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Speaker 2: Leonard Skinner's simple man, and that can only mean one
Speaker 2: thing on this radio program, and that is all things
Speaker 2: self proclaimed simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly,
Speaker 2: all things Bill O'Reilly. Of course you can find at
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Speaker 2: What a time we have when we speak next week,
Speaker 2: at this time, we will have a new president that
Speaker 2: will be President Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump.
Speaker 2: We have a lot to talk about. The hearings for
Speaker 2: his nominees are moving forward. Frankly, I don't see any
Speaker 2: of them not getting in at this particular time. In
Speaker 2: spite of you democratic hostility and predictable pettiness, we have
Speaker 2: this deal in Israel where hostages held by Hamas are
Speaker 2: expected to be released over the next forty two days.
Speaker 2: You got the same media acting learning nothing from the election,
Speaker 2: the wonderful, joyful people over at that hard hitting news show,
Speaker 2: the view or attacking Carrie under Would for singing America
Speaker 2: the beautiful at the Trump inauguration. You have yet to
Speaker 2: go after the village people or Rascal Flats. I guess
Speaker 2: that's next. You have President Biden and Kamala Harris, very
Speaker 2: bitter trying to sabotage the incoming Trump administration. And then
Speaker 2: we have this whole issue of wildfires in California. Is
Speaker 2: there any preference that you have where you'd like to start.
Speaker 4: I want to just make a couple of quick points
Speaker 4: on the wildfires. So I've investigated it because there's a
Speaker 4: lot of he said, she said, and that drives everybody nuts.
Speaker 4: I can't find one thing that the state of California
Speaker 4: and Gavin Newsom has done since two thy eighteen when
Speaker 4: President Trump said to them, look, you got an ongoing problem.
Speaker 4: You're not clearing your forests. It's a tinderbox out there.
Speaker 4: It's a mess. So that's a space of seven years.
Speaker 4: I can't find one thing, Hannity, that the state of
Speaker 4: California has done to mitigate the threat of wildfires. Not one.
Speaker 3: Let me take it a step further. There is a science.
Speaker 2: You can go to many top notch colleges and get
Speaker 2: a degree in forestry. I'm sure you're pretty well aware
Speaker 2: of that. Maybe you know, maybe you don't know. Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom is going to spend one hundred billion dollars on
Speaker 2: electric vehicles for green energy, but he did cut one
Speaker 2: hundred and one million dollars for fire prevention efforts from
Speaker 2: the budget, and it gets it actually gets worse than
Speaker 2: that bill, and it gets frustrating. If I were to
Speaker 2: live in California, I'd be furious. And that is, you know,
Speaker 2: one hundred billion dollars for electric vehicles. They're buying these
Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand dollars street sweepers, electric sweet street sweepers.
Speaker 2: In Los Angeles. They cut the firefighting budget in spa
Speaker 2: to the fire chief warning that they have only half
Speaker 2: the man power they would need for a wildfire, and
Speaker 2: they still cut the budget, but they have the money
Speaker 2: for the street sweepers. They're spending six hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: million federal state dollars to make the La Port go green.
Speaker 2: On top of everything else, we have fire hydrants that
Speaker 2: don't work, we had empty reservoirs. They're not practicing the
Speaker 2: basic science of forestry, which is to clean out the
Speaker 2: brush the kindling for such fires. And similarly have these
Speaker 2: controlled burns with which they used to do more regularly,
Speaker 2: and they're not doing anymore for environmental reasons. But I
Speaker 2: wouldn't imagine the air quality is too good in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles right now.
Speaker 4: So with all of that. I guess you agree with me.
Speaker 4: But they've done to mitigate any threat of any fun
Speaker 4: in California.
Speaker 2: Well, do you want to give you one little tidbit?
Speaker 2: It'll probably make your head explode. I mean, I'll be
Speaker 2: glad to Do you know one of the reasons why
Speaker 2: this all happened? And do you know that the reason
Speaker 2: that they stopped a lot of fire prevention efforts was
Speaker 2: to protect a little bush that I've never heard of before?
Speaker 3: Did you know that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you say a little bush and you don't
Speaker 4: mean a political family, you mean a shrub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a shrub, I mean a plant. For crying
Speaker 2: out loud, man, it wasn't weed. I mean, they have
Speaker 2: no problem with weed out there, all right, So they
Speaker 2: have plenty of money for sanctuary states and cities.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I got a lot of weed which you're
Speaker 4: selling in the stores. But look when you break it
Speaker 4: down like that and you say to the people of California,
Speaker 4: are you mad? Are you angry? I don't know. If
Speaker 4: the election were held tomorrow, Gavin Newsome against Garvey Right
Speaker 4: or anybody any Republican, I think some might still win.
Speaker 3: I think absolutely you'd win.
Speaker 2: And I hate to tell the people in California, and
Speaker 2: I would imagine of the what fourteen thousand structures burned,
Speaker 2: that many of those people are going to leave the state.
Speaker 2: There's my prediction too. But I bet if there was
Speaker 2: an election and Kamala Harris was on the ballot to
Speaker 2: replace Gavin, and I think there are two peas in
Speaker 2: a pod, I think she'd win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So then you classify the situation as hopeless and
Speaker 4: you say, look, the primary reason of any government, local,
Speaker 4: state or federal is to protect the citizens. But the
Speaker 4: progressives don't see it that way. They think that their
Speaker 4: primary reason is to virtue signal and to have all
Speaker 4: kinds of theoretical programs where they spend money, most of
Speaker 4: which doesn't do any good at all, and you leave
Speaker 4: the citizens exposed to danger and horror. And that's what
Speaker 4: it is. So, you know, we have fifty states and
Speaker 4: Americans can live in any state they want. But if
Speaker 4: I'm in California, I'm packing my bags. And we got
Speaker 4: a similar situation New York. And you used to live
Speaker 4: here and now you live in Florida.
Speaker 2: But why aren't you packing your bags out of New York.
Speaker 2: I've asked you this question, and you heard the state
Speaker 2: of the State addressed by Kathy Halkel Yesterday's She's not
Speaker 2: going to lift a finger to fix the state of
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: Why do you stay because I.
Speaker 4: Got family stuff here and I am It's.
Speaker 3: Called Jet Blue, Bill, you get on Jet Blue.
Speaker 2: There are more flights to Florida from New York than
Speaker 2: you could ever shake a stick.
Speaker 4: Hut. Look, I don't have four days to fly from
Speaker 4: Miami to New York on Jet Blue. And that's how
Speaker 4: long it takes. That's the worst there line in the war.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: You can take Delta, you can take America and every
Speaker 2: airline out there flies from New York to Florida.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I read it. I read it.
Speaker 4: Go on a pogo stick and fly gyp.
Speaker 2: They have TVs. You take a nine o'clock flight. Get
Speaker 2: to watch me in the process.
Speaker 4: I always watch you. So that let's go to the
Speaker 4: headset situation. So I don't know him. I left Fox
Speaker 4: when he I guess he was coming, but I've never
Speaker 4: met him really face to face, and I was surprised
Speaker 4: that Trump nominated him. The main reason I was surprised
Speaker 4: was he doesn't have any administrative experience in the Pentagon's
Speaker 4: the biggest corporation in the world. So if I'm a
Speaker 4: senator sitting there, that's in the uppermost of my mind. Okay,
Speaker 4: can this guy run the Pentagon so it doesn't descend
Speaker 4: it to chaos? And he would have to convince me
Speaker 4: of that if I were a senator. But that's not
Speaker 4: what the hearings were all about. The hearings weren't about
Speaker 4: that at all. It was all partisanship and on both sides,
Speaker 4: and that's not helping out. So I wanted to hear
Speaker 4: with heg said had to say about how he would
Speaker 4: reorganize the Defence Department. What he would say isn't allowed
Speaker 4: any longer. And you would think that the woke stuff
Speaker 4: would go flying right out the window, because I think
Speaker 4: that most Americans would back that. All right, That's what
Speaker 4: I wanted to hear it, But you didn't hear it.
Speaker 4: You're heard all of this stuff that designed to smear
Speaker 4: him and hurt him and hurt his family from the
Speaker 4: Democrats and from the Republicans. Here, none of it matters.
Speaker 4: If Trump wants them, he's good and I don't think
Speaker 4: that's healthy for the country. You know, I think that
Speaker 4: we should be starting to see.
Speaker 2: Would why would you ever having done this for as
Speaker 2: long as we both have done this, why would you
Speaker 2: expect anything other than what was unfolding yesterday. I would
Speaker 2: have liked to have heard about how we would invest
Speaker 2: in the technology, maybe using artificial intelligence to assist us
Speaker 2: in really creating an iron dome to protect the entire country,
Speaker 2: considering the level of sophistication of the weaponry that is
Speaker 2: already out there in the world. They didn't bring any
Speaker 2: of that up.
Speaker 4: No, and that's why Trump and people have forgotten this
Speaker 4: form the Space Force. So you remember before he left
Speaker 4: in his first term, he allotted money to the Defense
Speaker 4: Department for the Space Force that disappeared. Okay, nobody even
Speaker 4: remembers that, but that was designed to do just what
Speaker 4: you said. Now, does Peter haig Seth know that I
Speaker 4: don't know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I can tell you because I've had long conversations with him,
Speaker 2: and the main focus of our conversations has been the
Speaker 2: gap of vulnerability. As I mentioned, the next generation of warfare.
Speaker 2: We have talked about DEI and our recruitment levels the
Speaker 2: way down. Those have been the main topics of discussion
Speaker 2: and he also has other people behind him, people that
Speaker 2: most people don't know have been appointed. I believe the
Speaker 2: number two you probably know him, Steve Finberg, who ran
Speaker 2: a multi multi billionaire. He ran a company, Serberus. He's
Speaker 2: a blue collar billionaire. He drives like an old pickup truck.
Speaker 2: And I've known him for many, many years. And he
Speaker 2: was on the Civilian Intelligence Board and as top security clearance.
Speaker 2: And if you want somebody involved in advanced technology in
Speaker 2: the military and procurement, that's your guy.
Speaker 4: Well it's good to hear. But I didn't know any
Speaker 4: of that, and the American people didn't know any of that,
Speaker 4: and we didn't get any of that from the Senate.
Speaker 4: So the main arch of this discussion for me is
Speaker 4: the Senate is now tribal and they are caring about,
Speaker 4: you know, presenting evidence to the American people, good and bad.
Speaker 4: Now I don't think RFK Junior is going to be confirmed,
Speaker 4: so the others will be. I think Haig Seth will
Speaker 4: make it by one vote.
Speaker 3: I'll take your bet.
Speaker 4: I don't you take my bet.
Speaker 3: I'll take the bet. How much you want to bet.
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Speaker 3: I cook my own food.
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Speaker 4: If I lose a bet, I can't cook anything but
Speaker 4: microwave popcorn.
Speaker 3: So you can, I'll cook. I'll cook you either way.
Speaker 3: How's that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all I can do.
Speaker 3: But anyway, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: I can't make you like my Hannity pork ribs. I
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Speaker 2: I can't make you know something that would that would
Speaker 2: if you like fish, you know, the best salmon you've
Speaker 2: ever had in your life?
Speaker 4: Well, you can make it if you want to, and
Speaker 4: I'll i'll if it's free, I'm gonna eat it. That's
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Speaker 4: I'm not you know, wet it in?
Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 4: Do you think is gonna get confirmed?
Speaker 2: I do believe in the end he's going to be
Speaker 2: confirmed because I've had conversations. Everything that you probably have
Speaker 2: read about him has been mischaracterized. Now, for example, his
Speaker 2: boss eats McDonald's, KFC and and pizza on a regular basis. Right,
Speaker 2: He's not going to ban any of those things. He's
Speaker 2: not going to ban soft drinks, He's not gonna ban vaccines.
Speaker 2: He's not going to take a different position than the
Speaker 2: president on the president's stated position on abortion, and all
Speaker 2: of that will come out in the hearings. What he
Speaker 2: will do will he will produce non farmer meaning the
Speaker 2: pharmaceutical industry, scientific information to help inform the American people
Speaker 2: on what is healthy and not healthy. Certain things will
Speaker 2: get banned, like you know, red dye number three and
Speaker 2: things that are known to cause cancer. But short of that,
Speaker 2: he's going to give people the choice to decide for themselves.
Speaker 2: If you want to get a quarter pound to a
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Speaker 3: How about it?
Speaker 4: Here's the problem. He has said so many things that
Speaker 4: are off the wall in his past that that's all
Speaker 4: you're going to hear about. And the Republicans are going
Speaker 4: to be on the defensive there. And I know for
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Speaker 4: So I don't think he's going to get through. But
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to the dinner and you know me,
Speaker 4: I'm good for it.
Speaker 2: If I lose, I think Tulsi's going to have a
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Speaker 3: I think she'll get.
Speaker 4: Through it too, because Tolsi Gabbard is entitled to her opinion,
Speaker 4: and if she comes into the hearings and say, look,
Speaker 4: I've changed my opinion, and here's why I think she'll
Speaker 4: sail through. Pam Bondi did well today. I can hardly
Speaker 4: watch it because of the partisanship. But she was very
Speaker 4: relaxed and presented himself very well, gap very talented in
Speaker 4: that area. She knows how to do.
Speaker 3: She was amazing.
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Speaker 2: working every day to remember the forgotten man. This is
Speaker 2: the Seanannity Show. You know, I still cannot get over
Speaker 2: the catastrophe, the unmitigated disaster that has been Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: We still have a good percentage of these fires that
Speaker 2: are not contained, even at this late date. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's hard to it's it's hard to wrap your mind around,
Speaker 2: isn't it. And I was looking at the coverage of
Speaker 2: what's going on out there today and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: just I cannot believe that the reservoir at the Santa
Speaker 2: Inez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisade was empty and nobody
Speaker 2: seemed to care. I can't believe that they have fire
Speaker 2: hydrants that didn't have water in them and didn't work,
Speaker 2: and the answer, well, they're not designed for wildfires. What
Speaker 2: are they designed for? And what is your plan for wildfires?
Speaker 2: I can't believe that that was the situation. I can't
Speaker 2: believe that a lot of the science of forestry was
Speaker 2: not used to protect a little shrub as we learned
Speaker 2: yesterday and gave you a great specificity in detail, something
Speaker 2: I'd never heard of. You know, only seventeen percent of
Speaker 2: the Pacific Palisades fire week after broke out, only seventeen
Speaker 2: percent of it is contained. You know, we're looking at
Speaker 2: more than forty thousand acres of southern California have been
Speaker 2: a blaze now in recent weeks. And yeah, and now
Speaker 2: we still have more days of Santa Ana wins. All
Speaker 2: of this is predictable, All of this is preventable. And
Speaker 2: you know, out in Los Angeles residents they're furious, but
Speaker 2: you want to bet any amount of money that they
Speaker 2: probably would re elect Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and they'll probably elect Kamala Harris after Gavin Newsom leaves
Speaker 2: office at the end of his second term, because I
Speaker 2: think the bet would be, you know, a pretty darn
Speaker 2: good bet. And then it even gets worse out there
Speaker 2: because now we have issues involving looting where these you know,
Speaker 2: these people are taking advantage and they're going out there,
Speaker 2: you know, targeting abandoned homes, and you've got another problem
Speaker 2: of price gouging. People are are, for example, they're jacking
Speaker 2: up the prices of water and bare necessities. That that
Speaker 2: can't happen is a very big distinction. Nobody has to
Speaker 2: live in Los Angeles and the proximity near where the
Speaker 2: fires were and the homes that survived, nobody that does
Speaker 2: not need to happen. People can move further out and
Speaker 2: get different places. In my view, Milton's Stumpess is a
Speaker 2: Premier netw work. iHeartRadio is our parent company of the
Speaker 2: Premiere Radio network. He is a salesperson. He is one
Speaker 2: of the people, you know, the fourteen fifteen thousand people
Speaker 2: that lost the structure of most of them homes. Anyway, Milton,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry my heart goes out to you and
Speaker 2: your family, and your friends and your neighbors and everybody
Speaker 2: that is suffering out there, And I would argue suffering needlessly.
Speaker 2: I think this could have all been prevented.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean, I appreciate it. My wife here is with me, Julie,
Speaker 1: and we have just been you know, our hearts are
Speaker 1: full with all the love and support and prayers, and
Speaker 1: it really is you know, helped keep us strong. So
Speaker 1: thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it really is amazing to me. I
Speaker 2: mean when you discovered, when did you first hear that
Speaker 2: the reservoir was empty? When did you first discover that
Speaker 2: fire hydrants didn't work? You know, what did you make
Speaker 2: of you know, the fact when you learn that out
Speaker 2: in California they're spending an absolute fortune on electric what
Speaker 2: do you call the street sweepers, and over one hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars on electric vehicles in the state, and they
Speaker 2: cut one hundred and one million from the state firefighting budget.
Speaker 2: They don't practice the science of forestry. They don't do
Speaker 2: the controlled burns, they don't clear out the brush the
Speaker 2: kindling for these fires.
Speaker 3: I mean, as you've learned.
Speaker 2: More since all of this occurred, and you lost every
Speaker 2: possession you ever had in that house and now you've got,
Speaker 2: you know, your life upbended in ways that most people
Speaker 2: can't imagine. When you learn all of that, I would
Speaker 2: think I'd be pretty angry. Are you guys angry? Because
Speaker 2: I'd be pretty angry.
Speaker 1: We're furious, Sean. You know, we're responsible. We've lived in
Speaker 1: this neighborhood twenty three years and just to give you
Speaker 1: some perspective of where we live, we're on a street,
Speaker 1: a very small street, on the top of the Timiscal
Speaker 1: Canyon Gateway Park, a street called Rimmer, and we had
Speaker 1: direct line of sight to not only where the fire originated,
Speaker 1: but over the twenty three years we've lived there, we've
Speaker 1: seen tons of fires like this and almost in every case,
Speaker 1: you know, the the air assets are right on it.
Speaker 1: There's trucks all over the place, this, that, and the
Speaker 1: other thing. Yeah, we have a fire hydrant forever house.
Speaker 1: Every single year, we religiously and we have to is
Speaker 1: we clear the hillside, we fin out the yuke, We
Speaker 1: dead brush all the you know, any other trees in
Speaker 1: and around the area. And on top of that, you know,
Speaker 1: on top of the property taxes which should go to
Speaker 1: support the fire department, police of course, and keeping us
Speaker 1: safe and keeping our properties safe. We have assessments for
Speaker 1: open spaces which is sold as fire clearance and abatement,
Speaker 1: and you know, park maintenance and this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: I will tell you that this, this area behind our house,
Speaker 1: this Santa Monica Nature Conservancy was a freaking tinderbox. And
Speaker 1: we saw the fire. I started documenting it at around
Speaker 1: ten thirty seven am. The first air asse that I
Speaker 1: saw was around twelve thirty Palisades Highland. I mean I
Speaker 1: saw all these neighborhoods burned. I saw the Palisades Highland burn,
Speaker 1: I saw the mal Media area right across Mescal Canyon
Speaker 1: from us burning. I did not see a single truck,
Speaker 1: a single firefighter the entire day until we got off
Speaker 1: our hill, and I did see. I did see a
Speaker 1: couple of DWP trucks though, and they control both our
Speaker 1: water and power. They were not looking overhead at our
Speaker 1: overhead lines. They were all stationed in and around water
Speaker 1: shut off valve areas, and so all of this is
Speaker 1: just maddening. After you know, hearing about no water in
Speaker 1: the you know, no water available to the fire department
Speaker 1: and that's I guess one of the reasons why they
Speaker 1: didn't deploy. I mean, we thought, we thought for sure
Speaker 1: we would have a fighting chance with a truck on
Speaker 1: our block and the foss check line being drawn or
Speaker 1: something helping us. But we were sitting freaking duck stron.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really is remarkable. And when did you
Speaker 2: finally make the decision you had to get out?
Speaker 1: We you know, luckily, my wife and I took cert
Speaker 1: training because basically the fire department that teaches us this
Speaker 1: basically said, you know what, you guys are probably with
Speaker 1: the major event, and we're thinking earthquake, right, We're going
Speaker 1: to be alone and we're going to have to fend
Speaker 1: for ourselves. So we all all of our neighbors on
Speaker 1: the street got together and made sure that everybody was
Speaker 1: able to get out of there with their lives, and
Speaker 1: my wife and I were one of the last to
Speaker 1: leave our streets with an older neighbor and a police
Speaker 1: car behind us at about just a little under four PM.
Speaker 1: My wife and I tried to get back into the
Speaker 1: neighborhood at five PM, and that was our last attempt
Speaker 1: because at that point, our entire neighborhood was involved in flames.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, welcome back. One of the victims
Speaker 2: of the Pacific Palisades fires happens to work with our
Speaker 2: company iHeart Media and Premiere Radio Networks, Milton stump As
Speaker 2: he lost everything.
Speaker 3: As we continue.
Speaker 2: On the Sean Hannity Show, a place where free speech
Speaker 2: and the First Amendment are still alive and well. Liberalism
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Speaker 3: With Sean Hannity, more with Milton Stumpus.
Speaker 2: He works with us at iHeart and Premiere Radio Networks,
Speaker 2: and he was one of the victims, his entire home
Speaker 2: burn of the ground in the Pacific Palisades. As we
Speaker 2: discussed the real impact on real people and of course
Speaker 2: the failure year of government on every level. Do you
Speaker 2: know where you lived in Pacific Palisades. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: the LA Department of Water and Power began replacing nearly
Speaker 2: one hundred year old power lines cutting through Topanga State Park.
Speaker 2: When the project was stopped within days of starting by environmentalists.
Speaker 2: They were outraged that the federally endangered Broughton's milk vetched
Speaker 2: plants had been trampled on during the process. The whole
Speaker 2: purpose of the project was to improve fire safety for
Speaker 2: the Pacific Palisades area by replacing wooden poles, which steel,
Speaker 2: widening fire access lanes in the area, installing wind and
Speaker 2: fire resistant power lines, all after the area was identified
Speaker 2: as having an elevated fire risk. This project will help
Speaker 2: ensure power reliability and safety and help reduce wildfire threats.
Speaker 2: They said at the time. It was stopped within days
Speaker 2: because of radical environmentalists. Now do you even know what
Speaker 2: a Bronten milk fetch is because it looks to me
Speaker 2: like a weed, I.
Speaker 1: John, I doubt, and I wonder how they're doing at
Speaker 1: this time in my neighborhood right because there's I don't
Speaker 1: see a single thing that's living well.
Speaker 2: The governor cut and slashed one hundred and one million
Speaker 2: dollars in June from the firefighting effort budget that you
Speaker 2: guys have out there. The Mayor's cut it by just
Speaker 2: millions of dollars prior to this, but they had six
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million state and federal dollars to make
Speaker 2: La Port the Laport green. They have over a billion
Speaker 2: dollars that they put aside, which kind of shocked me
Speaker 2: for electric vehicles on a state level, and in LA
Speaker 2: you're paying for these green energy sweepers that street sweepers
Speaker 2: rather than cost eight hundred grand apiece.
Speaker 3: Did you know any of that?
Speaker 1: You know what I have because we followed that. Thank
Speaker 1: you for bringing that up. So this, I think, this thing,
Speaker 1: what we've gone through in the Palisades is going to
Speaker 1: be unprecedented in the in the regard as the toxins
Speaker 1: are so unbelievable because there were so many evs there,
Speaker 1: those EV charging stations, solar panels, and basically it's with
Speaker 1: all the lithian ion that has been burning like crazy.
Speaker 1: I remember the I fifteen was closed for like almost
Speaker 1: a month when one truck with evy with the batteries
Speaker 1: spilled over and it took them like a month to
Speaker 1: put the fire out. This entire neighborhood Sean is covered
Speaker 1: with lithian ions that have been burning. The ground is
Speaker 1: probably going to be having to be you know, managed
Speaker 1: by some kind of super fun site because it is
Speaker 1: extremely toxic.
Speaker 2: Right now, what are your plans? I mean, obviously it's now.
Speaker 2: Gavin did say that he would try to expedite the
Speaker 2: building process, the rebuilding process for people, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's an insurance problem out there. What are your plans?
Speaker 2: Are you going to stay in California? Are you going
Speaker 2: to sell off you a lot? Are you going to rebuild?
Speaker 2: And how long is that going to take? What are
Speaker 2: your plans?
Speaker 1: Our mor neighbors that you know work together to get
Speaker 1: everybody out alive. We all kind of have formed a
Speaker 1: text thread and we're communicating and so far everybody appears
Speaker 1: to want to and we included is rebuild. And here's
Speaker 1: my thought on that. Because you've got the twenty eight
Speaker 1: Olympics coming to Los Angeles. They do not want to
Speaker 1: lose the Olympics. You've got Rick Caruso, who you know,
Speaker 1: with his own money, saved his own village because you know,
Speaker 1: he brought in his own water trucks, tanker trucks, and
Speaker 1: he had a private fire department. And with all the
Speaker 1: other people that are literally the movers and shakers of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, many in California and you know this country
Speaker 1: that have lost their homes, their kids have lost their
Speaker 1: homes and schools, et cetera. I think there's going to
Speaker 1: be an all hands on deck rebuild effort to get
Speaker 1: this thing up and running, and you know what I
Speaker 1: would like to be a part of, you know, rebuilding
Speaker 1: a neighborhood that's very important to Los Angeles. It's amazing
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles that it doesn't necessarily have million and billionaires.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you an honest question, why would you
Speaker 2: bother to stay out there? You pay the highest taxes
Speaker 2: in the entire country, and this is the type of
Speaker 2: service you get, and this is now the biggest project
Speaker 2: you're going to take on in your adult life. Why
Speaker 2: I I mean, these are the reasons I got out
Speaker 2: of New York right and I've been gone for a
Speaker 2: full year and I'm now my second year full time
Speaker 2: in Florida. I left, I sold everything, handed my gun
Speaker 2: license back, I de registered to vote.
Speaker 3: You know, I just disconnected. But you're going to this
Speaker 3: sounds like you're going to stay.
Speaker 1: Well, if you know what, I'm cautiously optimistic. If this
Speaker 1: does not change policy with forest management, with water management,
Speaker 1: including you know, the reservoirs and not blowing up dams
Speaker 1: and all of those things, and staffing protective services that
Speaker 1: will keep citizens alive and the property safe. If that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, then you know, like you we just may
Speaker 1: tap out, you know, because it.
Speaker 4: Won't worth it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I have to go through all of any
Speaker 2: of it, and I'm sorry for your neighbors, and i'm sorry,
Speaker 2: sorry for every victim here and I mean that with
Speaker 2: all my heart and I wish you the best and
Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll make the right decision for you.
Speaker 3: Hi Palm, Thank you, Sean hanging in there.