the next thing you know, it's completely gone.
Speaker 3: Has your personal neighborhood been impacted by these fires.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, a little bit, but not nearly as bad
Speaker 1: and anywhere near as bad as Palisades, the Pacific Palisades fire,
Speaker 1: or the Altadena Pasadena area. I live in the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Hills area. We did have to evacuate briefly, yeah, with
Speaker 1: the fire that broke out, So I did have a
Speaker 1: taste of the experience here with the evacuation. I left,
Speaker 1: had evacuate on Wednesday and quickly come back. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I've lived here, like I said, nearly thirty years.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this. None of us have.
Speaker 1: This is a very unique experience and we're used to earthquakes, wildfires,
Speaker 1: mud slides, you name it out here. This is nonelike
Speaker 1: anything any of us have ever witnessed, and it's really
Speaker 1: has rattled us, terrified us my colleagues. As you know,
Speaker 1: Breitbart News is headquartered out of Los Angeles. This is
Speaker 1: the hometown of our founder Andrew Breitbart and everybody, all
Speaker 1: of my colleagues have been impacted. One of my colleagues,
Speaker 1: John conn who is the singer songwriter who created the
Speaker 1: number one hit song Fighter, a Trump tribute song, he
Speaker 1: lost everything his house. He had to watch it burn
Speaker 1: to the ground on his ring phone app after he
Speaker 1: was evacuated. Another one of my colleagues just barely saved
Speaker 1: his house. He was using his son's baseball bucket to
Speaker 1: put out the fire himself. And you know, all of
Speaker 1: my Another one of my colleagues lost everything on their street.
Speaker 1: Their house was miraculously saved. All of us have had
Speaker 1: to be evacuated at least once. And we're not out
Speaker 1: of the woods yet because just right now, as I'm
Speaker 1: speaking to you, the winds are kicking up again. The
Speaker 1: Santa Ana wins not as bad as they were last
Speaker 1: week with the ninety to one hundred mile per hour
Speaker 1: wind gus. These wind gusts are about you know, sixty
Speaker 1: miles per hour, but still with these two fires still raging,
Speaker 1: this is a very very dangerous situation for us. So
Speaker 1: we could see this all happen again this week, so
Speaker 1: we're just not out of the woods. It's it's an
Speaker 1: insane situation. And I know that people are going to
Speaker 1: say that it's unprecedented. It is unprecedented to see all
Speaker 1: these multiple fires go at the same time like this,
Speaker 1: but it was not something that had to happen necessarily
Speaker 1: if we had competent leadership.
Speaker 3: Well, and I'm glad you win that direction, because I
Speaker 3: was wondering if your fellow Angelina's were actually talking about
Speaker 3: the incompetence of government officials, the promises previously made that
Speaker 3: were broken. I've been going through the ucent for the
Speaker 3: last couple of days. I mean, I go back to
Speaker 3: Governor Jerry Brown twenty eighteen, he signed a one billion
Speaker 3: dollar bill that was supposed to prevent catastrophic wildfires and
Speaker 3: protect Californians from this type of thing. Governor knews from
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. The report from the Wildfire Strike Force said
Speaker 3: that over the next five years, the state will commit
Speaker 3: over one billion dollars for critical fuel reduction projects, support
Speaker 3: to prescribed fire crews, forest thinning, and other forest health projects.
Speaker 3: There was a bond bill back in twenty fourteen, overwhelmingly
Speaker 3: approved by Californians, three billion dollars of which was supposed
Speaker 3: to set aside to be building new reserves or reservoirs.
Speaker 3: And here we are ten years later, not single new
Speaker 3: reservoir has been built. Do you feel let down? I
Speaker 3: mean the Democrats who elect these Democrats who abvious demonstrably
Speaker 3: incompetent or for whatever reason, don't follow through with promises
Speaker 3: made to deal with the next fire, as if they're
Speaker 3: not going to happen again. Are they talking about that?
Speaker 3: Do they feel letdown? Are they going to maybe perhaps
Speaker 3: change their attitude toward electing government officials?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I mean, look, we've been mugged by reality,
Speaker 1: you know, like the famous saying that a conservative is
Speaker 1: just a liberal who was mugged by reality. Yes, we've
Speaker 1: all been mugged. Everybody's been mugged by reality out here.
Speaker 1: The issue is whether there's going to be a sane,
Speaker 1: common sense conservative Republican that will step up and present
Speaker 1: themselves as a solution. That's always an issue here because
Speaker 1: we just we don't really have the infrastructure for a
Speaker 1: strong Republican party. We need one. But I'll tell you what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of anger about all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, the one guy that we could
Speaker 1: have elected mayor Lasco around. His name is Rick Caruso.
Speaker 1: He was a former water commissioner. He's also a billionaire
Speaker 1: property owner and he has this really nice property in
Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades called the Palisades Village. It's really sishi mall.
Speaker 1: You know, his property is the only thing still standing
Speaker 1: in the area because he hired a private you know,
Speaker 1: firefighting for to keep his property wet, to keep it,
Speaker 1: you know, to have a water tanks there. Because he
Speaker 1: knew the problem and he had been warning everybody of
Speaker 1: the problem. We didn't elect him. We decided to elect
Speaker 1: Karen Bass instead, who was and I don't usually throw
Speaker 1: this word around, but she has a literal communist Okay,
Speaker 1: she was involved in the Communist Front group during the
Speaker 1: seventies in Cuba. So I mean we elected a literal
Speaker 1: communist who you know, ran on abortion and basically instead
Speaker 1: of guy who was the water commissioner who was warning
Speaker 1: us about the wildfires. So this is what we got.
Speaker 1: We can still get an abortion here up until birth
Speaker 1: and even after probably, but we cannot keep our city
Speaker 1: from burning to the ground.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well, I'm glad, Well, I'm glad to hear
Speaker 3: that the pot has been stirred, and maybe there might
Speaker 3: be some profound political changes down the road.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime you have to deal with this.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of questions swirling around about, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously the cause of the fire, whether or not we
Speaker 3: find out the cause or not. A lot of you know,
Speaker 3: I either call them pattern observers or conspiracy theories talking
Speaker 3: about well, this was intentional, designed to clear the land
Speaker 3: so they can rebuild Los Angeles in their own global
Speaker 3: warming connected image. I guess I'm wondering, you know, what,
Speaker 3: what you think is going to happen by people's by
Speaker 3: way of people's ability to rebuild once to get all
Speaker 3: the debris cleared out, is that going to be impeded
Speaker 3: by further regulations and new building codes and that type
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, Governor Knewsom has lifted, supposedly lifted some of the
Speaker 1: owner's building codes right the California. California has the most
Speaker 1: owner's building codes in the country. And as part of
Speaker 1: it is because we have wildfires, we have earthquakes, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Also part of it is because we have this sort
Speaker 1: of nimby not in my backyard attitude out here, and
Speaker 1: so usually it takes upwards of ten years to build
Speaker 1: a house. Let's hope that he means it with that,
Speaker 1: but all bets are off because you know, look, if
Speaker 1: it starts to take forever to get a rebuild and
Speaker 1: you know your property, you're still having to pay taxes
Speaker 1: are very high taxes and Pacific palisades. You know, the
Speaker 1: temptation might be for some residents just to say, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: somebody just I can't afford this anymore. And then some
Speaker 1: giant private equity firm will come step in and say
Speaker 1: here's some money and just throw some change at you,
Speaker 1: and you just say, okay, I'm moving to Idaho or whatever.
Speaker 1: If that happens, then yeah, you're gonna have another Lahina
Speaker 1: situation that we had in Maui, you know, where they
Speaker 1: just they bought up all of the property from the
Speaker 1: people who are the true working class people in Mawi.
Speaker 1: So God only knows. I really cannot say. This is
Speaker 1: going to be a very long rebuild process. Just clearing
Speaker 1: up the debris alone is going to take a year,
Speaker 1: two years, three years. The actual rebuild of that property.
Speaker 1: I was talking with some you know, general contractors, construction guys,
Speaker 1: all of that. They were saying could be as many
Speaker 1: as fifteen to twenty years. Certainly not gonna be overnight.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just not. I mean, others will dispute that,
Speaker 1: and I keep, you know, and they'll say, no, I
Speaker 1: won't take down maybe ten I'm like, is anything ever
Speaker 1: in this state? It took ten years. They said five
Speaker 1: years ago that they were gonna build reservoirs. Have you
Speaker 1: got any reservoirs? The ones that we have, the Fanny
Speaker 1: As Reservoir was offline with no water. That's the reservoir
Speaker 1: near Pacific Palisades. So the Pacific Palisades don't have any
Speaker 1: water because they took it offline to fix a tear
Speaker 1: in the roof. That And you know, we gave billion
Speaker 1: dollar boonds, as you said, to build more reservoirs. They
Speaker 1: don't have any reservoirs. We've been paying billions, twenty four
Speaker 1: billion for homeless, the homeless problem out here, to build
Speaker 1: new residential places, see any residential places, guys, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's going to take a long time. We
Speaker 1: do everything like ridiculously long time, you know, in California.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's like here, it's as though you're you're
Speaker 3: your own worst enemy.
Speaker 2: You you.
Speaker 3: You have these proposals to fix or find some solutions
Speaker 3: to the wildfire problem. Not that they're going to be bulletproof,
Speaker 3: but you know, the fire breaks are a good idea.
Speaker 3: Cleaning out brush is a good idea. They do proposals,
Speaker 3: they have the money for the programs, and then the
Speaker 3: environmentalists come in and challenge them in lawsuits, which either
Speaker 3: prevent the projects from moving forward or delay them. It's
Speaker 3: the environmental laws that are on the books. You just
Speaker 3: you're just chasing your own tail.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, right now, I think what we are witnessing
Speaker 1: is the beginning of the dawn of a new anti
Speaker 1: woke era that requires competency and common sense. And anybody
Speaker 1: that could present themselves as the leader of competency and
Speaker 1: common sense, I don't care what your background is or
Speaker 1: who you are, that's the leader that's going to win.
Speaker 1: And right now, California, Southern California in particular. Is that
Speaker 1: a very you know, dire situation because of lack of
Speaker 1: competency and lack of common sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a demonstras.
Speaker 1: Start waking up to that. I'm the opportunity.
Speaker 3: It's always nice that there's an ounce of optimism in
Speaker 3: an otherwise completely horrific situation. Rebecca mens Or So I'm
Speaker 3: fingers crossed in prayers that you do all go in
Speaker 3: that direction. And then I you know, you couldn't convince
Speaker 3: me that hosting the Olympics is a good idea. Regardless
Speaker 3: of where it is. Most all of them end up
Speaker 3: costing billions of dollars in losing money. I see that
Speaker 3: seven billion dollars of taxpayer money has been set aside
Speaker 3: to host the Los Angeles the twenty twenty eight Olympics
Speaker 3: right there in Los Angeles. Is that something that's even
Speaker 3: going to be further pursued? And is it worth the
Speaker 3: expenditure of money to bring the Olympics the Olympians there
Speaker 3: at this juncture?
Speaker 1: You know, it's like this is this one really hurts
Speaker 1: me because I was really excited about the Olympics. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of Los Angeleans. We were really excited
Speaker 1: about it because you know, we had it here in
Speaker 1: eighty four.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but it's like we're.
Speaker 1: Bringing it back, and it was gonna be a really big,
Speaker 1: obviously huge thing. I don't know if we could still
Speaker 1: pull it off. I really don't. I mean, look, other
Speaker 1: places that have had terrible catastrophes have pulled it off.
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, Vladimir Putin built soach the Olympic
Speaker 1: for the Winter Olympics, like from scratch pretty much. You
Speaker 1: saw how horrible it was in Rio where they had
Speaker 1: to clean out crap literally from their you know, their water.
Speaker 1: If others can do it, and if China had to
Speaker 1: like change the freaking weather to do it, you'll recall
Speaker 1: remember the Beijing Olympics. Yes, I kind of feel like
Speaker 1: LA should be able to do it, But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I don't know if people will
Speaker 1: feel comfortable coming here after all of this. I think
Speaker 1: we probably will.
Speaker 3: There is there is that element, but you know, and
Speaker 3: it's isn't it funny? Giving the ironic and maybe you
Speaker 3: can call it that Rebecca forty Park company, But all
Speaker 3: you mentioned it takes ten years, and I've read that
Speaker 3: multiple times from multiple sources, about ten years to build
Speaker 3: almost anything but consider a house. But it's twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 3: four years fast forward. They're gonna have to build an
Speaker 3: entire Olympic village and all the facilities for it. They
Speaker 3: don't care about the environment when it comes to getting
Speaker 3: projects like that up.
Speaker 2: I guess, oh you noticed, Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I will tell you this is
Speaker 1: that when you got super rich people in palisades who
Speaker 1: want their house built, I'm kind of thinking that maybe
Speaker 1: would you know when these people say we want my
Speaker 1: house built, when you know the Barber Streisands of the world,
Speaker 1: suddenly they'll be built. Yes, I'm just kind of that's
Speaker 1: one thing that I'm thinking.
Speaker 3: You're not going out on much of a limb on that.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 3: Editor at large Breitbart dot Com find a Rebecca mon Store.
Speaker 3: It has been a real pleasure. Prayers to all of you.
Speaker 3: I know it's a difficult situation, obviously extraordinarily frustrating, but
Speaker 3: we do care. No one wants to go through this,
Speaker 3: and we don't want to see our fellow Americans have
Speaker 3: to go through this, So you know, godspeed. I hope
Speaker 3: they address the challenges you're currently facing today. Get the
Speaker 3: fires put out and start the rebuild process and people
Speaker 3: get their lives back together. I look forward to having
Speaker 3: you back on the show again real soon, Rebecca. Best
Speaker 3: of luck to you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much My Plan.
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