Pearl - January 11, 2025Have You Ever Been Discriminated Against Because Of Your Gender？ (Call-In Show) ｜ Pearl Daily
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Los Angeles is facing the worst wildfire disaster in its history. Mayor Garcetti has been criticized for being absent on a number of fronts, including her handling of the fires, her lack of response to the crisis, and the anti-male bias being used against men.
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this week has been a tough week for the city of los angeles first let me say i hope and i pray
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that all the residents are safe none of us ever want anyone to lose their lives in a tragedy of
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this magnitude magnitude but we have to call a spade a spade on this one los angeles response
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to the fires has been a complete disaster it's an example of what happens when you put
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DEI hires in leadership positions. The mayor of LA is a woman. The fire chief is also a woman.
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And she prioritized DEI hiring of LBGTQ firefighters as her biggest priority.
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Like I say on my channel all the time, men as a group are better than women at certain things.
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They make 80% of the world's stuff, and when they're in leadership positions, they tend to do a better job statistically.
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And you cannot tell me that a man would not have done a better job as mayor or somebody qualified responding to this crisis.
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I would surely believe that a man is better able to handle these type of situations in general.
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Now, the challenge we've had the last couple of years is we don't really, we're starting to blur
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the lines between DEI hires and who is there because they're qualified. We're getting to the
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point, it's tough for the average person to tell the difference. Now, for those of you that don't
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know, a DEI hire is when they prioritize hiring somebody based on their gender or the color of
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their skin, rather than how good of a job that they do. I call this the ultimate simping, saying
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that we need special treatment because of our gender. And as most of you know, I have been on
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code now i want to talk about the key players in this karen bass was elected the mayor of la in
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2022 and her priority as mayor has been the homelessness situation diverting money from
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city departments to go towards this issue before the fire she took an international trip to ghana
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where her city went up in flames she also slashed fire department's budget by 17
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million this past year i'm gonna bring up a clip that's going viral
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of a reporter grilling the mayor over her handling of the wire wildfires what the heck oh here we go
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also if you want to support the channel we are demonetized please go to the audacity
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network.com it's always very risky to cover a lot of these topics i never know what they're
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going to deem as hate speech so if you can go to the audacity network.com okay we're going to watch
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you know. As Los Angeles battles its worst wildfire in history. I'm definitely a critic of
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the mayor. She was in West Africa while West Los Angeles was burning. The city's top elected
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official, Mayor Karen Bass, is facing criticism on a number of fronts. Do you owe citizens an
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apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department
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budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor. A Sky News reporter, Madam Mayor, let me ask you just
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to get grilling bass after she landed in Los Angeles Wednesday, returning from a diplomatic
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trip to Ghana. Bass left on Saturday. The National Weather Service issued warnings last Thursday
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and again on Sunday about extreme fire weather conditions. Monday, Bass posted on X, there is
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an expected destructive and potentially life-threatening windstorm. By Tuesday,
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according to the city, Bass was already flying home as the Palisades fire was quickly spreading.
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Since being back on the ground, the mayor has been on defense over her absence.
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I've been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county,
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state and federal officials. I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military
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plane which facilitated our communications another complaint some residents say there wasn't enough
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water where and when it was needed started with the wind everything and i started waiting on the
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floor all the the floor the roof the pressure of the water is going away so i started filling
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up buckets the trash cans with water there's not water in the fire hydrants i paid for it didn't i
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did some hydrants run low the short answer is yes some more context according to the department of
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water and power all 114 water storage facilities were filled but heavy use of fire hydrants
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depleted the supply now i want to talk about how also the ladies are going to play victim
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how many of these women that are complaining in this voted for democrat policies
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They will vote for Democrat policies on abortion until their city literally burns to the ground. Literally.
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The extreme conditions, compounded by high winds, keeping firefighting aircraft grounded.
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We all know that this has been an unprecedented event.
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We also know that fire hydrants are not constructed to deal with this type of massive devastation.
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and that the number one problem, especially on Wednesday,
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was the fact that we weren't able to do the air support because of the winds.
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Bass now also having to defend the decision to reduce the fire department's 2024-2025 budget.
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Last summer, she approved cutting more than $17 million from it.
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Last month, L.A.'s fire chief raised concerns with the mayor and city council,
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saying in a memo, these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability
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to maintain core operations. Bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires.
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There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation
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that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.
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Do you see this guy in the background? He does not agree. He does not agree.
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he does not this guy here he is like this is this woman is on some bs
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and you could just tell you know even gavin newson who also does a terrible job
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you can at least tell he would have pre-scripted answers right this woman
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i know people are saying it's man-made look i don't know if it was or it wasn't i haven't
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seen evidence that it was at this point it's possible but i'm not one that's gonna jump
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to the conspiracy theories um i know there's this idea that like the rich do it on purpose
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last summer she approved cutting more than 17 million dollars from it last month la's fire
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chief raised concerns with the mayor and city council saying in a memo these budgetary
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reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain core operations
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bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires there were no reductions that were made
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that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.
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And Erin, the total budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department is a little more than $800 million.
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Bass has said in the past that that budget included money for things like hiring new
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firefighters. But again, her critics, and there are many of them on the ground there,
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being very vocal, saying that her judgment is in question.
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Now, I want to clarify my position on things. I am not against women being in positions that they
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deserve. If we complete and are able to do a job at the same quality that the men are able to do a
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job, I don't see anything wrong with them doing that job, if they can do it to the same quality.
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The issue I have is when they start lowering the requirements to give us special preferential
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treatment, and now people are losing their homes. That's where I have an issue. Or you put someone
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in a position that shouldn't be there, people lose their lives. How far are we going to go
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to make us feel better and feel like we're competing as a group? It's getting to the point,
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it's ridiculous, where I don't know if I hire somebody, any female in any job, if they're there
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because they deserve it and they're good or because there's some practice that allowed them
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to be there, some special privilege. That's where we're at. Let me do the budget article.
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Los Angeles mayor slashed fire budget last year and prioritized the homeless population.
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los angeles budget is in the spotlight as multiple wildfires rage around the city
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amid revelations that mayor karen bass slashed the fire department's budget last year while
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prioritizing spending on the city's homeless for the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year la budgeted 837
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million for the la fire department which was roughly 65 percent of the homeless budget of 1.3
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billion an analysis by la city's controller last year found that roughly half of the budget
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for homelessness went unspent from 2023 to 2024 the 2024 to 2025 to the 2024 to 2025 budgets the
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LAFD budget was reduced by over $17 million from $837,000 to $819 million. Bass had proposed a
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larger budget to cut the LAFD to about $23 million, but it was not adopted. Fox Business has reached
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out to Bass's office for comment and the reasoning behind the cuts. The budget for homelessness was
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also reduced in 2024 to 2025 but remained larger than the lafd budget la is currently the center
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of four ongoing wildfires the eaten the woodley the hearst fires and the palisades which has
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have consumed countless homes and businesses and claimed two lives the fire the fires have prompted
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evacuation orders for more than 30,000 people and come as California faces an insurance crisis after
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several insurers fled the state, largely due to the costs associated with the wildfire losses.
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Out of 20, the most destructive California wildfires, seven have taken place in the last
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five years, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported. In terms of economic costs,
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the 2018 fire camp caused $10 billion in damages. The Tubbs fire in 2017 cost $8.7 billion in
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damages. And the Woolsey fire in 2018 cost $4.2 billion. Let's watch the video associated with
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As with reaction is former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. Alex, thank you for being
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here. This is, by all accounts, a devastating wildfire, uncontained, two deaths so far.
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You can see the damage in those live shots. Governor Newsom declaring a state of emergency,
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yet some are criticizing the local authorities and the response teams.
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Well, you've got to recognize that there was a bond measure in 2014, Proposition 1, that allocated $7.5 billion for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
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They had that available so our hydrants would be basically full of water and then times of need.
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And only a fraction of that money has been spent.
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It's all been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.
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You have fire, L.A. County, L.A. City fire. Their numbers are depleted. LAPD, L.A. Sheriffs, their numbers are depleted.
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Where is the National Guard here? I mean, there's a lot of things, a lot of manpower that is missing.
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And it all goes from 2024, the whole defunding movement, this impact.
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Can we talk about that? Because we were reading in the post this morning that the L.A. Fire Department had seen budget cuts by about 17 million dollars.
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How much of this is or is not preventable based on some of those budget cuts?
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As you call the fire department, both city and county fire, part of the whole first responder infrastructure,
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that has been one of the targets of politicians from 2024 to take money away from and deplete those resources,
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supposedly under this grand scheme of we're going to reinvest it in the community.
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Well, the community right now needs exactly what they don't have, which is the staffing levels for fire and for first responders, for law enforcement to be able to safely evacuate and to be able to fight these fires.
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I mean, a lot of it is going to be obviously the nature is going to is having its way with us right now.
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But at some point when humans can successfully contain the fire and secure the area and all that stuff and care for the evacuated, it's a humanitarian crisis that's going to unfold right now as we're seeing it.
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And we don't have the resources we should have, and those were political decisions that happened years ago.
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Talk to me about the water issue, because I found this very disturbing.
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You've had folks on the ground fighting the fires.
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They're plugged into the fire hydrants, but they're saying there's no pressure to push water
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because the tanks up on the hills, which is how you create the pressure, have not been filled adequately.
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You're telling me that that was supposed to have been addressed in 2014, and that's still an issue right now?
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It sits on the current mayor, the previous mayor, Eric Garcetti, the Board of Supervisors, past and present, from 2014 on Proposition 1.
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That's a lot of money. I think they spent $177 million out of $7.5 billion.
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All of the construction projects were designed to upgrade and create new systems that capture water from the rainfall.
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I mean, two years of record rainfall, and we were not able to capture it.
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So it all washed into the ocean, but it did fuel the growth of the underbrush, which is now under fire.
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And this is something both the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, LAPD, had to know that because both agencies are missing roughly 1,500 sworn officers each, that's over 3,000.
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And so any major event like this is going to generate a lot of demand for personnel over prolonged periods of time.
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That's an automatic call to the National Guard.
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Hey, we need a lot of additional troops to do some basic activities because now they're taking resources away from areas where they're still needed.
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Like you're pulling deputies from a contract city and who's going to answer 9-1-1 and go out when everyone's out at the fire?
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So this is why personnel, the staffing is critical at this time.
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Alex, we so appreciate your time today and your insight, which we were talking about.
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This is devastating to the state of California.
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And we're hearing that the fire could have been contained, that it didn't have to be this bad.
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And this is, again, this is what happens when we're prioritizing put woman in role because she's a woman,
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The L.A. chief, the L.A. fire chief warned last month
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that budget cuts would affect response to large scale emergencies. The LA fire chief warned in
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the weeks before the devastating Palisades fire that the decision to cut the department by nearly
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18 million would diminish its ability to prepare and respond to large scale emergencies. The budget
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reduction approved last year by Mayor Karen Bass was mostly absorbed by leaving many administration
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jobs at the fire department unfilled but that left about seven million to be cut from its
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overtime budget which was earmarked for training fire prevention and other key functions the
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reduction has severely limited the department's capacity to prepare train for and respond to
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large-scale emergencies including wildfires chief kristin crowley wrote in a memo in december 4th
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2024. The variable overtime hours called V hours within the LA Fire Department were used to pay
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for FAA mandated pilot training and helicopter coordination staffing for wildfire suppression,
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the memo said. Mayor Bass said Wednesday evening that the budget cuts did not have an impact on
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the LA Fire Department's response to the wildfires. I am confident that it did not,
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bass answered in a response to the fire chief's memo and suggested fire spending would exceed the
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amounts budgeted for the fiscal year bass also dismissed the criticism that she was on an
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overseas trip while the fires started during the intense winds that had been forecast several days
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in advance although i was not physically here i was in contact with many of the individuals that
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are standing here throughout the entire time bass said i was on the phone on the plane almost every
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hour of the flight she said the fire chief's memo was presented last month to the board of fire
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commissioners a panel of mayoral appointees who oversee the management of the department
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without this funding pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized and aerial firefighting
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capabilities are diminished it said changes to air operations section impact the department's
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ability to adhere to current automatic and mutual agreements provide air ambulance services and
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quickly respond to woodland fires during woodland fires with water dropping helicopters the memo
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also highlighted other programs that would suffer with the cuts including the disaster response
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section which funds the bulldozer teams and cuts breaks and control lines around wild wildfires
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and the critical incident planning and training section with which develops plans for major
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emergencies fire officials downplayed the potential impact the cuts would have on a mayor
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major emergency and referred questions to chief crowley who was unavailable due to another fire
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igniting in hollywood's hills late wednesday any fire department even our side is stretched thin
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which is why we call in our mutual aid partners said la fire department spokesman jacob raib
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the pat the the fire started tuesday and fanned by powerful winds destroyed hundreds of buildings
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and burned about 15 800 acres it was one of five wildfires burning in southern california
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the los angeles fire the los angeles fire chief kristin crowley started her position in 2022
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she's the first openly lbtgq woman to hold this office right away a big deal was made about this
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and she made it her priority to hire a more diverse fire department she was hired after
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the previous fire chief had to step step down due to allegations that he didn't address sexist and
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racist behavior within the fire department talk about an overcorrection when talking about kristin's
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nomination, former LA mayor Eric Garcetti said at the time that he nominated Crowley
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to the position, not due to her gender, but due to her abilities and skill with public safety
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challenges. So again, the ladies, you know, when you see women being burned alive in New York,
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what is happening is we are eating what we voted for because most women would rather have abortion
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criminals being taken off the street and at some point the men are gonna say you know what
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you ladies are on your own because you keep voting for these policies
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you keep taking money out of our out of our taxes for these policies that you guys voted for
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and you know again they said that the previous chief was sexist so you know what he said he said
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okay i'll step down let's see how the ladies handle it go ahead and honestly guys to some
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degree, I don't blame them at all. If we're going to keep voting for Democrats, if we're going to
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keep voting for these leftist policies, okay, see what happens, see how it works. The only way,
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and this is why simps are such a problem when they bail people out, they bail the ladies out
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of our bad decisions, because the only way we will learn is if we actually have to feel the
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consequences you know do you think next election california is going to vote republican
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now we're going to watch the nom new nominee for the fire department
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employees they complain of harassment they complain of bullying but if anyone can change
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the culture let it be kristen crowley now what an amazing opportunity but i do feel ready
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tuesday morning the winds of change blew through la like a santa anna again this is play pretend
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you know again i don't have a problem with women doing jobs they're qualified for
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but to give a little background i played volleyball overseas i'm an athlete i'm six foot i'm taller
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than most men um in terms of strength i can deadlift close to 300 pounds that's more than
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a lot of guys i've played basketball with men i i'm an athlete and even though i am probably
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one percent of strength for women for women okay i'm not i'm not saying i'm but in terms
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of most women are overweight most women aren't athletes my brother who doesn't lift can beat
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me up so easily it would it would be like it it would be the easiest thing for him ever
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I question how a woman in this position with, she looks a little bit overweight to me.
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How as a fire woman was she able to do equally as good of a job when it's a very physical job?
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The same way I'm going to think this when I see female construction workers and when I see female police officers.
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when i was in england i think i saw more female police officers than men
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if i'm if i'm looking at a woman and i'm thinking i think i'm in better shape than her
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how the heck and by the way i cannot beat an average guy even a guy that doesn't really work
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out is going to beat me up it's not going to be hard if he wanted to don't do that you know what
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i mean like don't but if he wanted to how the heck are these women going to do a better job
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as a firewoman. And the other question I have, you know, if we're going to promote somebody to
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chief, you know, I worked in sales for like two, three years. And you expect the managers to be
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good salespeople so they can teach the salespeople coming up how to sell. What is she going to teach
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a guy about fighting fires when I just cannot imagine that she has the strength that men do.
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Event. Respected L.A. City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas announced his retirement after 39 years
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on the job. At a news conference, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a history-making nominee,
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The first female to ever leave the L.A. Fire Department.
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A 22-year veteran of the L.A. City Fire Department.
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Crowley distinguished herself within the department with tough assignments,
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including paramedic, firefighter, captain, and chief deputy.
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i just don't see athletic here i really don't nice to meet you crowley told me this was a day
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she had not imagined but somehow it felt right was never really shooting for that i just took
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it day by day trying to understand my job now again what i if i believed that she was there
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off of merit i would have no problem i just coming from the perspective of an athlete
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and that is a physically demanding job I cannot imagine
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I don't think she could lift me out of a fire like if I was passed out on the ground do you
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think you guys really think she could throw me over her shoulder
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and she's taking the spot of a guy who can now people will argue well managing isn't the same
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as doing a job and you know what that's true some people are very good at a job and they make
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terrible managers but you have to at least be decent Chloe and I just cannot imagine her
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physical strength is anywhere close to even an out of shape man I you know they said maybe she
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can't you know I'm open to being proven wrong maybe the rest of this video I'll be proven wrong I
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know but it's getting ridiculous and it's all so we can feel better about ourselves so we can you
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know clap woman's empowerment ah you destroyed the patriarchly you did the things that men have been
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doing i have no problem if people want to do that i mean but can she lift what a man can lift can
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she throw me over her shoulder? I doubt it. I do not believe it. And how to better lead and manage
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our people. And whatever fell in front of me, those opportunities, it was due to hard work,
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but it was a lot of support and mentoring along the way. If confirmed as the first woman,
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she will have a task ahead of her, taking the reins of a department trying to operate
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while covet 19 continues to be a health emergency focusing on the why why we're here as an
00:32:35.780
organization why we're here as firefighters why our firefighters come to work each and every day
00:32:40.980
knowing what they don't know i always hear women say that in management positions i never really
00:32:49.140
hear men talk about their why that that seems to be a woman thing not all not all not all but the
00:32:57.060
women you know men focus on doing the job and the best way to do it the women are focusing on why
00:33:09.220
it's kind of like have you guys ever gotten into an argument with a woman
00:33:13.460
and she keeps asking why would you do that why why what you know i'm nagging on every single behavior
00:33:20.420
who cares about the why i want to know what are you going to do to do the job well i mean with
00:33:29.700
covid in you can't lift fire pearl i know you can't lift fire but if i'm passed out in a fire
00:33:36.160
or i need there's times where they have to carry somebody out that's reasonable you know i could
00:33:45.460
have passed out from the fire they could have found me how am i getting out she's not taking
00:33:49.420
me out the variance and everything that's happening crowley is married she and her wife holland who
00:33:54.940
is retired from the la city fire department have three young daughters she reflected today on what
00:34:00.860
it means to be a role model and i'm static to be in the position to show both young girls and boys
00:34:07.980
that hey this is this is important that we have people in positions of authority that work hard
00:34:13.340
and you're rewarded for it i must say she was very engaging when we think about the numbers here in
00:34:21.820
the la city fire department 3 727 employees 3 174 of them are fully vaccinated that's an 85
00:34:33.740
rate at six o'clock i'll have more with ms crowley and what this could mean to the city of la la
00:34:40.300
laura geus reporting live from downtown los angeles alex and marla back to you
00:35:10.300
what's the next one oh here we go the next one is megan kelly
00:35:20.480
this is megan kelly's response as if all of this is not enough it turns out that in recent years
00:35:31.960
la's fire chief has made not filling the fire hydrants top priority but diversity
00:35:39.400
Diversity is at least among the top priorities for the department.
00:35:50.180
And in an interview shortly after she was elevated to this position, she talked about being super inspired to make the fire department more diverse.
00:36:03.020
okay here during the firefight has been a lack of water at hydrants on the palisades fire
00:36:14.980
tonight that's getting the attention of community leaders all across california they're all coming
00:36:20.420
to the realization that residential hydrant systems just may not be enough to snuff a fire
00:36:26.360
out when it comes to battling these massive wildfires nbc bearers tom jensen is in oakland
00:36:31.980
tonight where station closures are already top of mind and now there's this water supply issue
00:36:40.460
everybody in oakland has been talking about the closure of this fire station fire station 25
00:36:45.580
and another one in the oakland hills but tonight they're also talking about these
00:36:49.820
fire hydrants especially in light of what's happening in southern california
00:36:56.540
firefighters battling the palisades fire worked to lay out enough hose to reach a distant fire
00:37:01.260
hydrant because the nearest one has little or no pressure a serious problem
00:37:06.500
that persists on the raging wildfire one that crews including this one from San
00:37:10.740
Francisco keep running into hydrants that aren't working properly and have
00:37:15.420
extremely low or sporadic pressure you know your incoming pressure is it's not
00:37:19.920
between 10 and 50 but it's real okay zero we can only do one inch and a half
00:37:26.460
residents whose homes are still standing are finding their own household water
00:37:30.120
systems down too as they try to help. We went inside the house and there is no water inside
00:37:35.480
the house. This woman dipped a bucket from a hot tub to try to douse flames running up a hill
00:37:39.740
towards a home. Then water tenders showed up because the hydrants weren't working. We have
00:37:44.720
another water tender here that means we have more water. Thank you, thank you. L.A. County leaders
00:37:50.380
say the hydrant systems were made to fight house fires, not large wildfires. A firefight with
00:37:56.340
multiple fire hydrants, drawing water from the system for several hours is unsustainable.
00:38:00.900
The head of Oakland's firefighter union is working to save two temporarily closed firehouses in the
00:38:06.240
hills and has now been tracking the hydrant problems in Southern California. Those are our
00:38:11.540
life link in order to get water to the pump to be able to put out fire. So yeah, I'm definitely
00:38:16.840
very concerned. Union president Seth Olyar says Oakland firefighters personally work to maintain
00:38:21.900
hydrants and report broken ones to east bay mud which is responsible for all of the hydrants
00:38:27.820
across the east bay the la situation really highlights uh how fragile some of the infrastructure
00:38:35.180
is uh here and also how dependent we are as firefighters on um the water supply system we
00:38:43.980
reached out to east bay mud to talk about the status of all the fire hydrants across the east
00:38:48.860
bay but a spokesperson said nobody was available to talk tonight in oakland tom jensen nbc bay
00:39:01.340
let's look at some other dei hi sorry guys i'm a little sick today let's look at some other dei
00:39:10.540
hire women failing in positions of power toronto police superintendent stacy clark was demoted
00:39:17.740
two ranks for a cheating scandal in august of 2024 she was caught giving black constables test
00:39:26.860
answers and other information before promotional opportunities to increase the chances of them
00:39:32.300
moving up the ladder clark pled guilty to seven counts of misconduct and was demoted to the rank
00:39:38.300
staff sergeant in 24 months she will be able to reapply for the rank of superintendent why
00:39:44.780
Why? Because she's a woman. I mean, I want you guys to think about this. If a man was giving
00:39:51.500
special treatment to other men, to white men, let's say, let's say a man decided that he wanted
00:39:57.620
to give help to white men on their test answers so they could get promoted. How would that go?
00:40:05.260
Do you think he would be able to reapply in 24 months, two years?
00:40:14.780
In emotional and raw testimony, a Toronto Police superintendent facing discipline apologized for helping constables cheat on a promotional exam.
00:40:26.880
But as John Woodward reports, the hearing also delved into how unfair the hiring process was to black candidates to begin with, and how a plan to fix it was cancelled without warning.
00:40:37.560
The first part of Superintendent Stacey Clark's testimony was an apology for giving six constables questions in advance of a promotional exam.
00:40:45.680
She told the hearing, it was tremendously important for me to take responsibility for what I had done.
00:40:52.340
But the tribunal spent much more time on what Clark called the why, and it came down to a systemic failure to promote black officers.
00:40:58.800
They often benefited white men within the service.
00:41:06.600
again why do women get to give a why only when men do something wrong they just say they did
00:41:16.460
something wrong they don't give a reason or an explanation they're not given the benefit of the
00:41:21.060
doubt but women can literally help participants cheat on a test and be given a slap on the wrist
00:42:05.900
The Toronto Police Service Board oversees the police,
00:42:08.640
but the tribunal heard even though the board approved the plan,
00:42:12.200
the police service didn't put it into practice.
00:42:17.000
Before its implementation, the TPS made an executive decision
00:42:24.860
that the members identified in the external review.
00:42:27.800
It stands to reason that had the TPS implemented
00:42:31.600
superintendent clark would not have felt the desperate need to flatten the playing field
00:42:35.760
by providing black officers with the interview questions it's not clear why the policy was never
00:42:40.560
adopted somebody along the way decided that they weren't going to implement all of it supporters
00:42:46.880
who arrived on a bus stood by clark i think instead of demoting her they should give her award clark
00:42:54.000
became why are people so stupid that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard fire her
00:43:05.040
emotional as she described demeaning posts from retired officers and one threat and how it
00:43:09.920
affected her children but she said she remained loyal to the okay this is the other thing about
00:43:14.400
women we have a tendency to cry about being threatened online but we also want high profile
00:43:22.160
position. You do not look, and I get this on Twitter a lot. Whenever I debate with another
00:43:28.040
woman on Twitter, if I debate with a man, he never complains to me about harassment after.
00:43:34.520
We all know that if you go on a debate with somebody that disagrees with you,
00:43:40.100
their followers are going to troll you. Your followers are going to troll them.
00:43:44.120
Neither of us ask for this. This is just how it is. But the ladies have a tendency
00:43:49.680
to want to guilt me into taking videos down or not responding to them while having a high-profile
00:43:59.000
account or a public persona totally fine you're totally you're welcome here but we don't get
00:44:04.880
high-profile positions without criticism you don't get to be on the internet make this amazing
00:44:10.140
internet money without consequences there's like 20 hit pieces of me on the internet i don't cry
00:44:16.440
about it. I just accept that's part of being here. I like conservative media. I like it. I've
00:44:24.620
always loved it. I'm very thankful you guys allow me to be here. You will not catch me
00:44:32.320
complaining, crying. And that's the same thing she's doing here. She's complaining about getting
00:44:39.020
a high profile position and dealing with criticism and people online making threats
00:44:45.480
Do you think Trump cries at night because he's threatened?
00:45:07.680
Some may say foolishly, but I still believe we can do what we say we are going to do.
00:45:11.760
The decision whether she'll have the rank to be in a position to help will be up to the tribunal.
00:45:24.440
Now, in November of 2024, a New Zealand warship, captioned by a British woman, sank because it was left on autopilot.
00:45:34.980
the 48 million dollar ship smashed into a coral reef in the south pacific
00:45:41.980
and was the first ship from new zealand to sink since world war ii yvonne gray the ship's captain
00:45:49.540
was championed as the first lgbtq woman from new zealand to captain a ship the new zealand
00:45:56.760
government has repeatedly denied that the captain's gender played a role in the sinking of the ship so
00:46:03.460
what frustrates me again what they will say is that no it's not dei they deserve to be there well
00:46:17.940
there's too much backlash for not going to the dei way to expect that
00:46:25.220
you know what about the lesbian women that are there because they deserve it
00:46:29.380
now you you question things because of all the people they force into roles that are not meant
00:46:38.480
to be there it's defense minister for comments he melbourne truckie has copped a spray from new
00:46:45.920
zealand's defense minister for comments he made on social media the minister held a press conference
00:46:51.580
this afternoon and called out the online hate and misogyny leveled at the captain of a navy ship
00:47:04.880
Commander Yvonne Graham made the call to abandon...
00:47:15.740
You know, there are just some positions I am not comfortable.
00:47:24.840
if I see a woman that is good that if we're gonna I would prefer
00:47:29.800
a guy I would prefer it because I think that's a very high stress job and high stakes but
00:47:38.360
if you're gonna have a woman there I expect her to be there because she deserves it
00:47:44.480
and I want to see a badass take no shit looking woman
00:47:49.460
but you know i see women that just look like dei hires she just doesn't look like a badass to me
00:48:01.940
i mean i ship soon after the boat caught fire and sunk the life or death decision has been
00:48:11.780
widely commended but has also led to a torrent of misogyny and homophobia online i'm appalled
00:48:18.820
to see the comments online from these armchair admirals people who will never have to make
00:48:25.220
a decisions which mean life or death for their subordinates this is judith collins new zealand's
00:48:31.060
first female defense minister today women do not understand violence like men do you know
00:48:41.300
men know from a young age you could put in the chat what age did you realize
00:48:46.980
that if you said some bs you would get beaten up that if you messed with the wrong use if
00:48:53.140
you pissed off the wrong guy he was going to bash your face in men know this we do not
00:49:02.820
we are not the same because generally speaking although gen z is a lot more equal rights
00:49:08.340
equal left the equal left equal lefts than the boomers i'll tell you that um but
00:49:19.940
we i have a hard time with women in military positions again if they deserve to be there
00:49:27.140
sure but what i'm seeing is women oftentimes that don't and they just do not understand violence
00:49:36.180
the way that men do again i have an interesting point of view because i played sports and i would
00:49:41.380
play basketball i played basketball with men but i always knew that i cannot charge to the basket
00:49:49.460
like i do with women because i would get my rocked i would no can't do it
00:49:55.940
it's like i'm not breaking my getting my nose broke over this i'm not doing it
00:50:06.820
but in general we just we don't understand violence so i have a hard time
00:50:17.380
rectifying with women in charge of men that do and have from a young age the one thing that we
00:50:26.020
already know did not cause it is the gender oh you guys said five really that young i figured
00:50:33.300
it'd be like 12. i have nine five six eight and i'm going to read the chat on the website in a
00:50:40.020
second wow i totally thought it'd be like 10 to 12 of the ship's captain and she went further
00:50:47.300
tracking one down i took it upon myself to look up the details of one of the keyboard warriors
00:50:54.660
or the armchair admirals as we now refer to them in my team he's from melbourne in australia
00:51:02.740
commenting in a very negative way on our rule and see this is what we have a tendency to do
00:51:10.100
police speech if you ever make it's the same reason i'm demonetized right now
00:51:17.860
because if i notice any of these things they demonetize me they censor me they ban me i've
00:51:23.540
been i've had eight tick tock accounts banned you know and again that's why i hate to rag on you i
00:51:30.660
hate to bring this up all the time but that's why i keep pointing you guys to the website because
00:51:35.940
you know we need 3 500 people on there or one yearly membership a show in order to keep the
00:51:42.340
lights on because you know i don't know if she's going to dox the guy now but this is what when
00:51:49.700
women their rep when our reputation is on the line you know historically in order to survive
00:51:56.260
our reputation was really important so when our reputation is on the line that's when women go to
00:52:01.620
extreme lengths with family court false accusations and policing speech it's in order to save our
00:52:09.620
reputation that's why um a lot of the false rape accusations the woman was just cheating on her
00:52:16.660
on her boyfriend got found out what are her options this woman we're starting it's starting
00:52:22.260
to be revealed that we're not really equipped and a lot of us are being given jobs we don't deserve
00:52:32.100
the ladies they get mad now they have to police the speech it's the same reason
00:52:36.340
why you know candace got mad last show because i revealed that hey most of us ladies are here
00:52:42.660
because we're giving an enormous advantage on social media this isn't the most difficult
00:52:47.460
job in the world and neither of us would be here if we weren't women with men's opinions with
00:52:54.600
more right-leaning conservative opinions it just wouldn't happen we're not that special amazing
00:53:00.360
and awesome and I say this for me too right that's when they start to police speech that's when they
00:53:06.980
start to lie that's when the lawsuits start to come out etc etc New Zealand Navy and particularly
00:53:14.040
the woman i looked to see what else i could find about him well he is someone who drives something
00:53:21.080
he drives a truck and i think that he should keep his comments to people who drive trucks
00:53:27.080
rather than to people who drive ships finishing off the salvo by saying she won't stop calling
00:53:32.840
out these kinds of comments efforts to clean up the shipwreck are ongoing and yeah and a ship
00:53:40.840
just sank like think think about how serious that is people's lives are on the line and she is
00:53:47.400
worried about the reputation of the of the captain she's worried about the comments section because
00:53:54.360
again it's being revealed hey there's some flaw in the system again i have no problem if you show
00:54:02.120
me a woman that can do the exact job that a man can do if she can do a better job than a man does
00:54:10.200
it i have no problem with her getting the position i really don't the problem i have is when we're
00:54:18.440
being given special handouts and everyone has to pretend they're not what they are and by the way
00:54:25.480
guys we are going to do a call-in show at the end of this where you can call in and say if you've
00:54:30.520
ever been discriminated against because of your gender your race um and i want to know what
00:54:37.800
happened and how it affected the department but that's in a little bit court of inquiry
00:54:43.080
has been called to discuss the real cause of the crash to lula thompson for 10 news first
00:54:59.800
so the again these are all women in powerful positions that failed to meet the expectations
00:55:06.520
put upon them so i'm gonna grab the zoom link and we're gonna do a call-in show and i want to know
00:55:18.920
from you guys have you ever been discriminated against based on your gender and i would be
00:55:26.680
really curious to know how it affected the department
00:55:42.840
i'm gonna put it in the chat guys i'm also gonna take a second to read the chat on the website
00:55:50.220
again guys one of the greatest parts about being a audacity network website is not only that you
00:55:57.020
get access to all my old content that youtube made me delete um three years worth of work
00:56:02.240
10 000 videos they made me delete it it was really really devastating but again i'm very
00:56:07.840
lucky to be here in general so it is what it is those are their rules and um
00:56:17.120
normally on channels you have to donate for every comment that you make so
00:56:24.160
if you want the host to read your comment you have to donate every time you all you have to do is do
00:56:28.960
a 10 a month sign up or 80 bucks a year i read your comment all you have to do in the chat is
00:56:34.240
put pearl read if you put pearl or pearl read put two dots put your comment and i read it
00:56:41.280
i usually take breaks one or two times a show and i read them um hey pearl missed the last show and
00:56:47.280
i wanted to ask when you were doing panels in the uk there were women there was a woman that
00:56:51.200
wore a mask and claimed to be a virgin do you think women like her are a safer bet bet are there other
00:56:56.320
red flags when the cameras were off so i can't speak to her specifically but i will talk in
00:57:02.720
general about the more pure virgin women the challenge they have is they get so much attention
00:57:12.960
so the line to date those women is super long and they are still going for the top guy it's the same
00:57:21.840
reason you see conservative female commentators you know let's say balance of probabilities
00:57:27.200
conservative female commentators body count is lower or more pure whatever i'm not saying that's
00:57:32.880
true or untrue but let's just say that you never see them settle down for anything you know i
00:57:38.400
googled the average net worth of all these ladies husbands it's around 5 million the problem is
00:57:44.960
though again these women have more buying power they're still gonna go for the top guy and if
00:57:50.720
they don't get it they're going to wait as long as possible in order to keep going for that they're
00:57:56.720
going to essentially do the same thing they just have a little bit more buying powder power sometimes
00:58:03.440
if their character matches um the other challenge is you know the same challenge every guy is going
00:58:11.040
to have with dating really any woman on the planet is that they get so many offers from people
00:58:18.320
everywhere so if a woman is going on a show she is going to get offers from athletes she's going
00:58:26.080
to get offers from entertainers high level men if she's good looking enough she doesn't even
00:58:31.520
have to be famous you know i went to like a backstage like one time they invited my team
00:58:39.040
to go to was like a weekend concert right and we it was actually really fun we all went to the
00:58:44.400
like backstage area and for me i was invited because of the show and like they my producers
00:58:51.040
went it was a lot of fun but the thing that happens is there are women that
00:58:56.480
are just they don't even have big social media following
00:58:59.280
for being hot don't have big followings they just know the right people in the right circles
00:59:17.360
you know that's why i say the eight to tens will have a life that is very different than the six
00:59:24.460
to sevens they really like eight to ten level women they can literally live off of their beauty
00:59:31.660
either through sugar baby stuff or if they don't want to do that some of them can just be hot
00:59:37.340
and exist so um that's i hope that answers my question curveball says when did society
00:59:47.500
forget to build stone walls and or water barriers to protect and maintain homes
00:59:53.380
Pearl, Freddie Ramirez prophesied a month ago that January will be a black month for America.
00:59:59.760
According to what Jesus revealed to him, you can find the announcement on his YouTube channel.
01:00:09.920
There has been too many people that have used the Bible for prophecies that have not come true.
01:00:18.920
that i'm a little i'm a bit skeptical when they get one i'm like okay
01:00:25.940
anyways maybe he's different i don't know that guy someone said is this live yes um
01:00:33.700
diversity johnny says diversity demands the level of competence for candidates is overlooked in
01:00:41.500
favor of some other characteristic it's always prep to it will always prevent having only the
01:00:47.480
best for the job um the next one is johnny the idea that a current generation should have to
01:00:56.300
atone for things suffered by previous generations is ridiculous in the true sense of the word
01:01:02.880
the next one glenn says i'm discriminated all the time because of my gender
01:01:10.720
roger i'm a white male should i say more the zoom should be on the audacity chat it's from
01:01:20.240
santiago the admin he put it in the chat so too johnny says the woodstock generation accomplished
01:01:27.180
nothing for society they helped in destroying everything they were lucky enough to be born into
01:01:32.200
drugged up draft dodging mud wallflowers yeah you know i want you guys to know that the older women
01:01:39.520
did the exact same thing you you have to think what is the incentive of the older women are they
01:01:46.720
gonna say hey their whole phases did end earlier i'm gonna i'm gonna give them that it started
01:01:54.320
earlier and ended earlier but you know i found writings from the 1800s complaining about the
01:02:03.200
exact same thing so the difference now is social media we just like to tell on ourselves i don't
01:02:12.400
know what is it what what is it what is it about us doing that like it's like not only we we get
01:02:19.040
everything in this society there's nothing we don't get but we also brag about it like the
01:02:25.520
ladies will brag about having a hoe phase like they got away with it they have a man they have
01:02:29.760
a husband but they couldn't just keep it offline they couldn't just not put it on the internet so
01:02:35.520
he doesn't have to see it and be made fun of you know um so anyways the older ladies
01:02:44.560
because the interesting one thing was when i interviewed a thousand people even the mormon
01:02:48.960
girl that was on the other day what did her mom tell her go to school don't miss out the women a
01:02:55.520
lot of them that did the more traditional thing will tell their daughters that they're missing
01:03:01.280
out and to put off marriage and i heard this from like very traditional countries like nigeria
01:03:09.360
women would tell me that from so um italy asia so you know we've always been this way this is
01:03:20.080
we've always been this way the difference is we have way more power now like think about
01:03:25.520
the level of power we have. We have the power to do OnlyFans and even
01:03:30.040
hardcore corn with gangbang scenes and Riley Reid is married.
01:03:36.700
And you know, everyone, the conservatives get so mad at me by saying marriage is dead.
01:03:40.960
It doesn't exist anymore. They're like, ah, you're so mean. Riley Reid and Adam 22 got married.
01:03:48.160
it doesn't mean anything in 2024 it's a show for social media more often than it is a genuine
01:03:57.900
two people for life sadly that's what i say my analysis on relationships now is their rentals
01:04:05.860
not lifelong model like before you'd buy a car now you rent them it's the same thing with
01:04:11.060
relationships instead of buying it's rentals short-term rentals maybe long-term rentals it
01:04:18.300
depends it's like imagine relationships today is Facebook marketplace you might get a long-term
01:04:26.540
rental or it might be a short-term and you can't really know I know a woman in London I mean
01:04:35.740
she had she was all tatted up and she's been with the same guy for 15 years she's really loyal to
01:04:41.260
him and then there was a girl who looked like a girl next door cute normal looking she was cheating
01:04:51.660
on her boyfriend all the time you know it's like i'm not saying obviously one it's like some it's
01:04:59.020
the same thing on facebook you know some cars it's like high risk you think oh that car looks good
01:05:04.220
but that's a very that's a high risk car and low risk there's like you know sales like sellers that
01:05:14.380
it's it seems like more of a sure things but they're sure thing but there's just no guarantees
01:05:19.660
you know pearl do you want me to get deej in here she's had so many stories after 18 years in the
01:05:26.940
the heavy industry it's the audio down they're saying I can't hear the audio
01:05:41.900
we need our okay can you guys hear it yeah try to refresh it
01:05:51.560
you're telling me is anyone on the zoom link yet or no if you if you could fix the thing too
01:05:58.320
it's a fair ask I mean some people like it before it even starts
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hit hit the like button i want to know if you've ever been discriminated because of your gender
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and how it affected your industry now i have been asking this to the white men i know
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because that's that's what i've been hearing that they get discriminated against
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now my brothers told me no i asked them they said no one of my cousins told me no
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a different cousin said he lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars because he was in
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production and he said there are grants that go out specifically to minorities and he didn't get
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people up so i want to give you guys the rules um first i need to see that you're a person so i need
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to have your camera on if you guys request to be off camera you can tell me that that's totally
01:08:10.000
fine we can put you off the screen but i need to see that you're a real person the reason i do this
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is because i get trolls and i don't want weird things on the screen
01:08:21.680
um please try to keep your responses to the point i don't i'm really not a rude person i don't like
01:08:31.680
cutting people off but if you're giving me a super long monologue i'm gonna have to it's
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not to be rude it's just i gotta get to the next caller so you know try to keep it keep it to your
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story what industry are you in like i'm gonna ask you opening questions about you like where you're
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from etc but then after that we're gonna get to the story how it affected the industry get to the
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point is what i'm saying okay okay so our first caller oh we have gabe back again hello gabe how
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are you hi pearl how are you doing today i'm good uh where are you at again so i previously said
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that i'm originally from the bay area i currently live in southern california in l.a county where
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these fires are happening okay and have you seen them like what's been has it been close to you
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how has it affected you so i'm in long beach like way on the other side of the county where
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these fires are happening there's been smoke off and on it's been difficult to walk around
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and breathe outside uh still trying to tough it out carrying on daily errands and all that good
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stuff um it's been difficult but you know i mean what can you do i mean trust me i don't even get
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me started as we say out here on tally about how frustrating this whole situation is so have you
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ever been discriminated against for your race gender sex the short answer i would say is yes
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the more complicated answer i think is i don't know honestly um i can think of many times i've heard
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many modern women that i've been raised around saying horrible um discriminatory
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discriminatory stuff about men that gets on my nerves on a regular basis.
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want to say going on about three years i actually never heard women um that i worked with say
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anything horrible about men it's always been on on the college campus that i go to school at that
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i've heard women say like horrible things about men how so i'm more i'm more i more want to know
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what industry were you in were you overlooked for a promotion were you like systematically
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how did it hold you back maybe scholarship like what was it
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i can't say that i've never directly been affected in that way but i can say that definitely i mean
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looking at the bigger picture of like hearing the fire chief recently in the news saying
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um a man shouldn't be in a place where anybody has to carry him out of a burning building
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i've heard like women say that things like that before so i'm not sure if that answers your
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question okay well thank you very much for calling in gabe thank you thank you have a good day you too
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i don't mean i i should have prefaced this i don't mean comments i want to know at work
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um i don't know school where did you see the discrimination person were you over did you
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see someone else get promoted that didn't deserve it um that's what i'm trying to get to okay we
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have rj are you good to be on camera yes okay welcome to the show where are you calling out of
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uh montenegro it's in uh southern europe okay cool so what do you think of the topic have you
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ever seen discrimination because of your gender so this is a i think the simple answer is most
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likely i think a lot of the discrimination that comes to men is more of these subtle things a
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good example of this is i was applying for jobs for a long time basically from 2015 up to about
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2017, I was having a really hard time finding work. And one of the things that really bugged
01:13:50.720
me is every single time I look at a job application, or not the job application,
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the job posting, at the very bottom, it would say we're an equal opportunity employer,
01:14:01.880
where we are eager to hire women, people of different races, religions, all these other
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things which i did not qualify for and through this whole experience that trying to find a job
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and and applying for jobs constantly constantly getting rejected my wife uh several years later
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this is um 2019 um she had no work experience and she decided that she's going to go and get a job
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and she wanted to work at target what's the industry what's the industry you were looking at
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um i was i just i was looking for anything i mean i was really i did i had experience in
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video production okay and so i was looking for a lot in video production but really i i mean i
01:14:51.720
even applied to target myself and i was and i couldn't get a job at target but my wife she
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applied to target only up only job she applied to got the job right away and then a bit later
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she decided she wanted to try a different job applied to one job again no previous work experience
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and got that exact job that she applied for two application reviews two jobs and i was the one
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who wrote her cover letter and resume so that took away some of the um the the the chances that maybe
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she just did a better job writing the resume because i wrote it all for her so those were
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some basically just trying to go and get a job is a big area where i think a lot of men
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are facing this passive, per se, I don't think it's passive, it's just more of an invisible,
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might be aware of a better way of putting it, discrimination.
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Yeah, so it's not necessarily that somebody told you that you were not hired because of your gender,
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but you can kind of put two and two together when someone with way less experience is getting a job
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yes and and something else i think is also more this silent discrimination is just the way that
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men are basically neutered in the workforce and so again if i'm coming into i i did have i later went
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into property management into into real estate and one of the things that i started to experience
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there and there's probably about 50 50 men and women but i was in a team that was predominantly
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men and it was really refreshing because i would walk into a guy's office and i'd say
01:16:33.460
i need this thing done or hey you messed up on this thing and it would just be a quick oh oops
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my bad i'll get it fixed i'll take care of it no problem we'll get it done and it was very efficient
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whereas when i would have to go and interact with the women i would have to go into the office say
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you know oh hey good morning how are you doing today how's your daughter did you have a good
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weekend great by the way i was going through this whole thing not a big deal but i noticed that this
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you know document wasn't filed properly it's their chance to get that corrected no worries just
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whenever you get a chance i really appreciate it and just going through that constantly was um
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is a big way i think that men in the workforce just get neutered and and have to kind of learn to
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to not be as effective and not be as efficient as they otherwise would be.
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Otherwise, I'm assuming if you didn't do that, there would be problems.
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When I first got into the industry and first started working in that particular job,
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at the very beginning, I was told several times that I was being too confrontational
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and i was being too um i forget all the other kind of words but some similar words that i had to
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really learn to to just put a very very soft edge on onto those things um and it i found it really
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frustrating it's really i mean i got good at it but it was very frustrating to have to do that
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yeah i noticed um i used to sell plumbing parts to like plumbers like you would go and
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sell it was like pipe fitters like that sort of thing and i noticed when i was there like
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men can just yell at each other and they're like totally cool five minutes later where
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women will hold it against you forever it's i mean yeah i mean men can men are able to
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actually be emotional in front of each other and i think that uh there's and it's very there's a
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understanding i mean both both negative emotions and you know we'll say like basically a broad
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scope of emotions including just outright anger and you know men can just handle it and you just
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when you're in kind of any um you know mixed environment where there's men and women combined
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it just it's just it's like walking on eggshells the entire time well thank you for calling in rj
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let me get the next but let's see if anyone's got
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still no audio even the tech version is stalling that's weird um we'll look at it
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they said i've even restarted my iphone well i mean oh they said it's back okay
01:19:45.100
is it back now has anyone else called or no yeah you can go to the next one
01:19:55.460
Dane says let me mansplain something to you there's a significant different in pipe fitting
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and plumbing please don't ever make that mistake again no okay it was the things that held the
01:20:11.100
pipes obviously I didn't sell many but but it was um actually I was in charge of getting the
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meetings and my boss would do it but anyways um we got doug mpa on the line moderator of
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i don't know years now hello doug hey can you hear me i can hear you perfectly yeah so the
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the sound was out on the audacity network site and not on youtube it's been it's been okay on
01:20:38.740
youtube the whole time but i don't know if it's back on the audacity network but anyway i'll
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email the you screen guy go ahead but uh yeah so you know i work for a large law enforcement
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agency during during my day job and there's definitely a push for more women in law
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enforcement every sit and where they get you is all the leadership programs and conferences are
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for women now all the development stuff is for women oh so they get all this free help
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yeah all the help all the development is for women and i also and it's just like in um in
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colleges all of the scholarship money is for women guys if you listen to this and you're
01:21:25.140
and you're gonna go to college in a undergrad you can apply for those scholarships because i had a
01:21:31.860
friend who went all the way to college from undergrad to master's degree to phd and he he
01:21:38.260
applied for women's scholarships because what happens is there's never enough women applying for
01:21:45.220
for the scholarships and at the end they have to get rid of the money
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so they will give it to men if there's no one else to give it to
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so guys apply for female only scholarships and odds are you're going to get it because
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they never have enough women applying for those scholarships so but anyway uh on the topic i've
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never i've never been passed over for a promotion for a woman but maybe it's because you know i
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because i'm black and i'm also in in the in the protected class i have seen workplaces i've been
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a part of where they push everyone but white men i've seen that i've seen it how did you see how
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did you know that was the reasoning because i think what they would say is you know you guys
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are just making that up and well you know what when you see all all the okay the
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there are white men at the bottom and they're white men at the top but like the the middle
01:22:46.820
management where you transition from the bottom to the top is all all women and people of color
01:22:53.540
why do you think that is why middle management like how did the guys get to the top if they don't
01:22:58.500
pass through middle management is it because they're boomers and that was before a lot of it
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yeah it's it's either they're boomers or they're so qualified that they can't be denied because
01:23:09.940
everyone of every race religion and gender can be so qualified that you can't be denied it just
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so happens that a lot of the white guys that were there were so qualified that you you couldn't say
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no to him yeah do you know what's interesting so um i was telling my dad about you know the h1b
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visa stuff yeah yeah and i was telling my dad's about the response and um
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he just does not see discrimination like at all he doesn't see it and he reacted sort of similar
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to not not the same as elon but like similar like he doesn't know what they're talking about if you
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work hard it's fine and i think the reason is the top like my dad is top like one percent and probably
01:23:59.380
an intelligence and work ethic so so zelon musk that they're like the top guys just don't see it
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because they're so useful that it's like they can't be overlooked yeah that's what talking
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about the the the guys at the top i guess these are all the guys at the top especially the white
01:24:18.740
men were so useful to the group that right when they got there you're like okay this is this is
01:24:25.540
the right fit but all the transitional all the middle management of the people that could
01:24:30.900
potentially move to the top were either women or women or people of color and the other thing i
01:24:36.020
thought about was that he doesn't my dad's never worked for anyone else and he's never been like
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one experience i've heard from guys is they've been in a position where their boss they have to
01:24:49.300
do the work for their boss where like the boss will ask them to make decisions that like the
01:24:55.540
boss that isn't qualified and if you've never been like work like it's men that don't rely on
01:25:01.220
the system that don't understand it like they don't rely like they started their own thing um
01:25:06.900
they didn't go to like a big university or or maybe it was before but i i was watching elon musk
01:25:14.500
like freak out sort of and i was like why is he reacting like that and i'm like he probably just
01:25:19.460
doesn't know well you know the the big thing with vivek ramaswari and elon musk and this h1 thing is
01:25:28.100
that um the right now it's you know immigrants as a whole are being scrutinized right now
01:25:39.860
and elon and vivek are saying oh yeah you know h1s are the good ones that want to come over
01:25:44.900
but there's been such such a fervor on on on immigration if the average person on the right
01:25:51.060
doesn't want to make the distinction right now so that's where the conflict is i think
01:25:56.340
you know what i'm saying um i don't think that elon and they really thought that through
01:26:02.180
when they came came over over to the right what was gonna happen because now they're saying oh
01:26:06.900
h1s are fine and the party's saying yeah with our constituents no they're not
01:26:14.820
so but yeah i i just think the goal the the goal is to be so important and so useful
01:26:21.620
but you cannot be denied especially to all you white guys out there let me tell you i've seen
01:26:28.940
active discrimination against white men in workplaces because if they're supposed to be
01:26:33.360
the root of all evil nowadays i don't think so but um what did you see like what was it was it
01:26:38.840
a promotion that someone like a white guy you knew was qualified for and didn't get like what
01:26:44.540
was the specific story i i i i would just always see certain positions at a certain level would go
01:26:53.340
to certain groups because because it makes them look good so like a lot of workplaces have stats
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on their leadership or middle management positions and the more you can say oh yeah we have a wobble
01:27:06.420
we have this many women leaders and this many it looks good for for the organization
01:27:13.460
and how does it make you feel um being a minority that people could because i don't know about you
01:27:21.760
but for me it's like i would i want the best person to get the job to get it but now you get
01:27:28.320
the problem when smart people like you get the job because you're smart and you're good at your
01:27:33.420
job it people may look at you as if you got it because of your skin color because of the dei stuff
01:27:39.280
um that hasn't really been an issue for me yet but you know i would just take that as it came
01:27:45.960
along you know i try to i'd like to think that every single position i've had i've been so useful
01:27:50.580
that that wasn't really an issue um but i would think that somewhere along the way i mean i'm not
01:27:58.980
one for passive aggressiveness and i try to be direct at work so i'm gonna see if you have a
01:28:04.400
problem say it to my face and no one's said it to my face yet so i'm perfectly fine but i'm pretty
01:28:08.740
sure i've come across people that have had that attitude i just don't know it or i just didn't
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notice yeah okay well thank you so much doug always good talking a pleasure as usual bye bye
01:28:23.460
pearl look at all the coaches you've had in your life were they always in great physical shape
01:28:29.540
let me think about that more who is my favorite coach
01:28:34.660
i don't know my coach in england was really good and i mean he was kind of old but he was good back
01:28:41.940
in the day every coach i've had if they are not in good shape now they were pretty good when they
01:28:49.380
played so um is anyone else on the line no okay okay guys well that's all i got for you today
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01:29:07.120
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01:29:12.820
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01:29:28.800
we have such a great community here i really do love you guys um and i will see you guys
01:29:36.880
on monday thanks for watching and i'll talk to you later bye