WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:05.400 What's happening out in California, man, Because somehow that got 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:10.439 even much more incredibly worse, sadly, uh than when we 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:12.599 were done with the show yesterday. I believe the the 4 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:16.359 death hole there's so let's try to do it straight. 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.399 It said, well he gets the water there we go, 6 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.600 all right, So I believe the death toll is five now, uh, 7 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.719 probably it's going to be higher. Some of the visuals, 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:35.000 you know. One of one of the things that is 9 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.439 great but also is able, I want to say, I 10 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:43.880 don't want to be used for bad but used to 11 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.920 make a point and really drive a point home, is 12 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.520 is the ability to side by side these pictures of 13 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:58.479 devastation with like Google Earth street View photos and and 14 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.640 and see what these neighborhoods, these business districts, the It's 15 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.920 crazy because the Pacific Palisades Mall, which somehow survived, is 16 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:12.400 really famous. The Pacific Palisades Mall. If you go on 17 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.079 like IMDb and you look at like where it's a 18 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:21.719 filming location for stuff, it's everywhere. I think they used 19 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:24.280 they I think they used the Palisades Mall for Back 20 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.040 to the Future too, when they're out there in the 21 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:30.560 parking lot. But it's just and and it's just like 22 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.599 the fire just went around it. And I've been to 23 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.840 the Palisades Mall. I you know, it's one of those 24 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:37.560 things where when I went out there, I'm like, I 25 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.760 got to go to these different spots for movies and stuff. 26 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.719 And so I did do the little nerdy tourism thing 27 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:46.200 just driving around La uh, you know, being a kid 28 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.599 from Lowman, it was pretty fascinating. And it's all gone. Man, 29 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.480 it's all gone. And again it's easy to say, well, 30 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.079 it's California. I don't get me wrong. From a leadership perspective, 31 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.640 We're going to do a bunch of that today. We're 32 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.280 gonna do a bunch of that today because it's it's 33 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.719 even more atrocious than when we last left it. They 34 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.439 were trying to ask questions of the mayor, who's over 35 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.599 in Ghana. Remember she's over in Ghana for the new 36 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:16.400 president's getting inaugurated. She's doing some like going back to 37 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.080 does she run around there like a middle aged white 38 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.639 dude from Boston landing in Dublin for the first time, right, 39 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.599 going to one of those ancestry centers. I'm home, which 40 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.599 is fine, go ahead and do that. Unfortunately, you're the 41 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.120 mayor of a city that's on fire right now and 42 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:34.960 being being devastated, and there's a lot of problems, and 43 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:39.479 so reporters obviously are there because you have the guiness 44 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.680 is a guines Ghani's I don't know how you say 45 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.639 it in mass but the new president of Ghana. So 46 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.840 there's reporters over there and they're trying to ask her 47 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:54.199 about it, and she's standing there, not speaking, just stoneface, 48 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:58.639 staring at him, clearly not willing to answer questions about 49 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.919 what's going on over there. Now she did answer some, 50 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:07.000 but not in a random environment, and you know, little 51 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.280 nuggets start coming out, like how she diverted seventeen sixteen 52 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:16.240 and a half million dollars that literally was the money 53 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.879 for fire preparation and for the fire department, but specifically 54 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.680 allocated for the maintenance side of it, which is things 55 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.599 like making sure the hydrants have enough water source and 56 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:30.319 are in proper working order. She diverted that to pay 57 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.080 for all of the illegal immigrant stuff. And obviously she's 58 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.039 allocated a lot more money, but that was directly pulled 59 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.719 months ago from the LA Fire Department's budget. So you 60 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.919 have that, you have Newsom who's now said, Wow, it's 61 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.000 the local people. You have the local media in Los 62 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:56.000 Angeles who were watching their own city burn again but 63 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.120 now in a much more insane and draving and fashion, 64 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:06.560 who are literally there running running interference for people who 65 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:14.159 might be critical. Rick Caruso was the runner up, if 66 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.759 you will, for the mayor of Los Angeles. And he's 67 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.120 a big developer. He's a billionaire. He's a super rich guy. 68 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.160 But he's a guy who obviously has some pretty good 69 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.439 management skills. He's not some conservative, by the way, get 70 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.360 that out of your head. But he's also not a 71 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.240 lunatic at least from what I've seen of him. Like Bass, 72 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.959 he would be kind of a be a California moderate 73 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:42.839 if you will. And and so he's getting a lot 74 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.519 of time because he talked about this stuff. He talked 75 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:49.360 about it during the campaign. He talked about how yeah, 76 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.680 he talked about how poorly managed things are, and he 77 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.519 wanted to bring his business acuum and his management skills, which, 78 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.720 by the way, being a developer in California has got 79 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:02.600 to be a bureaucrat nightmare of all nightmares. And you 80 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.920 better have pretty good management style if you want to 81 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.839 get stuff done and be profitable, and I want you 82 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.439 to listen to this. So you have this anchor there 83 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.519 from is it KLA, well anyway, one of the local ones, 84 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.920 and he's given a little report and he is playing 85 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.720 audio from Caruso being interviewed by one of their reporters, 86 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:32.279 and Caruso makes a statement that they're out of water. 87 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.319 You know the thing that yesterday while we were still 88 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.199 on the air, there were already reports coming out of 89 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.160 So Caruso says that it's part of the interview, and 90 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.160 the anchor at KTLA decides he's going to go ahead 91 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:50.279 and fact check the dude live on the air, and 92 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:54.120 then goes to a reporter who's literally standing there in Palisades, 93 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.759 Pacific Palisades, And I just want you to hear this 94 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:02.480 whole thing because it takes a team. Okay, it takes 95 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:09.279 a team. And well here we go, all right, So 96 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:10.199 check this out. 97 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.439 Form rate eller, excuse me? Former LA mayoral candidate and 98 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.160 real estate developer Rick Caruso, criticizing the city's response to 99 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.879 the winstorm and fires, He says officials should. 100 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:22.480 Have been Oh, by the way, you have to let 101 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.360 me and you have to know this. The talking points 102 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:30.920 are out and I heard them implement it almost immediately 103 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:35.120 on CNN and others. The fire is from climate change. 104 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.040 The scale of it is beyond anything that anyone could 105 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.959 have imagined. They're essentially trying to western North Carolina. The thing, 106 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.360 you know, like the people of Asheville should have expected 107 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.839 to be under twenty feet of water. No Californians expect 108 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.079 that when fire breaks out, it's going to be a problem, 109 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:57.959 especially with San Ana wins this time of the year, 110 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.199 so the time when it's the driest of the time, 111 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.519 when it's the windiest. So this is not like western 112 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.720 North Carolina. But but that is it. None None of 113 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:10.800 the people in charge, they couldn't have they couldn't have 114 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.519 fathomed this. They hold no responsibility. It's climate change. There's 115 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.480 nothing we could do, everyone's evil whatever. So those are 116 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:23.160 the talking points absolving them of responsibility. So that's what 117 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.000 this anchor is going to go ahead and try to do. 118 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:26.079 Get more prepared. 119 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:31.240 The real issue to me is twofold. We've had decades 120 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.120 to go remove the brush in these hills that spread 121 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.959 so quickly. And the second is you've got to have water. 122 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.319 And my understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in 123 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.120 time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants gone. 124 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.639 So that's a failure, whether I'm DWP's part or another 125 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.560 city agency. But this is basic stuff. This isn't high 126 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.639 science there, and it's all about leadership and management that 127 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:02.199 we're seeing a failure of and all of these residents 128 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.120 are paying the ultimate price for that. 129 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:08.040 Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have 130 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.600 told us that they are running out of water. 131 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.480 Okay, all right, So which is weird because like me 132 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:17.920 doing a radio show on the other side of the country, 133 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.639 like I was already seeing these reports well before you 134 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.480 talk to Caruso. So that's weird that I would know. Anyway, 135 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.839 let's why do we throw to your reporters standing they're 136 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.279 in the middle of what used to be I don't 137 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.399 know somebody's home, and let's go. 138 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:31.600 Out to Gigi Gracie. 139 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.720 She is live in Pacific Palisades. 140 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.440 I know your signal's not the best, but Gigi, what 141 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:36.080 can you tell us? 142 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.039 Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on 143 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:44.639 this block, and you may be able to make out 144 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:45.879 the emberstorm that we're in. 145 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:46.840 The middle of right now. 146 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.120 This house going to be a total loss. 147 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.360 They have no water to put on this fire. 148 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.759 They are standing by because. 149 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.919 They're trying to stave the home that is. 150 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.240 Next to it. Absolute clown show, Absolute clown show. Man. 151 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.879 You fact check, you don't know what the hell you're 152 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.440 talking about, and then your own reporter fact checks you 153 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:19.200 within five seconds. Stand you know why because right because 154 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:22.080 she's because she's standing in the middle. It's undeniable what's 155 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.559 going on. She's watching it, and you're sitting there at 156 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:27.639 your anchor desk. You're a nice little cushy gig and 157 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:31.799 you're completely unplugged. And this is the same network whose 158 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.519 reporter didn't know who Steve Gutenberg is. I just can't 159 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:39.840 even with these people. And when that's not going on, 160 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.720 they're interviewing people on the street. And there's a lot, 161 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.360 a lot of interesting cats in California. Arguably California should 162 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:51.879 arrival Florida for just the sheer, weirdness and lunacy that's 163 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.000 out there. And I don't know, I don't know if 164 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.320 some of these people are screwing with the reporters or 165 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.399 what's going Listen to this, this is an interesting theory. 166 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.159 All right, you're ready, let's test this theory. 167 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.600 Yes, I can hear you. 168 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.679 So the family with a with a poor little girl who. 169 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.799 Is far opening right now walked about, why is there 170 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.159 a fire opening right now? 171 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.159 There are multiple fires that are taking place. 172 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm youthful. 173 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:19.600 You're supposed to know. 174 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:21.200 Well, I don't know how it started. 175 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.519 We don't know how it started. There, you know, all 176 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.200 the all the all the gay people in la. 177 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.399 Okay, I got the unacceptable. 178 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:36.480 What what kind of theory is that? Okay, let me 179 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:38.360 let me tell Ross. Would you do me a favorite? 180 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:40.879 Would you uh, We're gonna test this theory. Would you 181 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:44.200 look to see if San Francisco looks like Chicago late 182 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:48.200 October eighteen seventy one. All right, Ross is gonna check 183 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.399 to see if it looks like the great Chicago fire 184 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.240 but in sand because like under that theory, let me 185 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.440 just have to be a mule log. Let me check. No, 186 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.080 it's fine, Well it's not fine. Let's just be honest. 187 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.600 San Francisco's not fine, I mean relatively right, right. It's 188 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:06.679 the same drug dead that when we last left it. Okay, 189 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.480 So I don't know about that theory, sir. I don't 190 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:12.679 know that probably is probably is gonna be the leading 191 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:18.600 cause there. But okay, all right, so yeah, it's just 192 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:20.000 just wild times out there. 193 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:20.200 Man. 194 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.759 We got some more stories surrounding that. Also coming up 195 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.320 on the show, we will be reunited with our official 196 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:30.360 NERD correspondent, Stevid Kent. He'll join us. That'll be in 197 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.320 the third hour. We got Superman stuff to talk about, 198 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.120 Batman stuff to talk about. In fact, I'll tell I'll 199 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.279 tell you that the Batman story isn't advanced because's just 200 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:44.639 kind of crazy. Let's see, I don't know what's going 201 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.240 on over the Capitol. All the crazies are coming out there, 202 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.600 so we'll check in on that and uh, well, lots 203 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.279 to get to. I don't believe people are giving me 204 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:58.399 the proper way to say gunese peep. I think it's gnes. 205 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.840 I don't think it's the thing you say. Okay, all right, 206 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.279 not falling for that six ' nineteen Hang on with 207 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:06.919 the David Muir thing. As they pushed back, they said, well, no, 208 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.600 the reason he had an all clothes pinned like that 209 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:11.759 is so that the jacket didn't flat roun in the wind, 210 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.759 which is bs because one you can accomplish that without 211 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:19.519 showing a six pack off through a jacket. Okay, look, 212 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.120 it's it can be done. I'm able to hide my 213 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.440 six pack every day. Ross you ever see me wearing 214 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:27.200 something so tight there's a six pack showing through No, 215 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:32.279 So it can be done, David Muir. Secondly, none of 216 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.000 the other reporters did that. They're wearing the same jacket 217 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.039 you are. Uh. And Thirdly, where you're standing to anchor 218 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.960 your show, right, you're not just doing a one off hit. 219 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.600 You are outside kind of, But if you've ever seen 220 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.360 how they set these things up, there is a ton 221 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.000 of those light reflective materials. I promise you there is 222 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:58.080 a There is probably redirecting of wind because the air 223 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.360 is so bad where he's standing. And three, I don't 224 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.639 know if I necessarily believe he's fully outside and that's 225 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:08.480 not a screen behind him, But even if he is outside, 226 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.399 they have because the wind interferes with the audio and 227 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.399 the cables and the everything that's going on, the ability 228 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.320 to do an anchored show there. His hair's not moving. 229 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:22.519 Now. 230 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:25.320 Obviously he puts a lot of product in there, but 231 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.960 it's pretty clear that they have attempted to mitigate wind, smoke, 232 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.639 and sound for obvious reasons for broadcast purposes. So it 233 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.720 doesn't mean your jacket needs to be pinned. You just 234 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:39.080 look like a douche. Okay, you get our Douche of 235 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:46.159 the Day award. Congratulations, congratulations. So dude, some of these 236 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.840 anchors are absolutely puppets, just puppets, man, And it's just 237 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.519 like they're not even people. I know a lot of 238 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.600 news anchors, and I know quite a few of that 239 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.240 are not like that, but some of them are just 240 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:04.240 there's a reason anchorman is a parody worked, Okay, and 241 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:06.960 that's that's the vibes people are getting there. So now 242 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.720 I'm not not buying that. Excuse, get out of here 243 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.840 with that. All right, Let's check on just a couple 244 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:20.320 other things real quick, shall we. Okay, very good. So again, 245 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.559 prognosticating and predicting that this thing was under the right 246 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.879 conditions going to turn into what we've seen here was 247 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:34.080 was not difficult, but was quite the political football. I 248 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.120 saw a bunch of people yesterday were running around talking 249 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:43.399 about Trump going to not well, I'm playing the Rogan 250 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.080 thing here in just a moment, because they talked about 251 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.399 this when he was on Rogan prior to the election. 252 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.240 But do you remember when Trump was talking about raking 253 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.399 for us and they and and rather than to look 254 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.919 up what that term meant, which I immediately knew what 255 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:00.080 it meant, all right, and I'm sure some of you 256 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.799 did as well. It's not just somebody going through with 257 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:09.000 the rake, but sometimes it is. But really it's it's 258 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:13.600 getting the dry, burnable brush. They're like, when I grew up, 259 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:17.480 if you wanted to log for fence posts, you could 260 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.759 go to near burn areas or burn areas, so burn 261 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:25.360 areas where they didn't they didn't take out the tree necessarily, 262 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:27.960 or areas where there's a lot of underbrush. They would 263 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.960 incentivize those to where bee where the logging permits are 264 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.320 because inevitably you're also clearing down trees because you don't 265 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.240 have to cut them at that point, right, and you're 266 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.519 going for fence posts. So not only do they get 267 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.000 like it's like the permit was ten dollars a day 268 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:43.879 or something, right, and we could make a lot of 269 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.639 money busting our butt for a day. It was grueling work, 270 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.000 but it was a good way when I was a 271 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:52.279 teenager where we could make some quick cash. Right, And 272 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.600 you go through and you do that and it's necessary, 273 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.159 and where it's not and where you have a lot 274 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.879 of downtimber from windstorms. The Forest Service goes in there 275 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.840 and clears it. That's what they're talking about. And they 276 00:16:02.919 --> 00:16:05.480 were running this report because he said he spoke about 277 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.919 it with the President of Finland or the Prime Minister 278 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:13.399 of Finland, whatever they have over there, and somebody asked 279 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.240 the President of Finley. He said, no, we didn't talk 280 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.039 about that. But the thing was they did, but the 281 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.480 way they asked the question. And we know this because 282 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:24.679 they taped them talking about it, and so that story 283 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:26.559 with the media turned out to be a lie. And 284 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.159 now years later people are bringing the damn thing up again, 285 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.879 and it's like, why are you fighting this. This is 286 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.279 where a lot of you live, Like this shouldn't be 287 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:39.039 a partisan thing. This should be an incompetence thing, and 288 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:40.919 you should be on board with this, and you should 289 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.600 understand what they talk about doing that, but the environmental 290 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:45.440 lunatics don't want you. 291 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:45.840 To do that. 292 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.440 They also basically, you know, the newsome was talking about 293 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:51.960 how proud he was for removing this big damn up 294 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.240 in northern California so the diversity smelt or whatever didn't 295 00:16:55.279 --> 00:17:00.279 go extinct, and it devastated the ability to refill other 296 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.320 reservoirs up there. They took a whole reservoir full of water, 297 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:04.960 pull the dam up, and let it all flow out 298 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:11.480 to the Pacific. Absolute lunatics, man, And you're running around 299 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.880 with a de bank story. That was a gotcha Trump 300 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:18.319 story from you know, six years ago or whatever, rather 301 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.359 than going, holy crap, everything I know is on fire? 302 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.880 Why is everything I know on fire? Just so you 303 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:25.839 can get Trump again? 304 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.400 They said we have no water. I said, do you 305 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:29.000 have a drought. 306 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:30.160 No, we don't have a drought. 307 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:31.599 I said, why didn't he have no water? 308 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.759 Because remember this is months ago he said this. 309 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.319 They said we have no water. I said, do you 310 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.599 have a drought. No, we don't have a drought. I said, 311 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:39.559 why didn't he have no water? 312 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.359 Because he's talking about farm Central Valley. 313 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.559 It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way 314 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.720 up north, more water than they could have use. And 315 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.599 in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water 316 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:57.359 up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and 317 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.599 millions of gallons of water gets poured. I could have 318 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.279 water for all of that land, water for your forests. 319 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:06.200 You know your forests are dry as a bone. 320 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.519 Okay, dangerous That water could be routed. 321 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:12.519 You know, you could have everything, not only dangerous. Billions 322 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:15.240 of dollars a year they spend on forests farret and 323 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.680 you know, there's a case with the environment. They're not 324 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.039 allowed to rake their forest because you're not allowed to 325 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.960 touch it. And all they have to do is clean 326 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.200 their forest, meaning rake it up, get rid of the leaves, 327 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:28.920 get rid of you know, leaves that are sitting there 328 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:30.960 for five years. And they'll certainly get rid of the 329 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:33.240 dead fall and get rid of the trees that are 330 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:34.000 falling at them. 331 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.440 Yeah, this is this is this is forest management, one 332 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.039 on one stuff. And what he was talking about is 333 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.759 he was talking about when he visited California. He went 334 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.000 with a bunch of farmers. They're in the San Joaquin 335 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:50.680 Valley and and one of the interior valleys, I can't 336 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.720 remember which one he mentioned, the other side of Fresno there, 337 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.319 whatever that's called. And he was he was taken aback 338 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.480 because they have If you drive through there and you 339 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.640 come out of the desert before you kind of drop 340 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.920 into Los Angeles, there's a ton of agriculture. The bread 341 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.559 basket of America is what they love calling the central 342 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:14.480 Valley the San Joaquin Valley there, and in many parts 343 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.559 that is the case. But there's a lot of it 344 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:20.960 that clearly has been tilled and planted before that's unutilized. 345 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:23.319 And he's talking, and he was talking about that sharp 346 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:28.319 contrast where it's what should be fertile soiled, nothing's being 347 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:30.720 planted in it. And then all of a sudden there's 348 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:32.960 a very small portion of the owned property where they 349 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.519 actually do agricultural work, and that's because they only can 350 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:40.920 have so much water. California. Also, there's a massive thing 351 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:45.920 that with a couple big agricultural operations, the almond people. 352 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.440 There's a family that's like the Almond Barns, and they 353 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:55.839 were so up in local government that they have so 354 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:00.440 much water rights that they've accumulated they hold on and 355 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.839 then they had like they then sell it at like 356 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.799 panic prices to people, right, So like they're making money 357 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.319 off the almonds, but they're making a crap ton of 358 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.480 money off the public water that they've somehow acquired through 359 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.880 sweetheart deals that they sell back to people who are 360 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:20.640 desperate because the government doesn't have any more water to 361 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.160 sell them. Oh yeah, it's I can't remember the family. 362 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.559 It's a whole it's like a constant thing out there 363 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.200 with this argument, and they wanted to but it's death 364 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.200 by a thousand cuts. And even if you go look, 365 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.839 it's the greedy almond grower family, which is that they're 366 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.759 super super rich a little bit, but how do they 367 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.599 get those deals because you and your cohorts, you elected officials, 368 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.519 allowed it to happen. You allowed it to happen while 369 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.240 you screwed everybody else over because they had a better thing. 370 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.599 I mean, it's it's the stuff that you hate about government, 371 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:59.240 just under a microscope at this point, and you're able 372 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:01.960 to stare right at it. And yet nobody. Everyone's just gonna, oh, 373 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.680 it's climate change and and you know, Trump supporters or 374 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:09.839 what I mean, whoever you're blaming. It's incredibly sad. I 375 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.279 was able to. I talked yesterday to my family members 376 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:16.359 that live in California. They're thankfully not near they're north 377 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.799 of the big Malibu fire there, but well we were 378 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:23.720 just talking about and and somehow my cousin said, it's 379 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.599 it's far worse than when I was there for fires. 380 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:28.480 He's just like he goes, you know, you have no 381 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:34.000 idea how bad it's gotten. And he was give me 382 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:36.519 some descriptions and some of the regulations and stuff, and 383 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.079 it's it's crazy. It's like, and here's the problem. If 384 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.079 you want to do everything purely the environmental way, right, 385 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:45.920 and you want to make it look as though the 386 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.240 land is untouched, then you're going to have to excommunicate 387 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:53.880 a bunch of residents. You simply cannot have the population 388 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:57.359 density that you have in these areas. If you're going 389 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:04.599 to want to leave the land untouched, you can't do it. 390 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.799 It doesn't work. And even over in the European Union, 391 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.319 where you know, arguably they might even be crazier on 392 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.160 some of this stuff, they themselves realize that there is, 393 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.720 you know, the whole the Netherlands, the whole of the 394 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.960 the hole where the main cities portions are, and the 395 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.039 expansion in the Netherlands is all man made. It is. 396 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.559 It is one of the greatest examples of being able 397 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:35.720 to control water for your advantage that the world has 398 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:38.039 ever seen. It's really impressive. There's a name for the 399 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:40.799 project and I can't remember what it is. But when 400 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:42.839 you look at what they were able to accomplish over there, 401 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.319