Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, Thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you for being with us. Right down are toll free
Speaker 1: number it is eight hundred and ninety four to one. Sean,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program,
Speaker 1: let me start, because we're going to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the poor forest management in California and how
Speaker 1: preventable these wildfires are out there if only common sense
Speaker 1: measures were adopted. But that does not negate the human
Speaker 1: toll that has gone on out there. It is one
Speaker 1: of the saddest things. And I've had this happen to
Speaker 1: friends of mine, and I'm sure most of you have too.
Speaker 1: If somebody works so hard their entire life, they have
Speaker 1: a dream, they want a house for themselves and their family.
Speaker 1: It is so built into the American psyche that that
Speaker 1: is a huge achievement in one's life to be able
Speaker 1: to get their own home, and it means so much
Speaker 1: to everybody and all the family memories that are in there,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And you're watching hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of homes burned down. I don't want to forget the
Speaker 1: human component of all of this, and let the people
Speaker 1: of California that are living through this know that our thoughts,
Speaker 1: our prayers, our love are all sent to all of you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not exactly heartwarming to hear that, Well,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to rebuild blah blah. It just it is.
Speaker 1: It will upturn turn up your life. It will just
Speaker 1: change things around. The entire trajectory of your life now
Speaker 1: is in a whole different direction. There is so much
Speaker 1: that we're learning that to me is infuriating and just
Speaker 1: angers me. I saw Joe Biden out there with Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom probably as big as Booster in the entire country,
Speaker 1: and he's stuck with him to the end. And it's
Speaker 1: nice that Joe went out there. It's appropriate that he
Speaker 1: went out there. Where was Joe when Hurricane Helene destroyed
Speaker 1: you know, parts of Georgia and especially the northwestern part
Speaker 1: and the mountain part of mountainous part of North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I mean, they still have not caught up with helping
Speaker 1: the people that desperately need help there. Where were they
Speaker 1: in East Palestine after that train wreck happened. They were
Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. Joe couldn't bother didn't take the
Speaker 1: time to go out and meet with the people there.
Speaker 1: And you know, as.
Speaker 2: We look at.
Speaker 1: Some of the background here, you know there is something
Speaker 1: called the science of forest management, and it is a science.
Speaker 1: And interestingly, you can go back and one person that
Speaker 1: predicted all of this. Let's go back to twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: and this is Donald Trump, the President, with Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: talking about forest management.
Speaker 2: Listen, cleaned out and protected.
Speaker 3: We've got to take care of the floors, you know,
Speaker 3: the floors of the forest very important. You look at
Speaker 3: other countries where they do it differently, and it's a
Speaker 3: whole different story. I was with the president of Finland
Speaker 3: and he said, we have much different We're a forest nation.
Speaker 3: He called it a forest nation, and they spent a
Speaker 3: lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things
Speaker 3: and they don't have any problem. And when it is,
Speaker 3: it's a very small problem. So I know everybody's looking
Speaker 3: at that to that end and it's going to work out.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was him in twenty eighteen, and just
Speaker 1: four months ago, Donald Trump spoke about the need for
Speaker 1: California to send more water. And this will become very
Speaker 1: relevant in a minute when I tell you what's actually
Speaker 1: going on out there to down downstate to prevent these fires. Now,
Speaker 1: I lived in California for five years. Sound was an
Speaker 1: area of a very affluent area of Santa Barbara. I
Speaker 1: went back there a couple of years after I had left,
Speaker 1: and the whole the whole community was burned to the ground.
Speaker 1: This has been happening now for decades. And we know
Speaker 1: that they have these long droughts in California, and I
Speaker 1: had been out in California. Desalinization was a big topic
Speaker 1: of discussion because they needed fresh water.
Speaker 2: Water was always a problem.
Speaker 1: But this is Donald Trump talking about four months ago
Speaker 1: the need for California to send more water downstate to
Speaker 1: help prepare for firefighters. And I'll explain why this is
Speaker 1: relevant in a second.
Speaker 4: You have so much water, and all those fields that
Speaker 4: are right now barren, The farmers would have all the
Speaker 4: water they needed, and you could revert water up into
Speaker 4: the hills where you have all the dead forests, where
Speaker 4: the forests are so brittle, because no places like California.
Speaker 2: I go to Austria. The head of Ostria.
Speaker 4: Tells me, you know, we have trees that are much
Speaker 4: more flammable than what you have in California. We never
Speaker 4: have forest farest because they may maintain their forests, and
Speaker 4: you have all that water that could be used to
Speaker 4: water what they call waterflow where the you know, where
Speaker 4: the land would be damp, and you'd stop many of
Speaker 4: these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of
Speaker 4: dollars by the federal government, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So one thing I'm going to do for California. Vote
Speaker 2: for me, California.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give you safety, I'm going to give
Speaker 4: you a great border, and I'm going to give you
Speaker 4: more water than almost anybody has.
Speaker 1: They don't because of environmental extremism. They it is difficult,
Speaker 1: if not impossible, and the state should be responsible for it.
Speaker 1: They don't engage in controlled burns, you know, they don't
Speaker 1: clear out the dry brush, which should be done regularly,
Speaker 1: which is the kindling for fires such as what we're
Speaker 1: watching unfold in the Pacific Palisades and beyond a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of the state rules protecting endangered species,
Speaker 1: you know, is is the rationale limiting the science of
Speaker 1: forestry from being practiced out there, and the limiting the
Speaker 1: amount of water that gets sent from northern California, which
Speaker 1: makes absolutely positively no sense, you know, it is it
Speaker 1: is completely preventable if they put the time, energy, money,
Speaker 1: and resources into it.
Speaker 2: We now see bay.
Speaker 1: Just think of what Donald Trump just said that there,
Speaker 1: you know, scores of we're now finding out LA firefighters
Speaker 1: that are at their wits end because they're finding all
Speaker 1: of these broken fire hydrants that are preventing them from
Speaker 1: doing their jobs, which they want to do, and they're
Speaker 1: struggling to gain control of one of the worst wildfires
Speaker 1: in LA's history. And I just wonder how many brand
Speaker 1: new fire hydrants could have been bought with the seventeen
Speaker 1: million dollars that the Democratic Mayor Karen Bass cut from
Speaker 1: the firefighting budget, because that's exactly what she did.
Speaker 2: Just months go.
Speaker 1: LA Fire Department had their budget cut by a staggering
Speaker 1: seventeen point six million dollars this financial year, according to records,
Speaker 1: and this drastic decrease in funding for the fire department
Speaker 1: was the second largest cut to come out of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and Mayor Karen Bass's fiscal budget, according to city figures.
Speaker 1: And she initially even wanted to cut more money than that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're wondering where the mayor
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles is and all of this, well she's seven,
Speaker 1: four hundred miles away in Africa on a political trip
Speaker 1: as this, you know, Los Angeles is like in this
Speaker 1: apocalyptic healthscape. Right now, there are people posting on X
Speaker 1: from La saying resign while you're in Ghana. One person
Speaker 1: comedy anyway, she traveled with three other people to Ghana
Speaker 1: for the inauguration of the president there was elected last year. Hey, Karen, quote,
Speaker 1: how's Ghana? Another person asking La. You ask, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: burning to the effing ground. But it's better you're not
Speaker 1: here anyways, because you're useless. Others demanding that she resigned
Speaker 1: from her post. You're a disgrace or and embarrassment. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is no excuse. Why is she not on the
Speaker 1: first plane home? As soon as this became a problem.
Speaker 1: Now the problem even gets worse than that. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're not going to practice you know, the science of forestry,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to have hydrants that have water
Speaker 1: in them, and you're not going to clear out the
Speaker 1: kindling and the brush because of environmental extremist agendas, and
Speaker 1: you're not going to have controlled burns again another huge mistake.
Speaker 1: Then you know this is entirely preventable and predictable what
Speaker 1: is happening here. If you're going to put endangered species
Speaker 1: above the lives and the livelihoods and the homes of
Speaker 1: the people in your state, you know you have to
Speaker 1: ask why, why would you do that? And here's where
Speaker 1: it even gets worse than that, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever noticed. While Mayor Bass was busy cutting
Speaker 1: off the fire Department's budget to the bone, he somehow
Speaker 1: did manage to find hundreds of millions of dollars for
Speaker 1: green energy conversion for the Port of Los Angeles. This
Speaker 1: ought to make everybody in the southland in LA pretty
Speaker 1: pissed off. But here's the headline from a website, the
Speaker 1: Port of Los Angeles website. Port of Los Angeles awarded
Speaker 1: four hundred and twelve million dollars and a grant from
Speaker 1: the US EPA for zero emissions transfer, zero missions transformation.
Speaker 1: Thank you EPA Administrator Michael Reagan for your support of
Speaker 1: our vision a zero emissions future that Karen Bass. With
Speaker 1: this funding, the nation's busiest port will be able to
Speaker 1: continue to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality. How's
Speaker 1: the air quality out there today? I don't think it's
Speaker 1: doing too well in LA today. Together, in partnership with
Speaker 1: the federal government, industry, labor, environmental justice groups, we are
Speaker 1: building a greener, healthier LA. Doesn't look like it to me.
Speaker 1: The port and its private, sectored partners will match the
Speaker 1: EPA grant with an additional two hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: million dollars, bringing the total new investment in zero missions
Speaker 1: programs at the Port of Los Angeles to six hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four million dollars, and provide fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: for community LEDs zero missions Grant program workforce development and
Speaker 1: related engagement activities. Well, I mean, I don't see anything
Speaker 1: in there about the money to fix the broken fire
Speaker 1: hydrants and or any monies to hire the firefighters that
Speaker 1: she laid off. But according to the press release, in
Speaker 1: addition to the EPA grant, you know there were still
Speaker 1: gazillions left over in her budget for green energy conversion.
Speaker 1: In August, LA launched their first one percent electric full
Speaker 1: size street sweeper in the US. The city itself installed
Speaker 1: nearly one hundred Level two chargers and twelve fast charges
Speaker 1: for electric vehicles throughout the city. And meanwhile, they're not
Speaker 1: taking care of the basic predictable safety needs of homeowners
Speaker 1: in California. I'm going to tell you what this is
Speaker 1: going to result in. It's going to result in more
Speaker 1: of a mass exist. I mean, the U Haul Index
Speaker 1: came out and once again leading the way with the
Speaker 1: lowest net population gain and people leaving the state is California.
Speaker 1: Then you have South Carolina, Texas, Florida, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: You know, people are are just moving in droves. And
Speaker 1: the same thing with New York. Kathy Holk wants to
Speaker 1: run for a governor again. The one thing that would
Speaker 1: help New York financially have this big congestion tax in
Speaker 1: New York City. If you go in on the lower
Speaker 1: level of the fifty ninth Street Bridge from Queens into Manhattan,
Speaker 1: you know it's going to be fifteen dollars on the
Speaker 1: lower level because they'll force you onto First Avenue in
Speaker 1: New York City. I know this may be a little technical,
Speaker 1: but you will automatically be charged even if you're not
Speaker 1: heading in that direction. I mean, that's how desperately they
Speaker 1: want money, and they don't care about the poor and
Speaker 1: the middle class and working men and women that are
Speaker 1: going to be paying the bills. They try to get
Speaker 1: to work every day. But this, this is now, this,
Speaker 1: this is what environmental environmental radicalism gets you. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: I went out to the San Joaquin Valley. I cover
Speaker 1: this for fox and that you add. You know all
Speaker 1: these you know, farms, massive farms that were bone dry,
Speaker 1: and there was all of this water that was available
Speaker 1: to them, and it was not made available to farmers
Speaker 1: because they wanted to protect what's called the delta smelt. Now,
Speaker 1: the delta smelt, if you look it up and look
Speaker 1: at a picture of it, it looks like a.
Speaker 2: Little minnow fish.
Speaker 1: It's not even like an exotic fish, and by the way,
Speaker 1: not even an endangered species. And they cared more about
Speaker 1: the delta smelt than they did about the farmers. And
Speaker 1: the farmers lost their entire livelihood because they chose a
Speaker 1: minnow fish that was not even on the endangered species
Speaker 1: list over the farmers, over the people that would benefit
Speaker 1: from the farming and the food that they would produce.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is absolute madness. And then they wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder why people are leaving in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: New York and New Jersey and Illinois and droves. This
Speaker 1: is why people have had it. They're waking up. They're done,
Speaker 1: and you've destroyed your states. You know, law order, safety,
Speaker 1: security gone, massive taxes. You know, if you live in
Speaker 1: New York City, in New York State, fourteen percent state
Speaker 1: and city income acts. Same thing out in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: same thing in all of California. Illegal immigration, sanctuary state status,
Speaker 1: you know, put the burden on taxpayers just basically just
Speaker 1: picked their pockets to the point where they're not going
Speaker 1: to stay anymore and the quality of life has gone
Speaker 1: to hell. I mean, defund is mantle, no bail laws,
Speaker 1: sanctuary states, known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists,
Speaker 1: they just allow them into the country unvetted. January twentieth
Speaker 1: can't come fast enough. I actually can't believe what A
Speaker 1: friend of mine that lives out in the area and
Speaker 1: in California just sent me.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of when I went to New Orleans
Speaker 1: post Katrina, and it was like I remember driving for
Speaker 1: miles and on either side everything was wiped out, Entire
Speaker 1: neighborhoods of being wiped out. Caitlyn Jenner just texted me
Speaker 1: and says, you have no idea how bad it is
Speaker 1: out here. She's gonna call in after the news at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour and we'll get an update
Speaker 1: from her. And our prayers are with the people of
Speaker 1: California today. This is really bad, driving.
Speaker 2: The liberals nuts.
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Speaker 1: it's pretty unbelievable that if you listen to the if
Speaker 1: you listen to the experts, a lot of what is
Speaker 1: happening with this wildfire in California could have been prevented.
Speaker 1: There's been decades of overgrowth in California forests. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the liability laws around controlled burns,
Speaker 1: they don't allow control burns. You can't remove brush. It's
Speaker 1: all related to environmental radicalism and extremism. I mean, the
Speaker 1: state itself should be involved in these controlled burns. They
Speaker 1: should be involved in cleaning out the brush which is
Speaker 1: the kindling for these big fires and much of California.
Speaker 1: If a landowner undertakes you know, a controlled burn on
Speaker 1: their own property, they have to jump through a series
Speaker 1: of hoops proving that they have the expertise to set
Speaker 1: a controlled fire that will stay controlled. But this is
Speaker 1: something that state ought to be doing. And the sad
Speaker 1: part is is now we're learning. Okay, well, the mayor
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles cut the LA fire Fighter's budget by
Speaker 1: a wopping what seventeen million dollars, and meanwhile they're spending
Speaker 1: six hundred and forty four million to make the Port
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, converting that into you know, a green
Speaker 1: energy hub, six hundred and forty four million dollars, and
Speaker 1: yet they're cutting back on firefighters. Then firefighters, you know,
Speaker 1: they're at their wits end fighting trying to fight this
Speaker 1: fire that they're willing to put their lives at risk,
Speaker 1: but they're finding all these broken fire hydrants. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: warned about it in twenty eighteen, said you better get
Speaker 1: the water from the north in northern California down to
Speaker 1: the south, because you're going to need it. And he
Speaker 1: turned out to be more than right. All the state
Speaker 1: rules protecting quote endangered species. I mentioned the delta smelt
Speaker 1: that prevented farmers from being able to farm in the
Speaker 1: San Joaquin Valley. And this is all madness anyway. A
Speaker 1: friend of mine just sent me a video. I mean
Speaker 1: it went on for blocks and blocks and blocks of
Speaker 1: homes just burn to the ground. These are people's lives,
Speaker 1: you know, being upended in ways you can't even imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, whenever there's a tragedy like this. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: glad to see Joe Biden went out there today, especially
Speaker 1: since he never showed up to East Palestine after that
Speaker 1: that train derailment, that disaster there. Never showed up after
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. And if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: neighbor helping neighbor and Samaritan's Purse and Operation Heilo, you know,
Speaker 1: those people and Elon Musk providing communications they would be
Speaker 1: they'd be out of luck anyway. Caitlin Jenner is with US,
Speaker 1: lives in southern California, is very aware of the dangers
Speaker 1: of fires out there. This is something you talked about
Speaker 1: when you made your run for governor back in the day.
Speaker 5: Boy, I certainly did. That was like number one on
Speaker 5: my list of things to do, because fighting fires has
Speaker 5: to be offensive and removing brush, like you said earlier,
Speaker 5: in the forest, taking fuel away. I live in Malibu, California.
Speaker 5: The wolveyfire came right through my house and I stayed
Speaker 5: with the house and it made it because there was
Speaker 5: no fuel close to the house. And we just need
Speaker 5: to do more of that, no more in preparation. What's
Speaker 5: happening here in Los Angeles actually today the winds are
Speaker 5: so hard. Last night they were between eighty and ninety
Speaker 5: miles an hour at my house. I live on the
Speaker 5: mountain in Malibu.
Speaker 1: And the way for those two people that don't know,
Speaker 1: they're called Santa Ana winds, and they come by periodically
Speaker 1: and the winds are fierce, and if it happens while
Speaker 1: in the middle of a fire like this, it is
Speaker 1: devastating because it literally moves the embers miles away in
Speaker 1: many cases and creates new fires.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. And I live in a setting in a corridor,
Speaker 5: so I mean every time my house gets hit this afternoon,
Speaker 5: my roof blew off. Yeah, all the tar paper on
Speaker 5: my roof. The second time it's happened, lifted right up
Speaker 5: off my house and was thrown all the way down
Speaker 5: the mountain Riday at that repair. Fortunately, I'm at the
Speaker 5: north end of Malibu, the south end of Malibu, and
Speaker 5: you get down in the Pacific Palisades is just getting destroyed,
Speaker 5: and you're right, it's about preparation. And Karen Bass isn't
Speaker 5: even in town. You mentioned that she's off in Africa someplace.
Speaker 5: But you know who's been on the phone, you know,
Speaker 5: all day long is Rick Caruso. Rick Cruso is the
Speaker 5: one that ran against Karen Bess and the people of
Speaker 5: California didn't put him in place. He's a very confident businessman,
Speaker 5: really great guy, and he has a mall near where
Speaker 5: the fire was and he goes running down there in
Speaker 5: the morning to make sure everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 5: And they had no water in the fire hydrants.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't even make it up. And then
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, God bless Gavin.
Speaker 1: He had his emergency presser today thanking the mayor Karen
Speaker 1: Bass who's in Ghana, who's in Africa, for her leadership
Speaker 1: in all of this.
Speaker 2: I mean, is this some kind of bad joke?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. And actually you said earlier you
Speaker 5: were talking about Biden being here and going to Monica
Speaker 5: to the firehouse and you know, doing all of that.
Speaker 5: He was. It was like in Santa Monica. You know,
Speaker 5: we went out to the desert to do that a
Speaker 5: couple of days ago, you know, some national monument out there.
Speaker 5: And he came back here and he's in town. I
Speaker 5: know because as you know, I'm a pilot, and they
Speaker 5: had a TFR. It's a temporary flight restriction. Any place
Speaker 5: the president goes and he stays someplace, there's a TFR,
Speaker 5: a no fly zone over the area that he's at.
Speaker 5: It's quite common, and there was a TFR here the
Speaker 5: last couple of days because he was in town. So
Speaker 5: basically all he did today was, you know, go down
Speaker 5: the street to the local fire station and do a
Speaker 5: television appearance and then and then leave. That's the tight. God,
Speaker 5: I can't wait till the twentieth of January.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, he did reveal that his son
Speaker 1: Hunter and his wife may have lost their home during
Speaker 1: this fire. They got notification yesterday their home was probably
Speaker 1: burned to the ground. And by the way, the LA
Speaker 1: Only Fire chief now has an estimate that a thousand
Speaker 1: structures have been destroyed already, and they have zero percent
Speaker 1: of this fire under control as of you know, twenty
Speaker 1: minutes ago. They don't have any of it under control,
Speaker 1: and they don't have fire hydrants that work explain that.
Speaker 5: I know. Well, I keep my plane up at Tamoora
Speaker 5: or Airport and that's the station where all of these
Speaker 5: firefighting helicopters. They're based there, and unfortunately they've been on
Speaker 5: the ground. Now, first I thought, are they on the
Speaker 5: ground because where the fire is is underneath this TFR. Yeah,
Speaker 5: for a flight restriction because Biden's there not letting helicopters
Speaker 5: go in there. I don't know. I hope that the
Speaker 5: firefighters and the city of Los Angeles is smarter than
Speaker 5: that and not to do something like that.
Speaker 1: And I'm well, they cut the firefighter budget by seventeen
Speaker 1: million dollars just a couple of months ago, and the
Speaker 1: fire hydrants don't work. So if you don't have firefighters
Speaker 1: and you don't have water, tell me how you're going
Speaker 1: to put out this firefight this massive fire.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Ben, I just want to know shown that that
Speaker 5: beautiful home in Florida. Do you have a guest house.
Speaker 2: If you need one. I have a room if that's
Speaker 2: what you need done. Not a problem.
Speaker 1: By the way, these fires have burned through five thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred acres. Now, is there any that you actually
Speaker 1: can go to college and get a degree in forestry?
Speaker 1: You can go to college and you can be an expert,
Speaker 1: and there are known methods to prevent incidents like this
Speaker 1: from happening. That is what I find the most infuriating
Speaker 1: to me is something like this that is preventable. Then
Speaker 1: you got to look at the reasons, Well, why haven't
Speaker 1: they implemented the science of forestry, And then you look
Speaker 1: at the Endangered Endangered Species Act. Then you look at
Speaker 1: that they don't want you to cut down a tree,
Speaker 1: they don't want controlled burns, they don't want you know,
Speaker 1: it's going to impact the environment. What's the air like
Speaker 1: out by you today?
Speaker 5: Fortunately the wind is going out to sea, and so
Speaker 5: at my house, I'm fine, but the air quality in
Speaker 5: la is just it's horrible. The good thing is when
Speaker 5: you talk about the you can watch the smoke clouds
Speaker 5: going and all day this morning they were going straight
Speaker 5: out to sea, meaning the wind is pushing them very
Speaker 5: fast and the winds are very high. I have had
Speaker 5: noticed in the last hour or two the clouds are
Speaker 5: going the wind are going much much higher, meaning the
Speaker 5: winds are calming down and it's not pushing the smoke
Speaker 5: out to sea quite as fast. So hopefully we're at
Speaker 5: the other end of the Santanas right now. But they
Speaker 5: say there's going to be some not as difficult, not
Speaker 5: as tough as we've had today through tomorrow, and then
Speaker 5: hopefully we get through it. But I was looking at
Speaker 5: the news out here and there was like funny homes
Speaker 5: on the beach all gone on Malibu on the beach
Speaker 5: on p twenty homes in a row all gone.
Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 5: You think you have a place on the beach. You
Speaker 5: know you're going to be okay because the fires are
Speaker 5: up there in the map, but nope, Yeah, twenty homes
Speaker 5: gone right on pieces.
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you, you said during a
Speaker 1: previous fire you stayed. Now, had you taken measures to
Speaker 1: clear any brush near around your home on your own?
Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely, Sean, I'm a professional when it comes to
Speaker 5: this stuff.
Speaker 2: I only all right.
Speaker 1: So my question is did you have to get permits
Speaker 1: to do it or did you did you just say
Speaker 1: I'm clearing out my property. I'm not going to make
Speaker 1: it a fire hazard.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell them I'm just clearing my property.
Speaker 5: But if you try to move in a dirt on
Speaker 5: your property, there's some flower and the guys tell me
Speaker 5: go around your property and look for this flower, and
Speaker 5: they gave me a picture of it. If you find
Speaker 5: any of them, pull them out. So when they come
Speaker 5: to look and say, oh I'm going to move this
Speaker 5: duit from here to there, there's no one of these flowers.
Speaker 5: You'll never get to move it because it's an endangered
Speaker 5: flower or something. All kinds of restrictions like that.
Speaker 2: So let me get this straight.
Speaker 1: So, because you took proactive measures while other homes were
Speaker 1: lost near you, your home remained intact, and you stayed
Speaker 1: with your home even risk in your life. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a video of some guy. I don't put
Speaker 1: it up on social media. I mean his house is
Speaker 1: surrounded by flames, and he's like, I'm not leaving my house,
Speaker 1: and he's out there with like a fire hose trying
Speaker 1: to fight back this fire, which I think is admirable.
Speaker 1: But I'm not so sure that any house.
Speaker 2: Is worth it.
Speaker 5: I would agree around it's not certainly not worse in
Speaker 5: your life. But I have a house that really when
Speaker 5: it was built, I was built, I was the second owner,
Speaker 5: was really built not to burn. There's metal doors, metal
Speaker 5: window frames. The only thing I had was wooden garage doores.
Speaker 5: But it's all about preparation. I have got some menu
Speaker 5: and give me seventy five foot of clearance, so there's
Speaker 5: no grass or brush or anything within seventy five feet
Speaker 5: of the house I live at on top of the hill.
Speaker 5: I have my own water system, so I've got fire hoses.
Speaker 5: I've got my own generator that so when the electricity goes,
Speaker 5: because it will go off, you still have generators to
Speaker 5: run all the pumps and do everything. I got a
Speaker 5: gas pump that will pump out of the pool and
Speaker 5: take them just shoot the water all the way over
Speaker 5: the house. I'm so scared. I got no mixing. I
Speaker 5: used to raise cars I got no mixed suits, no
Speaker 5: mixed suits, no mixed flock.
Speaker 1: You said, you sound like me. I'm like a crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, prepper when I can be. I was even
Speaker 1: crazy when I had a I had a big house.
Speaker 1: I mean I had generators galore. I had four thousand
Speaker 1: gallons of propane. Obviously, I'm a firearms enthusiast. I had
Speaker 1: emergency food and water and supplies and medical supplies.
Speaker 2: I have it all. I'm crazy.
Speaker 5: No, I don't have the food supplies, but I do
Speaker 5: have I think my house is not going to burn.
Speaker 5: It is. I will not let it burn.
Speaker 1: And because you're and you're being proactive, I mean you're
Speaker 1: taking these necessary steps. Look for example, everything's changed in
Speaker 1: Florida after that building in Miami collapsed. I mean, every
Speaker 1: every single condo building in Florida has to be up
Speaker 1: to code. And you have to be hurricane prepared, and
Speaker 1: you need hurricane windows and doors and and I think
Speaker 1: it's just the right thing to do to prepare people
Speaker 1: for a worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: But I you know, but here's the problem.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much homelessness doesn't matter, about quality
Speaker 1: of life doesn't matter, how much crime doesn't matter how many,
Speaker 1: how many.
Speaker 2: Homes might burn to the ground.
Speaker 1: In the end, it's California will remain a left wing
Speaker 1: radical haven. And I don't I don't see it ever
Speaker 1: becoming conservative again. Do you I live about twenty seconds?
Speaker 5: Yeah, now they've been I don't know, Sean. I look
Speaker 5: at California now it's gotten a lot redder. Have you noticed?
Speaker 1: I noticed, but not not read enough. I mean, I
Speaker 1: would bet every penny I have. Your next governor is
Speaker 1: going to be Kamala Harris, who, by the way, her
Speaker 1: home is under an evacuation order.
Speaker 5: Please, John, You're just ruined my days.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just telling.
Speaker 5: You to my words.
Speaker 1: All right, Caitlin Jenner, Our prayers, in all seriousness are
Speaker 1: with the people of California, regardless of the incompetence of government.
Speaker 2: They're losing.
Speaker 1: You know, their whole lives are being upended here and
Speaker 1: lives are in jeopardy. Where their prayers are with us.
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