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00:00:16.640 Welcome back to Flack of Socks, a podcast episode 228.

00:00:20.780 Today on the show, fires continue to ravage LA.

00:00:24.560 We're going to tell you what's going on and how it got so out of hand.

00:00:27.680 Then Trump and Obama had a lighthearted exchange at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

00:00:32.700 We're going to tell you what a lip reader said they said.

00:00:35.600 Then after that in Urban Decay, we have more New York City subway violence paired with some new crime stats that will really open your eyes as to what's going on out there.

00:00:44.540 All this and more.

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00:02:48.500 Okay.

00:02:49.060 We have a very packed show today.

00:02:50.960 It's one of those episodes where something major happened and a lot of the bandwidth needs to go to that.

00:02:56.320 So we're going to be talking about the L.A. wildfires a lot, how it happened, what led up to it, who's in charge.

00:03:02.780 But we're going to get to that later in housekeeping.

00:03:04.700 We're going to start with some quick stories first before we get into the meat.

00:03:08.740 First things first, Trump and Obama were hanging out at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

00:03:14.200 And they had a little exchange here.

00:03:16.360 And then a lip reader has what they said.

00:03:19.380 Yeah, this is a New York Post forensic lip reader decipher.

00:03:23.200 It said, Trump leaned towards Obama and said, I've pulled out of that.

00:03:26.600 It's the conditions.

00:03:27.680 Can you imagine that?

00:03:28.880 Obama laughed as Trump added, and after, I will.

00:03:32.600 Call me at the foy after.

00:03:34.560 Yep.

00:03:35.040 Trump replied to Obama during their exchange, possibly referring to the National Cathedral's foyer.

00:03:39.420 Where Obama then said, can you just, it should be good.

00:03:43.260 I can't talk.

00:03:44.540 We have to find a quiet place sometime.

00:03:46.420 This is a matter of importance, and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it.

00:03:50.760 Certainly today, Trump said, as Obama nodded.

00:03:53.780 Interesting.

00:03:54.340 So Obama and Trump need to have a private conversation.

00:03:57.220 Sounds like they're pulling, Trump wants to pull out of some sort of agreement or something.

00:04:01.640 I don't really have my finger on the pulse of what Obama-era agreements Trump is really going to yank out of.

00:04:06.380 Hopefully, it's NATO or the UN.

00:04:09.560 Those are big ones.

00:04:10.960 Those are big ones, for sure.

00:04:12.220 Obama's like, no, you can't do that.

00:04:14.220 And how is Obama involved at this point?

00:04:16.440 He hasn't been president for eight years, you know?

00:04:18.560 It's obviously all his staffers who puppeted Joe Biden through his term, but, you know, it's kind of weird.

00:04:23.920 What could you really be doing?

00:04:25.320 Yeah, it depends on what you think.

00:04:27.000 Maybe Joe Biden's term was mostly Obama and his people, so then Trump's kind of just talking to the current president.

00:04:32.900 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy who's talking through the earpiece, as we've shown on the show.

00:04:36.920 So it could be something like that.

00:04:38.500 And then also, apparently, Obama and Michelle Obama aren't on great terms.

00:04:44.020 That's why she wasn't there, apparently.

00:04:45.940 That's the Through the Grapevine reporting.

00:04:47.840 We're not positive on that, but, yeah, she wasn't there.

00:04:50.420 So there's the evidence.

00:04:52.460 Oh, yeah, exactly.

00:04:53.820 All right, our next story, Miss America has been crowned, and it's Miss Alabama.

00:04:59.080 So Miss America 2025 is this lovely woman here.

00:05:02.660 Blonde, a real woman, attractive, standard.

00:05:05.860 Nice white girl.

00:05:06.840 Yeah.

00:05:07.340 And you kind of, you know, when you see this, and we see what the Miss Americas have been in the past,

00:05:12.440 and Miss Universe and all that stuff, the trans people, the unattractive people,

00:05:16.980 it kind of makes me a little suspicious, you know?

00:05:20.300 Like, this is how you get treated before you get dragged into a war for Israel or something.

00:05:24.260 Yeah, this is like the military getting steak and lobster on a random Tuesday, and they go, what?

00:05:29.220 What's happening here?

00:05:30.120 Oh, we got lobster claws and crab for dinner.

00:05:32.980 Yeah.

00:05:33.200 White guys appearing in the military propaganda again.

00:05:36.600 You go, huh, that's strange.

00:05:38.240 So, oh, who knows?

00:05:39.540 Yeah.

00:05:39.800 Could be nothing.

00:05:40.480 Could be a tsunami about to happen.

00:05:42.360 Something could be cooking up.

00:05:44.140 Our next story, the FBI released a new clip, a video clip of the pipe bomber from January 6th,

00:05:51.380 from January 5th.

00:05:52.240 And it's from, obviously, years ago, and we haven't seen this yet.

00:05:56.200 But here's the video playing in the background, and people who know footage and film have noticed

00:06:03.120 that the frame rate got completely botched, and then there's these little dots of blurs

00:06:07.940 that have been added in After, in like an editing software app,

00:06:12.100 where they're blurring the eyes so you can't actually figure out who it is using biometrics.

00:06:18.480 Dark.

00:06:19.460 Yeah.

00:06:20.020 Someone's up to no good.

00:06:21.040 And then I think we had been talking about it, how similar the bombs looked to some training materials.

00:06:27.260 Yes, the pipe bomb that was placed on January 5th looked exactly like the pipe bombs the FBI trains with.

00:06:33.980 It's like a pipe, and it has like a white timer on it.

00:06:36.280 A little coincidence?

00:06:37.280 Yeah, maybe they just took it from the storage unit at work.

00:06:40.320 Yeah, I mean, it's ugly.

00:06:42.340 But, I mean, this is one of those stories that, like, should have been so heavily investigated.

00:06:46.580 Like, wouldn't you want to pin?

00:06:48.160 Like, it's a coup and an insurrection with no guns, right?

00:06:52.840 The whole thing was no weapons.

00:06:54.680 Everyone was just kind of meandering around.

00:06:56.460 Wouldn't you want to nail the pipe bomber more than anyone else?

00:07:00.300 That's like the evidence of someone planning something,

00:07:03.020 and the fact that they haven't been able to, haven't been able to.

00:07:06.060 I'd like to nail the pipe bomber, but then the FBI is protecting the pipe bomber.

00:07:10.720 It's what it seems.

00:07:11.580 That's what you're implying here.

00:07:12.940 I am not going to go as far as that, but I'm suspicious.

00:07:15.900 I'm heavily implying.

00:07:17.580 Okay, let's get to the fires in California section.

00:07:20.960 This is our biggest section of the whole show.

00:07:22.700 So, before we get into anything, it's a very sad situation.

00:07:26.560 A lot of normal people, good Americans, have lost their houses, their lives, everything they worked for their whole life.

00:07:33.560 Yeah.

00:07:33.840 So, it's very sad.

00:07:34.700 The entire neighborhood, certain things, like the entire grid, the Palisades and stuff like that.

00:07:40.900 There's nowhere to go back to, and then the bottleneck of rebuilding that.

00:07:45.840 Some of this shit is going to take like 10, 15 years.

00:07:48.980 There was a lot of pure Americana there.

00:07:51.500 Oh, yeah.

00:07:51.940 You know, think about when L.A. sprung up, and it was kind of like the post-war is when a lot of that really boomed.

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00:08:12.340 It's like pure America, suburbia.

00:08:16.320 So, it's really sad to see a lot of that shit.

00:08:18.400 The architecture, the film, the history.

00:08:21.560 L.A. is a serious cornerstone in American culture.

00:08:26.040 Yeah.

00:08:26.680 And it's gotten out of hand, obviously, lately.

00:08:28.900 But back in the day, it was in a good spot.

00:08:31.460 So, it's sad to see it burn.

00:08:34.140 We're going to go over a lot of things here.

00:08:36.200 First, who's in charge of the L.A. fire department?

00:08:39.160 It's these three lesbians.

00:08:40.780 It's a bunch.

00:08:41.380 It's a bunch of lesbians, and their names are all some variation of Kristen.

00:08:46.160 So, we're going to go through it.

00:08:47.020 We have Kristen Crowley.

00:08:48.240 She's the first LGBTQ fire chief.

00:08:50.960 She makes almost 500K and went to Harvard Business School.

00:08:53.940 Yeah.

00:08:54.420 Interesting.

00:08:55.160 The next person, Christina Kepner, first lesbian assistant chief to the L.A. fire department.

00:09:01.720 Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations.

00:09:05.680 So, a lot of Harvard and a lot of focus on, I don't know, they teach you how to put out a fire at Harvard?

00:09:10.480 The Harvard Firefighting School.

00:09:12.020 I think that's right outside of the astronomy scene over there.

00:09:16.520 And then we have Christine Larson, L.A. fire department's first lesbian equity bureau chief.

00:09:24.260 How much does that pay?

00:09:25.760 400K a year.

00:09:27.020 Crazy numbers.

00:09:27.960 That's what, like, the president makes, I'm pretty sure.

00:09:29.900 I think it's more.

00:09:30.940 Yeah, it's close.

00:09:31.900 And then co-founder of Equity on Fire.

00:09:33.980 So, we have all these lesbians, and they're focused on everything except for putting out fires and fire readiness.

00:09:39.760 Yeah.

00:09:40.420 Unfortunately.

00:09:41.340 Well, who would have thought you get the first lesbian chief, and then the next week, you get the first deputy chief lesbian.

00:09:47.900 You know?

00:09:48.800 It's like, one by one, they peel each other in.

00:09:50.820 And then, you know, that's who's in charge.

00:09:52.200 It's like there's a certain level of promoting from the ranks that needs to happen and, like, oh, this guy's seen everything.

00:09:58.180 First, he fought these wildfires.

00:09:59.800 Then he came in and he learned on the job.

00:10:03.100 The Harvard School, like, they're kind of focused on managing people and large organizations and not necessarily fires is the vibe I get.

00:10:11.200 And that works when times are good.

00:10:13.360 Yeah.

00:10:13.640 That works when the budget's balanced and there's no fires and you have all these extra things and extra time to focus on, like getting more lesbians.

00:10:22.620 But now when a fire happens, shit hits the fan, you kind of realize what being prepared actually looks like.

00:10:28.740 We have a clip from the fire department chief talking about diversity and how important that is.

00:10:34.740 I am super inspired.

00:10:36.540 She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future, one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity.

00:10:46.320 People ask me, well, what number are you looking for?

00:10:48.500 I'm not looking for a number.

00:10:49.780 It's never enough.

00:10:50.700 Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now.

00:10:56.060 She's already looking at ways to change that.

00:10:58.380 She's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job.

00:11:03.940 They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team.

00:11:08.240 Okay.

00:11:08.540 So instead of focusing on getting strong men to be firemen, you are trying to find ways to get ladies involved so they feel included.

00:11:16.320 Firemen.

00:11:17.260 It's in the name.

00:11:18.100 Yeah.

00:11:18.440 And we had to change it because the lesbian got control, right?

00:11:21.760 Yeah.

00:11:22.120 So they're focused on inclusion and making people feel good.

00:11:25.540 And then over the years, they've been trying to get rid of white guys.

00:11:28.480 It's a headline from NPR, firefighting is mostly white and male.

00:11:32.660 A California program aims to change that.

00:11:35.640 Okay.

00:11:36.380 And then-

00:11:37.020 Is that good?

00:11:37.640 Do we know?

00:11:38.120 Are we going to figure anything out?

00:11:39.440 Or we just don't want it to be what it is right now?

00:11:41.920 Exactly.

00:11:42.400 It's not like born out of a deficit or born out of incompetence.

00:11:46.460 It's just like, we don't like that.

00:11:47.960 Some of those good high-paying jobs need to go to our lesbian friends.

00:11:51.380 Yeah.

00:11:51.760 And then if you look at LA, they haven't had a horrible fire situation.

00:11:55.980 There's been the wildfires in Northern California, but it seems like LA's been okay for a while.

00:12:01.040 And can you read the Matt Walsh tweet?

00:12:02.800 Los Angeles deliberately set out to exclude white men from becoming firefighters, and now

00:12:07.200 they don't have enough firefighters to prevent their city from burning to the ground.

00:12:11.000 DEI is a cancer that destroys everything it touches.

00:12:13.840 And obviously, that's what we think.

00:12:15.920 And this sort of attention to DEI, when it comes time to emergencies, it's like anytime

00:12:21.720 you spent not preparing for an emergency and then talking about DEI, calling in the news

00:12:27.580 crew over DEI, it's just not a good look.

00:12:31.540 Whether or not that really impacted something or not, people are going to judge it and look

00:12:36.320 at it from a horrible lens, right?

00:12:38.140 Exactly.

00:12:38.640 Especially when we get to the details of how much the firefighters have been struggling

00:12:42.100 resource-wise.

00:12:43.180 Yeah.

00:12:43.320 Before we get there, keep in mind, too, LA got rid of a lot of really good firefighters

00:12:48.860 because they weren't going to get the maxine during COVID.

00:12:52.180 113.

00:12:53.040 Yep.

00:12:53.680 Removed.

00:12:54.640 And then there's a tweet I saw here that summed up the firefighting lesbian situation the best.

00:13:01.000 The entire city of LA is on fire, and it's just a whole bunch of girl bosses in charge.

00:13:05.300 Like, what do we do now?

00:13:07.240 There's a reason men have been in charge of people's safety for like 10,000 years.

00:13:10.940 LOL.

00:13:11.220 I'm sorry if this offends someone.

00:13:13.640 That's what we're dealing with.

00:13:15.120 Fire them.

00:13:16.100 Fire lady.

00:13:16.840 Yeah.

00:13:17.140 It feels good to include everyone, and you're the fire chief.

00:13:20.440 You're the best.

00:13:21.100 You're the assistant.

00:13:21.900 We're all lesbians.

00:13:22.980 We're wearing the outfits.

00:13:24.100 We can do it.

00:13:24.940 Gee, it's a little white in here, huh?

00:13:26.540 Yeah.

00:13:26.980 Oh, what's that?

00:13:27.540 It's burning?

00:13:28.180 Get the white guys out.

00:13:29.740 We want to change everything.

00:13:31.060 We're in charge now.

00:13:32.240 And then the city burns, and there's no water in the fire hydrant.

00:13:36.700 And you know what?

00:13:37.940 It's obviously a zero-sum game.

00:13:39.660 When you hire a lesbian, some competent, normal white guy didn't get hired, right?

00:13:43.720 And that's – they've obviously been discriminating against hiring-wise because they start from the bottom, you know?

00:13:48.780 They start from the ranks.

00:13:50.500 They don't just bring in someone to the high end.

00:13:54.280 But another piece, which this might be a little weird for my thought process to go to, is when you pay one of these fire lady lesbians 400 grand for, like, some top job.

00:14:05.100 It's like, couldn't that go to, like, some father of six who's running a family?

00:14:09.440 What, she going to Bora Bora?

00:14:11.400 Yeah, who knows how to run a firehouse, maybe.

00:14:13.640 Yeah, no.

00:14:14.240 And, like, I'm talking about just, like, money and, like, high salaries.

00:14:17.200 Like, obviously, if you create your own wealth or, like, start a small business, it's like, enjoy it, lesbian.

00:14:22.260 Go to Bora Bora.

00:14:23.260 Put in that wine freezer.

00:14:25.280 You know what I mean?

00:14:26.520 But there's part of me that, like, this is public taxpayer-funded jobs.

00:14:29.220 Wouldn't you kind of want to incentivize, like, some guy with a big family?

00:14:32.260 Yeah, because lesbians, they don't have kids.

00:14:33.980 They just go on vacation.

00:14:35.020 That's what I'm saying.

00:14:36.180 That's a great point.

00:14:37.000 So, this next tweet summed up all of the issues in one concise format.

00:14:43.240 Can you give that a read?

00:14:43.980 Yeah.

00:14:44.260 So, I mean, we're not just attacking individuals here.

00:14:47.120 There's a lot of actual things that have been mismanaged.

00:14:49.800 Trump was talking about it on Joe Rogan.

00:14:51.900 And here's a list of some of them.

00:14:53.700 They didn't fill the reservoirs.

00:14:55.400 They cut $17 million from the fire budget.

00:14:58.020 That was the mayor's office who's responsible for that.

00:15:00.480 They sent supplies to Ukraine.

00:15:02.240 That seems to be everywhere.

00:15:03.600 They fired firefighters for not getting the vaccine.

00:15:07.060 They didn't comply with brush clearing, which is one of the major ones that everybody's been harping on for a long time.

00:15:13.100 They halted prescribed burns.

00:15:14.880 They let stormwater wash out to sea.

00:15:17.700 But, yes, this is all caused by climate change.

00:15:19.800 That's a big one.

00:15:21.140 L.A. over the last two years had, like, record rainfall.

00:15:23.660 And they just let it go out to the ocean.

00:15:25.880 They didn't do anything to collect it and put it in the reservoir or anything.

00:15:29.860 So, that's not good.

00:15:31.040 And then another part.

00:15:31.740 That's incompetence.

00:15:32.500 You know, that's where it's just human decision making.

00:15:35.200 There's a decision to be made.

00:15:36.480 And they make the wrong one.

00:15:37.780 And now they're kind of suffering with that.

00:15:39.700 And, like, people who pay, the whole time we're talking about this, people in California, in L.A. specifically, pay some of the highest tax rate in the country.

00:15:47.680 So, you'd think they'd get more.

00:15:49.580 You'd think they'd get better decision making, like, higher responsibility and stuff.

00:15:53.700 And their houses are so expensive.

00:15:55.100 But, no, they're not getting any of it.

00:15:57.080 And we're going to get to that.

00:15:58.620 Before we do, this next person was defending and trying to save their parents' house.

00:16:03.960 And listen to what she says about their insurance.

00:16:06.560 I know I'm not supposed to be here.

00:16:08.360 But this is my parents' home.

00:16:10.200 I know the feeling.

00:16:11.220 And they just lost.

00:16:13.760 They got canceled from their fire insurance.

00:16:17.680 So, they're dealing with this.

00:16:21.840 They're 90 years old.

00:16:24.000 And through the state of California, because of this, they're 90 years old.

00:16:32.980 That they've had.

00:16:34.860 They've lived in this house for 75 years.

00:16:41.080 And they've had the same insurance.

00:16:43.680 And these insurance people decided to cancel their fire.

00:16:48.560 And we're going through this.

00:16:50.100 And it just happened.

00:16:51.440 And they have no fire insurance.

00:16:53.640 No fire insurance.

00:16:55.200 Yeah.

00:16:55.460 One of the big names was State Farm.

00:16:58.420 It says, last year, State Farm canceled 1,600 policies in Pacific Palisades.

00:17:03.720 Because the state would not allow them to raise premiums enough to cover their exposure.

00:17:07.960 So, this has been a lot of...

00:17:09.140 State of California there.

00:17:10.320 Yeah.

00:17:11.040 So, a lot of the fire insurance in these areas was just recently canceled in the last few months.

00:17:16.920 And then, all of a sudden, there's a huge fire that wipes everything out.

00:17:20.360 Crazy.

00:17:20.620 And then, when you go over, like, who's in charge, like, Department of Water and Power, I believe it is, DWP.

00:17:26.320 Yeah.

00:17:26.660 Can you read that tweet?

00:17:27.820 It says, last night in the Palisades Fire, Los Angeles, DWP couldn't turn the fire hydrants on.

00:17:32.820 And it appears from footage of downed live wires, it didn't turn the power lines off.

00:17:38.560 So, and here's the lady.

00:17:39.980 She's making $750,000.

00:17:41.920 That's some lady.

00:17:42.920 I looked in.

00:17:43.640 She has five kids.

00:17:44.740 So, my earlier point, at least they're going to somewhere.

00:17:47.980 But, yeah, we've seen videos of gas being left on.

00:17:51.480 And then, like, just open pipes with, like, a gas fire going.

00:17:56.460 Power lines are downed power lines with a live wire.

00:17:59.680 And no water in the fire hydrants.

00:18:01.800 But all these jobs.

00:18:03.180 That's what they're for.

00:18:04.200 Yeah.

00:18:04.620 All these important jobs.

00:18:06.200 Yeah.

00:18:06.600 Oh, well, it's been a white guy before this, so we need to do the opposite of that.

00:18:10.040 We're going to make it a black lesbian.

00:18:11.780 We're going to do a person of color.

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00:18:32.120 Hashtag make a play.

00:18:33.500 But you had to get rid of them because they're not white guys.

00:18:38.120 Yeah.

00:18:38.360 Too many white guys in positions of power.

00:18:40.540 And they love to say the phrase, like, those white guys just failed upwards.

00:18:44.840 They just kept failing upwards.

00:18:46.480 What is this, then?

00:18:47.660 Yeah.

00:18:48.460 All right.

00:18:48.680 Let's move on to our next piece.

00:18:50.240 Speaking of no water in the fire hydrants, someone was calling into the news and telling them that was the case.

00:18:55.000 Then the news tried to cover and say, oh, we don't have any confirmed reports of that.

00:18:58.980 And then listen to what happens at the end of the conversation.

00:19:01.060 Former L.A. mayoral candidate and real estate developer Rick Caruso criticizing the city's response to the windstorm and fires.

00:19:09.880 He says officials should have been more prepared.

00:19:13.020 The real issue to me is twofold.

00:19:17.160 We've had decades to go remove the brush in these hills.

00:19:21.300 It spreads so quickly.

00:19:23.840 And the second is you've got to have water.

00:19:27.200 And my understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely manner to keep the hydrants going.

00:19:33.840 So that's a failure, whether on DWP's part or another city agency.

00:19:38.600 But this is basic stuff.

00:19:40.800 This isn't high science here.

00:19:43.000 And it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a failure of.

00:19:47.720 And all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that.

00:19:51.960 Despite what you have heard from Caruso, no firefighters have told us that they are running out of water.

00:19:58.720 And let's go out to Gigi Graciette.

00:20:00.980 She is live in Pacific Palisades.

00:20:02.900 I know your signal is not the best, but Gigi, what can you tell us?

00:20:08.980 Well, firefighters have told me they have no water on this block.

00:20:12.860 And you may be able to make out the everstorm that we're in the middle of right now.

00:20:15.720 So the news is trying to cover, oh, it's a conspiracy theory.

00:20:18.880 It's not about the lesbians without having any water.

00:20:21.240 And then right to the person on the street.

00:20:23.060 Yeah, there is no water.

00:20:24.080 The firefighters told us that directly.

00:20:25.860 Do you need to go to the Harvard School of Management to figure out you need water?

00:20:30.300 Fill the fire hydrants.

00:20:31.440 This is like a too far removed from the food situation where you're like worried about DEI, talking about DEI on TV or going to like a gala or something for like diversity in the city of L.A.

00:20:43.800 And you go to a gala and they, oh, yeah, it's great.

00:20:46.380 I'm the first lesbian.

00:20:47.260 This is my lesbian assistant chief.

00:20:49.220 Not your typical firefighters.

00:20:50.960 I bet you didn't see that coming, huh, Trump?

00:20:53.420 I'm a lesbian and I'm wearing a tie.

00:20:54.540 And then they don't fill the reservoir with water during record two years of rain, right?

00:20:59.120 So it's not rocket science.

00:21:00.960 It's just hard-nosed shit.

00:21:02.600 Tom Homan?

00:21:03.800 He fills the reservoir.

00:21:04.760 He fills the fucking reservoir.

00:21:06.120 He can carry the hose.

00:21:07.300 He gets in a three-point stance and he fills the reservoir.

00:21:09.400 He throws you on his back and says, let's get out of here.

00:21:11.400 Yeah, gee.

00:21:12.460 You need insurance?

00:21:13.500 I got you.

00:21:14.160 Yeah, I got you insurance.

00:21:15.500 So, I mean, it's just mismanagement.

00:21:17.580 It's not like hard, difficult stuff.

00:21:20.240 That's what I'm saying.

00:21:20.840 It's not like, oh, we need to interact with FEMA and this agency and that agency.

00:21:25.060 It's like, do we have the water in the fucking reservoir?

00:21:27.140 And fighting fires is, we've been doing that forever.

00:21:30.100 It's not like it's Space Force and we're like, all right, how do you shoot a gun in space?

00:21:33.880 Yeah.

00:21:35.160 It's firefighting.

00:21:36.260 They've been doing it forever.

00:21:37.480 You know how to do it and then you just don't do it because you think you know better.

00:21:40.700 You went to Harvard and you're a lesbian and the city burns down.

00:21:43.460 Great Chicago fire, San Francisco fire.

00:21:46.100 We've had cities burned down before.

00:21:47.740 We know how it's done and I would like to think we've improved, but it doesn't really

00:21:51.520 look like it.

00:21:52.180 It doesn't look like it.

00:21:53.100 And then we gave a lot of our stuff to Ukraine.

00:21:55.380 L.A. County, it says here, L.A. County Fire Department donating surplus supplies to

00:21:59.980 Ukraine's first responders.

00:22:01.380 And can you read specifically what Natalie Winters wrote?

00:22:03.260 Yeah.

00:22:03.540 Joe Biden's USAID has funded 16 Ukrainian fire departments with protective gear, motor pumps,

00:22:09.340 chainsaws, rescue motor cutters, rechargeable spotlights, fire extinguishers, and hydraulic

00:22:13.940 rescue tools.

00:22:15.200 So that's, I think, two different things.

00:22:16.500 That's one federal and one is specifically L.A. County donating.

00:22:20.440 Yeah.

00:22:21.000 So Ukraine's prepared.

00:22:22.800 Yeah.

00:22:23.520 No.

00:22:23.900 Is Ukraine in the desert?

00:22:26.060 Is Ukraine a desert?

00:22:27.780 Exactly.

00:22:28.500 Or is L.A.?

00:22:29.040 And then our next story here.

00:22:31.360 These are guys who are specifically targeted for not getting the maxine.

00:22:34.880 Listen to what they say.

00:22:35.640 After the worst time of COVID, after the largest, most deadly spike, downtrends in death, my

00:22:42.220 employer, a governing body, has decided to mandate a rushed vaccine.

00:22:46.860 Not only that will be mandate, but it's the condition of my employment.

00:22:51.020 We've gone from essential frontline worker to next on the chopping block.

00:22:55.660 Those guys look like they know how to put out a fire.

00:22:58.400 Those guys look like they would have good instincts on how much a reservoir needs to

00:23:02.140 be filled.

00:23:02.780 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:03.720 And then Karen Bass, the mayor of L.A., she's messed up a lot leading up to this.

00:23:08.940 Can you read some of these headlines?

00:23:10.260 Yeah.

00:23:10.480 Bass's proposed city budget includes more funding for LAPD, but cuts for L.A. Fire Department.

00:23:16.940 And the number going around is $17.6 million is what she cut from their budget recently.

00:23:23.700 And then obviously during the beginning of all of this, she has since returned, but she

00:23:28.220 was in Ghana attending a presidential inauguration.

00:23:32.180 In Ghana.

00:23:32.680 What do we learn from Ghana?

00:23:34.720 That's like a vacation.

00:23:35.740 That's a fun trip.

00:23:36.680 It's nothing.

00:23:37.380 I don't even know what it is.

00:23:40.040 It's a Western African country, I believe.

00:23:42.500 You have to go there from L.A.

00:23:44.100 That's what I'm saying.

00:23:44.960 L.A.?

00:23:45.520 Like, what's the fucking point?

00:23:47.560 And then she got back and she got cooked by a journalist.

00:23:50.180 This is actually the dream scenario for a journalist.

00:23:52.640 Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?

00:23:58.200 Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?

00:24:02.180 Have you nothing to say today?

00:24:05.820 Can you back up?

00:24:06.500 I appreciate it.

00:24:08.120 Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?

00:24:12.400 Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.

00:24:15.240 Are you considering your position?

00:24:20.120 Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with

00:24:24.060 this disaster?

00:24:25.800 Cooked her.

00:24:26.440 So she's like stuck on the jet bridge waiting for some sort of door to open.

00:24:30.800 That's called a media kill box where you can just ambush her with questions.

00:24:35.300 You got some guy ready to go with his camera.

00:24:38.400 Rattling off every mistake she's made.

00:24:39.940 That's crazy.

00:24:40.620 That's once in a lifetime shit.

00:24:42.120 Like that doesn't happen.

00:24:43.940 And Joe Biden's entire presidency was designed to avoid moments like those.

00:24:47.980 Yeah.

00:24:48.440 Where he might accidentally slip up or say something.

00:24:50.800 I had a moment like that with Jerry Nadler.

00:24:53.100 Yeah.

00:24:53.340 Where I ran into him once in a lifetime type thing and you get to say something directly

00:24:56.780 to him.

00:24:57.220 What was that?

00:24:57.780 Jerry Nadler was, he was just getting in an Uber.

00:24:59.700 He was getting in an Uber.

00:25:01.140 It's like, those are one in a million and he doesn't suspect you.

00:25:04.220 Yeah.

00:25:04.360 This guy, uh, that's, that's some strong arm shit.

00:25:07.880 The way he rapid fired him knowing she had nowhere to go.

00:25:11.020 That's a kill box.

00:25:12.000 That was very good.

00:25:12.900 And then, um, Karen Bass was also the same person who tweeted about Ted Cruz not being

00:25:18.680 in Texas during that cold storm a few years ago.

00:25:21.480 Yeah.

00:25:21.700 And that was just Texas being pretty cold.

00:25:24.660 Yeah.

00:25:25.140 And she was mad that he was on vacation.

00:25:27.000 Meanwhile, LA is burning and you're going to the inauguration of Ghana.

00:25:30.380 Do they even have elections?

00:25:32.060 Probably not good ones.

00:25:34.080 And then we have, uh, a picture here.

00:25:37.060 This is the most LA picture ever.

00:25:39.220 Man pours almond milk on the fire outside of his home.

00:25:43.460 You know, not making fun of people.

00:25:45.220 Yeah.

00:25:45.380 That's, uh, that's not who I want to make fun of.

00:25:47.160 That is a very LA picture.

00:25:48.620 But that is very LA.

00:25:49.520 And then our next story here, uh, we have some, there's a bunch of people saying that

00:25:55.900 the fires were started by arsonists.

00:25:58.200 Yeah.

00:25:58.640 By homeless people or even people doing it on purpose.

00:26:02.020 So we're going to play a couple.

00:26:03.180 We have one here, this guy during the daytime, just, you know, doing a fire, starting a fire.

00:26:07.840 And it looks like everything's very flammable.

00:26:10.640 Yeah.

00:26:10.840 He doesn't control his embers.

00:26:12.300 He doesn't put it out with sand.

00:26:13.840 He doesn't take care of it.

00:26:15.080 It's a stupid street rat.

00:26:16.000 He probably has a rap record and should be in jail.

00:26:18.220 And then one of these things is the source of these fires or how they started will come

00:26:22.440 out like in several months or maybe a year.

00:26:25.640 But then there's also like this, uh, chaos coordinator, Antifa type mentality where like

00:26:32.900 someone would be like, I'm kind of a fucked up guy.

00:26:35.660 I might set a fire too.

00:26:37.060 This was from a report on the citizen app, which is like how neighbors communicate with

00:26:41.840 each other.

00:26:42.320 According to citizen, there are five active arsonists in ski masks setting fire in and

00:26:47.000 around the Hollywood Hills area.

00:26:48.720 And the Hollywood Hills area, um, yeah, there was a fire that was started, but it was in

00:26:53.980 Runyon Canyon and people were trying to say, oh, it's from power lines or the wind.

00:26:58.340 There were no power lines up in Runyon Canyon.

00:27:00.600 Yeah.

00:27:00.780 So that another one started in the middle of the Hollywood Hills and it was like 10 miles

00:27:04.600 from the Palisades.

00:27:05.820 So it wasn't blow over and it wasn't from the downed wires from the wind.

00:27:10.020 And then we have another video here.

00:27:12.180 This is on Pico Boulevard and these homeless people are just start or whoever they are just

00:27:17.500 starting fires in the city environment.

00:27:20.360 We're at three zero two Pico and people are lighting fires.

00:27:24.840 Now you can see that lit a fire.

00:27:26.460 These guys, not all the people there, but some of those guys lit that fire and they're

00:27:31.580 actually, uh, the trees caught fire and then the palms are catching fire.

00:27:35.680 So civilians are now lighting fires.

00:27:38.360 Hmm.

00:27:38.920 Look at those embers waking up and they were able to put that one out.

00:27:42.060 Like fire department got called.

00:27:43.360 So good, good.

00:27:44.360 But it's so crazy.

00:27:45.400 And then there's like that chaos portion of it where it's like, ah, the whole city's

00:27:49.780 burning.

00:27:50.120 I kind of have a weird fetish for fires or something, or I want to add to the, to the

00:27:54.980 suffering like opportunists, you know what I mean?

00:27:57.560 Kind of come and fuck around.

00:27:59.080 Sickos.

00:27:59.560 And then our next story is the fire hydrants.

00:28:02.640 A lot of fire hydrants, uh, over the years have just been stolen.

00:28:06.100 I think we covered it on the podcast at one point.

00:28:08.220 Cause it's like raw materials.

00:28:09.440 It's like 80 pounds of steel or whatever it was.

00:28:11.760 Um, yeah, more than 80 fire hydrants were stolen across LA County, according to deputies

00:28:16.200 over $1 million in losses.

00:28:18.080 And that's the type of thing where they go as stolen, we'll put it in a report.

00:28:21.700 And then it doesn't get dealt with, doesn't get replaced.

00:28:24.000 And that doesn't matter until now.

00:28:26.740 All right.

00:28:27.420 This next piece is kind of long.

00:28:29.160 Uh, it was written by Owen Benjamin on Twitter.

00:28:31.980 Uh, it was very well written and I wanted it to just to kind of put it on the record.

00:28:36.260 Two of my friends' houses are burned to the ground.

00:28:39.600 Fortunately, they left LA too, because the detachment from reality there has gotten to

00:28:44.420 a degree of collapse.

00:28:46.020 65% of your income goes to taxes and they can't hire enough firefighters.

00:28:51.360 They've had record rainfall and they just send it all to the ocean.

00:28:54.800 Even with the mega rich losing their homes, they'll still blame climate change because

00:28:59.260 they're gone.

00:29:00.080 They can't take accountability for anything.

00:29:02.460 Even as the flames surrounded their homes, they still can't admit reality.

00:29:05.600 Just stuck in these simulations like lab rats.

00:29:08.680 You are never doing anyone a favor by going along with their insanity.

00:29:12.320 The city of LA didn't even cut the gas or power.

00:29:15.140 Now there's gas, uh, in everywhere, but at least they didn't get COVID-19 and the sodomites

00:29:20.400 down the street had a wedding king.

00:29:22.340 Insane people are all over and you can live around them.

00:29:25.620 Uh, but there's a critical stage when it reaches infrastructure collapse, when you should

00:29:29.600 leave to save your family.

00:29:31.300 Society is like a human body.

00:29:32.740 It all has to work together and be able to self-correct based on pain.

00:29:37.420 Don't run from pain.

00:29:38.660 Listen to it or you will burn.

00:29:40.720 That sums it up.

00:29:42.240 Yeah, it really does.

00:29:43.320 And that's true.

00:29:44.160 Like the incompetence reaching infrastructure level, that base level.

00:29:47.960 And I completely agree with what he said, the high tax rate.

00:29:51.040 And we've said this a bunch of times when, yeah, uh, oh, the mayor's going to Ghana.

00:29:56.420 Chicago wants to do X, Y, Z with their budget.

00:29:58.800 This city, it's like police, firemen, stoplights, water, sewers, like the city's basic function.

00:30:06.480 And then that's the one you're neglecting.

00:30:08.240 One of the base level functions, especially in a fire prone area is just retarded to me.

00:30:13.260 Yeah, me too.

00:30:14.760 And this next post, this was from 4chan, I believe.

00:30:17.740 Uh, but there was apparently like a 1920 California got a lot of, uh, Australian eucalyptus trees.

00:30:23.840 Yeah.

00:30:24.480 And the key read, it's a little, a lot of reading for Richard today, but it's an important news day.

00:30:28.280 1920, be Californian, get duped into buying Australian eucalyptus trees, plant thousands

00:30:34.020 of acres.

00:30:35.000 Australians forget to mention it takes at least a hundred years for the trees to mature.

00:30:38.660 Thousands of investors go broke.

00:30:40.160 2017, a hundred years later, eucalyptus trees have spread everywhere and have finally matured.

00:30:45.460 Australians also forgot to mention the trees produce a highly flammable toxic oil that

00:30:49.200 builds up in the tree.

00:30:50.700 California burns down.

00:30:51.940 Yeah.

00:30:52.220 And I think that was in reference to some 2017 fires, obviously, but that's just another

00:30:57.080 piece, right?

00:30:57.660 Yeah.

00:30:58.060 A lot of those trees had that flammable oil.

00:31:01.500 All right.

00:31:01.800 And then moving on, uh, this obviously was covered by everybody.

00:31:05.420 Even pigeon English had a article about this.

00:31:09.060 Can you read maybe the first paragraph?

00:31:10.800 Yeah.

00:31:10.980 BBC pigeon says wildfires for Los Angeles don't take at least two lives.

00:31:16.220 At least two people don't die and dozens don't injure as wildfire day burn.

00:31:21.320 They go for Los Angeles.

00:31:23.100 So far, they burn over 1000 structure.

00:31:27.360 Glad everyone's getting the info.

00:31:29.240 It's like people are dying.

00:31:31.100 We're not laughing at that, but that's retarded.

00:31:33.280 I know.

00:31:33.880 It's a retarded language.

00:31:35.260 We have to lighten it up.

00:31:36.160 We're going to lighten it up a little bit too.

00:31:38.000 This guy did an interview, uh, off the cuff and the news didn't know who he was or what

00:31:43.000 he was going to say and listen to what he said.

00:31:45.580 Yes, I can hear you.

00:31:46.640 So the family with the, with the poor little girl who was, say that again.

00:31:52.980 Why is there a fire happening right now?

00:31:55.220 Uh, there are multiple fires that are taking place.

00:31:58.020 Are you serious?

00:31:58.960 Yeah.

00:31:59.960 Yeah.

00:32:00.320 In the news though, you're supposed to know.

00:32:01.860 Well, I don't know how it started.

00:32:03.260 We don't know how it started.

00:32:04.360 There, you know, winds.

00:32:05.220 I think it's all the, all the, all the gay people in LA.

00:32:07.600 Okay.

00:32:08.540 Okay.

00:32:09.260 Everyone freaks out.

00:32:10.740 I think it's all the gay people in LA and that's dark to think of it that way, but there

00:32:14.740 are a lot of gay people in LA and in charge of the fire department.

00:32:17.840 There is something to be said.

00:32:19.080 I don't think they're helping.

00:32:20.780 Yeah.

00:32:20.980 I don't know if they're helping.

00:32:22.200 We just covered the fire department.

00:32:23.980 They're all lesbians.

00:32:25.320 We're mad at them.

00:32:26.440 And we're going to keep lightening it up as we end this section.

00:32:29.060 Can you read this tweet?

00:32:30.280 Well, there's some, you know, unexpected victims of the fire who kind of need to be elevated.

00:32:36.300 Their voices, they're a little oppressed.

00:32:38.640 So think of the polycules.

00:32:40.580 A lot of polycules in Los Angeles are figuring out who's the primary right now.

00:32:45.360 It's very true.

00:32:46.280 I see this tweet is making people mad, but what if I told you this joke is from my own personal

00:32:50.500 experience as a poly person who just realized I'm number three on the fire pickup list?

00:32:55.660 That happens too.

00:32:56.680 That'll really, it'll really stress your poly cool.

00:32:59.560 You know, all of a sudden you think you're number two and all of a sudden you're number

00:33:02.100 five and you're left behind.

00:33:03.400 And you know, that's how it goes.

00:33:05.220 We feel for them.

00:33:06.200 We do.

00:33:06.540 And then our last couple of pieces from this section, there was potentially a UFO sighting

00:33:11.940 on Fox News.

00:33:14.040 Couldn't help yourself, huh?

00:33:15.440 Well, I don't know what this is.

00:33:17.000 What is that?

00:33:17.860 Shooting something.

00:33:19.240 That's low.

00:33:20.280 Yep.

00:33:21.080 Hopefully the aliens didn't do this.

00:33:23.320 Yep.

00:33:23.820 Hey, if the aliens put it out and then somehow like made every house go back to how it was,

00:33:30.100 yeah, that would be helpful.

00:33:32.760 Yeah.

00:33:33.480 Nice.

00:33:34.000 If I was a cat, I would be a cat too.

00:33:36.280 I'm just saying.

00:33:37.060 I don't even get your point here.

00:33:38.600 You had to fucking ruin this whole section.

00:33:41.520 There was an unidentified flying something.

00:33:43.920 All right.

00:33:44.480 Was that the last piece of the section?

00:33:46.180 That was.

00:33:46.780 Any final thoughts?

00:33:47.640 I mean, this is horribly sad.

00:33:49.940 People displaced.

00:33:51.240 Old people, 90 year olds losing their house and stuff.

00:33:54.640 And I think I saw Adam Carolla talking about it.

00:33:57.520 He was doing a podcast from a hotel room or something.

00:34:00.140 These people, there's some debate.

00:34:02.340 The Owen Benjamin side says they're never going to learn their lesson.

00:34:05.120 They're going to keep voting for retarded people and shitty policies.

00:34:08.940 I don't know.

00:34:09.600 There's some differing opinions.

00:34:11.300 Is a lesson going to be learned?

00:34:12.820 Are people going to vote for some hard nose, less DEI shit?

00:34:15.560 I heard there was a lot of looters and then the people, Cernovich, I think, tweeted this.

00:34:20.740 There were a lot of looters and the people who got looted were saying they want the death penalty for looters, even though they voted for Kamala Harris and probably were voting for release the criminals when they steal.

00:34:31.280 Yeah.

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00:34:46.420 Hashtag make a play.

00:34:47.900 Now it's the death penalty.

00:34:50.600 So people are going to wake up from this, which is a positive, but it's a lot of negative before that.

00:34:55.340 And jokes aside about a lesbian fire chief, there was a clear and visible mismanagement from multiple levels of state of California agencies that led to this being a lot worse than it should have been.

00:35:07.640 Right.

00:35:07.840 Exactly.

00:35:09.100 All right.

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00:35:23.080 Okay.

00:35:23.620 All right.

00:35:24.060 So everyone get that energy from the fire out.

00:35:27.860 It's gone.

00:35:29.060 We're on a crazy streak, dude.

00:35:30.940 2025 is already starting out.

00:35:32.400 Like terrorist attacks, crazy fires, bad shit.

00:35:35.580 Yeah.

00:35:36.040 Very bad shit.

00:35:36.840 And the thing with LA, it's going to take such a long time to rebuild some of those places.

00:35:42.680 Yeah.

00:35:42.860 Which is the craziest thing.

00:35:44.340 And where do all those people go?

00:35:46.620 Palm Springs.

00:35:47.400 I don't know.

00:35:48.440 Do they stay in California?

00:35:49.560 Do they go elsewhere?

00:35:50.700 If you don't have insurance, you're really just fucked.

00:35:54.500 I saw somebody else said he lived in like, his friend lived in like a four and a half million dollar house.

00:35:59.140 And somebody offered him 750 grand for the land.

00:36:03.940 Like spit on your hand.

00:36:05.700 Yeah.

00:36:06.080 I'll give it to you right now.

00:36:07.020 Buy the bottom.

00:36:07.980 That's bad.

00:36:08.800 I know.

00:36:09.400 All right.

00:36:09.940 That is actually the end of housekeeping.

00:36:12.180 You're going to skip all this?

00:36:13.240 Well, it's too goofy.

00:36:16.000 Let's do the Costco guys one.

00:36:17.560 All right.

00:36:17.740 Let's show the Costco guys.

00:36:18.760 That is a little more somber.

00:36:20.580 Oh, we're so sorry to hear about your brother that passed away.

00:36:23.240 He gets five big booms.

00:36:25.080 Boom.

00:36:25.980 Boom.

00:36:26.860 Boom.

00:36:27.780 Boom.

00:36:28.720 Boom.

00:36:31.440 Thank you, Costco guys.

00:36:32.900 They're sorry to hear about your brother who passed away.

00:36:35.080 Five big booms.

00:36:35.980 What's the phrase?

00:36:37.640 When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

00:36:40.000 Yeah.

00:36:40.320 They got one tool and it's booming for them.

00:36:42.660 No matter what, you're getting the boom.

00:36:43.660 Whether it's condolences, congratulations, just married.

00:36:46.700 Great food.

00:36:47.520 Yeah.

00:36:47.860 It's all booms.

00:36:48.940 It's all booms.

00:36:49.700 All right.

00:36:49.860 Then our next story after that, we can finish it from here.

00:36:52.540 Okay.

00:36:53.020 Don't quit on housekeeping.

00:36:54.080 I feel like I'm showing like goofy stuff.

00:36:57.600 You do that every week though.

00:36:59.560 I know.

00:37:00.080 I know.

00:37:00.780 All right.

00:37:01.140 Next, Demi Lovato got a real boyfriend and she's not pans anymore.

00:37:05.680 Whatever she was.

00:37:06.560 Yeah.

00:37:06.740 She looks normal.

00:37:07.480 She's back.

00:37:08.440 She has a normal boyfriend and this woman says, woman submitting to a man cures the queer

00:37:12.560 disease.

00:37:13.060 It's very true.

00:37:13.900 When you're in unstable and you're in a polycule or you're dating people who are weak because

00:37:19.360 you're on birth control, it makes you kind of freak out.

00:37:22.700 It's not healthy.

00:37:23.380 Gets you out of control.

00:37:24.300 You don't feel settled.

00:37:25.180 Your nervous system's a little whacked.

00:37:26.880 Yeah.

00:37:27.220 But you marry or settle down with a stable man, you can kind of rest into your femininity

00:37:33.720 and become a normal person again.

00:37:35.120 I wish her the best, you know?

00:37:36.380 Me too.

00:37:36.700 We all make mistakes.

00:37:37.160 Welcome back.

00:37:38.000 Yeah.

00:37:39.100 And then next, we have a mewing before and after.

00:37:41.580 We talk about that, breathing through your nose, putting your tongue on the roof of your

00:37:44.380 mouth, mewing.

00:37:45.680 Google it if you don't know how to do it.

00:37:47.540 But look at this before and after.

00:37:48.960 This kid's a Chad now.

00:37:50.220 That's nice.

00:37:51.080 Isn't that great?

00:37:51.780 Yeah.

00:37:52.100 And then you might look at the picture on the left.

00:37:53.720 Like if that's you or if you look like that, you might think, oh, I'm screwed genetically.

00:37:58.040 I don't have a big chin.

00:38:00.220 I don't have a good jawline.

00:38:01.760 There is a way.

00:38:02.820 You'll become as hot as you can be if you do the right health stuff.

00:38:07.920 Yeah.

00:38:08.340 Very interesting.

00:38:09.860 Okay.

00:38:10.420 After that, Jamie, the artist from Arizona, I'm going to link her in the description.

00:38:15.540 She made me a Rob Smith eating ceviche picture.

00:38:18.220 There you go.

00:38:18.760 Isn't that great?

00:38:19.540 That's your Christmas gift.

00:38:20.540 That's hanging on the wall.

00:38:21.480 And somebody else helped her, too.

00:38:23.200 H.M. Danielson was in on it.

00:38:25.160 And then, yeah, she had the booth in Arizona as well.

00:38:29.680 Both artists.

00:38:30.460 I listed them both in the description.

00:38:32.100 Thank you, guys.

00:38:32.820 I love it.

00:38:33.500 And it's hanging on my wall.

00:38:34.900 What's this?

00:38:36.040 That's my hand.

00:38:37.240 That's my thumb.

00:38:38.620 That's me holding it.

00:38:39.900 That's a bad look.

00:38:41.000 Does that look weird?

00:38:42.060 Yeah.

00:38:42.740 Does it look fat?

00:38:43.520 Fat hand gripping a painting like a Down syndrome guy.

00:38:47.280 Whatever.

00:38:48.160 Whatever.

00:38:48.560 All right.

00:38:49.300 Okay, let's keep it going.

00:38:52.080 Let's go to this first video.

00:38:54.160 We're going to finish housekeeping.

00:38:56.280 We went from skipping this whole section to doing every single thing.

00:38:59.720 Here was the first clip that was supposed to come.

00:39:02.260 And I just didn't feel like doing that after, like, oh, everyone lost everything in a fire because of lesbians.

00:39:06.940 Yeah.

00:39:17.620 Benjamin.

00:39:18.020 No, but it's not too much.

00:39:27.180 Beth, how do you explain that?

00:39:28.580 It's things AI could not recreate.

00:39:31.080 That's what I would explain that as.

00:39:32.380 That's how I would explain it, too.

00:39:33.440 Eastern Europe.

00:39:34.260 And then this next one, I need you guys to tell me if this is real or fake.

00:39:37.320 Do you think that's real or fake?

00:39:48.180 It was a good fake if it's fake.

00:39:50.280 You hear the sound and everything really going?

00:39:53.660 You hear the sound?

00:39:54.440 Yeah.

00:39:54.940 I don't know how they do it.

00:39:56.120 I don't believe it's real, but I also it's a really good fake if it is fake.

00:40:01.080 It was a good fake.

00:40:01.860 All right.

00:40:01.980 Our last piece of fourth page of housekeeping is this tweet that Richard's going to read.

00:40:06.940 A midget fainted at Walmart today.

00:40:09.100 I helped pick him up.

00:40:10.540 Them things heavy as hell.

00:40:12.780 It's very true.

00:40:14.160 And it's funny because if someone faints, you don't pick them up.

00:40:18.680 So it's like just because it was a little person.

00:40:21.500 You're like, oh, let's get this guy up.

00:40:23.080 Scoop him up.

00:40:24.060 He's right there.

00:40:24.960 Yeah.

00:40:25.120 You give him water.

00:40:26.140 Like, are you OK?

00:40:27.300 You phantom.

00:40:28.100 You know what I mean?

00:40:28.940 But it's got to pick them up and they're heavy as hell, which is true.

00:40:31.980 They're dense.

00:40:32.700 Yeah.

00:40:33.160 All right.

00:40:33.580 That's the end of housekeeping.

00:40:34.360 We're moving on to Cringe of the Week.

00:40:37.420 All right.

00:40:40.040 Our first clip of Cringe.

00:40:41.500 We hate on the drag queens a lot.

00:40:43.560 OK.

00:40:44.080 You know, the drag shows.

00:40:45.900 We just say it's like fat people lip syncing and drag.

00:40:49.520 It's bad entertainment.

00:40:50.900 And then it's fake hype from the crowd.

00:40:53.320 Yes.

00:40:53.680 That's what we always say.

00:40:54.720 That's long been our stance.

00:40:55.980 Until now.

00:41:01.900 Oh, now that is a show worth every penny.

00:41:23.840 Let's get the kids to go see this.

00:41:25.300 Let's bring in the kids.

00:41:26.300 They got to see the fat guy, Somersault.

00:41:29.500 I'm impressed.

00:41:30.480 I'm surprised you took this angle.

00:41:31.880 I thought you were just going to be disgusted in general at this.

00:41:34.380 But you like this.

00:41:35.160 There is a threshold where it switches for you.

00:41:37.500 Yeah.

00:41:37.720 I liked it.

00:41:38.400 OK.

00:41:38.960 All right.

00:41:39.540 You're one of those guys.

00:41:40.620 See someone flipping around like that?

00:41:42.640 That's rare.

00:41:43.280 OK.

00:41:43.540 So you're an entertainment first kind of guy.

00:41:46.000 Yeah.

00:41:46.220 And ideology second.

00:41:48.060 And I don't.

00:41:48.400 So if someone is the opposite.

00:41:50.240 I'm kind of that way, too, in terms of like movies.

00:41:52.740 Some gay, stupid director or like a black power director makes a really good movie.

00:41:56.420 I'll be like, all right, I'll set it aside for now.

00:41:58.660 Yeah.

00:41:59.380 Got to be fair.

00:42:00.040 We got to call it how we see it.

00:42:02.120 I thought it was just a fat, disgusting pig half naked doing D minus gymnastics in a bar.

00:42:08.560 I liked it.

00:42:09.280 That's what I saw.

00:42:10.080 All right.

00:42:11.480 Our next story is a couple who not misgender.

00:42:16.340 They use the wrong term to describe one of their ailments.

00:42:19.240 And now they're apologizing.

00:42:21.000 One question we get asked is why Jax doesn't talk.

00:42:24.080 And the reason is because they're selectively mute or semiverbal.

00:42:28.160 Previously, we used the term nonverbal, which is a more widely understood term and a lot easier of an answer than having to go into all the information that this video will discuss.

00:42:37.960 However, this takes away from individual visibility and representation of peoples who deserve their space.

00:42:44.320 In other words, we were wrong.

00:42:46.060 And we're super okay admitting that having been presented with new words and definitions with information that better fits the nuance here.

00:42:54.220 To be specific, nonverbal people do not have access to any words.

00:42:59.140 And I'm lucky enough to be one of the ones that Jax uses words with selectively, i.e. selectively mute.

00:43:06.320 Before we go any further, if you actually care, Google the words.

00:43:10.080 They don't just have to be subjective to us because obviously not every word or definition fits perfectly to each person.

00:43:18.440 And even though we were corrected in an aggressive manner, we understand it's because people are defensive of these subjects and rightfully should be.

00:43:27.060 Hmm.

00:43:28.020 That's right, bitch.

00:43:30.640 Apologize for using the wrong words.

00:43:32.360 That's the game you chose to play.

00:43:33.860 It's like your girlfriend doesn't talk and she said she's nonverbal, which is nonverbal.

00:43:38.080 Nonverbal.

00:43:39.260 Perfectly describes the situation.

00:43:40.980 It's like, whoa, that's actually.

00:43:42.060 So it's like when you have nothing going for you, you got nothing going on, you can like hyper focus on nothing.

00:43:46.840 Yeah.

00:43:47.400 So, you know, oh, say I went to the grocery store.

00:43:49.120 Well, actually it was a supermarket.

00:43:50.340 Well, that's not to say that grocery stores can't be super.

00:43:52.580 I've been to a lot of bodegas that are great.

00:43:54.300 Yeah.

00:43:54.900 You just get into this thing where you're just like constantly explaining yourself and using the words and changing the words.

00:44:00.520 And it's all just like a race or a contest to be the most righteous and good by offending the least amount of people.

00:44:06.920 Yeah.

00:44:07.000 Which is why you have to use the N word and F slur in your group chats.

00:44:10.400 Exactly.

00:44:11.180 To remove yourself from the contest.

00:44:12.520 Stand tall.

00:44:13.520 And then, you know, these people, like, it's funny when someone tries to make me play this game.

00:44:18.240 Like, oh, we don't say master bedroom.

00:44:19.740 We say primary bedroom or something.

00:44:21.240 I go, nah, I do whatever I want.

00:44:23.600 These two can play the game.

00:44:25.340 These two can get homework assignments and have to learn more.

00:44:28.980 Enjoy it.

00:44:29.800 That's what you signed up for.

00:44:30.500 They do the work.

00:44:31.280 That's what you signed up for.

00:44:32.420 So enjoy doing the work.

00:44:33.500 And you're going to get sidetracked when you use the wrong word.

00:44:36.660 You know what I noticed while we're watching this?

00:44:38.880 That they're able to complain about this because their house isn't on fire?

00:44:42.920 These guys are like normal, attractive, regular people.

00:44:47.140 Imagine these guys in a 1950s era.

00:44:49.540 Like the guy's in a sweater or a knit polo and he's about to go golf and she's in the kitchen with an apron on.

00:44:54.160 And these guys, they didn't fuck up their lives that bad.

00:44:57.820 I guess she won't talk.

00:44:59.700 But they could be normal.

00:45:01.480 Yeah.

00:45:01.900 They're not like the fat, you know, neck beard woman or something.

00:45:05.520 You know what I mean?

00:45:06.320 Yeah.

00:45:06.620 These guys could be a normal couple and they're doing it just with way extra steps.

00:45:10.500 So they have nothing going on.

00:45:11.900 They didn't excel at anything.

00:45:13.360 I don't know what happened, man.

00:45:14.800 Now the only thing they can excel at is being the least offensive.

00:45:17.500 And then when you do that, you have like a whole life in front of you that where you're constantly busy.

00:45:22.360 Hey, I'll be, uh, I'll be praying for a Demi Lovato level resurgence, but she's led by this weak man.

00:45:28.140 So it's over.

00:45:28.740 Yeah.

00:45:28.880 He's they, them too.

00:45:30.100 He's your fuck.

00:45:32.000 I mean, he probably just liked her and he was like, yeah, sure.

00:45:34.920 I'll do some of this shit.

00:45:35.940 And then now he kind of leads.

00:45:37.100 Oh, you have extra red hair dye.

00:45:38.720 Yeah.

00:45:39.060 I'll throw some on my face.

00:45:40.200 Put it on my mustache.

00:45:41.320 I'm down, but yeah.

00:45:42.960 Fuck them.

00:45:43.600 All right.

00:45:44.020 They're gone.

00:45:45.220 They're gone.

00:45:45.840 It's too late.

00:45:46.380 All right.

00:45:46.980 Our next guy is similar, uh, but he has a different cause he cares about.

00:45:52.120 Yeah, man.

00:45:52.800 That's murder right there, bro.

00:45:54.380 Look, literally the victim right in that burger is right here.

00:45:57.620 Look, that's disgusting.

00:46:00.320 I see guys.

00:46:01.120 This looks some pretty mean fucking thing.

00:46:03.760 It's fucking disgusting, man.

00:46:05.720 It's honestly really horrible.

00:46:07.420 It looks good.

00:46:08.380 No, it doesn't look good.

00:46:10.500 I want you to imagine what that animal went through when you were eating their body.

00:46:13.980 It got shot in the head.

00:46:15.200 It's not okay.

00:46:15.700 It got skinned, it got gut, and then I have my feet.

00:46:18.740 It's a disgusting mentality to have, bro.

00:46:20.500 You're no different to a racist, a sexist, but you're a speciesist.

00:46:23.880 You see them as lesser than you, like a racist sees colored people less than them.

00:46:28.360 A sexist sees women lesser than men.

00:46:30.860 You're no different.

00:46:31.740 I think you're-

00:46:32.280 It's so different.

00:46:33.400 You ever see a bear eat a deer?

00:46:36.040 Ah!

00:46:37.000 Ah!

00:46:37.840 Ah!

00:46:37.960 Yeah.

00:46:38.360 Ah!

00:46:38.720 It's not a painless death in a fishin'.

00:46:41.540 One time I saw a bear cut open a deer, the deer ran away, and then lived the rest of his

00:46:46.100 life with his guts hanging out.

00:46:47.520 It's horrific, horrific shit out in nature.

00:46:50.280 One time I saw a skeleton of a deer because it fell like up to its neck in mud.

00:46:55.500 In a bog.

00:46:56.120 And it just, it starved in mud.

00:46:58.820 Yeah.

00:46:59.220 And one time I saw a, on a video, a vulture eating an elk while it was alive.

00:47:06.580 Horrible, horrible death in nature.

00:47:07.600 You're a piece of shit.

00:47:09.240 Like, what do you think happens in nature?

00:47:11.100 Yeah.

00:47:11.540 And another piece of this too, it's like, this vegan, right?

00:47:15.780 He's in his own way in terms of like arguing for justice.

00:47:19.340 He wants to get normal people who eat meat, which we need.

00:47:22.380 You know, you need protein and it's good for you, right?

00:47:26.000 It's, it's kind of like the OG human way of eating was, it was mostly meat, but he's

00:47:31.340 trying to get all the way to his worldview from like a guy who's eating McDonald's right

00:47:35.600 now.

00:47:36.440 And it's, it's just so fascinating because he could make an argument about factory farming

00:47:42.020 and the conditions that animals are in.

00:47:44.300 And like, oh, do you know who owns this pork farm in North Carolina?

00:47:48.200 It's Chinese people.

00:47:49.400 And they pack pigs in, uh, you know, 10 and eight square feet.

00:47:53.900 And then that would be like raising awareness.

00:47:56.220 And I would go, oh, that is messed up.

00:47:58.000 We shouldn't do that.

00:47:58.860 We should factory farm them correctly so I can eat the bacon that's healthy.

00:48:02.580 Exactly.

00:48:03.020 Do some ethical farming.

00:48:04.260 Maybe I need to get in touch with a local farmer who's around me, buy a quarter cow.

00:48:08.340 Like those are all fine arguments.

00:48:10.140 But then he moves to, this is just like racism, which is the least, which is at all time lows

00:48:16.800 right now for a certain, uh, percentage of America, the racism accusation and, uh, like

00:48:23.920 whatever declaration is at all time lows.

00:48:27.380 It doesn't work anymore.

00:48:28.940 So like pussy boy over here is just doing the worst possible argument technique he could.

00:48:34.760 And, uh, who's he convincing on social media?

00:48:37.040 People who are already vegans.

00:48:38.840 Yeah.

00:48:39.300 You know, real pathetic shit.

00:48:41.340 Yeah.

00:48:41.560 What a loser.

00:48:42.480 What an F slur.

00:48:43.220 He should get into the, they should, he should join the thruple with Jax, with the two Jaxes.

00:48:47.800 Yeah.

00:48:48.360 Dye your hair red, join up.

00:48:50.000 They need another one who could talk.

00:48:51.460 Make them vegan.

00:48:52.780 And then our last piece of cringe, uh, it's not so much a story.

00:48:57.100 It's just a, a PSA kind of, uh, Emma Stone debuts new pixie haircut at Golden Globes after

00:49:03.200 she shaved her head and had wig speculation.

00:49:06.700 Uh, ladies, you don't, don't cut your hair short like that.

00:49:10.620 And if you ask your friends, if you should cut your hair short like that and they say,

00:49:14.540 yes, they are not your friends.

00:49:16.300 Yeah.

00:49:16.600 That's the whole point of that.

00:49:17.780 That's all I wanted to say.

00:49:18.620 That's easy.

00:49:19.240 Get that on the record.

00:49:20.100 Get that on the books.

00:49:20.980 I agree.

00:49:21.660 All right.

00:49:22.000 Let's get into urban decay.

00:49:27.020 All right.

00:49:27.500 Our first clip of urban decay is a guy overdosing and the other street rats try to help him and

00:49:35.120 look how it plays out.

00:49:37.080 He doesn't need, give him milk, give him milk.

00:49:43.080 He doesn't need milk.

00:49:45.040 He's fucking overdosing.

00:49:47.400 Yo, he's fucking overdosing, dude.

00:49:49.740 Wheelchair guy.

00:49:50.680 One leg guy.

00:49:56.760 Dude's overdosing.

00:49:57.860 So this guy comes in with the Narcan, which is like an instant saving for an overdose.

00:50:10.280 What do you mean, dog?

00:50:12.320 Yo, come on.

00:50:13.660 Yo, give him a, let him get some time to breathe.

00:50:15.940 It takes a minute to get out.

00:50:17.220 Give him some time.

00:50:18.200 Give him some time.

00:50:19.600 You don't need no more.

00:50:20.720 Leave a little step back.

00:50:22.240 Eat more milk.

00:50:23.680 More milk.

00:50:25.160 More milk.

00:50:26.040 Oh, he's okay.

00:50:31.040 That was close.

00:50:32.780 You just almost fucking died, dude.

00:50:34.640 Dude just fucking saved your life.

00:50:37.300 Dude just.

00:50:39.540 Yo, he just saved your fucking.

00:50:42.000 Dude, what the fuck?

00:50:43.260 He just fucking saved your life.

00:50:45.640 So the guy saves his life and gets kicked in the nuts for it.

00:50:49.160 While the other people are saying more milk, more milk.

00:50:52.820 You know, you know, this is actually dark.

00:50:55.240 But, like, some people say, like, the Narcan just lets them keep doing it over and over again.

00:51:01.960 It's like you get out of jail free card.

00:51:03.340 People who would otherwise kind of die or, like, you know, would have.

00:51:06.740 I'm not wishing anyone to die, but it's like if you're going to do drugs on the street, that's probably how you're going to die.

00:51:12.880 Yeah, and Narcan is just a, well, go 10 more years.

00:51:16.600 And that's why you see people with, like, the infected My Requiem for a Dream vein or, like, the one-leg guy.

00:51:22.520 The people with a giant elephant leg that's so swollen that you go, huh, how the fuck did that happen?

00:51:26.940 It's like, well, they probably got Narcan out of where they should have died 10 times.

00:51:31.100 Exactly.

00:51:31.500 It's like a reverse final destination.

00:51:33.660 And then except all you do is keep doing heroin or fentanyl.

00:51:37.020 Yeah.

00:51:37.480 Right?

00:51:37.860 Not enough to make you quit.

00:51:39.360 All right.

00:51:39.700 Let's take Urban Decay into the New York City subway system.

00:51:42.960 As we know, the congestion pricing has forced more people to use the public transportation.

00:51:48.140 And obviously there's a lot of crime there.

00:51:49.820 We have another guy who's just causing trouble.

00:51:53.000 And listen to what he says.

00:51:54.260 You can tell he's a repeat offender because he says it.

00:51:57.600 Came home.

00:51:58.800 25 to life.

00:51:59.960 I killed my moms and dad, nigga.

00:52:02.120 Are you proud of that?

00:52:03.480 In front of everybody, I'll blow your face off right now.

00:52:06.440 I'm ready any time, man.

00:52:08.020 I got 100 witnesses saying people's threatening this old man right here.

00:52:12.720 Telling him that if he touches you, you're going to fuck him.

00:52:15.120 Exactly.

00:52:15.560 This is a subway.

00:52:16.540 We all touch each other.

00:52:18.100 I'm telling you, you ain't fuck me.

00:52:19.640 That's what I'm telling you.

00:52:20.660 You ain't fuck nobody with me standing right here.

00:52:24.220 That's what's happening.

00:52:25.300 I'm gay.

00:52:25.940 I don't care if you're gay.

00:52:27.260 You can be gay.

00:52:28.360 I'm not a gangster.

00:52:29.440 Good.

00:52:30.600 Everybody knows you're gangster now.

00:52:32.380 So why don't you sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up?

00:52:36.480 So that guy is obviously getting in someone's face.

00:52:38.880 He says, I was serving 25 to life and I just came home.

00:52:41.880 Yeah.

00:52:42.200 I was like, great.

00:52:43.060 They let him out.

00:52:43.880 That's what they dumped.

00:52:44.400 Yeah.

00:52:44.700 He's got a one-way MTA ticket.

00:52:47.000 And then we have a New York City.

00:52:49.040 That was an old video, but that's like kind of the average type of repeat offender who

00:52:53.800 gets in someone's face.

00:52:55.040 Yeah.

00:52:55.200 A regular guy wearing a button down who's commuting to his job that probably underpays

00:53:00.700 him.

00:53:01.260 They recently hired a bunch of H-1Bs that he's training to replace him.

00:53:04.980 He goes on the subway and gets yelled at by the guy who just got released.

00:53:08.360 Exactly.

00:53:08.900 And there was a New York Post article from this week that said, New York City sees staggering

00:53:12.820 146.5% spike in felony assaults by repeat offenders as top cops say, broken system that keeps putting

00:53:21.300 criminals back on the street.

00:53:22.920 Yeah.

00:53:23.400 And then can you read one of the paragraphs?

00:53:25.380 Suspects with at least three arrests on their rap sheet were charged with assault 442 times

00:53:31.020 last year, up from 274 in 2018.

00:53:34.500 Part of a pattern that shows wrongdoers are being cut loose too often with NYPD blaming soft

00:53:40.000 on crime, Albany lawmakers.

00:53:42.520 And so that's, that's what happens when you do that social justice policing with when all

00:53:47.520 those change happened, changes happened in 2020, where you're like, oh, well, we got to

00:53:51.040 let them out.

00:53:51.540 Right?

00:53:51.880 Yeah, exactly.

00:53:52.820 Can you read that middle paragraph on later in the article?

00:53:54.700 With overall felony assaults surging to 29,400 in 2024, police brass say the most troubling

00:54:01.780 trend is the revolving door of justice fueled by lenient bail laws that see repeat offenders

00:54:06.440 back on the street and free to commit more crimes.

00:54:09.260 And yeah.

00:54:09.680 And that's why like when we're talking about subway crimes and stuff like that, obviously

00:54:15.440 the chances of you getting sucker punched in New York are pretty slim, right?

00:54:20.680 It's like there's a million people on the subway every day or, you know, I don't know

00:54:24.780 the number.

00:54:25.160 It's a large number though.

00:54:26.700 Maybe one, maybe two happens.

00:54:28.700 But the fact that it's happening to strangers, people are doing it to strangers and you know

00:54:34.160 that they're not keeping people in jail makes your brain kind of like spike up and be a

00:54:38.780 little more worried about it, right?

00:54:40.040 And especially these are the stats.

00:54:41.820 How many people get punched in the face and then just go to work and don't feel like doing

00:54:45.060 a police report?

00:54:46.040 A hundred percent.

00:54:46.700 I bet it's one for one forever or more for every one person who's officially arrested

00:54:51.400 for felony assault.

00:54:52.360 There's probably 10 people that got assaulted and just didn't, you know, I got punched.

00:54:56.500 It wasn't a huge deal.

00:54:57.420 I'm just going to work.

00:54:58.980 Yeah.

00:54:59.100 This is New York City's version of no water in the reservoir.

00:55:02.460 Just, we just let criminals back out.

00:55:04.460 Yeah.

00:55:04.640 And then like people die from certain ones, you know?

00:55:07.140 And then this woman who was a congestion pricing advocate, she was attacked in the

00:55:12.040 subway station as the $9 toll pushes people into mass transit.

00:55:16.540 Can you read what happened in the article?

00:55:18.060 Yeah.

00:55:18.380 She, I mean, she basically just got spit on and roughed up by somebody.

00:55:22.340 And, um, it's not that serious, but this is kind of the typical abuse.

00:55:27.140 Like she's one of the people who maybe a guy on his way to work on wall street wouldn't

00:55:30.500 have reported it, but she did.

00:55:32.020 She like twisted an ankle.

00:55:33.380 But of course, police say Timothy Elliott, 45 was nabbed at the station and charged with

00:55:38.560 assault and harassment.

00:55:39.680 He was released on a desk appearance ticket.

00:55:42.040 Cops said, you better make sure you come to your court day.

00:55:44.460 Yeah.

00:55:44.840 And he just goes and does it to someone else.

00:55:46.600 And you just let him out.

00:55:47.720 So the person who is an advocate for congestion pricing, she gets attacked.

00:55:51.540 He gets arrested and let out in the same day.

00:55:54.340 Classic.

00:55:55.080 But there are, this is good news.

00:55:56.680 There are ways to avoid the congestion pricing.

00:55:59.020 If you get creative, uh, as you can see in this next clip, I believe this guy's crossing

00:56:04.400 like the Brooklyn bridge or something.

00:56:06.660 And he's on a scooter.

00:56:08.220 I don't think scooters need to pay anything.

00:56:10.180 He's on a license plate.

00:56:11.100 No pay, no license plate.

00:56:13.040 And you're also on a scooter on like a 50 mile per hour, per hour speed zone.

00:56:17.860 And it's the most dangerous thing probably ever.

00:56:20.620 And look how wobbly he is.

00:56:22.120 Yeah.

00:56:22.440 Not athletic enough to be doing that.

00:56:24.040 And he keeps looking over his shoulder.

00:56:26.360 All over the world, all over the road.

00:56:29.420 Classic.

00:56:30.020 Yeah.

00:56:30.440 And then this guy, uh, who is in charge of the MTA.

00:56:35.000 Yeah.

00:56:35.540 And I believe he makes 400 grand a year.

00:56:37.760 Oh, another presidential salary.

00:56:39.400 Yeah.

00:56:39.860 Listen to what he said about it.

00:56:41.760 Last year, we were actually 12 and a half percent less crime than 2019.

00:56:46.340 The last year before COVID.

00:56:48.520 But there's no question that some of these high profile incidents, you know, terrible

00:56:52.840 attacks have gotten in people's heads and made the whole system feel less safe.

00:56:58.720 So he's the MTA boss says that it's all in your head that you're feeling less safe only

00:57:03.720 because you're seeing it.

00:57:04.840 But then we have here, we have the graph.

00:57:06.800 Here's the graph.

00:57:07.660 Felony assaults 2000 to 2024.

00:57:10.140 It's a straight line up.

00:57:11.860 Yeah.

00:57:12.420 And, you know, again, it's one of those things where it's like, oh, yeah, he might be talking

00:57:17.280 about data specifically on the subway or on the MTA, which he probably has access to.

00:57:22.200 You know what I mean?

00:57:23.280 But it's the same thing where people are going to the back of their head.

00:57:26.300 Wait, I just heard about the story where somebody got released.

00:57:28.920 This guy just got let out.

00:57:30.120 They're all getting let out except for the most serious offenders.

00:57:33.100 Remember when we showed that woman with the labradoodle who got absolutely sucker punched

00:57:36.720 by a guy who crow hopped into her, a knockout punch, and then that was a misdemeanor?

00:57:41.200 Yeah.

00:57:41.780 And then this, what we were talking about is felony assaults.

00:57:44.820 So what's a felony assault versus a misdemeanor?

00:57:47.100 Well, felony assaults are down.

00:57:48.580 We just change the definition of it and then old ladies getting knocked out, that's a misdemeanor.

00:57:53.340 So there's actually less felonies.

00:57:54.980 It's like one of those cartoons where you like push something down and you're like, okay,

00:57:58.160 and then boop, it pops up over here.

00:58:00.060 It's like however you recategorize it, it doesn't matter to us.

00:58:02.960 We're just repeat offenders are sucker punching people.

00:58:05.600 They're slashing people.

00:58:06.720 And people are aware of it and the management of the city is kind of unacceptable.

00:58:11.480 People know it.

00:58:12.680 All right, let's get into our next piece of Urban Decay.

00:58:15.100 We have a fight that happened in school, in high school.

00:58:18.440 Watch what happens here.

00:58:20.720 What'd you say?

00:58:22.540 What'd you say?

00:58:24.080 Shirt's up and your pants are down.

00:58:26.320 What'd you say?

00:58:27.100 Sit down.

00:58:27.300 Shut the fuck down.

00:58:28.240 Shut the fuck up.

00:58:28.880 You said what?

00:58:29.820 I said sit the fuck down.

00:58:31.020 Shut the fuck up.

00:58:31.740 You heard me the first time.

00:58:34.660 Oh!

00:58:35.420 Oh my God!

00:58:36.020 Stop fucking calling me, niggas.

00:58:38.100 Freeze!

00:58:39.240 Back off.

00:58:40.160 Shut up, bitch.

00:58:41.520 Try.

00:58:41.900 There you go.

00:58:42.940 I have this thing where if a kid does a crime, the parents should go to jail.

00:58:48.880 Yeah, I'm with you.

00:58:50.140 But that'll only be used against some sort of white kid.

00:58:53.260 Yeah, that's true.

00:58:54.080 Won't be used on this single mom who's running this guy's household.

00:58:57.100 Yeah, that's true.

00:58:58.100 So, I have a dream that one day this kid will face consequences, and yeah, I don't think

00:59:04.440 he will.

00:59:04.800 And we're going to get into some of the stats.

00:59:06.360 There's a whole year, 2024 crime stats that were just released.

00:59:10.600 Before we do, we're going to show this story.

00:59:14.340 New Jersey ends basic reading and writing skills test requirements for teachers.

00:59:18.500 Yeah, so teachers will no longer have to pass a reading, writing, and mathematics test to

00:59:22.600 teach in New Jersey public schools.

00:59:25.040 Critics of the test had argued that it was an artificial barrier that disproportionately

00:59:29.660 impacted teacher candidates of color.

00:59:31.820 Math and writing.

00:59:34.520 Do teachers need that?

00:59:35.960 Does the reservoir need water?

00:59:37.740 Do teachers need to be able to read?

00:59:39.540 Yeah.

00:59:40.000 And this is something we covered before.

00:59:41.700 I don't know if you remember it, but there was a lawsuit that was like a long, ongoing

00:59:46.040 lawsuit where people got, it was like in the billions of dollars that the city of New

00:59:50.620 York or the state of New York settled with black and Latino teachers because they failed

00:59:55.320 teacher entrance exams.

00:59:56.840 You remember we covered that?

00:59:57.700 I do remember that.

00:59:58.300 So, I think this is the state of New Jersey just preempting that and being like, oh, geez,

01:00:01.720 we might be open to multiple billion dollars of litigation just because some retarded teachers

01:00:06.220 couldn't pass a test, the same test that everybody got.

01:00:09.020 And then if your teachers can't write or do math or read, or they're not going to pass

01:00:14.720 the test to be a teacher, what are they going to teach?

01:00:17.660 So, we're at the point where anything that disproportionately impacts black or brown people is like from a

01:00:24.880 state level is going to be avoided.

01:00:26.900 And then who pays the price?

01:00:28.680 Society at large gets worse, right?

01:00:30.740 Exactly.

01:00:31.940 All right.

01:00:32.440 Next, we have a looter who's looting 7-Eleven for the third time.

01:00:36.340 I don't want to mess, man.

01:00:37.680 Come on, man.

01:00:39.540 Please, sir.

01:00:40.380 Please.

01:00:40.700 Wait.

01:00:42.020 Please.

01:00:45.080 So, this is a new type of looting.

01:00:47.300 This is called shopping looting.

01:00:49.120 Yeah.

01:00:49.880 Where you're like looking for.

01:00:51.540 You come third time over here, please.

01:00:55.120 Please.

01:00:55.600 And he did all the looting while on speakerphone.

01:00:58.960 Yeah.

01:01:00.120 And he's shopping.

01:01:01.720 It's not even looting.

01:01:02.480 It's not smash and grab and get out.

01:01:05.320 It's like he's browsing.

01:01:07.820 He's looking.

01:01:08.280 He's aggressively looking for what he wants.

01:01:10.280 And he, based on his energy, is not going to pay.

01:01:13.020 Yeah.

01:01:13.200 We actually have some new crime stats, like we said.

01:01:17.540 You know, everyone talks about black crime.

01:01:19.240 Yeah.

01:01:19.420 It's interracial crime stats.

01:01:20.860 Interracial crime stats.

01:01:22.160 And I don't know.

01:01:22.740 Not everyone covers this stuff.

01:01:24.160 But here on the show, we don't hold back.

01:01:26.160 Yeah.

01:01:26.440 Can you read the numbers are in?

01:01:28.140 2024.

01:01:29.000 Blacks killed 458 whites.

01:01:32.360 Whites killed 84 blacks.

01:01:34.780 The United States is 13.7% black and 58.4% white.

01:01:39.660 Blacks are 23 times more likely to kill a white person than whites are to kill a black person.

01:01:46.160 Very interesting.

01:01:47.420 But according to Joe Biden, our biggest threat as a nation is this.

01:01:52.480 Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.

01:01:58.380 Not ISIS.

01:01:59.780 Not Al Qaeda.

01:02:01.240 White supremacists.

01:02:03.860 And here's where it gets interesting.

01:02:07.220 A lot of people think that the black crime rate is because of income levels or because of fatherlessness.

01:02:16.180 That's the cop-out.

01:02:16.900 They say poverty.

01:02:17.860 It's poverty.

01:02:18.820 It's acts of desperation.

01:02:21.140 People don't have a father because the prison system unjustly locked them up, which we know is not true.

01:02:26.040 They let everyone out.

01:02:27.300 We actually have some facts that go against that.

01:02:30.580 Yeah.

01:02:31.020 This tweet is from Jeremy Kaufman.

01:02:32.680 And he says,

01:03:02.680 But facts about groups are still facts.

01:03:05.100 If the proposal is to change the demographic makeup of America, it is not woke to notice that this is likely to change America.

01:03:12.640 That's a good point.

01:03:13.900 Yeah.

01:03:14.200 And that's, I mean, that's kind of the foundation.

01:03:16.600 You don't treat anybody differently or whatever, but sometimes you have to have harsher punishments or, you know, three strikes.

01:03:23.840 Or you've got to be realistic.

01:03:25.260 If you're walking at two in the morning and there's a Chinese woman walking towards you or a group of black teenagers with their hoods up.

01:03:34.040 And they just, and they're running out of the 7-Eleven.

01:03:37.400 They're not the same.

01:03:38.460 Yeah.

01:03:38.820 You don't treat it the same.

01:03:40.000 Not everything's equal.

01:03:40.560 And there's a tweet here that talks about fatherlessness, which is another cop-out for explaining the crime rate.

01:03:46.620 Yeah.

01:03:46.860 It says,

01:03:47.140 Pretty interesting.

01:03:59.520 Yeah.

01:03:59.720 So divorce or non-marital birth and then death.

01:04:04.400 So they kind of carved out those things in this study.

01:04:07.480 And it makes sense to me because here's a tweet.

01:04:11.580 It said,

01:04:11.780 It's very true.

01:04:18.600 And I think part of that, too, is like, imagine you're with your mom and you're being raised and then she's telling you stories of what your dad used to do.

01:04:25.680 And, oh, he used to be a fireman and he did this and he worked hard.

01:04:29.160 He was a big football player.

01:04:30.440 You kind of have like some mental image of who you want to live up to.

01:04:33.100 You know what I mean?

01:04:33.760 Yeah.

01:04:34.220 There's different levels versus like, I ain't know who your dad is.

01:04:38.020 You know?

01:04:38.180 Oh, I caught your daddy playing on the phone with another girl.

01:04:40.620 I mean, that's dark.

01:04:42.160 But like, imagine that.

01:04:43.460 Like, that's so weird.

01:04:44.480 And for a kid to grow up, it's like, what are you going to do?

01:04:46.440 Oh, I could join that gang.

01:04:47.940 I could go fuck around and steal with my friends.

01:04:51.240 I'll face no discipline at home.

01:04:53.480 It's a slippery, dark path, right?

01:04:54.940 It's a very slippery, dark path.

01:04:56.260 But we can't get too down or too depressed about it because we're moving on to Uplifting Gold.

01:05:01.400 All right.

01:05:01.960 Our first clip from Uplifting Gold.

01:05:04.700 Someone bailed.

01:05:05.920 There's guys online who do these bits where they'll go to a jail and they'll pay a bail for someone to come out.

01:05:12.600 Like cheap bail.

01:05:13.560 Cheap bail.

01:05:14.600 And then these guys did it.

01:05:16.020 And look what happens when the criminal comes out.

01:05:17.600 On the top and side of the bottom.

01:05:19.500 Kev, that's you?

01:05:20.620 Yeah.

01:05:21.180 You bailed me out?

01:05:21.640 Yeah, we just bailed you out, bro.

01:05:22.980 What's up?

01:05:23.560 Come on, man.

01:05:23.840 No, we just bailed you out.

01:05:24.760 But why?

01:05:25.300 I ain't got nowhere to go.

01:05:26.340 I'm homeless, man.

01:05:27.240 We just go around bailing people out.

01:05:28.740 Nah, but where am I going?

01:05:30.240 Come on, man.

01:05:30.540 Why you bailing me out, though?

01:05:31.680 I'm saying we do like goofy bailes and stuff.

01:05:33.720 Relax.

01:05:33.900 I ain't got nowhere to go.

01:05:35.120 I ain't got nowhere to sleep.

01:05:36.200 It's cold out here.

01:05:37.020 We're going to get you something to eat with us.

01:05:38.080 I'm in a place.

01:05:39.020 How you can get me back in there?

01:05:40.440 We're going to get you something to eat with us.

01:05:41.640 How you get me back in there?

01:05:44.460 That's pretty funny.

01:05:45.480 You don't really see that.

01:05:46.640 Sometimes the street rats yearn for the structure.

01:05:49.460 You know?

01:05:49.780 And people say that prison is kind of fun.

01:05:53.800 Some do.

01:05:54.260 You know, it's not ideal.

01:05:56.340 But if you're in it, it's not as bad as you think.

01:05:58.540 You kind of make friends.

01:05:59.480 And if you're not violent and you're in a normal place, it's just a bunch of guys hanging out.

01:06:04.220 Yeah.

01:06:04.340 If you're a barely literate, non-functioning, you know, chemical dependency guy who lives in a cold northern city during winter, prison's not that bad.

01:06:13.280 Two meals a day.

01:06:14.300 Yeah.

01:06:15.060 Next is a guy who's visiting his friend in the hospital after surgery.

01:06:18.700 And he does a Dr. Now impression.

01:06:20.340 Dr. Now is from that TLC show.

01:06:23.340 My 600-pound life.

01:06:24.560 600-pound life.

01:06:25.540 That foreign doctor who's very harsh.

01:06:29.480 Hello.

01:06:31.760 How are you feeling?

01:06:34.480 I'm very good.

01:06:36.480 We got you in this surgery today.

01:06:40.000 You're good.

01:06:40.900 So if you're ready for the 1200-gallery diet, then we're going to cook you off.

01:06:45.640 Now remember, you cannot eat any food in here.

01:06:49.480 If we do, then we will take you off the program.

01:06:53.240 Hello.

01:06:53.720 That's funny to me.

01:06:56.620 It's uplifting.

01:06:57.480 Yeah.

01:06:58.880 Okay.

01:06:59.460 Now the next two clips are impressions.

01:07:02.880 So the first is a – we'll just let it play.

01:07:05.060 All right.

01:07:06.940 I can sound like a black people.

01:07:08.480 Huh?

01:07:09.000 I can sound like a black people.

01:07:10.440 Oh, you can.

01:07:11.560 You want to hear it?

01:07:12.120 Oh, okay, girl.

01:07:13.180 Girl, you have to buy your own business, girl.

01:07:16.100 Oh, my goodness.

01:07:17.840 You better.

01:07:18.700 You have to buy your own business.

01:07:20.260 You better tell – where you from, girl?

01:07:21.820 I'm from Indian.

01:07:23.780 Indian?

01:07:24.780 You're from Indiana?

01:07:25.800 Mm-hmm.

01:07:26.420 You got to mind your own business.

01:07:28.700 See, that's pure.

01:07:29.760 That's not racist.

01:07:30.760 That's not racist.

01:07:31.480 It's no big deal.

01:07:32.100 That's a very specific impression of something that she clearly heard.

01:07:35.840 Yeah.

01:07:36.320 And I like the black lady is entertaining it and it's funny.

01:07:40.220 But she goes, go ahead, girl.

01:07:42.520 And then the girl starts with, girl, you better mind your own business.

01:07:45.660 So it's like it's dead accurate.

01:07:47.200 Yeah.

01:07:47.700 It's proof right there.

01:07:49.520 Oh, man.

01:07:50.420 All right.

01:07:50.680 Next is a guy who had a severe injury and he only can communicate with a computer now

01:07:56.400 and listen to what he says while he's walking with his wife.

01:08:00.640 She drugs me to keep me a vestibule.

01:08:04.240 She drugs me to keep me a vestibule.

01:08:08.440 She drugs me to keep me a vestibule.

01:08:10.960 Stop.

01:08:12.400 No, I'm not taking it out.

01:08:13.740 All right.

01:08:14.160 Well, let's come with me.

01:08:15.240 You're not.

01:08:15.820 You're not.

01:08:15.920 You're not.

01:08:16.640 I don't want to be a vestibule anymore.

01:08:18.640 Are you stealing, mom?

01:08:22.500 Are you stealing, mom?

01:08:24.360 Mom, no one's wondering if you're stealing again.

01:08:26.920 Are you stealing, mom?

01:08:28.540 Stop it.

01:08:29.400 Seriously.

01:08:30.360 She turns it off.

01:08:31.900 She drugs me to keep me a vestibule.

01:08:33.980 Hey, you're a vestibule still doing bits?

01:08:36.020 That's an indomitable human spirit, I would say.

01:08:39.540 If that's you, we'll send you a bunch of shirts.

01:08:42.660 I don't know.

01:08:43.660 We'll send you maybe a blanket.

01:08:46.100 Yeah, a blanket.

01:08:48.280 All right.

01:08:48.900 Next is we showed this on one on Tuesday, but this is a gender reveal gone wrong.

01:08:53.880 Shut it directly in grandma's face.

01:09:08.680 Some people don't read instructions, and that's how grandma gets shot.

01:09:13.880 Yeah, unfortunately.

01:09:15.120 All right.

01:09:15.440 Our second to last clip.

01:09:16.560 This dog is having a little bit of a tantrum.

01:09:20.280 No, you're not getting dinner.

01:09:22.020 You're a vet.

01:09:22.520 No, you're not getting dinner.

01:09:28.680 You're a vet.

01:09:31.640 I like that guy.

01:09:33.080 I like that dog, too.

01:09:34.280 That's my type of dog, but you have to clean the folds too much if you own them.

01:09:37.860 He has trouble breathing at night.

01:09:39.300 I love that breed, though.

01:09:40.420 I love that type of guy.

01:09:41.460 You really slap him on the side.

01:09:43.240 Yeah, thick, nice boy, sturdy.

01:09:45.180 He's communicating.

01:09:46.360 He's an ottoman.

01:09:47.240 Yeah.

01:09:47.680 Well, he knows something's up.

01:09:50.120 He knows he's not getting food.

01:09:51.200 He knows how to get it.

01:09:52.860 All right.

01:09:54.180 And then our last clip is kind of a shout out.

01:09:56.480 Remember on Tuesday, I shouted out Rob, a show watcher who I met for lunch and had a

01:10:01.880 great lunch with?

01:10:02.580 Yeah.

01:10:03.040 He's actually in a band, and he plays trombone.

01:10:05.580 So I'm going to feature one of their songs.

01:10:08.040 That's him on the right playing trombone.

01:10:09.560 Wow.

01:10:33.100 Isn't that pretty good?

01:10:33.960 That's Rob.

01:10:34.440 He moves like that.

01:10:35.240 Attaboy, Rob.

01:10:35.940 Nice work.

01:10:36.500 Nice work.

01:10:36.860 He's a show watcher.

01:10:37.800 He's a twink.

01:10:38.620 Yeah, we're just kidding.

01:10:40.020 It was a joke.

01:10:40.940 I know.

01:10:41.160 I didn't want you guys to think that's actually Rob.

01:10:44.100 But that's good, to punk people like that.

01:10:46.240 Yeah.

01:10:46.900 Well, that's the end of the show.

01:10:48.040 We have a little couple shout outs.

01:10:49.320 Happy birthday to Jessica Frausto on January 4th.

01:10:53.080 We missed it, but your lovely great husband got us the info.

01:10:57.120 So happy belated birthday.

01:10:58.540 Happy birthday, Jessica.

01:10:59.720 And that's it.

01:11:00.840 Happy Friday, everyone.

01:11:02.220 If you're still watching to this point, Fleckistalks.com for a 30-minute bonus land dropping right now.

01:11:07.460 And then also Henchman Maxing 2.

01:11:10.040 We have the trailer playing at the very end of this episode.

01:11:12.880 So stick around for that.

01:11:14.380 Thank you guys for watching.

01:11:15.740 Like, share, subscribe.

01:11:16.540 All the good stuff.

01:11:17.440 We will see you on Tuesday.

01:11:23.680 Let's go over to play.

01:11:24.820 Let's go over to play.

Fleccas Talks Podcast - January 11, 2025

DISASTER + DEI STRIKES LA

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