1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: The Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: This is off, but Chief also checks another box when 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She's 5 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: a proud member of the LGBTQ community. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 3: That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh, 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 3: I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 4: I have a. 9 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 5: We have worked since early this morning on this evening 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 5: show trying to understand these fires. More importantly, I'm less 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 5: interested in the fire itself as a as a as 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 5: a physical phenomenon, and I am much more interested in where. 13 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: Government has failed. 14 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 5: And this is not to me a political football to 15 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 5: be used to win elections, except for the fact that 16 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 5: the failures by Democrats are for very foreseeable and predictable reasons. 17 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 5: Let's take the case of Karen Bass, who was a 18 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 5: congressman who was on Joe Biden's short list to be 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 5: his vice president, but her praise for Fidel Castro and 20 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 5: her avowed Communist sympathies prevented that. She is a ridiculously 21 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 5: stupid person. And guess what a person can be black 22 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 5: and also happened to be stupid, and I can point 23 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 5: it out without people needing to be upset. Now, if 24 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 5: they choose to be upset, that's their business. But don't 25 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 5: you cringe because she is stupid. I wish she was white. 26 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 5: I wish she was a man. Because nobody's mad at 27 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 5: me for calling Governor Goodhair Gavin Newsom out for his 28 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 5: stupidity and his bad policies and politics. Nobody's mad about that. 29 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 5: You're okay with me criticizing him or Joe Biden. But 30 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 5: when it's a black woman, A lot of people on 31 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 5: our side, they hold back. But you shouldn't because what 32 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 5: you're seeing right now are real repercussions. Sky News reporter, 33 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 5: Why did it have to be a Sky News reporter? 34 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 5: Why is it not a local reporter who cares so 35 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 5: much about Los Angeles that they ask these tough questions. 36 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 5: But here we are, here we are, That's that's where 37 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 5: we've arrived. Here's sky News reporter. Here is the Sky 38 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 5: News reporter peppering Los Angeles Mayor Karen bass. 39 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 4: Dos an apology for being absent while their homes were burning. 40 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 4: Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions 41 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 4: of dollars? 42 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 6: Madam Mayr. Have you nothing to say today? 43 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 4: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 44 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 4: Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering 45 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: your position, Madam Mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say 46 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 4: to the citizens today? You're dealing with this disaster. There's 47 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 4: no apology for them. Do you think you should have 48 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 4: been visiting Ghano while this was unfolding? 49 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: Back home? 50 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 6: Adam Mayor? 51 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 4: Let me ask you just again, have you anything to 52 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 4: say to the citizens today. 53 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 6: As you returned, Madam Mayor, just a. 54 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 4: Few words for the citizen today as you return to 55 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 4: the catastrophe. 56 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 3: David, As you say, she wasn't very keen to answer 57 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 3: any of your questions. There and five chiefs are also 58 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 3: admitting that they just don't have enough personnel to take 59 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: out the fires. 60 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're fighting all sorts of challenges. They're talking about 61 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 4: a water shortage, there are reports of far hydrant failures. 62 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 4: They've been on able to use fire fighting aircraft for 63 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 4: much of the day due to the smoke that is 64 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 4: billowing ominously from the hills where the wildfires are raging. 65 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 4: And I suppose despite that political storm, this is, of course, 66 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 4: at its heart a human story because with now eighty 67 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 4: thousand people evacuated, tens of thousands of others are on 68 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 4: standby to be evacuated. Two lives have been lost in 69 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 4: the Eaton fire, which is what's causing the consequence behind us. 70 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 4: The city's iconic landscape almost shrouded completely by the smoke, 71 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 4: and they're really just taking it one step at a time, 72 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 4: hoping at some stage the wind going to change direction 73 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 4: or to die on and that they're going to be 74 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 4: able to get this fire under control. 75 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 5: The Rick Caruso, successful real estate developer in Los Angeles, 76 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 5: called in to Box eleven and said, we're out of water. 77 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 5: Then the anchor there at the station said no. 78 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. 79 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 5: Firefighters had told us we're out of water. And then 80 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 5: the reporter out in the field said, yeah, they're they're 81 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 5: telling us they're out of water. 82 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: Can you imagine the most basic service you heard? 83 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 5: Gary of Gary and Samantha Morning Show in Los Angeles 84 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,559 Speaker 5: on our sister station k if I. His co host, 85 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 5: Samantha Shannon Sorry said, you know, I don't need the 86 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 5: government to do all the variety programs to travel to 87 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 5: Ghana to you know, all these little silly things that 88 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 5: they spend their time on. I just need them to 89 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 5: take care of police, fire, roads, and water. That's all 90 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 5: I need the government to do. And if you're doing 91 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 5: all those other things, then you're not able to do this. 92 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: Well. 93 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 5: Remember the time James Clyburn was on MSNBC. He chaired 94 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 5: Joe Biden's campaign in South Carolina and stole that state 95 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 5: for him. Allegedly, he was on MSNBC gas lighting viewers 96 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 5: about inflation. Oh, you think inflation is a problem, And 97 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 5: then remember this. 98 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 7: There are concern about things like inflation. But what we've 99 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 7: got to get them to see is an inflation today 100 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 7: is about forty percent of what it was when Joe 101 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 7: Biden took office, and so the inflation rates are down 102 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 7: and people's incomes are up. Unemployment is on the decrease, 103 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 7: and although we see the prices at the stores costing 104 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 7: more money, people are. 105 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: In fact earning greater incomes. 106 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 7: So what we've got to do is make sure that 107 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 7: people see the policies of the Biden administration how they 108 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 7: affect their everyday lives, and get them to see in 109 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 7: his policies that which is real, not what they may 110 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 7: here on social media. One of the focused group. People 111 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 7: talked about social media and the misrepresentation, disinformation. All of 112 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 7: those things are out there, and that's the battle that 113 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 7: we have to fight, and we've got to do a 114 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 7: better job of fighting it more effectively. 115 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 5: Oh, you think you can't afford your groceries. You think 116 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 5: everything costs more, but you're not making more and you're suffering. Hey, housewife, 117 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 5: trying to keep it all together, keep your kids fed. 118 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 2: You think that it's harder than it was. 119 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 5: Did you hear that there's inflation and your bill is 120 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 5: much higher than it used to be When you don't 121 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 5: buy anything new. 122 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 2: That's not true. Just telling you it's not true. This 123 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 2: is called gaslighting. 124 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 5: You know where terms comes from a movie called Gaslight, 125 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 5: where a woman was driven crazy by her husband who 126 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 5: would turn off the light and she would He would say, oh, 127 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 5: you think it's turned off. No, it isn't happening. You're 128 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 5: going crazy. 129 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 8: The Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mitz Michael Ferry, 130 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 8: which has a beautiful way. 131 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 2: Our guest is Colonel Kert Schlichter. 132 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 5: Some of you know him from the airwaves, some of 133 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 5: you know him from townhall dot com. Some of you 134 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 5: know him from his many, many wonderful, entertaining, engaging, big selling, 135 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 5: best selling books, or you may know him a hundred 136 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 5: other ways. He is an army veteran, he's a conservative commentator, 137 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 5: and I'm proud to say he's a friend. And he's 138 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 5: also married to a nice girl with the family in Texas, 139 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 5: which gives him extra credibility. For me, it's always fun 140 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 5: to give him recommendations on steakhouses when he comes to town, 141 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,479 Speaker 5: because we are a steakhouse. 142 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 2: Town is Houston. 143 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 5: But he is our guest today for the reason that 144 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 5: he is a California resident and very close to the fires. 145 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 5: First of all, Kirk, how close are you to the 146 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 5: fires where you live? 147 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 9: Well, well, technically, I'm also a Texas resident. 148 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 8: I just bought a house in Houston, so I thought 149 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 8: you were going to I would be commuting. I did 150 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 8: it promptly, busts a pipe and it's now being rebuilt 151 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 8: by some of your great craftsmen there. 152 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 6: So I'm in California. 153 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 8: I am at the moment in Manhattan Beach, which is 154 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 8: near where I live. I was just out on the 155 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 8: pier looking north at the fires, and I got to 156 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 8: tell you it's smoke wall. The wall I can't. I 157 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,119 Speaker 8: can't see it anymore. 158 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 6: It is that bad. 159 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 5: So I figure people can see the footage, which is 160 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 5: very compelling on the television. If they're listening to us, 161 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 5: I'd like to give them things they won't know. Let's 162 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 5: start with, how much do we know about how this 163 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 5: thing started? And what would you say has been their response? 164 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 5: I mean, obviously the mayor is Karen bass is an idiot. 165 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 2: We knew that. 166 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 5: Are praise of Fidel Castro. They're running a DEI program 167 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 5: out of the fire department. As we've discussed earlier. Everyone's 168 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 5: named Kristin and they're all lesbians, and all they want 169 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 5: to do is bring in more lesbians into the fire 170 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 5: department rather than fighting fires. We know Adam Carolla seven 171 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 5: years ago applied to be a firefighter and they told him, now, 172 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 5: we don't need white males around here. 173 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: We just want a bunch of lesbians named Kristin. 174 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 5: It's very weird, but it's not surprising because the same 175 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 5: thing has happened to Houston and New Orleans and Baltimore. 176 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 5: In Philadelphia, it's just that it's at a moment like 177 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 5: this that innocent citizens have every right to expect that 178 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 5: their taxes went to a fire department in a city 179 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 5: that prepared for moments like this, and they seemingly haven't 180 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 5: your thoughts. 181 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 9: Well, keep in mind, these innocent citizens. 182 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 8: Are also the people who vote for these Democrats Pacific 183 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 8: palisades which burned out, And again I'm I'm I'm not 184 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 8: dancing on the ashes. I'm simply pointing out a fact 185 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 8: they supported with their money, their votes, and their showbiz credibility. 186 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 8: The very same leftists who decided that it was more 187 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 8: important to have a bunch of unattractive lesbians. I mean, 188 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 8: if it was lipstick lesbians, I'd be more down with it, Michael, 189 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 8: but it's not. I mean, they're frankly lesbians of halfed 190 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 8: so they check the fat box too. They have tolerated 191 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 8: a entirely Democrat political system from their city council all 192 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 8: the way up to Governor Gavin Hairstyle, and this incompetence 193 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 8: is the result. And I was pointing out for my 194 00:11:56,120 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 8: wife today, how it's very interesting that we're getting there's 195 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 8: the same vibe here as there is in England with 196 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 8: the giant mass rape scandal. The liberal elite creates this 197 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 8: giant problem and then gets really angry when you point 198 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 8: it out, and in fact, the problem is not actually 199 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 8: the problem, like the inability to prepare for a fire, 200 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 8: for the inability to. 201 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 6: Protect your kids. 202 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 8: The problem is us noticing their failures and attempting to 203 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 8: hold them accountable in their minds. I may write about 204 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 8: this a town home next week, this kind of fire, 205 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 8: that kind of abuse in England, the kind of crime 206 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 8: you see in New York City on the subways. That's 207 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 8: a small price to pay for their glorious leadership. We 208 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 8: peasants should just shut up and be grateful. Apparently, but 209 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 8: sadly the US peasants are revolting. 210 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you and I share I don't know 211 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 5: that we've ever disagreed on an issue. You and I 212 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 5: share a belief, you know, a cynicism toward government, a 213 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 5: sort of celebration of the individual. But there are rare 214 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 5: cases that become the case that government is needed, a 215 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 5: collective response is needed, and law. You and I believe 216 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 5: that the private sector should solve all the problems. This 217 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 5: is one of those cases where you have every expectation 218 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 5: that all the money you've poured into government should go toward, oh, 219 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 5: I don't know, keeping riots from occurring and keeping fires 220 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 5: from burning down palisades. 221 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is awful. 222 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 5: And tragic in a way that when you get down 223 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 5: to the anecdotal individual level, it just breaks your heart. 224 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:39,599 Speaker 6: It's horrifying. 225 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 8: And I'm as a conservative, you know, I was in 226 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 8: the army for twenty seven years. Obviously I believe there 227 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 8: are some things we need to do together through our government. 228 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 8: There is a reason to have government. You keep law 229 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 8: and order, you secure borders, you you have the capacity 230 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 8: to fight mass disasters, and you know, these are basic 231 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 8: things that government should do. 232 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 6: Have you noticed that our liberal elite. 233 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 8: Can't do these basic things, But they're really good at 234 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 8: things they shouldn't. 235 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 6: Be doing, like, oh, I don't. 236 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 8: Know, hiring people because of their race, sex, gender, or weight. 237 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 6: It's it's not only. 238 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 8: That these people are misguided and obnoxious, they're bad at 239 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 8: their jobs. 240 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're. 241 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 8: There are governing elite. It's like it's the West Wing 242 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 8: was replaying seventy's glorious liberal you know, go getters. It 243 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 8: was Larry Kirkley and Moe and probably be more entertaining too. 244 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 6: But the fact is they're not the Elite's not elite. 245 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 5: They Daniel Greenfield who's a journalist and part of the 246 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 5: Daniel David Horwitz Freedom Center. 247 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 2: He posted a tweet or today. 248 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 5: I don't know if you've seen it, but he said, 249 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 5: the Los Angeles Fire Department is very diverse. It's run 250 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 5: by lesbian's named Kristin. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 251 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: Meet the team. 252 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 5: Here's Kristin Crowley, first LGBTQ fire chief, four hundred and 253 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 5: forty thousand dollars Harvard Business School mission quote the creation 254 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 5: of systemic equity and inclusion across the LAFD. Number two 255 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 5: Christine Kapner, first lesbian Assistant fire Chief of the Los 256 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 5: Angeles Fire Department, Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations. 257 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 5: Greatest accomplishment accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. 258 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 5: Number three Christine Larson, lafd's first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief 259 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 5: pay four hundred thousand, co founder of Equity on Fire. 260 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 5: Got the job by constantly accusing the lad of being 261 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 5: racist and sexist. Number four Jamie Brown, first LAFD Lesbian 262 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 5: Training Commander. Greatest accomplishment not being named Kristin. Christine Christina 263 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 5: the old Los Angeles Fire Department was not diverse. It 264 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 5: was run by white men. It's now run by lesbian's 265 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 5: name Kristin. The LAFD is much worse at fighting fires, 266 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 5: but at least it asks the fires. 267 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 2: For their pronouns. 268 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 5: First, we'll continue our conversation with my friend Colonel Kurt 269 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 5: Schleister about what's going on in Los Angeles with the fires. 270 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 6: From the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry. 271 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 8: You're the kind of guy. 272 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 2: You're like a smacking an ass. 273 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 8: Back to Los Angeles, I mean, bad choices along the way. 274 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, life Angels. So let me ask you, Kurt. You're 275 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 5: a smart guy when it comes to politics. You're an 276 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 5: organizational guy. In addition to being a very sucessful lawyer. 277 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 5: You're an army colonel and you're still involved with that. 278 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 5: You understand leadership, you understand management, you understand organizations. Do 279 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 5: you think it's possible because you can't change the demographics 280 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 5: of a city. You can't fix Baltimore, you can't fix Philly, 281 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 5: you can't fix New Orleans because you don't have enough 282 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 5: citizens in those places to elect a person on the 283 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 5: right basis. 284 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 9: Right, that's true. 285 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 6: You have driven out all the normal people. 286 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't think you can ever fix San Francisco, 287 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 5: although they did at least recall their district attorney. 288 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 2: How bad is it possible? 289 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 5: I mean, you have had Reordan, you know, you have 290 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 5: had Republican mayors, for what that's worth. And Schwarzenegger did 291 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 5: come in in the state and get elected, even though 292 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 5: that was more about star power and a weird recall. 293 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: But is there any hope that politically you can change 294 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 2: this leadership. 295 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be very, very tough. 296 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 6: The fact is. 297 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 8: The California is now kind of a feudal system. There 298 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 8: are very rich people and they're Democrats, and they're very 299 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 8: poor people and a lot of them and they're also Democrats. 300 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 6: And then normal middle. 301 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 8: Class people have largely left. The very poor people are 302 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 8: never going to vote for someone who's not willing to 303 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 8: give them more money. The very rich people who stay 304 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 8: because the lot of rich people are leaving. They're very 305 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 8: rich people who stay have these liberal views that are 306 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 8: more akin to a religion. You would think that when 307 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 8: your house burns down because of government and competence, and 308 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 8: when is inevitably going to happen, they. 309 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 6: Try and rebuild. And the city of Los Angeles. 310 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 8: Screws them over on permits, and the Coastal Commission refuses 311 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 8: to let them rebuild. They're not going to Very few 312 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 8: of them are going to take are going to have 313 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 8: the strength of character to actually challenge their own quasi 314 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 8: religious beliefs. Remember, woke liberalism is a replacement for religion. 315 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 8: It's what fills that space inside normal people where you 316 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 8: usually have Jesus. 317 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 6: Instead they have Ebram x Kendy. And it's very hard 318 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 6: for them to to. 319 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 8: You know, come confront the fact that they've been wrong 320 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 8: about everything. I mean, if you look at if you 321 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 8: look at social media, you know half the people on 322 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 8: it are mad at Donald Trump because Donald Trump's pointing 323 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 8: out the incompetence of the response. And that's the real problem, 324 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 8: isn't it people noticing their failures and demanding accountability. That's 325 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 8: the problem. And you see that over and over again. 326 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 8: You see that in the New York subway crimes free, 327 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 8: you see that in the rape gangs in England. The 328 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 8: problem is you people not being happy that we bless 329 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 8: you with. 330 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 6: Our rule over you. 331 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,239 Speaker 5: The upside of having a polemicist as a guest as 332 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 5: opposed to a an expert on a subject is there 333 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 5: are always good terms of phrases, and you're always good 334 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 5: for that. When we've talked about your books, I know 335 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 5: that to be the case, you know, Kurt, I use 336 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 5: this exam I use a lot of sports analogies much 337 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 5: as Klay Travis does. I don't claim to have his 338 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 5: sports knowledge, but I think a lot of people have 339 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 5: some sports background, at least as a fan, and most 340 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 5: people play to youth sports, and as a fan, they 341 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 5: you know they will tolerate their team losing. And so 342 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 5: I often make the point, for instance, if we used 343 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 5: DEI to choose our quarterback of our favorite football team, 344 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 5: you wouldn't tolerate it because the team loses. And what 345 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 5: we're seeing here is the city of Los Angeles losing. 346 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 5: There are actual consequences to all these fat, dumpy, lazy 347 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 5: lesbians who are running the Los Angeles Fire Department. And 348 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 5: I will make the point because Daniel Greenfield made the 349 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 5: point that. 350 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: It is hold. I'm sorry, I had I had background, 351 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 2: I had some sound on my background, but that it. 352 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 5: Is the case that these individuals were being promoted without 353 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 5: having any experience because they wanted lesbian women in these 354 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 5: positions of authority. And they were being promoted not by performance. 355 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 5: And so what you've got here is somebody that can't 356 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 5: play quarterback for the team, and you're going to lose. 357 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 5: Except this isn't a sporting event. This is real life, 358 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 5: and people's lives are being turned upside down and lost 359 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 5: because of this. 360 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 2: And that's the part that Chap's my ass, Kurt. 361 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 6: Roddy, and it should and we saw it last week too. 362 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 8: Remember when that guy you know ran the truck through 363 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 8: a bunch of people in New Orleans outcomes you know, 364 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 8: special Agent Nosering who could barely speak English, and. 365 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 9: Decides, oh, well, it can't be terrorism. 366 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 8: Nobody look at that black iceis flag waving from the 367 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 8: back of the truck. 368 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 6: And then in the police chief of New Orleans. 369 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 8: The four four hundred year old lady who may or 370 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 8: may not be a lesbian. You know, you look at 371 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 8: her and you're like, this is your top cop. The 372 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 8: fact is dei and wokeness. The whole purpose is to 373 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 8: promote incompetence people based on criteria that doesn't matter. Look, 374 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 8: if I would be the first to be going, hey, 375 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 8: check out our own Christine lesbian fact chick fire department leadership. Look, 376 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 8: they Look how they took on this fire and beat 377 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 8: the hell out of it and. 378 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 6: Saved all these houses. They're the best? 379 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 8: Would I'd love it if you're the best, be. 380 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 9: A giant lesbian named Christine. 381 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 6: They're not the best. 382 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 2: They're the worst. 383 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 8: And I'm tired of it. And the fact is that 384 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 8: it's going to be very tough for a lot of 385 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 8: these people in Los Angeles who are so invested in 386 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 8: their leftist identity to turn around and say, you know, 387 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 8: maybe I was wrong. Maybe we should just find the 388 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 8: best person for the job. You know, do that whole 389 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 8: Martin Luther King thing that we heard so much about 390 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 8: and promptly decide to ignore. 391 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 5: It's frustrating because if it was simply a question of 392 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 5: one sporting I can handle. 393 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 8: Look. 394 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: I've been a Houston sports fan for years. 395 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 5: The Astros didn't win the championship till twenty seventeen, Rockets 396 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 5: didn't win it till the mid nineties, and the Texans 397 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 5: have never been to the Super Bowl, much less winning. 398 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 5: Although I'm hopeful for this year, I can handle losing 399 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 5: sporting events. My life is not tied to it. What 400 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 5: I can't handle is people making decisions on something other 401 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 5: than performance and what we're watching in Los Angeles, and 402 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 5: you're a military man, you're an army colonel. We're going 403 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 5: to see this on the battlefield. And that's the part 404 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 5: that is even more horrified. 405 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 8: Oh, it's already getting people killed. The failure of our 406 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 8: military to stand up against wokeness has already gotten people 407 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 8: killed and will continue to get people killed. 408 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 6: That's why I'm so hopeful that peat. 409 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 8: Hags that comes in acts like a commander, looks these 410 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 8: four stars in their beaty, little bureaucrat eyes and. 411 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 6: Says, DEI is finished. 412 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 8: Generals, admirals, do you have any questions about what. 413 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 6: My intent is. It's over, It's done. 414 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 8: Come back here by Friday and report to me that 415 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 8: it's finished and you. 416 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 6: Have rooted it out. 417 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 8: And if you don't do that, I am going to 418 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 8: relieve you for cause and retire you at a rank 419 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 8: lower where you last perform satisfactorily. Anyone have any questions. Look, 420 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 8: I've taken over many, many units. I was one of 421 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 8: the guys that generals would send to broken units to 422 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 8: go fix them. You walk in, you set the standard, 423 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 8: and the standard has to be You guys need to 424 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 8: be the best. I don't care about your I don't 425 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 8: care about your collar. I don't care about your gender. 426 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 6: I don't care about. 427 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 8: Anything except whether you're going to kill more of the 428 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 8: enemy and say and keep more of my guys alive 429 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 8: than anything else. 430 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 6: That's all that matters. That's my pastor. 431 00:24:58,800 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 4: You have a. 432 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 5: Military I appreciate your service, and I appreciate you being 433 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 5: our guest. I am up against a break, my friend. 434 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 5: We'll talk again soon. Stay safe, Oh thank you, Arrest 435 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,199 Speaker 5: me or. 436 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 2: Take me to Texas. So talking about it, he gets 437 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 2: out of this stage. 438 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 6: I think Michael Berry robs Michael Show, I like you. 439 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 5: We have a listener named Harry Wilkinson. He's a musician 440 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 5: in Nashville. He's been around a long time, played on 441 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 5: a lot of important things, not the least of which 442 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 5: is that he was the drummer or Michael Martin Murphy 443 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 5: who had a song called Wildfire. And when I was 444 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 5: a kid, we would walk around as it was it 445 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 5: was hot. On the radio, she ran calling wildfire, and 446 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 5: almost everybody my age knows that term. And it's not 447 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 5: until many years later that I even listened to words 448 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 5: of the song and realized it's not actually about a wildfire. 449 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 5: It's about a horse named Wildfire. And I have used 450 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 5: the term wildfire in the course of my life to say, 451 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 5: you know, I think that things spread like wildfire, and 452 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 5: it's sort of like. 453 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 2: I would explain it. And my grandmother. 454 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 5: She had chickens and we'd go out and get the eggs, 455 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 5: and you know, she'd cook the eggs for breakfast, and 456 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 5: she had hogs and had butchered the hogs for the bacon. 457 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 5: And it was always very interesting because she was a 458 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 5: lady of the earth. She was tough, she was ruddy. 459 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 5: She cut her own hair and it wasn't it wasn't pretty. 460 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 5: She didn't wear any makeup, but what was she tough? 461 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 5: And boy could she cook? Buy did she ever teach 462 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 5: me a lot of things? And the first time I 463 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 5: remember witnessing her walking out barefoot, walking up to a chicken, 464 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 5: snapping its neck and then throwing it down to let 465 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 5: it run around and die, which would take, you know, 466 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 5: ten seconds or so. For the rest of my life, 467 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 5: that image was burned running around. I could chicken his 468 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 5: head cut off, because that's what it did, went right right, right, right, 469 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 5: right right, and then fell over. And so when I 470 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 5: used that term, that visual imagery is there. But when 471 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 5: I would say in the course of my life that 472 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 5: something spread like wildfare, or when someone described something that 473 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 5: was not an actual fire, I really never understood what 474 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 5: that meant. And then we had these horrible fires in Bastrop, Texas, 475 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 5: which is outside of Austin. Elon is kind of building 476 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 5: a tech city there and it's it's just an idyllic 477 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 5: little community that's some rolling hills and it's very green, 478 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 5: and it was a beautiful, beautiful, kind of untouched place 479 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 5: that's changing now because of all the people moving in there, 480 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 5: the jobs and development. But there were there were horrible 481 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 5: fires there, and I remember driving through months later and 482 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 5: all the green was gone, all the glory and the 483 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 5: beauty was gone, and in its wake was this very 484 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 5: very ugly black char I asked my wife's aunt one time. 485 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 5: She was a surgeon in New Jersey and we called 486 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 5: her choti Aunty, and I said, chunt, what what is 487 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 5: when you open She was doing a breast removal the 488 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 5: next day because this woman had breast cancer. I said, 489 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 5: when you open that up and you see that cancer, 490 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 5: what does it look like? And she said, exactly what 491 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 5: you would imagine. It looks like it's black and burned, 492 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 5: it's it's charred, it's it's it's ugly. It is exactly 493 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 5: what you think, because cancer is awful and it's ugly. Well, 494 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 5: right now we're still in the burning embers phase. But 495 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 5: I got to tell you I'm still of an era. 496 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 5: Maybe a lot of people aren't. 497 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 2: That. I love America and I love everything. I love 498 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 2: all the lore that I I grew up with. 499 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 5: You know, I think of Baltimore as the home to 500 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 5: the famous Pratt Library, if not the greatest library in 501 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 5: the world, one of them. I think of New York 502 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 5: as a place that I always wanted to, always wanted 503 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 5: to go and visit, the great New York in Miami 504 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 5: with its great Cuban heritage, and Chicago with the commodities trade. 505 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 2: This is my country and I love it. I love 506 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 2: the physical spaces and the history of them. 507 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 8: But I. 508 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 2: Expect you to do that. Sorry. I love the people. 509 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 5: I'm an American first last always, I am an American, 510 00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 5: and I love my fellow Americans. I despise is the 511 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 5: idea of breaking into our country, and you are nothing 512 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 5: to me if you do so, because you don't respect 513 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 5: our country, our laws, and our people. Because our people 514 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 5: are the government. We are a self governing people, a republic, 515 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 5: not a democracy. And I got to tell you, folks, 516 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 5: I don't mean to sound corny, but when I watch 517 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 5: my neighbors in Los Angeles, and I say that as 518 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 5: a lifelong Texan, but these are my neighbors. 519 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: Every person there. 520 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 5: Has a family member who's fought for this country. Most 521 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 5: of these people have a family member who has served 522 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 5: as a police officer, as a firefighter, as a school teacher. 523 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 5: They've delivered our mail, they've taught our kids, they've cleaned 524 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 5: the streets, they've cooked our meals. 525 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 2: And to watch what's happening, I want. 526 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 5: To be very clear that no one misses the point 527 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 5: of my I am angry at Karen Vass and Gavin 528 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 5: Newsom and Joe Biden and these fat lesbian women that 529 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 5: have occupied the fire department, and all they care about 530 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 5: is hating men who failed their jobs. I want to 531 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 5: be very careful that you understand. I take no pride. 532 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 2: I don't gloat that hey, we were right, they were wrong. 533 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 2: I'm going to point it out, but I would rather 534 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 2: they do their job well. 535 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 5: You know, I wish there wasn't a dimes worth the 536 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 5: difference between Republicans and Democrats. 537 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 2: I wish that was true. That would be better. I 538 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 2: wish that was true. I wish it was the case that. 539 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 5: The Democrats were governing well, that they had responded to 540 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 5: these fires and extinguished them and saved the people and 541 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 5: saved the property. 542 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 2: I wish that were the case. Well, it's not, and 543 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 2: there have to be consequences. 544 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 5: And to channel that anger into love for the innocence, 545 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 5: love for the victim, repudiation for those who are at fault. 546 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 5: But let's make sure, and I'm saying this to myself 547 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 5: as well, that while we're screaming and hollering in anger 548 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 5: at those Democrats and their failures, we remember the victims 549 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 5: because this is not their fault. And if you say, well, 550 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 5: they voted for this, no, I'm a Republican in the 551 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 5: Democrat city. I didn't vote for Sheila Jackson, Lene. I 552 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 5: didn't vote for the Democrats to screw things up. I 553 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 5: didn't vote for Joe Biden, but I had to live 554 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 5: through it, and we've all been victims of him as well. 555 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,959 Speaker 5: And I would like to close by saying, there are 556 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 5: good people doing good things in California right now. Some 557 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 5: of them are wearing uniforms. Some of them are on duty, 558 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 5: some of them are on overtime, and some of them 559 00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 5: are small business owners and retirees and veterans recently home 560 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 5: and moms and dads and school teachers and everything else 561 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 5: who are getting out there, who are taking people into 562 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 5: their homes, who were helping evacuate people. This really does 563 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 5: demonstrate the best of America. So while we have focused 564 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 5: on the show entirely this evening and maybe too much, okay, 565 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 5: maybe too much, we have focused entirely on the evils 566 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 5: of the Democrats who have failed the people of their state, 567 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 5: it should not go without saying that there are good 568 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 5: people who knows their politics. 569 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 2: They voted for Trump and guarantee. 570 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 5: You, but who are out there serving and sacrificing and suffering. 571 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 5: They're fellow Californians, fellow Californians. So for every single one 572 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 5: of you who's doing that in Los Angeles, beyond God, 573 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 5: bless you and thank you from all of us.