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Speaker 1: bit about the poor forest management in California and how

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Speaker 1: If somebody works so hard their entire life, they have

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Speaker 1: It is so built into the American psyche that that

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Speaker 1: human component of all of this, and let the people

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Speaker 1: our prayers, our love are all sent to all of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not exactly heartwarming to hear that, Well,

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Speaker 1: change things around. The entire trajectory of your life now

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Speaker 1: And you know, as.

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Speaker 1: Some of the background here, you know there is something

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Speaker 1: And interestingly, you can go back and one person that

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Speaker 1: predicted all of this. Let's go back to twenty eighteen

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Speaker 2: Listen, cleaned out and protected.

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Speaker 3: We've got to take care of the floors, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was him in twenty eighteen, and just

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Speaker 1: I lived in California for five years. Sound was an

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Speaker 1: But this is Donald Trump talking about four months ago

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Speaker 1: the need for California to send more water downstate to

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Speaker 4: You have so much water, and all those fields that

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Speaker 4: Tells me, you know, we have trees that are much

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Speaker 2: So one thing I'm going to do for California. Vote

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Speaker 4: I'm going to give you safety, I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: They don't because of environmental extremism. They it is difficult,

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Speaker 1: Just think of what Donald Trump just said that there,

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Speaker 1: Now the problem even gets worse than that. Now, if

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Speaker 1: Then you know this is entirely preventable and predictable what

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Speaker 1: the US EPA for zero emissions transfer, zero missions transformation.

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Speaker 1: Thank you EPA Administrator Michael Reagan for your support of

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Speaker 1: related engagement activities. Well, I mean, I don't see anything

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Speaker 1: You know, people are are just moving in droves. And

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Speaker 1: And I'm well, they cut the firefighter budget by seventeen

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Ben, I just want to know shown that that

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Speaker 1: By the way, these fires have burned through five thousand,

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Speaker 1: that they don't want you to cut down a tree,

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Speaker 1: they don't want controlled burns, they don't want you know,

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Speaker 1: it's going to impact the environment. What's the air like

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Speaker 1: out by you today?

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Speaker 5: Fortunately the wind is going out to sea, and so

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Speaker 5: at my house, I'm fine, but the air quality in

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Speaker 5: la is just it's horrible. The good thing is when

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Speaker 5: you talk about the you can watch the smoke clouds

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Speaker 5: going and all day this morning they were going straight

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Speaker 5: out to sea, meaning the wind is pushing them very

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Speaker 5: fast and the winds are very high. I have had

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Speaker 5: noticed in the last hour or two the clouds are

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Speaker 5: going the wind are going much much higher, meaning the

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Speaker 5: winds are calming down and it's not pushing the smoke

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Speaker 5: out to sea quite as fast. So hopefully we're at

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Speaker 5: the other end of the Santanas right now. But they

448
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Speaker 5: say there's going to be some not as difficult, not

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Speaker 5: as tough as we've had today through tomorrow, and then

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Speaker 5: hopefully we get through it. But I was looking at

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Speaker 5: the news out here and there was like funny homes

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Speaker 5: on the beach all gone on Malibu on the beach

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Speaker 5: on p twenty homes in a row all gone.

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Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: You think you have a place on the beach. You

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Speaker 5: know you're going to be okay because the fires are

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Speaker 5: up there in the map, but nope, Yeah, twenty homes

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Speaker 5: gone right on pieces.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you, you said during a

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Speaker 1: previous fire you stayed. Now, had you taken measures to

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Speaker 1: clear any brush near around your home on your own?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely, Sean, I'm a professional when it comes to

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Speaker 5: this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I only all right.

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Speaker 1: So my question is did you have to get permits

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Speaker 1: to do it or did you did you just say

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Speaker 1: I'm clearing out my property. I'm not going to make

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Speaker 1: it a fire hazard.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell them I'm just clearing my property.

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Speaker 5: But if you try to move in a dirt on

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Speaker 5: your property, there's some flower and the guys tell me

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Speaker 5: go around your property and look for this flower, and

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Speaker 5: they gave me a picture of it. If you find

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Speaker 5: any of them, pull them out. So when they come

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Speaker 5: to look and say, oh I'm going to move this

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Speaker 5: duit from here to there, there's no one of these flowers.

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Speaker 5: You'll never get to move it because it's an endangered

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Speaker 5: flower or something. All kinds of restrictions like that.

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Speaker 2: So let me get this straight.

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Speaker 1: So, because you took proactive measures while other homes were

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Speaker 1: lost near you, your home remained intact, and you stayed

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Speaker 1: with your home even risk in your life. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have a video of some guy. I don't put

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Speaker 1: it up on social media. I mean his house is

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Speaker 1: surrounded by flames, and he's like, I'm not leaving my house,

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Speaker 1: and he's out there with like a fire hose trying

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Speaker 1: to fight back this fire, which I think is admirable.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not so sure that any house.

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Speaker 2: Is worth it.

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Speaker 5: I would agree around it's not certainly not worse in

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Speaker 5: your life. But I have a house that really when

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Speaker 5: it was built, I was built, I was the second owner,

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Speaker 5: was really built not to burn. There's metal doors, metal

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Speaker 5: window frames. The only thing I had was wooden garage doores.

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Speaker 5: But it's all about preparation. I have got some menu

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Speaker 5: and give me seventy five foot of clearance, so there's

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Speaker 5: no grass or brush or anything within seventy five feet

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Speaker 5: of the house I live at on top of the hill.

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Speaker 5: I have my own water system, so I've got fire hoses.

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Speaker 5: I've got my own generator that so when the electricity goes,

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Speaker 5: because it will go off, you still have generators to

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Speaker 5: run all the pumps and do everything. I got a

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Speaker 5: gas pump that will pump out of the pool and

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Speaker 5: take them just shoot the water all the way over

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Speaker 5: the house. I'm so scared. I got no mixing. I

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Speaker 5: used to raise cars I got no mixed suits, no

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Speaker 5: mixed suits, no mixed flock.

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Speaker 1: You said, you sound like me. I'm like a crazy,

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Speaker 1: you know, prepper when I can be. I was even

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Speaker 1: crazy when I had a I had a big house.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had generators galore. I had four thousand

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Speaker 1: gallons of propane. Obviously, I'm a firearms enthusiast. I had

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Speaker 1: emergency food and water and supplies and medical supplies.

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Speaker 2: I have it all. I'm crazy.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't have the food supplies, but I do

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Speaker 5: have I think my house is not going to burn.

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Speaker 5: It is. I will not let it burn.

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Speaker 1: And because you're and you're being proactive, I mean you're

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Speaker 1: taking these necessary steps. Look for example, everything's changed in

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Speaker 1: Florida after that building in Miami collapsed. I mean, every

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Speaker 1: every single condo building in Florida has to be up

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Speaker 1: to code. And you have to be hurricane prepared, and

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Speaker 1: you need hurricane windows and doors and and I think

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Speaker 1: it's just the right thing to do to prepare people

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Speaker 1: for a worst case scenario.

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Speaker 2: But I you know, but here's the problem.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much homelessness doesn't matter, about quality

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00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: of life doesn't matter, how much crime doesn't matter how many,

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Speaker 1: how many.

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Speaker 2: Homes might burn to the ground.

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Speaker 1: In the end, it's California will remain a left wing

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Speaker 1: radical haven. And I don't I don't see it ever

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Speaker 1: becoming conservative again. Do you I live about twenty seconds?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, now they've been I don't know, Sean. I look

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Speaker 5: at California now it's gotten a lot redder. Have you noticed?

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Speaker 1: I noticed, but not not read enough. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: would bet every penny I have. Your next governor is

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Speaker 1: going to be Kamala Harris, who, by the way, her

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Speaker 1: home is under an evacuation order.

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Speaker 5: Please, John, You're just ruined my days.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just telling.

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Speaker 5: You to my words.

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Speaker 1: All right, Caitlin Jenner, Our prayers, in all seriousness are

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Speaker 1: with the people of California, regardless of the incompetence of government.

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Speaker 2: They're losing.

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Speaker 1: You know, their whole lives are being upended here and

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Speaker 1: lives are in jeopardy. Where their prayers are with us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in. We appreciate it. Eight hundred ninety

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Speaker 1: four one, Shawn, our number