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Speaker 1: is a Tuesday morning, February the fourth, yesterday was and
Speaker 1: I think also Sunday was a day without immigrants. Now
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice it, and this was a demonstration
Speaker 1: to show the United States how valuable immigrants. Read also
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants are and I'm of the ilk they are.
Speaker 1: You know, without illegal immigrants, without illegal migrants are well,
Speaker 1: the agricultural industry would just collapse. It's construction today in
Speaker 1: southern California is I don't know what percentages of illegal migrants.
Speaker 1: It's huge. And I talked to contractors, I talked to
Speaker 1: business people, and it is just very very rough doing business.
Speaker 1: Incredibly valuable, more valuable in terms of industry than they
Speaker 1: are not now in terms of socially. Do they cost more?
Speaker 1: Do they not cost more? And there's arguments all over
Speaker 1: the place. Now it is now very tough to be
Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant in this country, very very tough, because
Speaker 1: we have it was always somewhat difficult, but today under
Speaker 1: this new administration and the President ran on the anti
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant that was one of his major selling points.
Speaker 1: And he got it. I mean, he was able to
Speaker 1: get the nerve of America because we as Americans do
Speaker 1: not like illegal immigrants, illegal immigration. We don't like it.
Speaker 1: We don't think it's fair. The rules aren't being followed
Speaker 1: in terms of coming in this country. Oh, they're not
Speaker 1: committing any crimes. Well they did. They're living in this
Speaker 1: country illegally, which is a crime. See. A lot of
Speaker 1: the concept of the pro immigrant the entire movement is
Speaker 1: that it should not be a crime to come into
Speaker 1: this country. It really is not a crime. That we
Speaker 1: should have open borders. Well, welcome to reality. So now
Speaker 1: you have millions of people, hopefully millions of people throughout
Speaker 1: the country who didn't go to work. A day without immigrants,
Speaker 1: all right, and they're trying to analogize it. A day
Speaker 1: without immigrants is a day where you don't get work,
Speaker 1: where things aren't being done, where somehow our economy stops
Speaker 1: to it just shuts down. Well, a day without immigrants
Speaker 1: basically came up to be a day without immigrants for
Speaker 1: a pretty limited number of businesses. No big deal. I'm
Speaker 1: going to shut down the one to one freeway a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. Wait it, good for them, because
Speaker 1: that really is going to help their position. Because if
Speaker 1: I had any kind of pro illegal immigrant feelings and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there for four hours on the freeway because
Speaker 1: of a demonstration, boy, that's going to make me feel
Speaker 1: even stronger about being on their side. Also, I'm watching
Speaker 1: some video of these demonstrations by the thousands of people
Speaker 1: that are demonstrating. I don't see one American flag. Now,
Speaker 1: it could be that that's simply the video that the
Speaker 1: media outlet is showing, But even the liberal media is
Speaker 1: showing these people by the thousands without one American flag.
Speaker 1: It's all Mexican flags. It's all Mexican flags. And here's
Speaker 1: the question. If you like Mexico so much, go why
Speaker 1: are you arguing here? I mean, if you want to
Speaker 1: stay in America, at least have the brains to put
Speaker 1: up American flags and say we want to be here.
Speaker 1: America is where we want to work. America is where
Speaker 1: we want to be able to take advantage of the
Speaker 1: opportunities which do not exist in Mexico. Mexican flags. What
Speaker 1: do they think which pr genius came up with this?
Speaker 1: Here's the story. If you remember a bunch of years ago,
Speaker 1: there was the million person march, and we're not talking
Speaker 1: about the million man march for African Americans. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the million person march in favor of Hispanics, illegal Hispanics,
Speaker 1: same philosophy. But this was a huge demonstration and it
Speaker 1: was all Mexican flags. I mean, among tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of people, maybe saw one American flag. And my housekeeper, Maria,
Speaker 1: went to that march and I said to her, I says,
Speaker 1: I go, Maria, you can do anything you want on
Speaker 1: the weekends. This she took off the day without my permission,
Speaker 1: you know, without asking can I take the day off?
Speaker 1: Which I probably would have given her anyway. And she
Speaker 1: went down there and marched, and I said, you ever
Speaker 1: do that again on my time, you are fired. And
Speaker 1: she looked at me with eyes a little bit bright,
Speaker 1: and I said, now, let's have a reality check, Maria.
Speaker 1: My kids are in private school, so they're not affected
Speaker 1: about as to how many illegal aliens come into this country.
Speaker 1: They're not affected at all. Talk about your grandkids who
Speaker 1: go to public school, and the schools are not allowed
Speaker 1: by law to ask whether someone is legal or not legal,
Speaker 1: because every kid who is in the United States is
Speaker 1: entitled free public education through high school. So now you
Speaker 1: guys are out there marching by the tens of thousands,
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, and you're demanding that there's no such
Speaker 1: saying as illegal immigration, that people should be here, no
Speaker 1: matter what I said. So, my kids have twenty eight
Speaker 1: children in the school room. How many kids you think
Speaker 1: are going to be in the school room that your
Speaker 1: grandchildren are in forty fifty Because there are so many
Speaker 1: children that are coming in over the border and they
Speaker 1: have to be able to go to school. That's the law.
Speaker 1: So what do you think that's going to cost your
Speaker 1: family in terms of the education? And she sat and
Speaker 1: thought about it. She became the most anti illegal immigration
Speaker 1: person out there. Damn it. No, keep them out, keep
Speaker 1: them out, all right. We're still talking about we will
Speaker 1: for a very long time. We're in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: the Eton and the Palisades fire, as well as other
Speaker 1: fires out there, the two big ones that destroyed over
Speaker 1: ten thousand homes and businesses. I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: completely crazy, and a lot of the blame is we're
Speaker 1: looking around to see who to blame. Was it Edison
Speaker 1: and was that a spark that caused the first part
Speaker 1: of the fire was at Arcis the start of the fire.
Speaker 1: The fire could have been put out if there was
Speaker 1: enough water pressure, if that reservoir in the Palisades had
Speaker 1: water and wasn't empty at the time, if the fire
Speaker 1: department had anticipated and put firefighters in front of the fire.
Speaker 1: Or is it, for the most part kind of impossible
Speaker 1: to put blame or at least the level of these
Speaker 1: fires because winds were going at one hundred miles an hour,
Speaker 1: and the experts, at least the ones I quoted, said,
Speaker 1: there is no way on God's Earth that any fire
Speaker 1: department anywhere in the world could have successfully fought this fire.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of those once in a
Speaker 1: thousand years events where it was that dry and the
Speaker 1: winds were that powerful. So one of the accusations was,
Speaker 1: and it was true, there wasn't enough water. There wasn't
Speaker 1: enough water pressure, especially up in the higher parts of
Speaker 1: the Palisades. So the President put a lot of blame
Speaker 1: on Newsom and the bear of the fire departments. There
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. And what he did is he ordered the
Speaker 1: US Army Corps of Engineers to open two dams last
Speaker 1: Friday in central California, letting in over two billion gallons
Speaker 1: of water flow out of those reservoirs, and this was
Speaker 1: with the intent to send water to southern California, which
Speaker 1: has been fire completely ravaged by fire. And he went
Speaker 1: on truths social saying, the water is flowing in California.
Speaker 1: Now you have enough water basically to fight the fires,
Speaker 1: and it's heading to farmers throughout the state and to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Yeah, we got a couple of major problems
Speaker 1: with that, okay, because if there had been that water,
Speaker 1: for example, if Newsom had ordered, well, if anybody had
Speaker 1: ordered that water to be distributed, would that have done anything.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. And here's why, because even this water doesn't
Speaker 1: come to Los Angeles, it just doesn't. What do you
Speaker 1: do with you need water, but it doesn't come here.
Speaker 1: And this is in reservoirs that are they hold extra
Speaker 1: water for a dry summer that's coming up, that's when
Speaker 1: we really need the water, and it's being let out.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is totally contrary to logic. This hurts
Speaker 1: far more than it helps. The California Department of Water Resources,
Speaker 1: the director said, there's no coordination or a little between
Speaker 1: the FEDS and the state and local water managers at
Speaker 1: this point. And she went and said these reservoirs were
Speaker 1: federal reservoirs. State of California wasn't even part of the decision. Usually,
Speaker 1: the state of California is part of the decisions as
Speaker 1: to how much water is let go. The State Water
Speaker 1: Project supplies water from northern California to southern California, including
Speaker 1: to La Los Angeles. Water supply comes from state reservoirs,
Speaker 1: partly from the Colorado River. It is completely separated from
Speaker 1: the water system that the two lakes. These reservoirs come from.
Speaker 1: Where the water goes is into the Central Valley, agriculture,
Speaker 1: large farms, nut citrus, grasses for animal feed. It doesn't
Speaker 1: come to Los Angeles. And so to argue that the
Speaker 1: fault is with the water officials, the fault is with
Speaker 1: how it is being managed in southern California. Read the
Speaker 1: liberals control at all because it's democratic city, it's a
Speaker 1: democratic state. Therefore, the fault lies with the water managers.
Speaker 1: And had there been enough water, there would have been
Speaker 1: plenty of supply in the Palisades. Here's the problem. The
Speaker 1: system is not made to bring up that amount of
Speaker 1: water in that amount of time. The fire experts will
Speaker 1: say there is no system that is designed anywhere that
Speaker 1: can supply water to that level, to that length of time.
Speaker 1: So what's happening on this one is, unfortunately, if it
Speaker 1: turns out to be a very dry summer, certainly a
Speaker 1: dry winner. We're in drought anyway. Even we've been a
Speaker 1: drought for about ten or twelve years. Even with the
Speaker 1: heaviest rainfall we've had in decades a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: that still doesn't change it because we'd have to have
Speaker 1: that kind of rain for several seasons in a row,
Speaker 1: which we're not going to. So what happens when we're
Speaker 1: short of water this summer because we won't have them
Speaker 1: the water in the reservoirs, We're going to see you sometimes.
Speaker 1: And this is not just Trump people do this. Politicians
Speaker 1: do this where they make decisions simply for political purposes,
Speaker 1: completely at odds to what makes sense, what's logic. And
Speaker 1: that's across the board. By the way, I'm making that accusation.
Speaker 1: Nothing is more important than getting re elected or furthering
Speaker 1: your political agenda. Nothing, all right, coming in a little
Speaker 1: offshoot story about the fires and insurance, good luck, because
Speaker 1: now you've got a real problem. Oh, it's did he RFK?
Speaker 1: Was he? Yes? He was confirmed by the committee, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's been approved by the committee on a fourteen to
Speaker 1: thirteen votes right around party line, straight down party line.
Speaker 1: So he is probably going to be new Secretary of Hies.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's nobody, nobody that's going to be nominated,
Speaker 1: no matter what qualifications at all, that will not get through. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, right now, it's a story about the fires.
Speaker 1: You think I'm going to do a story or two
Speaker 1: about the fires in the next week, two weeks, months, years.
Speaker 1: So here is the latest State Farm, State Farm General,
Speaker 1: the holding company we'll just call it State Farm, which
Speaker 1: is California's largest home insurer, has asked for an emergency
Speaker 1: rate hike of twenty two percent, saying that well, we're
Speaker 1: in a lot of financial trouble. Of course you are.
Speaker 1: And why who are they asking? How come they just
Speaker 1: don't raise their rates like every other business does. Well.
Speaker 1: We passed in nineteen eighty eight a ballot measure here
Speaker 1: in California, Prop one OZ three, and it gave the commissioner,
Speaker 1: insurance commissioner the power and boy this is powerful stuff,
Speaker 1: the authority to review a just reject proposed rate hikes.
Speaker 1: So there's no such thing as an insurer raising rates
Speaker 1: without the the commissioner saying uh eh, you know, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: now this one. I don't know how he's gonna say
Speaker 1: no on this one. State Farm already said it's received
Speaker 1: eighty seven hundred claims and has paid out more than
Speaker 1: a billion dollars, and it expects to pay out significantly more.
Speaker 1: This is the costly, costly, costliest natural disaster, certainly in
Speaker 1: southern California. Now, the companies also had already asked for
Speaker 1: rate hikes of thirty eight percent for rental dwellings and
Speaker 1: fifteen percent for tenants, and this is going to go
Speaker 1: in effect May one. And so this latest request, and
Speaker 1: they're saying it outright, I love this corporate language is
Speaker 1: necessary to rebuild the company's capital base so it will
Speaker 1: not have to further constrain the company's ability to provide
Speaker 1: home insurance in the state. That's corporate tac for. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go broke if you don't give us this raise,
Speaker 1: we are out of here. We are not going to
Speaker 1: have enough money to pay these claims. And also said,
Speaker 1: and I've been saying this a long time, it has
Speaker 1: lost almost three billion dollars over the last nine year period,
Speaker 1: and that includes gains from investment income. The insurance companies
Speaker 1: make a lot of money from investing the money, I
Speaker 1: mean a ton of money. So what they're saying is
Speaker 1: we lost almost three billion dollars state Farm over the
Speaker 1: last nine years including our investment income. And last year's
Speaker 1: State Farm financial rating was downgraded. For those people that
Speaker 1: are saying insurance insurance companies are making just money fist
Speaker 1: handover fist, and they're making a fortune, and that's why
Speaker 1: they're charging us so much, because they just are able
Speaker 1: to make so much money, it's not true. Course, all
Speaker 1: you need the insurance commission and say hello to hello
Speaker 1: and yes to everything, and when they asked for a
Speaker 1: rate cut or a rate increase, the insurance commissioner can
Speaker 1: actually get them rate cut when they asked for a
Speaker 1: rate increase. It's not just we're asking. They have to
Speaker 1: provide tons of information and backup and say here's why,
Speaker 1: and it's looked at by the commission and the commissioner.
Speaker 1: So State Farm has about twenty percent of the insurance market.
Speaker 1: Homeowners market in twenty twenty three, about a million homeowners
Speaker 1: has about a million point eight other policies too, But
Speaker 1: this is all about homeowners. It's this big, big stuff.
Speaker 1: So in March, the state farm last Mart's announced it's
Speaker 1: going to be renewing seventy two thousand home, apartment and
Speaker 1: property policies in California. Why well, reconstruction costs. Well, I
Speaker 1: was talking to some people last night. They have a
Speaker 1: very expensive home living in the Palisades, and they have
Speaker 1: insurance they had to get they had to get the
Speaker 1: Fair Plan because they couldn't they're running surable, They're in
Speaker 1: a high risk area, high fire risk area, and so
Speaker 1: they had to go to the California Fair Plan, which
Speaker 1: I'd explained to you what it is. It is a
Speaker 1: plan that is a plan of the last resort that
Speaker 1: insurance companies fund all of them. And it's only fire insurance.
Speaker 1: It's not liability, it's not theft, it's not flooding pipes breaking,
Speaker 1: none of that, only fire insurance. And it pays three
Speaker 1: million dollars total. Now three million dollars construction costs. Granted,
Speaker 1: that's very few of us have homes that would cost
Speaker 1: three million dollars to rebuild. Go to the Palisades, you
Speaker 1: have homes five six thousand square feet easily. And I
Speaker 1: was talking to my construction guy who did the remodel
Speaker 1: on my house, Polo, who boy understands this, and he's
Speaker 1: got a couple of homes that he's rebuilding for some clients.
Speaker 1: And I said, so, what is a cat to rebuild
Speaker 1: a home four hundred square feet six hundred square feet?
Speaker 1: He goes, no nice custom home like that is a
Speaker 1: thousand square one thousand dollars square foot to rebuild. So
Speaker 1: if you have a five thousand square foot home, that's
Speaker 1: a five million dollar rebuilt hard construction costs, and you
Speaker 1: can only get three million dollars. So what do you do.
Speaker 1: People lose their homes, They just they're done. They sell
Speaker 1: the land, get they get their three million dollars. They
Speaker 1: got a piece of land and they sell it. And
Speaker 1: if they have no mortgage, which a lot of people do,
Speaker 1: they take their money and they run. And if they
Speaker 1: do have a mortgage, they're screwed. So this is not fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're in some real dire straits here. I mean,
Speaker 1: living in California was expensive enough, but if you're a homeowner,
Speaker 1: can you imagine you just don't have insurance? My policy
Speaker 1: was canceled at the Persian Palace before I sold it.
Speaker 1: I mean just canceled. You know, they wouldn't renew. And
Speaker 1: I'm going, okay, so I'll get another policy. I couldn't
Speaker 1: find one. Finally I did after two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: I was bere for two and a half weeks, waking
Speaker 1: up in the morning knowing I'm not insured. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you how pleasant that was. So I ended up
Speaker 1: finding a policy for a higher deductible less coverage twice
Speaker 1: the price. That's California unfortunately. All right, good, I put
Speaker 1: you in a good mood. Now, I really want to
Speaker 1: put you in a good mood, very strong, good for you. Cono.
Speaker 1: That's the Arsonists theme song, Handle in the Morning Crew.
Speaker 1: It's on a Tuesday morning, February fourth, just having soda.
Speaker 1: So let me bring it up for a moment. What
Speaker 1: kind of a dirt bag you need to be? And
Speaker 1: I know it's got psychological problems to light things on fire,
Speaker 1: like to cause fires that you know will cause damaged. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little complicated. Uh. And a lot of
Speaker 1: them have mental problems. And when you have someone that's
Speaker 1: mentally ill to the point where they don't know that
Speaker 1: if it's right or wrong what they're doing. You know,
Speaker 1: what do I mean, what do you say about that?
Speaker 1: Here's the problem with arsenists. I'm going to go through
Speaker 1: it in a moment. What kind of people who does it?
Speaker 1: But when you have the cereal wildfire, arsonists and for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they light up out there in the brush,
Speaker 1: in the brush and they put an incendiary device. So
Speaker 1: that is the real criminal mind the ones that just
Speaker 1: really don't care. They're looking at it because it looks neat,
Speaker 1: or they're enjoying a sexual component. Not usually, not usually,
Speaker 1: but think about this, arsens happened every single day in
Speaker 1: the city. Now we're talking about dumpster fires, car fires,
Speaker 1: people burning garbage in alleys. I mean, it's yeah, a
Speaker 1: big deal. When you have a wildfire. It's described by
Speaker 1: one arsenist investigator is saying this literally has a serial
Speaker 1: arsenist the wild land cereals. Arsenists has the power of
Speaker 1: an atomic bomb at their fingertips. Think about that can
Speaker 1: affect more people in a negative way. For example, let's
Speaker 1: say the Palisades fire was started by an arsonist. Billions
Speaker 1: and billions of dollars of damage, and how many seventeen
Speaker 1: people die, and if it turns out to be an arsenist,
Speaker 1: then they don't know. So looking at a story out
Speaker 1: of CNN and talking to a fire and investigators for
Speaker 1: Ellie County Eli Sheriffs, as he explains her, no such
Speaker 1: thing as the typical arseness anybody. Everybody commits him for
Speaker 1: all kinds of reasons. Some people have psychological problems, deep
Speaker 1: seated ones, as you said. Others just want to see
Speaker 1: what's going on. They like making an impact. They feel unimportant,
Speaker 1: they feel like they don't count. Well, let's light a fire,
Speaker 1: and boy do I count now, because I'm the one
Speaker 1: that has created all of this, and that is insanely powerful. It's,
Speaker 1: for example, people who assassinated JFK. We're talking about Lee
Speaker 1: Harvey Oswald. Oswald who was just a loser his whole
Speaker 1: life and never got any intention. And one of the theories,
Speaker 1: and I buy this one, is he did this because
Speaker 1: he wanted to make an impact, He wanted to feel important.
Speaker 1: People are by far the biggest cause of fires, of course,
Speaker 1: we know that, and has to do with either accident
Speaker 1: or industrial like power plants, power poles going down. But
Speaker 1: arson is a big factor about twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: wild land or wildfires out there in the wild are
Speaker 1: caused by humans. And it's exacerbated now because we've got
Speaker 1: planet warming, dangerous fire weather, which makes it even more dangerous.
Speaker 1: And so let's talk about fairly fascinated. We all are
Speaker 1: by fire from when we were kids, right, we all play.
Speaker 1: A lot of kids play with fire, and some adults, well,
Speaker 1: let me put it this way, we continue to enjoy
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Fire pits, candles, beach bonfires, you know, people
Speaker 1: putting out cigarettes on each other during sex. What do
Speaker 1: I have that wrong? I don't know, I don't I know.
Speaker 1: It's just it's enjoying fire. But by the time we
Speaker 1: get older, we're sort of done with that. Well not
Speaker 1: with these guys, not at all. And according to the experts,
Speaker 1: seeing fire and the emergency response to fire, that's a
Speaker 1: big one is what turns these people on. And what
Speaker 1: is even more interesting is about twenty percent of arsonists,
Speaker 1: maybe a little less, are people in the fire fighting industry.
Speaker 1: We heard so many stories of firefighters who are arsonists,
Speaker 1: and I think about it, it makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: because if you have a proclivity towards fire, if fire
Speaker 1: is your thing, What a great place to be. For example,
Speaker 1: the priests, the Catholic priest and the holy issue with
Speaker 1: young boys. Is it a question of priests the whole nature?
Speaker 1: You become a priest to have sexu with young boys. No,
Speaker 1: it's just a great place to be if you are
Speaker 1: interested in that, because that is the climate that you're in.
Speaker 1: Same thing with arsenists. I'm actually I think I'm making
Speaker 1: the connection. If you are an arsenist and you love fire,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you go into firefighting? You get to see
Speaker 1: the fire, you get to be near the fire, you
Speaker 1: get to feel the fire for a living, and then
Speaker 1: of course you go off and do your thing and
Speaker 1: just light it up. And so we're going to find out,
Speaker 1: you know, Arson is being investigated big time. All right,
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