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Speaker 1: It's called the broken window theory. And if you're looking

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at the video, you're seeing a picture right now of

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a plastic bag and it is over the top of

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a button for a lit crosswalk in Los Angeles or

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around Los Angeles. My friend Chris Bray writes a great

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substack and he put this on his substack. And what

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does this have to do with the Los Angeles fires.

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It has everything to do with the fires in and

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around Los Angeles. Chris will explain that to us next

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with the help of Bulwark Kapital Management. No, you'restradio dot

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com and of course God Almighty, but.

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Speaker 2: Todd Herman show is one percent disapproved, but big pharma

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technocrats and Tyrn's everywhere from the high mountains of Free

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American Here's the Emerald City exime Todd Herman.

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Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made in These

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are the times to which God is the sad we

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should live. We continue to pray for the people in

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California first responders who are doing what they do so well.

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God bless them and protect them. Chris Bray joins us

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outside of Los Angeles, Chris, welcome back out, you're here,

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and I'm.

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Speaker 3: Glad you're okay, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you told me there's some people from idahof come

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down to help. I want to talk about that and

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are getting help from all around the world. But let's

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start right off with a picture of a plastic bag

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covering a button on a lit crosswalk, because this begins

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the tale of how you've been warning people about what

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happens with performative politics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I live in a city. I live in

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a little suburban town called South Pastena three point four

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square mile town. Remember the size of the town three

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point four square miles, about twenty seven thousand people that

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for years has been deeply engaged in the world. We

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have a climate action plan to fix the climate. When

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we debated our resolution condemning Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine,

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you know, the city council sent it back to staff

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several times to rework it to make sure the resolution

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was properly worded, so that the South Pasadena City Council

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spirmly rebuked Vladimir Putin. We had a resolution against bigotry

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in November of twenty sixteen for some reason, and on

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and on not you know, we debated a ceasefire resolution

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in kaza Ah. And all the time we've been doing this,

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things have been breaking in the city. And one of

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them is the city you know, a long time ago

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put in flashing crosswalk lights at crosswalks near things like

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schools in the library, and a few years ago they

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started breaking. And when they started breaking, they put bags

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over the buttons that said out of service, that people

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wouldn't mistakenly think that they could use the flashing lights

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and the crosswalk and cross and then once they put

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the bags on that said, oh yeah, this is broken.

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That's just what they did and it can't be fixed.

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It can't be fixed. There are these orange bags over

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all of these buttons that have faded because they've just

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been sitting there for years. And I see that all

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over the city. I see that in the streets. We

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have a bridge that cracked years ago, a concrete bridge.

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It's a pedestrian bridge, an old historical pedestrian bridge. And

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they put signs at the entrance to the bridge that

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say bridges closed unsafe conditions. That was two years ago,

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and they're the science sit there. They're not going to

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fix the bridge. They're not going to do the safety

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assessment of the bridge. They said they would do. So

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we're very very busy.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: The mayor of Los Angeles was in Ghana as the

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fire started. Yes, doing cultural outreach of my city, my

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three point four square miles suburban city. Several years ago

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did a jazz outreach trip. She led a city delegation

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to New Orleans to research the French Quarter. We do

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that stuff, but when things break, nobody notices, nobody fixes them,

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nobody does anything about them. I have a street sign

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near my house that points one way as Raymond Hill

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and the other way is Columbia Street, and years ago

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it faded so that it doesn't really say anything anymore.

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It's a green cline sort of what used to be

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the outline of letters, and if you squint at it

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really hard, you can make it out. But nobody's ever

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going to replace that sign. It's just gonna sit there blank,

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and it's it's uh, look upon my works the Mighty

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in Despair. It's the poem about the statue and the

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desert surrounded by nothing. We don't fix anything, we don't

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do anything, but we're very very deeply involved in gaza.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm glad that you are, because that's really

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helped over there and Adam Schiff, You're fine, not now what, Senator?

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have seen this, Chris Bray, but your fine Senator Adam Schiff,

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who may well read your your your sub stack and

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shudder and fear, he has come out and said that

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the reservoirs were in fact full, that it is apparently

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some no he did. He's on record this weekend on

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TV saying that the reservoirs were in fact full. And

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your Governor Newsom has said that in fact he didn't

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cut the budget that never happened for firefighting. So let's

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go through this, bit by bit by bit from the

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bridge to the bag to the reservoir, which I heard

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you say, and I've never known you to spread this

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information that it in fact was not full.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And as people started saying, oh, that's

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a lie, the reservoir was full. Let's establish the context,

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which is that when the fire started burning in the Palisades,

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there are three water tanks in the Palisades with a

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million goawns each, and those had water in them. The

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firefighters had three million gowns of water. There's a reservoir

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right in the middle of Pacific Palisades that can hold

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one hundred and seventeen million gawns of water, and it broke.

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There's debate about this, but the city has acknowledged that

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it broke at least a year ago, that the cover

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of it broke, so they drained it to fix the cover,

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and they haven't fixed the cover, and they don't know

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when they're going to fix the cover, and they don't

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know exactly what's going on with it. Nobody can really

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say what it means. But that was empty when the

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fire was burning, so the firefighters ran out of water.

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their garden hoses to put water on their houses. Pacific

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Palisades ran out of water and then it burned, and

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the city is saying the city had said for a while, oh,

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it's not true, that's disinformation, that the reservoir was empty,

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and then they acknowledged that the reservoir was empty, and

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journalists started walking. There's a guy from ft Financial Times

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who walked to the reservoir and looked at it and said,

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it is empty. Here's a picture of it. So there's

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all of this debate about whether or not that would

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Speaker 1: Whether one hundred and seventeen million gallons or even half

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of it or ten percent of it would have mattered.

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Speaker 3: This is debateable. Would one hundred and seventeen million gallons

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of water have mattered in a place where firefighters ran

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out of water while it was burning? You know, it's

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a really obscure point. Who can say water helps out there?

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There's a Millionaire's a guy named Rick Krusa who has

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built a bunch of shopping malls in Los Angeles, and

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he owns a shopping mall in Pacific Palisades, And when

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the fire started burning, he started calling for water trucks

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and he has private firefighters under contract, and he rushed

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a bunch of water trucks and a bunch of private

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firefighters to his shopping mall in Pacific Palisades. And this morning,

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and if you're from if you're from Los Angeles, or

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you've been to Los Angeles, Palisades, village burned, which is

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like Maybury RFD for rich people. It's a beautiful little

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sort of downtown area, like you're in a small town.

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a absolutely wonderful place. And it's gone, with the exception

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of Rick Ruso's shopping mall. And you know, people, this

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being Los Angeles, this being the land of shay Goovara politics,

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people started waking up and saying, are very very angry

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that the billionaire saved his property. But what the billionaire

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did is when a fire started, he got some water,

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and he got some firefire any spray water on buildings.

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know what an extra one hundred and seventeen million gallons

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of water would have helped.

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Speaker 1: There's there's instances, Chris, you've probably seen this, that there

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are families who saved our houses. One gentleman had a

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pool pump ready to go. The grandfather had said you

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got to have this. They're on video simply sprang out hotspots.

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Another guy refused to evacuate, stayed behind by himself, and

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he had a very similar setup. He said, all I

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did was at see a sparkland, I'd make it wet

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and in this entire neighborhood his these two houses.

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Speaker 3: Survey.

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Speaker 1: But you're telling me there's actually people debating whether this

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one hundred and seventeen million they're actually and do they

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actually believe themselves? Like what's that great phrase that JD. Vancy's.

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Speaker 3: Do they hear themselves? Yeah, google this up, look for this.

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There's a surgeon in Malibu. The fire burned all the

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way down to Malibu and destroyed beachfront houses. There's a

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surgeon in Malibu who was in surgery, finished his surgery,

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drove home, and he had been he had been thinking

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for several years that Malibu was going to burn again

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because Malibu burns fairly often, and that the government wouldn't

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be able to that the government was not well run

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enough to deal with it. So he started taking firefighting classes,

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and he bought turnout gearan he bought firefighting hoses, and

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he bought pumps for the pools in the neighborhood. And

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when the fire came, he said to his neighbors it's time,

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and they went and they started jumping water out of

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their pools. And his call to the sack of six

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houses in Malibu didn't burn, well, everything around them burned.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So but he's got to be some form of criminal.

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Speaker 3: Right, So think about this. I actually all of these

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they're all over liberal media now this week. There are

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all of these stories arguing, you know, you can't blame

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government because there's nothing anyone could have done. Fire is

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a force of nature. The fires were so big, there

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were winds, There's nothing anyone could have done. And in

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the places where like this surgeon fought for his neighborhood,

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Rick Caruso hired firefighters and got water and fought for

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his male and the places where people fought things survived.

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So so what is the role of government and what

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is the place of government? And a Los Angeles liberal,

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Karen Bass would tell you government is central to our lives.

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Government is a critical force for ordering our lives. If

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you question the power or the value or the role

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of government, or you try to limit it, or you

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talk about enumerated power as you're being an anti government extremist.

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Because government is very very important to us, and it

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makes the world more fair and more just in a

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better world. And also there's nothing government can do in

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an emergency because because you know, think done, how could

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you expect the government to deal with this? So the

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very core, the dead center. The the director of the

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which runs that

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reservoir that was empty when the fire started, makes seven

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year as a base

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salary to not fix the reservoir in the middle of

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the place that's burning that could have had an extra

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one hundred and seventy million gallons of water. So government

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is very very important, but don't expect it to help you.

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And I find watching the reading all of these articles

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this week about you know, there's nothing that could have

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been done. You know, stop with your your bizarre MAGA

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conspiracy experience about about such excusing water to put fire out.

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That's crazy talk. It's like watching a snake eat its

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own tail, Like what do you mean government is here

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to help you. Government is very important. Government is impotent.

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Don't don't blame us. Of course, government couldn't have fixed

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this incredible And I have said the personal experience I had,

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I not just describing to you things I've seen on

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the news or things that I got from other people,

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from talking to other people. A friend I live in

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South Pasadena, which is down the hill from the fire

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that started an Eaton Canyon and earned an incredible amount

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of Altadena and burned into Pasadena. I got a text

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message from a friend who lived in Altadena. We had

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a beautiful house there he'd owned for more than thirty years.

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And he texted me and he said, the house is gone,

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but I'm here. He's a sculptor. He bends steel to

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make giant steel sculptures, so he has an enormous studio

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in his backyard that he uses to do all of

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this metal work. And he texted me and he said,

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the house is gone, but the studio is still here.

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Can you come and help me get things into the car?

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And I drove up to help him, and I had

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a really hard time getting to him because the Sheriff's

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department was already closing off roads, and I kept running

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into roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, so I was having

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to wind my way through little residential streets, and I

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was driving through streets that were burning and houses that burned.

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I saw this burned to the foundation, and the foundations

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were still burning. The debris collapsed into the foundation and

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the foundations the debris and the foundations were still burning.

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I started seeing houses burn and people out in their

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yards where they still had water using garden hoses to

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try to keep their houses from burning. And no fire department,

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no firefighters anywhere, no fire engines anywhere. And as I

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got closer and closer, more and more buildings were burned,

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and again like a post apocalyptic landscape of driving through

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a place where everything is burning. There's no fire department.

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Everything that burns burns to the foundation. When I got

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to my friend's house, and you know, all of his

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neighbors to his right and all of his neighbors across

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the street were gone, and the house to the left

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was just fine. And I carry things out of his

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garage and his workshop next to his very old house

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that still has a basement, which not many houses, not

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many houses in Los Angeles do, but everything but his

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house collapsed into the basement, and all of the debris

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in the basement was burning. So we were walking past

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this ongoing fire in a pit, and all the neighbors'

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houses were down to the foundation but they were still burning.

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Everything around us was still burning except the house to

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the left, and we were there for maybe an hour

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loading things into the car. He when he got there,

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he realized there was fire at his studio was still standing,

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but there was fire in the walls because there was

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smoke coming out of the walls. Yeah, So he called

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nine one one and said, hey, you know, my house

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is gone, but my workshop in my backyard and my

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garage is still standing. There's smoke coming out of the walls.

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Can you get someone here? And they said, no, no possibility,

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We have nowhere near enough people to send you. And

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he turned on the garden hose. No water came out,

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but fortunately the fence had burned. So when he walked

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out of the studio into his yard, he could see

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his neighbor's pool and he ran over and got buckets

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of water from the pool, and he opened the wall

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with a sledgehammer and poured buckets of pool water into

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the walls and saved them.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, incredible though.

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Speaker 3: The experience of being in a place where everything is

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burning and the fire department isn't there. It's something I've

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never experienced and never imagined experience experiencing. But it was

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just a fascinating experience, just a surreal experience and the

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strangest thing I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And for those of us who haven't been that, I mean,

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I've been to Pasadena. I've actually been to that mall

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you talked about, and I'd loved to meet this surgeon

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you mentioned earlier, Chris. His name is Chester Griffiths, went

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out and saved his home and planned to be as

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a amateur firefighters at work because he knew what was coming.

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I want to ask you a real quick response on

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your assistant LA Fire chief, the woman who explained that

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the primary concern of folks when they are trapped in

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a fire and their kids are near to burning to death,

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is it you look like they do. So she wants

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to go rescue heavy, short haired lesbian women period who

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happened to be black, by the way, but not men

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our age who might be trapped in a building because

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that's our fault. Plus she's proud that she can't carry us.

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Is this going to be Chris, honestly, do you think

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this is any sort of mental breaking points that might

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actually have people reflect on their votes? In other words,

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could this red pill anybody in California?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's such and such a difficult thing to talk about.

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This assistant fire chief in Los Angeles said, people asking me,

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could you carry my husband out of a fire? And

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she said, if your husband is trapped in a fire,

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he got himself into the wrong place. We had a

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that's maybe twenty years ago at this point, a teenager

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who committed suicide in Alameda, up in northern count of

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California by swimming out into the San Francisco Bay and

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drowning himself, and people saw him doing it and called

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nine to one to one, and the police department in

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the fire department came and stood on the beach and

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watched him drown and eventually a woman who was out

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taking a walk on the beach stripped down to her

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underwear and swam out and dragged his body in. Because

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the fire department and the police department wouldn't do anything

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about it. Oh And as you know, I used to

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work for local newspapers. I used to cover fire departments,

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and I can tell you that every firefighter I ever

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knew would say that the ethic of the fire service

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is if you need us, were coming. It's very, very

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hard to get to a point where and I think

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in these fires that we just had, the problem wasn't

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that the fire department didn't want to do anything. The

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problem was that we didn't have enough firefighters and they

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were out, you know, frantically. The firefighters who were on

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duty were out frantically trying to put out fires, but

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there just weren't enough of them. The ethic of the

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fire services We're going to help you, no matter what

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it takes, you know, no matter how hard it is,

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We're coming. And so to see someone wearing a fire

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department uniform saying, you know, don't expect me to carry

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out of your house. You shouldn't have gotten yourself there, I think,

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is a replacement of one ethic with a radically different

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and incompatible ethic. Yep, yep. If people can't notice that,

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we're not going to fix it. Now the question of

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whether or not they can notice it. You immediately start

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getting I've seen this over and over and over again

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for years. Saw this during COVID. You know, don't be ridiculous.

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Of course, a mask stops COVID. Of course it does that,

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you know, Anthony Fauci says, so, so, how can it

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possibly not be true? You start immediately running into you

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start immediately hearing the phrase conspiracy theory when you say

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things like maybe if they'd had water, they could have

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fought the fire. Oh, you know, that's what you're listening to,

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these online conspiracies. I think. I mean, it's it's such

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a dramatic and astonishing failure. And Pacific Palisades. I did

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the math on this, about five percent of the city

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of Los Angeles, and we lost more than the Palisades.

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The fire burned a whole bunch of other cities, So

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we've lost more than five percent of the city of

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Los Angeles. If you lose an enormous portion of a

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major American city, does it force you to reconsider? Does

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it what or how much has to be destroyed before

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you're willing to say maybe we should think about this,

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and if if your status, anxiety, and your your feelings

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about you know, ultimately if you say the government failed

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on this, Gavin Newsom failed, Cam Bass failed, Democratic run

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government in Los Angeles failed, and in California failed, it

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means that you're one of these maga people. Maybe you

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should move to a trailer park and fly over the country, right,

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and as mentionings that are different than what it actually

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means in practical.

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Speaker 1: Terms, not to mention the racism involved and the racism

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and the bigotry. And I want to get back Chris

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to infrastructure with you and the website. By the way,

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Chris's SUBSCT is Chris Bray dot subsec dot com. Again,

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it's linked in the show notes. And I want to

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go back to something else you wrote about, which was

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this nasty warning fire that happened and affected some infrastructure.

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We'll talk about this with Chris Bray, my very favorite

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subseec writer. I pay to read his writing. I suggest

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you do the same thing. He's a journalist. We should

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Speaker 3: Balance that out.

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Speaker 1: So he wouldn't let me do that any other fun

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Trek twenty five's one zero three. Chris Bray is with me.

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It's Chris Braid dot substack dot com. And Chris, you

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wrote and took pictures of a very nasty fire that

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happens under a freeway. And this is shocking to anyone

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who's ever been in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle.

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But it apparently started with a homeless camp and some

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propane tanks. And i've people have seen you and others

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refer to this sort of as a warning fire that hey,

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things might get bad. So can you remind us of

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that circumstance.

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Speaker 3: If you look at video of the the Iten Freeway.

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But there's so much video of this on YouTube of

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the Iten Freeway fire in November of twenty twenty three,

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you can watch firefighters sprang streams of water over homeless

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encampments over tenths over these makeshift plywood buildings next next

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to the freeway, and there were also illegal storage yards.

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There were a bunch of junked cars and a bunch

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of wooden palettes packed tightly underneath the freeway. And so

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when it when all of that burned, the rebar in

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the concrete became unstable. It melted and reformed and became unstable,

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and I had to rebuild the under the uh, the understructure,

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the foundation of the freeway to keep it from collapsing.

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So the it In Freeway, the freeway through the middle

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of Los Angeles was closed while they uh, well they

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built what are called false works. I love that term,

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underneath the false works. Okay, and the same two idiots,

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uh you know it's it's it's so familiar. Karen Bass

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and Gavin Newsom stood on that freeway, on that closed freeway,

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and celebrated the good work they did rebuilding it. They said,

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you know what a what an amazing success. We've done

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an extraordinary job here and look how good, Look look

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how good we are. And I've been watching the press

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conferences like the LA County Board of Supervisors and the

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Los Angeles City Council with the fire Department, of police

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department leaders and the Sheriff's department leaders, all of these

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elected officials, and you can always watch my state senator,

478
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my new state senator always sort of gets her face

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in the frame behind there, and the theme with the

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fire burning, with houses burning. The theme of their press

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conferences was you know, we're doing an extraordinary job. No

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it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, no, they did not they wait, they did that.

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Speaker 3: Go to Karen Bass's Twitter account. Karen Bass, the mayor

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of Los Angeles. This actually really fascinates me. She posted

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a video yesterday where she talks about the scope of

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the disaster and the pain and the suffering and the

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grief sweeping through Los Angeles, and she's smiling an enormous, happy,

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warm smile and it's captioned, so I've taken a screenshot

490
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that says your grief and your agony underneath the smiling,

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the beaming face of a happy Mayer. Karen Bass The

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theme has been we're doing a wonderful job. So things

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just happen, right like bad stuff just happens. You can't

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expect anyone to put out a fire because it's very

495
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obscure how you would do that. And if the reservoir

496
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was empty, that's you know, what does it even mean?

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But now we're doing a very wonderful job, and it's

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important that we not blame and it's important that we

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not be negative. Now is the time. Karen Bass is

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very fond of the phrase link arms. We need to

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link arms, and we need to stand together. And if

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you want an example of how ridiculous that can become,

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while the fires were burning, the California Legislature convened a

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special legislative session.

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Speaker 1: Everybody stopped. Everybody stopped. Listen to what Chris Brey's about

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to tell you. Everybody stop, if you're listening in earbuds,

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if you're listening live, if you're watching later, if you're

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on YouTube, you stop and you listen and you look

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at Chris Bray tell you what happened in a special

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legislative session. Okay, Chris Sarf interrupting, But this has to

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be absolutely clear to.

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Speaker 3: People at the moment, the biggest city in California was

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burning with an uncontrolled fire that we couldn't stop. The

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legislature convened a special legislative session to budget money to

515
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stand up to Trumph. They created a fund for the

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Attorney General's office to sue Donald Trump and tie up

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his agenda in the courts. And then as the legislative

518
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session ended, Gavin Newsom and separately the Los Angeles County

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Board of Supervisors sent letters to Donald Trump inviting him,

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in a spirit of friendship, become fire zone so that

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he can help us when he takes office, so that

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he can help us with fire recovery. So the argument

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in California is that Donald Trump is literally Adolf Hitler.

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He's a fascist, he's a bigot. His election is the

525
00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:21,440
destruction of democracy. It's the end of our democracy. America

526
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:25,759
is now an autocratic dictatorship and democracy is dead and

527
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:32,079
Hitler rules. And also, come be friends with us. We'd

528
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like you to come tour our fire area so you

529
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can help us. So the rhetorical strangeness of people saying

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as the city burns, we're doing a wonderful job and

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I'm just so proud of how everyone is linking arms

532
00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,240
and standing together, and there's nothing. You know, government is

533
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,839
extremely important to your life, and government is central, and

534
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,920
government is about helping. And also there's nothing we could

535
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,000
have done about the fires. And also so we're inviting

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literally Adolf Hitler to come be our friend into our

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00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:09,240
burning city. If you look for any any form or

538
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:15,519
degree of logical order or sense or rationality in the

539
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:21,519
discussion that our elected officials and our media. But our media,

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by and large, although there were reporters, local reporters who

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did not do this, our media buy and large is

542
00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:32,960
rushing to say, Californiy's well, government, there's nothing anyone could

543
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,680
have done about this. Look for theses, don't, don't, don't

544
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,319
try to blame. I will say two moments. There was

545
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a reporter reflecting the moment I had standing in Altadeno

546
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watching an entire neighborhood burning. For the hour we stood there,

547
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,039
we didn't see the fire department. There was a reporter

548
00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:52,400
who said to Karen bass, the mayor of Los Angeles,

549
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,799
Mayor Bass, I stood in a neighborhood in Pacific Palisades

550
00:32:56,799 --> 00:33:00,839
for hours. I drove around Pacific Palaces with my crew.

551
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We personally watched with our own eyes as hundreds of

552
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,519
houses burned and we did not see a single fire engine.

553
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,519
Can you explain what happened? And Karen Bath said, I

554
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,440
don't think this is the right time for that conversation.

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00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: I saw Newsom. I saw Gavin Newsom attempting to blame

556
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President Trump on a podcast. On the same podcast, he said,

557
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now's not the time for finger pointing. This is the

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same Gavin Newsom who stood next to President Trump in

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a forest that had burned, and President Trump, a Manhattan

560
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,519
real estate developer, displayed more knowledge of how to not

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have forest fires than a guy who supposedly manages the

562
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biggest like eighth biggest economy in the world, was some

563
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,519
of the most diverse forests and beaches and grasslands in

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the world, and they're blaming him. I have to ask

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you about one interaction I saw. I'm sure you've seen this,

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,920
and we'll play this later this week and you guys

567
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,679
will see this, and let me ask you about this.

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00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:12,239
Senator at a second, Chris, someone this weekend did something

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really horrible at my house and it listen, it pales

570
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,360
in comparison to losing your house on a fire. Someone

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stole my magnesium breakthrough, So I'm looking for the person.

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We've got a seriousness of security cameras. I'm I think

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it may have been my wife seeking revenge on me

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for having woken rupted the night, and it might have

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been that she didn't know she's actually watching, so it

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didn't it wasn't her. Magnesium breakthrough is something I've talked

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with it. I don't talk enough about how it helps

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manage anxiety and calm people down. It does this by

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managing the stress hormone cortisol. It also regulates five hundred

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and ninety nine other body interactions. This is the thing

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I love about Matt Wade. Though they never stop improving,

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Bray and it's Chrispray dot substack dot com. A woman

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wearing a mask, and I'm going to give her the

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benefit of the doubt that she was wearing it because

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of this smoke and that actually is really bad for

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your lung, so I'm gonna give her that benefit of

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the doubt. There's Gavin Newsom who look great. He looked

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00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,039
really great, his hair was perfect, and there was a

607
00:35:54,079 --> 00:35:56,639
beautiful shiny black suv that didn't have any smoke or

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dust on it, and he was surrounded by a security personnel.

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And she came up very lightly using the honor effic

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governor knew some governor, May I talk to you please

611
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,159
and the security kind of stuff. She said, I'm not

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going to hurt him. I promise, I promise, and they

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00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:11,679
kindly allowed her to approach the king and he and

614
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,639
she said what are you doing? What are you doing

615
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:16,880
to help? And he said, I'm literally right now, literally

616
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,440
on the phone with the president, literally trying to get help.

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And she said, may I hear? May hear the conversation,

618
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because I don't believe you.

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Speaker 3: Catknew.

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Speaker 1: Some said, well, that's why I'm walking around and I

621
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don't have signal and so this the first words out

622
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of his mouth was a lie. I'm literally on the

623
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phone with the president.

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Speaker 3: Right now, and well, let me give me yep. Right.

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Speaker 1: Did you see this interaction?

626
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Speaker 3: I did? Okay, can you actually far off? It was

627
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,119
so painful to me to see it that I didn't

628
00:36:51,159 --> 00:36:52,760
make it through the whole. It's like a minute and

629
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a half and I made about thirty seconds and and

630
00:36:56,559 --> 00:37:00,559
just couldn't. I couldn't watch his sociopathic.

631
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Speaker 1: So people have to understand something about Newsom. And this

632
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,519
is so important in terms of what California has become.

633
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:12,679
There's the Getty family, there's Newsome, There's Pelosi and one

634
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,360
other family. There's kind of four families who have controlled

635
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,079
California forever. And this came to mind when I was

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listening to a nine to one no. I was listening

637
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,519
to a fire dispatch call. You may have heard this

638
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:25,760
as well, that two firemen were arguing. Dispatch is saying,

639
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we have a high priority historic building and they were

640
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,400
referencing the Getty Museum and we need assets over there,

641
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,719
and a heroic firefighter said, no, no, no, I can't apportion.

642
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,679
I don't have enough men and a crew. No, I

643
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,960
have family homes, et cetera. Can you talk through the

644
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,039
historic power culture that is Gavin Newsom that surrounds him,

645
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And I mean, is that true? These are these four

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00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:57,320
families who just rule over California.

647
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Speaker 3: That's so hard. I mean, yes, yes, mm hm. But

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there's to me, there's so much more going on at

649
00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:10,880
this point that talking about the balance of power and

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talking about how Los Angeles works and how California works.

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To me, the the the families that have ruled California

652
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that they I mean like a personal fiefdom. Yeah, that's

653
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an important story. But one of the things that's happening

654
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to us before the uh we you know, before the

655
00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:34,920
last election. We have a We have a legislator named

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uh Corey Jackson who has a very important doctorate in

657
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social I know this guy, I know, yeah, And Corey

658
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:49,679
Jackson represents it kind of a purple district. He's out

659
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in the Inland Empire and a heavily Latino district that's

660
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probably politically liberal, but culturally at least somewhat conservative and

661
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,400
very Catholic. And Corey Jackson authored a bill to ban

662
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book bands in school he says, yes, and it passed

663
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and the governor signed it, and he and Gavin Knwsom,

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you know, did a video together about how proud they

665
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were that they'd banned book bands and what that means

666
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,719
in practice is that he made it illegal to not

667
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,119
have sexually explicit curriculum materials in schools. He's very very

668
00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:26,960
proud of this. You know, you want, you want eight

669
00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:31,519
year olds to have plenty of books about blowjobs, so,

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you know, so they can learn. And I said, I

671
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:38,760
started saying to the Republican Party, to the California Republican Party.

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I started emailing staff, the executive director of the California

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Republican Party, the political director of the California Republican Party,

674
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,079
saying for crying out loud. You can beat this person,

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00:39:49,679 --> 00:39:53,440
get resources into this district, talk you know, talk to

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your donors, get money to this district, can test this seat.

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And not only did they not do that, but they

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never talk to me. They never responded to me. I

679
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,519
never heard from anyone. So part of what's happening in

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California is we have, I think three things. We have

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the the oligarchy of old families that you're talking about unchecked.

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We have this growing careocracy of legislators who are former

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teachers and former social workers who have a vision of

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government not as the thing that provides service, but is

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a thing that changes society. And we have no culture

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of opposition. We do not have a Republican party in California.

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We have no significant statewide Republican figure. We have a

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couple of legislators, Republican legislators who are outspoken, and a

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bunch of republic We have a handful of Republican legislators.

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The Democrats have a super majority in both houses, but

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the few Republicans who get elected mostly just keep quiet

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and don't do very much. We have no culture of

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opposition in California, and we're not I think going to

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develop one in the near future. I think that's a

695
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generational problem. So the thing I'm hoping for in California,

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because because there's not a the Republican Cavalry is not

697
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:19,480
on the way in California. The thing I'm hoping for

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is people like Rick Russo, the real estate developer who

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ran for mayor. Yeah, and to Karen Bass, the biggest

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idiot on the face of the earth. I'm just astonished

701
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by that she was in the shortlist to be VP.

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I just.

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Speaker 1: Chris Braid speechless. That never happens.

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Speaker 3: Man who makes a living with words runs out of words.

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It's like they were on a quest with the Knights

706
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of the Round Table to find the biggest idiot in

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the realm, and they didn't succeed. They only found the

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second biggest idiot. The only thing that I think can

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happen in californ that can begin to produce even a

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tiny bit of health is the re emergence of a

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kind of centrist Democrat who's capable of actually running things.

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Los Angeles and California in the late twentieth century were

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built by Democrats. Pat Brown. Governor Pat Brown was Democrat,

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but he was a centrist Democrat, who built things, who

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made things, who provided, who made the government work at

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its basic function. Tom Bradley was a five term mayor

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of Los Angeles. He was a Democrat and former LAPD officer,

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a career government employee, and he was would not have

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casually said, well, there's nothing government could have done about this, yep,

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although he finally was driven finally lost office after twenty

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years of being a highly respected mayor because of the

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Rodney King riots, because he was the mayor city burned.

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I familiar, familiar theme.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me ask you a question as we as

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we close this off, even so kind with your time,

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and let me let me warn you that I'm going

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to ask about North Carolina. And there's a reason I'm

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asking you about this. It's FEMA. It's this guaranteed that

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the figurehead was caused to give to California. And also

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because you write so well and so beautifully about rural

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America and the reality of rural America versus what the

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people in the very important cities like the center of

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the center of the universe, Washington, d C. New York,

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the Cela Corridor, Los Angeles think of it. I was

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Chris about this in a second. A reminder that the

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bone Frog Coffee relationship now is going on our fourth year,

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and we have an opportunity this year to expand bone

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Frog pretty significantly. We're getting some inroads into some of

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the retail stores. And and don't worry, we're not going

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to shift. We're not going to change. It's going to

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continue to say God Country, team on it. Tim Krukshank,

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the founder of bone Frog Coffee, is a dear friend,

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a brother of mine. It's a retired Navy seal. That

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stuff's not going away, not off those bags. He's not

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going to run from those values. But the direct sales

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subscription coffee, that's something you need to take advantage of

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now because as the retail pressure comes along, et cetera,

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things are going to change in that pricing front. So

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you subscribe. They've got all sorts of blends and roasts

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if you want. My personal favorite, it continues to be

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the goatlocker. Bront Blend read about the goatlocker.

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Speaker 3: In the Navy.

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Speaker 1: It's a tradition beautiful tradition of enlisted officers being able

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to have a place of their own and even a

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big league admiral has to knock to come in. I

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love that tradition. That's a dark front roast without a

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hint of bitterness. It took Tim's team three years to

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get that right, under the tutelage of Dave Stewart, who

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started Seattle's Best Coffee. So go to Bonefrog Coffee dot

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com slash todd, skip the single purchase, subscribe, and help

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us push into this retail world. For Tim and his

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late wife, Liz god restorers Bonefrog Coffee dot com slash Todd,

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So Chris very quickly. Figurehead Biden was caused to say

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that the federal government's going to pick up the entire

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tab for rebuilding and taking care of californ I have

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no problem in helping my neighbors.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you do either.

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Speaker 1: In short order, Gavin Newsom said he's gonna wave a

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bunch of red tape, et cetera, so you can build

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back better. And I guarantee you're going to be building

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back better of some smart city stuff that's going to happen. Meanwhile,

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the FEMA was announcing that, hey, we're done letting you

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stay in hotels in North Carolina. The FEMA director just

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went on Fox News this weekend and didn't address any

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specifics other than she's very, very angry that people aren't

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calling the FEMA hotline and not going to FEMA help centers.

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It's their fault and some people in North Carolina. In

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other words, About three thousand people in the comment sections

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replied the stink in help centers are closed. They were

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closed this weekend. Not enough staffing. So you write really

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gloriously about urban America, And I don't know, man, I'm

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bothered by the comparison. You guys are getting paid off

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in North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: Hurts.

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Speaker 1: Does that make me a pettyman?

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Speaker 3: Don't assume yet that that's going to happen. I think

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the I think Joe Biden saying something is going to

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happen doesn't necessarily mean that it's well.

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Speaker 1: He did say cal Mahars could have beaten Trump.

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Speaker 3: Oh if only she right, I was. I mean, you

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have to say, it's it's winter in the appellations and

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it's knowing in fourteen degrees, and femas saying that people

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were lost their house as well, your your vouchers have

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run out, and people are being thrown out into the

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snow or at immediate risk of being thrown out into

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the snow. And the extraordinary importance of private charity, the

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extraordinary importance of organizations like the Cajun Navy, the well

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named Cajun Navy, and a Samaritan's Person in places like that,

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those are tremendously important. What's coming next in Las Ane?

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When you hear people saying, oh, big door, recover it all.

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We're going to wave all the red tape, don't believe

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that until you see it. We had a very large

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fire in Malibu something like five years ago, and most

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of the homes that were lost in that fire have

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not been rebuilt. We are not going to rebuild Malibu,

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the Palisades, Altadena quickly. That is not going to happen

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five years from now. If you go back to those

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destroyed neighborhoods, you might see some houses being built. And

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Gavin Newsom is talking about He's saying, Oh, don't worry,

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we've already We've got a plan for La two point zero.

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We're going to reimagine Los Angeles. I think what that's

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going to mean in practice, we already have state housing

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laws that requires cities to approve housing in much higher densities.

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The California legislature has been four years now at war

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with single family housing. Yes, and once single family housing

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were replaced with apartment buildings, and I think we're going

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to see beautiful neighborhoods of old homes. Altadena is a

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beautiful neighborhood northern Altadena. The part that burned was a

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beautiful neighborhood that was built in the early twentieth century

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and had a bunch of one hundred year old homes

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and more than one hundred year old homes that were

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absolutely beautiful homes. And they are not going to be

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replaced by the same kind of stately, historically, historically interesting

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or culturally interesting homes. They're going to be replaced by

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Gavin Newsom's vision of LA two point zero. So the

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emergency will persist in Los Angeles generationally.

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Speaker 1: Wow, man, this is I wanted to say it's a

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cynical view. It's not because I've been making the same prediction,

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and there there were against single family housing all up

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and down the West Coast. I just appreciate you joining us.

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Chris This is going to be in full form on YouTube.

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You can share it with friends and please do subscribe

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to Chris's Subsecond's Important Chris Bray dot substack dot com.

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Appreciate your time, sir, and continue to pray for you.

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And I'm really glad that you're safe and your family.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us. Thanks, this is a Todd

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Herman show.

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Speaker 1: Please go, be well, be strong, be kind, and just

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a little bit of a different wrap up today, Please

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do pray for the people California and North Carolina and

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maybe just that God would peel the skill scales back

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from people's eyes to show them this is what human

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kings get you. I think a prophet named Samuel warnus

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about that.