The Auron MacIntyre Show - LA Wildfires and the Competency Crisis ｜ Guest： Peachy Keenan ｜ 1⧸13⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Hey everybody, how's it going?

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00:00:37.420 If you've been paying any attention to the news,

00:00:39.600 then you know that California has been experiencing some very crazy wildfires.

00:00:44.140 And in particular, the LA County area is really getting hit.

00:00:47.800 You have a lot of celebrities posting pictures from their homes,

00:00:51.040 some that have burned down, some that are getting very close.

00:00:53.620 You have a large number of people who have lost property.

00:00:56.440 Many people have died.

00:00:58.160 There's quite the disaster going on.

00:00:59.960 And everybody's ready to point fingers.

00:01:02.400 But I think the best thing to do is to get a report from somebody who's on the ground.

00:01:05.740 And luckily, one of our previous guests, P.G. Keenan, who's a great author and writer,

00:01:10.800 is in the Palisades over there.

00:01:12.880 And she is ready to join us.

00:01:13.960 P.G., thank you so much for coming on.

00:01:15.740 Hi, thank you.

00:01:16.540 It's good to be here.

00:01:18.020 Absolutely.

00:01:18.740 So we'll get into, I guess, how all this started in a second.

00:01:22.200 But where are things now?

00:01:24.800 How many fires are burning?

00:01:27.020 Are people safe from looting?

00:01:28.400 What is the situation like on the ground right now?

00:01:31.520 Yeah, so I actually am not in the Palisades.

00:01:33.700 I am in Altadena, which is another fire zone.

00:01:37.900 But I grew up in the Palisades.

00:01:39.380 So I've been posting about both areas.

00:01:42.020 The Palisades is my hometown, my childhood home, the village burned down, my mother's

00:01:46.980 old home in Big Rock, Malibu burned down.

00:01:50.360 And basically everyone I know in the Palisades is now homeless.

00:01:53.360 And a lot of people got evacuated and are still evacuated.

00:01:55.860 And it's just, it's a disaster.

00:01:57.180 So here in Altadena, all the way across town, I'm an hour east, I'm by the Rose Bowl, the

00:02:01.840 Pasadena, just sort of, Altadena is like this beautiful little nook just north of Pasadena

00:02:06.440 where they have the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl.

00:02:10.540 Basically everything north of me is gone.

00:02:12.700 The entire business district on Lake Avenue, the big north-south road through Pasadena and

00:02:18.000 Altadena is basically gone on both sides, north of approximately New York Drive.

00:02:24.220 And I'm basically a block away from the military evacuation zone.

00:02:28.080 So we're home.

00:02:29.560 We were evacuated for two nights.

00:02:31.040 We came back because my dogs were here.

00:02:34.440 My husband actually stayed behind, strapped, because we heard about all the looters.

00:02:40.200 And this morning on a press conference, I heard that they like arrested 30 people yesterday

00:02:44.500 for looting.

00:02:45.680 People are dressed up as firemen to go into people's homes here in Altadena.

00:02:50.180 Altadena and in the Palisades, Altadena is not as wealthy.

00:02:54.320 It's more middle class.

00:02:55.580 But people are still looting.

00:02:57.340 And everyone is waiting to come back to their house.

00:02:59.180 I have a lot of friends who live near me whose house has survived, but they've been out of

00:03:03.700 their homes for now a week with all their kids.

00:03:05.880 Kids don't have their school uniforms, their backpacks, clean underwear, all that stuff.

00:03:10.120 They're not letting people in, apparently, because they're going house by house looking for

00:03:13.220 bodies, which I found out today.

00:03:15.680 And they keep finding them.

00:03:17.100 So I heard on the news today, this morning, West Altadena, which is a historically Black

00:03:22.700 neighborhood.

00:03:23.840 This is not just rich, white people.

00:03:25.240 This is a lot of lower middle class Black families in West Altadena.

00:03:30.420 There was a grandpa and his son both died in the fire.

00:03:34.080 I mean, this is like, it's real.

00:03:35.980 I think a few dozen people, I think, are dead in this area alone.

00:03:39.680 So it's crazy.

00:03:40.740 There's National Guard guarding every intersection.

00:03:43.220 Today, I took the kids to school.

00:03:44.600 School school reopened and we headed west and I had to dodge like armed army guys the whole

00:03:50.340 way through.

00:03:50.880 It was it was crazy.

00:03:52.700 It's really wild out here.

00:03:54.560 Yeah, I'm surprised that schools are open that early.

00:03:57.240 When you have a devastating thing like this, the hardest thing is really transversing the

00:04:01.520 roads.

00:04:01.940 And so a lot of times you have an extended shutdown.

00:04:05.460 You said the air quality was pretty rough right now.

00:04:08.300 What's it like breathing out there?

00:04:10.240 It was horrible.

00:04:12.020 The first two days I had, we had migraines, nausea, so we got out of here.

00:04:15.960 But even south of us was still bad.

00:04:17.880 Like the whole, I almost went to Manhattan Beach by the beach to get away.

00:04:21.200 But my friends were coming back because they said the air was actually worse there.

00:04:24.840 Then it got much better.

00:04:26.000 So the last day or two has actually been blue skies.

00:04:28.280 You can breathe.

00:04:29.900 Last night got a little sketchy again.

00:04:31.760 And so, you know, we have the air purifiers going.

00:04:35.440 I they're all sold out everywhere.

00:04:37.180 So you have to kind of wait if you want to do that.

00:04:39.840 We just have fans going and keeping the windows closed.

00:04:43.000 So I'm just like, you know, I'm ventilating the city air right now with my lungs.

00:04:46.460 So you're welcome.

00:04:48.280 But we don't have anywhere else to go.

00:04:49.920 So we're just kind of, you know, staying.

00:04:51.820 So obviously, California is a place that's known for wildfires.

00:04:58.280 This isn't a brand new phenomenon in Florida, where I live.

00:05:02.360 We have hurricanes.

00:05:03.900 And obviously, we know they're coming for a while.

00:05:06.260 You have the option of getting ready and writing it out or evacuating.

00:05:10.080 But you have a buildup, a notice.

00:05:11.920 Usually you don't just have a hurricane kind of pop into your area.

00:05:15.840 A lot of people are blaming climate change.

00:05:18.520 Obviously, this is the first thing that, you know, the that the left does.

00:05:21.920 Oh, we've never seen a fire in California before.

00:05:24.340 Brand new phenomenon.

00:05:26.080 How much warning did you have that this was coming?

00:05:29.620 When did you know that this was going to be making its way

00:05:32.020 to areas you live, to the homes of people you know?

00:05:35.360 We had basically no warning in the Palisades.

00:05:38.960 The fire started up in the highlands, which is like a kind of like adjacent neighborhood

00:05:43.120 up and really up in the in the hills with only one in and out.

00:05:46.280 So apparently it started in a off a hiking trail up there.

00:05:49.680 So all day we were kind of watching the news and people evacuating from the highlands,

00:05:53.340 but never in a million, which has had a few fires.

00:05:56.160 And obviously, Malibu does every few years burn down.

00:05:59.140 Half of Malibu burns down.

00:06:01.540 But but but the Palisades village has never burned.

00:06:05.300 And the idea that fire would come that far down to like, to Mescal, to Pali High, all

00:06:11.340 the way to the beach, it wiped everything down to the water, gone is is totally unthinkable.

00:06:18.060 So we were watching the news to all day Tuesday, like, oh, my gosh, our friends are getting

00:06:22.400 out of the Palisades.

00:06:23.700 Oh, no.

00:06:24.300 Like, I hope everyone's OK, but not really panicked about it at all.

00:06:27.780 So all my kids were home.

00:06:29.080 My oldest was home from college.

00:06:30.840 And we're all sitting around.

00:06:31.900 This is last Tuesday night.

00:06:33.100 It was about 7, 8 p.m.

00:06:35.040 We're all watching the news kind of glued like, wait, the Palisades village is on fire.

00:06:38.920 Like, how is this happening?

00:06:40.440 And then my husband, like, tapped me on the shoulder and he'd like showed me his phone

00:06:44.440 and he had just gone an alert that Eaton Canyon was on fire because I've been sitting there

00:06:49.220 all day going, well, that's so far from us.

00:06:51.040 We're totally fine.

00:06:51.820 Like, too bad for the Palisades, but we're OK.

00:06:54.640 Eaton Canyon is up here.

00:06:56.080 It's right next to me.

00:06:57.120 It's down the street.

00:06:57.800 It's a very well-known kind of like a ravine and a trailhead here in East Altadena, right

00:07:04.400 above Pasadena, that leads up into these beautiful hiking trails.

00:07:06.980 It's like famous hiking.

00:07:07.860 There's waterfalls.

00:07:08.780 It's quite lovely.

00:07:09.580 My kids have gone camping up there many times.

00:07:12.420 And so I see this alert around 8 p.m.

00:07:14.740 on Tuesday.

00:07:15.400 And I'm like, that's crazy.

00:07:17.100 Like, let's go to the front yard.

00:07:18.400 Like, let's see what we can see.

00:07:20.060 Thinking, obviously, that we wouldn't see anything, you know, that's like about a mile

00:07:23.560 from me.

00:07:23.960 I walk out to the front yard.

00:07:25.920 It's dark now.

00:07:27.620 And to my surprise, the entire sky behind my street is bright red.

00:07:33.540 The whole sky, like, close.

00:07:36.680 And we went inside and we were like, OK, I don't know how close that is.

00:07:41.280 My husband went up to walk around and look around.

00:07:43.380 And he came with my older son.

00:07:44.720 And he came back and said, like, let's pack our bags because this is actually looks like

00:07:48.720 it might be coming down.

00:07:50.420 The kids started to panic.

00:07:51.400 And I have to say that from 8 p.m. until about 10 p.m.

00:07:54.680 when we when we evacuated was probably the scariest two hours of my life.

00:07:59.280 My little kids were like freaked out, like they were fully suitcased, like they just

00:08:03.140 packed, grabbed whatever they could.

00:08:05.140 And I was like, this is actually is this happening?

00:08:07.660 This is like so hard to believe this is not a fire zone.

00:08:10.880 You know, there was a few fires way in the Angeles Crest Hills, those mountains, the

00:08:15.160 mountaintops, you know, every few years will be a fire up near Mount Wilson, the observatory,

00:08:19.480 which I think is still standing, which I can see from my house.

00:08:22.660 But never in a billion years.

00:08:24.500 These houses are over 100 years old.

00:08:26.160 This is like old craftsmen, Pasadena.

00:08:28.080 These houses have been have lasted.

00:08:29.580 They've survived earthquakes and all these things.

00:08:31.480 So it's totally unthinkable that we would have to evacuate for fire.

00:08:35.420 And so we packed the bags.

00:08:37.260 By the time we left the house, it was about 1030 on Tuesday night.

00:08:40.760 You could see flames in the blocks, a couple blocks north of us.

00:08:43.540 Like you could actually see live flames.

00:08:45.280 And the winds at that point were something I've never experienced.

00:08:49.700 It was like my analogy was like I felt like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz trying to open

00:08:54.140 the storm cellar, but the winds like won't let her like that was me trying to open the 0.86

00:08:57.440 car door to the minivan.

00:08:58.640 Like it was so intense branches coming down.

00:09:01.980 At that point, the kids were like screaming.

00:09:03.700 So we're just like get in the car.

00:09:05.140 We just got whatever we could.

00:09:06.320 We actually had to leave the dogs.

00:09:07.620 We just we didn't have room for them.

00:09:08.780 We left the door open.

00:09:09.800 We were going to come check on them.

00:09:10.940 But my husband wanted to get us out of, you know, the fire.

00:09:15.360 And so we just had this like caravan, my teenage son in his car in front of us.

00:09:19.400 We packed whatever we could, photos and all that, and got to my friend's house a couple

00:09:24.080 miles south of us and just watched the alerts all night.

00:09:27.120 I was up all night seeing alerts of these houses burning that I know very well and just

00:09:32.020 feeling just an intense amount of panic.

00:09:34.100 And it's been like a blur since then.

00:09:36.500 And now I'm on the edge of a FEMA disaster zone, which is a very unusual and new.

00:09:42.220 I didn't imagine that 2025 would start like this.

00:09:47.160 Yeah, I've interviewed a bit a part of many FEMA recoveries.

00:09:50.280 It's a it's never a great place to be.

00:09:53.860 The winds you mentioned there, is that a relatively new thing?

00:09:58.800 Is that something you've experienced before?

00:10:00.100 Is that a function of the fire or seasonal weather pattern?

00:10:02.920 What what the winds have been attributed to a lot of kind of the speed at which this

00:10:07.640 fire has spread?

00:10:08.800 Is it was that unique to you or have you seen that before?

00:10:11.380 Yeah, it was unique.

00:10:12.580 I mean, the Santa Ana winds is what they're called.

00:10:14.980 They're like a famous feature of living in Southern California.

00:10:17.760 They happen usually in the fall, which does which is what makes the fire danger worse because

00:10:22.860 it gets really dry in the fall before the rain starts.

00:10:26.600 And so the Santa Ana's are basically every year there'll be like some strong winds.

00:10:30.520 They go from east to west.

00:10:32.180 They blow from the mountains down to the beach.

00:10:34.480 Most of the wind in L.A. is like, you know, offshore comes in from the ocean, cools everyone

00:10:38.820 off, keeps everything nice and balmy out here.

00:10:41.680 But the Santa Ana's are these like very ferocious winds that we get.

00:10:44.620 Usually it's a few days, a day or two.

00:10:47.300 And they're not ever like 70, 80 miles an hour.

00:10:51.660 It's maybe 30, 40 miles an hour.

00:10:53.600 Maybe in the mountain passes, it would get more extreme.

00:10:55.820 And it's never, I've never experienced what I, it felt like a tornado was like going around

00:11:00.780 me.

00:11:01.000 So it was more extreme.

00:11:01.920 And obviously that's why I think the fire became like a blowtorch.

00:11:05.680 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a designer dress from Winners, I started

00:11:10.400 wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:11:14.440 Like that woman over there with the Italian leather handbag. 1.00

00:11:17.380 Is that from Winners?

00:11:18.620 Ooh, or that beautiful silk skirt. 0.99

00:11:21.120 Did she pay full price?

00:11:22.160 Or those suede sneakers?

00:11:23.920 Or that luggage?

00:11:25.020 Or that trench?

00:11:26.120 Those jeans?

00:11:26.840 That jacket?

00:11:27.560 Those heels? 1.00

00:11:28.440 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:11:31.400 Stop wondering.

00:11:32.680 Start winning.

00:11:33.600 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:11:36.320 So how many total fires did they identify at one point?

00:11:40.840 And do you know how many they've been able to reduce it to at this point?

00:11:44.140 There was the Palisades, which then went over to Brentwood to Mandeville Canyon, just a little

00:11:49.140 east of the Altadena fire, or they're calling it the Eaton Canyon fire.

00:11:54.720 And then there was one in Hollywood that was put out, and then there's one in the valley

00:11:58.180 that was put out.

00:11:59.220 So as far as I know, these are the two.

00:12:00.780 There might be one way out in Santa Clarita that's actually not a big deal.

00:12:04.400 In terms of the Palisades, I think it's maybe 30% contained.

00:12:08.620 It's still going.

00:12:10.120 And here in Altadena, if you look out and see, there's no smoke.

00:12:14.260 There's no visible fire going on anywhere, but I see this morning on the way back from

00:12:18.100 school, like right in front of me, it was like 50 crews from all over the state, heading

00:12:23.560 north, heading north.

00:12:24.540 And then my friend who lives up the street from me said that on her block, there are

00:12:28.420 still houses burning.

00:12:29.740 There's still like smoldering, like hot spots.

00:12:32.160 So nothing is like in full inferno right now, but up here, just off lake there, apparently

00:12:37.380 there are major hot spots.

00:12:38.880 So that's like a concern because apparently the tonight into Tuesday night into Wednesday

00:12:45.100 will be more 40, 50 mile an hour winds.

00:12:48.240 So I'm really praying and hoping that they manage to, at least on this residential side 0.96

00:12:52.400 of the mountain, protect whatever is left.

00:12:56.620 Yeah.

00:12:56.720 Containment is a very tricky thing.

00:12:58.560 Like you said, you think you have things locked down.

00:13:01.680 You think that at least you have the residences out of the path of possible expansion.

00:13:06.560 And then something like a wind can, can completely, uh, you know, blow that back open.

00:13:11.120 So that's a, it's a very difficult situation.

00:13:13.520 And this is probably a good time to talk about the actual firefighting.

00:13:18.160 Uh, so a lot again, has been put on climate change and I'm not somebody who is entirely,

00:13:24.280 um, you know, skeptical of the fact that men, you know, that, that people can have an impact

00:13:30.740 on the climate and they can, you know, that we need to be good stewards of the land that

00:13:34.180 we need to care about the environment.

00:13:36.280 Those, those arguments don't fall on my ears, uh, completely deaf.

00:13:40.600 However, it's very clear that many of the policies that have been put in place by California

00:13:47.100 governance has really hindered the ability of them to one control the outbreak of fires

00:13:53.740 and to fight them when they occur.

00:13:56.240 Uh, it's my understanding that there due to different environmental concerns, there is

00:14:02.500 a lack of care of the forest.

00:14:04.520 They are not, they're not dredging them out.

00:14:06.760 They're not raking them out.

00:14:07.860 The underbrush is not burned away on a regular basis.

00:14:10.500 And so this adds to the possibility that when fires occur, they can really get out of control.

00:14:17.040 Yeah, that's my understanding too, that they're, and I think Donald Trump has talked about

00:14:20.960 this, um, in regards to his criticism of Gavin Newsom, our governor, that they're not clearing

00:14:25.600 the forest.

00:14:26.060 Like they used to, they would do controlled burns.

00:14:27.960 They would really manage it well.

00:14:29.500 And now, because they don't want to hurt the, like, you know, endangered ground squirrel or

00:14:33.280 whatever, the little beetle, they don't do that as much.

00:14:35.860 And so they let the vegetation rise and rise.

00:14:38.820 Um, however, you know, in terms of like, I think Bernie Sanders was like, we have to get,

00:14:42.960 we have to find the people who did this climate change.

00:14:45.520 It's like, we had the last two winters in a row, we had the highest rainfall on record.

00:14:49.820 And I remember when that was happening, we were just like getting deluged, right?

00:14:53.140 And everyone's like, okay, well, the drought is over.

00:14:55.080 Thank goodness.

00:14:55.940 They can't say we're in a drought anymore and restrict our water use, but where's all

00:14:59.860 this water going?

00:15:00.700 It sure would be nice to have all this water captured so that when there is an inevitable

00:15:05.320 fire or a drought or a shortage, we have all this water.

00:15:08.660 Billions of gallons were just rushing through all the, all the channels down the LA river.

00:15:13.200 And you just go right into the ocean.

00:15:14.640 They have like no way of capturing them.

00:15:16.840 They have a few old reservoirs, but they have no way of capturing this water.

00:15:20.960 I was actually shocked to see that the closest reservoir to Pacific Palisades, which was on

00:15:26.800 the news ahead, was empty.

00:15:28.200 It was repairing it or something.

00:15:30.180 And that was the, that is the reservoir that is supposed to feed all those fire hydrants in 0.81

00:15:35.760 Pacific Palisades.

00:15:36.520 They ran dry on the night of the fire at 3am.

00:15:38.860 There was no more fire, no, no more water, no more water, no more water in your hose, no

00:15:42.420 more water in the fire, whatever.

00:15:44.740 And so why was that reservoir dry?

00:15:46.920 Why isn't there another reservoir?

00:15:48.580 Why isn't there a local reservoir here in Altadena?

00:15:50.940 I don't know where they're getting the water from in Altadena, but I do know that we have

00:15:54.340 water.

00:15:54.740 We can't drink it.

00:15:55.800 But the morning of the fire, very early Wednesday morning, my, before everything was closed

00:15:59.340 off, my husband ran up Lake to see our friend's houses.

00:16:02.840 Cause they were like, are we homeless?

00:16:05.680 Like what's the, what's the deal?

00:16:06.860 And so he went up there and he took this incredible video of their home, which is kind of the backyard

00:16:12.160 was on fire, but the house was still there.

00:16:14.600 And he said that he tried to put out some spot fires with the hose, but there was no water

00:16:19.020 in any of their hoses.

00:16:20.760 A friend of mine, a couple, they just had a baby.

00:16:23.160 They got out safely.

00:16:24.960 They live a few streets North of me in Altadena.

00:16:27.820 The husband went back, very intrepid guy.

00:16:30.480 He had a pickup truck.

00:16:31.760 He powered his sprinklers with his truck and then had some kind of bucket brigade with

00:16:36.620 a neighbor and they rigged up some kind of hose system.

00:16:39.640 I'm not sure what they used.

00:16:41.020 And him and one neighbor all night saved their block all except for, I think one house.

00:16:46.580 And so their house stands and they got lucky because people were, and I hear story after

00:16:50.460 story of that, of like these homeowners and they were, there was no fire truck the whole

00:16:55.020 day, the whole night, the whole day, there was nothing.

00:16:56.680 And I went up and looked and I saw women, women with hoses doing their, you know, trying 1.00

00:17:01.560 to get their houses out.

00:17:02.820 And there was, I saw a couple of trucks, but there was just not that you could see there

00:17:07.760 was not enough resources.

00:17:09.020 If there had been more trucks in that area, it would have saved more homes.

00:17:13.340 And right now they're actually going door to door looking for bodies.

00:17:16.020 So it would have saved lives.

00:17:17.320 I don't know what the reason is, why there aren't worth that many trucks, but we've all seen

00:17:21.920 those reports now of how the mayor of LA and the governor, they've defunded all of these

00:17:27.600 fire departments and diverted the money to DEI programs.

00:17:31.460 And they even, they even sent our excess fire equipment to Ukraine.

00:17:36.940 So, I mean, it's like, actually that would have been really nice to have.

00:17:40.580 Yeah, I mean, that's, that's called treason.

00:17:44.720 That's, that's criminal.

00:17:46.560 And I will avoid Fed posting on stream.

00:17:50.140 However, you know, that, that, that is the category that belongs in with all intended punishments.

00:17:57.200 Uh, that, that, that is an absolute, uh, betrayal of the people that you serve, uh, for no other

00:18:03.860 interest than to kind of signal to the popular zeitgeist about being a great person and helping

00:18:09.680 some foreign country you, you don't even know about.

00:18:12.260 And so, um, it's just absolutely insane and gross.

00:18:15.340 And, you know, you pointed out that the, you know, the, the initiatives that have been started

00:18:20.340 by so many of these California governments, I mean, the mayor of LA wasn't even in LA during

00:18:25.960 this, right?

00:18:26.420 She was like in, in Ghana, she was in West Africa because that's, that's where you would

00:18:32.260 put the mayor of a, of an American city because that's, that's the way we conduct business.

00:18:36.560 Uh, but, but it particularly striking has been the response, I think from so many of, uh,

00:18:41.940 kind of the state, uh, functionaries and even the fire departments, there's a, I think an

00:18:47.200 assistant, uh, fire, uh, chief in LA who, you know, basically when there was a large amount

00:18:53.860 of kind of criticism, cause it's hard not to notice that the LA fire department is run

00:18:57.320 by a lot of lesbians. 1.00

00:18:59.120 Uh, it's a very strange that, uh, just the most qualified for people in all of LA just

00:19:03.900 all happened to be, uh, you know, happened to be lesbians, uh, to run a fire department. 1.00

00:19:09.200 Um, and, and she was being questioned about the, the wisdom of, of kind of forcing women 0.71

00:19:14.700 into these roles of, uh, firefighters and, uh, said, well, could, could, could an average

00:19:20.120 woman doing this job carry a man out of a fire? 1.00

00:19:22.680 And her response was something like, well, if, if your husband put himself in a place

00:19:27.040 where I need to carry him out of a fire, that's his problem.

00:19:29.900 Right.

00:19:30.720 And it's like, no, that's literally your job.

00:19:33.100 That's the entire job.

00:19:35.020 What you're saying is you can't do the job at all.

00:19:38.820 And you're the person in charge of this whole thing.

00:19:42.840 Yeah.

00:19:43.220 I saw that too.

00:19:44.100 I mean, that's like the number one requirement, right?

00:19:46.020 Like all your gear on and you can climb a ladder and haul an unconscious adult male out of 0.99

00:19:52.160 a house.

00:19:52.780 That seems to be the like number one requirement.

00:19:55.900 Like it's literally called the fireman's carry.

00:19:58.040 Like that's literally the name of the move to put someone over your shoulders and carry

00:20:01.860 them out.

00:20:02.440 And I tweeted this today, but like every guy I've seen in the trucks today, this morning,

00:20:07.260 heading up there, I saw a lot of straight white guys.

00:20:09.640 I saw a lot of guys with like goatees, you know, the kind of guy you want fighting fire.

00:20:14.400 That's who I saw.

00:20:15.260 I did not see a lot of lesbians of color. 1.00

00:20:17.260 So I don't know what that means.

00:20:18.680 Um, should I report that to the authorities?

00:20:20.580 Like, where's the diversity?

00:20:21.840 When you're dying, when you're burning alive in your home, don't you feel better knowing

00:20:25.780 that you did because a lesbian of color got to have a job in like a cool uniform? 1.00

00:20:30.960 Well, and that was, that was her line is like, well, you want someone who looks like you 0.94

00:20:34.660 rescuing you.

00:20:35.540 No, I want someone who can rescue me, rescuing me.

00:20:39.400 I don't care how they look as long as they're carrying my butt out of the fire.

00:20:44.100 Like that is, that is the qualification as you point out that I want the most.

00:20:48.100 Right.

00:20:49.080 I think that DEI, you know, if it comes to like, you know, who's teaching the ceramics

00:20:53.640 class at the local college.

00:20:55.580 Okay, fine.

00:20:56.240 You want to do DEI.

00:20:57.300 There are certain jobs that are life and death that we can't, they have to be meritocratic.

00:21:03.860 You know, these include fire firemen.

00:21:05.680 These include surgeons.

00:21:07.280 These include airplane pilots.

00:21:08.820 The guys driving the, flying the big tanker, you know, planes full of the pink stuff that 0.99

00:21:15.700 they dropped.

00:21:16.240 One went over my house this morning.

00:21:18.140 I guarantee you the pilot of that airplane was probably a, you know, heterosexual male.

00:21:24.860 These are, there's no DEI when it comes to that job, flying these crazy maneuvers, these

00:21:29.760 aerial pilot, helicopter pilots are doing like these incredible kind of heroic maneuvers.

00:21:34.580 And it's just the old adage, you know, DEI is D-I-E.

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00:21:55.380 Yeah, I, I, I'm still amazed.

00:21:58.580 Like, I know that this cultish behavior has taken over.

00:22:01.940 I, I practically, I understand it.

00:22:04.200 I've been in the middle of bureaucracies where the, the mission has been sacrificed specifically

00:22:09.700 for these goals.

00:22:10.820 But it is still stunning to me when you, when you, as you point out, you know, this isn't

00:22:15.460 teaching ceramics.

00:22:17.080 This isn't accumulating, you know, English literature.

00:22:20.700 This is people burning to death.

00:22:22.820 Uh, and when you have that kind of job, uh, the fact that this insane suicidal, uh, ideology

00:22:30.760 has worked its way even into these critical positions like police, like firefighters, like

00:22:36.260 the military, it's the stuff that would, it was never supposed to touch, right?

00:22:40.040 This is what we always heard is, oh, well, you know, it's just a bunch of crazy kids coming

00:22:43.560 out of college and maybe they'll take over a humanities department or even the, you know,

00:22:48.200 advertising over at target or something.

00:22:50.120 But, you know, when, when it's people's lives on the line, when it's life and death, when

00:22:54.480 it's, it's a clutch moment, you know, hard sciences, you know, virology, uh, you know,

00:23:00.740 uh, police, firefighters, military, none of this will be taught.

00:23:03.920 This is the core of what makes the society function.

00:23:06.920 We would never hollow that out just to give a bunch of people jobs because they, you know,

00:23:11.840 uh, you know, screw the right person or have the right, uh, anatomy. 0.95

00:23:15.040 And apparently we will, we'll, we'll literally just burn civilization down to promote this

00:23:20.000 stuff.

00:23:21.020 Yeah.

00:23:21.500 And this is a case where, you know, virtue signaling doesn't matter, you know, voting

00:23:26.320 for people.

00:23:26.840 Cause it makes you feel good.

00:23:27.960 Cause they're liberal.

00:23:28.760 They're have the right color.

00:23:30.140 They check the box.

00:23:31.200 You get to feel good about yourself as a liberal for voting, for example, like Karen

00:23:34.460 Bass, this completely incompetent, unqualified woman to be the mayor of the second biggest 1.00

00:23:39.300 city in like in the, in the country.

00:23:41.440 It's a, it feels good.

00:23:43.000 And then suddenly you never think that vote will matter.

00:23:45.720 You know, nothing will ever change in LA.

00:23:47.420 It's just going to go business as usual.

00:23:48.980 So you might as well vote for someone like Karen Bass or someone like Gavin Newsom until

00:23:54.120 this week.

00:23:55.780 It suddenly mattered a lot.

00:23:58.400 Suddenly it actually mattered a great deal.

00:24:01.200 Whether you lived or died, whether your house burned down.

00:24:03.800 And this is the first time that kind of like, you know, the kind of rich elites of LA figure

00:24:10.120 that out.

00:24:11.300 And they're now faced with the consequences of their decisions.

00:24:16.040 Now in their defense, a little, okay.

00:24:19.020 Pacific Palisades.

00:24:20.480 Yes.

00:24:20.980 Overwhelmingly voted for Gavin Newsom, Joe Biden.

00:24:24.100 These are a lot of celebrities.

00:24:25.500 Um, a lot of upper middle class and rich people.

00:24:29.440 But interestingly in 2022 in LA city, I'm not in LA city in Pasadena.

00:24:34.420 It's a different system, but Pacific Palisades is part of LA city.

00:24:38.380 Um, so mayor Bass is their mayor.

00:24:41.380 The election in 2022 for mayor was between her and Rick Caruso, who is a kind of a centrist,

00:24:49.060 moderate Republican.

00:24:50.600 He's a real estate developer.

00:24:52.240 He's kind of like LA's Donald Trump.

00:24:54.360 He built all these, the beautiful malls in LA, the Grove by farmer's market, the Americana

00:24:59.900 in Glendale, the new mall in, in the Palisades village.

00:25:02.940 And his, his malls are very high end.

00:25:05.460 They're very luxurious.

00:25:06.860 Um, they're, you know, they're wonderful.

00:25:08.760 They're very popular.

00:25:09.600 They're open air.

00:25:10.900 And one of them in mid midtown got looted during the George Floyd riots.

00:25:15.160 And so he hired like private security to go in and stop.

00:25:18.740 They were smashing the Nordstrom's glass, all that stuff.

00:25:21.380 And so he shut that down.

00:25:22.420 He was like on top of that.

00:25:23.400 And he ran on that.

00:25:24.360 As mayor, like this, we can't have this LA needs law and order.

00:25:28.340 We cannot have women like Karen Bass running these things, running the city into the ground. 1.00

00:25:33.060 Pacific Palisades voted for Rick Caruso, a Republican, something like 65% to 35%.

00:25:40.560 Gwyneth Paltrow came out to support Rick Caruso.

00:25:43.560 People like the Kardashians, um, came out to support Rick Caruso.

00:25:47.500 You know, people who are kind of generic, probably liberals.

00:25:50.100 I don't really know.

00:25:51.240 Although the Kardashians, you know, who knows?

00:25:53.020 They might be based at this point.

00:25:54.400 Um, and so the Palisades tried to vote themselves out of the mess that basically years and years

00:26:00.860 of voting for Democrats had put them in because really quality of life issues have degraded

00:26:05.540 here in LA so much that even if you're in one of these wealthy enclaves in Malibu or the Palisades

00:26:12.260 or Brentwood, even if you're in these enclaves, it's, it's everywhere now.

00:26:16.460 Um, and it's, it's, there's tents in Santa Monica.

00:26:19.660 Santa Monica has, which is where all those people shop and, you know, do their, that's where you

00:26:24.100 have all the big like movie theaters and the malls and stuff.

00:26:26.780 That's now basically a deserted homeless, uh, camp.

00:26:29.700 It was completely looted, um, in 2020.

00:26:33.140 Um, it was, to this day, some stores are still boarded up four or five years later in downtown

00:26:38.940 Santa Monica.

00:26:39.760 And then in their schools, they saw what was happening with gender ideology and gender 0.98

00:26:43.840 indoctrination.

00:26:44.480 So these, you know, and the Palisades is very, it's, you know, you say what you will,

00:26:49.220 they're liberals.

00:26:49.700 Yes, but they're basically traditional.

00:26:51.000 Like they're there for their family.

00:26:52.240 It's mostly married mothers and fathers with their kids.

00:26:55.460 And so they're trying to, they were trying to hide there in the Palisades from the bad

00:26:59.820 policies that they probably spent years, um, supporting just because it didn't matter.

00:27:04.480 Right.

00:27:05.120 And now they are, uh, sowing what they, they're reaping what they sow.

00:27:08.960 Yeah.

00:27:09.420 We obviously saw a lot of this with the illegal immigration, uh, question, right?

00:27:13.920 You had a lot of cities like New York and Chicago who, yeah, we're sanctuary cities.

00:27:19.160 We're so compassionate.

00:27:20.600 Well, mainly because we're not a border state and we never have to deal with this.

00:27:24.340 And then all of a sudden Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis start, you know, sending some,

00:27:28.460 some, uh, diversity up North so they can enjoy the blessings.

00:27:32.000 And all of a sudden it turned out that maybe mass immigration isn't good for New York either.

00:27:37.240 And Eric Adams is, you know, a super lefty, but even he recognizes a disaster when it lands

00:27:43.000 on his doorstep and you know, that, that didn't mean that New York went for Trump, but it was,

00:27:47.960 you could feel a shift, right?

00:27:49.700 You, you could feel the shift that more people in New York were opening themselves up to this

00:27:54.100 opportunity.

00:27:54.680 You saw shifts among Hispanics and other voters in the direction of Trump because they, even 0.90

00:28:00.140 they recognize that ultimately an open border is bad for them and their children, the American

00:28:04.780 dream that they want to be a part of.

00:28:06.920 But I gotta say, I'm skeptical that we're going to see a Republican LA, but do you think

00:28:13.700 that being exposed to the consequences, no longer being able to hide behind the gated

00:28:19.360 communities, uh, to, you know, of kind of the consequences of those policies, do you

00:28:24.020 think that that's going to end up shifting the political dynamic in California in any

00:28:27.700 way?

00:28:28.520 I think it, I think it actually will now, will we be a red state?

00:28:32.640 Like it was in my lifetime.

00:28:34.100 We were, California was a red state, like up through the late eighties, basically.

00:28:37.640 Will it be red anytime soon?

00:28:39.520 No.

00:28:40.140 Could it be purple in, in eight years, in 12 years?

00:28:44.880 Yes.

00:28:45.780 LA County, LA city.

00:28:47.080 Now that neighborhoods like the Palisades that got burned out, those voters have, have

00:28:51.380 moved and they're not coming back.

00:28:52.680 The people with families will not go back.

00:28:54.600 They'll go to the OC, they'll go up to Ventura County, but they'll, most of them will probably

00:28:59.240 stay in California for jobs.

00:29:01.720 And this is, this is our home.

00:29:03.280 You know, people live in California for a reason, you know, it's, it's kind of nice here.

00:29:07.140 Um, but politically things have already been changing, triggered by the, the November election.

00:29:14.200 And so it's actually been unbelievable to watch the, uh, owner of the LA times.

00:29:19.280 Maybe you saw this story.

00:29:20.360 Um, he's a very wealthy Korean businessman.

00:29:23.140 Um, he bought, he's owned the LA times for a few years.

00:29:27.760 He, he kiboshed the editorials that were endorsing Kamala Harris for president in the LA times.

00:29:33.560 And the LA times is basically like Pravda.

00:29:36.340 It's like, you know, Marxist, um, you know, red sheet.

00:29:39.900 Like it's so left wing that people just read it as a joke.

00:29:43.380 No one really reads it.

00:29:44.440 Very low readership.

00:29:45.600 Um, basically, but he owned, he bought it and apparently he woke up like, you know, like

00:29:50.860 Jeff Bezos did like all these kinds of like tech bros did.

00:29:53.260 He kind of woke up too.

00:29:54.740 And so he didn't let them endorse Kamala Harris in the LA times.

00:29:57.920 And he's actually looking for, um, conservatives now to write for them.

00:30:02.420 Um, he just added Mark Andreessen to the board of the LA times, um, who is like a, yeah, who

00:30:08.120 is like, you know, a tech bro who kind of came to the right and, you know, now it's like

00:30:11.660 firmly on our side.

00:30:13.180 And so that was an incredible shift that started happening right after the election.

00:30:16.540 And I was, I mean, it was shocking.

00:30:18.380 Like, and, and the owner of the LA times has now been on, been on Fox news talking about

00:30:22.180 this, trying to make the paper more, more centrist, allowing different views to be heard,

00:30:26.840 which is, which is fine.

00:30:27.920 I mean, it's still a majority, you know, liberal place it's never going to be, you know, uh,

00:30:33.060 you know, Houston or whatever.

00:30:34.620 Um, so that was an incredible shift.

00:30:36.360 And here's the thing though.

00:30:37.480 We, a lot of people who don't live in California, they always tell me like, get out, screw California.

00:30:42.200 We don't need it.

00:30:43.240 Forget California.

00:30:44.340 It's a lost cause.

00:30:45.680 Like, why are you even wasting your time there?

00:30:47.800 Don't worry about it.

00:30:49.080 Okay.

00:30:49.560 Now is turning California red a lost cause by, you know, is it going to vote for JD Vance in

00:30:54.280 2028?

00:30:55.060 No.

00:30:55.460 Okay.

00:30:55.680 We're not, that's not happening.

00:30:56.480 However, if you saw the map in November, in November, what happened with the election

00:31:01.480 is that huge swaths of California that were blue turned red, mostly in the central and

00:31:07.140 like Riverside County and blue areas turned a lot less blue.

00:31:10.780 They turned a lot redder.

00:31:12.200 Here's why we need California.

00:31:14.580 We need it because without the California representatives, we, we lose the house.

00:31:20.380 So you need Republicans here voting for representatives in Orange County and all those red areas.

00:31:26.920 We need those people.

00:31:27.780 If we don't have that, that's the edge that gave us the house.

00:31:31.020 And so if you let California go totally, then you lose the house forever, like forever.

00:31:37.120 Cause there's just so many people here.

00:31:38.740 There are so many people here that is important.

00:31:41.560 There are more Republicans and Trump voters who live in California than live in like the

00:31:45.840 20 smallest states combined.

00:31:48.140 There are, I have a lot of right-wing friends.

00:31:50.360 There are Twitter anons I know who are all over LA who are displaced right now.

00:31:55.020 You know, we're not, we're here, like we're out here.

00:31:58.000 And so I'm not saying Texans and Floridians should like rush back to California to save

00:32:02.960 it, but it is worth the people who are still here.

00:32:06.540 We survived the COVID filter for various reasons.

00:32:08.840 We couldn't leave because of family, older, older parents like I have jobs that it could

00:32:14.860 not move our children's communities.

00:32:17.160 A lot of people made a choice, you know, in 2020, I'm going to stay, I'm going to stick

00:32:20.560 it out and see what happens.

00:32:22.100 And we really need these people.

00:32:23.500 Like we do.

00:32:24.520 And, um, California is just too important in terms of the numbers, the sheer numbers

00:32:29.500 and keeping the house.

00:32:30.720 So I do think it is worth trying to fight and keep what we can.

00:32:34.540 And like, for example, growing VOC, I, I encourage people who are want to get out from under the

00:32:40.140 thumb of someone like Karen Bass, move to orange County, move to a redder area or support those

00:32:44.980 places because that's where the rebirth will start.

00:32:48.580 You know, it, if you're in these scenarios where kind of the, the thin veil of civility

00:32:55.960 kind of falls away again, I'm in Florida.

00:32:58.440 I've been through a number of hurricanes, uh, and, and have been through some that completely,

00:33:02.600 you know, took out the power, people were losing their homes.

00:33:05.440 I mean, you were talking about, you know, returning to your home and not knowing if you're

00:33:08.880 homeless, right?

00:33:09.580 Like I have been in that scenario where you're, you're driving in every street before you

00:33:14.400 got there is underwater.

00:33:16.000 You know, you're sure that your house is going to be toast.

00:33:18.680 We were incredibly blessed and we're the only house on the street that did not flood in the,

00:33:23.480 in, in the last, uh, big hurricane.

00:33:26.500 But it, it really is a devastating thing.

00:33:28.880 A lot of people will look and they'll like, Oh, people in California, you're rich or whatever.

00:33:32.080 It's just stuff.

00:33:32.940 It's like, no, it's, it's your home.

00:33:35.300 Like, and, and, and it's, it's a place that your kids grew up in.

00:33:39.220 Your family has been to, you have cultivated relationships there.

00:33:43.540 You have built, you know, a network of people that you care about.

00:33:47.580 Yes, it's physically a building, but it's so much more.

00:33:51.240 Uh, and, and, and if you haven't been in that scenario, you just don't know that the emotional

00:33:56.560 gut punch, um, can be really, really difficult.

00:34:00.940 Uh, and you also have that scenario.

00:34:02.980 I know, you know, like you said, looting was a big problem.

00:34:05.320 And again, we're, we're in a scenario where we had looters pulling people out of cars and

00:34:10.440 stuff at, at, at, you know, at stop signs or stoplights and stuff.

00:34:13.300 You just blew through because you didn't, you didn't want to be in that scenario.

00:34:16.460 You didn't go anywhere without a gun.

00:34:18.020 And, and our sheriff specifically said, you know, uh, looters who show up here will be

00:34:21.640 shot dead.

00:34:22.260 Like we encourage, you know, we, we encourage our citizens to protect themselves.

00:34:26.600 And if you try to steal something in the, in this area of Florida, then you, you're not

00:34:30.400 walking away, uh, which is exactly what you want to hear from a sheriff in that area, California,

00:34:35.300 obviously a different scenario.

00:34:37.120 What has been the response to the looting?

00:34:39.280 And do you feel like, you know, a state that is known for it's ignoring law and order, allowing

00:34:45.000 people to shoplift and live in the streets, these kinds of things.

00:34:48.020 Will this kind of bring that into sharper focus?

00:34:50.580 Do you think?

00:34:51.820 It's so ironic, uh, seeing Gavin Newsom saying, you know, looting looters will not be tolerated.

00:34:58.080 No crime will be tolerated.

00:34:59.380 We will arrest you for looting.

00:35:01.180 It's legal in California to loot anything you want, any store you want, any house you

00:35:06.680 want, you know, rob it, loot it.

00:35:08.560 If it, if the value of the things that you steal is under like $950, that's only a misdemeanor.

00:35:14.360 And that's why we had these gangs going into Sephora and Ulta and Nordstrom and your home

00:35:20.100 and just getting whatever they could, if it was under $950.

00:35:22.640 And even if they caught you, you can do that over and over again.

00:35:24.740 It was just a misdemeanor every single time.

00:35:27.060 And so they have these gangs, like 20 people, and they never bothered to catch them.

00:35:31.120 And so that law actually just got overturned in November.

00:35:33.800 And so it's very ironic and I just, the hypocrisy is sick that he's now saying looting will not,

00:35:40.540 will not be tolerated.

00:35:42.060 And so, okay, well, how about it wasn't also in 2020?

00:35:46.040 Like how come, why is it only now?

00:35:48.540 Because your, your elite donor base in the democratic party donor base in the Palisades

00:35:54.620 and Brentwood, those people are really pissed off.

00:35:56.580 You know, they're in rental houses in Palm Springs and Montecito and they're really mad

00:36:01.500 at you.

00:36:02.180 So now you're going to say you're protecting their houses.

00:36:04.960 I will say that the sheriff department in LA has, has traditionally been kind of like,

00:36:10.180 you know, right wing.

00:36:11.980 Although the new sheriff, Sheriff Luna is not as, he's, he's a liberal, but the last sheriff

00:36:17.980 was pretty based.

00:36:19.140 They, the sheriff department tends to be much more kind of like hardcore, more traditional.

00:36:24.600 And they're the ones up here patrolling Altadena.

00:36:28.300 And I know that they are arresting people who are, there was, they, they arrested some

00:36:31.920 guy with a drone.

00:36:33.000 They arrested people just walking around like look, you lose.

00:36:35.700 And they're arresting looters.

00:36:36.780 Although they did find someone, the police found someone in the Valley, an illegal immigrant

00:36:41.860 with like a blow torch and some matches and some like flames or like lighter fluid.

00:36:48.180 The citizens arrest, it was on, it was online.

00:36:50.440 They took him down, the citizens of the Valley, that neighborhood took him down in a residential

00:36:53.660 neighborhood and the police did not charge him with arson and he's not being deported.

00:36:59.460 And so you have the LAPD just business as usual, sanctuary city rules.

00:37:04.640 So until we see Gavin Newsom actually like rescind those laws, the sanctuary city laws,

00:37:11.500 and frankly cracking down on the homeless, because as we know, 80% of the fires in SoCal

00:37:17.940 are arson and a lot of that is the homeless camps all up and down these hills.

00:37:23.920 And I'm pretty sure that when they investigate the Altadena fire, which started apparently

00:37:29.800 at Altadena drive and Midwick drive right next to the Altadena, the Eaton Canyon trailhead.

00:37:35.520 I've seen on next door, all these people who live there for, for, for, for like a couple

00:37:40.380 of years now reporting a homeless camp in the Eaton Canyon trailhead kind of ravine and they

00:37:47.600 would find garbage and beer bottles and all this stuff down in there.

00:37:51.720 So I'm, I'm fairly certain that that is what happens.

00:37:55.180 People see the wind, these, these schizophrenic, these drug addicts, and they think it's fun to

00:38:00.060 light something on fire.

00:38:01.140 And so, um, and that's, that's firmly the fault of the city, um, the County for leaving,

00:38:07.000 letting people camp outside.

00:38:08.440 And just, just yesterday, I drove down Lake Avenue to target, to get some water.

00:38:12.840 Cause we can't drink the water in my house.

00:38:14.760 We're allowed to bathe in it apparently, but you know, who knows what I'll get, what diseases

00:38:18.200 we'll get in a couple of years, but driving down Lake Avenue, um, you could just see so

00:38:23.200 many people still passed out on the street, like the usual homeless junkies there, they're 0.98

00:38:27.680 still there, the winds did not wash them away.

00:38:32.320 Yeah.

00:38:32.840 It is amazing.

00:38:33.860 You know, when you allow vagrancy, when you allow these situations where people are regularly

00:38:38.480 living on the streets or camping out in areas, you're going to end up, as you point out with,

00:38:43.700 you know, you obviously have crazy people and they'll just light things on fire because

00:38:47.620 they're crazy.

00:38:48.180 They're mentally ill. 0.68

00:38:49.080 They're out there.

00:38:50.000 They, they think it's funny.

00:38:51.140 They get a, you know, they get a fire bug.

00:38:52.680 Uh, but also just running, you know, fire barrels and, uh, campfires and all these things

00:38:58.060 that are constantly, uh, being introduced in the environment.

00:39:00.820 And then as you point out, you have illegal immigrants who are literally arsonists who 1.00

00:39:04.800 are running around, uh, possibly, you know, lighting fires.

00:39:08.220 And there's just no response, uh, from the local departments and that this is, is terrible.

00:39:14.200 I mean, we, you know, we just had, you know, people have already forgotten this, but we just

00:39:17.500 had an illegal immigrant lighting a woman on fire and burning her to death in New York on 0.99

00:39:22.140 the subway, you know, it's just basic stuff like this.

00:39:25.980 Like whether that one individual is personally responsible for the wildfires in California

00:39:32.220 or not, it just shouldn't be here.

00:39:34.160 Like there's just no reason for this animal to be running around and adding to the pain

00:39:39.480 and suffering of people who are going through horrific times, you know, for his own amusement.

00:39:44.920 But when you, you know, you're always going to have people who are supposed to be here,

00:39:48.980 who are doing the wrong thing, homeless, you know, uh, you know, arsonists like that can

00:39:52.540 always happen.

00:39:53.320 But obviously the people who should not be here at all, when they're piling in on top

00:39:57.240 of that and they're not accountable, there is, you know, most of the time they're ignored

00:40:00.440 by the justice system when they are caught, like you said, not going to be deported, getting

00:40:04.240 lesser charges so that they don't look bad on criminal reports, these kinds of things.

00:40:08.260 It's just a recipe for disaster.

00:40:10.440 And, you know, Ron DeSantis just announced that he is going to be taking action to make

00:40:16.800 sure that mass deportations can be more smoothly, uh, enacted in Florida.

00:40:22.820 Obviously I'm not expecting that from Gavin Newsom, but do you think we'll see more, uh,

00:40:28.020 kind of red state governors recognize the importance of this and get on board with facilitating

00:40:32.820 that?

00:40:34.240 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:40:35.020 And, you know, it's really funny seeing actually video of Gavin Newsom.

00:40:39.340 You can see that he's panicking.

00:40:40.900 You can see that like, I think he knows he's cooked a little bit and then he's going to

00:40:45.060 have to find a way to get himself out of this mess and deflect all the blame.

00:40:49.460 He'll, he'll deflect it onto like, you know, the, the, the, the black female mayor of LA 1.00

00:40:53.480 if he, if he can.

00:40:54.700 But LA is a very unique case because it's like decades and decades of mismanagement by, you

00:40:59.920 know, it's well known that there's sort of like a Chicano cartel that runs the city

00:41:04.240 government that runs the county.

00:41:06.060 They're all cousins.

00:41:12.340 Well, may have lost peachy there for a second.

00:41:14.460 I know her.

00:41:16.600 Oh, there you go.

00:41:17.140 Yeah.

00:41:17.320 You cut out when you were saying there was a cartel running the local politics there.

00:41:21.500 Yeah.

00:41:21.680 They're, I think they're probably about to like, you know, maybe my wifi is burning down.

00:41:24.760 Well, they got to you.

00:41:25.620 They, they know that you're, you're, you're informing us.

00:41:28.120 And so, yeah, shut it down.

00:41:30.580 Yeah.

00:41:31.980 So LA city is a really hard nut to crack.

00:41:34.780 And the key will be if any of these people face any repercussions.

00:41:39.780 If Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, the LA County board of supervisors, I think they're called,

00:41:45.680 they're just the worst bunch of crony, um, basically socialists who have been running

00:41:51.780 the city and no one cares because everyone's just like, has their latte, you know, then

00:41:55.780 the Range Rover, no one, no one pays attention, but until you can reform them, nothing will

00:42:00.460 change.

00:42:00.860 The fire department is, it is totally beholden to the left-wing mayor and this left-wing

00:42:06.120 city council, I think there's one Republican on the, on the city council, but she's like 1.00

00:42:11.180 barely a Republican, you know, and these, these, these are people are so entrenched.

00:42:15.020 It's like the deep state, like California has its own, um, deep state and it's going

00:42:19.700 to be very hard to dislodge, but, but yeah, deportations, I think if they don't happen

00:42:24.900 here, look, my advice to red state people, red state governors, tell the illegals in your 0.98

00:42:30.140 states to send everybody to LA.

00:42:32.700 I think it may have the same effect that it had on New York city.

00:42:35.600 Like, I don't want this personally, but I think nothing will change and you have to

00:42:39.400 kind of hit rock bottom.

00:42:40.740 You know what I mean?

00:42:41.160 In order to like, go get like heal and like quit, quit your, your, your addiction to illegal,

00:42:46.000 illegal immigrants, red state governors send, tell everybody in your state, go to California 1.00

00:42:50.200 and just send them, give them Gavin Newsom's home address.

00:42:52.760 He just bought a $9 million mansion in Marin County.

00:42:55.620 Give them that, give them his address, give them Karen Bass's address.

00:43:00.400 And let's see what, what happens if they wake up and there's like 10,000, um, Venezuelans 0.82

00:43:04.920 on their footloans.

00:43:06.200 Well, and you know, they're still closer to the border that way.

00:43:08.780 It's not like you're sending them to New York.

00:43:10.060 So there's still, you know, relatively geographically close.

00:43:12.720 You can, you know, when you need to, when LA finally wakes up, they, they don't have to

00:43:16.380 go far.

00:43:17.320 They'll, they'll go right at home in LA.

00:43:19.140 Yeah.

00:43:20.080 Fair enough.

00:43:20.740 Well, uh, peachy, I think we're going to go ahead and wrap this up.

00:43:24.560 Let me see if we have any questions from the people, but before we go, uh, I know you've

00:43:29.540 obviously already got one book out.

00:43:31.040 Did I hear you're writing another one?

00:43:32.460 You're in the process of, of another book or, um, my new book is called super villains.

00:43:37.260 I'm writing it for passage press this time, and it is going to be another nonfiction book.

00:43:42.340 And I'm sure we'll touch on a lot of these issues.

00:43:44.300 It's literally about our favorite super villains.

00:43:48.520 Excellent.

00:43:49.000 Well, besides the looking for the new book, is there anywhere else you want to point people,

00:43:53.220 you know, um, sub stack or Twitter or anything else you want people to check out?

00:43:56.800 I'm going to be, my sub stack is, um, peachy keenan.com.

00:44:00.680 You can subscribe.

00:44:01.640 I have a free and paid posts.

00:44:03.660 I would love you guys to read some of my articles there.

00:44:06.680 I'm going to be posting about the fire.

00:44:08.220 And then this weekend I'm going to DC.

00:44:10.900 Um, I'm going to dust the ashes off my gown.

00:44:13.960 I'm going to DC to some parties there and hopefully we'll witness the inauguration and

00:44:17.880 get to write about that too.

00:44:18.980 So actually I'm very excited about that.

00:44:20.800 Oh yeah.

00:44:21.020 Passage press has the ball going over there, right?

00:44:23.400 You're going to be over at that.

00:44:24.460 That's right.

00:44:24.920 I will be at the carnation ball in my full incarnation garb.

00:44:28.140 There you go.

00:44:28.680 Very nice.

00:44:29.520 All right, guys, we'll make sure you check out peachy stuff.

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00:45:05.440 Peachy, thank you again for coming on.

00:45:07.060 Stay safe out there.

00:45:08.320 Well, thank you.

00:45:09.520 All right, guys.

00:45:10.120 Thanks for watching.

00:45:10.780 And as always, I'll talk to you next time.

The Auron MacIntyre Show - January 13, 2025

LA Wildfires and the Competency Crisis ｜ Guest： Peachy Keenan ｜ 1⧸13⧸25

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