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The One About The Compassion, Kindness & Conspiracies Around The LA Fire Disaster · Untraditionally Lala

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my love, it is La La Can welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Give Them Lalla podcast. We are recording today
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  Speaker 1: from Palm Springs, So just the heads up. You could
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  Speaker 1: hear dogs, you could hear little kids, babies, So just
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  Speaker 1: roll with it. As most of you know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, you've been planted in front of the TV
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  Speaker 1: for god knows how long. Now. It's been a strange
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  Speaker 1: week and a lot of people have been affected in LA.
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  Speaker 1: It's really strange because you sit there and you go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, thank god we weren't affected. But then
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  Speaker 1: it's like you can't really thank god because so many
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  Speaker 1: people were affected, and then you start having this mental
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  Speaker 1: back and forth about how and why. And I just
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  Speaker 1: remember Easton saying I think it was on Tuesday, right
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  Speaker 1: east Yes, He was like, oh there's there's a fire
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  Speaker 1: over in the Palisades, And for me, I was just like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's really shitty, and in my head
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking they'll get it under control. Los Angeles is
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  Speaker 1: no stranger to wildfires. And again, we only have a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks left of like the rain season for La.
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  Speaker 1: It's extremely dry. I turn on the news and with
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  Speaker 1: it in a matter of minutes of Easton saying that
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  Speaker 1: it was just out of control. I have land In
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  Speaker 1: here on the podcast today, he welcomed land Land.
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  Speaker 2: I do have to say, I'm very excited to have you,
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  Speaker 2: even in these terrible, terrible times right now, it is
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  Speaker 2: good to have you.
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  Speaker 3: It's glad to be here. But yeah, it's different, strange times.
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  Speaker 3: Strange times really though.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I don't for the first time, I've been
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  Speaker 1: like really nervous to do the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I am overthinking everything. I'm like that's going on. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even have a thought to say because every thought
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going to say is trumped by another.
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  Speaker 4: Thought that I want to say. It's just it's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a fine line between you know us obviously
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are broken for our community, but also if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching the news, there's so many things that you're
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  Speaker 1: just like, how did this happen? And you want to
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  Speaker 1: place blame on somebody because it just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to go through all of the things
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  Speaker 1: that you know, we've been hearing on the news. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a newsperson, and I make that very apparent. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: the world is very dark. I know what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm certainly not, you know, fixated on the minute
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  Speaker 1: to minute. But with with this fire because it's in
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  Speaker 1: my backyard or technically front yard, yeah, not literally, but
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  Speaker 1: we could see it start creeping over the mountain into
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  Speaker 1: the valley. I just wanted to know that everybody was
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  Speaker 1: safe in my household. So I've been planted. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing I want to touch on is when it broke out,
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  Speaker 1: the first news conference that happened, we had mayors from
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  Speaker 1: other cities that were present, and every single person and
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't the only one. Again, I want to state
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not a political person. Okay, I sat on
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  Speaker 1: my Instagram story that I'm a registered Democrat. I consider
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  Speaker 1: myself to be pretty liberal, So it has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with party. I want to make that very very clear.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stick to the topic at hand. But our mayor
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  Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found, nowhere to be.
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  Speaker 2: Found, and then when she was found and asked questions
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  Speaker 2: at the airport, she didn't even answer anything.
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  Speaker 4: She just stood there blank.
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  Speaker 2: Stare, looking down, turn to the wall, the wall, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry you have to answer, like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people who voted for you, are leaning on you, and
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  Speaker 2: they like, what you are going to say is going
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  Speaker 2: to give us some sort of hope and peace.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not on when you're looking for a leader.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you turn to the wall like that, that's idea.
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  Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when you're the mayor of a city that has
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  Speaker 3: a ton of fires and they knew the winds were coming,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't like they were unprepared for that. They were
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  Speaker 3: well aware of the winds, well aware of how dry
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  Speaker 3: it's been. I mean for me, if I was let's say,
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  Speaker 3: running a company or something and I knew that there
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  Speaker 3: was a potential disaster, I don't think i'd be in
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii or Africa.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I might probably be just in case, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to stick around.
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  Speaker 1: Right And where where was she? She was in Ghana?
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  Speaker 1: And what was.
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  Speaker 3: This was a presidential inauguration.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give give this to her that something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Great go. However, you're the mayor of a
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  Speaker 1: city and at that moment in time, you are the leader.
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  Speaker 1: People voted for you because what you stand for and
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  Speaker 1: what you want to see out of our city, our
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  Speaker 1: community that's the reason you were voted for. And now
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  Speaker 1: we're all looking at each other like what the fuck
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  Speaker 1: is going on? And you know the fire department was out,
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  Speaker 1: but they can they can only do so much with
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  Speaker 1: the resources that they're given in the budget that they're
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  Speaker 1: given at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and they can only do so much, and you'd
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  Speaker 3: like them to have the information right they got out there,
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  Speaker 3: didn't even know the reservoir was empty. The fire department
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  Speaker 3: was unaware that that was down for maintenance since February.
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  Speaker 1: Since February, so February of twenty twenty three, we're going
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  Speaker 1: on a year.
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  Speaker 3: Of it being empty, a year of it being empty.
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  Speaker 3: And some guy went out there and took a video.
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  Speaker 3: There was a single orange DWP cone.
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  Speaker 2: Like no service trucks, no nothing, and I'm sorry. This
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  Speaker 2: is like we are known for having fires.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the one thing. Like people in middle in
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest, right, they're like, we know that tornadoes come
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  Speaker 1: at this time of year. We know in LA we
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  Speaker 1: get wildfires that are out of control, So why on
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  Speaker 1: the fucking planet do we have empty hydrants? Why do
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  Speaker 1: we have a reservoir that holds how many gallons land in.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred and seventeen million gallons of water.
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  Speaker 1: Empty, empty, and where did it go.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere that empty? They emptied it for maintenance, whether whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Handed into the ocean probably.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the other thing that they said, what the
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  Speaker 1: reason is why it was But okay, understood maintenance what
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  Speaker 1: needed to be maintained that you would empty that many
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  Speaker 1: millions of gallons of water.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't been able to figure that one out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. No one's answering the questions. We
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  Speaker 1: have Karen Bass who sits there and looks at the
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  Speaker 1: wall when she's asked questions. And I found this very
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. The first press conference when she finally arrived,
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  Speaker 1: there was a question that said, how did this happen
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  Speaker 1: and how are we going to keep it from spreading?
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, well, we are keeping it from spreading,
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  Speaker 1: and we're protecting people in property. And the guy responds
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  Speaker 1: and says, well, you're not because people in property are
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  Speaker 1: being lost by the minute, so you're actually not doing
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  Speaker 1: any of those things, and she goes, again, we are
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  Speaker 1: protecting people and property. The next press conference, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: every question was muted. You couldn't hear the question. You
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  Speaker 1: could only hear Karen Bass's answer, which continued to be
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  Speaker 1: we are only focused on protecting people in property. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm the type of person, y'all. And as I get older,
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  Speaker 1: this is what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be fixated on the letter next to
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  Speaker 1: the name, right, Is there an R? Is there a D?
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  Speaker 1: Like many people? Okay, And at some point, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's after I had kids, where I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: in this moment, we have we have a brain, we've
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  Speaker 1: got two eyes, we've got two ears. We're gonna use
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  Speaker 1: all three of those things. Take away, take away the
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  Speaker 1: letter next to the name. I want to know what
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  Speaker 1: the answers are and what makes sense. And if you
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  Speaker 1: can make sense of something to where I go, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I totally get it, then I back off. But Karen
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  Speaker 1: Bass has continued to not make one ounce of sense
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  Speaker 1: to me on how this happened. Even if she were
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  Speaker 1: to say we messed up, we messed up. This is horrific.
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  Speaker 1: I know you want to place blame. I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: that blame. I don't care if after that you have
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  Speaker 1: to resign, tuck your tail between your legs, take accountability
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that people lost lives and their homes
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  Speaker 1: because they rolled up on a fucking fire hydrant that
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  Speaker 1: had no water. Unbeknownst to the fire department. How did
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  Speaker 1: it happen?
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  Speaker 2: And with the winds being as high as they were, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there were things that were going to be lost, But
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  Speaker 2: with having water, could they have stopped it from maybe
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  Speaker 2: jumping streets or little things like that. They were fighting
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  Speaker 2: a fire in one hundred mile an hour winds with
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  Speaker 2: no water.
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  Speaker 3: That's very true, And could they have stopped it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I don't think that they could have
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  Speaker 1: stopped that. They're solely responsible for how bad it got
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  Speaker 1: because there were natural things that happened, like eighty two
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  Speaker 1: one hundred an hour, And that's.
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  Speaker 3: Where that's like a category two hurricane wins exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where I and I have no idea, but
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  Speaker 2: I would like to believe if there was fire hydrants working,
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  Speaker 2: maybe just spraying in the air would maybe defloct you know,
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  Speaker 2: the embers that started new fires would have maybe been
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  Speaker 2: put out a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Like there might have been something let some water.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take what we're you gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, I mean the fire department,
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  Speaker 3: I think they've done an amazing they've done job like
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  Speaker 3: everything that they were battling. You know, obviously we can
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  Speaker 3: talk about the incompetencies of the government and other things,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the lack of water, but the men who
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  Speaker 3: got out there, they've done an amazing job. They couldn't
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  Speaker 3: have cop like choppers in the air that night because
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  Speaker 3: the winds were too strong. It's that's an incredibly tough
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  Speaker 3: situation for them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and then you're battling a fire, the winds
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  Speaker 2: are picking up, you have to retreat, you don't there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're with everything that they were given, those men and
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  Speaker 2: women did an unreal job.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I'm so grateful that you pointed that out
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  Speaker 1: because it's very true with everything that our fire department
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  Speaker 1: and our first responders were up against. What they what
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  Speaker 1: they went out and did, and they put their their
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  Speaker 1: lives on the line to protect They left their families behind,
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  Speaker 1: they left their own homes behind to protect our community.
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  Speaker 1: And then not only are they battling all the natural
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  Speaker 1: things that happen, but you're dealing with stupid people who
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  Speaker 1: are choosing to them put drones in the air, and
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  Speaker 1: at that point in time, they have to ground any
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  Speaker 1: aircraft because of the drones. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: guys saw that. An aircraft, a huge aircraft by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that came in from Canada to help, had a gaping
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  Speaker 1: hole in it from a drone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the super scoopers that goes and picks
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  Speaker 3: up from the ocean and can drop a ton of water.
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  Speaker 3: Incredibly vital, incredibly vital that those.
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  Speaker 2: Are the quickest moving like water putting, because they it
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  Speaker 2: takes thirty five seconds for them to land on the
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  Speaker 2: water and pick up all that water and go back.
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  Speaker 2: They were the quickest ones to put out. They did
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  Speaker 2: the most rotations. And we have idiots flying drones to
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  Speaker 2: see the fire. Having to ground the planes that are
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  Speaker 2: putting out the fire so it can spread. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we had to ground them for fifteen to twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: That is unreal. That's like three people putting out of fire.
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  Speaker 2: The spreading of that. How many homes were lost due
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  Speaker 2: to people flying drones.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about really quickly. When I was
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  Speaker 1: watching Katla, they had a woman named Tracy park On
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  Speaker 1: and she's an La City council member in the eleven district,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you she was so well spoken. She's
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat. She was so well spoken without actually placing
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  Speaker 1: blame on one person and turning this into you know,
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  Speaker 1: finger pointing. She was saying that we have the same
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  Speaker 1: amount of fire stations in Los Angeles that we had
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  Speaker 1: sixty years ago. She said, we need at least sixty
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  Speaker 1: two more just for an average day in LA. And
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  Speaker 1: she said the conditions of these fire stations. They have
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  Speaker 1: leaky roofs, they've got hvax that don't work, They've got
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  Speaker 1: equipment like fire trucks that are just sitting there needing repairs.
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  Speaker 1: She said, this is the reason why I ran in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. And this is something that I've been
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  Speaker 1: raising concerns about every single year that we go in
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  Speaker 1: and we talk about what our city needs. She said,
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  Speaker 1: we have completely dropped the ball on protecting our community
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  Speaker 1: and the people in it. And it's very true. On
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  Speaker 1: the the end of you know, a fire happening the
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  Speaker 1: city of LA for those of you who don't live here.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel so horrible speaking about, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: home this way, because I do love LA, but it
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  Speaker 1: has turned into a trash. Can you can have somebody
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  Speaker 1: roll up on you, rob you, you get a slap
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  Speaker 1: on the wrist. If you do that, you can light
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  Speaker 1: I mean the fires. We had people starting fire just
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  Speaker 1: out it's the wild, wild west.
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  Speaker 4: On the Tura. While these fires were going landed and
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  Speaker 4: please speak.
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  Speaker 3: People were starting fires. Now we had Easton and I
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  Speaker 3: one of our friends, he posted a story. He was
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  Speaker 3: driving back from West Hollywood and he lives in Studio
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  Speaker 3: City and Onventura. He's driving and he sees a guy.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of fa fawns from palm trees, the
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  Speaker 3: big the big leaves off the top of palms that
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  Speaker 3: had died and fallen off. They have him just on
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  Speaker 3: the side of the road, you know, waiting to be
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  Speaker 3: picked up, and a guy's lighting him on fire, just
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  Speaker 3: lighting these on fire in the middle of this windstorm,
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of this massive fire. And him and
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  Speaker 3: another couple of cars you know. The guy I'm assuming
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  Speaker 3: ran off, but they get out so they can tamp
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  Speaker 3: out those fires. But that was happening all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Like I saw so many people like just starting random fires.
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  Speaker 3: It's well, the Kenneth fire, that's right now, they're assuming
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  Speaker 3: that the one in Calabasas. For everybody who don't know
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  Speaker 3: the exact names of the fires, but that's the one
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  Speaker 3: near the Calabasas area. There's right now the number one.
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  Speaker 3: The suspect is Arsenal Parson for that one, right, which
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  Speaker 3: is wild, Like who in the hell is fucking doing
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  Speaker 3: this during his massive fires or.
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  Speaker 4: Wins and all that? Well, that's the thing and the robbing,
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  Speaker 4: the looting and all of that as well of it.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like it's disgusting to see people be disgusting
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  Speaker 5: and such horrible times and do such disgusting things to
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  Speaker 5: people and like that are already hurting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I think that that was something that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't hearing this on the news, but
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  Speaker 1: on social media. It was like are people starting these fires?
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  Speaker 1: And they you know, there's an app that you can download.
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  Speaker 1: There's many of them. I had watched. I was using
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  Speaker 1: watch Duty that you reckon, which.
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  Speaker 3: Thank thank god to Watch Duty. Are the people running
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  Speaker 3: that app, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who's running it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's a five oh one C three. It's a nonprofit
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  Speaker 3: and they are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Well. The CEO and founder of that app, he hires
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  Speaker 1: retired dispatchers, firefighters, and they're the ones that are updating
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  Speaker 1: and giving the I don't know if you saw how
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  Speaker 1: they do the zones, and yeah, it was like evacuate
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  Speaker 1: or set go all the zones. Those are people who
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  Speaker 1: like have literally did this for a living.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, doing a great job to be able to
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  Speaker 3: handle that kind of traffic, millions and millions of people
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  Speaker 3: and the app to I didn't see it crash once, no,
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  Speaker 3: which is that's an impressive fee. So you know, thank
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  Speaker 3: god to those people.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, really, no, you're absolutely right. They were thinking that
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  Speaker 1: maybe people are starting the fires, waiting for the app
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  Speaker 1: to come through about which homes are being evacuated, and
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  Speaker 1: then running up on them and basically taking all of
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  Speaker 1: their property that they can get. You were talking Landon
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  Speaker 1: about TikTok or a story that you saw about a
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  Speaker 1: front Sierra sent it to you. Your sister Slash Tires.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well there was the Sunset fire,
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  Speaker 3: the one that broke out in which that I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we can probably talk about that because that was like
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  Speaker 3: a movie. We're over in our house, we're thinking the
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  Speaker 3: fires kind of at least somewhat under control, yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: then Lauren runs over to our house and is like
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood's on fire, that Hollywood's on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Well you wanted who caught that one? Is the camera
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  Speaker 1: the anchor and cameraman covering the fires, they said, is
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  Speaker 1: that it looks orange over here, and they said they
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  Speaker 1: made the call that like the Hollywood Hills are on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a dense area. There are homes everywhere, hotels.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's an iconic area that I think even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't live here, if you were to turn
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  Speaker 1: on the news and watch that, you would know exactly
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  Speaker 1: where that is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely. But going back to so that area, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, incredibly dense. People are evacuating, that area is
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  Speaker 3: traffick y pretty much always just normal traffic. Imagine people
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  Speaker 3: everybody trying to get out. But this one person I saw,
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to evacuate, they're getting stuff ready and looters
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  Speaker 3: roll up on their place. They're still there getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to go out, and they get and they slash their
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: car tires.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: They can't leave.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: No, It's like what and like the audacity, like really,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: the that's just deplorable.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: And it goes back to when you have times like this,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And this is why I chose the topic that I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: did for the bonus of you know, if you've ever
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: been in need, whether it's small or big, who's shown
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: up for you. Because I really want to shed light
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: on people who have good hearts. I know that it
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: is common, but in times like this, you hear like
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the communities really pulling together. People are getting evacuation notices,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: We're all trying to move like herds of cattle. And
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: then you've got these little groups of people who are
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: basically preying on the most vulnerable. And I get where
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: their headspace is at because I've seen a lot of
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: comments on TikTok about our city and they want to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: talk about it being Hollywood, Well they live in X
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: amount of millions of dollars of homes. The lack of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: compassion that I've seen with people saying this is LA's karma,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: it's just mind blowing to me.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to slash that immediately, because yes, there's celebrities,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: there's wealthy people that live in those areas, clearly, But
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I've been in La. I've been around La my whole life,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: but living here now for about two years, Eastern and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I and there are so many homes that yes have
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: a very high high value now because of property values,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: but they are people that have been in these homes
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: since the seventies. They bought their property for next to
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: nothing and they've lived there. They're normal people. They're normal
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: people on the euse that they will never be able
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: to where they've been, where they've called their home for
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: forty fifty, sixty years or seventy years for some of them.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Where they made memories. That's the other thing that people
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: don't get. It's not just a home, you make memories.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: But they'll never be able to rebuild there because they can't.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: They're not people that can afford to rebuild there. They
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: don't have the money to do that, or that property without.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: It being inherited or when they actually bought it in
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the seventies.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So, but yeah, my biggest thing is like them saying
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: this is the karmen all that, and like us being
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: here for the two years and actually meeting people like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: amazing people from here just going out who were born
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: and raised, and the compassionate giving and you got you
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: could see that at the Rose Bowl when everybody needed something.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: They had to start turning away clothing because so many
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: people started to donate within like two days, within two days.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: It really is just an amazing community. And for everybody
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: saying it's this is the karma, This is not karma
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: for La or anything like that. And it's disgusting people
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: actually say that because there are so many people that
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: are not famous who really just lost everything, and as
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: well as everything, they lost the memories that they could
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: walk into a room and feel right.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And I think everyone's so fixated on the Palisades fire,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and it is it is the largest fire, but they
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: eat and fire that's in Alta Dina is somewhat getting
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: lost for whatever reason. But I want to point out
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that that's a community that is very rich in black history,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and there were many black people who came and they
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: came to that community and it was considered like a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: safe haven for them and they went to you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: nine to five jobs. They did not work in Hollywood.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: It was one of these like hidden gems in La
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: where you weren't a part of the hubbub. You could
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: be in like a great haven. That's what they considered.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: It could be in a great neighborhood and not be
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a part of the chaos that La brings. And I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: just want to point that out because if you look
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it up, there were many incredible stories like this poor
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: man who they found his body with the fire or
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: with his hose still in his hand, and a lot
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of people that tried to save their own homes and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: actually succeeded. There weren't a ton but the ones who
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: actually did save their homes, they said that they had
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: learned from the last fire. How sad that when you
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: see it coming, you're like from the last fire, I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: know that if I don't protect my house, it's going
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to be gone. And we can sit here and say, like, well,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: at least you know your lives are saved. But that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't take away from the moments that you say, like
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I bought that house. I mean, some of these homes
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this guy bought his back in like nineteen sixty for
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: so cheap, you will never be able to rebuild that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: On top of how La makes it the most difficult
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: place on the planet to even get permits to build something.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: We've only just begun. It is about to turn into
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: complete chaos.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: It's going to be complete chaos. And I mean that's
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: just such a I mean, that's a good point to
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: bring up, especially for people that are listening. I mean,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: two points in my mind one. You may see it
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: on the national news, of course. I mean, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: it's been everywhere, but the eeriness of it and the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: feeling is something that I've really never felt in my life,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: just across the whole city. But the coverage is going
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to stop, and at least nationally people are you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: people are going to forget about it. But the rebuilding
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: here that's not going to stop for that's going to
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: be a long, long process and the pain is going
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: to be felt for an incredibly long time, an incredibly
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It's just wild to think that grocery stores were wiped out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And I go back and I remember your mom was
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, South Carolina one or South Carolina Helene.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Helene came through.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was devastating. And I kind of like
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: turn my head because on one of the news conferences,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a spokesperson said that FEMA's going to pay one hundred
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: percent of the damages in Los Angeles. Yet your mom.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Received she got a seven hundred and fifty dollars check,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: which is what everybody got over there, and just to
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: clear their trees so they could get back into their house,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: not even all the trees, just the ones that were
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: impeding access into their home so they could start clean
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: up thirty thousand dollars, so that FEMA check really went
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a fucking long way.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I just don't buy that FEMA's going to be able.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: This is the most expensive natural disaster in US history.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: As of a few days ago, were at like.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: One hundred and thirty billion dollars in destructure.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Is that where we're at now?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, over one hundred and thirty million dollars of destruction.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: That moved so quick because a few days ago we
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: were at fifty fifty Yeah, fifty billion, and it's already
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: into the hundreds. I just don't see how FEMA's going
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to come through. And I remember the guy he was like,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: never have I ever heard of FEMA doing that? And
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: he like turns to like the chief of the police
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: department in the firework, have you ever heard of that?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And they're sitting there with their hands across like, No,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: we've never heard of.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: That, and I still never will.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: So we'll never hear of that. It's not gonna happen.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: But I mean the permits A lady was talking about
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: when her house burned down a few years ago in
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: a fire. It took a year ticket permits approved to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: clean it up, to clean the fucking lot up, not
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: even to fucking rebuild a year, to clear out the rubble,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the debris, the toxic shit, Like, what the fuck are
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: we doing? Clear that shit out immediately?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, there is truly, because I'm all I've seen
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: is again I've been in Palm Springs because the air
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: quality is obviously toxic. A lot of people did go
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: back yesterday, which would have been Sunday, but I just thought,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I don't want to put Sosa back in that air quality.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: But if you don't have to.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: However, I did see today then use signed an executive
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: order to help make the permitting process faster. I want
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to say great and hurrah, but I am skeptical of
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: is that actually going to help. And if it does
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: make it faster, it is a cut it from a
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: year to three months of six months, that's still a
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: hell of a long time too long.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that he is taking that into consideration though, that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: He knows that this is an issue.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: An issue, and hopefully puts people's minds at ease. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, there were fifty three hundred structures that were
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: taken out by this fire, and that was.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Over over ten thousand total with Altadena, right.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that's just I would say that that was
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: a few days ago as well. So all together, there's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of people calling in about
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: their homes, a lot of people talking about in insurance
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and what's covered. I remember when I was looking for homes,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I would call my business manager, who's really like my dad.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I call him with I'm like, can I buy this?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And every time I would send him a property that
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I was looking at, he would say, I love it,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely not buying it. It will be next to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: impossible to get fire insurance for you, and I'd have
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to move on. And I think it was like, who
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was it that canceled people's fire insurance?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: State Farm?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: State Farm, State farmed seventy percent in the Palisades. Are
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the people of State Farm insurance got this canceled a
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: few months ago?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: But here's the other thing I don't It is shitty
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: that State Farm did that, but I also saw that
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: State Farm told pretty much the California government that we
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: can ensure this because it is too high of a zone.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You guys aren't taking care of any You're not doing
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: like wildfire, like control burns.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: You're not doing anything.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: You're not doing cleanup. Yes, there's too much around that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: one ember could spark a giant fire.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm sorry. I do agree.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: If if I give you something, you have to give
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: me something in return, and that is make sure that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: this doesn't happen.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I was because there were so many You think
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Safe Farm's going to pay one hundred and fifty billion, Well,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it's just it can't be done. It simply can't be done.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: But I that is. The other thing is like I
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: saw State Farm said, California, you guys need to do X,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Y and Z to keep the fire insurance in these
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: areas or we will be canceling.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: They didn't do it, so they canceled.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You know what. And I agree. And I love the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: heart that Los Angeles has, and I love our thought
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: process and what we care about. We also have to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: care about other things at the same time, like what
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: experiencing right now. And there were so many things, like
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I heard that the fire started in a backyard. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: heard so many different things.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I saw a video from a building and it was
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: in the Palisades and it's a guy standing there and
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: they think it that's how it started as well.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Was it on a trail?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, so let me from a building.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: So the La Times said the earlier fire appears to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be sparked by fireworks, officials said. As for the Palisades fire,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it appears
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to have human origins, but that the investigation is ongoing.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: So I don't know that it was a backyard fire.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: But they are saying that it could have started from fireworks.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And they are saying a beloved hiking trail could hold
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the answers. Could you imagine being the one that did that?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Well, this for how I think i'd run. I think
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I would run, I disappear forever.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I don't think I could. My conscience would.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: My conscience would email.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: This is where I'm.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Saying, LA is a lot of people smoke weed when
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: they go on trails, Like it is so dry that
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: even if somebody like tapped the joint or a cigarette,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: it literally could have started.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Well, there was a fire purpose, there was a fire
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: back in the day that someone was driving on the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: four or five. But I like there's a cigarette out
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and it lit the mountain on fire.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It's to the point where like this could have been
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: done by somebody, but I don't think the person and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: this is well off.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: It could have been done by accident. And they were like,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: oh my god.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: If it was indeed started by a firework, everyone knows
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles fireworks are banned. You are not allowed
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to put off fireworks at any point in time, even
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: on the motherfucking fourth of July. Keep your fireworks.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And why are we lighting fireworks on the seventh of January?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: What are we celebrating? No fucking something, miss let's light
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: some fireworks?
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: What date is it? The seven? Perfect like an idea, Like,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I just don't understand.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Why you're lighting a firework off at that like specific time.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: But who's just.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Did you guys see what they're investigating right now for
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the eating fire. No, there's a potential cause and this
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: one it's I mean, the company is claiming, they're saying
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: absolutely not.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Obviously obviously don't look over here.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: But the Southern California Edison Company, they're investigating the the
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: FD and the PD. I think they're both investigating one
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: of their towers as the transmission and it's like if
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: that was, then what the fuck do you do?
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Because it's like, well, hey, guys, you just caused just here,
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: it's sixty billion damages and we're gonna need a little something, right,
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I mean like what like what the food.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Well, now they can be like, well, we're not going
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: to give you power.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, but then.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: You're going to bankrupt us.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: So going over this.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Is okay, We'll hold on. Because there's a lot of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Well I love this one.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Well, and let me tell you, yes, we're turning into
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Craig connivor, wh he's from Southern charm and he puts
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on uh tin hats because he thinks that aliens will
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: penetrate his mind.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: I believe it. I'm gonna do it. I believe anything.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Right now that I By the way, we're not saying
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that we believe any of these conspiracy theories. We are
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: just delivering what the other people are saying.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Are delivering news that we received as well on TikTok.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Very reliable might be gone, who knows.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: I think that's why they want to go. And we're
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: all too connected.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Like I was looking at so many things about the
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: fire and all of that, and people were just like, where.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Am I gonna get my news? Where am I going
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: to get my news?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Like real news from people who don't lie to us, Yes,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: like people in.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: New Jersey doing these the orbs and all those things.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, and.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: All of those in the closet.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Like I've been seeing NonStop videos of those, and now
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I'm scared for my whole life.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Well, can I tell you tell me? When Newsom was like,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: what was it? LA two point zero was coming and
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like I'm sure everyone was like, Oh, the city's going
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to be better than ever me personally, and I'm not.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: On the TikTok, I was like, this feels like code
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: for something I don't mean. I'm going to need to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: know what you mean by that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Well, elaborate, elaborate, and some research don't know anything about it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I'm just going to bring it the news that I received.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I'm going to bring that news to you from TikTok.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Allegedly, smart LA twenty twenty eight is a thing and
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: it is making.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Oh it's a thing. You better believe it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Oh perfect, it's making Los Angeles an ai city.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Read through it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: There are multiple cities that are doing this or have
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: plans to do it, and they are about seventy five
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: percent there, So now is everything done? And this the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: you know twenty five percent that they need is now
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: delay it?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm kind of an idiot when someone says
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: they're turning La into an into an Ai city. What
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: does that mean that there's gonna be robots roaming? I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: don't know what that means landon please tell me.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I mean in general, I mean just technology to help everybody. Right,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: they want everything within fifteen minutes of each other. Basically, Carliss,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: one of the goals for the twenty twenty eight Olympics
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: is a no car Olympics.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Right, Wait did you say twenty twenty.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Twenty eight Olympics? Which is the goal for smart city
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: lay twenty? And I don't know. I've driven in La.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I've been or I've been here enough. How the fuck
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: are you gonna get around without a car? Well, how
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: are we going to do that?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Well, people in LA when they're like the grocery store
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: is a mile away, how are we going to get there?
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Walk?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we could walk, but we don't walk.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: But they need land, Yes, they need to be able
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: to build structures that are high. I mean, think of
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: look at the I mean, look at you. Look at
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: our smartest city in the world in my opinion at least.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: But Dubai, Okay, what's Dubai filled with massive towers? Everything's
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: close by. You can get anywhere really quickly, right Like
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: it's compact, yeah, very compact, and La is not compact. No,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: So how do you do that? How do you build that?
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: How do you and you know, how do you put metros?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: You know, what's your reasoning for adding more metro stops? Right? Well,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: it's already burned, might as well build.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: It's cheaper to It's cheaper to burn everybody down and
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: not have to buy them out of their land.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So is that one of the conspiracies?
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: That's one of the conspiracy theories because on your point,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: which I'm not sure, but cheaper to burn everybody down,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: because think of all the people that we were talking
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: about that have been in their home since the sixties
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: and seventies or that's been passed down. What happens to
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: proper prey taxes when you've bung a home for that long.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: They don't go up, don't go up until they sell, right,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: So how little money were they.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Making and how much of that land and the other thing,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: how many people honestly own the home, don't live here
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: and rent it to other people, you know, So they're
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: these people that.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Are renting these homes.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: They're making a lot of money off the renters and
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: nothing has gone up because they've just inherited this home.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: So burn it down and now they can start making
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: more money. The other thing that was crazy to me
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: is I was looking up the new metro trains that
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: they're planning to put in and it goes along.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: The same roads as like CPA.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Shit, just some maybe maybe right through the middle of
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the palace, wasn't It.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Goes right through the middle of the palace.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: There's just a lot of things that, like you just said,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: I have two ears, two eyes, and a brain, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: at what point do you start using it.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: This does make a little and this is.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Where you know, for LA Smart Law twenty eight to
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: be something, and then for Newsome after these like while
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: these fires are.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Going already talking about that, talking about.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: What we are working on LA two point zero.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: There's just things and we can we can get into
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: conspiracy theories and stuff like that. The one point that
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: at least for me holds a little bit of weight,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: and going back to culpability and blame and also just
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: planning for the shit. There are ways to do things
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: and cause something without doing anything. And by that I
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: mean the all of the planning the state could have done,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: clearing the brush, making sure the reservoir was full, all
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: of these things that the state could have ensured were there,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: making sure the fire department was well funded so they
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: could get there quickly and at instead of and that
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: they didn't do. They may not have funded seventeen point
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: six million, however, that's only about two percent of the budget.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I did read that at the top of the fiscal
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: year when they created their budget. Yes, the fire department
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: was cut a little over seventeen million dollars. However, had
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: they not budgeted the way that they did, it would
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: have cut them down twenty three million dollars. Now paper
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: takes ink, but it's just I don't know.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: If that's true funding.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: A department that has just been said that we need
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: sixty plus more of them.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Just and they for a regular and they added, let's
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: defund them. They added fourteen million in fund into libraries,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: which I mean, I love libraries, but Let's be honest,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Who the fuck is he using a library these days?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: I mean I read books online and stuff or those
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: type of things I do love about.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: But that's why can I say I understand the heart
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Okay, what I want to perceive as
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: having a good heart and caring about everybody, but wildfires.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: They don't care about how much money you make, where
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you come from, what you do for a living. You
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: at some point have to protect the people, right, So,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: as much as I care about all of these other things,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: this should have been done first and foremost to protect
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the people that make Los Angeles a really incredible place
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to live.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Love me.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: A library had a library card until probably last.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: You built the How much money was it?
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Fourteen million?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Fourteen million?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great, let's put that much. The fire department
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: needs to be funded. Just a case of fire starts.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: They can protect that library.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: I heard. I heard all fourteen million was going to
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: uh collecting overdo fines just like a Seinfeld, you know
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: when when when the librarian comes after thirty years later, mister.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Looks like an ice cream guy.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: He's like tropic of cancer, no tropic of Capricorn.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Like that's there are yeah, there there's you know, overall
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: seventeen point six million, it was about two percent of
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: the budget. There were areas where it was in fact raised,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: and which is good. But he had Crowley last month
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: send the letter to the mayor.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: She didn't respond, right, No, send the letter.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: To the may about how all of the issues with
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: where the budget stands and how it's going to make
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: them unprepared for what wildfires.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you when that iconic woman who
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I loved watching, Tracy Park, the council member, the news anchor,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, it's just unimaginable, and she goes, no,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: it wasn't. This was imaginable. I imagined it all the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: time and thought, we are not prepared. It's been imaginable,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and here we are, and I was like, I love her.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Same. And then Mel Gibson he was on the news.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Too, well that he's a.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: But he was leaning into the conspiracy theories. He was
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: on Fox News.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, but yeah, I just I mean his thing
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: with viral. I didn't see it live.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I just saw it was at through the TikTok.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: But no, like he was just saying, like Los Angeles,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: he was conspiracy saying like they knew why they they.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: I think there's a water, like there's there's more behind
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: what their.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Way, the ties to Maui and they're Smart City Initiative
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: and all that, right like fires there.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: What's wild, though, is with a lot of conspiracy theories,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: they always talk about how celebrities are a part of them.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: But you know, the palisades a few And I want
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to talk about this because a lot of people clowned
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: on celebrities who talked about losing their homes, which this is.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I mean Paris Hilton lost her uh her Malibu house
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: miles and is it Kelly or Kaylee Teller, Jennifer Love, Hewett,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Billy Crystal Brad, Paisley, Tina Knowles, Jeff Bridges, Candy Spelling,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Ricky Lake, bo Saint John from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Her post was really sad. She said, I worked bloods
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: wet and tears for this house. And you know, just
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: because someone lives in a house that costs that much
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that tomorrow they can go and just rebuild
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: that same house. Julia Louise dreyfus Seinfeld, She's done a
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: lot of other things, but because I watch that literally
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: every day. Yeah, John c Riley, Anthony Hopkins, Eugene Levy,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: James Woods, Adam Brodie, John Goodman, and then obviously the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: iconic duo Heidi Montagon Spencer Pratt Heidi I saw on TikTok.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not laughing at Heidie's part. I'm laughing at Spencer's.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: He just knows how to make I mean, she's sobbing
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: saying I just want to go home, and I cannot
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: imagine when you go through something really traumatic and devastating,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you really just want to go home where you feel safe.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: And that's the whole reason why you're traumatized and devastated
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: is because your home was just lost in a fire.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Like these people are displaced and then spent. It cuts
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to Spencer and he's got a he's got a cocktail
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: in his hand and he's like, I finally hit a
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: million followers on TikTok. My house burned down and I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: finally hit a million followers. Why didn't I think of
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: this before? This could have been a quick way to
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: get him. And he just was adding like I'm sure
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: he's getting through. He's getting Heidi through, like really really
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: difficult times, but then even people you want to talk
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: about generations living in the Palisades. I won't say her name.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I did ask her if I could talk about how
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I knew her on my Instagram and she said absolutely.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I did not tag her, but I just wanted people
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to know how I knew this family. She was my
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: very first sponsor, and you know, every time I called
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: on her, she appeared helped me through the most difficult
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: times of my journey in sobriety. And I texted her
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: because I knew she lived in the Palisades and had
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: lived there for a very long time. Her parents have
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: lived there forever. And she said, I'm okay, everything's gone.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And I asked her, like the neighborhood is gone. This
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: was like day one. She said, everything has gone. My
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: house burned down, and she was obviously very devastated. And
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: she called on me and just said, would you mind posting?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I know there's so many people who are in need
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: much more than us right now, but I would really
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm like, okay, in this moment, you're calling
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: on me, and you know a lot of people caught
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: he like Mandy Moore posted a GoFundMe for her in laws,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and the goal was sixty thousand dollars and people just
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: went insane on her. They need sixty thousand. Why don't
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: you give the money? I don't know the reason why
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: she didn't give the money. I think at this point
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: in time.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: How many things there are more, there are.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: More important questions to ask, then well, why don't you
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: donate the money? Let's just try to be a little
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: bit freaking compassionate. And we don't know the reasons for
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: people setting up a GoFundMe. I don't know. I think
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: this reason is because everybody lost literally everything. I don't
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: think you have to be some genius to put two
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and two together. Who knows why Mandy Moore didn't pay
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the full sixty k?
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Will they read it down? Well?
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: They ran upon Angelina Joe Lee okay, and she was
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: leaving with her kids from just the grocery store and
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: it was like night two of the fires, okay, And
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: they were like, Angelina, have.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: You have you uh? I love to roll up, I mean,
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: and they were just like, have you donated to any
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: of the and.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: All she says, she looks up and she just says,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: I'm taking care of my close loved ones and I
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: will take care of that later.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: It's like for you to even ask that right now,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: it was crazy for the winds were still going.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: It's like, and back to.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: The point, why are you out here right now?
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: That's the other thing, what are you doing you?
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. Because there was one by the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, and then they moved locations because that location
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: actually became a hub for first responders, firefighters, and on
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the news they were begging like, please, no more clothes,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: we need shoes, we need essentials. But you know, this
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: fire is gonna go away. And to me, it's similar
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to when you lose a loved one and everybody there's
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: an outpour of love and then after the funeral or
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the wake, everyone goes back to normal life and you're
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: still left with this hole in your heart. That's what's
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: gonna happen with these fires. Gonna it's gonna go away,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: but people are still going to be left with devastation
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: and rebuilding. So my hope is like, let's not forget
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: about them. Let's continue to figure out ways that we
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: can help in an effective way. The bonus, I'm going
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: to talk about all of the ways that you can
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: help help make your time, your donations, whether it's money, clothing,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: because I'm sure at some point they're going to need
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: more of that shoes where it goes, And it's the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: most effective if you.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Know anybody as well, if you know anybody in like
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: the LA area that has you know, a condo or
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: something that they can even put up for airbnb for
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: free for people who were affected. So you can put
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: a roof over somebody's head for you know, as long
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: as they may need it. But yeah, there's just mom
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: put her condo condos. You have to get out, you
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: have to get out, and at least there's a roof
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: over your head. But yes, I saw Mom did that,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: and I saw a lot of other people did that.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Your agent reached out and even asked, like, if we
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: needed a place to stay, she has one if we
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: get evacuated, And I even said, I was like, let's
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: give it to somebody in more need than me.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Right, And I hope to God people have hearts and
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: don't try to make money off of this and price
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: gouge with the rents. I know, price gouging on like
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: items have been has been outlawed, which is awesome, that's
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: great essentials and things like that, but the homes.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Because Newsom said it's illegal if you have fallen victim
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to price gouging during this time, whether it's on goods
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: or renting a place. Everything. He said, if you fallen
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: victim or they're they're only allowed to do a ten
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: increase and to call if you know of someone who's
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: who's been price gouged. So I do like the steps
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: that that he's taking where he can. So with that,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: I I want to just say there many times that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I watch the news and you see what people are
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: going through in other states, other parts of the world,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and your heart does break for them, and you you
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: do go back to your regular life and you do
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: what you can in the moment. But then you look
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: around you and because hasn't directly affected you or your community,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I feel that most people just go about the rest
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: of their day. I get it. You have kids, you've
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: got bills to pay, you've got to go to work.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I totally understand. I now have a different perspective because
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: people who I know were affected, My community was affected.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Places that I used to drive through are completely just gone.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: So I will watch the news differently. I will look
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: at tragedy and devastation completely differently, and I just hope
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: that we can all in this moment, no matter where
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: you are, practice compassion. Don't be in the comment section
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: making things worse where all human beings have a heart.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I love you, guys, I'm grateful for you listening, and
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to catch you on Monday's episode for the bonus.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Go out there, be safe, make a difference, be kind
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: to each other. I love you, Bye bye.