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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.

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Speaker 2: Thursday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Speaker 2: kicks off.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Biggest story of the day still the wildfires tearing through

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles area. Some are somewhat contained, some are

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Speaker 2: not very well contained at all. More damage going on,

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Speaker 2: Scenes of apocalyptic devastation in a whole range of areas

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Speaker 2: kind of north of West Hollywood area, and this is

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Speaker 2: north of Beverly Hills. It's stunning, it's heartbreaking to see

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Speaker 2: what's going on. And already you can tell that there's

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Speaker 2: an outrage that is only growing with time as they

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Speaker 2: begin to see the full extent. I think not just

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Speaker 2: of the damage, but of the ineptitude in the response.

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Speaker 2: Play La Mayor Karen Bass has returned from her trip

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Speaker 2: to Ghana, and she is getting a lot of attention

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Speaker 2: right now. First of all, I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: saw this, but there's at least well she's trying right

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Speaker 2: now to tell everybody that she's on it and she's

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Speaker 2: doing a great job, and that's not working out for

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Speaker 2: her very well. This is cut one here she is

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Speaker 2: explaining that this was a perfect storm.

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Speaker 1: Play it.

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Speaker 3: Angelino's cooperated, the community stood together. They evacuated and Angelinos

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Speaker 3: should continue to proceed with caution. Air operations are continuing

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Speaker 3: rapidly in the Palisades, in Silmar and across our region.

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Speaker 3: We continue to see our heroes from our LA firefighters

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Speaker 3: and from personnel families' neighbors from across the county and

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Speaker 3: the state. We thank you. However, we can continue to

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Speaker 3: confront a big, one level firestorm. Historic winds and extensive

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Speaker 3: drought have created a perfect storm that has driven people

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Speaker 3: from their homes and have taken people's homes, and that

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Speaker 3: has taken people's lives.

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Speaker 2: Now, one thing we can know for sure, Clay, there

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Speaker 2: will be no accountability whatsoever offered by the people that

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Speaker 2: are in charge of this response, including Mayor Karen Bass.

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Speaker 2: There's also been a lot of focus on the very

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Speaker 2: Dei Heavy Fire Department recruiting efforts of recent years. They

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Speaker 2: don't have enough firefighters, they don't have enough in the

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Speaker 2: budget for the firefighting they need to do. Karen Bass cut.

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Speaker 2: You don't ever think about Democrats in a place like

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Speaker 2: California doing a lot of budget cutting, but they somehow

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Speaker 2: managed to cut one thing that you really don't want

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Speaker 2: cut over twenty million dollars from the fire budget. Now

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Speaker 2: they're effectively clay, just turning around saying, well, it's a

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Speaker 2: really rough set of circumstances. The water has run out

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Speaker 2: because people need so much water. Not much we can

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Speaker 2: do about that. And our firefighters are brave, and you

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Speaker 2: know that's the way this is supposed to go. People

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Speaker 2: are outraged all over LA and all over the country

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Speaker 2: about this. You had Donald Trump, for one, soon to

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Speaker 2: be President Trump once again, this is what he wrote

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Speaker 2: on truth Social One of the best and most beautiful

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Speaker 2: parts of the United States of America is burning down

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Speaker 2: to the ground. It's ashes and Gavin Nouscomb should resign.

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Speaker 1: This is all his fault.

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Speaker 2: And then there's more here Sarah Foster, who is the

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Speaker 2: daughter like a Hollywood producer, mogul or something. I don't

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Speaker 2: really know this lady, but we pay the highest taxes

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Speaker 2: in California, she wrote. Our fire hydrants were empty, our

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Speaker 2: vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Reservoirs were emptied by

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Speaker 2: our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our

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Speaker 2: fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god,

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Speaker 2: drug addicts are getting their drug kits. Mayor of LA

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Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsom resign. Your policies have ruined our state.

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Speaker 4: People are upset, Clay, no doubt, and they should be

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Speaker 4: because they made the poor choice. At Mayor Rick Caruso,

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Speaker 4: whose shopping center is still standing in Pacific Palisades like

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Speaker 4: the only thing that's still standing, because he's competent enough

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Speaker 4: to figure out how to protect his assets from the

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Speaker 4: fire even while they can't get water in the fire hydrants.

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Speaker 4: And I want to play just a couple of cuts.

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Speaker 4: And I think this is important because this is where

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Speaker 4: DEI and a consequence free election cycle leads you. It

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Speaker 4: leads to people who cannot do the job, and it

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Speaker 4: reveals itself that they cannot do the job in times

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Speaker 4: of crisis when in there's actual decisions to be made

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Speaker 4: and they're complex in nature and they're multifaceted. I want

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Speaker 4: you to listen to a couple of these things that

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Speaker 4: have gone viral. First of all, this was before that statement.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna come back to the statement that we played

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Speaker 4: a second ago. But Karen bass is asked by a

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Speaker 4: Sky News reporter after she finally lands back from Ghana

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Speaker 4: a series of questions. This has gone megaviral. Listen to

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Speaker 4: Cut three.

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Speaker 5: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while

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Speaker 5: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire

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Speaker 5: department budget by millions of dollars?

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Speaker 6: Madamlayer?

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Speaker 5: Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing

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Speaker 5: to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that

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Speaker 5: you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor?

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Speaker 5: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?

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Speaker 5: You're dealing with this disaster? Apology for them? Do you

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Speaker 5: think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding?

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Speaker 5: Back home, Madam Mayor? Just a few words for the

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Speaker 5: citizens today as you returned to deal with a catastrophe

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Speaker 5: that you.

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Speaker 4: Can hear the door opening book. She's refusing to answer

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Speaker 4: any questions as this reporter is following along asking her questions. Now,

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Speaker 4: this is to me indicative of her inability to handle

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Speaker 4: the job. Listen to Cut two. She's reading off of

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Speaker 4: a prepared statement. Buck, you haven't seen this yet. I

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Speaker 4: want you to be able to hear it. I bet

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Speaker 4: most of our audience has neither seen nor heard this.

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Speaker 4: Listen to Karen Bass try to address what citizens of

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles should be doing. Both with a website and

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Speaker 4: just I mean she could barely read. Listen to this

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Speaker 4: right now.

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Speaker 3: If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.

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Speaker 3: All of this can be found at URL Los Angeles Together.

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Speaker 3: Is how we will get through this through the heroicism

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Speaker 3: of our firefighters.

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Speaker 4: Okay, she doesn't seem to know, buck, what a freaking

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Speaker 4: web address is. I don't even remember the last time

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Speaker 4: I heard someone say you can go to URL. I mean,

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Speaker 4: come on, is httpwww?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 1: Come on?

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Speaker 4: And then has she never seen the word heroism in print?

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's not a super complicated word to read,

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Speaker 4: and yet it's like play that one more time, just

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Speaker 4: for the utter incompetence. Here, listen closely. This is she's

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Speaker 4: trying to tell people who are in need where they

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Speaker 4: need to go. This is important info. This is what

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Speaker 4: it sounded like.

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Speaker 3: Right now, If you need help, emergency information, resources and

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Speaker 3: URL Los Angeles together. Is how we will get through

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Speaker 3: this through the heroicism of our firefighters.

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Speaker 4: Bluck, I mean, come on. This is in addition to

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Speaker 4: being in Ghana, which look, I'll give her a pass

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Speaker 4: on Ghana. She should never have been there. It didn't

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Speaker 4: make any sense. Presumably she didn't know a fire was

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Speaker 4: going to start, but it is indicative of just like

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Speaker 4: going to things that don't matter because she doesn't have

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Speaker 4: she finally has a crucible situation where information and communication

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Speaker 4: is that it's utmost important, and she says you need

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Speaker 4: to go to URL to get help. I mean, come on,

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Speaker 4: you know she was a big fan of Castro, Fidel

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Speaker 4: Castro just a few years back.

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Speaker 1: And I think she even travels. She's traveled to Cuba,

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Speaker 1: she has deep ties to No.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing how often this happens, isn't it? Where these

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Speaker 4: people have been to like Russia, it's for their honeymoons.

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Speaker 2: And like I was just gonna say, man, whenever you're

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Speaker 2: looking at the worst mayors, the worst senators, the people

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Speaker 1: Truly communist countries, right.

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Speaker 2: The people that people like like build A Blasio who

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Speaker 2: went to Nicaragua to be with the Sandinistas, and.

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Speaker 4: Tim Wall's been to China like nineteen times or whatever.

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Speaker 2: The hell was communist China, Bernie Sanders honeymoon in the

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Speaker 2: Soviet Union. Who honeymoon's in the Soviet Union? You can't

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Speaker 2: even get tissue.

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Speaker 4: But even married in Russia want a honeymoon in the

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Speaker 8: But you'll notice this though, that these these lunatic leftists,

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Speaker 8: they all have this in their past, or not all

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Speaker 8: of them, but whenever they have this in their past,

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Speaker 8: it's such a it's such a giveaway of what they

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Speaker 8: really think and how they how they really are, I mean,

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Speaker 8: what their their baseline ideology is.

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Speaker 2: She's not somebody who is competent. But you have to

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Speaker 2: remember California is the state that gave us Kamala Harris

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Speaker 2: as the presidential nominee for the Democrats, but also as

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Speaker 2: a state attorney general and as a center. It's a

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Speaker 2: one party state. And so if Democrats decide that they're

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Speaker 2: only going to elect for a certain position a black female, uh,

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Speaker 2: there's they can do it. And they do, and and

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Speaker 2: I think that their qualifications for the job are often

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Speaker 2: a secondary at best consideration. They view the Dei victory

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Speaker 2: some of these roles, and people are paying the priceless

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Speaker 2: nub We haven't gotten into the head of the fire department, right,

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Speaker 2: it isn't that the head of the.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's a lesbian, which it appears to be her

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Speaker 4: only qualification according to all the media coverage I've seen.

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Speaker 4: But remember Buck. As bad as that Karen Bass, she

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Speaker 4: was a finalist for VP.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Remember because Biden so boxed himself in by effectively letting

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Speaker 4: it be known one that he was going to take

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Speaker 4: take a black woman. There were like three black women

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Speaker 4: that he was considering, Kamala, Karen Bass, and and our

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Speaker 4: favorite Georgia Governor Stacy Abrams. Of course, governor is in

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Speaker 4: quotation marks the fake governor of Georgia. Those are like

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Speaker 4: there was one or he considered one more, the woman

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Speaker 4: I don't even remember her name. She was a congress person,

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Speaker 4: I think. But Karen Bass was a finalist to be

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Speaker 4: Vice President of the United States. As bad as Kamala is,

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Speaker 4: Karen Bass may be worse. And look, when you combine

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Speaker 4: Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, you have maybe the worst

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Speaker 4: mayor governor combo that any major city and state has

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Speaker 4: ever had. I mean in terms of competence and what

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Speaker 2: Are you telling me that you don't buy Gavin Newsom's

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Speaker 2: this is about more than politics the politics.

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Speaker 4: I think Gavin Newsom would not be a bad guy

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Speaker 4: to have a glass of a rose with and look

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Speaker 4: out over the vin, maybe even watch a football game with.

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Speaker 4: I think every decision he has made as governor just

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Speaker 4: about has been wrong and made California worse than it

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Speaker 4: would have been if he had gone full Costanza buck

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Speaker 4: and just done the opposite of everything that he actually did.

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Speaker 1: It's all part of a pattern too.

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Speaker 2: Remember when there were those photos of all the Amazon

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Speaker 2: packages that were being stolen off of trains, and Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom showed up and he's like, what the heck is

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Speaker 2: going on in this state? Huh, who's in charge here?

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Speaker 2: All these It was like a giant field of theft

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Speaker 2: by the trains. And he's showing up now at this

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Speaker 2: devastation from these fires, and he doesn't have a whole

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Speaker 2: lot to add too much of anything other than just

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Speaker 2: we shouldn't make this about politics.

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Speaker 4: Also competence. Well, you might not want to politicize the fires.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Times politicians don't matter. We found out in COVID they

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Speaker 4: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I want

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Speaker 4: that out. Really, this is the answer. Listen, what is

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Speaker 6: Obviously in the Palisage ran now last night and the

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Speaker 7: Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Local people have to figure it out. Buck.

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Speaker 4: That's not the job of the big bad governor. That's

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Speaker 2: Also, I think saying well, yeah, I mean these fire

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Speaker 2: And so it's not an acceptable response to say, well,

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Speaker 2: I think that's where a lot of the frustratation from

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Speaker 2: gentle of a word. People are absolutely furious in their outraged,

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Speaker 2: As I said, the budget at California is like three

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Speaker 4: How you cut them? You cut them by seventeen million dollars.

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Speaker 4: And the head of the local firefighters writes a letter

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Speaker 2: And I know they don't like when we criticize the

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Speaker 4: We'll play an audio for Adam Carolla talking about how

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in Clay and Buck.

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Speaker 2: One thing that I don't think you generally hear from

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Speaker 1: Right, they want more money.

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Speaker 2: But Karen Bass, the mayor, returned from her mission critical.

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Speaker 1: Visit to Ghana. She has returned from it.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully everything's okay in Ghana, and she has returned to

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Speaker 2: tell everybody that the was it twenty three million?

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Speaker 1: Clay, I've seen different numbers on it, but twenty.

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Speaker 4: Plus seventeen million, I mean, like is the number that

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Speaker 2: Now, I understand the fire budgets a lot bigger than that,

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Speaker 1: Play twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Can you address the criticism now over the budget issue

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Speaker 3: You know, I think if you go back and look

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Speaker 2: Clay She's basically saying, the wind is so crazy. Nobody

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Speaker 4: Nobody wants to hear there's nothing we could do and

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Speaker 4: It's imminently foreseeable exactly what has happened could have happened.

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Speaker 4: And I think many people are looking around and they're saying, Okay,

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Speaker 4: And I'll just point this out. Yesterday we talked to

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Speaker 4: and I would echo it. When you're wearing full firefighting gear,

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Clay, hold on a second.

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Speaker 2: Have we all seen David Weir If you've missed this

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Speaker 1: Clay? Is it cinched at the waist?

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Speaker 2: Is it showing that v taper David Muir, ABC News

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Speaker 1: He did the debate. Remember he was horrible with Trump. Uh,

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Speaker 2: First of all, he's reporting and he's wearing a fireman's jacket,

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Speaker 2: And he is getting a run.

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Speaker 4: As well as should As well as should the whole

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Speaker 4: This is Adamkrola, who we had on yesterday. We talked

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Speaker 4: nineteen years old, living at his mom's house, he decided

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Speaker 4: he needed a job, so he went into the local

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Speaker 4: fire department and put in an application and they said, uh, oh,

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Speaker 4: you're a white guy. You have to come back in

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Speaker 4: seven years. While he was standing in line, there was

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Speaker 4: a minority in line with him. Listen to this testimony

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Speaker 4: that he gave to the California State Legislature.

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Speaker 6: I graduated North Hollom at him with a one point

445
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Speaker 6: seven GPA. I could not find a job. I walked

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Speaker 6: to a fire station in North Hollywood. I was nineteen.

447
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Speaker 6: I was living in the garage of my family home.

448
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Speaker 6: My mom is on welfare and food stamps. And I said,

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Speaker 6: can I get a job as a fireman? And they

450
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Speaker 6: said no, because you're not black, Hispanic or a woman.

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Speaker 6: We'll see in about seven years. And I went to

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Speaker 6: a construction site and Doug ditches and picked up garbage for.

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Speaker 1: The next seven years.

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Speaker 6: I got a letter in the mail sent to my

455
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Speaker 6: father's house saying, your time has come to do the

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Speaker 6: written exam for the LA Fire Department. I took it

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Speaker 6: and I was standing in line, and I had a

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Speaker 6: young woman of color standing behind me in line, and

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Speaker 6: I said, just out of curiosity, when did you sign

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Speaker 6: up to become a fire man? Because I did it

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Speaker 6: or a person seven years ago, And she said, Wednesday,

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Speaker 6: that is an example of my white privilege.

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Speaker 4: I mean, how ridiculous, amazing, how ridiculous is that story?

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Speaker 2: Our generation roughly speaking, you know, Clay me, people around

465
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Speaker 2: this age have have really seen the run up and

466
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Speaker 2: the peak of of DEI stuff. You know, it has

467
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Speaker 2: occurred with our adult lives, you know, in tandem with

468
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Speaker 2: us going into the marketplace, you know, the job market.

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Speaker 2: And and I think that there is so much finally

470
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Speaker 2: just frustration that has been able to be properly. You know,

471
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Speaker 2: vented over this issue with as part of Trump's victory,

472
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Speaker 2: and also in situations like this, we're all sick and

473
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Speaker 2: tired of being told that when you have a focus

474
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Speaker 2: on something that isn't the important thing that an institution

475
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Speaker 2: is supposed to do, it does not detract.

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Speaker 1: From its focus. Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Like, you can't tell me DEI is a mission critical

478
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Speaker 2: thing for the fire department in LA. But we never

479
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Speaker 2: took our eye off of fire fighting. Well you did,

480
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Speaker 2: you had to?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And also let me just say this. I mean Adam

483
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Speaker 4: Carolla was a like all district, all state caliber football

484
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Speaker 4: player in LA when he was growing up.

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Speaker 1: I know this.

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Speaker 4: He's like six ' two, six ' three, you know,

487
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Speaker 4: when he's nineteen years old, he's working construction. He's a big,

488
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Speaker 4: strong dude. Don't you want big strong dudes to be fireman?

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Speaker 4: Some of this DEI stuff? And the same way, like,

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Speaker 4: there are certain body types that are better to kick

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Speaker 4: ass than others.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: If I had to choose, like, Hey, who do you

494
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Speaker 4: want showing up at your house to try to rescue

495
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Speaker 4: people from a burning fire? My answer would be big dudes, right,

496
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Speaker 4: regardless of their race, because they can get into houses,

497
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Speaker 4: they can pick up people. They are able physically to

498
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Speaker 4: do things that smaller dudes typically and certainly smaller women cannot.

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Speaker 4: In other words, the physical nature of certain jobs does

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Speaker 4: suggest that they shouldn't be DEI laden. And what you

501
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Speaker 4: see is the moment there's an actual crisis. And most

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Speaker 4: of the time when a fireman gets a call, it

503
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Speaker 4: is a crisis. Right You're showing up at legitimately a

504
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Speaker 4: burning building, kicking indoors, trying to save lives. The more

505
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Speaker 4: serious the job is, the more ridiculous it is to

506
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Speaker 4: focus on DEI plane, flying, surgery, firemen things. When people's

507
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Speaker 4: lives are on the line, I want the baddest ask

508
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Speaker 4: person who's best able to do the job. I don't

509
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Speaker 4: give a damn what they look like.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not just La obviously that has been

511
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Speaker 2: dealing with this on the DEI fire department, excuse me, guys,

512
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Speaker 2: fire department side of things. I think I get a

513
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Speaker 2: gold star just for fighting through.

514
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Speaker 1: The cold this week. I'm gonna tell you that right now.

515
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Speaker 1: It has been brutal.

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Speaker 2: Clay's been propping me up a bit, But let me

517
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Speaker 2: tell you my whole head feels like it's gonna fall

518
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Speaker 2: off sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, back to DEI. You know New York City.

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Speaker 2: Clay has had a huge, a huge problem with this

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Speaker 2: stretching back for many years because they said that the

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Speaker 2: written exam that they use for the FDNY was racist. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: does anyone to guess why the written exam for the

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Speaker 2: FDNY was racist?

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Speaker 1: Not enough in the fdnys.

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Speaker 2: Fire Department in New York Just again, everyone knows NYPD

527
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Speaker 2: FDNY is the fire department. Not enough black and Hispanic

528
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Speaker 2: applicants passed. That's it. It was an eighty five. This

529
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Speaker 2: was in use until two thousand and seven. Eighty five.

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Speaker 2: Multiple choice questions about firefighting, Okay, it would ask you

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Speaker 2: questions like, you know, when to say may day, when

532
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Speaker 2: to say urgent over the walkie talkie, what kind of

533
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Speaker 2: tool to bring a car by tip, missing carby blade?

534
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Speaker 2: A car by tip blade? Aluminum oxide like firefighting stuff?

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Speaker 1: And they said it was racist.

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Speaker 2: And not only did they say it was racist, they

537
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Speaker 2: had to appoint a chief Diversity Officer for the FDNY.

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Speaker 1: They paid back pay.

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Speaker 2: Millions of dollars to people who were never even firefighters

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Speaker 2: because they failed the exam.

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Speaker 1: And now they've gotten.

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Speaker 2: You know, they've replaced the exam with something that's probably like,

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Speaker 2: you know, sign your name here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: This the the doctrine of of DEI and and you know,

546
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Speaker 2: really what we've seen play out in so many places

547
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Speaker 2: has been so destructive. And that's where I think people

548
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Speaker 2: are finally they've just everyone just had enough. It's like,

549
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Speaker 2: I promise you, it's not no one cares to your point, Clay,

550
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Speaker 2: what the color is of the firefighter who is coming

551
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Speaker 2: through the door when their house is on fire to

552
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Speaker 2: save them and their cat or their kids or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They're just they want the best.

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Speaker 2: They want the fastest response, they want the most competent

555
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Speaker 2: fire suppression tactics.

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Speaker 1: They want you know, this is.

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Speaker 2: All like and this is really central to the ethos

558
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Speaker 2: of America now in the Trump era. We want this back.

559
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Speaker 2: We just want the best people to do the things

560
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Speaker 2: that they have to be doing. I don't care if

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Speaker 2: you know my airline pilot is a one legged Eskimo, Like,

562
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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 4: I just don't want the plane to crash. This is

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Speaker 4: from Pride website. The headline they're coverage of the LA

565
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Speaker 4: fire headline amid Palisades Fire, Los Angeles. His first LGBTQ

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Speaker 4: plus fire chief is proving lesbians get it done. Is

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Speaker 4: anybody out there in LA right now? I mean, this

568
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Speaker 4: is their headline pride. I'm reading amid Palisades Fire, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: His first LGBTQ plus fire chief is proving lesbians get

570
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Speaker 4: it done. There's zero percent containment of the fires right now.

571
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Speaker 4: Is anyone in LA walking around, even lesbians, or even

572
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Speaker 4: lesbians in LA walking around right now given high fives

573
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Speaker 4: like yeah, we put those fires out. Nobody puts fires

574
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Speaker 4: out like lesbians. Not one person in LA, even the lesbians,

575
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Speaker 4: is bragging about the lesbian fire chiefs.

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Speaker 1: The performance so far. This is what DEI gets.

577
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Speaker 4: Us in competence and also media praise of the incompetence,

578
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Speaker 4: which is how DEI happens in the first place. And

579
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Speaker 4: thank the Lord that Kamala Harris lost, because otherwise we

580
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Speaker 4: would have had the next four years of any time

581
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Speaker 4: you criticize Kamala Harris, Oh you're a sexist, Oh you're

582
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Speaker 4: a racist. Maybe Kamala Harris just can't do the job,

583
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Speaker 4: would never actually have have risen to the level of

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Speaker 4: these people's thoughts.

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Speaker 2: You want to put out the ask play for calls.

586
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Speaker 2: I bet we have people who are either current or

587
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Speaker 2: former firefighters who have seen this stuff in action or

588
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Speaker 2: were denied becoming a Becoming a firefighter. Becoming a firefighter

589
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: in New York is actually really, you know, really hard

590
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Speaker 2: by the numbers, and if you have any experience of

591
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Speaker 2: how these processes have been skewed so that it's not

592
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Speaker 2: about who's the best at putting out the fire, it's

593
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Speaker 2: like the real, the really straightforward job. How do we

594
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: get the best people for putting out fires? Carrying people

595
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Speaker 2: out of burning buildings? You know, there's like a you

596
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Speaker 2: got to be able to lift heavy things, got to

597
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Speaker 2: move fest, and there's a lot of stuff. Take some

598
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Speaker 2: of your calls on that. If we got you, we

599
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Speaker 2: got we go on. Firefighters, give us a ring look.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: take some of your calls. One thing we should say

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Speaker 4: about the hiring process in LA they don't have enough

627
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Speaker 4: firefighters right now. That has been what they are saying

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Speaker 4: they're hiring has not been able to keep up with

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Speaker 4: the necessity. They've also been cutting the budget. But if

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Speaker 4: you're having trouble hiring people, maybe open up the job

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Speaker 4: to people of all different backgrounds. I mean, LA is

632
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Speaker 4: a pretty diverse place. If there aren't enough Asian people

633
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Speaker 4: showing up to be firefighters, I don't know that the

634
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Speaker 4: overall LA firefighting community is suffering right Or if there's

635
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Speaker 4: not Ano Hispanic, or if there's not enough black, maybe

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Speaker 4: just get the best possible candidates.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are just jobs that we understand are

638
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Speaker 2: dominated and just by the numbers by men.

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Speaker 1: Logging for example. You know, you'll never hear feminists.

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Speaker 2: Be like, we need more logging, you know, because it's

641
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Speaker 2: a dangerous, rough job and men are the ones that

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Speaker 2: choose to do it. You don't tend to see a

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Speaker 2: lot of women on those crab boats off of Alaska, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, that to me, that's like my worst

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Speaker 2: nightmare boats cold.

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Speaker 1: I love crab though, so I appreciate those guys. But

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Speaker 1: and in.

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Speaker 4: Fact, that's where much buck of the difference in labor

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Speaker 4: and dollars exists. You know, they're like, oh, we only

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Speaker 4: get eighty three women, We only get eighty three cents

651
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Speaker 4: for every dollar. Well, one reason is because you're not

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Speaker 4: a lot of Alaskan crab boat fishermen who might die

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Speaker 4: at any moment, or loggers or firemen. The more dangerous

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Speaker 4: the job is, typically the more you're gonna get paid

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Speaker 4: to do it, and the more likely men are to

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Speaker 4: do it.

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Speaker 2: Also, I mean, you think of the standards for firefighters

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Speaker 2: knowledge of fighting fires that.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't okay in New York City. With that, with the.

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Speaker 2: Test for the FDNY physical requirements, this is what always happens.

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Speaker 2: They're going to say, oh, no, the women will meet

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Speaker 2: the physical requirements, and then they change them for the

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Speaker 2: women when they don't meet the physical requirements. This is

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Speaker 2: as as certain as night follows day. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I think everyone's just sick of all of it, Clay.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's sick of of focusing on things that don't matter,

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Speaker 2: of incompetence in government, of ideology, first of putting this

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Speaker 2: in somehow at the foot of climate change. I mean,

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Speaker 2: talk talk about you know, a non sequitor, like.

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Speaker 1: What are even suppoils? Even if that were true.

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Speaker 2: So does that mean we just don't actually care that

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Speaker 2: the fire hydrants have run dry because oh gosh, we

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Speaker 2: put too much.

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Speaker 1: We've angered mother Earth. There's too much Co two in

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Speaker 1: the air.

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Speaker 4: It's ridiculous, totally And by the way, the number one

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Speaker 4: job of any politician is to do whatever he can

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Speaker 4: to protect his or her constituents. Do you feel like

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Speaker 4: that's happening in California?

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Speaker 1: I don't