1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Sexton Show Podcast. Second hour of play and Bock kicks off. 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 2: Now we've got Adam Carolla joining us from California. You 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: all know, Adam, Adam, appreciate you making the time for 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 2: us under circumstances. We know a lot going on. It's 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: a very tough situation. Tell us what you know, what 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: you're seeing, and what everyone needs to be aware of. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 3: So yesterday I went to the Equinox Gym on Sunset 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: Boulevard and pch and I walked out of the place 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 3: at about ten forty five in the morning, and I 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 3: looked up Sunset Boulevard and I said, I think there's 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 3: a fire up there, and that's exactly where it started 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 3: when it started. Then I went into Glendale, California to 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 3: do my podcast and subsequently came back to Malibu where 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: I live at about six in the evening, sat down, 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: and as soon as my aunt hit the sofa, we 17 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,919 Speaker 3: were alerted that it was time to evacuate. So packed 18 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 3: up what I needed to get by and then drove 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 3: out to Burbank, California, and checked into a hotel where 20 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 3: I'm at right now. So obviously, I've been following it 21 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 3: through the news and talking to neighbors and that sort 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 3: of thing, but I've not been back since I left 23 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 3: last night. 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: How's your home? Do you know personally how your home 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: has been. 26 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: I woke up this morning to a neighbor telling me 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 3: it was all gone, and then then the neighbor revised 28 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: the report later on to maybe it's still there. 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: So that's a that's a big range of reporting from 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: the neighbor, I'll point out. 31 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, sometimes the ladies jumped the gun a 32 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 3: little bit with the information. So I was pretty devastated 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: this morning, and now I'm in some sort of hopeful phase. 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 3: But there's really not a great way to get information 35 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 3: because you can't go down there and look for yourself. 36 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 3: So you watch the news and you see little bits 37 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 3: and pieces where you. 38 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 4: Go, oh, that's the restaurant up the street. 39 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 3: You know, you try to piece together cobble together some information, 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: but it's pretty much just sitting on pins and needles, 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: waiting to get back there to see if it's gone 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 3: or not. 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: Now, Adam, you've probably seen the President already. Wait In 44 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 2: has some harsh words for Governor Neuscomb as he calls him. 45 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: So President Trump is going right after it here and 46 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: specifically saying that there's been inadequate expansion to the water 47 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 2: system and effectively inadequate preparation for an event like this 48 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 2: by the state of California, perhaps by Los Angeles County. 49 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: In addition to that, what is the truth of that? 50 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: I mean, for people who don't live there, I think 51 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: it's hard to know what's proposed, what's been considered, and 52 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 2: what could have been done. 53 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: I mean, do you have a read on Is there 54 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: just growth? 55 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: Is there grotesque in competence at play here in terms 56 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 2: of the preparation for an event like this? 57 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: Well, I did twenty minutes on my podcast on today's show, 58 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 3: which was on the subject of most of these fires 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 3: are started by downed power line. So we have a 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: decrepid power grid, and our power lines are not buried. 61 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 3: They're up on power poles, and the power poles are 62 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 3: eighty years old. So when the winds hit, they knock 63 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 3: the poles down and the hot wires start the fire, 64 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: and or when it gets windy, they just shut off 65 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 3: all the power, so you have no power in the 66 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: middle of trying to evacuate because we have a decrepit system. 67 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 3: Keep in mind News is now putting more money into 68 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,119 Speaker 3: the high speed rail, which isn't high speed rail from 69 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 3: Bakersfield to Merced, about one hundred and fifty miles way 70 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: out of California, in the middle of nowhere. Nobody lives 71 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: in Bakersfield or mersaid they're already eighty billion dollars over 72 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 3: budget on it. And I did twenty minutes on why 73 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 3: don't we take that eighty billion dollars or the two 74 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 3: hundred billion dollars that's going to cost a build rail 75 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 3: from Merced to Bakersfield, which impacts nobody, and use that 76 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 3: money to upgrade our grid and bury those lines up 77 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 3: and down pch where the fire is happening and all 78 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 3: the multimillion dollar houses, there's fire poles fall all over 79 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 3: the place. One of their big problems is power lines. 80 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: Everywhere the fire pole catches on fire, the power lines 81 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 3: come down, the trucks can't pull in, and you can't 82 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: evacuate if there's hot wires or even cold power lines 83 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 3: on the ground that you don't. 84 00:04:58,480 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 4: Know are live or not. 85 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: It's a big issue, and it's insane that we have 86 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 3: the same technologies they had in eighteen seventy five with 87 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 3: the Power polls. 88 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: You've lived in California, not since eighteen seventy five, but 89 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people have moved in during your lifetime there, Adam, 90 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: how would you assess we were just talking on the show. 91 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: You know, if the hurricane God Forbid hits Florida, which 92 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: happens pretty much every year of different varieties. Right now, 93 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: Floridians feel very confident that their governor and their local 94 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: government is going to do the best job possible responding 95 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,159 Speaker 1: to that hurricane. What do you think your average Californian 96 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: thinks about the city and state leadership in California in 97 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: terms of responding to something like this. What value add 98 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: if any, is California getting from its political leadership or 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: is it actually detracting from the innate goodness of many 100 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: of the people in the LA area. 101 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 3: Well, you know, as you know, we're all sort of 102 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 3: vibes and we want the first you know, African American 103 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 3: woman fire chief and mayor, and we get all into that. 104 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 3: But when the s goes down, then we want to 105 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 3: know what's going on. You know, I was looking at 106 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 3: it today and I realized we have an incompetent mayor 107 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 3: Karen Bass, who is in India or something or Africa 108 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 3: doing something collecting beads. I don't know what she was 109 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 3: doing over there, but she's incompetence. We don't have a 110 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 3: system of reservoirs and water collection and fire hydrants and stuff. 111 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 3: It's all a mess. Obviously. The think about this, the 112 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 3: places that just burn to the ground, the multi million 113 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: dollar houses, and I'm not saying two million dollar houses, 114 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 3: I'm saying twenty eight million dollar houses. 115 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 4: Wow. 116 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 3: The houses that burn to the ground in the community 117 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 3: were Malibu Palisades and Santa Monica, all overwhelmingly blue, all 118 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 3: Newsome voters, all Karen Bass voters. They voted for all 119 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 3: of this, and now their houses are gone. 120 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 4: Yeah. 121 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: I mean that is kind of reaping what you sow 122 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: on some level, right, Adam. And so many people have 123 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: left California. I was talking about the number of UCLA 124 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: and USC flags I see in my Tennessee neighborhood. Now 125 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: a lot of them moved to to Florida, where Buck lives. Now, 126 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: as a lifelong Californian, have you thought, hey, is it 127 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: time to uproot and go somewhere else? Through COVID, I 128 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: know you travel all over the country doing your shows. 129 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: But has this maybe and many of the other things 130 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: that have just kind of strung together calamity after calamity 131 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: for Californians. Does it make you want to uproot? 132 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I bought land in Henderson or Fat, Nevada, 133 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 3: and I'm literally leaving after my podcast to head up 134 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: to Vegas and do some shows, but to go look 135 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 3: at my land and meet with the architect and the builder. So, 136 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 3: oh yeah, those plans have been on the table for 137 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: a long time because all you do is pay taxes. 138 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 3: And it's it's three parts. It's you pay taxes, you 139 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 3: pay an aortent amount of taxes, you get nothing in return, 140 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 3: and they wag their finger at you and want to 141 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 3: know why you're not doing more or paying your fair share. 142 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 4: You get villainized. So it's not only the. 143 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: Part where you don't get anything, and it's not only 144 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 3: the part where you pay for everything. Then whenever these 145 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 3: guys run for elections, they villainize the people that are 146 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: keeping the lights on in California. 147 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: Why do you think, Adam, there, there isn't a faster 148 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: recognition of what you're describing right there, Whether someone wants 149 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: to call it, you know being being red pilled. I 150 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 2: don't know seeing reality reacting to events with with common sense? 151 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 2: Is is it just the ideological? Uh, there's they're so ideological. 152 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 2: It's dug in that there's not enough suffering from the 153 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: bad policy to make people want to try leadership. 154 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: That's different. I mean Gavin Newson was supposed to be 155 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: recalled and then he wasn't. 156 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you there's gonna be a lot of converts. 157 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you where the where the conversion happens 158 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: over to the logical side, over to the right side 159 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 3: when you try to build something. So I'll be fast here. 160 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 3: But I've been a builder my whole life. I had 161 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: to pull permits on everything. When you have to deal 162 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 3: with the city and pull permits, that's when you become conservative. 163 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 3: And if you hear Bill Maher in the last five 164 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 3: years sounding a little more like us, he brings up 165 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,559 Speaker 3: trying to get a solar shack built, right. He wanted 166 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 3: to get solar power in his house. He had to 167 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: pull permits. It took him three years. They wouldn't let 168 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 3: him do it. And now he sounds like God because 169 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: now he's pied because he doesn't want to bureaucracy. Bill 170 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 3: Mahersh spoken more about bureaucracy and red tape and burdenso 171 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: rules in the last two years than he has in 172 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 3: the thirty years before that. 173 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 4: It's because he trying to do something. 174 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 3: All these houses and the palisades, all the houses in Malibu, 175 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: all the. 176 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 4: Houses in Santa Monica. 177 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 3: When they try to rebuild, and a couple of those 178 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 3: yentas from the Coastal Commission tell them no, or you're 179 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 3: gonna have to wait in line, or it's going to 180 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 3: take five years. That's when they're going to turn. 181 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: I know, we want your home to be okay. We 182 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: want you and everybody else out there listening in LA 183 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: to be fine. Questions that you're in the entertainment space. 184 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: I know that you have been a Trump supporter for 185 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: some time. Has the culture of Los Angeles and the 186 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: culture of Hollywood expanded, as it is to many different 187 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: locations creating content. How have you found it responding to 188 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: the Trump election this time compared to in twenty sixteen 189 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: and maybe in twenty twenty. Is there a vibe shift 190 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: that you can feel? 191 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, Remember all of Hollywood. Hollywood are mostly powered, mostly 192 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 3: hypocritical power. Now, if you don't believe me that there's 193 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 3: runaway production. They all film in Canada. Why they film 194 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 3: in Canada they get a tax break. Then they come 195 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 3: back to their homes in Beverly Hills and lecture everyone 196 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 3: about paying a little bit more in taxes so others 197 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 3: could get a hand up. 198 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 4: Right. So they're all hypocrites, they're. 199 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 3: All cowards, and they'll go with whatever flow the nation's 200 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 3: go into, especially money wise. You've seen it with Disney, 201 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 3: You've seen it with all these corporations getting rid of DEI. 202 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 3: Now you've seen. 203 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 4: It with the tech ros. 204 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 3: So they will line up behind Trump just for commerce. 205 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: Well, that's a good thing, that's I think. 206 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 2: Also we're seeing that at them with the break in 207 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 2: the the corporate embargo boycott if you will, of all 208 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 2: things Trump from Amazon now or is it Netflix? 209 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 4: Who is? You know? 210 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 2: Amazon's doing the forty million dollars deal with Milania for 211 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 2: the boom of the new Milania biography, right, new millennium, Right? 212 00:11:58,600 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: I mean, are we going to see a lot more 213 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: of that at them? 214 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 2: Do you think now they realize that they can't just 215 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,199 Speaker 2: continue to stiff farm half the country? 216 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 4: I think so. And also I think as. 217 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 3: Trump's implemented plans bear fruit and start to be effective. 218 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 3: And as the aforementioned Gavin Newsom and the Karen Basses 219 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 3: and all the blue cities and the crime and the 220 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 3: crime on the subway and the fires in Los Angeles, 221 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 3: you know, as Los Angeles and New York City start 222 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 3: to implode, and as Trump's policies bear fruit, I think 223 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 3: You're going to wake up even the heaviest sleepers. 224 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: And I would add this to Adam, thanks for coming 225 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: on with us, and we certainly are wishing you the best. 226 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: You know this, and I've seen it happen a lot, 227 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: the amount of times you're on a television show or 228 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: you're on some sort of production and guys come up 229 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: who have the cameras, or guys come up who are 230 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: building the sets, and they just whisper, you know, something like, man, 231 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: I'm with you, You're right about everything. There's actually a 232 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: huge contingent even in the entertainment space, that agrees with 233 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: a lot of what we say every single day. 234 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And it's always a sort of blue collar 235 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 3: side of it. 236 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 4: So he's the guys on the. 237 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 3: Dark side of the bright lights, you know, Yeah, the 238 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 3: grits and the cameramen. You know the truck drivers, all 239 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 3: those guys, the teams. They're always the guys who quietly 240 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 3: tell you they agree and then pull their mask back 241 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 3: up real quick under their way. 242 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: That's right, Adam, Best of luck. Thank you for making 243 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: the time. I know it's a crazy time right now 244 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: out in LA. If you hear anything else you want 245 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: to call in an update is fel free. We appreciate it. 246 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 4: Man, Well, thanks for having me. 247 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: Guys, for sure, that's Adam Carolla. Awesome dude out in 248 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,719 Speaker 1: La Lifelong, California, and you just heard it from him. 249 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: He's building a place in Nevada, which, by the way, 250 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: has become really really commonplace. 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I mean, and 284 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: to come on and tell us what the latest is 285 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: so far as he can tell based on his experience. 286 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: I mean, that's I mean, credit to him, that's pretty compelling. 287 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: But I think as a lot of these guys who 288 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: were longtime Californians, you can just feel the disappointment, like 289 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: they don't like you were in New York, like you 290 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: loved living and you don't want to abandon a place 291 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: that you lived and you loved, but they just force 292 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: you out. I know, it's a different issue. It is. 293 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: It is heartbreaking for me to see just in terms 294 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 2: of what happens when things go wrong in a place 295 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 2: that you grew up and that you love. 296 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: Heartbreaking for me to see. 297 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 2: People standing so far back in the subways in New 298 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: York City because they're just afraid, yeah, their backs their 299 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 2: backs literally to the wall when they're on the subway 300 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: platforms because they're afraid of some maniac pushing them in 301 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 2: front of an oncoming train. Because of some of the 302 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 2: incidents that have happened in the subway recently. It doesn't 303 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: have to you know, it doesn't have to be this way. 304 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 2: And when you know, Adam, I thought that was really 305 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 2: interesting when he was laying out the power line issue. 306 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: I've also we've got a lot of people writing in 307 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 2: by the Way to say that there should be more 308 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 2: water collection mechanisms, that the water system and what California 309 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: we know has water problems as it is, and and 310 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: I think they've gotten a lot of rain the last 311 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 2: year or two and there's been very little effort to 312 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: try to gather that well, you know, to collect it 313 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 2: for for later use in a reservoir in some form. 314 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: So there's a lot that could be done. But why 315 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: doesn't California have world class infrastructure? 316 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 4: Yeah? 317 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 2: Good to you think world class infrastructure? I mean, how 318 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 2: much money have they spent on the high speed train 319 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: to nowhere and the tracks that don't actually do anything? 320 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 2: And then you think how much money have they spent 321 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 2: on having enough firefighters and having enough gear in place 322 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 2: to deal with something like this. 323 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: You pay fourteen percent state income tax and I paid 324 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: it in California, and you don't have enough fireman. 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Clay. 344 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: All right, So we've got a lot of interesting stuff 345 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 2: coming in here on the email front about the situation 346 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 2: in California, the wildfires that are breaking out there. We'll 347 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 2: also get some of your calls here eight hundred two 348 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 2: eight two two eight A two. Joan writes. The travesty 349 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 2: of the California fires is that original settlers and forest 350 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 2: managers developed the fire control measures that worked over many decades. 351 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 2: They realized long ago that they were living in a 352 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 2: desert region and the Santa Ana winds were very dangerous 353 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: if there was a fire. They employed controlled burns, fire pits, 354 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 2: and other measures to prevent the spread of fires. Experts 355 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 2: predicted that the fire risks would increase when enviros started 356 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: their insane lawsuits a few decades ago. The legislature could 357 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 2: fix the problem with the lass, with the laws to 358 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: permit sound forestry management. However, it is California here, Clay. 359 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 2: I would I would point out this that I think 360 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 2: one of the great frustrations a lot of people have 361 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 2: as they see this unfold is while we're saying, look, 362 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 2: you know, I understand the most important thing now is 363 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 2: your thoughts and prayers go for everybody who's affected, Go 364 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 2: to everybody who's affected, and that emergency services do the 365 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 2: best job that they can and save as many people 366 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 2: in houses as as possible. There is always going to 367 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 2: be a conversation about the response, the political leadership, the 368 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: culpability or the lack of preparation in that for that leadership. 369 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 2: But you know, they also always want to make it 370 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: about climate change. And I think that that, unfortunately is 371 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 2: it's a very deeply ideological divide. And I think it 372 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 2: also means that you don't get to focus in on 373 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: things that would actually help. Saying that the global temperature 374 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 2: is increasing whatever they think that it is on a 375 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 2: yearly basis is not helpful in actually dealing with this 376 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: at all. But it then turns you see what I mean, 377 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: all of the focus and energy becomes diverted from immediate 378 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 2: actionable measures to do something about this too. Hey, it's 379 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 2: climate change. Now we need to pass some bill in Congress, 380 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, And actually bucket kind 381 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 2: of ties in. I was reading a great piece in 382 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago about 383 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 2: critical race theory and how it actually just stise the 384 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: argument itself. In other words, they get it completely backward 385 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 2: that actually Western civilization is what allows critical race theory 386 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 2: to even exist because without Western civilization, we would all 387 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 2: still be living in such poor environments that nobody would 388 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 2: be able to worry about race and gender and ethnicity. 389 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 2: But what I'm hearing from a lot of people is 390 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 2: climate change actually is preventing the situation that would provide 391 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 2: more help for issues associated with climate right, So in 392 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 2: other words, we should have way more reservoirs to be 393 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: holding water, to be able to provide more water for 394 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 2: the people in Los Angeles area. To your point, we 395 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 2: had a really great winter, I believe in the Sierra 396 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 2: Madre Mountains. They now have filled up the reservoirs to 397 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: record levels over the last generation or so, but we 398 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 2: don't have enough, so we still lose a lot of 399 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 2: that water, which is what Trump has said. 400 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: It goes out into the Pacific Ocean. It isn't recollected. 401 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: And one reason we don't have more reservoirs is because 402 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: the climate change people are concerned about the impact of 403 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 1: the reservoirs on the climate. So then you end up 404 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: with this situation where it becomes almost a self fulfilling 405 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: prophecy because you're not fighting the actual ravages of the climate. 406 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: As as Adam said, and also as the guy who 407 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 1: called in who used to fly plane said, this is 408 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: something that existed throughout the history of this depography. Right, 409 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: It's not like wildfires just started in LA now. They've 410 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: been going on for as long as Los Angeles has 411 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: existed as a community, Yes, and long before. 412 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 2: You would think that also improvements in technology. I saw 413 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 2: people sharing online that even if power went out in 414 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 2: their area, they still were able to stay or rather, 415 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 2: if the internet went out in the area, they were 416 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 2: still a bit to stay on because of starlink and 417 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 2: how and that meant that there is additional communication capability 418 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 2: in some of these areas that have been hit by 419 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 2: you know, outages because because of the fire. You would 420 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: think that with increased technology and also the increased impetus 421 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 2: of more and more of these kinds of how more 422 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 2: and more housing and habit you know, inhabitants in some 423 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: of these areas that we know are at risk of 424 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 2: these fires, that they would have more sophisticated systems in place. Instead. 425 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 2: It just feels like, as you're watching this and it's 426 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 2: devastating and it's a gut punch just to see this 427 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 2: happening to you know, our fellow American's fellow human beings. 428 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 2: It looks like not very much is done at all 429 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 2: to improve the overall infrastructure. I mean, I'm not saying 430 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 2: not much as being done by the firefighters on the 431 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 2: front lines now, I just mean in terms of the 432 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 2: state of California getting it in advance of this and 433 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 2: exceeding previous capabilities to be able to blunt this kind 434 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 2: of a fire. It's it seems to me like a 435 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: lot of people writing in saying the same thing, which 436 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 2: is that this is this needs to be addressed. Pete 437 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: writes in California has a water system built fifty years 438 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: ago for a population of twenty million. The state now 439 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: has forty million people, but the greenies have made it 440 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 2: impossible to enlarge the state's water system. The state needs 441 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 2: more dams, which create reservoirs needed to store the snow 442 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 2: melt from the sierras and screw the delta smell. 443 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I've heard from a lot of people, 444 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: is that there needs to be more reservoir building. The 445 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: problem is that, as he just laid out, you got 446 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: the environmentalist to say, oh, no, we're going to have 447 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 1: an impact on the insert fish or you know, random 448 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: bird or random salamander. And as a result, you have 449 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: to deal with this in the LA area and I don't. 450 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: That's what's so frustrating about it is the people who 451 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: are making the argument about climate change are actually making 452 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: the climate more dangerous based on the policies that they 453 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: implement and endorse. And it's like, to your point, Buck, 454 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: the cognition like it doesn't connect. Oh, we're making things 455 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: worse while we're trying to advocate to make things better. 456 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: It's like they can't process that connection because they're so 457 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: focused on their own moral righteousness associated with climate change 458 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: that they don't understand the consequences of their own actions. 459 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 2: Yes, and that means that you wouldn't get the kind 460 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 2: of respond I mean, you're you're not getting the kind 461 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 2: of action and response to to fix these things from 462 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 2: a you know, a community or a collective. Dare I say, 463 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 2: you know, there shouldn't be such a divide over like, well, 464 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 2: how do we agree how do we deal with this 465 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 2: in the future, Like when you have a bad hurricane 466 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 2: Clay and if they don't have you know, if the 467 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,479 Speaker 2: levee isn't big enough, or if they don't have enough resource, 468 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 2: everything can sort of agree with these with these wildfires. 469 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: I mean the front page the New York Times. 470 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 2: I've seen the past, it's, you know, well, this is 471 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 2: why we need to pass a bill, you know, mandating 472 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 2: electric cars. 473 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: It's like, what are you people talking about? That's that's 474 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: not what the problem is. I think also it ties 475 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: into your question, and you have a unique perspective on 476 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 1: it because you're a lifelong York City resident. What happened 477 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: in normal city? Yeah, oh yeah, oh careful, I don't 478 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: want the tax hounds on your scent. What had to happen, 479 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: you know in New York City was New York City 480 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: got so awful that people were willing to elect Rudy 481 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: Giuliani and they were willing to say, hey, you know what, 482 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: the crime is so bad, the just deterioration of city 483 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: living is so bad that we're willing to change our trajectory. 484 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: And I think that happened in twenty twenty four. A 485 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: lot of black, Asian Hispanic voters finally said, looked around 486 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: and said, our community actually getting better. What's going to 487 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: take for LA to make that choice? 488 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 4: You know? 489 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: Karen Bass against Rick Caruso was that battle right, and 490 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: Caruso lost because to Adam's point. All of these left 491 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: wing liberals said, oh, Karen bass is our solution, She's 492 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: our salvation. We got to have a black woman running 493 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Well, now she's in Ghana. The city's burning. 494 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: Rick Caruso is rightly pointing out that there's also of 495 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: flaws responding to this crisis to many of those people. 496 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 1: Do any of those people make the connection that their 497 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: vote has the consequence of making their life worse. That's 498 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: what has to happen. It's almost like an intervention. You know, 499 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: you can be an alcoholic, but until you recognize that 500 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: you have an issue with alcohol, everybody else pointing to 501 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: it and saying, hey, dude, maybe you should have less 502 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: to drink, it doesn't register until you make that connection 503 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: inside your brain. And frustrating because it does. It takes 504 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: a long time for an attic to recognize the addiction. Yeah. 505 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'll take some calls coming up here, and also 506 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,919 Speaker 2: we'll talk about you know, Fetterman on the Clay mentioned this, 507 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 2: Fetterman on the immigration issue making some sense and not 508 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 2: the first time. Also, Democrats what they are not willing 509 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 2: to go along with them. It's pretty stunning stuff. We'll 510 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 2: get to all that here coming up in just a 511 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: few minutes. Bear Creek Arsenal manufactures some of the finest 512 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: firearms in this country at a price point that will 513 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 2: surprise any gun owner. 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This is 578 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: four straight years that California has led the nation in departures. 579 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: Listen to the states where people are moving. South Carolina 580 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: number one overall, Texas number two, North Carolina number three, 581 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: Florida your home state now number four, Tennessee my home 582 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: state number five in that list Tennessee, Florida and Texas 583 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: no state income tax. Where are people moving from Pennsylvania, 584 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California. This is as we 585 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: get ready for twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty two 586 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: in the presidential election cycle, they're going to be redoing 587 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: the map. In twenty thirty there is a profound shift 588 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: in power that is moving to red states that is 589 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: only continuing to accelerate, and I think a lot of 590 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: you listening to us right now have found yourself moving 591 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: to states that more reflect your values. Red states are thriving, 592 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: and I think this is going to end up buck 593 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: being maybe the biggest legacy of COVID overall is the 594 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: amount of power rolling into these Red states and the 595 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: amount of population growth economic growth that's going to follow. 596 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 2: I'm living it here, right, I mean, you're a born 597 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 2: and raised Red Stater and Tennessee is still going strong 598 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: and doing great and getting a lot of the people 599 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 2: that have decided they'd had enough elsewhere. I sit here 600 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 2: as somebody who I look. I mean, until not that 601 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 2: long ago, so I thought that New York was the 602 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: single greatest place in the entire world. 603 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 1: I really believe that. 604 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 2: And I had done a fair amount of traveling some 605 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 2: pretty nasty places for the CIA, but I had done 606 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 2: a fair amount of traveling, and I just thought New 607 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 2: York City was incredible. But with COVID and everything else 608 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 2: piled on top of it, it just felt like too 609 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 2: much had gone too far to ignore it. And I 610 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 2: think a lot of people are recognizing that you have 611 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 2: a tremendous amount of advantage in your career as well, 612 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: if you're flexible at being able to move. You know, 613 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 2: it used to be for certain jobs, Clay, you had 614 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: to be in certain places. That was very much the case. 615 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 2: And I know they're bringing more and more people back 616 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 2: into the office for investment banking, for example in New 617 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: York things like that, But if you want to be 618 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 2: in finance, you really had to be in New York City, 619 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 2: you know, certainly twenty thirty years ago. 620 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: And now you. 621 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 2: Know, people open you know, hedge funds and they do 622 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 2: it wherever they want, and they open mutual funds and 623 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 2: they can live anywhere in the country. So yeah, it's 624 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 2: it's a different demographic America, you know, going forward, because 625 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 2: of what happened during COVID. 626 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: And I also still believe maybe this is. 627 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,520 Speaker 2: Am I am I convincing myself of this Clay that 628 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 2: there was still in the back of people's minds a 629 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 2: lot of frustration in this last election about COVID stuff 630 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 2: that oh, I think you're right to it, you know, 631 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 2: I didn't get talked about. But I still feel like 632 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 2: people the overall sense that the Democrats there was madness there, 633 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 2: there was something where some kind of insanity had overtaken 634 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,840 Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. It was COVID in the and the 635 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,239 Speaker 2: gender madness. You know, those were the two areas where 636 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 2: I feel like it was just too much. 637 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,959 Speaker 1: And this is what I was saying yesterday for those 638 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: of us who were right on almost everything COVID, and 639 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: trust me, it was a small group, particularly in the media. 640 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: I know a lot of you were right in the 641 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: way that you lived your lives. We're not going to 642 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: get a definite. Hey, I was wrong. I think I 643 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,920 Speaker 1: missed up yesterday and said that Martin McCarey was getting 644 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: What did I say. I think I said that he 645 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: was maybe getting the I think he's get the CDC. 646 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: He's going right, Yeah, I think I think I said FDA. 647 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,720 Speaker 1: I think I screwed that up. I think he's getting 648 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: the CDC or whatever it is. You're seeing these guys 649 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: get elevated who were right about COVID, doctor Bodacharia out 650 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: in out in California, the people that were the most 651 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: outspoken about this in the scientific community, in the medical community, 652 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: Fdachie been chosen to do that. Yeah, I wanted to 653 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: make sure I got that right. But that's as close 654 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: to an acknowledgment of wrongdoing that we're going to get. 655 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 1: Just like the Zuckerberg statement that we talked about yesterday, 656 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: that's about as far as people are going to go 657 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: is saying hey, I'm changing everything, but not acknowledging in 658 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: the process that they were wrong about everything. This is 659 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: about as good a vindication as we're going to get. 660 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I do think it factored in 661 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,840 Speaker 1: in a big way in the twenty twenty four elections, 662 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: because I meet a lot of people out there still 663 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: who say, hey, this was the first year I ever 664 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: voted for Trump. That's something had to change in order 665 00:35:59,040 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: to move them in that direction. 666 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 2: The single biggest moment I think of policy for the 667 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 2: income administration play is going to be seen on the 668 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 2: illegal immigration issue. Let's dive into where that stands and 669 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 2: also this Betterman comment that has gotten a lot of 670 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 2: attention and where the Democrats are on deporting illegal criminals.