Los Angeles is burning—and not just from wildfires.
In this episode, Ryan breaks down the chaos behind California’s latest disaster. From arson arrests and conspiracy theories to celebrity hypocrisy and government failures, Stay in the Gray Podcast uncovers what no press conference dares to admit.
Is the fire response underfunded on purpose? Why was a drone allowed to crash into a firefighting aircraft? And why are celebrities silent until flames hit Beverly Hills?
You’ll hear:
Gavin Newsom vs. Trump (forest floors and forgotten advice)
Karen Bass’s DEI-driven fire budget shift
Joe Rogan’s firefighter guest who predicted it all
Plus: the infamous “P. Diddy list” and Twitter meltdowns
🎙️Chapters:
00:00 - LA Wildfires: What Happened
01:54 - Fuel, Wind & Arson Suspicions
03:39 - Conspiracies & Arrests
08:09 - Leadership Breakdown: Bass & Newsom
09:25 - DEI vs. Fire Department Resources
22:48 - Water Infrastructure & Supply Issues
25:53 - Trump’s 2019 Fire Management Advice
26:46 - Celebrity Reactions & Social Media Spin
32:30 - Joe Rogan’s Firefighter Prediction
40:30 - Twitter Outrage & Final Reflections
🎧 All links → linktr.ee/stayinthegraypodcast
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A man admits to starting a fire in Azusa at Pioneer Park.
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Homeless man suspected of trying to start a fire with a plane
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thrower in the West Hills. A man spotted attempting to
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light a fire in Woodland temples.
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None of those sound very good for fire by the way, Woodland
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and all these about Pioneer Park.
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But there are actually videos leaked and they're claiming that
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on the video these people are trying to start fires.
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But I couldn't tell to be honest with you.
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This is being spread around with the fact that people are are
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starting these fires. Preparation has been absurd or
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being able to fight these. This happened like once a year.
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This one's bad, yes, but that's the point.
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It could have been not as bad that based on everything that
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I'm reading, preparation was terrible.
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If you have less supplies and you're literally doing a
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fundraiser for supplies, yes, it's affecting your performance.
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So quit again with this. It's like I'm reading, you know,
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New York Times on his liberal rad publications and it's just
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they cannot admit that somebody of like mind when it comes to
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leadership fucked up. They can't admit it.
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Welcome to Stay in the Grade podcast.
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We explore news that gets people talking by blending comedy and
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controversy. I'm Ryan and I'm Trey.
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Together we dive into tough topics with a combination of
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humor and some insight to join us as we navigate the Gray areas
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of the world and engaging in real conversation.
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Come get to know us. Hey everybody, the show is going
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to be dedicated to the wildfires in LA.
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I'm not going to lie and tell you that there's a whole bunch
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of other shit. I might do a couple of things
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there here at the end, but this is going to be dedicated to the
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the fires. There are so many things to come
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out of this besides just the fact that people have lost homes
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and people are been killed and people are still in danger and
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it's going to be a long rebuild. And all of these horrible things
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is they're just the beginning to politicizing it, of course, to
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conspiracy theories about how they were started and why and
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now what and all of these things.
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So I'm going to try and avoidance of being the news
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because that's not what I'm trying to do here.
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Trying to talk about the things surrounding the news in a way
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that the news doesn't. In a sense, talking about the
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social aspects of the things that happen, talking about human
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beings, reactions to these things, which to me, I don't
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even know what to say sometimes it's that strange human beings
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are quite strange and I'm fascinated by it.
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And so that's what I like to talk about.
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And so let's start. I will give you a little bit of
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information about it in case you haven't had time to read
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anything or, or, or listen to the news or anything.
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But Southern California, obviously LA is dealing with a
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bunch of wildfires and it's insane.
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It's probably the most intense group of wildfires in a long,
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long time. And apparently they've been in a
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little bit of a drought, moderate to severe, they're
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calling it. So maybe not a little bit since
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May. That doesn't help.
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They had winds of they were talking about hurricane style
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winds. I don't know if styles were
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hurricane. Hurricane type gusts up to 100
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miles an hour and that doesn't help. 16 have died so far and
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that may have risen since, so forgive me if I'm behind on
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those numbers. By the time that you hear this.
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As of now there are 5 or 6 separate fires.
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Palisades, Hollywood Hills, East LA, lots of locations but all
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surrounding the city. They've ruled out lightning,
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which is the most common cause of these fires.
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They haven't ruled out the next two most common, which is arson,
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where the fire is set, for those of you that don't know what that
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means, but where the fire was set by an individual and then
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electric utility lines collapsing or sparking or
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malfunctioning, if you will. And so they've ruled those out
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because they haven't figured it out yet.
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There's so much going on and so many possibilities that they
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can't say it's not one of those yet.
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So Speaking of, I mean, the idea of Arseny is gaining steam
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because they've actually made some arrests of people who they
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think might have started some fires.
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Well, that's not good. Here we go.
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A man admits to starting a fire in Azusa at Pioneer Park.
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Homeless man suspected of trying to start a fire with a
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flamethrower in the West Hills. Man spotted attempting to light
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a fire in Woodland Hills. None of those sound very good
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for fire, by the way, Woodland and all these Pioneer Pioneer
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Park, but they're actually videos leaked and they're
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claiming that on the video these people are trying to start
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fires, but I can't. I couldn't tell to be honest
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with you. I couldn't.
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I was trying to look for it and I was like this video and and
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when was it and, and all that. But this is being spread around
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the fact that people are are starting these fires.
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And you know, I'm not going to lie to you.
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I couldn't, I wouldn't be surprised at all if people were
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trying to start fires for multiple reasons.
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But first and foremost is that is that what this is or did
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something else 'cause it and it just went crazy into an
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unprepared Los Angeles, which we'll get to a couple other
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things that have happened that are weird.
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You know, real quick. The conspiracy part of it is
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people call me what you want conspiracy wise, but they're
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more of these fucking drones around.
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And one of them crashed into the Super scooper like airplane in
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the that helps out with these fires.
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Put a three by 6 hole in the in the wing, I believe.
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But you know, that doesn't seem like a a big hole, but it's
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still going to affect the flight.
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Fortunately they landed safely and that plane, I think I just
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read this backup, you know, three days, three or four days
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without this plane is a big deal.
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You need every bit of help that you have and that was definitely
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an issue, but it was it was a non whatever you want to say.
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It was an illegal drone. It wasn't supposed to be there
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based on FAA rules. So say what you will, but it's
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probably just somebody, you know, doing whatever that has an
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expensive drone. But still, let's let's get a
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let's get a hold on these drones and make sure that we're not
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gonna cause any issues. The conspiracy that I'm hearing
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recently, and I'm just going to get this out of the way before
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we move on to the to the real stuff, if you will.
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The conspiracy is now, and now you're going to love this, that
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this area is being burnt down, burned down specifically because
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of the celebrities who live there, because of the P Diddy
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list and the affiliation and all the evidence to P Diddy and who
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all was involved. I don't know that that sounds
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like a quite what extreme to me. And I'm not willing to, I'm not
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willing to put myself 100% in that camp yet.
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I'm intrigued by it and I will listen because I, again, I would
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not be surprised at anything that people do these days and
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neither should you. So people that are all wound up.
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Oh, this is so stupid that you even think that I feel sorry for
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you. You're boring, number one.
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But #2 you're, you're, you got your head stuck in the sand
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because stuff's going on in this world that we don't know about
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anyway. And of course there's looting.
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You know that. I'm reading more and more
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stories about arrests being made.
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There's one, one person that that robbed a house and he was
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sitting there on the curb with the firefighters dressed like
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them after he had robbed the house or before.
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And, and, and you know, these poor firefighters are working
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their tails off and, and risking their lives.
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And this guy's kind of sneaking in trying to what a what a
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scumbag. Anybody that does the looting is
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worthless. Not only are you not
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contributing to society, to society, you're making it worse.
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And the, and you know, these people, I think need harsher
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punishments. This is a horrible time right
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now and you're going to go in there and try and worthless.
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And I, and I said it, I don't care what your situation is, you
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don't do that. All right, let's talk about the
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main thing that everyone seems to be talking about, the
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leadership issues. And that part of that is
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politicizing this thing. And, you know, Donald Trump has
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said some things and now the governor of California, Gavin
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Newsom, had said some things and the mayor has said some things.
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And they're all, you know, pointing fingers at the
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different sides. So Governor Newsom, who anybody
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who's listening to the show understands that.
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I'm not a fan of that man. And I don't think a lot of
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people are. Apparently 93% of Americans
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think he should resign. I'm not alone.
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I'm going to get the 7% of you that think he's good and yelling
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at me. I can take it, trust me.
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But he's saying that Trump's the one politicizing this.
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And it's kind of like that's and it was like in response to a
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question about his state and this situation and what's he
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going to do? So get over, don't bring up
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Donald. Just don't bring him up Gavin.
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Donald's not politicizing. He's questioning your
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leadership, as am I and as are a lot of people.
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So do not sit here and and immediately try and go on
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defense, which is what he's doing.
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And usually that means guilt. There's no excuse for this, what
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we're about to talk about. So it's become a clusterfuck.
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And you know, so I'll start with the, there's so many.
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I'll start with the DEI, OK, DEI hires diversity and inequality
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inclusion. Is that it?
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Diversity, equality, inclusion, I think that's it.
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But these hires are being made. Look, I'm going to get this
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right. The DEI hires diversity,
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equality and inclusion. I think that's right.
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Yell at me if it's not. But all these publications are
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now saying it's the right wing that's got this the, the, that
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has this opinion. I disagree.
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I think a lot of people have this opinion now and I don't
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think you can avoid it. What I mean by that is
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prioritizing DEI hires over qualified hires, especially in
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something like firefighting is not good.
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And we're seeing that. Let me go ahead and and explain.
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Let me give you the details. You know, I, I was going to talk
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about why it's so hard to discuss and all these things,
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but I want to give you the details first.
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The example of this is the Fire Chief, her name is Kristen
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Rowley. She's had some issues recently
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with these fires. OK, everyone's on her,
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everyone's on the mayor, all these things.
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But she's the first lesbian chief named Fire Chief that was
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named back in 2000, 2020 2. And if you go to the website for
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the department, priorities for the fire department are a
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culture that this is quote UN quote on the on the web page
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profile, a culture that values diversity, inclusion and
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equality. I think I just did all the
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letters there. Maybe your priority should be
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fighting fires #1 make this a, a, a long #2 away from #1 which
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is helping people in fighting fires.
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This is not good. She launched ADIADEI Bureau in
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early 2023 and emphasized reshaping the fire department
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culture by implementing DEI hire, hiring and promotion
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goals. One goal is to increase women
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who identify as lesbian or LGB, all of it in any of the letters,
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to increase those numbers within the fire department.
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It's important not how muscular you are, how physically fit you
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are, how well you can fight fires and how qualified you are.
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But by God, if you're a woman who likes other women or
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identifies as another woman or whatever else, you're qualified
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over these other people. It's unnerving to me to, to read
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that. But she said somebody asked her,
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you know what, what kind of numbers are you looking at to
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increase it by? And she's like, there's not a
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number. I'm looking for as many as
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possible. It's never big enough of a
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number. I think some people would
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disagree with that right about now.
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But that gets back to my point. Why are we afraid to to call
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this out? And why?
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Why are people? I mean, I know the answer.
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It's politics. I know the the reason that
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people on one side mostly, I don't.
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Like I said, I don't. I'm not going to be a hypocrite
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in what I said. I think there are plenty of
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people that it's not just right wingers, if you want to call
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them. I'm not a right winger.
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I've said it before. I'm an independent who right now
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in the way this country is run, leans towards the right.
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If you want to call it, if you want to divide it, I lean that
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way. If you want to go case by case
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like I like to do, I'll tell you case by case how I feel.
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But when it comes to elections and voting and and leadership
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right now, I'm, I'm over there no matter how crazy some of
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those people might be. So we have to talk about this.
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People need to understand that DEI, there's a difference
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between making sure that we're helping to advance our DEI
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targets and just tossing them into positions over other people
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because of the color of their skin or because of their
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ethnicity and or their sexual preferences.
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There's a difference. There's a Gray area.
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I stay in the Gray. Look what happened.
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This fire department is fucking whacked.
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They are all over the place and they are getting torched, no pun
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intended, by everybody else because of this.
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And people say, well, it's not directly correlated.
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It is, I'm telling you, that the DEI hires are directly
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correlated to the performance of this fire department during this
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tragedy, not because of who they are, what their colour is and
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what their sexual preferences, but because those are the things
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that put them to the front of the line.
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I'll move on. We need to start talking about
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it. So the preparation has been
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absurd for being able to fight these, these, these happen like
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once a year. This one's bad, yes, but that's
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the point. It could have been not as bad
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based on everything that I'm reading.
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The preparation was terrible. So let's talk about the mayor.
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Her name is Karen Bass, the DEI hire.
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She was visiting Ghana when this happened.
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Not her fault, she didn't know this was going to happen.
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But in all fairness, she's the mayor of LA.
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She probably need to be in Ghana over there for the presidential
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inauguration. By the way, on our tax dollars,
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I read that. This is what pisses me off about
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Mayor Bass. She made budget cuts to the LA
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Fire Department of upwards close to $20 million.
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I think it was 22. I apologize. 20 million this
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fiscal year. So there's there's my answer
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this year. But back then it was 13 million
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in operating supplies. They're sitting here now telling
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us that there's a shortage of supplies.
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Don't tell me I'm wrong because I've heard it.
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I've heard him say it. I've read it, there's a shortage
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of supplies and that right when this all happened, and it isn't
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that that is not acceptable. The other issue that I have with
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this that I'm having with just about everybody in a leadership
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position recently in this country, apparently more
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equipment and more supplies were donated to Ukraine in March of
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22. I understand that everybody in
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this country doesn't. People feel sorry for a country
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that seems to be the victim. Whether you believe that
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Zelensky is an innocent guy or whether or not Ukraine isn't
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innocent, in fact, there are plenty on both sides.
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The bottom line is this has to stop.
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I know that was 20/20/22 and we didn't know that these fires
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would happen in early 2025, but if you have that supplies,
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perhaps you're able to control it at the beginning better.
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I'm just saying so that that you know this Ukraine thing.
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So, and I've got sources for all this too, by the way, the, the
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fire department themselves have have everything on record on
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what they donated the LA Fire Department Foundation.
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Then this is LA County versus LAPFD.
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They're they're two different, but they're right there next to
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each other, you know, press conference from the leaders.
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And then Novo Ukraine, which is AI don't know if it's a
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publication, but I know it's some sort of foundation over
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there that accepts gift donations and money.
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So right now, get this, there's a fundraiser, a fundraiser for
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equipment for the fire department.
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That's great, great. We got we have Mexican
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firefighters coming in to help us.
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God bless those guys. We have people in North Carolina
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still, which I'll talk about. We have people and you we're,
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we're doing the fundraisers where, where's our money?
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It is beyond me that all this could be said.
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And we have a fundraiser for equipment.
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So I'm just basically, look, I'm giving you all this extra stuff.
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And this is sad. It's really sad to me.
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I should be talking about how horrible it is and all the
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thoughts and prayers that we usually do when something like
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this happens, but I can't because of all this other
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bullshit. This is unacceptable.
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And I don't care what side you're on.
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If you think the leadership in California is acceptable through
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all this with Gavin Newsom, Mayor Bass Crowley at the fire
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department, you're crazy. You are crazy.
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Finally, some celebrities, which again, I'll talk about, are
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coming out and saying this. This is insane, like, but guess
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what? You guys backed them and still
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do. LA County Fire Chief Anthony
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Maroney, I believe, said there are not enough firefighters in
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LA County to address these. At the time, only four separate
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fires. Now it's 6, I believe, of this
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magnitude. We were only prepared for one or
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two. Anthony, I respect the hell out
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of you. You're a chief.
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What do I know about fighting fires?
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But I would think that you should be prepared for anything
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or better prepared than this at least.
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But to sit here and and put a number on it in, in California
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where there are fires all the time, we, well, we're ready for
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one or two, but not this many. I just anyway, moving on from
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that liberal publications I have written down here.
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So we know it's going to be good.
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They're claiming that the, that the lack of the supplies and
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equipment that were that was donated and all that is not,
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that didn't affect anything. Well, I, I, I wrote that down
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just because it, again, it's just mind boggling to me that
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anybody could say that if you have less supplies and you're
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literally doing a fundraiser for supplies, yes, it's affecting
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the performance. So quit again with this.
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It's like I'm, I'm reading, you know, New York Times and all
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these liberal rag publications and it's just they cannot admit
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that somebody of like mind when it comes to leadership fucked
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up. They can't admit it.
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Why can't Washington Post, which is another terrible Huffington
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Post, all their whatever New York, NY Times, all these
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Newsweek is the worst. Why can't they come out and say
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Governor Newsom, this is not good.
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They're not saying it is as crudely as I am.
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They're not saying what it is, which is horseshit, but it call
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them out. So, you know, let's talk about
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Gavin. He's the blame.
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And I'll get to Donald in a second because Donald is not
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wrong. And again, I've been called,
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I'll call Donald out when he's wrong, but he's not wrong here
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because there's proof of it. I heard him say it.
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But Gavin Newsom is getting blamed for not redirecting water
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from the north to the South, where the fires mostly happened.
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Apparently he wanted to protect some species of fish that was
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close to extinction. I should have written the name
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down, but I didn't. But Newsom was opposed to this
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idea because he wanted to save the fish.
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So instead of moving water down and that this is not conspiracy,
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this is fact. Now the he's of course saying
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Trump's illusional. But the the name of it, and I
00:21:15
forget what it's called. I have it later.
00:21:17
But there wasn't a bill or an act or whatever the hell that
00:21:20
the the talks, the word, the lingo is that Trump was saying.
00:21:24
And that's not that's not accurate with the way he said
00:21:27
it. But there was still a bill or
00:21:29
still some sort of whatever that was trying to be passed to move
00:21:31
that water. And he did oppose it.
00:21:35
And that's that's fact. So no water in the hydrants.
00:21:39
Let's talk about that. He actually admitted it.
00:21:42
Newsome goes, yeah, I don't, I don't know what I'm.
00:21:44
I'm going to call for a full investigation to see why there's
00:21:47
no water or the water pressure is bad or on and on and on about
00:21:52
the hydrants and, and I've heard I've seen more people trying to
00:21:55
fend this. Oh, it's normal.
00:21:57
No, it doesn't happen like this. How about one of the huge
00:22:01
reservoirs under construction? Oh, that's good.
00:22:06
I'm sure that the timing wasn't the time of the year when the
00:22:10
wildfires happened. You're going to do some
00:22:13
construction and some repairs on this bad boy.
00:22:15
If that's true, again, stupid. So people are saying that the,
00:22:21
the water wouldn't have done anything, the amount of water
00:22:25
that was in the that would have been in the hydrants.
00:22:27
And I just, that's, I mean, I literally had to stop there for
00:22:31
a second because and think about that.
00:22:34
What what somebody, how stupid somebody can be to say that.
00:22:38
Would you get it all? Maybe not.
00:22:40
Would it help? Absolutely.
00:22:42
Come on to try and say it wouldn't have mattered.
00:22:46
It would have mattered. Quit it.
00:22:49
We're defending it. There is no defense of this in
00:22:52
the way this has been handled. When asked about it, the water
00:22:55
Newsome continued. He said the local folks are
00:22:58
trying to figure it out. Well that's great Gavin.
00:23:01
Thank you for pinning it on your mayor, which that's fine.
00:23:08
It's part of her responsibility, but it's Newsome guy just won't
00:23:11
take any responsibility or anything.
00:23:14
And again, yeah, he he he said in quotes, Trump is the one
00:23:18
politicizing it, not me. It's just it seems to be kind of
00:23:22
his talking point when he's backed into a corner with stuff
00:23:25
like this, with the shitty streets in San Francisco, the
00:23:29
literal shitty streets in San Francisco, VCs flowing down into
00:23:35
the next to the curbs. And he backs away and he's
00:23:38
immediately points, you know, Oh, well, Trump's the one doing
00:23:41
this, or they're the one doing this, or someone else didn't.
00:23:44
Approve. Of what I was the.
00:23:47
He this man, I've. Never heard him once take
00:23:49
responsibility and say, you know what, I effed up.
00:23:52
So I'm not a fan of this guy. And it's getting worse, you
00:23:56
know, so Trump warned and then this is we'll talk about this.
00:23:59
And this is what I was saying. He warned him about the water
00:24:01
coming down. He said this is not acceptable.
00:24:03
He. He.
00:24:05
Told him. That there needed to be some
00:24:07
sort of raking, if you will, of the forest floors.
00:24:11
He had professionals that were helping him make that
00:24:13
assessment. This is Donald.
00:24:16
And because of conservationalists or
00:24:19
environmentalists, in all fairness, laws that are in
00:24:21
place. But these are laws that you can
00:24:23
you can adjust for certain reasons.
00:24:25
And Gavin Newsom refused to do so, likely because it was Donald
00:24:28
Trump that was advising it. But apparently that would have
00:24:32
made a difference as well. And of course he.
00:24:35
Also, this has all been since 2019 or I'm sorry.
00:24:38
Yeah, 2019. He also talked about the water.
00:24:42
He said you need to do that and he refused to do it.
00:24:44
So that's where we're at with that.
00:24:47
So the other thing about the fires, that's different than
00:24:52
other tragedies that have happened and, and it shouldn't
00:24:54
be, but it is, are the celebrities.
00:24:56
This is Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, LA Palisade, which is,
00:25:01
you know, some of the big boy old school homes, beautiful
00:25:06
homes. A lot of them are, you know,
00:25:09
we're being lived in by the celebrities.
00:25:12
Some of the P Diddy. List I'm sure, but tell me if
00:25:16
I'm wrong and you can this is one time write me, tell me,
00:25:21
comment on this on this reel right here.
00:25:23
Comment if you think I'm being if I'm not being sympathetic.
00:25:28
As a celebrity you can go and stay at AB and B at a Saint
00:25:33
Regis suite. You likely have other homes,
00:25:37
other villas you can go into. Nice weather.
00:25:41
This is a little. Bit different than when
00:25:44
something like North Carolina hit.
00:25:46
Which, oh, by the way. Is still an issue out there, but
00:25:49
we don't talk about that. I've never seen celebrities get
00:25:53
on social media as much for a tragedy as they are for this
00:25:57
one. I get it.
00:25:59
It's hit you literally hit home, a lot of friends, a lot of
00:26:03
family, your territory. I understand that.
00:26:08
But to use your platform as some sort of, you know, where were
00:26:12
you for the other ones? Again, you're not required to do
00:26:15
anything for the other ones. They didn't affect you
00:26:18
personally. Fair enough.
00:26:20
But don't be high and mighty as a celebrity and then come on and
00:26:23
pretend this is worse. Jamie Lee Curtis compared what's
00:26:29
going on in the palisade. I think I said that, right, with
00:26:33
these fires to Gaza. Sure, Jamie Lee Curtis, a wind
00:26:40
and spark that set a blaze in an area with absolute terrible
00:26:46
leadership who just can't quite fight the fires, and a bunch of
00:26:50
$20 million homes. Is the exact.
00:26:54
Same thing as a war-torn for thousands of years.
00:26:59
Don't give me this 50 year bullshit.
00:27:01
It's been thousands of years between Muslims and Jews and
00:27:05
Christians in that region. You're going to tell me?
00:27:08
It's the same thing and people wonder why we think celebrities
00:27:14
shouldn't have a say in anything.
00:27:17
Just entertain us. That's it.
00:27:19
And I love you. I love celebrities.
00:27:21
I, I, I'm fortunate enough to know if couple myself and
00:27:25
they're great. And I think fortunately these
00:27:28
couple would agree with what I'm saying.
00:27:30
Finally, some celebrities are coming out and they're saying
00:27:33
the leadership was not OK. This is not OK.
00:27:36
Celebrities are coming out and, and kind of they're coming
00:27:39
around. I mean, you saw it in the
00:27:40
election. They're no longer.
00:27:42
Blind to it now. A lot of them are still a lot of
00:27:44
them will go vote for Gavin Newsom again until.
00:27:48
Till you change. This need to be woke and left
00:27:52
and no matter what. It things like this.
00:27:56
Are going to continue to happen. But you know, where was the
00:28:00
passion for for North Carolina? I mean, I'm sitting here, I'm
00:28:03
sitting here wondering why people are living in tents in
00:28:06
North Carolina still. People tell me that FEMA is
00:28:09
giving them money. That's the biggest thing they
00:28:11
are getting FEMA is no, I mean, last I checked, people still had
00:28:15
to apply for it and that's just 750 bucks now, apparently later
00:28:21
they're still supposed to help them out financially, but they
00:28:23
don't need help financially now they need help like physical
00:28:27
help. People are living with nothing,
00:28:29
but the fires are, are all over the, you know, I mean, they had,
00:28:32
they had more troops lining the roadways for potential looting
00:28:36
than I ever saw in North Carolina after the Hurricanes.
00:28:39
I'm just telling you what I've researched, what I've seen, what
00:28:42
I've read, and I do a lot of it. I'd really try and stay on top
00:28:46
of it so that I don't I'm not spewing complete and utter
00:28:49
bullshit. If I miss a.
00:28:51
Thing here or there, that's fine, correct me.
00:28:54
But overall, I'm confident in the amount and the variety of
00:29:00
research that I do. That's why I call a lot.
00:29:03
Of these sites, liberal rags, because it's it's so clear after
00:29:06
you read the other ones. Anyway, let's enough of the
00:29:11
celebrity stuff. I I just it was just this influx
00:29:14
of social media like oh, pray, but you never hear from from
00:29:18
them with anything else. I mean, there are tragedies all
00:29:21
the time and that doesn't take away from how horrible this is
00:29:26
at all. I'm not trying to downplay it
00:29:28
people. I'm just telling you that there
00:29:31
are other things also. Let's not forget about those.
00:29:35
That's that's my whole point with with a lot of the violence
00:29:37
that's going on in the inner cities, you tend to forget about
00:29:40
it. Yeah, it doesn't take.
00:29:42
Away from how horrible the New Orleans guy was or, or any other
00:29:47
shooting. Why are we just not, why are we
00:29:49
pretending that that didn't happen over here?
00:29:51
So that's the last thing I'll say about that before we kind of
00:29:56
move on. I want to I want to talk about
00:29:58
two people, Joe Rogan and Donald Trump.
00:30:00
And you know, half the country likes those two and half the
00:30:03
country doesn't. Joe ironically, with both of
00:30:07
them were Democrats, but Joe kind of had that left, left
00:30:09
following. And then he started kind of
00:30:12
seeing the light and, and he just wants to have conversations
00:30:14
and he was getting yelled at and cancelled and all that shit.
00:30:16
So he's like, why would I align with that?
00:30:19
But Joe last summer on an episode with comic Sam Morit, I,
00:30:26
I'm not familiar with Sam's work, but I might have to check
00:30:29
him out. Rogan said that there was an LA
00:30:32
firefighter that warned him about the severity and the how
00:30:38
unprepared they were to handle it.
00:30:41
And I was going to just read it to you, but I'm going to go
00:30:44
ahead and play the quick clip for you so you can hear this.
00:30:46
And this is like six months ago. And I believe the video I have
00:30:52
is going to be, yeah, split screen.
00:30:54
So it's him talking on July 19th and then a clip from January 7th
00:30:59
when these fires are going side by side.
00:31:00
And it's crazy because this is exactly what the firefighter he
00:31:04
spoke to predicted. So take a listen.
00:31:07
I talked to a fireman. Once this is one of the reasons
00:31:10
that freaked me out and he was telling me he goes, dude, one
00:31:12
day he goes, it's just going to be the right wind and fire is
00:31:15
going to start in the right place and it's going to burn
00:31:18
through LA all the way to the ocean.
00:31:19
And it's not a fucking thing we can do about it.
00:31:22
I go, really? He goes, yeah, we're just, if we
00:31:24
just get lucky, he goes, we get lucky with the wind, she goes.
00:31:28
But if the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn
00:31:30
straight through LA and there's not going to be a thing we could
00:31:32
do about it. Because these fires are so big,
00:31:34
dude, when they're talking about like thousands of acres that are
00:31:38
burning simultaneously with like 40 mile an hour winds and the
00:31:42
winds just blowing embers through the air.
00:31:44
And those embers are landing on roofs and those houses are going
00:31:47
up, and they're landing on bushes, and those bushes are
00:31:49
going up and everything's dry. And once it happens, it happens
00:31:52
in a way where it's so spread out that there's nothing they
00:31:56
can do. There's nothing.
00:31:57
You just have to evacuate. Nothing.
00:31:59
Look at Sam, Sam. Morit getting some time there a
00:32:02
quick 2 seconds to say one thing and a lot of people will say, Oh
00:32:06
well, look, Joe's saying that the the firefighter's saying the
00:32:09
sheer size of these fires, it wouldn't matter anyway.
00:32:13
But that's not I don't that's not what he's saying.
00:32:14
What he's saying is that the these things are so massive, why
00:32:19
are we not ready for it? That's what I'm getting from it.
00:32:21
Why are we not ready for this? Means that massive and this this
00:32:24
fireman was telling him straight up, we're not ready for it.
00:32:27
This thing will go straight to the the coast and burn through
00:32:30
and we can't do anything about it.
00:32:32
I guarantee. You if there was a leadership
00:32:34
that understood that. There would be.
00:32:37
Something you could do about it? That's my take.
00:32:38
If you have a different take, that's fine, but that's mine.
00:32:43
And then Donald, of course, Donald said just, you know, I
00:32:46
should have gotten that clip too.
00:32:47
But, you know, just, and I listened to it, as did many
00:32:50
people when Rogan had Donald on before the election, which was
00:32:57
very smart of on both their parts when it came to reaching
00:33:01
people and Trump opening up. And one of the things he talked
00:33:06
about was this kind of issue in California with Governor Newsom
00:33:10
and the the fish thing. I mean, he was saying it in a
00:33:12
funny way. He's like, but then he backed
00:33:14
off and said yeah, but it's an issue.
00:33:17
You know he's. Trying to protect a fish over
00:33:19
transporting water into dry territory.
00:33:22
He refused to rake when he got mad.
00:33:26
Because when Donald was president, Donald said, well,
00:33:27
I'm not giving you any more federal money until you until
00:33:30
you work on this. You're getting billions of
00:33:33
dollars because of forest fires every year.
00:33:36
And by the way, they've estimated this is up upwards of
00:33:38
200 billion already or 150 billion either way.
00:33:43
I mean, take back what we gave to Ukraine and rebuild and no,
00:33:48
with no problems. But that's that's part of the
00:33:51
issue. Funding is going.
00:33:53
Elsewhere, supplies are going elsewhere.
00:33:56
It's bad leadership. They don't have prepared actual
00:33:59
firefighters whose number one priority is to fight fires.
00:34:04
By goodness let's get that LBL GB the person in there that
00:34:09
who's completely non qualified. Not saying they can't be
00:34:12
qualified. What I'm saying is just because
00:34:15
you're LGL GB T + Q plus doesn't mean you are qualified.
00:34:22
You still have to. Be in firefighter shape and you
00:34:25
have to have the qualifications. And that's just that.
00:34:29
I mean, it's the same issue with the the pilot issue when they're
00:34:32
talking about, oh, we need to make get more black pilots in
00:34:35
there, in there. OK, great.
00:34:37
If there are black men and women that want to be pilots, great.
00:34:40
Let's let them go through the program and I'm sure they'll be
00:34:42
fantastic. But guess what?
00:34:44
I don't want you rushing to the front of the line just because
00:34:48
you're black. If you're a great pilot.
00:34:52
Awesome, that's who I want the great pilots.
00:34:54
I don't care what color they are.
00:34:57
My goodness. So Trump warned about that and,
00:35:00
you know, he went on and he did all this blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:35:03
and now he's calling for Newsom to resign.
00:35:06
Does anybody think that California is thriving?
00:35:11
Even before. This does.
00:35:13
Anybody. Somebody come out and tell me,
00:35:15
defend Gavin Newsom, tell me what he's doing.
00:35:18
Parts of California are what look like war, war zones, not
00:35:22
Gaza. Gaza probably looks like a war
00:35:24
zone, but you know what I'm saying.
00:35:27
These same people. That talk about United States
00:35:30
becoming a we have practical we're practicing like a third
00:35:32
world country. Yet you drive around the streets
00:35:36
of California. So I'm with Donald, I think he
00:35:38
should resign and I hope that they get somebody in there and
00:35:42
say and save it. So it's a cool state.
00:35:44
I don't love the leadership there, but it's a cool state.
00:35:48
I've been there a couple times, quite quite, you know, more than
00:35:50
a couple been all over the state.
00:35:52
Fortunately play golf out there. Went to Napa for the wineries
00:35:56
and saw San Francisco, LA San Diego.
00:36:01
My sister was stationed there. Been fortunate enough to see it
00:36:04
and it's it's sad to see what it's become.
00:36:09
So I'm going to move on and move on from the fires and I look I
00:36:12
I'm going to I hope that not that this was entertaining, but
00:36:18
that at least you saw that this was this is not just fires.
00:36:22
This is politics, this is conspiracy theories, this is
00:36:26
celebrities, this is it's just another example of how we are as
00:36:30
human beings. And we've got to just step back
00:36:32
and and be willing to address things together, not be afraid
00:36:38
to do things like, all right, look, the I the OK, let's we
00:36:43
need to. Approach it a.
00:36:46
Little bit differently, a little more realistically.
00:36:49
And quit worrying. So much about, you know, Joe
00:36:52
Schmo down the street being offended by it.
00:36:54
Maybe these fires would be a little more under control.
00:36:57
So let's move on to. Butthurt comments before we wrap
00:37:00
up and you know, this is this is a perfect example, this guy and
00:37:06
I and I'll and I'll give him a for I'll give the first name
00:37:08
out. His name is Robert and if he
00:37:10
somehow gets a hold of his clip, I don't know where I I didn't, I
00:37:13
did not block him because I really do not block.
00:37:16
I just tried my best not to block until you do something
00:37:21
that's threatening or whatever. But you know, he may so he may
00:37:25
see this because I'll post it hopefully and make a clip out of
00:37:27
it. But but Robert on Twitter slash
00:37:31
X, he's a perfect example of butthurt comments.
00:37:34
This guy is, you know, yeah. I just don't want to insult
00:37:37
people's appearance. But, you know, he just has the
00:37:40
face. You just want to, you just want
00:37:41
to smack him. And he just kind of.
00:37:43
Looks just like this typical. He's from Seattle, WA, and I
00:37:47
love, you know, look, I've heard great things about Seattle, but
00:37:50
what I know about Seattle is that there are a lot of these
00:37:52
people up there that are way, way left.
00:37:54
And they've decided that every single thing you say is wrong
00:37:59
and that they know more than you and that their life is better
00:38:02
than yours. And this passive aggressive
00:38:04
approach to all the topics. I responded to a Republican's
00:38:10
page, by the way. So he's already fishing around
00:38:14
on a page that's not like minded to him, which, OK, fair enough.
00:38:18
If you're just there to read or to learn or to listen or to have
00:38:22
a civil conversation, great. And this, this woman was
00:38:26
frustrated because there's people posting pictures, which I
00:38:30
think are funny. You guys need to laugh.
00:38:32
And I said it and this is what started it, but it had a picture
00:38:36
of United States and above it were the northern colonies, and
00:38:39
above that were the Greenland Protectorate with Trump Tower
00:38:42
there in Greenland and the. Alberta and.
00:38:46
Saskatchewan statehood request pending.
00:38:48
And it's just South Texas is Mexican.
00:38:51
It's just a funny. It's a funny picture.
00:38:54
With the Trump. Expansion.
00:38:56
It's a joke. Yes, he's talking to Greenland
00:38:59
seriously. And yes, we need to deal with
00:39:01
Panama Canal, which isn't even on here.
00:39:03
If there's something. To deal with.
00:39:05
But people calm the fuck down. Somehow this guy gets on there
00:39:10
and turns everything everything into anti Trump.
00:39:15
Anti people who voted for Trump. And and just.
00:39:18
It was like he would go from one subject to the other, even when
00:39:22
I wasn't talking about that subject.
00:39:24
I mean, it literally was, no, that's not true.
00:39:28
I never said that. And then, Oh yeah, well, what
00:39:30
about the, the immigration or what about this billionaires?
00:39:34
It was incredible. I mean, I literally was just
00:39:36
like, dude. And I kept going this time.
00:39:38
I know I'm trying to get better, but I kept going.
00:39:41
One other guy shot in and kind of defended me for a second and
00:39:43
then he kind of bailed and I, I reached out later and said, how
00:39:47
did you do that? Because I got to learn how to
00:39:49
get out of this quicker. He said, I just, I bite my
00:39:52
tongue and I just, I just stop. And so eventually that's what I
00:39:55
did with this person. Again, he's posting things that
00:39:59
in response that have nothing to do with the initial conversation
00:40:03
one, and two, what I just said, he's making judgments about my
00:40:09
life personally. And because I voted for Trump,
00:40:14
that means certain things which aren't true.
00:40:18
And it just. Was It's like he had a list of
00:40:20
200 narratives from the left. And he's going to get.
00:40:24
Them all in. I think a couple times.
00:40:27
He's like, I don't care if you block me.
00:40:28
I mean, he knew it was coming and he and I I didn't.
00:40:30
So Robert from Seattle, I let you go to the bitter end.
00:40:34
I hope it was worth it. I did.
00:40:37
He was he threw insults around. That's all he wanted to do.
00:40:40
He insulted talk about butthurt this guy.
00:40:43
And he, he acts like, like there, he's in some sort of high
00:40:47
and mighty position of, of, of knowledge and authority on all
00:40:51
the issues. He's the guy that thinks that
00:40:54
even though the majority of the country and probably even more
00:40:57
than just a small majority, it's probably bigger than you think
00:41:00
are going this direction that he's right.
00:41:03
By God, he's right. So I mean, that's really it with
00:41:06
him. I, I didn't, I mean, I can give
00:41:08
you some specifics, but there were about 75 posts and so I
00:41:11
just didn't pick one out and feel like it, but it, it they
00:41:14
just weren't even. I don't know.
00:41:16
I just feel like if you want to come on and talk about what it
00:41:20
is that you're responding to, great.
00:41:22
But if you want to come on and talk about all these other
00:41:25
things, at least own it and say, all right, here, you're on this
00:41:28
or whatever. But but what about over here?
00:41:29
What do you think about this? And and it wasn't.
00:41:32
It was a bunch of insults every post again, got to have thick
00:41:36
skin in this business. So I I tried to shrug it off,
00:41:39
but I'm just sitting here like I didn't.
00:41:41
There was no nothing that I didn't provoke anything.
00:41:43
Went back and there's nothing. There's nothing.
00:41:45
He just woke up. To be honest.
00:41:49
Quick click on his replies in general and there the last this
00:41:53
was a week ago. The last couple days it's all I
00:41:56
all he's done. I mean he's he's does to
00:41:57
everybody. He wakes up.
00:41:59
I don't know what he does for a for a living, but it's not it's
00:42:03
apparently it's sitting on Twitter.
00:42:04
He's got 50 followers and he joined whatever it looks like he
00:42:07
just joined before he just to do this before the election, I
00:42:10
guess, but it's the same thing to everybody else.
00:42:12
So I I kind of sat back and said let it go.
00:42:17
But congratulations, Robert, you did make Stanley Gray podcast,
00:42:21
but her comments of the show. Good luck to you and.
00:42:26
Enjoy the next. At least four years of solid
00:42:29
leadership. And that's all for.
00:42:31
Tonight for today, if you can't tell, it's get an afternoon.
00:42:34
Evening kept forgetting so I'm losing my my light.
00:42:39
It's a lot nicer. Than the indoor light that seems
00:42:42
to be a little yellow but anyway here's a quote simple to the
00:42:46
point and I hope you think about these things with a with the
00:42:51
fires and it's sad that something like this makes us.
00:42:56
Kind of. Rethink some things, but I think
00:42:58
that if there's something to take out of this, that's it.
00:43:01
It's it's OK. To question things like DEI,
00:43:04
it's OK to question leadership and decisions and warnings that
00:43:08
were given. It's OK if you don't like Donald
00:43:11
Trump to say he was right on this one.
00:43:14
You may not, oh, you may not like anything else over here
00:43:16
that he did or said or whatever. But this one, come on.
00:43:21
It's right there on video. Think about it and and let's
00:43:24
just all hope that they can the brave, you know, it sounds
00:43:29
cliche, but brave people out there that are doing this and
00:43:33
fighting this thing and and all the people that have come to
00:43:36
help from Mexico and elsewhere. Thank you for that.
00:43:39
And hopefully the next couple shows we'll have better news.
00:43:43
It doesn't look like it. The winds are high the next
00:43:46
couple days. And so that's that's upsetting
00:43:49
and that's a concern. So hopefully.
00:43:53
It there. Aren't any people in its track
00:43:55
and we can get this thing taken care of.
00:43:58
So the quote tonight is it's very simple, but I liked it, so
00:44:01
I'm going to do it. Go the extra mile.
00:44:04
It's never crowded there. Have a good one guys, We'll see
00:44:09
you next time. Love you.
00:44:10
Find the colors and find the light in the grave.
00:44:13
We'll find our sight.