WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.799 It's a nice time with Dan Ray Ondulian Easy Boston's 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:05.440 news Radio. 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.480 Hid thanks a lot, one more hour to goo here 4 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:10.839 on the Dan Rag Show. Gary Tangleig feeling it for 5 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:13.880 Dan as you just heard. Been a great show so far, 6 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.320 awesome Show'd like to thank all the guests. We're enjoining us, 7 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.879 but we always finished strong here on WBZ as we 8 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.359 bring in my friend from the West Coast, he is 9 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:27.839 going to update us on the world. No pressure. Sam Metler, 10 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.359 Welcome to the show right here on WBZ. Sammy, First 11 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.039 of all, how are you and how's the family? 12 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.560 The family is good. But Gary, before we get to 13 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.799 the information, I just got to thank you for giving 14 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:47.679 me Dan Shaughnessy as my leading You know, why didn't 15 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:53.600 you just have Bird or Brady or Exoom, Paul Revere. 16 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.840 You know, I mean, Seannes is the last man standing. 17 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:01.799 He is he is the last you go to the Globe, 18 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:06.120 you get a shot in the article, Boom, you know, 19 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.439 he's going to tell you like it is. He takes 20 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.239 no prisoners. He's the last warrior out there. 21 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:17.799 Yeah. Well, there's one thing I miss about Boston. So yeah, 22 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:19.159 I mean we're fine here. 23 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:24.599 It's in details because the problem is, well, this is 24 00:01:24.599 --> 00:01:26.000 what I want to get to with you here. 25 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.760 We get a lot to cover. I want to get 26 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:29.519 to the truth. 27 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.159 Okaycacular failures, Yeah sure, yeah. 28 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.120 I mean you're on the ground, you're there. Is your 29 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:37.120 house still standing? 30 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.480 My house is still standing. And I you know, before 31 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:46.799 I complain like a jerk right about how you know 32 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.319 we've had to leave the house and how we had 33 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.760 no power, and I mean like that, that just pales 34 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.319 into in comparison to family that we have that lost 35 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.040 everything and friends that we've had that have lost everything. Gary. 36 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:08.719 Imagine if Wellesley burned to the ground, or a swamp 37 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:14.000 scut or Sharon, you know, imagine if these places just burnt, 38 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.879 you know, entire town just gone. And that's what happened here. 39 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:27.639 I mean, it is it's it's unimaginable, the devastation, and 40 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:32.879 it's just I mean, what we went through was like nothing. 41 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.120 I mean, yes, anxiety right seeing smoke because we're in 42 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:42.800 a canyon, right. La is separated. The city is split 43 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:49.479 in two by the Santa Monica Mountains and there is 44 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.199 the Los Angeles Basin, which is where you know, downtown 45 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.039 LA is in Hollywood and Beverly Hills and bel Air 46 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:03.599 and Pacific Palisades, right. I mean, all of these areas 47 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:07.800 are in you know, the city piece of La Then 48 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.879 there's the valley, and that's you know, people hear about 49 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:17.479 the San Fernando Valley, and it's where Burbank and where 50 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:22.960 Universal City is and where Encino and Tarzanna and Calabasas 51 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.840 and Wooden Hills are. And the most expensive and most 52 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.879 desirable property in the Los Angeles area is within those 53 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.120 foothills and canyons that separate the city from the valley. 54 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:45.639 And it is where you see the only green in 55 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.039 Los Angeles. I mean, Gary, you've flown out here a 56 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.680 bunch of times. It is it is flat, and it 57 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:56.120 is brown, right. I mean, even when you fly over 58 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.240 Boston you see green. Right. I mean there are trees 59 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.080 everywhere here, not so only in the foothills and the 60 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.719 canyons and the mountains, the Santa Monica Mountains. And of 61 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:13.879 course that is the area that is dangerous and that's 62 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:18.120 the area where the especially in a town like this. 63 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.079 I've said it before. I always describe La as where 64 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:27.399 the desert meets the ocean, right, right, And I mean 65 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.519 it's it's very you know, if you think about all 66 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:35.600 the old John Wayne movies right where it was chaparral 67 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:40.920 and tumbleweed and desert and canyons. That's what La looked 68 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:46.720 like before it was built up. And so this the 69 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:51.600 only green here. By the way, Gerry palm trees are 70 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:53.680 not indigenous to Los Angeles. 71 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:58.160 They ship them in, absolutely, yeah. 72 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.439 They ship them in. Then they grow them here. I 73 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.920 mean they do grow them, but I mean they are 74 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.160 not indigenous here. They can't survive. Well, they do survive here, 75 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.240 but they would have here otherwise. 76 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:12.000 Even well they can survive in Venice and Santa Monica. 77 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.399 Well they survive. I mean I guess that they've you know, 78 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.439 maybe have have have created a hybrid that works well here, 79 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:27.279 but yeah, they I mean they would not grow here naturally, right, So, 80 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:36.040 so Gary, the Palisades is the is the part of LA. 81 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:41.079 It's like a suburb that is in the foothills where 82 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:45.680 La really meets the beach, right it is. It is 83 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.319 just north of Santa Monica and just south of Malibu, 84 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:56.519 and it is I mean, nothing like this has ever 85 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:03.600 happened before in an area that so populated here, you know, 86 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.560 unless you're talking about you know, one hundred years ago 87 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.240 or more that there was a bell Air fire. I 88 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.680 think in the oh gosh, it might have been the sixties. 89 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:19.360 But it's still nothing like this. You know, these things are, 90 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.560 by the way, all of them, every single one of them, 91 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:30.439 are caused by humans. Right. It's either a spark off 92 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:35.800 of something, whether that be a mower or a leaf 93 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:44.439 blower especially right, or some kind of machinery, or it 94 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:52.560 is inadvertent folks making campfires. Maybe they're homeless, maybe they're 95 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:59.519 camping and they don't know how dangerous it is. Or 96 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:05.639 there's arson, and those are really the causes of the 97 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:11.279 fires here and they haven't found out what it was, 98 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:13.879 and they probably will, by the way, because they're excellent 99 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:18.759 at investigating these things. But the yeah, it was a 100 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:27.240 spectacular failure of government and of allocating funds to the 101 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:36.199 correct resources. But listen, I mean, going to the inauguration 102 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.639 of the President of Ghana is very important for the 103 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:46.160 mayor of l A, you know, it is it's required 104 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:51.040 attendance for the mayor of la to leave a city 105 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:57.680 to go to an African inauguration, just before she is 106 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:05.800 warned that there is a very dangerous fire condition happening. 107 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:11.920 And plus Gary she promised when she was running that 108 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:16.439 she would not travel out of the country. She's broken 109 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.800 this promise four times. 110 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:22.040 Why make the promise? 111 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:29.120 Well, because this is what she did as a congress person, right, 112 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:33.639 I mean, this is a congresswoman. They travel all the 113 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:39.080 time on these phony blogoney tricks right where they're treated 114 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:45.240 like you know, kings and queens. And you know, somebody 115 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.399 somebody just texts me, what about the wind that takes 116 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:53.240 down electrical wires that's in the same company as as 117 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:57.279 sparks off of a lawnmower. But yet that's another reason 118 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.879 that's human made. Somebody's already you know, someone's already given 119 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.679 me a hard time about the information they're getting from. 120 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.799 That means you're doing your job real quickly. 121 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:10.200 Yeah, yeah, what. 122 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.279 I don't know if you feel comfortable giving an opinion 123 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.440 on this, But do you have any idea or have 124 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.279 you read or have you heard what percentage of chances 125 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:21.159 this could be arson? 126 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:27.600 You know, listen, it's what percentage? You know, it's a 127 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.559 decent percent I mean like, but I mean. 128 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.960 Because here here's some of the folklore we hear back east. 129 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.440 You have environmentalists that want to make a point. People 130 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.600 are demonstrating. I mean, is there anything to that or 131 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:41.639 is that all just now? 132 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:46.399 Gary? And I learned this early when uh, you know, 133 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:52.799 doing uh programming on mental illness. Arson is a big 134 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:58.440 feature in the mentally ill uh. And it is really 135 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:07.960 about the this power and excitement of causing mayhem and 136 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.639 uh something that is that is huge and bigger than 137 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:18.600 than than one is and destruction and you know, very 138 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.159 rarely will you get I mean, certainly an environmentalist who 139 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.039 wants to kill all the animals. I mean that's silly. 140 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:29.320 So yeah, I mean this was not a political I 141 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:34.399 mean I highly doubt this was anything political. Right, was 142 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:37.720 it someone who just goes you know, who's who's out 143 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.879 of their mind? Maybe? Right? But but even that is 144 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:49.679 less is less often, uh less, It happens much less 145 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:55.120 often than someone who threw a cigarette down, Garrett. I 146 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.279 mean someone in Griffith Park here was playing golf, threw 147 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:02.480 a cigarette down, went to step on it and ignited 148 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:09.840 the entire fairway and his leg and it was so precarious. 149 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:14.480 And the issue here was, you know, and I know, 150 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:19.519 don't politicize an event like this, can't you do? And 151 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.000 both parties do it? Right? You know, when there is 152 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.679 you know, when there's a mass shooting, Democrats come out 153 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.639 and they say guns, and the Republicans say, how dare 154 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.799 you make this political? Right? And now with this fires 155 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:36.519 and you know, failures in government, then the Republicans say, 156 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:40.200 you know, this is the failure and the Democrats say, 157 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:44.000 how dare you to politicize? Both do it right? But 158 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.799 I mean, it's so important that this stuff doesn't happen again. 159 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:54.480 And there was enormous mismanagement from the water Commission. Here 160 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.440 there's a woman who is making seven fifty grand a year, right, 161 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:05.039 so you know, in the middle of fire season, as 162 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:10.360 the reservoir in the Palisades empty, there were hydrants that 163 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.679 were checked ahead of time. Now people said, oh, the 164 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.720 pressure couldn't take it. The pressure couldn't take these hydrants 165 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:23.960 were checked and were malfunctioning before the fires happened. There 166 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:27.360 was I mean enormous there is. I mean talk about 167 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:32.159 in cutting the cutting the budget. Now, seventeen million is 168 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.840 not huge, huge money to cut from the budget, but 169 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.159 guess what they needed more not less. I mean, I 170 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.559 don't know if you saw the footage of all of 171 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:49.399 the fire vehicles, engines and planes and trucks that are 172 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.360 simply grounded and stuck in a parking lot because they 173 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:54.879 can't afford to repair them. 174 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.000 Sammy hold, I thought we have to take a break. 175 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:57.919 We're going to continue in this. 176 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.240 Sam Metler is in California setting the scene in giving 177 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.799 us the facts on the disasters fire. We'll be back 178 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:06.879 after this on WBZ. 179 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:11.039 Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World 180 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.679 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio, Gary. 181 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.840 Tank Weave for dinner tonight and Sam Methlis a man 182 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:24.679 on the ground in California, discussing the fire situation. So 183 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.360 let's back up to what you were talking about, how 184 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:31.000 you have how it's been inapt and what I don't 185 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:36.600 understand is I look at fire. There's been so much 186 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:40.720 publicity about fires on the West Coast, natural disasters and 187 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:45.000 so forth, that I don't understand how the state of 188 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:49.399 California could not treat the threat of fire on the 189 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:54.480 same level as the threat of terrorism. 190 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:02.559 Gary. It doesn't happen like clockwork, right. It's not like 191 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:10.200 New England in the winter where you're prepared where because 192 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:18.159 we know it's coming right right this they Gary putting 193 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:28.080 money into fixing trucks and fire engines ain't sexy. It's 194 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:33.639 not going to be on the news where frankly, the 195 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.200 folks out here who are far too left are going 196 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:45.240 to sit and mop their eyes because someone has been helped. 197 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:52.320 And you know, Gary, I'm a moderate. I mean they're 198 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.639 they're you know, both parties have crazies, right and the 199 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.759 far left, the far left and the far right. 200 00:14:58.919 --> 00:14:59.960 That's why you're on the show. 201 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.279 Yeah, this, this, this city, and this state are far 202 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:10.960 to one sided left right, and you need a balance, right. 203 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:15.799 You need a bunch of you know, heard asses like 204 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.799 Republicans who say no, we're not going to pay for that, right, 205 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:26.000 and you need some Democrats saying, well, people are suffering 206 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.200 and we got to pay for at least this. And 207 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:39.159 both of them have to shut up and you know, 208 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.720 get this thing going again, Gary, They have not, and 209 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.600 this is you know, the incoming president didn't put it 210 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:52.279 too well, but they have wasted water here for years. 211 00:15:51.919 --> 00:16:04.200 Guess what percentage all of the residential usage, residents use 212 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.600 of water in this in this state? Right, what do 213 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:10.840 you think? What do you think is the residential usage? 214 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:16.360 What percentage of the total water usage residential? Yeah, I 215 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:25.360 got I would lower five lower, way lower? 216 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.240 Wow, Well, give me the number. I didn't think it 217 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:27.720 was out low. 218 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:36.320 It's it's under five percent. Yes, And the going agriculture 219 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.000 is enormous. 220 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:40.519 Oh, I get that right. Irrigation, irrigation. 221 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.320 You know how much water it takes to make an almond. 222 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:48.480 It's ridiculous, I mean it really, And and and then 223 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.000 there's the then there are the pet projects. You know, 224 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:58.360 Trump talked about the smelt, right, the government was wasting 225 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.600 I don't know how many millillions of gallons of water 226 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:07.920 to try to save the smelt. And meanwhile they told 227 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:12.680 everyone in Los Angeles to cut their water usage or 228 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.880 they were going to tag them with attacks. We're using 229 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:21.480 five percent, you know, and people are shaming some shaming 230 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.960 each other for watering their lawn or flushing the toilet 231 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.880 too many times or whatever it is. It's like, we 232 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.079 cannot we can't make a dent in the water usage 233 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.279 of California. Right, and all this time they were supposed 234 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:43.279 to be making a reservoirs and collection for rain water. 235 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.319 We had the biggest rains in I don't know how 236 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:52.160 many years last year, right, not a drop was saved. 237 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:58.039 So yeah, it was it was something. 238 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:00.480 So where does it stand right now? 239 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:05.960 Sam? The fires where Okay, it is twenty hold on there, 240 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.799 I have the number twenty seven percent contained. They really 241 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.920 like to see it hitting thirty five percent contained for 242 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.960 it to be really safeish. And that that doesn't mean 243 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:25.039 that there, you know, is still fire raging. Right. If 244 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.240 they're sixty five percent that's uncontained, that just means that 245 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:32.759 you know, they're embers and there's stuff and they you 246 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:36.799 know it's not it's not out completely right. I have 247 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.400 it got as close as three and a half miles 248 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:44.119 are south and three and a half miles to our 249 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.799 east right, and we just kept watching and watching and 250 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.480 it has not moved any closer in the last four days. 251 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.680 The biggest problem here is the news. Gary, New Englanders 252 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.839 wouldn't be able to stand for it. I mean it is. 253 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:06.000 It is horrendous the news here. First of all, the weather, 254 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:11.400 I hate to say it, the weather bimbos, Holy cow, 255 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:17.200 everyone is stacked like a brick. You know what and 256 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.880 they're reading off a teleprompter. Is that none of them 257 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:24.759 are meteorologists, you know, like Schwegler and Albert in the 258 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:31.160 Hey days, right, so they do not report where the 259 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:32.279 fire actually is. 260 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.240 Well, we had Daniel noise On earlier who from NBC ten, 261 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:37.839 who's meteorologists? 262 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:39.160 Yeah, I got yeah, I get it. 263 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:41.960 Well, it's like I want to know where the fire is. 264 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:46.000 Where is it? Okay, if there's sixty five percent that's uncontained, 265 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:48.640 where is it burning? You will not see the news. 266 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.880 Well I listen. Los Angeles news has never been I mean. 267 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:56.880 Basically, if you're too ugly to be in the movies 268 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.160 or be an entertainment reporter, I mean you go down 269 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:00.759 the list, you know what I mean. 270 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.359 Oh, yeah, that's that's the way it works in. 271 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:08.000 L A with with TV news. But so is there 272 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.839 a forecast? And when they feel this will be for 273 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.640 lack of a better term, put out. 274 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.480 Of course it's not. I mean they don't want to 275 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:17.279 tell anyone anything. 276 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:18.920 Well how would they? How would they know? 277 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:19.200 Though? 278 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.640 I mean, it's just going to go on for a month? 279 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:25.359 I mean no, I mean the problem is when you say, 280 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.079 is it going to go on for months? The conditions 281 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:36.559 are here, right, the places that burned can't burn anymore, right, 282 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:41.880 they're burned to the ground. However, you know, you get 283 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:49.440 these folks that watch and the lights in the tragedy 284 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:55.519 and the excitement, and yeah, I mean they listen, are 285 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:01.519 Boston's own Brian White, Jojo White's son, a Newton South alum. 286 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:07.240 He was part of a group that took down on 287 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.279 arsonists with a blowtorch who was walking. 288 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.079 Up in Yeah, I mean, my god, you can't even. 289 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:18.920 And you know they've got footage and this guy is babbling, 290 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:26.839 he's not making any sense. Wow. No, So it's I mean, 291 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:33.440 there's no there's no evil conspiracy looking to burn down 292 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:41.240 l A. Well do you else. It's like just like 293 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.200 Jews don't control the weather, like Marjorie Taylor Green, things go. 294 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:47.039 Well, we got to get to that. We'll good today. 295 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:47.480 Coming up. 296 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:51.599 As far as Hollywood being a business town, we know, 297 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.000 what's a show business town? 298 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:55.440 How long will that be disrupted? 299 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:03.559 Its depends where you live. I mean I couldn't believe 300 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:05.960 that I had meetings that were still going on. 301 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:09.160 I can't in Gary that is still going on. 302 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:12.400 Yeah, I mean Garrett, I mean, I had a production 303 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:17.640 company and they're lovely people, but like went on a 304 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:21.599 zoom with me, like you know another day. 305 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:23.000 Wow. 306 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:25.119 That surprises me because I thought the whole thing was 307 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:25.880 gonna shut down. 308 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:33.440 Yeah. Well, I mean I mean Susie works in Brentwood, right, Yeah, 309 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:34.799 she went into work. 310 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:38.880 Yeah, gotta get it done. Got it as they say 311 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:40.680 back here, Sam, got to make the donuts. 312 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:41.400 Okay ye. 313 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.440 Coming up next, the Week in Politics with Sam Medler 314 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.559 and WBZ. 315 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:52.759 Night Died Dan Ray on WBZ Bostin's news radio. 316 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.160 Welcome Back, wrapping up the Dan Dan Ray program Here 317 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:00.799 on WBC Sam Medler joining us from the West Coast. Okay, Sam, 318 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.160 have you been fought following the cabinet hearing this week? 319 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:05.119 A little bit? 320 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:08.079 See, I think I figured you'd be glued. I think 321 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:09.599 he'd be I think he'd be all over it. 322 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:16.759 Listen, heg Seth is out of his depth and he 323 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:23.920 is no defense secretary. I think he's a very very 324 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:31.359 poor choice. Versus Oh my goodness, Uh, she was a 325 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:39.359 g in in Florida, BONDI. Uh, she is very very qualified, 326 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:47.799 uh to be attorney general. So those are those two. 327 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:54.720 I mean, listen, Marco Rubio is I think has the 328 00:23:55.519 --> 00:24:01.599 gravitas on the brain and uh yeah to be Secretary 329 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:08.079 of State. I just the thing is, it's now because 330 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:14.119 they hate Trump so much, right they and uh, it's 331 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:18.319 just gonna be trying to make everybody look stupid, foolish. 332 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:23.759 Used to be these these used to be rubber stamp scary, right, 333 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:31.519 and then came uh, Bork, and then came Clarence Thomas 334 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:39.480 and you know, and Kavanaugh, and it became just back 335 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:43.039 and forth. Okay, you don't like our guy, we're gonna 336 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:48.599 pummel your guy. And you know, most all of these 337 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:55.000 people are plenty, plenty qualified, even if you don't like 338 00:24:55.079 --> 00:25:01.440 their politics. I would say that hag Seth is the one, 339 00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:04.359 the one outlier. I just I think he's. 340 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:05.759 Kind of an important position. 341 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.759 Yeah you think, I mean it. Listen, it's not Defense secretary. 342 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:14.839 Excuse me, it's not secretary of State, right, but yeah, 343 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.960 I mean, I just I can't imagine him telling a 344 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:25.640 general what to do, right, I mean this guy, I mean, 345 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:33.720 he doesn't have the military resume to be defense secretary. 346 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:39.759 Well, you have to have the respect of the troops, yeah, 347 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.440 I mean, you have to know that they have your. 348 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:46.839 Bad Actually you don't have to, by the way, you 349 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:51.880 don't have to, but it would help. Well. 350 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:55.119 Yeah, I mean, but I think that whether it's respect 351 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:57.759 or fear or however you want to look at it, 352 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:00.680 there needs to be some leadership there. 353 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:04.720 Well. I think, by the way, I mean, I do 354 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:09.319 think that the troops are pro Trumpers, and I do 355 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:17.240 think that they will follow the lead of whomever he 356 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:20.640 picks to be that I think. 357 00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:23.240 They will too. But I think they will. Do you 358 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:24.839 think he'll go? Do you think he'll be endorsed? You 359 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:25.559 think it'll happen? 360 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:32.440 I mean, I don't think the Democrats have really much 361 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:38.640 heft for cards to play here, right, I mean, I just, 362 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:43.400 I just I don't think they do. I mean, it's 363 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:48.799 it's tough. I mean, they were so severely beaten and 364 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.279 now of course people try to tell you, well, they 365 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:54.119 weren't really, and yes they were. 366 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.480 I mean, listen that and that that was going to 367 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:01.039 be My next point is while the Democrats in Washington 368 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:05.480 can stamp their feet and scream and so forth. You know, 369 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:10.440 I just think about I just whenever anybody's when Trump 370 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:14.000 says something and you just shake your head and what 371 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.240 what excuse me? 372 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:15.880 You know what? 373 00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:19.400 Like I mean, the whole global warming thing? Whatever he says, 374 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.240 there's no global warming, Like, look, there's something we know. 375 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:23.160 We have to take care of them. 376 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:23.480 Vib it. 377 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:24.440 It's like anything else. 378 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:27.000 It's not as it's probably not as bad as everyone 379 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:28.960 says it is, but there's definitely something. 380 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:32.400 There by the way, we missed out on cash. Betal 381 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:37.359 West is a nut and I don't trust him, you know, 382 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:43.240 at any kind of lawn in any law enforcement agency. 383 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.559 But the other thing I say is, you say Trump 384 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:56.279 will will say things that are terrible, and you scratch 385 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.079 your head. But I gotta tell you looking at and 386 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:04.720 the ceasefire is not a it's not a done deal. 387 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:11.680 But I will tell you that Joe Biden and should 388 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.559 not be taking credit for this. 389 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.359 This deal, well, Sam, is similar to this. Can I 390 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.880 make the comparison because I wondered about this too. I 391 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.480 think you remember when the hostages were released after Carter. 392 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:27.000 You're talking about Iran? 393 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:27.759 Yeah, Iran. 394 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:31.960 The hostages from Iran were released after Carter lost the presidency. 395 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:36.559 As soon as Reagan was inaugurated, the hostages. 396 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:38.839 Were on a plane. Is this a similar situation? 397 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.759 Uh? Yeah, But why do you think that is? I 398 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:53.480 mean absolutely, I mean Trump Trump said if the hostages 399 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.240 aren't released by the time I take off, as they 400 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.440 will be hell to pay, right, And you know what 401 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:04.119