The fires in California are getting worse and worse, and the government is doing nothing to stop them. This week, we talk about the failures of the government, the lack of resources to fight the fires, and how the homeless are setting them off. We also talk about some of the craziest things the government has done in order to cover up the problem.
00:00:22.000The wildfires in Los Angeles are getting worse.
00:00:24.000There's a photo that's going viral that just shows the Pacific Palisades are gone.
00:00:30.000If you don't know, this is a neighborhood in the Los Angeles area, and it's just been completely wiped out.
00:00:35.000This is a really sad video of James Woods breaking down in tears because of the elderly neighbors that he has, the rest of their lives, and just everyone's lives being destroyed.
00:00:49.000The death toll is now up to five, but people expect it, officials expect it to get worse.
00:00:54.000There's actually several fires in the area right now, and the political angle here, the story, is that, let's just not mince words, several months ago, Donald Trump appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast and warned they don't have water in Southern California because of this environmental animal policy on the Delta smelt.
00:01:13.000A lot of people have been talking about it, and not to mention the issue of homeless individuals setting fires.
00:01:18.000So this has been epic mismanagement from day one.
00:01:22.000And I think it's important to point out this viral clip from Trump where he says exactly this.
00:01:45.000We're going to break down a bunch of these stories because it's a massive, you know, you have the individual story of the fires, but then each smaller story within it, such as there's a video of power lines sparking and shooting, just bursting next to trees.
00:02:17.000And if they knew, the government knew.
00:02:19.000And so here we are, dealing with the failures of policy, and we'll get into all that.
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00:07:18.000And the worst thing about it, it is, and it was, preventable.
00:07:23.000Now we're hearing that they've been evacuating more of Santa Monica, and you've got people down in Marina del Rey, which is just south of Santa Monica, getting very worried because with 90 mile an hour winds blowing in, This fire may be unstoppable until it just burns itself out, whatever that means.
00:08:40.000I used to go, like, every weekend we go to Malibu.
00:08:42.000That drive through the Palisades up into Malibu is iconic.
00:08:46.000And now, I mean, obviously, you can rebuild it, but all those houses on the left, because what happens is the road goes right up the beach.
00:08:53.000It's like basically right up the ocean the entire way.
00:09:45.000Like, I was talking to a firefighter friend of mine that used to do the...
00:09:48.000He would jump out of planes into fires and stuff to fight fires.
00:09:53.000And he's like, look, man, even God isn't going to put this fire out right now.
00:09:59.000And that's if they had water and normal...
00:10:04.000Things they have to fight fires, but because of mismanagement by the mayor, well, by the state, they don't even have water.
00:10:12.000This has been going on for a long time, man.
00:10:14.000Because I was down in California 10 years ago, 10 years ago, when they were dealing with the drought, and the only thing I heard was mismanagement.
00:10:38.000They've mismanaged the forest floor once again.
00:10:40.000The brush fires, they've mismanaged it once again.
00:10:43.000The only issue now is that it's in a major urban center with tons of people who live there and these videos of people being trapped in their homes.
00:10:50.000You know, someone asked me, like, how do you get trapped in a fire?
00:10:53.000And I'm like, dude, the fire is traveling 90 miles an hour.
00:10:57.000You need to understand, with the winds blowing at that speed, you're sitting in your home, Everything looks normal.
00:11:03.000Then all of a sudden you look outside and you see fire sweeping across the trees.
00:11:06.000And then you go, whoa, I don't know what I'm supposed to do right now.
00:11:09.000And so maybe you call 911 and say, hey, we're seeing fire sweep across it.
00:11:38.000So what I've heard is that PG&E, which is I think Pacific Gas and Electric, I don't know what the P stands for, gas and electric probably.
00:11:45.000They are in charge of running the power lines, and they tend to run them through highly wooded areas and don't clear out the brush.
00:11:52.000And because of that, the brush then can catch fire if a power line goes down, or if there's a spark.
00:11:57.000And that is reliant on, I don't know if PG&E is a government company, but it's supposed to be PG&E's responsibility, or the government is just allowed, because it's like, hey, we need power.
00:12:06.000We're not going to make you run a line all the way around the park, so yeah, you can run it through the trees.
00:12:29.000I'm only addressing what he had mentioned, which it's possible, completely and totally possible.
00:12:35.000I've heard stories that PG&E decided...
00:12:39.000To not clean out the areas beneath the wires because it was not cost-effective or whatever, that it would be less to, I don't know if they were talking about pay lawsuits or whatever, but I've heard that it was PG&E's fault.
00:12:54.000But at the end of the day, the state doesn't allow people to clean up or doesn't do anything to clean up the downfall and branches and brush.
00:13:03.000So at the end of the day, it does boil down to it's the state's fault because they're the ones that are supposed to be able to prevent this stuff.
00:13:10.000California is an example of extraction.
00:13:13.000This is what happens when a beautiful state with some of the best weather, and it's massive.
00:13:18.000You go up north, you've got mountains, you've got skiing and snowboarding.
00:13:24.000This is what happens when, over a long enough period of time, good men do nothing.
00:13:28.000The government eventually gets taken over by people whose only intention is short-term extraction.
00:13:33.000When I was living in Los Angeles, everybody said NIMBY, not in my backyard.
00:13:37.000So they have what is described as the worst homeless crisis for the developed world in Los Angeles.
00:13:44.000And you'd ask everybody, why can't one of the wealthiest cities, counties in the country, do anything about it?
00:13:52.000Even though they spend a billion dollars every year, and it's because the billion dollars goes to what they call the homeless industrial complex, where companies, nonprofits, and manufacturers take the money for themselves, don't solve the problem, and then when it comes to actual either institutionalization or affordable housing, every single well-to-do liberal type in LA goes, not in my backyard.
00:15:17.000You look at the state of California, you don't need me to give you an example.
00:15:20.000How is it possible that they don't manage their forest floors, that their fire hydrants ran out of water, the reservoirs weren't refilled, and the mayor is in Africa?
00:16:27.000So there are people talking about the fact that there were a lot of people that didn't have insurance because, I guess, there's insurance companies.
00:16:38.000And there are people that are making connections to the insurance.
00:16:45.000CEO that was killed recently in New York.
00:16:47.000Well, I want to jump to the environment thing too, but I'll just say this before we jump to the next story.
00:16:54.000All of these liberals are saying, see, it's climate change that proves it.
00:16:58.000And I'm like, dude, you've got a guy driving your bus and we're all sitting on it and he's gone off the edge of a cliff and he's just bouncing down the hill.
00:17:06.000And you're like, bro, you drove us off the cliff and you've got to start veering to the left to try and get back on some kind of road?
00:17:41.000And the thing about climate change or the climate change angle is even if...
00:17:45.000Even if there were to be all the changes that people on the left want in the U.S., that doesn't change what China and India are going to do.
00:17:53.000And those two countries both have 1.5 billion people.
00:17:56.000So the argument that, oh, we need to do all these things here in the U.S., and we need to make all these changes to our infrastructure and stuff because we need to be able to fix climate change, it's not going to fix a thing.
00:21:35.000So you can see fresh water up here, and you've got brackish water here in the bay, and then you've got ocean water.
00:21:41.000So for those that aren't familiar, I assume most of you are, but brackish is kind of the mix between fresh and salt water.
00:21:45.000So what ends up happening is they can have all of this beautiful, beautiful water that flows from up north.
00:21:52.000Come down south and alleviate a lot of these problems, which can be used for firefighting, but you don't really need to rely on fresh water for firefighting, but would give you large reservoirs, which can be used, of course, and it would make sure it would deal with the poor communities in the east if they could get this water down here.
00:22:08.000The issue is that if they stop the flow of water into the delta...
00:22:13.000Then the pressure stops and ocean water pushes in, turning the Delta brackish and killing off all the farms.
00:23:13.000And that means that the people that have lost their homes, those people are wealthy people and they have means and it should inspire them.
00:23:25.000To tell the politicians, look, I'm not donating to your candidate to your campaign now because you allowed my house to be burned down.
00:23:34.000It's going to be very interesting to see how the people in these areas react because when we had the hurricane in North Carolina, the communities all rallied together.
00:23:50.000And so it's going to be interesting to see these people hurry and get together and they do whatever they can and get these donations running or whatnot.
00:23:57.000Or is it going to be every person for themselves?
00:24:11.000When you look to the areas that are being affected in L.A. where there's poorer people, because PellHead is not all rich people, of course.
00:24:18.000There's some, you know, it's expensive.
00:24:29.000But they are still going to survive this.
00:24:32.000And so I don't want to be so callous because James was saying that, you know, it really warmed his heart to see that it wasn't political, that it's Democrat, Republican, none of it mattered.
00:24:39.000They were neighbors helping each other survive this disaster.
00:24:41.000And that's what I'm hoping we get out of it.
00:24:44.000However, as to what Phil was saying with, like, donations, these people, I don't see them, like Mark Hamill, for instance.
00:24:51.000I think his home may have been affected by this.
00:24:53.000But these are the kind of people that don't read into it, right?
00:24:56.000This is what Jimmy Dore made a really great point on.
00:25:19.000But this is how Democrats largely operate.
00:25:21.000And again, I'm not trying to roast literally every single Democrat, but this is what's going to happen.
00:25:24.000They're going to come out and they're going to say, this is climate change's fault and Trump wants to drill for oil and it's going to make this worse.
00:25:29.000And you're like, my dude, you had no water and you didn't manage the floor of the ground in the hills.
00:25:36.000You didn't do floor management for the wildlands.
00:25:38.000And they're going to go, climate change.
00:25:41.000You're going to say, PG&E has power cables running through areas with high risks of fire, and they're going to go, climate change.
00:25:48.000And we're going to, okay, California, do your thing, I guess.
00:25:51.000But they're going to blame Trump for it.
00:25:52.000They're going to keep pushing nonsense ideas.
00:25:54.000And like I was saying, you were saying, Phil, about donations, they're still going to donate.
00:26:17.000They'll twist it and make somehow it be Trump's problem and whatnot.
00:26:20.000But Gavin Newsom has literally been in there for the past few years.
00:26:22.000And every single time he has the opportunity to help out the people, whether it be the fentanyl crisis, to stop giving the people needles and stop giving them...
00:26:30.000$600 a month to be able to keep buying drugs while they live on the street or the migrants coming through the border.
00:26:36.000Every single time he's had a chance to do something, he has gone against the majority of the people that would benefit.
00:26:42.000So is it so hard to believe that these Democrats are intentionally trying to destroy the country?
00:26:47.000I mean, that even defies short-term gain.
00:26:50.000You can make the argument that he's like, we're going to give needles, and what do they have, those glass pipe kits they give out to homeless people to do crack?
00:26:57.000He's like, we're going to do that because it's politically expedient.
00:27:00.000I get through it, I say, we solved the problem, thank you and have a nice day, not going to think about it.
00:27:04.000But I'm kind of like, I don't know, man, that's not a short-term gain.
00:27:07.000You're literally setting a political fire.
00:27:09.000The politics of nice have been a massive problem for the United States.
00:27:15.000That's why Donald Trump, I think, was successful in his first term, was as successful as he Whatever amount of success you believe he had, which generally around this table we have a fairly positive view of what he did.
00:27:28.000And that's because he didn't ascribe to the politics of nice.
00:27:32.000He wasn't worried about if it sounded nice.
00:27:35.000And there are so many people, particularly in California, that all of their politics is, I just want to be nice.
00:27:48.000Drug addict, the drugs that he needs to prevent withdrawal.
00:27:51.000And we should allow those homeless people to stay homeless and shoot up drugs.
00:27:56.000And we should let people that are repeat offenders out of jail because there might have been some kind of problem.
00:28:04.000That was business as usual in California for ages and ages.
00:28:09.000And there are real-world, tangible consequences to the politics of NICE. And now, thankfully, for California, there are people that have voted significantly against the politics of NICE. Remember when we were this close to getting Governor Larry Elder?
00:28:56.000They had a first responder on Fox News in the morning saying helicopters can't fly, not in these winds, and fixed-wing aircraft have a higher threshold, but it's still too intense.
00:29:22.000He said he was talking about it on his show, and the next thing he knows, he looks outside, or he sees this photo of a power line being knocked over.
00:29:27.000I was living in Venice, and it would just buzz outside my window.
00:30:28.000If you want to have a population of 13 million people spread out across an area that has high potential for wildfires, you have to have forest floor management.
00:30:36.000I guess it's not a forest, it's brush floor or whatever.
00:30:39.000But let me pull up this video right here.
00:31:16.000There was a story like this several years ago, like 10 years ago maybe, where there was a fire and it was something like a power line sparked and it landed on the ground.
00:31:24.000Another problem with people being on a grid, man, an electric grid, relying on a central battery that can explode and then discharge across all your lines and set fires and sparks.
00:31:35.000I mean, I do think we need to—I read this really funny op-ed a while ago about how the oldest functioning infrastructure machine in the United States is the power grid.
00:31:45.000It was a machine that was built in, like, the early 1800s, early 1900s, and we've never replaced it.
00:32:51.000So you think the Newsom, the politicians are thinking, like, if we did hire people to clear out the brush, it's going to cost us 30% GDP, whatever the hell.
00:33:18.000Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Environment America.
00:33:20.000And they're like, you ain't touching nothing.
00:33:22.000Because no matter what you do, we're going to lobby against you.
00:33:24.000And so the arguments that I've heard is that environmental organizations put pressure on the government to oppose the actions they want to take for whatever reason, just like the Delta smelt.
00:33:32.000They say, there's a fish that lives here, and you cannot take its water away.
00:33:37.000When it comes to the smelt, this is a little, I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago, but like, sometimes you gotta let animals, some animals go extinct to preserve the human species.
00:34:04.000And that's why we have the shirt on the Tim Kass store of the gorilla saying, I am a gorilla, because the point was in this book, the gorilla is basically a psychic gorilla.
00:34:26.000There are a lot of people who extract.
00:34:28.000They think they deserve everything and they're required to do nothing.
00:34:31.000And it's fascinating that it is in fact largely communists and they're the ones saying To each according to their needs, from each according to their means.
00:34:38.000And I'm like, you ain't doing nothing.
00:34:40.000You're taking more than you need and you're giving back nothing.
00:34:42.000Remember that time the Soviet Union destroyed an entire sea?
00:35:08.000And they called the people that had a little bit of ability to farm that had, like, a cow and a farm.
00:35:16.000They said that they had stolen that from the people.
00:35:20.000Like, these people knew how to actually farm, and so they took their cow, they took their farms, and they said, you people should die first because you stole from the people.
00:35:29.000So when they killed the farmers, If there was the famine that killed millions of people.
00:35:34.000So someone said, no, Tim, the smelter are migrating fish.
00:36:25.000We will use man-made artificial power to keep them alive and then let everyone in Southern California burn.
00:36:31.000It kind of sounds like you hate humans.
00:36:35.000There's a heat map that I've seen shared on X. I saw that.
00:36:40.000People that are conservative, the heat map, basically it's a preference of people that are close to you or an abstraction of people.
00:36:48.000People that are conservative, the heat map is all the people that are close to them.
00:36:51.000The heat map shows that they prefer people that are close to them, their families, their communities, their loved ones.
00:36:56.000And the left or progressive people, the heat map says that all the people they prefer are people that are an abstraction, people that are far away from them, other cultures, and the people that are close they hate.
00:37:09.000It's like they want to accept everyone but protect nobody.
00:38:18.000Because it's easy to disassociate from your neighbors if you got, like...
00:38:22.000Your community online or if you've got your TV show guy telling you what to do and your 50 cents a day you're sending to Africa to give some kid a cup of coffee or whatever those old...
00:40:37.000It's kind of like shaking someone awake to the harsh reality that some things have to die.
00:40:41.000And it's like a horrible thing to say about some creatures, like on Mars, when we start terraforming and colonizing Mars, if there's a hostile life form, a bacteria, some protozoa, some microorganism, we will wipe that out.
00:42:29.000Politico reports LA fires could break California's insurance market.
00:42:32.000So how is it that four months ago and up to a few weeks ago, there's an insurer, there's a couple of them, I think a bunch of them actually, In Malibu and Palisades and Los Angeles that abruptly canceled fire insurance.
00:42:47.000There's a video of a woman at a house, Fox News interviews her, and she's like, two weeks ago they canceled fire insurance, and now here we are.
00:42:54.000What did these insurance companies know, and when did they know it?
00:42:58.000They probably knew what we've all known for 15 years, which is California's a tinderbox.
00:43:12.000I mean, if I ever heard that there's a possibility of even fire hydrants not getting water if a fire were to break out, I mean, I'd probably uninsure the people as well.
00:43:23.000So what I heard, sorry, I heard that there was a law saying that the insurers could not raise premiums by a certain amount, and so the insurance company said, okay, then we can't cover the cost of insurance.
00:43:57.000The reason that the companies ended all the insurance or whatever, they canceled the insurance policies, is because they did an assessment of the situation.
00:44:08.000Insurance companies aren't in the business of losing money, right?
00:44:11.000And if they look at the situation, they see that the government is not managing the...
00:44:17.000You know, the area properly, and there's a likelihood that there's going to be a fire, and there's a likelihood that it's going to cause massive damage.
00:44:26.000A fire like this, ostensibly in that area, could put an entire insurance company out of business, right?
00:44:33.000Like, you're talking billions and billions of dollars in damage, right?
00:44:36.000It could totally put an insurance company out of business.
00:44:39.000So they canceled those policies, not because they're, like, some evil...
00:44:43.000Insurance company like the left thinks, but they looked at the situation and they said the state is not handling their job.
00:44:51.000They're not taking care of the forest areas or the brush, and so this is too great of a risk.
00:44:58.000The same reason they cancel those is the same reason that there are people that get into five, six, seven accidents with a boatload of speeding tickets that can't get car insurance because you're just too much of a risk.
00:45:37.0002020, 2018, 2017, 18, 2017, 2016. But then before that, it was 2009. So it was in 2016 you started seeing them every year for a while.
00:45:48.000There was probably some big degradation going on.
00:45:50.000Then 2009, 2008, 2007, back all the way to 03 and so on, 93, 91. So, I mean, maybe there's been a string of fires in the last seven years.
00:46:00.000I guess 21, 22, and 23, we looked pretty clear.
00:46:03.000So according to Newsweek, they say State Farm, one of the biggest insurers in California, canceled hundreds of homeowners' policies last summer in the Pacific Palisades, the same area ravaged by the wildfire.
00:46:13.000The move was justified by the company as an attempt to avoid financial failure, as the frequency and severity of wildfires is growing in the Golden State, especially in at-risk zones.
00:46:22.000But as multiple fires currently are burning through Southern California...
00:46:30.000I mean, how could you claim climate change too in California where they literally try everything they can to protect climate change?
00:46:53.000Because they're dumb enough to believe it.
00:47:55.000The funny thing is there are storm sirens because tornadoes do happen in the area and she was like, this is climate change.
00:48:02.000No, we installed the storm sirens because this is common, actually.
00:48:06.000It doesn't happen all the time, but it's like we know it happens.
00:48:09.000I mean, dude, there was a tornado in New England maybe like 10 years ago, which is, you know, you think New England because it's all hills and stuff, you'd think that they wouldn't happen at all, but there was.
00:48:32.000Look, if you really are concerned with climate change and you really think it's something that's going to destroy the earth and the seeds are going to boil away, then you should be lobbying for us to invade China and invade India and take them over and institute actual policies that will stop their burning of coal and dung and all of the...
00:48:53.000That's what I find the stupidest thing about climate change is we have these other countries, other places where literally their populations are...
00:49:50.000that a huge majority comes out of yeah there's a third like there's more people that live in a circle over southeast asia that includes china and india there's more human beings that live inside that circle than live outside of it and i'll take i have a picture i'll find the picture i sort of feel like complaining about climate change is complaining about how poop stinks Like, okay, we all get it.
00:50:25.000Unless, like Phil said, you want to militarily invade and stand there on the corner with rifles and say you can't do it, they're going to do it.
00:50:32.000So we need to figure out how to reuse the stuff, the waste product, not stop making the stuff or complain about it.
00:50:59.000And then a bunch of guys come in, strip them of all of their petroleum-based clothing, take away the keys to their car, seize their vehicle, go to their house, strip it down, they can live in a mud hut.
00:51:59.000Well, I put it in the Slack, in the Timcast IRL Slack.
00:52:02.000I just don't like how they make, like, I remember in school they were telling us, like, oh, by 2030, New York City will be underwater, and it's like...
00:52:08.000I go to New York City, it still looks just fine.
00:52:42.000They were telling me by the time 2000 came around, when I was in grade school, when I was in...
00:52:50.000Before, like, 89, 88, when I just got into high school, if we don't fix climate change, if we don't fix global warming, it was back then, all the snow caps are going to be gone.
00:53:01.000There's a movie called An Inconvenient Truth that Al Gore, former vice president, made, and it came out in 2006, and he was swearing up and down that by 2020, five years ago, swearing up and down by 2020, the ice caps were going to be gone, and the seas were going to rise.
00:53:19.000The massive problem with people my age listening to this garbage is we've been hearing the same garbage for literally 25 years, like Tim said, 30 years.
00:54:05.000Instead of saying, the end is nigh, sorry, bye, she'd be saying, here's a problem we're facing, but we believe in you, and if you guys work hard enough, we will find a way through this.
00:54:14.000I think we can find symbiosis with the climate, but it does take a global effort.
00:54:20.000If the Chinese and the Indians are going to burn untold amounts of methane and carbon, then what?
00:55:02.000You've got burning, you know, they're burning wood, burning dung, burning, some places are burning coal and stuff.
00:55:08.000And like I said, there's a billion five in India.
00:55:12.000Maybe 500 million of them live in modern cities and stuff like that.
00:55:19.000That means there's a billion people that are still in the tribal areas, that are living in the rural areas, that don't have reliable indoor plumbing, that don't have...
00:55:27.000I mean, they're living like they did 500 years ago.
00:55:29.000And in China, there are fewer people that are living in the wilderness like the Indians, but there are still a large portion of China.
00:55:41.000They're poor people and they live on farms and they got to do what they got to do to heat their homes because China has weather just like everywhere else in the world.
00:55:50.000So it's not like if you fix America and if you just get everybody to change their lights to LED lights, we're going to solve climate change.
00:55:59.000Or even if you get everybody to buy electric cars.
00:56:20.000You can't rely on batteries constantly, forever.
00:56:23.000Bro, there will be a time in our future where, I don't know if Tesla will do it, but these electric cars, you're going to sit down in your car, the doors are going to lock, and it's going to be like, I'm sorry, I can't let you drive the car, Phil.
00:56:34.000Your carbon emissions have been too high this week.
00:57:10.000Once you enter into downtown Manhattan, I think 60th Street, you charge $9.
00:57:15.000But the stupid thing is these service companies as well that have the plumbers, electricians, they're charging them anywhere from $15 to $35 or $25.
00:57:28.000They're trying to stop the flow of traffic.
00:57:31.000Meanwhile, they're just going to cause the prices.
00:57:52.000So I've been seeing these reports where people are now, they've always had this stuff where you can put this like epoxy over your license plate.
00:58:02.000But when you take a picture with a flash, it just blurs out white.
00:58:05.000And so New York posted this article where they're like, the congestion fee has resulted in people smashing their license plates, bending them, so the cameras can't AI scan the number, or scratching out one of the numbers, or they do a thing where they stick a leaf.
00:58:19.000They use like a light adhesive so it can peel right off, and they put a leaf on it so you can't see one number.
00:58:24.000That way they can be like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize a leaf was on my license plate.
00:58:48.000So I'll tell you, when I used to take the subway in New York, I would always stay the F away from the edge.
00:58:54.000Because, listen, it wasn't that it was the most prominent thing where people were being shoved in front of trains, but there was always four or five crazy guys spitting and yelling and shaking, and I'm like, you just never know.
00:59:30.000And I wonder if it's like downtown Manhattan.
00:59:34.000Because we've all taken the subway, and you feel somewhat safe, but then when you get out to the outskirts, I wonder if that's where the craziness happens for the most part.
00:59:41.000I mean, one time I was on the subway in Bronx, and some guy looked at me, and I looked at him, and he's like, what you looking at, Eli Manning?
01:00:16.000Now they're just going to have so many people on those subways going in.
01:00:20.000Because I saw a video, and the traffic does look less, and so, I mean, all those people are on the subway, and the subway's already packed, and those things are not even clean inside.
01:00:29.000I mean, so we did All That Remains, the band that I'm in, did a tour a couple years back, and we had the option of going into Manhattan and playing, or just doing a couple shows outside of the city.
01:00:39.000We did one on Long Island, and we did one in Jersey.
01:00:41.000Because going into Manhattan is too much of a pain in the balls.
01:02:02.000And do you feel bad for the people that have these service companies?
01:02:05.000because, I mean, if anything, they should be exempt from that congestion fee price because they're trying to make money, and then they just add another fee on top of them.
01:02:12.000It makes it even harder for them to make money inside these big cities where it's already hard enough to make enough money.
01:02:16.000Are people that have electric vehicles, do they not have to pay?
01:02:25.000It's like in California when you just have all these random tourism taxes, and it's like, why are they penalizing you for being a tourist or wanting to come and give money to the city and help like And fuel their economy.
01:02:39.000I think that you've got to pay money to cross the bridge, obviously.
01:02:42.000The one in New Jersey, for sure, when you enter.
01:02:44.000It was $10, $12, $15 back when I was living there 10, 15 years ago.
01:03:30.000I mean, it's a military need, but anyway, I digress.
01:03:32.000And what's annoying, too, about these tolls is if you pull up a lot of times and you want to pay, there's nobody inside the toll box, and so then you just get some random bill that you forget about in your mail, and then you're paying $50.
01:03:44.000I mean, I go all across the country, and I have hundreds of dollars of these toll fees.
01:04:14.000A vocal proponent of the state's controversial congestion pricing plan was attacked in Manhattan subway station over the weekend.
01:04:21.000Layla Law Gacico, president of the City Club of New York, which sued Kathy Hochul to implement the unpopular toll for motorists, was bruised and battered.
01:04:51.000So this is the dude that pushed to get this thing, the lady that pushed to get it implemented, the tax, and then people rose up against it?
01:05:08.000For the first time, a driverless vehicle, dude, it was awesome.
01:05:11.000Except, it's gonna rain, and you're gonna walk out, and the Waymo's gonna pull up, you're gonna sit down, it's gonna drive two blocks, a thunderstorm's gonna start, and it's gonna stop dead in the middle of the street, and it's gonna be like, must wait due to inclement weather.
01:05:21.000And you're gonna go, okay, I guess I'm stuck.
01:05:52.000And New York's nice gridded, so it's like you're either going straight or you're turning 90 degrees for the most part.
01:05:57.000Maybe they put nodes on every intersection.
01:06:00.000On the corners so the car knows where it is.
01:06:02.000And then every other car is going to have this node installed on it.
01:06:05.000It would be pretty cool if you walked down to Lower Manhattan and it's just constant.
01:06:07.000The cars, they're all moving in synchronicity and then they all stop at once and all the pedestrians move and then they all move in synchronicity again.
01:06:17.000They want it so that no one owns a car.
01:06:19.000You open up your Uber app and you click vehicle and then like an egg-shaped pod pulls up, opens up, and it's just chairs facing each other.
01:06:26.000You sit down and it drives you where you want to go.
01:06:27.000And then if there's a forest fire, you're like, where's my Waymo?
01:06:51.000Who was talking about it where the guy was in the parking lot and he was late for his flight and the Waymo was just going in circles in the parking lot?
01:10:02.000And now the big breakthrough that they're talking about in AI is agentic AI. So AI that can do things more than just Google search for you, right?
01:10:13.000Because that's essentially what LLMs are right now.
01:10:16.000But if you can get an AI to say, hey...
01:11:43.000The robot like that is $15,000, and what's going to happen is...
01:11:47.000Your average middle class person, right?
01:11:50.000Poor people aren't going to be able to yet.
01:11:51.000But your average middle class person, they're going to look at that and say, I don't have to do dishes, mow the lawn, or go do groceries anymore for $550 a month because they'll finance it?
01:12:18.000So like in the next year or two, like Musk has talked about, you know, at some point in the next five years, there's going to be more robots.
01:12:28.000Running around the world than there are humans.
01:12:30.000And the reason is because if they're right about the price points and your average person can pay $15,000, $500 a month for five years or whatever, that's right around a used Prius, right?
01:12:44.000So if you can get a robot that does all of the annoying housework for you and does it properly for $15,000, you're going to have a massive amount of people that are middle class that will say, I'll pay that monthly bill.
01:13:46.000It is basically Chinese spyware, but there's going to be, as the technology progresses, this is the type of thing that will get significantly cheaper as more people buy them.
01:13:57.000Just like your cell phones and just like your TVs.
01:15:25.000And then what industry, like, he'll be used for transporting wood and materials and stuff?
01:15:29.000Don't you just think it'd be, like, really fun if you were, like, standing and ten of them were running full speed at you and you had, like, a sword and you just had to fight them off?
01:16:30.000No, I'm just saying it's kind of funny because we were talking about yesterday that the last rock song to hit number one was in 2001 and it was Nickelback.
01:16:36.000It was funny that all these companies use rock as their, like, background music despite, like, not charting.
01:20:12.000And just what we'll do is we'll load in all the episodes of IRL that Ian's been on, and we'll use a large language model to isolate Ian's speech patterns and have it just simulate Ian.
01:20:23.000What if I could just voice chat through it?
01:23:13.000You ever see that video where the woman, she's got the screen protector, and then she grabs the phone and she just bashes it and shatters it, and then she grabs the phone with the screen protector and she lightly taps it to show the screen protector is working?
01:24:19.000When I was mentioning agentic AI, once you get an artificial intelligence in the robot, when you say, go do the laundry, and it can go into your room, pick up all your clothes, put them in the hamper, whatever isn't already in the hamper,
01:24:35.000take the hamper into the laundry room, put the clothes into the laundry machine, into the washing machine, put the detergent in, maybe put the fabric softener in, close the top, Set it properly and then turn it on and leave.
01:24:51.000That's when people will be like, I'll pay $500 a month for that.
01:24:55.000When you can tell your robot, go to the grocery store and get these things.
01:25:00.000And then the robot walks out, gets into the Tesla.
01:27:34.000They have immediately called for the 20 closest trucks to respond out here.
01:27:38.000However, accessing this fire is going to require more of the trucks.
01:27:42.000They're going to have to get a quick reaction force over here as soon as possible or more likely LA City fire choppers over here as soon as possible depending on what resources But this thing is blowing up before our eyes.
01:31:38.000But when people are like, I want to go to Hollywood, the Walk of Fame is Hollywood Boulevard.
01:31:42.000And Hollywood Highland, it's like you've got Ripley's right there, you've got all the restaurants, all the little knick-knack stores.
01:31:47.000Yeah, it's like 15 blocks away from Runyon, roughly.
01:31:50.000And then there's the Sunset Strip, just a couple blocks south of Hollywood is Sunset.
01:31:55.000I mean, I'm not sure the exact area that was destroyed in the Palisades, but if this fire does get down into Hollywood, into the actual populated areas to where the streets are, you could see a lot of damage really, really fast.
01:32:11.000They've got to be getting cars, I would imagine.
01:33:05.000Like, all this stuff, like, fires are natural.
01:33:09.000And there's a lot of plants and stuff like that that have, over the course of thousands of years, they've evolved to be able to survive this stuff.
01:33:20.000Because of the humans in this area, they don't want fires, so they do everything they can to put them out.
01:33:27.000And if you leave the fuel on the ground, it's going to happen.
01:34:49.000No, I don't think it's supernatural at all.
01:34:51.000When you have evil people ripping apart at the foundations for personal benefit, it falls apart.
01:34:56.000The collapse is inevitable when you have...
01:34:59.000Like, Sodom and Gomorrah don't need God to smite them.
01:35:03.000They cannot sustain themselves on their own.
01:35:06.000Cities of debauchery and degeneracy will fall apart.
01:35:09.000Also, I think that one of them was built on a sulfur mine, and there, you learn the hard way, if you light a match over a sulfur mine, there's a big explosion, and there goes Gomorrah, or whatever the hell, one of those cities.
01:35:18.000So you build a city in the desert, and you rely on imports for water.
01:35:38.000So there's a lot they could have done.
01:35:39.000Yeah, the downside of voting for your candidates and having them seeking re-election is that they waste so much time trying to raise money and please people.
01:35:50.000The upside of authoritarian governments, which is also, I don't like it, is they move very quickly.
01:37:17.000If you were up in Calabasas, right, and you're seeing this stuff happening 45 minutes away, 30 minutes away from your house, why are you going to stay?
01:37:26.000There's a lot of people that are just going to be like, I'm getting out of here, man.
01:37:29.000I'll sell my house, and they might sell it for a loss.
01:37:32.000They probably have multiple other homes, but getting out of there is probably going to be on the radar of a lot more people because that's already been happening.
01:37:42.000This kind of tragedy, this kind of disaster that could have been prevented, there are smart people in those houses that are going to be like, man, it's time to beat it because I can't insure my home anymore.
01:37:53.000We didn't get into the story, but we'll talk about this in the members only when someone tweeted, James Woods' home is burning, it's karma.
01:38:01.000Keith Olbermann was basically saying good and cheering for this.
01:38:05.000I'm telling you, these people are evil.
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01:39:10.000Brad Peters says, with everything that's been happening in California for the last decade, I can only conclude these fires are acts of God, praying for the victims regardless.
01:39:19.000I do understand why you would feel that way, but I genuinely think there's a strong possibility that people like Newsom know that what they're doing will result in catastrophe, and they want it to happen.
01:39:30.000Remember when prices were collapsing in New York?
01:39:32.000Bill de Blasio said he was going to buy up buildings for pennies on the dollar to convert them into public buildings, public housing.
01:39:39.000These communist Democrat types, I'm not saying all Democrats are communists, I'm saying the communists that are masquerading as good American politicians.
01:42:27.000We're going to bring them up at 4 p.m. today.
01:42:28.000Today, we went over why the fact checkers were biased, showing actual articles and proof and studies proving that the Facebook fact checkers were biased and targeting conservatives.
01:42:38.000Tomorrow, we're doing a deep dive on the wildfires and how it is quite literally the fault of Democrat politicians.
01:42:44.000Trump warned them they gave away equipment to Ukraine.
01:43:31.000So the way we did it today was she basically wrote a preliminary script and then I just – I read – so it's a mix of me reading but also going off the cuff.
01:44:51.000So right now, Lisa's working on pulling up all of that info, a lot of stuff we talked about.
01:44:55.000But we're going to pull up the videos, we're going to pull the documents, and we're going to show exactly when they said no more white firefighters.
01:45:00.000When they said sending Ukraine, all the stuff.
01:45:03.000Exactly when they said we're not going to divert water to save the smelt.
01:45:15.000Now we're going to have a team, so I'll be able to basically record them Monday through Friday, and then we'll get extra ones done throughout the week that we can put up on the weekends that are more evergreen.
01:46:02.000Says, the entire West Coast restricts timber harvesting, doesn't brush roads or make enough slash burns, doesn't do enough backburns, won't add fire breaks, allows dead and down to build up over decades, and then blames the climate.
01:46:43.000common sense fishing says i live in california central valley a lot of the issues with the delta farming and sport fishing reservoirs recreation camping power creation via dams etc better question is why build megacity in a desert la already steals all of california's water here here yeah william mulholland was one of the guy that uh redirected all that water from the owens river valley in the early 1900s to help create They named Mulholland Drive after the guy.
01:47:08.000Helped create Los Angeles and screwed over a bunch of farmers to do it.
01:47:14.000He says, I will accept Canada being adopted by America if Mexico gets California.
01:47:18.000If there were 51 countries who are reliant on the U.S. for their own independence, they get two votes in the Senate and they get approximately 350 million people, 560 electoral votes.
01:50:25.000Well I did a full documentary on it and then I also did a video I walked around Kyiv and I showed like these nice parts of Kyiv and I was like this is where your taxes are going and there's like BMWs and Teslas and it and like the Ferris wheel.
01:51:05.000Yeah, it's like a mall in Maidan Square in Kiev, and it's like this steep glass, and there's a video of some dudes like, we're gonna slide down it, and then you hear it.
01:51:15.000You hear the crunch, and they're like, what are you thinking, dude?
01:51:44.000And so I thought it was actually cool in that Lex Freeman interview when Zelensky's talking like, yes, we will work on something with Trump.
01:51:52.000Because, I mean, there's going to get to a point where Russia's going to have no more middle-aged men or teenagers to go out and fight.
01:52:04.000I mean, the only people, like, I obviously saw their teenagers and whatnot, but there's also so many people my age walking around with, like, one leg.
01:52:52.000According to multiple reports, Yemeni men were lured to Russia with promises of a lucrative job and Russian citizenship, only to be coerced into signing military contracts they could not read and sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine.
01:53:30.000Mike ZeroSource says, Tim, did you catch Benny Johnson's videos about homeless people starting fires all over L.A.? I didn't, but we did mention that the other night.
01:56:24.000Yeah, they had public showers right there.
01:56:26.000And it's not like bathing showers, it's beach showers.
01:56:29.000So it's like, there's like a brick structure with pipes that come out, and it's just totally open to the public.
01:56:34.000You walk up and press the thing, and it sprays with water.
01:56:36.000You're not going in a booth or anything like that?
01:56:38.000I thought it was nice, because I was like, well, if there's going to be homeless people, this is a good place for them to be, but they're just harassing tourists.
01:56:43.000Oh, dude, the Bloods and the Crips were there every day at the skate park?
01:56:46.000KTLA, the station might have to evacuate.
01:57:36.000Zuckerberg just pulled out of California.
01:57:38.000Tim Cass does not contract anyone or hire anybody who lives in California because the laws are so insanely oppressive that we just have nothing to do with it.
01:57:46.000And I think California still tried coming after us for some reason, and we're like, we don't do any business in California at all.
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