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Speaker 1: Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you hanging out with us. Buck is caught

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Speaker 1: in South Florida traffick, but he will join me at

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Speaker 1: some point during the course of Monday's program. This is

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Speaker 1: the last full week rejoice of Joe Biden's tenure as

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Speaker 1: President of the United States. We are officially seven days

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Speaker 1: away about this time. One week from today, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: will be raising his right hand to become the next

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Speaker 1: President of the United States. We will be live with

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Speaker 1: the show and all of you in Washington.

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Speaker 1: Buck and I are both going to arrive on Friday evening.

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Speaker 1: We'll be there for the sites, the sounds, the festivities

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Speaker 1: of inaugural weekend, and then we will be getting hopefully

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Speaker 1: just an up close look at what day that many

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Speaker 1: of us have been waiting for for a very very

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Speaker 1: long time, for that Monday inauguration. That's letting you know

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Speaker 1: where we are headed. What's going on this week, Well,

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Speaker 1: we have the confirmation hearings beginning with Pete Hegseth on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the Battle over Pete Hegseth, Tulci Gabbard, RFK, Junior, Cash Patel,

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Speaker 1: among others officially underway. It is looking very good at

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Speaker 1: this point for all of Trump's current nominations to be confirmed.

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Speaker 1: But we will see how all those hearings go, and

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Speaker 1: we will continue to break all of that down for you.

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Speaker 1: But I would say the biggest story of the weekend

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Speaker 1: has continued to be and the biggest story of last

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Speaker 1: week has continued to be the wildfires that have been

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Speaker 1: and the fallout from those wildfires beginning in earnest And

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Speaker 1: one of the challenges has been determining what is true

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Speaker 1: and what is false. So I spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time over the weekend diving into the particulars of this

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Speaker 1: story so we'd be prepared to talk about it and

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Speaker 1: share with you actual true details here because so many

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Speaker 1: of you are in California, so many of you have

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Speaker 1: spent time in the city of Los Angeles. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I believe the team shared the three states. Probably not

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Speaker 1: a surprise that we have the biggest audience in Texas, Florida,

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Speaker 1: and California. Now those are three of the most popular

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Speaker 1: three states where we dominate in many different markets, whether

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Speaker 1: it's number one in Sacramento, number one in San Diego,

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Speaker 1: number one in Austin, number one in Houston, just absolutely

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Speaker 1: gobsmacking growth all over the state of Florida, particularly South

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Speaker 1: Florida where Buck lives. Right now, we appreciate all of

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Speaker 1: who is we have asked to come on as a guest.

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Speaker 1: By the way, this morning I asked our team to

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Speaker 1: reach out to him, a Republican who represents California's fifth

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Speaker 1: congressional district, and I thought, probably instead of focusing on

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Speaker 1: idea that is the only response that leftists seemed to have,

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Speaker 1: which is, oh, this is caused by climate change. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: climate change caused this because one of the challenges associated

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Speaker 1: many people, it is just such a reverential belief that

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Speaker 1: to the contrary. And so I thought McClintock Congressrom McClintock

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Speaker 1: and I get again. I give credit to the Wall

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Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial page as well well. And it starts

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Speaker 1: He named it the Bay of Smokes because there were

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Speaker 1: And we're talking about wildfires now, but for long before

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Speaker 1: Prior to the year eighteen hundred, based on studies, California

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Speaker 2: That is, these.

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Speaker 1: Fires long before anybody ever conceived of climate change, before

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Speaker 1: Wildfires were actually a natural consequence of the California landscape,

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Speaker 2: This is again.

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Speaker 1: According to Tom McLintock, Congressman, by the end of the

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Speaker 2: So what happened? Why? Why?

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Speaker 1: I mean this is again story matters and facts matter,

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Speaker 2: So think about this.

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Speaker 1: We had basically conquered wildfires in California to a large extent.

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Speaker 1: You can't prevent them entirely because it is a natural

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Speaker 1: Ana winds, the foliage, all of these things conspired before

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Speaker 1: we were here to burn four and a half million acres.

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Speaker 1: With great wildlife management, wildfire management, we had driven that down.

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Speaker 1: And then in the last few years, suddenly we're starting

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Speaker 1: had already happened. And people out there are saying, well,

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Speaker 1: at the history. And by the way, if you look

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Speaker 1: why do we start to have some of these changes?

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Speaker 1: Environmental studies and the goals of the environmentalists to return

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Speaker 1: reading from congressome mclintock's piece here, which is so well done,

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Speaker 2: You can go follow it.

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Speaker 1: Environmental studies now costs millions of dollars, and it takes

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Speaker 1: five point three years for any forest thinning project in

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Speaker 1: the underbrush that is creating so many of these fires

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Speaker 1: have been restricted by bureaucratic laws and fees, and all

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Speaker 2: We'll dive into this more.

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Speaker 1: The failures of water management, the failures of hey, how

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Speaker 1: do you not have a huge reservoir that could have

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Speaker 1: made a huge difference in the palisades. How is that

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Speaker 1: Why were the fire high migrants not running? All of

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Speaker 1: the congressman about this, but what did we do is

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Speaker 1: The data would suggest that environmentalist, while claiming that climate

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Speaker 1: Now, you're never going to start stop any all fires,

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Speaker 1: You may have lived there in the sixties, seventies, and

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Speaker 1: concerned about that massive amounts of water when necessary to

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Speaker 1: put out fires, that's for nerds to worry about. We're

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Speaker 1: focused on equity. We're focusing on redressing decades of awfulness

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Speaker 1: in the country, and so as a result, instead of

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Speaker 1: focusing on the things that government should focus on that

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Speaker 1: unite us all and that are important to all of us,

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Speaker 1: as a lot of left wing Democrats are now learning. Instead,

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Speaker 1: they decided, Hey, we want to make government an agent

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Speaker 1: to address DEI. We want to put equity at the forefront.

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Speaker 1: We're going to make sure that we examine whether there

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Speaker 1: should be reparations for slavery, even though slavery was never

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Speaker 1: even legal in California. Putting my history nerd hat on here,

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Speaker 1: California never had a legal slave in the country in

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Speaker 1: the entire history of its statehood. Slavery was never legal.

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Speaker 1: What in the world are you doing? In fact, if

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Speaker 1: you want to really be a history nerd, California historically

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Speaker 1: was actually a land of incredible opportunity for black people

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Speaker 1: all over the United States who moved to California and

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Speaker 1: had more rights in a pre civil rights area than

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Speaker 1: almost anywhere else. Race relations is actually something that California

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Speaker 1: got right. But no, we're going to be focusing on

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Speaker 1: being sanctuary cities instead of putting out fires. And I

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Speaker 1: think it's a great example of what happens when a

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Speaker 1: community is so overrun with wealth. Because California, again by itself,

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Speaker 1: is the fifth largest economy in the world, and by

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Speaker 1: and large, many people in California are extremely wealthy that

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Speaker 1: you stop focusing on the things that matter to everyone

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Speaker 1: and start addressing a tiny sliver of your population that

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Speaker 1: decided that they were going to get super active in

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Speaker 1: state politics, and as a result, you fail across the board.

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Speaker 1: I mean, California has three lesbian women named Kirsten or

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Speaker 1: Kristin or whatever the heck their names are at the

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Speaker 1: head of the fire department, and they spend a great

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Speaker 1: deal of time bragging about that, but they can't put

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Speaker 1: out fires anymore. And I think it's such an important

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Speaker 1: lesson for America. We can't California this country because if

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Speaker 1: we do, and we almost did, because remember Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: would have been the ultimate Californication of the country if

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Speaker 1: we had elevated her to President of the United States.

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Speaker 1: When you see what Gavin Newsom is doing, when you

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Speaker 1: see what Karen bass is doing, when you see generational

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Speaker 1: incompetence that Californians have elevated to leadership, understand what the

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Speaker 1: motivation for that is. It's not competence, it's reponance. It's

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Speaker 1: the idea that they need to focus on apologizing for

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Speaker 1: America's past imagined sins and not actually focus on making

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Speaker 1: life better for Californians. And if you say to me, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you got that totally wrong, I would say people in

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Speaker 1: California are voting with their popular According to u HAUL,

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Speaker 1: the last five years, California has led the nation on

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Speaker 1: people leaving that state. In general, whether more people are

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Speaker 1: moving into your state than leaving it is a great

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Speaker 1: sign for how leadership is going. Every year up until

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, since it became a state in eighteen fifty,

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Speaker 1: California increased population. Beautiful place, amazing spot to live. Eighteen

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Speaker 1: fifty all the way to twenty twenty. That's a long

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Speaker 1: time where population constantly kept going up. Starting in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: people began to bail. Last five years, U haul number

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Speaker 1: one state to leave California. I would submit to you

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Speaker 1: that these wildfires are a perfect metaphor for what California

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Speaker 1: has done to destroy what is in many ways America's

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Speaker 1: Garden of Eden, particularly southern California, which there are communities

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Speaker 1: out there. I was talking about the environment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's just the temperature. I mean, there's not very many

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Speaker 1: places in the world. There are a lot of houses

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Speaker 1: in southern California that don't have heating or air. You

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Speaker 1: talk about a garden of Eden, you can build a

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Speaker 1: house in California. I had a good friend lived in

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Speaker 1: San Clemente. Her house did not have heating or air,

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Speaker 1: and I could I was like, what this is. Believe

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Speaker 1: I couldn't even conceive of it. That's how perfect that

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Speaker 1: environment is, and that perfection has led to destruction because

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Speaker 1: of left wing leadership. I'll take some of your calls,

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Speaker 1: by the way, maybe a lot of Californians who want

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be with me. Hour number two eight hundred

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Speaker 2: Katie.

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Speaker 1: Katie in Costa Mesa, California. You were at the Trump

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Speaker 1: rally where Trump spent You said a ton of the

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Speaker 1: time saying, hey, we got water and fire issues all

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Speaker 1: over California that aren't being addressed.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Cray, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: What was the discussion you thought Trump nailed it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Well, basically, So this was in October of twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: so you know he was out on the you know, campaigning,

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Speaker 3: the interesting thing about it was is he spent I'm

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Speaker 3: and the fact that he had and I think the

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Speaker 3: conversation was so interesting because we had had so much rain.

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Speaker 3: I've lived in California twenty four years plus a little

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Speaker 3: bit more. Grew up in Nebraska. And the interesting part

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Speaker 3: was he spent so much of his time now he's

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Speaker 3: campaigning for president. I thought it was interesting. But the

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Speaker 3: part that was hit home was the fact that he

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Speaker 3: kept saying, you know, you don't capture your rain water,

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Speaker 3: which we don't hear. People just realize that we absolutely

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Speaker 3: just runs. And we have had so much rain the

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Speaker 3: last couple of years, and by the fact that we

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Speaker 3: don't have any additional ways to capture it, we're just

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Speaker 3: constantly in a state of self induced drought. Almost.

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Speaker 2: Yeah for the farmer, for the call, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for the call.

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Speaker 1: The data is that fifty percent of the rain that

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Speaker 1: falls in California just immediately rolls right out into the

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Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean. And this I mean, you guys who live

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Speaker 1: in southern California know exactly what I'm talking about. The

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Speaker 1: rain comes, you suddenly have all like Santa Monica. You

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Speaker 1: could see the water, just the fresh water just rolling

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Speaker 1: right out into into the La oceans. California doesn't capture

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Speaker 1: the rain like it should. If they did, maybe they'd

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Speaker 1: be able to actually put out some fires. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to Congressman McClintock about this and more next here on

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Speaker 1: Claybook