What Caused the Devastating CA Wildfires? An Investigative Journalist Brings Details, 1/13/25

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Oh oh, thank you, thank you, Tony.
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Great to have you back.
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I think we'll see how this whole thing goes. But
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Tony is here. He was on a little hiatus. I
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think he was skiing snowboarding. So we're running for our
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lives while Tony is.
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I literally flew out of town right when the fire started.
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Yeah, nice, Johnny. I think that's a great plan. Yeah,
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great plan. Kim is here as well. How have you
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all been working over time to try to get you
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information and also get you a great conversation today and
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some terrific guests are going to stop through on a
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number of different facets of what's happening in southern California
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and beyond California generally. This is a threat, not just
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to the southern part of the state. As you know,
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we are a live show every day eleven to one
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in the West, two to four in the East, and
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we're so glad that you could join us. We also
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appear as an audio podcast across many audio platforms Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeartRadio,
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et cetera.
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I can tell you this twenty twenty five so far.
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Not a fan.
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Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
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I really not enjoy it.
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I'm sorry, but I am not really enjoying much about
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the new year.
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No, your hair looks shorter today, though.
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Well, what it's just that Jennifer Aniston hair product that
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I used. Oh and it keeps my hair kind of flat,
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which is sort of weird. Yeah, but thank you for noticing.
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It's a yeah, I'm just oh, you just know, well,
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I feel I think the girl in me is very woo.
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It's true looking good in the face of fire.
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We have an investigative journalist joining us in just a
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moment who will talk about the Malibu and Palisades fire
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specific The origins may not have been natural. I mean,
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it seems fairly obvious that the origins were not natural.
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I say that because of several things that will share
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with you. And then I've received a lot of email
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because people are aware that I'm in the animal activism community,
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and there are many emails hitting my inbox asking where
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can we send support to various animal organizations, because really
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a part of a lot of this is both personal pets,
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you know, cats, dogs, birds, et cetera, fish, and then
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the large animals that have both fled and have to
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be in an instant I mean sometimes in less than
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a half hour, loaded into transport vehicles and moved from
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areas that had to be evacuated. So I have some
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really great people to speak about that as well. And
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then at the end of this first hour, we're going
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to give you the entire hour about the fires in California, origins,
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personal loss, political aspects to it. We're going to try
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to cram that all into this first hour. And at
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the end of the first hour, Courtney will join and
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she has an entire list of charities and organizations that
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are really writing to the rescue of so many Californians
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and so many displaced individuals and animals for that matter.
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And you'll get that whole list at the end of
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the hour. And of course, you know, because it's YouTube,
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you can stop it, you can write it down. And
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then Tony is just so lovely he has said, I'll
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put all those links into the YouTube description so that
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if you go to our YouTube channel under this video,
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you'll be able to just hit it and it's a
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hot link right to those charities. You still have to
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do that, but that's really thank you. So that's the
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situation as we proceed. I'm look, my great love affair
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is with California. I love everything about California. I love
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the weather, which people get drunk on and they stay
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for a lifetime. I love the diversity. I love the topography,
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the mountains, the ocean. I love show business, so I
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love Los Angeles. I love politics, so I like people
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who are engaged and who are forward thinking. And for
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all those reasons, I continue to adore California. Those of
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you who are lucky enough to grow up here, sometimes
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I think you lose track of what a great place
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this is. I dreamt always of coming here, So this
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is hard.
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I know, Mark Thompson Show, let's get into it.
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I have for you an investigative journalist who has done
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revealing work and is on the trail quite literally of
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what might have been the genesis of the fires, particularly
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in the Palisades and in Malibu. And I do want
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to say there's a great sixty minutes piece last night
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that a couple of viewers sent me emails about, and
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thank you for doing so, because I found the sixty
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minutes piece and I watched the last night, and that
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was a great piece about Altadena and Altadena is this
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fabulous community, and you see this Foothills community. It's right
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alongside Pasadena, and this terrific community with such a rich
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diversity and a rich culture in sort of a small
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town atmosphere in so many ways. And it's destroyed and
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it is its own heartbreak. And we'll be talking about
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that in the in the in the coming shows as well.
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But C C.
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Woods is an investigative journalist. She's the host of Newsbeat
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LA and she's an investigative reporter at the Current Report
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dot com and also at the local Malibu dot com.
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Here she is CC Woods. Everybody, thank you so much
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for joining us. This has to be again so very difficult.
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This is a community that you're a great part of.
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I want to talk about the origins of this fire,
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and I'm going to play something for you, CC. Even
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as I've welcomed you to the show before I even
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let you utter a word, I'm going.
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To play something for you. Tony.
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Could you play that this one piece that kind of
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is potentially revealing and I want to get your comments.
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Here we go.
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I think the Polis Aids fire in Los Angeles was
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caused by Arson. Let me show you why I think that. Okay,
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so I'm on cal Topo backcountry mapping app and one
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of the premium layers is called Sentinel Weekly, which updates
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every few days, or so every two to five days,
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depending on the satellite's schedule around Earth. Anyways, this image
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is captured from the seventh just at within hours of
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the start of the Palisades fire.
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You can still this the initial smoke plume.
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You can still see it's very small and these are
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all just clouds.
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So what's interesting is if you stack a layer with.
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The topographic map on it one second, okay, this is
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it stacked with the topographic map on it, you can
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see that this trail goes right through the smoke plume.
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The smoke plume really starts right around here. That is
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the Temiscal Canyon Ridge trail. And it just seems way
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too convenient that the fire started exactly right on the trail.
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Just behind this neighborhood.
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A little too convenient to not rule out arson.
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Now, I want to ask you, CC you've really done
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some digging on this was arson behind this fire in
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the Palisades of Malibu.
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So early on in the fire, I was talking to
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city officials, Malabour city officials, the ones that I'm close
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to and confer with all the time, and we were
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talking about the Franklin fire that just happened last month,
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the night that they were getting sworn in.
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Just a few hours later, the brand.
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New council members were getting sworn in, and a few
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hours later, the Franklin fire started. So we were talking
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about the origin of the Franklin fire just as the
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Paradise I'm sorry, the Palisades fire just started, and the
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council member was telling me that was one hundred percent
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a humans started. Let's just put it that way. That's
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how we said humans started, So that was a Franklin fire.
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Then he told me the next day that he was
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hearing reports of that it was started by a human.
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So we haven't really labeled it arson in both areas,
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Like the first one sounds more like a potential homeless
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person starting a fire at night. And then we moved
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now into the fire which I'm seeing reports all over
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the place obviously of arsonists on trails, running out of trails,
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people catching them lighting fires on trails. Then two days
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after the Palasads fire started, we also had an arsonist
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over at Leo Correo that was caught on the spot
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lighting a fire. So yes, I think I think the
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Polis Stakes fire was absolutely started by a human.
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Started by a human, though it is an interesting thing,
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CC because started by a human could be anything from
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people with as you say, kind of setting up an encampment.
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It might be a homeless encampment, let's say, I mean,
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or or it could or and maybe I guess I'm asking,
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does that include a power line falling?
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I mean, are they no?
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No, no, no, no, I mean, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I didn't mean to interrupt.
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I mean a human started the fire, whether it was
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purposeful to get warm or whether it was for whatever reasons.
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A human started the fire, not power lines, not anything.
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So clearly, if you're on a trail, there's only a
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couple of reasons to do that. Okay, this was during
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the day, it was not cold outside, so starting a
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fire unless somebody had a lighter and was doing something
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with it, you know what I mean, Like it could
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be it could be accidental, but it doesn't seem to
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be accidental. But I don't have enough evidence, unfortunately, you know,
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to blame somebody.
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Sure, sure, I mean there's an ongoing enough investigation, and
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there is there's atf coming in. There are all sorts
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of federal independent agencies coming in as this investigation continues,
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And I don't want to necessarily conclude that it was arson.
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It just does seem in so many of the ways
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that you've identified as though it was an extraordinary series
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of events that brought this together. I mean, it wasn't
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as you say. It wasn't it was daytime, it wasn't cold.
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It seemed though, that that trail was the genesis of
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this fire.
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Is that fair? What was what we saw in that
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TikTok video.
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Well, it does seem like the people who have downloaded
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the feeds from these fire cameras have actually pinpointed it.
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Because what I originally heard was that it started by
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some type of the embers or flame or like little,
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you know, embers that were flying from a backyard in
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Pacific Palisades, and I try to rationalize that, and it
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didn't make any sense at all.
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This makes a lot more sense. And thankfully we have
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a lot of these fire.
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Cameras around, you know, the Santa Monica Mountains area, especially
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over on our side after we went through Woolsey fire,
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and so there's a lot of similarities in terms of
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how the Wolsey Fire and the Palisades Fire had some
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very serious resource issues, like it's it's too coincidental. Let's
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just put it that way.
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I want to get back to the Wolsey Fire in
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a second, because I know you you know you went
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through that as well, But I just want to mention
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the sort of mainstream reporting. There was a small blaze
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from the La Times near the site. There was a
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small blaze near the side of the massive Palisades fire
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a week before on New Year's Day? Could old embers
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have been rekindled? Homes that burned in the Eton fire
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appeared to still have power.
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Amid the high winds.
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This is kind of a discussion of the general origins
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of all the fires that we're dealing with. The Eton fire,
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as I say, those homes that burned did appear to
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still have power amid the high winds. Before the inferno sparked,
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were down power lines to blame there, I quote person
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of interest was identified in the Kenneth fire, And the
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question becomes, are any of these blazes the works of arsonists?
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Officials so far have been circumspect kind of the way
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you're being careful, but nonetheless pointing to origin and cause,
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perhaps involving people. There are investigations that are just starting now.
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There's a lot of misinformation floating around and a lot
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of people want answered, which is understandable, and we will
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provide those answers, said the spokesperson for the ATF, which
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that's the lead agency in investigating this Palisades fire and
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their response team, which is one of the nation's most
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renowned units for investigating mass disasters. They're on the ground
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now in the Palisades and in Malibu, so that's the
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state of that state. Can you run some of CC's
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video Tony while we're speaking with her, because she sent
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us some video And again, this is I guess in
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the early going when you sit along the ridgeline.
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Yeah.
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So your take on this, I understand from the standpoint
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of how it started is it's a little hard to say.
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This is I think driving a Pacific Coastal Highway, so
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you're seeing both sides. The side at the right of
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the screen is inland. That the side on the left
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I believe would be the ocean side, I think.
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And this is the day after.
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This is the day after, and so embers and little
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spotfires have been happening for days and days and days after,
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and that is normal. As far as the January first
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or whatever fire that that you spoke of earlier, I
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can't see embers from that seven eight days later.
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That does seem like a reach.
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I agree, Yeah, that's that to me is a major reach.
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As this fire progressed. The Palisades fire, they're one of
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the very first reports of identifying a potential arsonist. Happened
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in Corral Canyon in Malibu and locals noticed a fire
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that had just started, and they noticed a truck, a
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very suspicious truck, and they were able to apprehend a
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young adult male that had firefighter gear which they are
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speculating at this point was stolen and torches and pictures
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of himself apparently at the Pasadena fire. So that that
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was one of the first reports of arson. And I
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did report or potential arsen I should say I did
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report that, And actually I was getting a bunch of flack.
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Do you know this?
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Do you know if this person was apprehended?
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Do you know this?
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Do you know that?
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And I said, don't challenge me, because I will never
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ever put out information that I have not verified through
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sources that were at the scene. That were eyewitnesses and
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or also witnessed the arrest, et cetera.
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So it did as as.
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I proved that because there was there was more information
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that came out about that. Now the same type of
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situation is happening into Panga and the Kenneth fire, and
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it's happening over and over and over again, and it's
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it's it. It seems like there is an epidemic of
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arsonists out there like never before, like we've I've never
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seen something like this ever, ever, not after Wolsey. I mean,
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this is this is unprecedented.
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The conditions in southern California and in California generally, Southern
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California especially are kind of unprecedented too. That is to say,
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the dryness, you know, so it's a it's an arsonist
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dream if you get off, which they literally do. And
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there's this sexual perverted thing associated with these fires that
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they said, So if you're into that, I mean, this
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is you know, and so it's a particularly dangerous time.
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I want to thank you for checking in with us,
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and I want to stay in touch. I know there's
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a lot going on there. You're very connected to the
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politics of these regions as well. Malibu the Palisades, et cetera.
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So I would love it if you would stay in
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touch with us and visit again.
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I would love to thank you, CEC.
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Woods, Thanks everybody. CC Woods, thank you. Thanks. Everyone will
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help make that happen.
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Because the Mark Thompson Show, He's definitely it was definitely
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a constellation of events. You need it against the backdrop
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of how dry things are, and then this incredible natural
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disaster which is associated with the winds. They were an
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immense component. We talked about it last week and I
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knocked that down right away. That bs about the water
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and the wocism and all that. I mean, the exploitation
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for political ends that was associated with this was grotesque
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and continues.
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To be grotesque. But this.
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Santa Ana event unprecedented. It wouldn't have been beaten back
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by any amount of water. You only fight these fires
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from the air. They're two immense to fight on the ground.
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Look at these winds. If you're watching now, that is
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the ferocity of these winds. You can't get me a
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pumper truck that's got water that's going to make a
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difference here. These winds are driving these fires, and they're
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driving them so quickly. Many of you have sent me
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emails asking about animals. Something incredible happened. I think in
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a crisis, maybe we don't think. I think in a crisis,
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you grab what you can, and I think oftentimes when
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you evacuate, as you know, we lost our house and
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it didn't burn all the way down. Our neighborhood burned
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and the house was unlivable, but we had to. You know,
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we've lived through these evacuations and you're shaking. I mean,
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your hands are shaking. You don't realize how intense it is,
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even if you've planned it. And what's happened in the
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unbelievable thing is that people left their animals behind, many
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of them. It's an extraordinary notion because you're so it's
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like leaving a kid behind. I mean, you're these creatures
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that you're so bonded to. So many of you have
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asked both about that and also about so many of
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these animals that were rescued and taken with people who
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evacuated and where they ended up.
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I mean, where are the.
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Agencies, what are the existing instruments to protect animals that
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were taken from homes, that is to say, rescued from homes.
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So taken by those families that were able to get dogs, cats,
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et cetera.
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Out where do they go? So on the overall.
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Question, I've got somebody who's a really great authority, how
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about it for the I believe she's the head of
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Judy Mancuso is here, Judy, aren't you ahead of Social Compati?
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Yeah? President Ceo, there it is, Judy.
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Yes, thank you.
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You're just the person to talk about and you're also
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so politically active. You're just the person to talk about
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the overall situation. And then and I'm going to talk
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in a moment with someone who actually is in there
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on the ground rescuing animals that were left behind. But
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speak to the situation with animals and those who evacuated
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and their animals.
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Well, like you were saying, you know what, the number
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one thing that.
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People a false assumption that they have is that I
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won't be gone long, right, So I'm gonna just leave
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doggies here, cats here. This shouldn't take too long. And
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then what happens It becomes, you know, days they lose
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their home. They think if they leave a window open
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so that the cat can escape, that's a good thing.
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No, No, you.
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Don't know what we saw when I was on the
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ground at Hurricane Katrina. The most horrific, horrific event that
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I've ever seen next to this one. Now that people
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thought they had these good intentions of how they left
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the animal in the home and it became it was torture.
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So the first thing, these evacuations are not over, So
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we need everyone to take their animals with you. If
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you are going to an evacuation center that does not
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take the animals, which many do at this point, then
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you can go to the shelter or they're at least
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there's shelters listed on the La County website, LA City website,
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and Pasadena that they.
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Will hold them for you. They're not going to kill
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them in the shelter.
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They're going to hold them because they know who you
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are and that you're an evacuee.
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But first and foremost, take them with you. Have a net.
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I have a net for one of my cats that's
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kind of skittish that could be under the bed and
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if I were to just put that over her and
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drag her out gently.
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I have my.
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Carrier stacked in my garage ready to go. You don't
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want to have to use your brain when it's time
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to evacuate, so you need to have all that staged
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and ready.
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That's brilliant the net. I never even thought of that.
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One of the things we have just as an asside,
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and I mentioned this only for others to maybe, you know,
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integrated into their lives, is we have the carriers in
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the rooms where the cats actually live, so they don't
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view the carriers as anything like outside, my god, this
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is one more thing I'm panicking about. I know this carrier,
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I'm in this carrier. I stay in this carrier sometime.
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So it's it's just a thing to remember because normally
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we used to We used to just put the carriers
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in the garage or put them in the basement or
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whatever it was, you know. But now we keep the
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carriers in the room. So so on the shelter thing.
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Are the shelters though, filling up with people who say, hey,
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please hold my cat or dog till I get back.
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I would think things are just sort of overflowing. In
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southern California.
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Well, one of the first efforts is that these big
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groups have come in to do moving animals out of
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the shelter, so they're transporting them out of state they're
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transporting them out of the shelter.
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And that's what Pasadena Humane did.
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They moved all their animals that were in the shelter
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out to other shelters, freed up their shelter to bring
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in all the evacue animals and the ones they were
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picking up on the street. LA City has been completely
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missing in action. LA County a little shaky, and we
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can get into more of what all that means and
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how this should have been and still can be responded to.
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So I do want to just to ask you what's
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happening Like when you say La City hasn't been there,
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LA County has been shaky, What do you mean put
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some specifics around that if you would please, Well.
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If you were to go to La Animal Services website
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or to the La County website, you would find zero
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information on where to report that your pet was left
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behind or how to get resources to go in and
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get your pet to assist you to.
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Go do it for you.
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So, in this void, because the city and county are
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missing in action, there's all these disparate rescue groups who
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are stepping up and saying, hey, call this number, you know,
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send us an email, we'll go to the address and
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get the animal. And some of these people are certified,
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some of them aren't. Some of them are just going
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to get in the way of the police. And now
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there's tanks on the road. So this has to be
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coordinated from the top down for it to work, and
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that is not so hard, and I can tell you
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how that goes well.
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I also think that in the same way, we all
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have to prepare and we talked about it, and you know,
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having an evacuation plan here, it's part of having an
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evacuation plan, says a big E sixty one. Yeah, the
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state and the city and the county has to have
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an evacuation plan and a hand a hand in helping
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those who have evacuated. So it astounds me that there isn't something.
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It's not like F seven on their keyboard. It should
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be that simple to at least initiate these programs exactly.
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It should be on the homepage you get there, and
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so here's how it should be. That what my group
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is pushing for. Okay, and there is a group in
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California that has all this emergency protocol outlined and they're
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called Cali Animals. I've been working closely with them. There's
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a shelter system that was built by people that were
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in the Paradise fire that are rescuers called shelterly. So
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let me give you an overview of how it should
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be in hopes to get our local governments to step
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up and make this happen, because it's not too late.
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We're still at the beginning of this.
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So on their website they need a place to capture.
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I'm Judy, I live here, I left this pet behind,
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you know, please go rescue.
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I'm at this number, this email address boom right.
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Then what happens is it goes into a database that
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then it gets dispatched to certified rescuers, either Animal Control,
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our FEMA and other certified rescuers that go out in
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the field. They're escorted if they need to be by
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National Guard or the sheriff for safety protocols. They go
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to the address, they search for the animal, they find
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the animal. I mean, we've been finding animals. Yesterday, our
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rescuers found that dog Oreo that was you know, a
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wonder on Instagram and now on all the TV shows.
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So you either find the animal and then bring it
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back and reunite it, get it to a vet or
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let's say the animals not there, you leave out food
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and water.
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So this is you're saying there should be a central
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curing house for this. Hey, I'm going to lose him
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in a second, but I'm just going to bring him
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into the conversation. Billy McNamara is one of those people
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who's on the ground doing work.
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And I know you know, Billy, Judy, because he is
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who weve.
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Been working together.
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Yes, and Billy, I know you've only got a quick second.
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You've really been from the very beginning through all of
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these areas looking for homes that have been abandoned with
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pets or pets that are just in the wild. Give
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me the state of the state, if you would please.
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You're all part of this animal advocacy network.
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Well, it seems like things have died down a lot
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as far as the fire goes in the Palisades in
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the Santa Monica Malibu pch area. I did notice last
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night we went in there is a heavy presence of
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National Guard. Now the National Guard are in front and
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the police are behind them, so you have to go
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through the national Guard, and it's it's not so easy.
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Last night we did go in because there was four
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cats that hadn't been fed since I can't remember whatever
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the evacuation was for that area up in the Upper
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Mesa Santa Monica, and it was uh.
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Luckily there was a sergeant at the barricade.
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The private said, no, nobody goes in period, I don't
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care who you are. And then the sergeant hero said
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what's going on? And they said, these guys, are you
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help some feed some cats? Goes let them in and
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then that was it and so we went in and
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so it's it's pretty quiet as far as that's concerned.
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We've been going through Aaron Christensen AC who.
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I'm with right now. He's just getting the van set up.
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He of Animal Advocacy Network and Emergency Animal Response something
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ears I don't know what it is, but anyway, he
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met this morning with the head of we AM, Kevin
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something or other McGowan I believe, who was giving him,
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texting him a special thing. So I'll have it on
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his phone that he can show the National Guard, which
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allows us to go in.
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So basically it's you know, it's it's it's uh.
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Looking for animals or putting food and water down around
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the where the ruins are.
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I hate to say it.
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We went in and people give us addresses to go
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check on their pets, and I hate to say it.
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We've had more losses than victories, and some of the
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losses are pretty disturbing.
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Which I've never seen anything like it. Guessing this is
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what POMPEII.
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Was, you know, heartbreaking.
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Yeah, and so but but but but yeah, it's been
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a very difficult situation.
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Uh.
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You know, yesterday I've been looking for you know, because
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of Simone. Simone Reyes will not stop taxing.
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Billy, this cat, this dog. Oreo so I was.
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I had made a c He does more mostly large animals,
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so we did.
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I've a lot of horses with.
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Him, pigs, chickens, peacocks, which are very dangerous. That was scary, actually,
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and I'm usually not scared of any animals. I did
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exotic animal rescue with als in Eastwood from Eastwood Ranch Foundation,
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so I'm not afraid of grizzly bears. I'm not afraid
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of bengals, but peacocks, forget about it.
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They're very, very vicious, and I don't blame them.
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By the way, Oreo so I was at the hospital
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where they brought Oreo yesterday. So he greeted Casey, that's
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the owner and Oreo, and uh yeah, that's that's it
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00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.799
right there. And so Oreo is quite honory, and I
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00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.640
can understand why nobody was able to they you know,
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Mark Ching had to take the owner in with the
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owner's other dog, Casey, in order to get this Pomeranian,
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who is way more.
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Vicious than a pitbull.
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I understand he was super scared, but I told her,
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I said, once I met Oreo, I said, well, listen, guys,
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I don't think he was ever in any danger of coyotes.
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This dog can hold his own He's a fabulous dog.
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And so it's been you know, these things are happening constantly.
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We're going back in today for a dog as soon
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as I get off this interview, and a couple of cats.
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And if people want to send ac their addresses or
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phone numbers, they can do that. I think you can
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contact him on Instagram animal.
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Yeah.
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I actually have the telephone number that has been getting
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you guys the addresses.
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So I was going to give that out.
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Oh okay, good is that his eight hundred number? His hotline?
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See this is a Mark.
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So this is the problem, is all these disparate numbers and.
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Grooves, right, I need one clearing house, I think, just yeah, yeah.
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00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:51.359
So you see it in action right now because but.
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Yeah, but here's what's going to happen. The Santa Anas
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are coming back. There's another major sena and event. It's
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going to kick in, you know, depending late tonight tomorrow
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through Wednesday. I'm desperately afraid of, you know, of another
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of a repeat. It looks like it may be twenty
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percent uh less ferocious than the last one. But we're
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gonna be having this conversation again, and and you guys
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are going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting again.
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00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:19.680
So where can people reach you?
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Organized? Yeah?
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Yeah, so where can people reach you?
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Can?
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We go ahead? Is it?
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Well, there's a there's a couple so there's a couple
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of ways. So one of the numbers, and this is
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the problem, is three one oh eight oh eight five
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nine four three. That is Viva Rescue that has been
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dispatching to AC and Billy and others.
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Okay, what is the number again, I've got, We're got,
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We'll post it at the end of this hour.
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Everybody, Oh yeah.
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Go ahead, oh eight five four three three eight five
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nine four three.
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Uh three one oh a.
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Three, Kim, you're getting this down please? Okay, Then there
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it is. It's already on screen.
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God very well.
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And so we are helping with the administration of that
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data our team so that it can go to AC,
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who Billy is with right now, and others.
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But this should again, this should not be on the rescue.
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Community to have multiple numbers, multiple people.
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Here's the problem though, just so you know, here's the problem.
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And thanks to Elon Musk who personally delivered a starlink
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to AC the other night and I think he's bringing
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AC cyber truck today personally. By the way, I'm going
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to give a huge shout out to the mayors, Santa Monica,
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Lena Negrette.
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She set the whole thing up. She came over to
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Acy and said, what do you need? Because I need
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a starling.
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She goes, let me call Elon and she called him
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right there and within fifteen minutes they had delivered the starlinks.
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So when we're in sight, there is no cell service,
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there is no GPS, So without that we first of
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all have we can't chase down addresses, and we can't
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receive or give make calls. Now that he has the starlink,
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in his rescue van. We can take calls. So he
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has an eight hundred number, which I don't if I
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don't want to go off this thing because I think
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it shuts me down on the thing.
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So I can't tell you.
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If you can just text yeah, text it, text it
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and we'll get it on the screen at the end
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of the hour.
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At the end of the hour. Have a lot of stuff,
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a lot of information.
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Okay, okay, great.
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So so Billy, this is and I know I'm gonna
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lose you here in a second, but just this is
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the way Judy and Billy are working in this sort
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of same space. You're trying to get into areas and
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00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:48.559
you're not allowed in areas unless the sergeant who happened
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to be there at that instant that you were relating says,
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oh my god, you're sure let them come in to
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feed the cat. They're they're not letting anybody in. We
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suffered this as well in our evacuation area. We evacuate
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and they wouldn't let us back in. They won't let
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residents and they won't let anybody back in. And so
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if there are animals there that you either couldn't be
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wrangled in the instant or were left behind horribly, whatever
635
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.320
it might be, there's no way to get them nourishment
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and for them to survive. So what is the answer there?
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00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.880
How is that puzzle solved?
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00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:22.679
I can tell you.
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It's that we have asked for a MoU Memorandum of
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understanding with the city, with the county. And what this
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does is it gives authority two people who are certified
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00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:41.199
like AC and others that have FEMA certifications, and we
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have a top rescuer flying in from New Jersey.
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Right now FEMA certified.
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That allows us into these jurisdictions so that we can
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do this work professionally and answer these calls because otherwise
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00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.199
these animals are getting eye of hunger, they're dying of
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their wounds, and we need to.
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Time is of the essence.
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So I have a call to action that I sent
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you that we need to get Mayor Bess and the
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county supervisors to approve animal disaster responders.
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And mutual aid.
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That means that centralized computer system, a centralized number, a
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place where people can enter these lost and animals, and
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we need immediate assistance like Billy is talking about in
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helping them to get into these areas and so those
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are the things that have to be done right away
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because time is of the essence.
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Well, let me let me just say one thing.
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I just want to give a couple of off the
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record pieces of advice to people in the future. So
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when these things happen and you're asked to evacuate or
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you're at work, like what happened, I think Monday warning
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when I went to get those cats, they're not allowed
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back in. So now, if it were me, I'm I'm
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not making judgment on anybody because a lot of people
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don't know how to do this.
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But if it were me, and what.
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A lot of people I saw doing, you got on
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a bicycle and you bicycle right by the barricades the cops.
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Usually that's how by the way, that's how Casey Oreos.
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He had done that a few times to try to
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find Oreo. Eventually he did get stopped. But you can
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in the beginning of a thing, you know, it's it's
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scary when the firefighters aren't there. I've learned in the
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when I was in the Woolsey fires taking those horses
678
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out and all that stuff. I learned, and the firefighter
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told me when they made me come off the hill.
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They said, follow us down, and I said, what about
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the horses. He said, listen, here's my advice off the
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record to you. As soon as you see us go
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back up, it's safe. Follow us up, and then you
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could do whatever you want. I had to wait two hours,
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but then I went up and the horses were alive.
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So there is and I probably shouldn't say that. I'm
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probably saying so that probably is not the is not
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politically correct because they want to keep people out. But
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if it was my animal, dog or cat, I'm going
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on a bicycle. And I saw some people last night
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up and Upper Mesa. They hiked in, homeowners hiked in
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on their own. They get right by the National Guards.
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I'm not I mean, I'm just telling you in an emergency,
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if it's.
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Like a child, also, Billy.
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That's also how the looters are getting in, and that's
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why there's tanks now in front of streets all in
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all Tadina and whatnot, because the looters were coming in
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and still are via e bike hiking in and bicycles.
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And that's part of the problem.
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Mark is the National Guard, the police, they don't know
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a real rest.
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So that's why the certification of rescuers is so important
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and that's why you knew that memorand of understanding guys.
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I so appreciate it. Billy.
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I've seen your work for years and not just in
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the last week, and you're an amazing exam both. So
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good luck man, and we're in touch. And please, when
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the dust settles, come tell us again about a story
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with a nice Hollywood ending. Thank you so much, my friend.
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All right, Billy McNamara, everybody, and Judy, thank you. I'm
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going to post there's your Social Compassion in Legislation dot org.
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That's Judy's main website with her organization. But we are
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going to have a number of different websites and organizations
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that we're posting here in just a couple of minutes,
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and we'll have them under this video as well, and
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they'll be hot links to it. All that number again,
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we'll post again. The number is if you are in
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southern California, you've had to evacuate and you've left an
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animal behind, or you're aware of an animal left behind.
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Is that essentially what the number is.
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That's it, And you want to say so people are
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texting pictures giving their address. You know, I mean one
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I saw that was so sad. The woman's as you know,
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okay to break in the front door. When our rescue
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team got there, there was no front door. It was
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ashes and she left behind her cat. But next door
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Mark was integ So what our rescuers did is they
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left the food outside and water just in case that
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cat is hiding. So that that's another part of it.
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It's three one oh eighth eight fifty nine forty three
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for those people who are listening and not watching eight
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oh eight fifty nine forty three area code three one oh.
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I appreciate Judy. I'll have you on the air with
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me on KFI Radio this week too. You can get
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the word out to more southern Californians. Appreciate all the
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work you do and thank.
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You for joining us.
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Mark, I wanted to tell you we had three arson
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events here in Laguna Beach in the past week.
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Is that right?
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And they know their arsen events because they actually apprehended.
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Them or they haven't told us that they got the
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person by they had forensics done.
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It was absolutely arsid and there was three attempts.
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Yeah, they can find the arson materials obviously, even if
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they can't actually get the perpetrators. So that's extraordinary, Junior
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Man Crusoe. Love your work, Thank you, love, see you
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bye bye.
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Yeah, the Mark Thompson Show.
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Extraordinary people, extraordinary time in California. And it is, as
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I say, sadly not over. They say, now, Kim, twenty
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four deaths, Is that right? The numbers just keep going up.
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Yeah, twenty four at this time, so sad.
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And wonders as well.
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You hear stories about people running for their lives and
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leaving their pets behind, and it seems unfathomable to people
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who love their animals. But when you've got fire, you know,
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raining down on your area, I can see just running
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your life and not thinking. So I get it.
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It's why you have to be prepared.
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But to your point, sometimes all of your preparations evaporate
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in the instant. But it is true that if you
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make substantial enough preparation, there shouldn't be a lot of
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those kinds of situations. I just learned something here. The
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net is brilliant. I never even thought of that, because
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you know, the cats will hide under and dogs for
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that matter, will hide under the bed. Small dogs will
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hide under the bed. They'll get way under there and
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you can't reach them, and that net is absolutely brilliant.
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And I saw somebody there are also these pet kind
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of sedatives that will help make the animals a bit
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more pliant.
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So there's that as well. Thanks to our guests.
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And look, there's a lot more to come as the
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week unfolds. I'm, as I say, quite concerned with with
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any number of things. But this next sena and event
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looks looks pretty brutal as well.
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There more winds coming, right that is when's the win?
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Is the peak of that happening?
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Well, I mean I was going to ask you what
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the latest forecast is. I've kind of been coordinating some
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of this other stuff, but I think generally, well, you know,
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Courtney is here and here it is dangerous fire risk
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through Wednesday. Thank you, Tony if you're calling them, if
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it's you, was calling that up. So you can see
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an extreme risk through Wednesday, and that's in many of
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the same regions that have been affected.
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A word of from the National Weather Service extreme fire
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danger will continue through Wednesday. As you mentioned, the red
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flag fire warnings are for the extreme of the extreme
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fire weather scenarios. In other words, they say, and this
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is from the National Weather Service. This setup is about
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as bad as it gets. Stay aware of your surroundings,
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be prepared to evacuate. Anything that can spark a fire
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will likely spark a fire.
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And of course I can always come on Mars you
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live there and expect him to get the forecast. Yeah,
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it does change hour to hour March. So I just
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wanted to see if any of the parameters change. And
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I've kind of been scrambling so but yeah, so it.
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Just I ask you because it seems, I mean, I
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have the information, but it seems rather silly for me
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to give it when I got the weather guy sitting
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right next to it.
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Well, you know, I do have the background of meteorology,
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but these are so I can explain the dynamics behind it.
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And when it comes to you know, official forecasts that
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are life and death, I like to sort of default
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to the meteorologists that are there at the National Weather Service.
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I had a plan, and we're gonna go with the plan,
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which is to bring on Courtney, which i'd like to do. Courtney,
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thank you for being here. I Before I get to
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some of what we're going to talk about, which is
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the Human Toll And Charity and outreach. I wanted to
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mention the looting was it was alluded to in the conversation,
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and Kim even alluded to it, I think, or Judy,
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I guess it was who alluded to it in the
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conversation with Billy that you know, one of the reasons
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you need these National Guard people in place and law
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enforcement people in place is because there are a lot
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of bad people. I mean, you know, it's funny. Courtney
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and I were talking. We were saying, you know, these
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fires bring out the best in people, and We've been
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in tears. You can tell. I'm kind of on the
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edge of tears constantly in the last week. We're underslept,
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we're very emotional, we're very much affected by all of this,
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you know, literally affected by it. But when we see
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the acts of kindness, they bring us to tears. But
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here are the It also brings out the worst in people.
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And this is one of these crews going into the hills.
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This is obviously a really nice house, and this is
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from the ring camera of one of these people who
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is in the hills who had to evacuate, and they're
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you know, clearly immense place is being ransacked. They caught
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four people who were Again, they've been disguised as firefighters
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and disguising themselves as residents. And it is an extraordinary
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thing to think that there are even organized gangs who
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might even be setting fires. And then when people flee,
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they move into the evacuated areas. All of these things
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are out there, and so even as we are moved
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to tears, as we're seeing the acts of kindness and
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how these situations do bring out the best in people,
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we're moved to anger and to another level of disgust
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when we see the way in which people organize around
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such tragedies and then try to exploit them.
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This it is. These are two.
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People in handcuffs sitting on the sidewalk just outside the
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Getty villa. This is in Malibu. Deputy searched them and
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they were dressed as firefighters. Okay, you can see the guy,
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one guy in the yellow slicker. It's a again, extraordinary
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is the only word that comes to mind. I mean,
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it's just despicable in the extreme. So, I mean, all
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of that is out there, and it's against that backdrop
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that we give you some information on how you can help.
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So now Mark Thompson Show.
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Our plan is to give you some information as to
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how you can help. Courtney, You've been looking at your
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amazing I mean, you've really followed so much of this
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and the human toll, you know. And it's funny, Courtney.
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I I was noticing in the conversation with Billy he
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talked about how Elon Musk actually brought a starlink a
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connection out to many of those who are working to
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rescue animals there in Malibu, and I thought, wow, that's great.
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I mean, it's d Elliott actually said Elon did a
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good thing. Hard to believe. But I wish you'd do
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that also in Alta, Dina, and I wish you know,
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in some of these other area I don't mean to
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I feel like a little bit of a jerk for
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saying it that way. Like, but the the Palisades and
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Malibu is just one facet of this entire region that
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has been devastated by fire.
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Yeah, I mean, I I don't I don't have many
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positive things to say about Elon Musk.
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He hasn't given any money.
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I mean, there's it's very sad the number of organizations
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and billionaires that have donated money toward this.
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Yeah, Tony, you have that graphic. The billionaire graphic is
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still pretty easy to understand.
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Late to the game. He brought cyber trucks and starlink.
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And then if you look at Gavin Newsom's post on
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X yesterday Twitter, he was basically Elon was basically like lying.
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To the fire.
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I mean, can you tell me what that story is.
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I don't know what that is.
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Something about the access to water and how he was
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misconstruing what the access to water was and the reasons
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why there.
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Might have been limited access.
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Oh, actually he's pursuing the lie about how there's no
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not enough water, et cetera.
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But the just.
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On that, yeah, I mean, he brought Starling, but just on.
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The point a leave Elana's side. There are many rich
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people in America, more than ever before, and these are billionaires.
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And it's it's a stark realization that none of these billionaires,
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while they rip off checks and wire money to the
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Donald Trump inauguration, have sent money to this unfolding tragedy
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in California. Donation totals for twenty twenty five Amazon Can
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gives a million dollars to Trump, nothing to the LA fires,
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Google a million dollars to Trump, nothing for the LA fires.
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Meta a million dollars for Trump, nothing for the LA fires,
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picking up a trend. Microsoft a million dollars for Trump,
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nothing for fires. Apple Uber, Yeah, a million dollars each
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for Trump, nothing for the fires. But then who contributes
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to helping out people who have been affected.
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By the fire? Taylor Swift ten million dollars from Taylor Swift.
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And Selena Gomez, who's also a billionaire, she gave five million. Also,
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this bumps up against Zuckerberg's media tour last week, totally
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tone daff taking advantage of the fact that there's the ban.
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It looks like the ban on TikTok is going to
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move forward, and so he's gone on this press tour,
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including trips to mar Lago and Joe Rogan, to talk
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about how they're dismantling any sort of oversight on fact
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checking on his platforms, and he is thinly veiling this
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with like free speech.
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But it's horrific.
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I don't know if he said anything about the fires,
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but it does not seem at this time as if
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Meta has done anything to support these communities. The whole
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thing's awful. And also the Republican representatives of California getting
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away from the fire and going to mar A Lago.
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It's just it's horrific on so many levels, and it
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is why today I can bring information on how we
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can help firefighters and first responders, those that have suffered
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an unimaginable loss, and also animals that are being rescued
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and cared for and their welfare needs met here in
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the County of Los Angeles.
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Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned this.
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So, having just told you that, let's quickly now put
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up a list of charities. These are reputable fire related
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charities to which you can contribute, and many of you
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have and we have the greatest audience ever.
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Do we have the links that I put together.
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Tony, if you have the what's going to happen here?
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Go ahead?
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Great. So the list of links that Courtney put together
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is amazing, and all of that is in the show description.
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And then Tony is going to go. As Courtney mentions
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each link, he will be flashing picture of that website
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and what it looks like when you get there.
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Oh okay, oh okay, Well, then I'll just cover a
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couple of these.
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I don't know how much time we have, but.
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So we don't have the actual screens with all of
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those websites and the list.
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We don't we don't. We can't put that up any
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of the ones that she sent.
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I think it'll be just a picture. No one will
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be able to click on them. So description, okay, right, okay,
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go ahead.
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So the initial organizations, so all of these organizations.
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Go ahead, USA today, NBC KTLA.
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I will say, though, do your own research, so donate
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to organizations that you feel confident in that the money
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will get to those that the money is intended for.
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But these have been vetted. There is one list that
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has been organized by the incredibly positive and technolog and
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and sort of technology savvy community on TikTok, which I
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will get to, which includes gofundmes. But the rest of
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these organizations have been vetted by major media companies. So
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the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation is an organization where
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the funds go directly toward those first responders, those on
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the front lines, as well as the California Fire Foundation.
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The Anti Recidivism Coalition is an organization that has a
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certain mission, but in the spirit of what's happening now,
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which is that we have eight hundred incarcerated people on
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the front lines fighting these fires, making five dollars and
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eighty cents an hour. The Anti recivid Reciptivism Coalition is
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giving money to those incarcerated, those prisoners and their families.
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I should say one thing just on that, and we'll
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talk more about prison labor, because it's a desperately needed
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integral part of fighting fires. And this might surprise some,
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but maybe not many. The prisoners actually, and again I
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know my progressive brothers and sisters are going to be
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00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:48.159
up my a about this, but they feel wanted, they
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feel needed, they feel connected with society. They're treated like colleagues.
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They're not you know, there is a they say, well,
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it's slave labor. They're not treated as slaves. And their
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00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:04.719
interviews across YouTube with the prisoners who are working these
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fire lines and working these back lines. Listen to what
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they say.
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They feel.
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They feel as though there's a worth that is ascribed
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to them. They don't get in the prison system. They're
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not treated as a number. They're treated as as I say,
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a teammate. And in that way, these prisoners are an
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integral part of things. And of course they're undercompensated, but
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in another way, they feel as though they may be
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securing a better future for themselves.
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So that's just a word about prison labor. Go ahead, court.
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00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:38.000
Yeah, and there's a deep appreciation coming from the community
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that they've articulated in videos about how much it means
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to them. Even a cursor research, you'll find some really
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powerful photos and videos of they're mostly young men, I
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mean in their twenties on the front lines of these fires,
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00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.400
and it's hard not to react emotionally to their bravery.
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00:56:56.360 --> 00:57:01.360
So those are several firefighter related foundings where the money
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goes toward those that are on the front lines and
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fighting fires. And that's not to ignore the thousands of
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00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:11.519
firefighters that are coming from different states and different parts
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of the world to help us here.
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Yeah, that's an amazing thing. Many of the countries that
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Donald Trump has, you know, disparaged, they've been sending thousands
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00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:23.280
of firefighters to help California.
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It's a remarkable thing.
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00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:25.280
It's incredible.
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00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:31.960
I saw videos of firefighters from Africa, from Mexico, obviously Canada.
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But it's moving and I don't want to get emotional,
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00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:37.119
and it's moving.
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00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:39.960
Yeah, So we only have another it could.
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Go to the next couple.
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There's donations to families and first responders. There's community foundations.
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00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:51.920
There's a Red Cross specifically the Los Angeles division. There's
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00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:55.440
the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. If you look there, there's
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00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:58.639
a link and it goes directly toward the California Wildflowers
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00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:02.440
Recovery Fund. To the links I've provided go directly toward
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00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:06.800
the fund that helps for the California wildfires. There's the
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00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:12.960
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. There's Global Giving. And then
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there's an organization that USA Today had that I had
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00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.119
not heard of, but it's called Give Directly, and this
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00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:24.280
is relief specifically for low income survivors. And so they
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00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:28.000
send cash to LA families on food stamps based on
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00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.800
their location, which means that they look at their zip
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00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:33.079
codes and they look if they are on food stamps,
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00:58:33.239 --> 00:58:36.679
and they will send the donated money directly to them
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during this horrific time. And so that's Give Directly, and
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00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:43.880
there's a link there associated with the LA Fires.
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That's terrific because I think there are a lot of
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low income people who've been affected by this and they
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00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:51.320
now are rendered homeless because of what's going on, and
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00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.719
they're not getting a lot of play called Give Directly, Give.
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Directly and there's a link there. And in that spirit,
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00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:01.360
I don't know who the create of this list are,
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00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:05.960
but it is all over TikTok and what they have
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00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:09.280
done is everybody searching on how to give back directly
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00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:15.280
to families, especially those families that don't have anything, that
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00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:18.159
lost everything, and this in particular is some of the
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00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:22.320
families who suffered in the et and fire. And so
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00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:26.840
the go Fundme is an organization of links in Google
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00:59:26.920 --> 00:59:33.039
docs that are being distributed by influential people and civilian
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00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:36.280
journalists and civilians in Los Angeles who want to help.
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And it's incredible. It is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
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00:59:41.679 --> 00:59:48.079
of go fundmes that have been put together to help persons, people, individuals,
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00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:52.079
people and families that have suffered and been affected by
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00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:53.000
the LA fires.
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That's extraordinary.
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00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:58.760
And the sophistication of this document. The links are there,
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it'll s I owe you how many donations have been made,
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01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:08.039
how close they are to reaching their goal. And you
1051
01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:10.639
can look through that, you can read about the families
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01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:14.119
or the people and you can decide who you want
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01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:14.679
to donate to.
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01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:15.039
Now.
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01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:17.800
Mark Duplas is a filmmaker and an actor who I
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01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:24.480
adore and he said the most thoughtful thing on TikTok,
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01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:25.199
which was this.
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01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:28.239
His advice when providing.
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01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:31.519
These links was, if you have one hundred dollars, don't
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01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:34.639
give one hundred dollars to one family, give ten dollars
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01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:38.559
to ten families. Because it is also about a sense
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01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:43.400
of hope. And when a family looks there are hundreds
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01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:48.360
of people giving them money, it's just, yeah, it's hopeful.
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01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:51.400
So that's what I was saying before.
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01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:55.719
I mean, these acts of generosity and the way to
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01:00:55.760 --> 01:01:01.920
which people are extending themselves. It's moving and you can't
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01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:04.320
help but be moved. And the firefighters too. We were
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01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.400
well looking at a helicopter video the other night. It
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01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.599
was weird. I mean, just watching it was a I
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01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:12.599
think I sign up to Tony. These chopper pilots so
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01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:16.039
flying into these conflagrations and we were watching, we burst
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into tears.
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Yeah, incredible, it's tough.
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And then the last also Jose Andres is here. He's
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here with World Central Kitchen. But that's important because he's
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01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.320
really bringing in a lot of influential chefs in the
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area and they are making a ton of food for
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01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.280
first responders and families affected by the wildfires.
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You can donate there.
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There's a link there to his organization and the final
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01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:46.920
group of organizations that quickly talk about our animal rescue
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01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.920
and welfare. The World Animal Protection US organization has a
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01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:56.039
list of animal shelters and rescues that you can look at,
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01:01:56.159 --> 01:01:59.800
and they're divided up into cities and regions, so you'll
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01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:03.480
be able to go there and look to support. However,
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01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:06.440
you're able to support the welfare of these.
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01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:09.159
Animals and what's that called again, World.
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01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:12.079
Animal Protection US. And there's a link there that goes
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01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:15.320
to show you all the animals. Yeah, there's also a
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01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:18.039
disaster response fund that they have as well.
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There those are all the different areas and regions in
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01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:24.000
southern California. Because you may look, you know some you
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01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:26.679
may feel, look, I've already got, you know money, let
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01:02:26.679 --> 01:02:28.639
me go to some of these areas that don't have money.
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01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:30.159
So it's all there for you.
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01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:33.920
And again, all of these things that Courtney has talked about,
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01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.519
all of these links, Tony is a hero.
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01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:39.039
He's going to put them all under.
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This video which is just the coolest thing, and you'll
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01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:45.519
be able to hot link click on it and it'll
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01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:50.079
take you to any one of these various locations. That
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01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:52.679
Courtney has talked about in these charities, and I.
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01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:56.079
Think there's Pasadena Humane Society has been talked about a
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01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:59.400
lot in this is great. They are terrific social compassion
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01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:04.840
and leedlegislation was obviously Judy was on earlier. There's Kit
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01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.679
and Rescue, Best Friends Animal Society.
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01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:09.440
Wags and Walks.
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01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:12.559
There are a lot of organizations and rescues that are
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01:03:12.599 --> 01:03:17.960
taking in animals now and uh looking to you know,
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01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:22.519
protect them while their owners find housing, and also for
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01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:25.719
those animals that have been displaced, looking for fosters.
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01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:26.480
As well as money.
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01:03:26.639 --> 01:03:28.599
I mean, the thing that I see most is that
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01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:32.760
people are very charitable. People are bringing items, whether it's
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01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:37.920
animal shelters or to organizations that give food and clothing
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01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:41.000
to those that have suffered so greatly in these fires.
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01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:44.079
But money is really what these organizations.
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01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:44.000
Are looking for.
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01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:46.880
Norek by this, she says, my company is matching donated funds.
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Check with your company.
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01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:55.320
Yeah, thank you so much, Courtinay, thank you, yeah, Okay,
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01:03:55.400 --> 01:04:00.119
thank you, love you.
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01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:01.760
The Mark Thompson Show.
1124
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.719
I hate to cut off my own other half like that.
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01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:11.639
I know she's got more, but I got no I've
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01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:14.320
got no time. I mean, I know, I'm sorry, it
1127
01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:16.000
was kind of an awkward moment, but I've got a
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01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:17.920
you know, I've got a big name on the other
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01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.360
line type thing, and here we are crying and talking
1130
01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:21.800
about what we're going to send our money, and I
1131
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:22.800
got to make this pivot.
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01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:26.960
I mean, everything that Courtney put together is listed in
1133
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.639
the show description, so you'll find it there, and you'll
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01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.840
find it under any separate video that we pull with
1135
01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:34.039
with Courtney on it today.
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01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:37.719
Love my tone, you really have ridden back in. You know,
1137
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:40.079
he's off for a few days and.
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01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:41.880
Now we are. We're dropping a.
1139
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:44.559
Lot of links, so I was bringing up pictures, so
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01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:46.119
we it was a team effort.
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01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:46.480
Thank you.
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01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:48.559
It was really good. Thank you, Kim, Thank you ton
1143
01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:53.599
Mark Thompson show. Well, you know what we're gonna need.
1144
01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:59.119
We're gonna need help. It's gonna be a political mess
1145
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:03.280
and chal and it is not over. As I say,
1146
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:06.960
there's another event coming this week, Santa Anna event is
1147
01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:09.840
what I'm talking about, and we'll need buy in from
1148
01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:12.199
the federal government, which is now going to be wrought
1149
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:17.400
with complexities that we've never seen before. So into this
1150
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:21.320
we bring a guy who is so well acquainted with
1151
01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:25.840
both Sacramento, California politics, and then the federal government and
1152
01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:28.800
the way in which we will connect there. He is
1153
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:34.000
the political analyst for iHeartRadio and across the CBS television
1154
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:38.760
network at stations. How about it for Gary Dietrich, Well,
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01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:43.320
sir as, I say, let's start in California and then
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01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.239
we'll get to the whole Trump thing and how you
1157
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:49.199
play that, et cetera. But there's a lot of bs
1158
01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:52.079
out there. I think Gary, about you know, the degree
1159
01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:58.559
to which there was money and strategy when it came
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01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:03.760
to preparation and preparedness for this insanely I mean, record
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01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:07.679
breaking dry winter and now we face these Santa Ana wins.
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01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.440
I wonder if you could speak to some of the
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01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:12.840
specifics there. I mean, I say BS because I think
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01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:17.000
there is into the zeitgeist sort of like, well, they've
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01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:20.320
got all the money, they've diverted it to everything from
1166
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:24.920
the Delta smelt to you know, DEI to there wasn't
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01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:28.599
enough money to keep the reservoirs maintained. I mean a
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01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:33.159
lot of that is just not true. And yet it'll
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01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:38.039
be against that messaging that that Newsome and the Democrats
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01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:41.840
who run California are going to have to forge some
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01:06:41.960 --> 01:06:43.519
kind of strategy moving forward.
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01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:47.519
Well, first of all, Mark, you know what a difference
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01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:50.960
a week makes. I mean since talk last Monday till now.
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01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:53.760
Let me just state the obvious, but it's important to state,
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01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:56.920
you know, the human cost in this. I mean, the
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01:06:56.960 --> 01:06:59.639
things that Courtney so eloquently was talking about with both
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01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:03.840
people and animals, the environment. I mean, those things have
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01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:06.639
to take sever stage. My heart goes out to them.
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01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.559
People that don't know my background, I spent a lot
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of time in disaster zones. I started with right after
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01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:16.320
Hurricane Katrina down in the Gulf. This is over a
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01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:18.440
decade and a half ago. But I've been in hurricanes
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01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:22.800
in Florida, fire zones, many of them in California. I
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01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:25.320
know what this feels like. I know what it's like
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01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:27.599
to be boots on the ground. So I just want
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01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:30.360
to say to star Mark, I mean, for you personally,
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01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:35.000
many of our listeners and viewers who probably have direct connections.
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01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:39.119
I mean, it's just a horrific situation. Let me tell
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01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:42.159
you that I understand that. I understand that very personally.
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01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:46.719
All right, Next, let's go to the California slast nationals
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01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:54.039
slash federal conundrum conflicts consternation. I mean, this is not uncommon.
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01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.800
I will tell people. If you go back to the
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01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:00.559
George Bush days and dealing with Hurricane Katrina, you saw
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01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:04.639
then you know the examinations that began right away, the
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01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:07.920
recriminations that became right away. If you're a member, mark
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01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:11.599
the lady to FEMA and the federal response, the New Orleans,
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01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:17.119
the local mayor's response, the governor's response in Louisiana and beyond.
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01:08:17.479 --> 01:08:20.359
This happens all the time. It's sad, but it's sort
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01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:23.319
of the nature of politics. So let's try to filter
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01:08:23.479 --> 01:08:25.680
some of this down if we can real quickly. All right,
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01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:30.159
As often happens, it is not black or white. In
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01:08:30.199 --> 01:08:32.319
other words, is it all Nuisance's fault?
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01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:32.760
No?
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01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:35.720
Is it all Karen Bass, the mayor of LA's fault.
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01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:36.039
No?
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01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:39.720
Are there some responsibilities that need to be examined in
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01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:43.560
an accountable way? Of course, that has to happen, right,
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01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:47.079
So I think it's important to remind people that that's
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01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.199
the case. You know, it's never all one or all
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the other. Almost never do you find that in the
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01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:58.439
governmental and political arenas. So I think that's important. Going forward,
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01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:01.079
There's going to be some very important questions are going
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01:09:01.119 --> 01:09:03.560
to be asked, and they should be right. I mean,
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01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:09.399
what preparedness was done, wasn't done, what budgeting was done properly,
1215
01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:12.560
what cuts probably should not have been made. I mean
1216
01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:15.319
you're even hearing this between as you know, Mark, the
1217
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:18.199
LA mayor and the county fire chief. You know, look,
1218
01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:21.000
we didn't have adequate resource budgets to be cut. So
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01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:25.079
let's just start with that. That that's very important and
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01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:27.279
it's going to point out in the days to come. Now,
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01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:31.199
one last thing, just is an introduction. Is this going
1222
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:35.840
to always be forever and ever? Amen Washington versus Sakrameto. No,
1223
01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:40.199
it's not. I'd be surprised if Vance and or Trump
1224
01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:43.119
don't come to the disasters one at some point. I mean,
1225
01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:45.439
they are completely wrapped up, of course, in an inauguration
1226
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:47.520
that's going to happen a week from today and he's
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01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:50.680
not even officially the president yet. But I do expect
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01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.760
as we saw on the Paradise fires, when we saw Anose,
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01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:56.359
him and Trump walking together through that fire zone, and
1230
01:09:56.399 --> 01:10:00.439
I was there just the day before that happened, you know,
1231
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:03.159
I think that is going to happen, and what the
1232
01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:06.119
outcomes are going to be anybody's guests as of now.
1233
01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:12.960
So I'm seeing high profile Californians and people with big
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01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:14.119
holdings in California.
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01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:16.279
I'm talking about the tech bros, et cetera.
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01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:20.319
They're all at mar Lago, as you say, and they
1237
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:24.760
have thrown money at the Trump inauguration. A million apiece
1238
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:26.600
seems to be kind of the number that they've all
1239
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:31.880
settled on from you know, Zuckerberg on down. I went
1240
01:10:32.039 --> 01:10:35.359
down the list a little before you came on. Google, Microsoft,
1241
01:10:35.479 --> 01:10:37.960
They're all popping off for a million besos the same.
1242
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:42.199
So it's extraordinary to me that there is no effort
1243
01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:46.439
to get money out to Californians so many communities in need.
1244
01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:48.600
Now, maybe they'll step up. You know, it's early in
1245
01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:49.000
the game.
1246
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:53.039
As I say, the game is really likely to have
1247
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:58.680
a lot more downbeats than it has now. But it's sad,
1248
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.279
I think in a way, and because of California this way,
1249
01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:03.439
and I talk to you as someone who's been you know,
1250
01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:07.159
immersed in California politics for so long that we have
1251
01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:10.039
to depend on these billionaires to step up. But the
1252
01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:13.680
realities are some of the environmental challenges that we face
1253
01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:18.439
in California are so daunting that you do need buy
1254
01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:23.560
in from many of these big wallets that find themselves
1255
01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:24.800
in a position to help out.
1256
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:26.680
Well you do.
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01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:30.159
And look it goes to the NFL apparently. I think
1258
01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:33.560
I read this yesterday, five million dollar contribution to the
1259
01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:38.479
wildfire situation. They're one of them's going to play tonight
1260
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:41.039
in Arizona, is you know, because of the flyers. So
1261
01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:44.439
I think you're going to see, and already are seeing, Mark,
1262
01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:47.479
a lot of corporations and a lot of wealthier as
1263
01:11:47.479 --> 01:11:50.760
you point out, individuals get in this game. I think
1264
01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:54.159
that's inevitable. Part of it is they have their own
1265
01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:55.800
stakes there. I mean some of these people have their
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01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:59.000
own residences there, or second residences or third or fourth.
1267
01:11:59.239 --> 01:12:01.159
Some of them have been lays there. I mean, you
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01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:04.239
know CBS is part of Paramount. As you know, Paramount's
1269
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.640
operation in La very sensitive to this. People are working
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01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:10.560
from home. I know there's going to be ongoing attempts
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01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:14.039
to raise funds to support the region. It's going to
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01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:16.199
be a long rebuild. That's the other thing I wanted
1273
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:18.399
to sort of say right up front, Mark, I know
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01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:20.880
you know this, but I'll tell you what. There's people
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01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:25.359
right now. Paradise fires five six, years ago people just
1276
01:12:25.560 --> 01:12:29.119
now rebuilding. So this is part of the challenge. Okay,
1277
01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:32.119
let me flip the coin. Here's an advantage, if you
1278
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:34.079
can call it that, but it truly is one in
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01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:36.640
the modern world. An advantage that it's going to be
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01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:40.800
had by the southern California LA region, and that's simply
1281
01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:44.640
being the heart and soul of media, right, I mean,
1282
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:48.399
getting the message out. People forget that Western North Carolina
1283
01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:52.520
was absolutely ravaged by Hurricane Helen, but it is not
1284
01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:55.600
the center of the media universe like LA is. Right,
1285
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.479
So I would expect, I would sincerely expect that you're
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01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:03.600
going to see a much quicker response and a much
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01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:07.000
more vibrant response than you see to many disasters, simply
1288
01:13:07.079 --> 01:13:12.760
because the cameras, the celebrities, the organizations, the companies themselves
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01:13:13.079 --> 01:13:14.600
have roots in that region.
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01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:17.239
Well, I think you can textualize it so well, which
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01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:18.840
is one of the reasons I love talking to you.
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01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:22.399
I mean, but I'll get to the comparison in a second,
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01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:25.760
because I do want to talk about the context. It's
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01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:30.039
interesting that a lot of these areas, like the Pacific Palisades,
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01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:34.039
for example, and Malibu, it's total devastation. I mean, it
1296
01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:37.119
is as though a bomb has gone off. I mean
1297
01:13:37.159 --> 01:13:41.720
people are talking about Hiroshima, etc. Now the beauty here
1298
01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:43.720
is that there wasn't the loss of life obviously that
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01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.079
there was in a Hiroshima, et cetera. So that comparison,
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01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:50.680
I think breaks down pretty quickly. But the complete elimination
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01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:54.800
of a community is something that is an extraordinary thing
1302
01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:58.039
to see. So we're talking about, as you suggested, I
1303
01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:00.159
mean six years in the instance that you just talked
1304
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:03.000
about it. I mean it maybe generations before we actually
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01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:06.000
see these communities return to what they were, and they're
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01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:08.560
going to have to return in a different way. And
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01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:10.920
this is I think kind of you were rubbing up
1308
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:13.760
against this, which is we're going to have to find
1309
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:16.119
building materials that are fire resistant.
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01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:18.560
I mean, the wood and.
1311
01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:25.399
The construction materials that are used now were just gone
1312
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:29.800
in seconds against the kind of natural environment that continues
1313
01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:33.159
to rule and will rule into the future, so you
1314
01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:35.520
cannot rebuild in the same way. And now then I
1315
01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:38.560
get to what you were talking about when you were contextualizing.
1316
01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:41.199
Because these hurricanes have affected the East Coast particularly and
1317
01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:45.720
have been so enormously devastating, they tend to be followed
1318
01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:50.239
by just building back, and I think there aren't. For example,
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01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:52.760
in Florida, they're trying to increase sea walls and this
1320
01:14:52.840 --> 01:14:59.399
sort of thing, but there aren't necessarily the true pivots
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01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:01.680
in those regions that California is going to have to do.
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01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:03.399
I mean, we need a real reckoning here.
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01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:04.920
This is a.
1324
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.039
This is a situation in which you can't I'm seeing
1325
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:11.239
all of these building restrictions. I'll stop talking in a second,
1326
01:15:11.279 --> 01:15:14.600
but it's such a treat to share this with you
1327
01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:18.000
because I see all of these articles written about how
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01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:21.479
building restrictions which are so really tough along the Coastal
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01:15:21.479 --> 01:15:25.159
Commission and also in the Palisades and throughout California and
1330
01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:28.479
Altadena included, are going to be waived so that people
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01:15:28.520 --> 01:15:32.000
can rebuild. So well, in a way that's good because
1332
01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:35.079
it allows rebuilding. But in a way that's bad because
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01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:39.920
what you need is you need new sort of come
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01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:44.960
to Jesus sort of construction materials. There where we can
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01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:49.159
find resistant materials used in the building of homes and businesses,
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01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:49.800
aren't I right?
1337
01:15:50.600 --> 01:15:53.960
Yeah, Mark, there's going to be used to a reckoning.
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01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:57.399
That's the painful word that he even say right now,
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01:15:57.840 --> 01:16:01.279
because there are already are local officials who said, look,
1340
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:04.920
you know, in the last five ten years especially, we
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01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:08.479
haven't approved developments that would have been approved twenty or
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01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:11.199
thirty years ago because of the reason that you're talking
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01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:14.239
about the same thing, certainly with building materials. I mean,
1344
01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:16.319
you talk about the cedar shake roofs. A lot of
1345
01:16:16.359 --> 01:16:18.800
people don't know we're talking about, but it's just split
1346
01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:23.600
cedar shingles, okay, is what is so dangerous in these
1347
01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:26.920
fire prone areas, and of course woods trained structures. That's
1348
01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:30.199
why now you see in California's you know mark, almost
1349
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:35.479
exclusively stucco homes on the outside cement or you know,
1350
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:38.800
non flammable material. They call them shingles, but really they're
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01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:43.239
tile roofs. And that's the kind of build back that
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01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:45.279
the governor has even been talking about every weekend. It's
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01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:47.439
probably going to be required. Now one of the most
1354
01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.359
painful parts of this mark is going to be take
1355
01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:53.000
you know this area so very well. But along the
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01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:56.239
pas the Pacific Coast Highway, those homes that were literally
1357
01:16:56.279 --> 01:16:58.560
perched on the other side of the highway, right over
1358
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:01.319
on the bluffs above the other are those going to
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01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:03.840
be allowed to be built back? Boy, it's hard to
1360
01:17:03.960 --> 01:17:06.840
envision some of that happening, you know, even if you
1361
01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:09.880
waive a lot of environmental regulations. So there are some
1362
01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:12.439
tough choices that are going to have to be made.
1363
01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:15.199
And this is going to be very difficult, because what
1364
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:17.840
do you do if you deny people that you know
1365
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:20.359
people of course say, well wait a minute, I you
1366
01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:24.159
know that add value, right that property, that that home
1367
01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:26.520
had value. Are you going to compensate all those people
1368
01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.399
if you don't allow them to build back on that
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01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:32.840
specific spot. The same with businesses. So there are going
1370
01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:35.039
to be some tough choices that have to be made.
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01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:37.880
These are talked about a lot, but now they're going
1372
01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:40.880
to have to be implemented. Mark about what you do
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01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:44.600
with everything from where you allow people to build, to
1374
01:17:45.079 --> 01:17:48.199
what you allow them allow them to build with, to
1375
01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:51.720
what then you require of them in terms of brush
1376
01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:55.000
clearing and as the fire guys and gals call it,
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01:17:55.159 --> 01:17:57.800
defensible space. These are all things that are going to
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01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:00.520
come into play in the next twelve to twenty four
1379
01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:02.600
months that are going to in some ways, you know,
1380
01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:05.600
as you say, maybe a little long term be building
1381
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:08.520
that better. But there's going to be some painful choices
1382
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:11.000
and decisions and ones that I might add, are not
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01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:12.239
going to be inexpensive.
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01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:17.000
You talk about a supercharged political issue. You're telling people
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01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:21.279
who could afford to buy coastline property in Malibu that
1386
01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:24.399
they may not be allowed to rebuild their residence there.
1387
01:18:24.920 --> 01:18:29.479
That is a conversation that has going to well, A,
1388
01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:32.640
it'll have to have some money attached to it, right,
1389
01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:35.439
because you'll have to compensate these homeowners in some way.
1390
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:36.760
I don't know where that money is going to come from,
1391
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:38.000
and that we're going to get to that in a second.
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01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:42.760
And number two, as you say, these people had something
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01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:46.720
of immense value there from the standpoint of a love
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01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:49.399
of that place. But it is also true that the
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01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:51.199
Coastal Commission is notorious.
1396
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:51.760
I mean, there's a.
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01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:54.600
Corolla video going around. Adam Corolla did a video about it,
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01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:55.359
and I wanted to read.
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01:18:56.239 --> 01:18:59.439
But swimming pool in my my Malibu place, and you're
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01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:02.399
going to it's a double hauled pool. They want to well,
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01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:03.800
you know, I got to build it with two halts
1402
01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:06.319
because if it leaks, it gets into the water supply.
1403
01:19:06.359 --> 01:19:07.720
They're so worried about the water supply.
1404
01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:10.239
It costs. It costs half a million dollars to build
1405
01:19:10.239 --> 01:19:13.439
this pool. And Adam is right about the Coastal Commission.
1406
01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.359
He's right about how tough they are, which is why
1407
01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:17.960
I think you're right when you say they may actually
1408
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:21.439
crack back on people's ability to build build there, but
1409
01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:24.119
to build their residences back. But I would also say
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01:19:24.159 --> 01:19:26.039
that one of the virtues of some of these protections
1411
01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:29.479
and regulations is you know that that swimming pool water
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01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:32.600
or whatever it may be, doesn't leach into the drinking supply.
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01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:34.520
I mean, you know, if it leads in the drinking supply,
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01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:37.560
you'd hear Corolla going, ah, wait, this is the great
1415
01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:40.199
Coast Commission that couldn't do anything to prevent the water
1416
01:19:40.239 --> 01:19:42.479
from drinking drinking leaking into the drinking supply. So you
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01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:46.800
see the clash of so many different things, from regulations
1418
01:19:47.159 --> 01:19:52.319
to a desire to renew, you know, and now to
1419
01:19:52.600 --> 01:19:57.479
the insurance. There is an emerging issue that really emerged
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01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:58.800
a few years ago. Courtney and I have been talking
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01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:01.239
about it for years because we have we're on the
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01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:04.279
Fair Plan, which, as you know, is troubled, and many
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01:20:04.359 --> 01:20:06.000
people are on the Fair Plan who are in a
1424
01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:08.319
lot of these regions that have been burned out. Speak
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01:20:08.359 --> 01:20:11.239
to the realities of the Fair plan, the moneies they
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01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:16.399
have and the future of real estate and insurance in California.
1427
01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:19.920
Yeah, well, as you know, Mark for those who well
1428
01:20:20.039 --> 01:20:23.359
other parts around the country understand some of this. But
1429
01:20:23.520 --> 01:20:27.479
to understand California's dilemma, you know, you have to understand
1430
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:31.039
that there are major insurers who have just stopped writing
1431
01:20:31.159 --> 01:20:34.520
policies in certain regions of the state or in some
1432
01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:37.960
cases in the state in total. There are other insurers
1433
01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:40.399
who have said, okay, well listen, if we don't get
1434
01:20:40.399 --> 01:20:44.600
adjustments that allow us to you know, actuarily sort of
1435
01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:48.560
put build in the risk structure in different parts of
1436
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:52.560
vulnerable parts of California, we can't write them, I mean,
1437
01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:55.000
and then you have so let's just start with the
1438
01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:57.079
private market to begin with, and then we'll jump into
1439
01:20:57.079 --> 01:20:59.960
the fair plan. In terms of private insurers, they did
1440
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:04.079
get some changes and some accommodations as recently as just
1441
01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:08.640
a few months ago that enable them to, you know, say, okay,
1442
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:11.479
we'll write policies, but they're going to be more expensive
1443
01:21:11.479 --> 01:21:14.000
and risk your areas. Now, to some people's ears, that
1444
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:16.760
makes sense, right to other people are saying, well, listen,
1445
01:21:16.800 --> 01:21:19.239
if you're an older couple and you're in those areas
1446
01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:22.359
you could be literally priced out of your home by insurance, right,
1447
01:21:22.680 --> 01:21:24.960
what do you do about that? That's still a question
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01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:27.479
that lingers out there. And then the Fear Plan, the
1449
01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:29.840
one that is you know you're on and if people
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01:21:29.880 --> 01:21:32.199
don't know the reason why people like Mark maybe on
1451
01:21:32.239 --> 01:21:36.000
the Fear Plan is because they could literally access private
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01:21:36.079 --> 01:21:38.840
market insurance. So they have to be in this you know,
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01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:43.079
governmental or quasi governmental entity that offers insurance, but it
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01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:46.520
is at higher prices and at lower value in terms
1455
01:21:46.520 --> 01:21:49.000
of being able you know what it will cover, but
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01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:52.079
that that entity. There's a lot of discussion right now
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01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:55.880
as you as you pointed out Mark, about the survival
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01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:57.800
of the Fear Plan. What is it going to take?
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01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:00.399
There are some redundancies built into what we won't get
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01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:04.159
too wonkish about that today, sort of reinsurance and other
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01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:07.119
things that will help their plan to survive. But there's
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01:22:07.159 --> 01:22:09.880
a backstop and ultimate backstop that a lot of people
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01:22:09.920 --> 01:22:13.680
will worry about that insurers have the capacity you know
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01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:16.319
that they're required to pay into the Fair Plan if
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01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:19.560
it needs extra moneies, and that will mean that all
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01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:24.159
insurance in California have to pay part of that backstop.
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01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:27.720
So this is something that over the next few months
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01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:30.199
is going to be talked about a lot, and sorting
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01:22:30.239 --> 01:22:33.520
out the California insurance market is going to be in
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01:22:33.560 --> 01:22:37.720
the aftermath of this particular conflagration is going to be
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01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:38.479
a big job.
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This is also pointed too. It's interesting it's not just California,
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01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:44.600
Danny says, that's what's happening in Florida now. People are
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01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:47.119
leaving because of the home insurance problems. It's not just
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01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:50.319
I mentioned Florida in relation to the hurricanes, and the
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01:22:50.359 --> 01:22:52.800
insurance companies are going, hey, guys, you're building back in
1477
01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:55.920
the same areas that are being devastated every few years,
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01:22:55.960 --> 01:22:57.920
and we're sick of insuring it, and there's not enough
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01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:00.520
money here for us to continue. That is to money
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01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:04.159
from insurance. I mean, those who want insurance are going
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01:23:04.199 --> 01:23:07.680
to be paying an excruciating bill. I mean, as you suggested,
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01:23:07.720 --> 01:23:10.079
it to the point that you just can't afford it anymore,
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01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:12.920
and so you either have to self insure, which means
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01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:15.000
that you know, if my home burns, I'm just going
1485
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:16.680
to build it back on my own because I've got
1486
01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:19.439
the money, or I'm going to have to leave. And
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01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:21.279
the last thing I would say and tell me if
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01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:25.760
this is right. The Fair Plan exists really to support
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01:23:26.039 --> 01:23:29.079
real estate and the real estate market in California.
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01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:30.319
I don't mean that in a bad way.
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01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:32.279
I mean, if you want to finance a home, which
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01:23:32.319 --> 01:23:35.079
is the way most of us buy homes, you need
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01:23:35.119 --> 01:23:39.159
to ensure that mortgage somehow, and so that insurance must
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01:23:39.239 --> 01:23:42.079
be there otherwise the bank won't loan you the money.
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01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:45.520
And so that's why the Fair Plan's there to say, hey,
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01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:47.479
don't worry, the State's got them covered, even though we
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01:23:47.520 --> 01:23:50.520
can't get state, farmer all state or farmers, et cetera.
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01:23:51.439 --> 01:23:54.960
Yeah, your exactly right. I mean every mortgage grants her
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01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:57.359
is going to require insurance, right, I mean that's just
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01:23:57.399 --> 01:23:59.359
the way it works. You have to have proof of
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01:23:59.399 --> 01:24:02.600
insurance to get a mortgage. And so yes, the Fair
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01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:07.079
Plan both has preserved the real estate market, but also,
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01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:11.439
of course, you know, helps the insurance companies from going
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01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:15.800
bankrupt in their view, and helps the average person retain insurance,
1505
01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:17.960
because it's not just when you're buying a new homeies.
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01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:21.000
You know, Mark, some people's plans have been canceled, but
1507
01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:23.640
a number of people's plans have been canceled who actually
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01:24:23.760 --> 01:24:26.239
been in their homes sometimes for a long time. So
1509
01:24:26.960 --> 01:24:30.079
that's that's a conundrum. Here's one thing. I don't know
1510
01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:31.439
how much some we have left, but I want to
1511
01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:33.560
get this in. Here's one thing you have not heard
1512
01:24:33.640 --> 01:24:36.640
Gary Dieter say today, and you know me very well, Mark,
1513
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:39.039
I have not jumped into the middle of the fray,
1514
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:42.800
you know, the back and forth with political opponents trying
1515
01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:45.760
to make hay of this in each other's backyard. You know,
1516
01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:48.479
I'm just not going to engage in that, okay. And
1517
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:50.399
the reason I'm not, and they try to talk as
1518
01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:53.479
objectively as we can about the problems, and you know,
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01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:56.399
people having to come together to solve them because there is,
1520
01:24:56.560 --> 01:25:00.640
as you know, Mark, no ultimate value in doing so. Right,
1521
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.199
there's not going to be any value to the people
1522
01:25:03.239 --> 01:25:06.880
of California just trying to lay blame at somebody's doorstep.
1523
01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.840
Now again, I'll go back to what I said at
1524
01:25:08.880 --> 01:25:10.920
the beginning. Are there going to be Is there going
1525
01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:14.640
to be accountability? Yes? Is someone that appropriate? Absolutely? Yes?
1526
01:25:14.800 --> 01:25:17.960
At the local, state, and federal level, right, and sometimes
1527
01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:20.479
even in the private sector level. You know, what about
1528
01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:23.119
the insurance company, what about the fair place? So that's
1529
01:25:23.159 --> 01:25:25.800
all appropriate, But I am just not going to get
1530
01:25:25.800 --> 01:25:28.560
sucked down the rabbit hole of screaming and yelling and
1531
01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:30.600
people online, you know, all the means that all the
1532
01:25:30.640 --> 01:25:32.680
rest of it goes because there's no value in that.
1533
01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:36.520
There really, truly is no helpful value in that for
1534
01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:38.800
the people of California and beyond.
1535
01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:45.880
Do you think the federal government will ultimately allow California
1536
01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:48.479
to build back? And here's where the shoe pinches. It
1537
01:25:48.920 --> 01:25:53.159
pinches in two places. It pinch I mean at minimum money,
1538
01:25:53.840 --> 01:25:56.239
So I'm interested in your thought on that. But the
1539
01:25:56.279 --> 01:26:02.239
second place is a primary directive of an incoming administration
1540
01:26:02.359 --> 01:26:06.760
that says we want mass roundups of illegals and people
1541
01:26:06.840 --> 01:26:10.800
who are not here legally will be deported. Now, when
1542
01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:14.920
you're talking about the kind of build that is associated
1543
01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:19.600
with these communities that are devastated, it will absolutely involve
1544
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:22.720
people who are here who don't have all the documentation
1545
01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:26.960
of a legal resident. I'm wondering if that won't be
1546
01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:31.880
a place in which Donald Trump directs some of these
1547
01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:37.319
people who will round up illegals. Is that possible? Take
1548
01:26:37.359 --> 01:26:39.319
that part first and then get to the federal money.
1549
01:26:40.119 --> 01:26:43.560
Yeah. Well, in terms of the immigration issue, you know,
1550
01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:47.279
it's some of this I mean, there's so many things
1551
01:26:47.319 --> 01:26:50.880
happening at once right now in politics, it is difficult
1552
01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:53.239
for people to filter it all up. But in the
1553
01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:57.000
background of what's happening in course, places like social right
1554
01:26:57.039 --> 01:27:00.640
now getting a lot of attention. Rightfully, so is administration
1555
01:27:00.760 --> 01:27:03.840
that is both getting ready to populate itself, as you know,
1556
01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:06.439
with a lot of nominees and others. Starting tomorrow the
1557
01:27:06.479 --> 01:27:10.319
hearings begin in Washington for cabinet secretaries, but also putting
1558
01:27:10.319 --> 01:27:13.239
policies in place. So you're starting to hear just in
1559
01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:16.560
the last few days, what are some of the specifics
1560
01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:19.600
about the immigration policies that Trump talked about in the
1561
01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:22.680
campaign trail, And what's what you're hearing Mark, And you
1562
01:27:22.680 --> 01:27:24.920
know this will be fleshed out even in greater detail
1563
01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:26.560
in the next few weeks and in the next couple
1564
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:29.039
of months. But is that they really are going to
1565
01:27:29.079 --> 01:27:33.880
start with a people who have criminal records that got
1566
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:36.319
into the country. That people, I mean the federal government
1567
01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:40.560
knows they have either pre existing criminal records or have
1568
01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:43.720
committed some kind of fairly significant kind but remain in
1569
01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:47.239
the country. That's sort of group A. That's where they're
1570
01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:49.560
going to be started. The second group that they said
1571
01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:51.960
they're going to be targeting is people who came in
1572
01:27:52.039 --> 01:27:56.279
recently and don't have well established you know, they don't
1573
01:27:56.279 --> 01:27:59.319
have a job and a residence or whatever. Yet you know,
1574
01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:02.720
they are sort of the quotas are easily deportable because
1575
01:28:02.720 --> 01:28:05.399
they really don't have any roots or connections here at
1576
01:28:05.399 --> 01:28:07.840
this juncture. And then I even have family here. So
1577
01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:10.920
I think you're going to see a tiered approach to
1578
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:14.479
this immigration thing. It is not going to be send
1579
01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:17.000
out every bus in the country to round up twelve
1580
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:19.880
million people for one thing. There's not even federal budget
1581
01:28:19.960 --> 01:28:23.039
or federal personnel to do that. So I think that's
1582
01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:26.239
important to point out. And I'm guessing Mark that you're
1583
01:28:26.279 --> 01:28:29.720
going to see a much lower priority on the kind
1584
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:33.560
of people you're referencing. Say they're working for a construction company, right,
1585
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:38.760
or they have some other gainful employment. You know, I
1586
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:40.720
don't think those people are going to be job a
1587
01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:43.199
by in stretching the imagination.
1588
01:28:43.520 --> 01:28:46.039
And then I think, you, yeah, God, the money you go.
1589
01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:48.680
I'll just follow up in that last about the money. Yeah,
1590
01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:51.479
I mean, that's a lot just on what you were saying,
1591
01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:54.439
a lot of those people and concerns to what you've preferred.
1592
01:28:54.600 --> 01:28:57.840
I'm talking about construction, agriculture, et cetera. These are huge
1593
01:28:57.880 --> 01:29:00.720
companies and businesses that have been big donors to the
1594
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:04.800
Trump campaign, and so I think they have a place
1595
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:07.960
at that table when the conversation comes as to who's.
1596
01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:09.479
Deported now to the federal money go ahead?
1597
01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:13.199
Yeah, well, in terms of federal dollars yet to be seen.
1598
01:29:13.239 --> 01:29:16.000
I mean, you know, the FEMA budget's been under the microscope,
1599
01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:18.239
as you know, a lot, especially in the last twelve
1600
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:20.600
months or so, for a whole variety of reasons. We
1601
01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:22.840
don't have time to go into today. But you know,
1602
01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:26.880
how the money was spent, was it targeted to certain areas,
1603
01:29:27.159 --> 01:29:31.279
you know, politically targeted right or withheld in certain areas.
1604
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:35.000
How much of it was spent for non disaster relief
1605
01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:39.920
moneyes for example, two folks who are undocumented, or housing
1606
01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:43.680
concerns or other things sore. I have no doubt that
1607
01:29:43.720 --> 01:29:47.239
there's going to be a big discussion immediately in Washington
1608
01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:50.720
and the Congress about how much is needed to address LA.
1609
01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:53.800
You know, how does it get there in an objective,
1610
01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:57.560
nonpartisan way, et cetera. So that's certainly going to be
1611
01:29:57.840 --> 01:30:01.840
a point of conversation, and almost certainly there's going to
1612
01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:05.800
be special requests as there were after Hurricane Colleen. There's
1613
01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:09.319
going to be special requests for additional dollars beyond that
1614
01:30:09.439 --> 01:30:13.800
currently budgeted because this people are talking about about being
1615
01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:17.479
a two hundred and fifty billion dollar plus rebuild.
1616
01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:20.680
You know, I'm smiling because it's so rich to hear
1617
01:30:20.720 --> 01:30:22.720
the senator from Wyoming say, well, you know, we're going
1618
01:30:22.760 --> 01:30:25.640
to give we're thinking about given California the money, but
1619
01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:28.520
we just want to make sure that all the it's
1620
01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:31.680
used properly. There are definitely going to be some strings attached,
1621
01:30:31.920 --> 01:30:36.640
is what he said. And it strikes me as both
1622
01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:40.479
absurd and typical Washington that we can think back not
1623
01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:45.199
that far to the Trump administration during which Mitch McConnell's
1624
01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:50.439
wife was the Transportation Secretary and she dumped a jillion
1625
01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:54.039
dollars on the state of Kentucky and these no bid
1626
01:30:54.119 --> 01:30:56.600
deals that we're going to the state of Kentucky. So
1627
01:30:56.680 --> 01:30:59.880
when Washington wants to have strings attached, it can have
1628
01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:02.760
strings attached. And when Washington doesn't care about strings attached
1629
01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:04.239
and they just want to take care of people, it
1630
01:31:04.279 --> 01:31:07.960
can happen that way too. Gary last, and this is
1631
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:11.119
kind of a super sized version. You're so beautiful to
1632
01:31:11.119 --> 01:31:12.800
stay with us for just one more second, because I
1633
01:31:12.800 --> 01:31:16.159
do want to ask you about the confirmation process. So
1634
01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:19.439
it does begin. There's been something of a mini scandal
1635
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:24.359
with the FBI, and there is they're Democrats in the
1636
01:31:24.359 --> 01:31:29.800
Senate that are saying they're missing FBI information on Pete
1637
01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:35.000
Hegsith and perhaps other nominees as well. But Hegsith is
1638
01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:37.760
sort of ahead of that parade. Can you speak to
1639
01:31:37.800 --> 01:31:42.119
the background check process and to what extent these gaps
1640
01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:47.119
and these claims of sort of scandalous gaps might affect confirmation.
1641
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:48.159
Yeah.
1642
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:49.920
Well, there's a lot to say about this, but I'm
1643
01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:53.880
gonna try to condense it about ninety seconds. So let's
1644
01:31:53.960 --> 01:31:57.239
use it an example Hegseth just as an example. Okay,
1645
01:31:57.720 --> 01:32:03.800
up for Secretary of Defense. I personally briefed the now
1646
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:06.640
Republican chair that of the committee that will view as
1647
01:32:06.720 --> 01:32:10.399
nomination and the ranking Democratic member last week. Okay, Apparently
1648
01:32:10.399 --> 01:32:13.720
that happened on Friday at one hour briefing by the FBI.
1649
01:32:14.079 --> 01:32:17.479
So information is getting out. The question is how much
1650
01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:20.039
and how fast? Mark? You know? And that is that
1651
01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:23.000
this is not new to the Trump confirmation process. By
1652
01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:26.680
the way, you know, FBI investigations, depending on who you are,
1653
01:32:27.439 --> 01:32:29.760
they can be extensive and take quite a long period
1654
01:32:29.800 --> 01:32:31.760
of time. Now, do you want to take a year
1655
01:32:31.840 --> 01:32:34.720
to investigate somebody before you have a secretary of fill
1656
01:32:34.760 --> 01:32:37.920
in the blank. Most people will say, no, that's not reasonable.
1657
01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:39.560
But do you need more than a week or a
1658
01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:42.079
couple of weeks? Well, maybe you do, at least in
1659
01:32:42.119 --> 01:32:45.359
some cases. Here's to me, the interesting political conundrum of
1660
01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:50.079
this is, and to your period point, Washington can be
1661
01:32:50.199 --> 01:32:53.560
Washington right. Just weeks ago, months ago, we had Republicans
1662
01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:57.079
screaming about the FBI, saying it wasn't objective, it wasn't fair.
1663
01:32:57.479 --> 01:33:00.920
Now we have you know, a certain number of Democratic
1664
01:33:01.239 --> 01:33:05.000
senators saying, well, you know, the FBI of course under
1665
01:33:05.039 --> 01:33:07.520
Joe Biden. Now we're saying it isn't being fair in
1666
01:33:07.600 --> 01:33:11.319
producing reports for these Republican nominees. So, you know, it
1667
01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.279
sort of depends on the moment in history and even
1668
01:33:14.560 --> 01:33:16.239
the day of the week. You know, the day of
1669
01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:19.279
the week where you think the FBI is isn't objected,
1670
01:33:19.439 --> 01:33:23.199
is it not? You know, eventually some hard questions are
1671
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:25.239
going to be asked with these confirmation hearings, and my
1672
01:33:25.319 --> 01:33:28.399
guess is if some of them are very substantive, you're
1673
01:33:28.399 --> 01:33:31.479
going to have chairs and vice chairs of these committees saying, well,
1674
01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:33.439
we've got to put the brakes on this until we
1675
01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:35.279
get more information on ABC.
1676
01:33:36.039 --> 01:33:38.279
Well, you know, it's so interesting the thing that's focused
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on in the background check with hexitnway, because we're talking
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about him, is associated with you know, the various sexual improprieties,
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about his alcoholism or the accusations of alcoholism. Certainly a
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lot of drinking going on, and and what's lost in
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all that is basic questions of competence. I mean, he
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was thrown out of this nonprofit. You know, he's been
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he's really had an inability to run anything. And now
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he's gonna be in charge of the Pentagon. It seems
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like a big reach, But there is a death grip
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that Donald Trump has on this nomination. He likes his
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pete Hegseth, and the man does look good. I'll give
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you that. I mean, if I had his look, you know,
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God knows I'd be unstoppable. But apart from that, I mean,
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I don't I don't see what he's got, do you?
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Uh?
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This this is kind of prediction territory. And now I
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will let you go in sixty seconds, I promise. But
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do you see one of these more controversial nominees Hexith
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Patel Gabbard, Do you see one of them as more
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likely not to make it?
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Yeah?
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I wouldn't lay odds on who's more likely than not likely.
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I think it's the reason is because Mark, we don't
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have all the information. Okay, I don't have all the information.
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I mean these FBI investigations don't These aren't released publicly. Right,
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He's go to the members so you know all. It's
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not uncommon in confirmation hearings for some things somewhat surprising
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to come out. So could that happen?
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Yes?
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Could it sink one of these nominations. Yes, I mean
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take the other side of the corin we have some
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that we know are pretty much going to sail through.
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Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, that's a done deal.
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These people know him, He's been vetted for years. He's
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probably going to sail through. So I would say the
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majority of the nominations are not going to be huge.
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We are controversial. Are one or more of the people
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you mentioned going to be under a microscope and potentially
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be sunk. Yeah, they could be. Some of this is
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going to, you know, just be based on sheer data,
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01:35:37.479 --> 01:35:40.439
sheer information. Some of it's going to be political, you know,
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01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:42.000
is one of these people going to end up being
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a sacrificial land the Democrats feel like we got to
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01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.960
take somebody down. That's not uncommon, as you know, and
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01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:49.000
that could well happen.
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Yeah, that's so well said. And as we've said before here,
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01:35:52.880 --> 01:35:55.399
presidents generally get most of the cabinet they want, you know,
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so you can maybe pick off a couple, but you
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01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:01.000
ain't going to be veto and at all, so especially
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when you're you're not in control of things.
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Listen, you've been great today.
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Of course, these are extraordinary times, and this is an
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extraordinarily juicy segment. Thank you, appreciate you, my friend, and
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let's hope for better things the rest of this year.
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Everybody.
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Gary Dietrick segment is sponsored, of course, by Bill Campbell,
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and thank you Bill for giving us a supersized Gary
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Dietrich segment today. Bill Campbell can be found at Remax Gold.
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And if you're relocating into or from northern California, you
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Maeah, wow. We've been doing a lot today, a lot
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going on busy little show. Yeah.
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01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:08.319
We've had a lot coming and going, a lot of
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Kim and Tony that you're not seeing, but they're making
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01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:14.800
stuff happen behind the scenes. And I appreciate that from
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01:37:14.840 --> 01:37:18.600
both of you because there's a lot. There's a lot
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01:37:18.640 --> 01:37:20.840
in the air. As I say, Tony comes back and
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01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:23.479
the first thing we do is dump a you know,
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a deadly fire.
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Yeah, and then I could pick my vacations. This last
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01:37:28.600 --> 01:37:30.720
time I want a vacation was all the floods happened
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in April.
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Oh well, I wish, I wish I nice. Uh, smash
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01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:39.760
the like button. I haven't asked you to do that,
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but I would really appreciate it. Yeah, smash it with
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your iron rods. Smash it like a.
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01:37:44.039 --> 01:37:46.119
Ballash it with your iron rod.
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Yeah, we appreciate it. Helps us in the YouTube universe.
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01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:52.880
It doesn't cost you anything, and it is very much appreciated.
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01:37:53.119 --> 01:37:57.720
Uh yes, please smash it. Also, subscribe and share the show.
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01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:00.159
It helps build our audience and that's a good thing
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01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:02.239
and you can help keep us alive. You can go
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01:38:02.239 --> 01:38:05.159
to the Mark thompsonshow dot com click the Patreon or
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01:38:05.199 --> 01:38:08.920
PayPal link to join our community contribute. There have been
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01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:13.960
some great new people joining our community of supporters. I'm
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01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:18.960
so grateful, and even some who are already part of
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01:38:18.960 --> 01:38:22.119
our Patreon or PayPal community who have upped their support
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01:38:23.439 --> 01:38:27.880
and I'm just so a touched and appreciative and so
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I want to thank you as well. And in fact,
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at the end of every show we scroll everyone's name
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and one of the things we do and we just
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01:38:38.039 --> 01:38:41.600
sort of decided to do this when we began, because
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first of all, you're the reason that we're on the air,
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01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:46.439
all of you who contribute to the show, and we
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01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:49.039
appreciate everybody because not everybody can contribute. And please don't
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01:38:49.039 --> 01:38:51.680
misunderstand me. I appreciate all the ways that people participate
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01:38:52.119 --> 01:38:53.960
and you know, hit the like button or whatever these
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01:38:54.000 --> 01:38:56.520
things are. It's all matters, I guess, you know, and subscribing,
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01:38:56.760 --> 01:39:00.800
But those who have the means to artists and help
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01:39:00.840 --> 01:39:03.359
us stay on the air. We're so grateful to you.
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So we decided early on we're going to scroll these names.
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And because people do contribute more, some of them really deserve,
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01:39:10.640 --> 01:39:13.640
you know, big sort of daily shout outs. We put
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the names of people who've contributed more, slightly bigger than
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01:39:18.199 --> 01:39:20.720
some of the others. We again, appreciate it to everybody.
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That's why everybody's name is there. So Tony calls me
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01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:28.279
and he said, you know, we get this really big
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contribution and we it's just like it's so big that
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we need to do something. And what how would you
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like to handle it? So I said, and you'll see
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this at the end of the show if you're watching,
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I said, you need to give her the screen by herself.
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As you scroll it, you just give her the whole screen.
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And that's what you did, right man, you since the
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first Yeah, you might have missed.
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It if you guys, I will, but I hope I'm
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saying it's great. It's absolutely great, and she deserves.
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Hey, you need to check this because I think I'm
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reading this wrong.
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Yeah, it was a pay it was PayPal, and she
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really stepped up and you'll see her name.
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Wow, what a lovely thing to do.
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Yeah, really really cool.
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So we have her on the Screenwright anyway, that's sort
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of the way that we recognize how grateful we are to.
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All of you.
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Now, I really would like to get some KIM news in.
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It's been a minute, you know, so we'll do that,
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And I also want to give you one bit of
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show news, which is that for the rest of this week,
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01:40:39.359 --> 01:40:42.520
you're going to get an upgrade and host Michael Shore
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01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:48.079
is gonna jaw. He will be hosting in my stead.
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Now I'm going to be doing KFI radio in Los Angeles,
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01:40:52.399 --> 01:40:54.880
and it's really tough, I have to say, to step
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01:40:54.920 --> 01:40:58.920
away from my own show at a time of such
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01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:04.439
in need. But Michael is so great and the two
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01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:08.239
of you together will be terrific, with Tony of course supporting,
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01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:11.199
but I just feel as though he's so smart, so
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01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:14.600
with it in Southern California, which I think is important
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maybe to have some perspective on what's going on, and
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so I'm looking forward to seeing what you two do.
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I'm also glad that I can provide a service to
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Southern Californians by being on the radio, and that's what
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01:41:32.359 --> 01:41:36.840
I will do for four hours a day. It's just me.
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01:41:37.359 --> 01:41:39.960
So it's kind of kind of wild. It'll be a
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01:41:40.079 --> 01:41:45.680
KFI radio. So but your first stop is here every day.
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Californians were eleven to one. East Coasters were two to four.
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01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:52.880
So I'm counting on you guys to continue to support
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01:41:52.920 --> 01:41:54.640
the show, and more than anything, I think you're going
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01:41:54.680 --> 01:41:55.720
to be getting great shows.
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01:41:55.800 --> 01:41:58.720
Michael is just terrific.
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01:41:58.840 --> 01:42:03.439
He's so smart, he's everything you know. And Kim is
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01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:05.720
so on top of all of the information. It will
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01:42:05.760 --> 01:42:08.520
be breaking. It's going to be an extremely eventful week,
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01:42:08.960 --> 01:42:12.640
and Kim is so terrific at staying on top of
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01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:16.920
these things and keeping us pointed toward magnetic North, you know.
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So it's a great thing, all right, Kim's News when
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we continue Mark Thompson Show, The Mark Thompson Show.
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I'm the Mark Thompson Show. I'm Kim McAllister and this
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01:42:33.479 --> 01:42:38.880
report is sponsored by Coachella Valleycoffee dot Com. So good
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01:42:40.279 --> 01:42:43.119
in southern California. I know we've talked a lot about
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01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:46.079
fires today, but officials are expecting the return of these
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01:42:46.199 --> 01:42:50.199
dangerously high winds as Cruz battle the fires in the area.
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Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney saying a Super
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01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:58.239
Scooper firefighting plane damaged by a drone will be returning
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to the air tomorrow, pending f approval. The death toll
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01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:05.479
in the fire so far twenty four people, with California
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01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:07.800
Governor Gavin Newsom saying there are likely to be a
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01:43:07.800 --> 01:43:08.319
lot more.
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If I can just say one thing, it is disgusting
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in all of this cauldron of stuff that's filled with
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things that disgusted me that you can fly a drone
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into an area that you know is being devastated by flames.
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Our only chance against these flames is associated with the
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air attack. This is an immense aircraft that is not
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just a chopper, but there it is.
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It's a Super Scooper.
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It picks up that water off the ocean, or I
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think it's generally off the ocean, not off the reservoirs,
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but maybe off the reservoirs too.
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And it could have been in use as we really
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needed it the last several days.
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Right, And so there it is the damage. We're showing
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it to you now on the left wing and it's
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left as you're the pilot, it's the left side.
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But they got the drone as the right wing.
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But they got the drone parts to see and they're
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they're going to find out who whose it was.
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I hope they're going to find it.
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Kind of drone be tracked somehow. Tony says, yes, they can.
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Yeah, no, no, no, because it has IDs in it,
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because it's a DGI. So they and the guy was
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I mean, get off. A guy has been on I
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think Twitter, Instagram, Uh, any serial number codes. He's been
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showing up and posting all the serial number codes that
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have been flying drones.
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So oh that's great. That's really that's really great. I
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hope they do good knowledge. Yeah, it's just well it's illegal,
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of course, but I mean there should be a real
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price to pay.
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Go ahead, Kim's trying.
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As we mentioned earlier, police say a man wearing a
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firefighter's jacket is being held on suspicion of burglarizing a
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home in Malibu Sunday. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonald
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01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:57.479
said the man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a firefighter.
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01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:01.199
LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says about thirty people have
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been arrested in and near wildfire evacuation zones as looting
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01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:09.479
concerns persists there should be a special place in Hell
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for them. Governor Gavin Newsom signing an order suspending some
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environmental requirements to speed up wildfire recovery efforts in Los
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Angeles County. The executive order, signed Sunday suspends permitting and
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review requirements under two environmental protection acts. They are the
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01:45:26.840 --> 01:45:31.199
California Environmental Quality Act and the Coastal California Act. This
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will apply to residents planning to rebuild their homes and
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their businesses destroyed by the Palisades or eaten fires. Secretary
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01:45:39.159 --> 01:45:42.720
of State Antony Blincoln says a breakthrough in cease fire
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01:45:42.800 --> 01:45:45.880
talks is on the horizon. B Lincoln says it's now
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Hamasa's move to get it done. Despite months of delays,
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he said sealing an agreement is now closer than it
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01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:55.079
has ever been before. The Secretary of State caution they
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01:45:55.119 --> 01:45:58.079
have had moments before where the ball gets pulled away
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01:45:58.079 --> 01:46:01.720
at the very last minute, and that Mohammed Sinwar could
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01:46:01.720 --> 01:46:05.840
pull his support at any moment. A Florida judge is
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01:46:05.840 --> 01:46:08.079
clearing the way for the release of a report on
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President elect Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the results of
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the twenty twenty election. Judge Eileen Cannon denied a request
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that would have extended an injunction blocking the Justice Department
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01:46:20.079 --> 01:46:24.079
from the partial release of the former Special former Special
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01:46:24.119 --> 01:46:27.479
Counsel Jack Smith Report. This means a DOJ can now
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release the volume of the report as soon as midnight.
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So here we go with that. As Mark mentioned earlier,
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Senate confirmation hearings begin this week for some of President
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elect Trump's cabinet picks. Tuesday, Pete Hegseth will be in
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the hot seat as senators questioned the former Fox News
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host about a variety of allegations against him as he
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is considered for Defense secretary. Hearings for a long list
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of nominees will continue through the week. Federal health officials
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warned childhood vaccination rates or falling. CDC data showing less
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than ninety three percent of kindergarteners last year got vaccinated
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for measles. That is down from the ninety five percent
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rate seen before the COVID nineteen pandemic.
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So what is it? It's less than what?
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Less than ninety three percent of kindergarteners.
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Yeah?
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Wow? Vaccination rates for chicken pox, polio, and whooping cough
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also fell at a similar rate, about ninety two percent.
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Inoculation is needed for herd immunity, where unvaccinated children aren't
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able to easily spread measles.
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So you're bumping up right up against the herd immunity.
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So you're saying, we're close to now ten percent of
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kids you show up to school not being inoculated, as
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we're saying, yeah.
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Okay, yeah. Poor sanitation at a bores Head factory in
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Virginia contributed to deadly listeria outbreaks last year. A new
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report from the US Department of Agriculture says inspectors found
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meat and fat residue from the previous day's production on
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the equipment, including packaging equipment. The listeria outbreak resulted in
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the deaths of ten people and sickened and left dozens
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more in at least nineteen different states.
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I mean again, guys, you know, I know regulations. Oh
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my god, burden some regulations. This is what you need.
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You need regulations on your food. These are protections. Who
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do you want at the FDA, Who do you want
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at the USDA? Who do you want at these agencies
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that control what you put in your body. You want
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people who are responding to a need and are honoring regulations, protections,
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basic consumer protections.
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This is what.
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The right ones to roll them all back. They want
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to close down these government agencies. Let these corporations and
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businesses self police. This is what self policing gets you.
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It gets you total, slovenly, gross and lethal dropping of
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the ball. Here this the people died, lots of people
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because of this. Boars Head is supposed to be the
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high end. It's absolutely ridiculous. And I mean, not only
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do the protections have to be in place, they have
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to be you know, inspectors have to honor them. I mean,
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clearly somebody dropped the ball before because the protections were
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in place, the regulations were there, and somehow Borshead was
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allowed to slide. Unreal, pretty lucky stuff.
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The events leading up to President elect Trump's inauguration January
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twentieth begin this weekend. Saturday, Trump National Golf Club in
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Virginia will host a president's reception and fireworks display that
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will be followed on Sunday by a reeflaying ceremony at
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Arlington National Cemetery, Harry's Tomb of the unknown soldier before
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Trump posts a victory rally at Capitol One Arena.
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Wow, quite a party, are you going to be? I
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mean that's a party.
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Yeah, you're not going to be at any of the No,
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don your maga outfit and dance the night away.
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I'll be home doing my very best to look away.
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The Grammy Awards will not be postponed due to the
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central coming that way. The Grammy Awards will not be
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postponed due to the Southern California wildfires, the Recording Academy
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announcing today The decision was made in close coordination with
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local authorities. Music's Biggest Night, set to take place on
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February second at the Crypto dot Com Arena in Los Angeles.
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The show will now be used to raise additional funds
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to support relief efforts and honor first responders. So that's nice.
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Both the twenty twenty one and twenty two ceremonies face
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postponements due to the pandemic, but there will not be
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postpone here. Hopefully by February, we've cruise will get more
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of a containment handle on all of this.
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So let me tell you one thing. Just because you
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mentioned the pandemic, I'm sorry. This feels when you're in
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the middle of it, a lot worse than the pandemic.
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It really does. When you've got to flee your home
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for your life. You know you've so Again, I understand,
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the pandemic was a pandemic. It's worldwide. It turned the
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country and the world on its side. So please don't
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misunderstand me. I'm just saying, when you're in the middle
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of it, this thing that we're dealing with it, it
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feels like, Wow, the pandemic was a picnic compared to this.
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I mean, what happened to the pandemic. I got fat
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under ritos and bottles of wine, you know. I mean,
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I'm just talking about just my own experience. Again, I'm
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not speaking to the worldwide impact. Please don't misunderstand me.
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But I am telling you just as like a voice
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from the center of all of this, this is way scarier,
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like another universe of scary and destruction from the pandemic.
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Well, it makes sense because in the pandemic, it was
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what was outside of your home was frightening. But in
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this instance, you have to leave your home and you
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are unsure of whether it's going to be there when
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you get back, so you have no place to be.
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Your stability is wiped away, and that seems I would
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think that would be scarier. Absolutely.
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I also just would say, and then we can move
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on the I don't know if i'd call it anxiety.
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It's fear. It's fear when you're really scared like this,
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and you've got your animals and your belongings, and you
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know your picture of mom and dad or whatever you've
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got in your kids, and you're all huddled in this
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car packed with this stuff, and you're trying to find
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the place to go that can accommodate you. And you're
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calling friends that you haven't spoken with in years. I mean,
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and your heart is eating through your chest for days,
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not for an hour, for two hours, for twelve hours,
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for days we haven't slept. I'm telling you it is
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when you're in the middle of it again. Guys, please
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don't jump on me, because I know COVID was horrible,
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but and it certainly is not a contest. No, there's
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not a contest. Mark now, I'm not. I'm trying to
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describe a human emotion.
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Eve, Okay. I love that.
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I know that people are gonna bust me somehow, for
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saying it, But I just am saying. COVID just feels
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like it was so much easier climb than this one
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that we're in the middle of.
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But go ahead, Yeah, let's lighten it up, Francis. Because
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Den of Eves too, Pantera roll. The top spot at
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the weekend box.
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Office is to everybody, come on.
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The highest sequel starring Gerard Butler, grossed an estimated fifteen
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point five million dollars in its debut week.
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Oh my god, that's terrific. Yeah, that's that's not fake.
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That's weird.
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Yeah, you're right, Thank you, doctor Fauci. Back for the
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COVID conversation.
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Yeah, he throned Mufasa the Lion King, which felled a
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second with an estimated thirteen point five mil Sonic the
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Hedgehog three stayed in the race with an eleven million
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dollar grows to take third.
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It was great. I love that.
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Okay, really trying to get out of seeing Sonic Hedgehog three.
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Well, Den of Thieves too. Oh there it is shnic
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Hegg three.
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Thank you.
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I heard lashing lights and loud noises that I just
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don't know me.
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To reason it.
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Oh does it? There's a shadow?
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No not yet.
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Yeah, Tony hasn't seen it, which is a surprise to me.
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Schneider the Culture Blaster says that the new Jared the
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what is it the Gerard Butler film, the one that
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warned Thieves. He says, it's confusing. There are not a
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lot of subtitles, and they're speaking I guess French or something,
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or there's some kind of other isn't And this is
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my recollection of what he said. But he said that
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there's some amazing uh chase. There's a chase sequence. He said,
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that's really great and amazing. Also scenes of the heist.
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So he said it's really good from that standpoint, But
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he said the the rest of the the rest of
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the movie, he wasn't crazy for.
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Wow, good to anyway.
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Yeah, I wasn't gonna go away, but thank you. Yeah
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good enough.
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This report is sponsored by Coachella Valleycoffee dot Com. Oh,
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count on the fact that we're going to pre evacuate,
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and I'm not sure they'll be able to have coffee
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at the new place.
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very cool.
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I'm kim McAllister. And this is the Mark Thompson Shows,
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The Mark Thompson Show.
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Who's Mark Thompson? Who's Mark Thompson? Who's Mark Thompson? All right,
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who's Mark tom Better? Come on, who's Mark?
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Get it?
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Who's Mark Thompson?
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Wow?
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Who's Mark Thompson?
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Okay, God, that's a little absessive on there. Who's Mark Thompson? Please?
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Uh.
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This is one of the organizations, the one that Billy
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who joined us at the beginning of the show, Billy
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McNamara who actually goes in and rescues alongside some other
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very courageous responders. This is the organization. You can reach them.
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Palms and pause Veterinary Center is also there alongside. This
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is kind of a disaster response handout that they posted
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on Instagram, I think, but it's animal advocacy Net. But anyway,
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the number is what I really want you to take
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note of. Eight hundred two nine oh eighty one twenty nine,
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eight hundred two nine oh eighty one twenty nine cats, dogs,
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birds and cutters of all sorts. Billy and the crew there,
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So terrific eight hundred two nine ZHO eight one two nine.
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So that's a Mark Thompson Show. The first hour we
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did really all you could, I think.
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Gulp down in an hour on the fires and possible
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genesis of the fires. Again, it's an emerging narrative. Tough
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to say exactly what they were caused by. I think
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the Eton fire, the Altadena fire appears to have a
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connection to the electric line, the Palisades fire slash Malibu
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fire that appears to have some connection to a man
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made source, not the electric company. But again, all this
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stuff is still up in the air. But I just
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felt that there was some evidence. We saw some visual evidence.
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Again today we heard some anecdotal evidence, and we heard
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kind of what politicians were talking about.
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We did that a lot in the first hour.
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You know, we are looking at this Watch Duty app
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and Kim, we've found it invaluable and it's a nonprofit.
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This guy, John Mills, launched this nonprofit after experience.
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In my county here in Sonoma County, right.
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It was a Bay Area fire that motivated him to
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start this Watch Duty. And you need fast, dependable information.
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This thing's amazing. I paid for the upgrades. They are
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a nonprofit, as I say.
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And they have staff.
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They have people there updating all the information. So it's
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good reliable info.
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Yeah.
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So, as Kim says, live updates from their reporters, notable
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shift in any of the fire movement, fire fighting measures,
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local closures, and you can see all of it there
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in the Watch Duty app. So if you're in southern
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California or in northern California, as Kim says, it came
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out of Sonoma, you should jump on this Watch Duty app.
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And I support them, you know, I pay for it,
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but there it is. Thank you, Tony. That's the whole state.
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And then you can you know, zoom in on your
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area and in the upgrade versions you can add all
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of these overlays watches warnings, humidities, do points, wind direction,
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win velocities. It's amazing. I'm really so impressed with these guys.
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We should try to get him on the air.
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Yeah, we should.
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Maybe when the dust settles should app Yeah. C. C
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Roder says, I just downloaded the watch Duty app an
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hour ago. Yeah, it's a it's a good grab.
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I told my sister about it, and she said, I've
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been using that app for days. She's watching the fires
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approach UCLA because we have her daughter is at UCLA.
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The daughter, by the way, got on an airplane a
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few days ago along with her two roommates, one from Washington,
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DC and one from Hawaii. So now we've got three
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UCLA students who are remote learning for the week because
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UCLA extended that, and they're here in Petaluma, UCLA North
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is what we have going on.
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Wow, that's terrific. Yeah, that really is. I mean it's
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terrific that they're there with you.
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Yeah.
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More terrific if they could stay in school and this
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whole thing wasn't happening. By the way, we talked about looting,
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and we talked about burglaries that have followed this. Guess
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where they picked up two burglars in Brentwood, California, not
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the Brentwood in northern California, but in southern California where
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so many have been evacuated.
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They picked them up at Kamala Harris's house. That's right.
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What Yeah, Police arrests two suspected burglars at Kamala harra
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versus Brentwood home during the fires. They confirm that two individuals.
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Police confirm they are arrested at the Vice President's Brentwood
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home at four forty in the morning over the weekend. Ultimately,
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they could not prove that they were involved in the burglary,
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but they detained them for violating curfew. If there's a
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curfew imposed on evacuation zone six to six, is the
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curfew that this, as we said, is a real issue
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with the people going into these areas to loot and steal, because.
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If you don't have enough stress about leaving your home,
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you know, there's that.
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Yeah, it's pretty pretty crazy, but worth noting that, you know,
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no one's out of the line of fire. More day Wow,
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check you out, maud day man. She's sending us a
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one one hundred dollars super chat. She said, I missed
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your subscriber count. Here's to that and superb guests. Thank
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you and the team.
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Mark. Wow, I'm I am gonna cry, man, I'm gonna
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cry all the time.
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I'm telling you, I'm spending more time crying than not.
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I'm just the I'm on the verge of tears a lot,
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but Maud takes me over the edge with a one
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hundred dollars contribution. Really really cool, Maud.
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We love you. You are an og of this show.
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You've been here since the beginning and you've been a
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real active supporter and financial supporter as well. And so
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appreciate that. So thank you, says am so much, be
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so so much, Maude. That is super cool. Thank you everybody.
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I saw a brilliant way a man saved his house.
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He installed sprinklers pointing down and out from the eaves
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of his roof, says Wes. An actual lawn sprinklers on
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02:04:55.680 --> 02:04:58.159
the roof. He turned it on, packed up and evacuated.
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That's great. I mean, I really feel handicap that I
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can't do anything like that. I don't know how you
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people who and there are many of you, because you've
2229
02:05:12.880 --> 02:05:15.079
written to me and you you show up in our chat.
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Who are like super handy with stuff, and you could
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stitch that together. You know, I can barely turn the
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02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:24.520
hose on. You know, I'm really I'm a city kid,
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you know, I grew up in the city. So I
2234
02:05:28.079 --> 02:05:29.640
can help you with a lot of stuff that you
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02:05:29.760 --> 02:05:31.960
may need to figure in the city.
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You know that you might.
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But if you need, like to figure out how to
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construct something on the fly, Tony is your guy who
2239
02:05:39.199 --> 02:05:41.600
can do that? Tony, we would you know, we have
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people here at the show who can do it, and
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Tony's our guys.
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02:05:46.479 --> 02:05:48.119
There's a guy who is a guy just doing a
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pump in his pool, you know.
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Yeah, this is the one I was telling you about, Tony,
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02:05:52.279 --> 02:05:56.319
where they the guy has an agricultural sprayer that he
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02:05:56.399 --> 02:06:01.000
bought and puts a hose in his pool, attaches it
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02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:04.239
all and it, you know, is a huge range, this thing,
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and they have to leave their home and when they
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02:06:06.920 --> 02:06:09.760
get back, his house is standing, and then half of
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his neighbor's house that was covered by the pump and
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02:06:13.600 --> 02:06:16.720
the sprayer is standing as well, and everything around it
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was gone.
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That's extraordinary. I have to say. I have two things
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to say that.
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First of all, you know, you have to again, it
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still requires a little bit of engineering experience, I mean
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just basic. I mean I'm saying common sense engineering experience,
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not like formal schooling. And the other thing I would
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say is, remember the true ferocity of the Santa Ana
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winds is so immense, fifty sixty seventy mile an hour winds.
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02:06:41.800 --> 02:06:45.079
I'm sorry, the wind will blow that water back away.
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02:06:45.119 --> 02:06:47.079
I mean, it's not even it's not a fair fight,
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you know, So you need just the right situation for
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02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:54.640
that to work. I would say in the majority of situations,
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I'm sure that will be helpful, but I'm just saying
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in this one it really is somewhat extraordinary. I do
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want to take a couple of quick comments if I can.
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On the way out, Tom says they would need twenty
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02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:10.680
six thousand fire trucks to fight every structure fire by
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02:07:10.680 --> 02:07:11.439
the standard procedure.
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02:07:11.520 --> 02:07:13.279
Yeah, I think I saw that in sixty minutes as well.
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Last night.
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Does anybody find fault when a tornado levels of Texas town?
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02:07:18.479 --> 02:07:21.039
No people need to quit. No one did anything wrong
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02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:24.000
in La County, says Ronda. Yeah. I mean, we really
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02:07:24.039 --> 02:07:26.880
do give a pass to the Red States as they
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02:07:26.880 --> 02:07:29.800
continue to rebuild in these areas that are definitely prone
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02:07:29.840 --> 02:07:34.319
toward disasters. I mentioned Florida as one, you know, but
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02:07:34.439 --> 02:07:42.840
certainly your example of the tornado is another. Too soon
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02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:46.239
to say it's arson, Yeah, I mean to conclude it formally,
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02:07:46.239 --> 02:07:51.119
I would agree let the firefighters do the investigation without
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02:07:51.159 --> 02:07:55.520
the conspiracy theories of TikTok please, Yeah, okay, maybe. I mean,
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02:07:56.520 --> 02:07:59.159
you know, there's a lot of stuff on just because
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02:07:59.159 --> 02:08:01.119
it's on TikTok, doesn't I mean it's BS. You know,
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02:08:01.479 --> 02:08:03.359
I would say that. You know, I watch a lot
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02:08:03.359 --> 02:08:05.199
of history stuff on TikTok and stuff, and it's not
2287
02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.439
like everything that's on TikTok is BS. So I mean
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02:08:09.479 --> 02:08:11.760
it can be provocative and you know, show your work.
2289
02:08:12.199 --> 02:08:15.199
We actually last night on the couch, as we were
2290
02:08:15.199 --> 02:08:18.279
looking at various things that were coming in, we sniffed
2291
02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:22.159
out some BS about the fires. So you if you
2292
02:08:22.279 --> 02:08:24.560
cross check everything and believing we try to cross check
2293
02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:26.199
stuff before we bring it to you on the show,
2294
02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:30.800
it can it can reveal those things that are true
2295
02:08:30.800 --> 02:08:34.039
in those things that are not. Yeah, literally, a blowtorch
2296
02:08:34.079 --> 02:08:36.840
when you get the when they get the wind blowing,
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02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:41.199
Florida is about to go bankrupt, says a Tammy almost
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02:08:41.319 --> 02:08:43.640
zero private insurers. There you go. I mean they are
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02:08:43.720 --> 02:08:46.800
living the same thing. That's a red state or red governor.
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02:08:47.439 --> 02:08:49.119
Right. What am I supposed to do?
2301
02:08:49.239 --> 02:08:52.119
Say that they the reason that they're going bankrupt and
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02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:54.640
the reason that they're unable to handle the hurricane damage
2303
02:08:54.640 --> 02:08:57.920
is because of their COVID policy. I mean, you know
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02:08:57.960 --> 02:09:01.079
that's essentially what they're saying here. That's DEI. I mean,
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02:09:01.760 --> 02:09:04.399
I don't It wouldn't have mattered DEI or not in
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02:09:04.439 --> 02:09:08.720
this case. I mean again, that's the problem. You know,
2307
02:09:08.920 --> 02:09:11.119
if every time there is a major disaster, we're going
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02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:14.119
to hang all of societal's ills that we can reasonably
2309
02:09:14.119 --> 02:09:23.479
disagree about on some failing associated with some societal issue.
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02:09:22.760 --> 02:09:23.960
We're never going to get anywhere.
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02:09:24.960 --> 02:09:28.079
So I watched the Corolla rant and I thought, oh,
2312
02:09:28.119 --> 02:09:30.199
he's right about that, but he's completely full of it
2313
02:09:30.239 --> 02:09:33.119
about this, you know what I mean? So I and
2314
02:09:33.159 --> 02:09:35.159
then I saw Jilly and Michaels with the same thing
2315
02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:38.119
into the workout fitness person and she was saying, you know,
2316
02:09:38.199 --> 02:09:41.920
Adam's right about the Coastal Commission and the regulations. Yeah,
2317
02:09:42.039 --> 02:09:48.800
it is overregulated in some ways. That wasn't germane to anything.
2318
02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:51.800
Related to this incident. But all of a sudden, everybody's
2319
02:09:51.800 --> 02:09:54.560
coming to the cameras and they fire up their podcast
2320
02:09:55.279 --> 02:09:58.600
to make some point that might have legitimacy but no
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02:09:58.880 --> 02:10:05.199
relevance to what's going on now. Blue Spark says, if
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02:10:05.239 --> 02:10:07.760
the women don't find you handsome, they should at least
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02:10:07.760 --> 02:10:08.479
find you handy.
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02:10:11.960 --> 02:10:12.159
Girl.
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You just yeah, yeah, you're right. I got to develop
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02:10:17.319 --> 02:10:19.960
some skills. I think it's too late for me. On
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02:10:20.079 --> 02:10:23.600
the prisoners, I know the prisoners don't get paid much,
2328
02:10:23.640 --> 02:10:26.119
but they volunteer to fight fires. Some of them said
2329
02:10:26.119 --> 02:10:28.279
it's a way to earn respect and to not be
2330
02:10:28.359 --> 02:10:31.279
treated like a prisoner for a while, says Democracy. Yeah,
2331
02:10:31.319 --> 02:10:36.600
I see plenty of interviews. They're all over YouTube. Hassan
2332
02:10:36.680 --> 02:10:39.399
did one, and they're a bunch more of firefighters. That's
2333
02:10:39.399 --> 02:10:43.239
what Courtney was saying, talking about prison firefighters, how they
2334
02:10:43.279 --> 02:10:47.079
feel as though they're given a purpose and that matters.
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02:10:47.279 --> 02:10:52.000
You know, there they are and we're all so grateful,
2336
02:10:52.319 --> 02:10:56.399
you know, we're all so grateful, and I'm grateful to
2337
02:10:56.439 --> 02:11:02.720
each and every one of them. And Mimi says this,
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02:11:02.800 --> 02:11:05.840
which Kim can check this out. I think there is
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02:11:05.840 --> 02:11:09.239
some truth to this. Sadly, Mimi says, Unfortunately, despite the
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02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:13.039
bravery of these prisoners who are qualified to be firefighters,
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02:11:14.439 --> 02:11:18.279
I'm sorry the bravery these prisoners who are qualified to
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02:11:18.359 --> 02:11:21.960
be firefighters, because they are felons, they're ineligible to be
2343
02:11:22.000 --> 02:11:24.279
firefighters upon their release from prison. Yeah, that's what I saw,
2344
02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:28.840
just clients that earlier. It is true that you're go ahead, Kim,
2345
02:11:29.039 --> 02:11:30.680
I think there is some truth to that.
2346
02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:34.960
Yeah, that actually was the case until recently, and I
2347
02:11:35.000 --> 02:11:37.039
think they're in the process of trying to change that
2348
02:11:37.159 --> 02:11:41.520
policy so that the firefighters that you learn the skill,
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02:11:42.000 --> 02:11:44.119
that you'll be able to use it once you get
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02:11:44.119 --> 02:11:46.640
out of jail. So at this point, I think that
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02:11:46.720 --> 02:11:48.640
may still be the case, and it's a case by
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02:11:48.720 --> 02:11:49.760
case basis as well.
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02:11:50.319 --> 02:11:56.359
Yeah, yeah, I think there are certain areas of firefighting
2354
02:11:56.439 --> 02:11:59.199
that you are accepted from right now that you're not
2355
02:11:59.279 --> 02:12:02.399
allowed in. As Kim says, that is changing. I think
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02:12:02.439 --> 02:12:06.560
your general proposition is true. It's just that I think that,
2357
02:12:06.920 --> 02:12:09.760
as I said, the configuration of the fire department is
2358
02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:14.760
such that still some prison or firefighters can serve. It's
2359
02:12:14.800 --> 02:12:19.439
just a question of when and how and where. So
2360
02:12:19.439 --> 02:12:20.840
so thanks for that though, I mean, I think it's
2361
02:12:20.840 --> 02:12:22.840
a something that should change.
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02:12:22.880 --> 02:12:26.520
So Mark Thompson Show. Oh, I.
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Now looking forward to the rest of this week with
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02:12:30.520 --> 02:12:36.000
the gorgeous and handsome and smart and funny Michael short
2365
02:12:36.039 --> 02:12:39.239
coming through. He and Kim are going to make sweet
2366
02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:41.600
music together with Tony in the background.
2367
02:12:41.680 --> 02:12:43.880
It's going to be pretty great.
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02:12:44.399 --> 02:12:51.840
Tony laying down the jam and Tony will have hot
2369
02:12:51.920 --> 02:12:57.479
links and that sounds sexy, but it is just a
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02:12:57.520 --> 02:13:00.600
way that you can find links to all of the
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02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:02.560
different charities we spoke of today.
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02:13:03.159 --> 02:13:06.439
I particularly like to gofund me. That is that list
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02:13:06.479 --> 02:13:10.039
of so many families that might need help. You can
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02:13:10.039 --> 02:13:12.359
click on them, see about them and see how you
2375
02:13:12.399 --> 02:13:14.800
might be able to help them anyway. And Tony's the
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02:13:14.800 --> 02:13:16.680
best and he's going to put on all the links
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02:13:16.760 --> 02:13:20.199
under this video and more. Thanks everybody for your support
2378
02:13:20.239 --> 02:13:20.800
of the show and.
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02:13:20.880 --> 02:13:23.560
No shadow of Stevens for the Mark Johnson Show.
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02:13:24.359 --> 02:13:27.479
Bye bye, Kim, I love you, After party, love next
2381
02:13:27.800 --> 02:13:31.479
tot of time. Bye bye, Thanks everybody, be in touch,
2382
02:13:31.920 --> 02:13:32.520
see you soon.
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Bye bye.