WEBVTT - I Shove It Right Up Me 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:25.200 Arm Strong and Getty and I'm Strong and Getty. There's nothing. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.880 There's nothing left. I literally just have the close on 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:30.960 my back. There's nothing. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.680 I thought I would come back home and find something, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.320 but there's nothing here. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.800 It's unprecedented. I was born in Los Angeles, I've grown 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.960 up here. I've been in the fire service for forty years, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.479 and this is some of the worst conditions I have 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:48.800 ever experienced. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.280 I saw a couple of people yesterday saying that to reporters, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.640 what you see on my body right now is the 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.360 only material object I have. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:58.760 That's amazing. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.920 That is stunning, incomprehensible. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:05.080 It is incomfortable. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.800 You'd have to get to a store hoping you have 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.880 a credit card in your pocket. I guess you'd have 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.639 to get to a store to buy underwear and socks 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.880 for the next day, let alone everything else. Right where 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.480 do I live, where do I go, what do I eat? 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.360 It would be there would be a long moment of 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.199 being stunned. No matter how together a person you. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.840 Are, Oh my god, if you got kids and they're 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.240 not going to school, and they got to eat, and 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.600 they need clothes and just holy crap, and enormous emotional 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.520 support rise you yourself are trying not to fall apart, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:39.240 man I ket I'm the suffering. It's just unreal and 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:44.000 will be bringing you avenues to donate if you see fit, 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.080 to help the people of the entire Los Angeles metro area. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.360 A fair amount of attentions being paid to the celebrities 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.680 and Pacific palisades, which includes some absolutely wonderful people who 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.080 we know who happen to have done fairly well in life. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.920 But there's narrative going around well rich people. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.960 But no, my god, it's it's tens of thousands of people, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.919 every walk of life, every imaginable description. My god, what's 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.160 happening to your human compassion? 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:15.680 So it is odd the focus on the celebrity homes 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.440 that are threatened or burnt down. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.640 Yeah, it's just silly. What is that? I mean, the 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.320 people who can best handle this situation is your focus. Okay. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.919 So it is undeniable that wildfires reality in the Western 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.080 United States, in California and even La County, and it 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.320 is going to happen now and again and even the 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.400 best prepared authorities and the best fire departments will struggle 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.720 to fight it during the conditions or in the conditions 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.119 that we've seen recently. On the other hand, that does 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.080 not mean that the leadership is good, or has done 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.880 the right things, or has managed the situation well once 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.960 the crisis began. In fact, I would argue quite to 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:57.120 the contrary. Karen Bass, the the inept mayor of Los Angeles, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.800 is getting a lot of attention. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.600 Why don't we go with let's go with forty Michael. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.800 As hundreds of homes in a neighborhood burned to the ground, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.400 we did not see a single fire engine. My question 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.480 to you is what explains this lack of preparation and 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:15.560 rapid response. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.160 We will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.600 what didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.040 any body, department, individual, etc. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.480 We played earlier clips back to back of a reporter 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.880 asking Karen Bass, did these seventeen plus million dollars almost 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.400 eighteen million you cut from the fire department's budget affect 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.520 preparedness and ability to fight this? She said, oh no, no, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.720 it was extra anyou stuff. Then they asked the fire 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.560 chief and the fire chief said yes. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.400 Well, yeah, as we and you'll hear some of this, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.960 but you know, asking Gavin Newsommer heard these questions and 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.840 immediately going into some sort of what's going to keep 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.760 me from being in trouble as opposed to and I 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.680 mean just an honest response of I don't know, and 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.320 this is completely unacceptable obviously right would be a good answer. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.920 It hit me with forty four, Michael, this is Karen Bass. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.240 There were no reductions that were made that would have 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.520 impacted the situation that we were dealing with. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:25.160 Yeah, your chief disagrees with you, dear. So who is 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.400 this Karen Bass? Californians are familiar with her. She's been, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:35.279 you know, a union leashed lefty functionary for the longest 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.400 time in a one party state. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:43.240 Typical hack. But there's a lot more to the story. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.719 And Eryl Weber, who's a journalist, did a piece that 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.080 we're about to hear. It struck me in listening to 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.120 this and reading the other headlines of the day that 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.520 Pete Hegseath, for instance, so you know, the jury still 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:55.960 out on him. I'm not sure if he would be 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.760 a good Secretary of Defense or not, but there's been 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.640 a great deal of coverage of like ad tattoo he 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.800 has that, according to some experts, was a symbol of 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.279 the Crusades, which has been at times adopted by some 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.039 white supremacists to indicate something something related to something right. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.400 And you know, reams of paper devoted to this. Maybe 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.800 it's legit, maybe it's not. How much coverage have you 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.640 heard about Karen Bass's aout affection for communism? 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:27.680 I mean, and this is not. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.679 Some sort of right wing fantasy, none, not a single 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.120 syllable in any way in any of. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.160 The major publications. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.440 Please enjoy the work of one Errol Weber forty eight, Michael. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.839 Member seven, nineteen eighty three, remember this date. But first 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.960 let me introduce you to Karen Bass. Back in the 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.559 nineteen seventies, community activist Karen Bass went on at least 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.200 fifteen trips to Cuba, many with a group known as 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.919 the Ben Serremos Brigade, a Marxist group started by the 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:02.839 Castro Regunion to subvert American interests and democracies and spread communism. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:03.280 Around the world. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.680 Founded in nineteen sixty nine, the Vencear Rainbos Brigade organized 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.600 trips to Cuba every year for half a century. They 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.440 attracted the most radicalized and delusional segments of the American left, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:21.960 including overtly Maoist and pro Soviet communist groups. In fact, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.560 a Los Angeles police investigator who infiltrated the group testified 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.000 to Congress saying that to be a member of the 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.640 brigade you had to be confirmed as a Marxist Leninist, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.040 as a Brigadista, and then moving up the ranks to organizer. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.560 For the Vencerimus Brigade, Karen Bass visited Cuba every six 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:46.240 months their mission to radicalize young, impressionable American leftists in 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.080 terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. Members of the vence Ramos 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:51.840 Brigade were even taught how to. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.000 Make bombs Jesus Christ. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.200 Karen Bass admits on her many pilgrimages to Cuba she 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.200 went to see Fidel Castro speak several times, even calling 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:07.240 him charismatic, and upon his death praised him, saying the 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 passing of Commandant and hefe is a great loss to 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.280 the people of Cuba, even though the people of Cuba 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.200 see him as a dictator who impoverished their island. Another group, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.320 the M nineteen, took its belief in revolutionary anti imperialism 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.840 to extremes, violent extremes. The M nineteen was the first 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.320 and only women created and women. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.080 Faded Michael as mister Webber points out that the M 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.520 nineteen was financed by the organization that Karen Bass was 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.200 part of for years and years and years and years. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.440 And you'd say, well, that was in the seventies when 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.800 she was young and all. But remember Castro, when did 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.440 he die? That I can't even remember. It's fairly recently. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.120 She praised him, and that this is a terrible loss 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.280 for the Cuban people who flee Cuba as fast as 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.720 they can because the horrors of communism. Funny that hasn't 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.960 gotten that much attention. Adel di Castro died in twenty sixty, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:07.800 right right, I'm friggin believable. God help California. And it's 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.160 not the people of California, by the way, as I 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.440 always point out, it's the public employee unions and the 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.360 trial attorneys, the organized groups. They turn out the vote 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.640 so much they win every single election. They're huge swaths 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:24.160 of decent, conservative, moderate people in California who are getting screwed. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.920 So don't have contempt for the beautiful state. Have contempt 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.720 for the utterly corrupt government starting with Gavin Newsom, the 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:33.959 con man on down. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.920 Nobody with that background should be elected in a major 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.080 city in the United States. But it happens if you 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.839 have a one party state, one party city, because none 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.000 of your opponents who were in too much agreement with 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.120 you are going to point it out. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.720 I guess, mm hmm, yeah, yeah, it's shocking. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:52.600 It really is. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.520 There are times I think is this stuff true? But 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.080 then I look into it. Yeah, it's one hundred percent true. Heyvey, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:05.000 I came across some great analysis of the lefty leadership 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.280 of cities and how it goes sideways. And I don't 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.760 need to run through the list all of them, and 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.680 I hope to touch on that maybe next hour. It's 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.719 absolutely brilliant and explains a lot. If you can't hang 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.400 around or whatever, just subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.480 Getty on demand. It'll be an hour three and trust me, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:27.920 it's really insightful. 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.600 Can we hear thee because I have only read about 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.679 this the woman confronts Newsome about. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.560 The water thing. I haven't actually heard this of you. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:40.160 I just read about it same. So let's hear forty 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:40.600 six there. 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.200 Michael Governor, I live here. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.680 Governor, that was my daughter's school. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.400 Governor, please tell me what you're going to do. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.840 But I'm gonna heart of my promise. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.640 I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.120 answer the question of what we can do for you 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:55.760 and your daughter? 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.160 Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.439 I don't believe it? I'm sorry, can I there's literally 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.800 I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around to 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.760 make Why is the president not taking your pull because 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.040 it's not going through? Why I have to get self service? 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.480 Let's get it, Let's get it. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.200 I want to be here when you call the president. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:13.960 I appreciate it. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.160 I'm doing that right now. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.960 Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.120 They lost two homes because they were living in one 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:21.839 and building another. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.680 Why is there no water in the hydrantscovenal? 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:25.960 That's all? 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.480 Literally? Is it going to be different next time? It 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.679 has to be? It has to be, of course. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.200 So's I hate Gavin Newsom and I thought he handled 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:34.679 that pretty well. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.920 Yeah, it's a hard situation to handle. She's either always 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.120 unhinged or illhinged because of the disaster that has befallen 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.120 her or whatever the weird. You got to call the 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.400 president because that's the only way. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.120 You handle any any situation that happens in America, your school, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.120 a fire, anything you can think of. First thing it 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.560 is the president the United States deals with it. There's 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.960 no other local control to deal with any of these things. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.520 And interestingly, in the same way that climate change is 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:04.720 always cited as the all encompassing excuse for everything, well, 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.319 it would have been nice. We know we couldn't be 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.120 prepared because of climate change. The idea that, yeah, I'm 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.560 calling the president, he's supposed to solve this stuff. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.160 You constantly remind us. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.400 That California has like the sixth largest economy on the 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.760 earth and its own nation state, and yet hey, yeah, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:22.360 what are. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.080 You gonna do for us? Cover Let me get the 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.480 president on the line. Maybe he can help. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.840 So somebody tweeted out this question yesterday. I got eight 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.840 million retweets as of last night. Because there's probably a 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.840 simple answer. What is it we ran out of water? 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.880 Why don't we use ocean water right by the ocean? 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.840 How is there not a way to use ocean water 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.760 that refills constantly refills the giant tank underground. Is there 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.000 a reason can you not spray ocean water on a house? 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.520 I suspect that would ruin all the equipment and you'd 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:51.880 have to replace it all. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.160 But I don't know that. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.680 There's almost got to be an explanation like that, though, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.079 doesn't there Because you have an enormous body of water, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.880 there's no reason ever run out of water unless for 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.439 some reason spraying that saltwater would destroy your roof for 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.840 the like you said, the firefighting equipment or something. If 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.199 anybody knows, you could text us four one kftc. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.320 Well, somebody would have to have the foresight to build 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.680 such a system. It would have to exist for sure, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.840 of course, to handle an amazing amount of water. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.319 But if you're there's spending all. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.080 Their money on illegal immigrants and transient drug addicts. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.600 There's probably a simple answer. But if you've got it, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:27.760 I'd like to hear it. And we got a lot 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.920 more on the way. Stay here, Mtrong. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.400 A few other companies to support the show. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.520 It's time for tonight's show sponsoring Here we are. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.319 I ha why yes, we do clean our tables with Sirah. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.680 Uber Eats. If you wanted it right, you should have 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:54.520 gotten it yourself. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.120 And finally Hampton in for when you're too classic for 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:04.599 Motel six, but not by much. That's funny. 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It's like your home 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.160 base for several days and you're gonna be there a 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.000 lot and moving in and out and everything like that. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.920 Location matter. That's a different world. But if I'm just 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.040 down the highway need. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.319 To get seven hours of sleep, might want to bring 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.760 your own towel. Man, cheap hotel towels will rub the 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.480 skin off you. It's like you're back in middle school 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.280 gym class. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.360 Dow. Wowow. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.800 It's like you requested sandpaper, like you're trying to get 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.920 the rough edges off a bench you're building. No, I'm 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:05.680 trying to dry my back. We got answers all over 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:06.600 the place. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.400 On why they can't use ocean water or aren't using 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.600 ocean water, don't have a system to use ocean water 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.080 in LA to fight fires. I mean, just in my head, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.160 it seems like, why wouldn't you craft the system back 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.720 in the beginning where you have a giant underground tank 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.800 that's constantly refilled by a pipe from the ocean, and 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.480 you just never run out of water. So some people 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.320 say you can't use water, it will kill the vegetation, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.280 and other people pointing out the tanker's water salt water. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.280 The tankers were picking up salt water and dumping them 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.200 on the fire all day long yesterday, so that probably 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:38.800 isn't the answer. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.800 Yeah, go ahead and kill my lawn, would be my response. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.520 Yeah, good point, although you might not want that for 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.440 a minor fire. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:46.960 I don't know how good. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.760 A lot of people saying, as you said that it 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.520 would kill all the equipment, Well you can't come up 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:51.880 with equipment that would. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:52.920 Deal with saltwater. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.360 Well, of course your equipment can't handle it, but you 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.840 could get anyway. I still don't exactly know what the 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.640 answer is for why you wouldn't use the The giant 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.520 ocean next to is a water supply to make sure 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.600 you never run out of water. That had to be 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.720 something when they went to tap those hydrants and there 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.400 was nothing coming out. I mean, there had to be 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.120 a lot of wide eyes, like, holy crap. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:12.880 Right now. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.560 And the explanation slash excuse given is that, well, the 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:22.440 hydrant system isn't for a giant cataclysm. Well, then the 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.160 question for good governance would be why is there not 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.840 a backup system or a contingency plan for this sort 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:30.920 of eventuality. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.680 Yeah, this is a problem we've had, we have everywhere, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.680 always will, And it is a good question. How much 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.600 do we taxpayers want to prepare for things that happen 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.440 once every one hundred years. It's sort of like the 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.320 Katrina flood thing. I mean, you have you have. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:48.960 I don't want to get off on all the tangents 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.080 on the. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.760 Money not spent or whatever, but a lot of times 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.240 you're not prepared for the one hundred year disaster and 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.160 then everybody goes crazy. What do we want those taxpayers 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.800 prepare for the worst When you're gonna get in a 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.000 hundred years, the worst earthquake you're gonna get a hundred years, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.600 the worse fire you're gonna get in a hundred years, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.880 where snowstorm you're gonna get in a hundred years, you got, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.640 you know, fifty extra snow trucks that sit around in 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.160 your little town for one hundred years before they're needed. Uh, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.840 I mean no, that's not a realistic way to live. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.280 So I don't I don't know what the answer is. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.160 It's always about tradeoffs, yeah, correct. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.320 We should talk about that again, the so well quote 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.040 everything is about trade offs, and the left more than 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.600 the right, certainly ignores that there are tradeoffs. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:32.600 Yeah. Yeah. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.400 And my tendency is I don't want to like spread 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.680 the indictments against GeV Newsom and Karen Bass so wide 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.400 that it includes stuff that's ridiculous that they couldn't do 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.080 anything about or shouldn't be expected to. I want to 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.320 be specific about this and nail them effectively for their crappy, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.160 crappy leadership, even as they squander billions and billions of 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.080 dollars on bullet trains that will never exist and bums 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.400 and junkies. As those numbers just leap because because they're 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.200 making it so comfortable to be a junkie. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.359 Yeah, it's not a lot of dots to connect. If 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.080 you cut the budget of fire prevention, you're spending all 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.840 this money on homeless encampments. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.879 I mean that's pretty simple math. I think. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:14.919 Armstrong and geddy. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:17.919 So Patie says to us. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.800 She says, I just forwarded to the group text an 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:27.479 AI video of Biden and his wife attacking Kamala and 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.280 her husband in the front pew of the Carter funeral yesterday. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.640 I just watched it. First of all, before I want 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.120 I want Joe to watch it live on the air. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.199 First of all, the first part, the real part, Am 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:39.600 I wrong? 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:40.000 Kedye? 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.760 Is that some chilly body language between Kamala and her 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.639 husband and Biden and the doctor Jill. There was no 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.280 eye contact and a very cold greeting. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.240 Oh my god, Yeah at a funeral. That was crazy. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.400 I'm a hold grudges guy, and I would be friendlier 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.199 than that with somebody in that setting. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.960 Yeah, you'd think it's the dignity of the occasion, would 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.399 demand men and Vice president? 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.480 How are you today? Yeah? Is that a side difference? 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:12.480 Go ahead and watch it. Joe. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.919 First of all, you'll see the real part where they 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.080 walk in and sit down and are chili to each other, 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.840 and then the AI fight begins. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:24.560 Okay, just quite hilarious. I love these videos, I know it. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.000 They're so good. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.160 Oh my god, the body language Okay, that's the real part. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.399 Oh those are sets on read. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.520 No literally, I figured, Yeah, yeah, I know. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.760 So is that as simple as a prompt, Hey, AI 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.080 make a video of Joe Biden and his wife get 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:51.200 in a fight with kome on her husband? 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.160 Or does it take more talent and craft to make 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.200 something like that, because I can't even imagine how they 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.959 do that. It is shockingly believable. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:00.400 Right, but the. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.920 Couple of people fighting videos now become its own genre. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.800 Sure, what did we have the other day? Trump was 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.520 beaten up on? Trump and Jill got into a fight. Well, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:15.440 that's right, Notre Dame, that's right, Notre Dame. Luckily she's 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.159 a doctor so she can tend to her wounds. But 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:18.639 how long is it going to. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.280 Take before everybody gets hit to this and stops getting 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.399 fooled by these videos? I think some of them are 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.520 so ridiculous, like this one. Yeah, people understand instinctively it's 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.280 fake but still man post truth worlds scary. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.720 But the real part, the beginning part. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.879 How about that chili reception from his vice president? 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.960 Oh yeah, wow, yeah yeah. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.119 Well more is emerging in. 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:46.959 More will emerge about doctor not a real doctor, doctor 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.920 Jill's role in the administration and in his decision to 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:55.160 run again and as his behind the scenes Machiavelli. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:20:00.240 Right, Well, she was the last holdout on allowing you know, 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.720 her husband to step down and Kamala to take the nomination. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:05.880 She was the last hold out. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.600 Here, hunt your delusional baby, and so she I'm sure 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.560 and they only did it. As Ian Bremer said to 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.719 us yesterday on our podcast, we should talk about that. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.920 As Ian Bremer said, everybody knows he was pushed out. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.359 He didn't voluntarily, like George Washington, give up power. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.040 So Jill was pushed. So she sees as. 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:29.119 The conductor of that orchestra, being the woman she was 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.760