It s not a scene from some sort of Hollywood apocalyptic movie, it s real life as fires take out some of the most beautiful and affluent neighborhoods anywhere in America. From Malibu to Pacific Palisades to Santa Monica, thousands of homes are gone overnight and the far-left leaders in LA and the state of California are simply and completely unfit for the moment. This is something we are witnessing before our very eyes.
00:06:43.000And unfortunately for so many in California, the consequences of that kind of insanity are playing out before our very eyes.
00:06:53.000And we have a jam-packed show tonight.
00:06:55.000We have reporters in California who have seen this destruction firsthand.
00:07:00.000We're also going to be joined by weather forecast Joe Bastardi, who's been warning about this exact doomsday situation regarding high winds in Los Angeles for a long time.
00:07:11.000Plus, we'll have actor Dean Cain, who will also stop by.
00:07:15.000So this is going to be a fast-moving show, so get your best questions and comments in the chat.
00:07:20.000I'll be paying attention to that right here as well, so I'll try to integrate that into some of them.
00:07:32.000Again, my father's been talking about this for years.
00:07:34.000He talked about it last time California had wildfires.
00:07:37.000But between the insane environmental regulations and trying to save a minnow that prevents them from filling up the reservoirs to actually fight fires where fire hydrants are totally empty to the slashing of fire department budgets in Los Angeles to hiring DEI-type candidates to lead these things.
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00:09:47.000So, guys, with that, so much to discuss tonight.
00:12:06.000Back in 2021, he claimed that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.
00:12:13.000Well, guys, let's just say that didn't age too well like all of the liberal takes that are out there about Trump.
00:12:22.000Is we are committed as a team, as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies, including now the federal government, no longer a sparring partner, but a working partner, federal government, where we're not addressing headwinds, but tailwinds in terms of the support, a memorandum of understanding doubling.
00:12:41.000Our respective commitments to vegetation management and forest management have prescribed burns to support the Biden administration with resources, not just rhetoric, to help this collective cause.
00:12:56.000Newsom is completely wrong, by the way.
00:12:58.000During my father's first term, he tried to increase water diversions on federal land to help California's water supply.
00:13:06.000California didn't accept the help and instead sued the federal government, putting petty politics above people's lives, as always.
00:13:16.000Newsom's actually on the record at the time saying with my father when we were talking about COVID, hey, anything that we ask for from Trump, they got it the next day.
00:13:25.000So the fact that they're trying to pretend that my father wasn't prepared or wasn't willing to do anything is a lie.
00:13:33.000Just go back and find it for yourself.
00:13:35.000The fact that Joe Biden is incompetent is a big part of this.
00:13:39.000And again, liberal policies that place wokeness ahead of competency, ahead of people who are actually able to do the job, caused these problems.
00:13:48.000It has nothing to do with climate change, and it has nothing to do with my father's administration.
00:13:53.000It has everything to do with the inept policies of today's Democrat Party.
00:13:58.000Will they ever just admit that my father is right and actually knows what he's talking about?
00:14:43.000And it was at that point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at this apartment building, and they realized there was nothing they could do except...
00:14:52.000The response to this fire, guys, has been atrocious.
00:14:55.000There have been multiple reports of firefighters finding that there is no water in fire hydrants.
00:15:15.000The city officials were barely communicating with residents.
00:15:18.000Here's one man saying that he actually called 911 only to be told and I quote, there was no fire where he's talking about a fire.
00:15:28.000I called 911, LAPD, they answered the phone and I said, you need to get some police officers down here because I'm a former journalist so I kind of know how to get things done.
00:15:42.000I said, you need to get police down here to manage traffic.
00:16:00.000And we were literally gridlocked on sunset.
00:16:03.000And that was after I waited for five minutes on hold.
00:16:06.000So, you know, this city needs some work.
00:16:08.000The response, guys, guys in these woke cities is so bad that 911 does not even know when and where there are fires while citizens are being alerted to the fires in the areas they're calling about.
00:16:26.000Think about that That's insane as well.
00:16:29.000And guys, you'll be shocked to find out, shocked I tell you, that DEI also played a role in the failed response.
00:16:38.000Here's the LA Fire Department's Assistant Chief, Christine Larson, explaining how when you're struck or stuck in a burning building, you'll apparently be very concerned about diversity.
00:21:39.000And by the way, when we had Pretty Boy reporter David Muir from ABC News, who apparently wanted his fake tough guy firefighter jacket to fit a little bit better.
00:21:50.000So what he actually did was put clothespins on the back of it.
00:23:24.000Yes, John Muir, the guy that did the clothespin thing, or David Muir, whatever his name is, David Muir was one of the, and I quote, moderators.
00:23:32.000They called him a moderator, but he was really a participant on the team of the Democrats and Kamala Harris in my father's presidential debate with her.
00:25:32.000But you would not be shocked to find out that all these people are saying that Danish television, which controls the television in Denmark, has basically been doing like an anti-America campaign because they understand that people, if they knew...
00:26:47.000It's one of these things where, and I'm sure John will agree with me on this, that this has always been bound to happen.
00:26:51.000L.A. was always going to be lit on fire so long as we had a government that was more concerned with DEI and more concerned with abortions and more concerned with going to presidential inaugurations in Ghana rather than trying to actually take care of the citizenry here.
00:27:06.000You can see it in the answers that Kieran Bass wouldn't give in some of her interviews that she's done since she arrived back from Africa to L.A. What's gone on in this state
00:27:36.000is that people have allowed for things to depreciate for decades.
00:27:39.000Don, your dad was talking about this, and he was entirely accurate about this.
00:27:44.000Our entire scheme, the way we deal with water, was upended a couple decades ago to preserve the Delta smelt, a bait fish, because the salinity in the water was incringing upon their rights to exist at the expense of humans, and not just in terms of fire safety.
00:28:01.000California used to feed the world, the central plains of this state.
00:28:17.000They weren't making sure our reservoirs were filled.
00:28:19.000They weren't making sure infrastructure was up to date.
00:28:20.000They weren't making sure enough first responders were ready and trained.
00:28:23.000And there's no culture in the citizenry in terms of fire preparedness.
00:28:28.000No one was aware that all these insurers got out of the business of insuring people for fire because the Democrat governance of this state.
00:28:36.000Half the amount of money insurance companies could make on these transactions.
00:28:40.000That was a socialist communist plan and it led to a bunch of people now who are going to have to pick up the pieces and rebuild with nothing.
00:28:47.000They have nothing because they weren't insured for this stuff.
00:28:52.000It is a true 360 degree failure of what happens when you have a socialist state that's single party.
00:28:58.000Yeah, I mean, my father spoke about this almost, you know, prophetically on Rogan just a few months ago, a couple weeks before the election, talking about that because he was out there the last time they had disastrous fires trying to give, you know, whatever aid.
00:30:03.000Karen Bass, of course, was on Rampy Joe's shortlist to be vice president, and it wasn't until Kamala Harris and her aides here in California kneecapped Karen Bass so that she could be the vice president.
00:30:17.000And when you see yourself as a national figure, you see these sorts of state and local issues as being beneath you.
00:30:24.000So Gavin Newsom has no interest in fire.
00:31:15.000He had nothing to do with the response to the fires.
00:31:17.000But Trump derangement syndrome is real, and all of these people suffer from it.
00:31:23.000It impacts virtually everything that they do.
00:31:26.000Every decision that they make is through the prism of what can get them national attention and what gives them an opportunity to go after your dad.
00:31:35.000And ultimately, the people who are suffering are the people of California because we have to live with their incompetence.
00:31:41.000Yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point when you think about it.
00:31:44.000I mean, Karen Bass was going to be, you know, possibly a VP contender.
00:31:47.000She was certainly on that shortlist for Joe Biden.
00:31:50.000You know, Gavin Newsom, definitely, you know, one of the top guys in the Democrat, let's call it the bench for 2028. And yet here they are, just abject incompetence.
00:32:05.000I mean, do they even face any real questioning later on?
00:32:09.000I mean, is this even penal to them in those future prospects?
00:32:12.000Or is it just like, it doesn't matter.
00:32:14.000If you're a Democrat royalty, you can kind of get away with murder, so to speak, and maybe perhaps in this case, quite literally, without a consequence or accountability.
00:32:22.000Well, for Gavin Newsom, he's a lame duck.
00:32:25.000In fact, he's such a lame duck, I think some Haitians just ate him.
00:32:28.000But Gavin Newsom, if he's going to do...
00:33:06.000You know, I mean, I know I saw James Woods lost his house, but I imagine he's one of the few remaining conservatives in a lot of these areas.
00:33:13.000I mean, these are the people that have been supporting that machine.
00:33:16.000I would hope that if you lose your house, maybe you rethink your thoughts.
00:33:39.000And I think that a lot of people who think of themselves as independent and free thinkers are going to start reappraising whether or not, if Donald Trump said it, it must be wrong.
00:33:48.000Because they've had this approach for eight years.
00:33:49.000If Trump holds this position, I must hold the opposite position.
00:33:53.000What other explanation, Don, is there that they elevated Liz Cheney?
00:33:56.000Liz Cheney stood for everything the Democrats opposed for the first three quarters of my life.
00:34:01.000She was a warmonger and a war criminal, and so was her father, according to them, for 30 years.
00:36:11.000Well, go back to your initial point of it being a one-party state.
00:36:15.000We had a water bond on the ballot in 2014. And in a one-party state, whenever you have a bond on the ballot, you're going to spend a lot of money.
00:36:26.000They get to take care of all of their left-wing friends.
00:36:30.000They get to take care of their political benefactors.
00:36:32.000And they just do essentially what Joe Biden did with the infrastructure bill, which is you call everything that you want to spend money on infrastructure, and you load it up with pork.
00:36:43.000None of the money is actually going for things that people assume it's going for.
00:36:47.000So in this water bond that we passed in 2014, voters were told that it would go to collect water.
00:36:55.000None of those reservoirs have been built.
00:37:22.000Yeah, well, John, we've also seen LA leadership prioritize DEI, or as I want to rename it, D-I-E, at the fire department over actually fighting fires.
00:37:33.000We saw very disturbing parallels during COVID where it was all about diversity instead of actual health policy.
00:37:41.000Just how destructive is this social justice agenda?
00:37:45.000And why do Californians keep voting for it?
00:37:48.000Well, the fire chief was told that her first priority is to diversify the fire department.
00:37:53.000And it looks like it should have been to make sure there's water in the fire hydrants.
00:38:06.000This is emblematic of what the left wants to do.
00:38:10.000The diversity and the racial and gender makeup and sexual orientation makeup of the fire department is more important than their ability to carry out their duties.
00:38:20.000And once you get to that point, once you get to the point to where these organizations are for the people who work there and not for the people who are supposed to be getting the services, that's when everything goes down the tubes.
00:38:33.000And I'll say this, as much as they proclaim to hate your father and as much as all of them have Trump derangement syndrome, the odd thing is, is he's going to be the one that's going to end up saving their bacon because he's a builder.
00:38:48.000He knows how to do these tasks that need to be done that they're incapable of doing.
00:38:54.000They'll benefit from him going into office, but they'll give him zero thanks and continue to attack them.
00:39:01.000Well, I put out a tweet earlier today saying basically that, which is if they spent half the time actually trying to prepare for these things that they do trying to, you know, fake dunk on my father, these issues wouldn't persist.
00:39:14.000So I guess, Alex, you know, for this, what does recovery even look like?
00:39:20.000You know, again, you have a lot of people, I mean, you know, I guess, hey, if you don't have insurance on your car and you total your car, you can come back from that.
00:39:28.000If you don't have insurance on your home, you know, that's most of people's worth.
00:39:34.000You know, their net worth is tied up into their home.
00:39:36.000Will the California Coastal Commission, you know, we've dealt with them in the past.
00:39:40.000We've seen what they've done to Elon Musk.
00:39:42.000I've dealt with them because we own a golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes just south of you guys.
00:39:47.000Will they even let residents rebuild or will it just be endless red tape to try to create an unpopulated area because whatever environmental agenda they're pushing?
00:40:03.000Talking about this as if it's past tense in some ways, and it's very much present tense.
00:40:07.000We're seeing 0% containment for the Palisades Fire.
00:40:10.000We're seeing 0% containment for the fire in Pasadena, and we're seeing 10% containment for the Hearst Fire just north of LA in the Sylmar area.
00:40:58.000It's almost impossible to get a wall built on your property because there are so many hoops you have to jump through.
00:41:04.000Now imagine thousands upon thousands of people trying to build at the same time with a government that is not prepared to process all of this.
00:41:12.000There's going to have to be wholesale reappraisals of what regulatory processes Go into being able to rebuild.
00:41:20.000And it's a historic opportunity to your dad because the Democrats who are here are not up for reelection for at least a couple of years, and they're not going to show leadership.
00:41:29.000So hopefully President Trump comes in.
00:41:31.000And he takes the reins on this thing and he's able to start getting people back on track.
00:41:35.000But even best case scenario, we're talking years upon years of rebuilding.
00:41:39.000The insurance companies are going to take an absolute bath on this.
00:41:42.000A lot of them are going to probably go bankrupt.
00:41:44.000If not, they're going to stop insuring certain homes in certain places.
00:41:48.000The ripple effect is going to be so deep.
00:41:51.000We're going to need a full scale reset in terms of what happens in the city of L.A. It will never be the same.
00:42:05.000Will more people keep leaving the state of California and the city of LA? Oh, yeah.
00:42:12.000I mean, pissed off is a polite way of saying it.
00:42:15.000I mean, every caller, I feel like is going to turn into Andrew Dice Clay at a certain point with the swearing.
00:42:20.000But they have every right to be angry because we pay a fortune to live here.
00:42:25.000You expect the government to throw the ball, catch the ball, hit the ball, do the basics of government, police, fire, those sorts of things.
00:42:33.000And they spend the money on everything but that.
00:42:37.000Karen Bass defunded the LA Fire Department by $17 million.
00:43:31.000And all these images on TV, oh, we don't have money to make sure that there's water in the fire hydrant, but if your 15-year-old wants to go to the chop shop for a sex change, then go right ahead.
00:43:43.000And at a certain point, people say, well, you know, why am I paying this?
00:43:47.000And the grass is greener in Arizona or Nevada or other places.
00:43:51.000And there is a reason why our population is in decline, and I expect it to continue.
00:43:56.000Yeah, I mean, Alex, talk a little bit more about that, you know, in terms of sort of the You know, the flight out of California and out of these blue states.
00:44:05.000I know Breitbart's been covering this for years.
00:44:12.000And yet, strangely enough, it's becoming more red.
00:44:15.000Initially, the concern was, hey, all these New Yorkers, me being one of them.
00:44:18.000But, you know, I think my conservative bona fides are pretty solid.
00:44:22.000But it does feel like the concern of people bringing their crappy politics with them.
00:44:29.000As it escalates, as it keeps getting worse, as the Democrat Party has just totally lost its way, it doesn't seem like the people that are fleeing are actually bringing that stuff with them nearly as much as people were concerned about.
00:44:42.000No, and if you look at the Palisades area, the Palisades area voted for Rick Caruso, who was kind of a fake Democrat.
00:44:49.000He's mostly a Republican, but he would talk crap about your dad just to score some points, and he claims he was pro-abortion.
00:44:57.000But he's a builder and otherwise is a more conservative guy.
00:45:01.000So a lot of the people who are going to be displaced here, if they end up leaving the state, then they're not – don't be too afraid.
00:45:08.000They might not bring terrible politics with them.
00:45:10.000But hopefully this is a – Moment where Californians can mature a little bit and understand that the promise of the DEI and the wokeness and the infinite abortions did not keep you safe and it did not protect what's most important to you, which is your home and your friends and your family.
00:45:24.000So I'm optimistic that the result of this will be a huge surge in Republican MAGA voters and will bring that to those who stay and rebuild.
00:45:35.000And when there are people displaced and they move, I'm hoping that they're going to.
00:45:39.000See the Democrat failures clearly enough that they're not going to infect any of your states, those of you who are watching.
00:46:08.000Maybe we'll start with John and then, you know, then go to Alex.
00:46:10.000But how do you think the new Trump administration will engage with California?
00:46:16.000You know, again, Gavin Newsom is on the record during COVID saying, hey, anything we needed from the Trump administration, we got it the next day.
00:46:22.000I'll give them, you know, I'll give them a couple points there for at least being honest about that.
00:46:27.000Will they be as eager to help if they're going to get sued at every turn?
00:46:43.000Maybe, like I said, start with John, and then I'd like to hear Alex.
00:46:46.000Well, I don't think their behavior is going to change until they feel like they might lose re-election.
00:46:53.000And even though Kamala Harris won the state statewide, if you look at the margins of the states from 2016 to this last election, California moved farther to the right in the direction of your father more than any other state in the union.
00:47:10.000We didn't move enough to give our electoral votes to him, but there was a lot of movement.
00:47:16.000And I think that once these guys start to think that going after your dad nonstop is not going to pay off for them, that's when they'll change their behavior.
00:47:25.000But as of now, I mean, you look at the legislature, they met today to find different ways to sue your dad's administration.
00:47:31.000The Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, is going to try to run for governor on the platform of filing as many nuisance lawsuits against the federal government as humanly possible.
00:47:43.000If he doesn't make it out of that primary and the legislature ends up with egg on their face, which is exactly what's happening.
00:47:49.000I mean, the Speaker of the Assembly just got absolutely obliterated by the press court today because they were so tone deaf going after your dad instead of dealing with the fires in Southern California.
00:48:01.000When they start to feel the heat, I think that's when their behavior will change.
00:48:05.000But unless they feel the heat, I think they're just going to keep doing what they're doing.
00:48:08.000So we obviously just got through an election, John.
00:48:13.000Is this something that's two years from now where, again, I have a hard time believing people forget about their house going up in flames, but is that the kind of thing that maybe they can just forget about this and the media, I'm sure, will run cover for them?
00:48:28.000Well, two years from now, we have the governor's seat up.
00:48:32.000And Gavin Newsom will be turned out, so it'll be an open seat.
00:48:35.000And you'll have a huge field of candidates.
00:48:38.000And if you have a lot of Democrats who are credible candidates who can raise money and have some degree of name ID, then a Republican should be able to make it on the November ballot with our top two primary system.
00:48:53.000If you just have two Democrats whose politics are the same, but their race is different or gender is different or whatever, then it doesn't matter.
00:49:02.000But if you can get a Republican on that November ballot and you can re-litigate all of their issues, all these issues, all these failures that we've all lived with, I don't see how they have any answers for that.
00:50:11.000The Democrats are, they put their head in the sand and they like to pretend certain negative things like crime and homelessness going on around them.
00:50:18.000Illegal aliens have ruined the state in a lot of ways, particularly the education system.
00:50:30.000And I'm sure there's good people there.
00:50:32.000I don't know many of them, but I'm sure there's good people.
00:50:34.000There needs to be at a party level, at an organizational level, at a grassroots level, a real effort to take this opportunity to re-engage with the state because the water is warm.
00:50:45.000You can see it with all these people turning on Democrats now.
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00:52:31.000Again, text Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898. And joining me now, the founder of weatherbell.com, author of The Weaponization of the Weather in the Phony Climate War, weather forecaster and meteorologist Joe Bastardi.
00:52:51.000Joe, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:53:33.000I mean, the people of North Carolina got $700 after losing their homes.
00:53:37.000You know, that was a slap in the face.
00:53:39.000You saw the lackluster response to the fires at Maui.
00:53:45.000Hopefully it's better in California, and hopefully they make it right to all of those people, not just in California because that, you know, funds the Democrat regime, which controls so much.
00:55:54.000Well, I think there's been a concerted effort to silence people.
00:55:58.000I call it Hunter Biden laptop meteorology and climatology, where they don't want to confront the situation because if you actually knew the situation, you wouldn't be able to buy into the climate missive anymore.
00:56:10.000And it's strictly a political-type situation.
00:56:13.000In fact, I have ideas on how we can counter these people once and for all, and sometime I'll talk to you about them, because what you have to do is get out in front of the situation.
00:56:24.000Let people know with a big bullhorn two, three weeks away that we've got a situation setting up, and then you start telling people it's similar to this year, this year, this year, years in the past, and they understand that it's not some magic CO2 fairy that's decided to light up the Southwest.
00:56:43.000And the policies of these people are depraved in difference.
00:56:48.000This is the third big event besides the hurricanes.
00:56:51.000You know, last year on December 7th, we put out a hurricane forecast from Weather Bell for the United States to have a hurricane season from hell targeting where these things were going to go a year in advance.
00:57:04.000So there are times when you can see it, and if you can see it, you can war plan or battle plan for the situation, have people in place.
00:57:13.000Now, here's an interesting question, folks.
00:57:18.000To build aqueducts, to get water to roam, and California doesn't seem to understand that with the increased three-fold increase in population and also in the whole infrastructure of the area, that you can have the same rain amounts that you had in the 1950s, and the demand would be so great, it would be draining your resources.
00:57:42.000And your father is exactly spot on right.
00:57:45.000When he says this stuff, it's common sense.
00:57:48.000He told Newsom back in 2018, this type of thing, you cannot prevent things like wildfires completely.
00:57:57.000But we're burning less than one-fifth.
00:58:00.000Of what we used to burn in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
00:58:04.000The situations are predictable, but you have to have the resources in place to fight them.
00:58:10.000And you can't just, oh my gosh, it popped up overnight.
00:58:14.000And that's the attitude that these politicians have.
00:58:17.000Like I said before, folks, think about climate change this way.
00:58:22.000If you go bowling and you put three times the amount of pins on the lane, The same bowling balls go and knock down more pins.
00:58:32.000We have so many more people living there, and we have so much more infrastructure, and the shame is that this country is more than capable of adapting to whatever weather challenges that come at us, and that's what's really going on here.
00:59:00.000It doesn't seem like money solves all these other problems around the world.
00:59:05.000Everyone wants more money to fix problems they can't fix it.
00:59:07.000The statistics, you'd know better than me, but if I recall, I think the statistics over the last 75 years, the average climate has gone up 0.2 degrees.
00:59:18.000I don't think that's a changing thing.
00:59:20.000I don't think that's enough to create these headaches.
00:59:24.000And yet, we think we could spend trillions of dollars to alleviate a problem that, statistically, probably speaking, is not a problem at all.
00:59:33.000And this is from government statistics.
00:59:35.000Well, the problem is that people don't understand that it's water vapor that's driving the whole chute match.
00:59:40.000And if the oceans are going to warm...
01:01:35.000So what happens is you have to be proactive.
01:01:38.000You have to get out in front, explain to people, like on September 8th, I tweeted the last week of September and the first week of October, major hurricane situation for Florida and the southeast part of the United States.
01:03:09.000I mean, I didn't realize, you know, I'm aware, hey, every 10 years you have an El Nino cycle and that leads to X or a La Nina cycle.
01:03:16.000But you're saying that I imagine there's more like you in your field of expertise that say, hey, here are the stats.
01:03:24.000Here's what's going on based in the past.
01:03:26.000You're saying this is actually more common knowledge to a lot of people that you could expect and forecast even these regulars that are, say, you know, off those majors.
01:05:42.000Now you say to me, well, Joe, you talk about the climate all the time.
01:05:45.000It's because I need it for what God made me to do, which is the forecast, the weather.
01:05:51.000If the climate fight went away tomorrow, it doesn't hurt me.
01:05:54.000I still have to get up and unwrap that Christmas gift, which is the weather, which I absolutely love, the next morning and forecast and go to battle.
01:06:02.000So every single day, the weather is going to challenge me.
01:06:09.000And it's been so frustrating because I've tried to get in contact with people and say, listen, we've got to get out front of this stuff instead of just letting them do it.
01:06:19.000They will respond, no, it's not climate change.
01:06:22.000By that time, the horse is out of the barn and all the way down the street, and we're sitting here holding the bag.
01:06:28.000So, Joe, before we roll, are there others that sort of have your capabilities that are just simply unwilling to say, The truth or say what you're saying, meaning they know it, they're just unwilling to say it because there is a social consequence to that.
01:06:46.000If you're perhaps getting government money and you don't espouse to the beliefs of climate change, you're just out, sort of like what we saw with COVID. If you said, of course it came from the lab that studies the exact virus in question at ground zero in Wuhan.
01:07:13.000Yeah, my book in 2020, The Weaponization of Weather and the Phony Climate War, there were two chapters on how COVID was a warm-up for climate, and I wrote it in April of 2020. You can see as plain as the nose in my Italian face what was going.
01:07:28.000I think there are going to be people that are going to be speaking up that know about this.
01:07:32.000What we've got to do is we've got to get the meteorological community to sit there and look at it and go, wait a minute, wait a minute.
01:07:38.000How come water vapor is directly linked to temperature?
01:07:42.000We have to use what we call saturation mixing ratios, but how come there's nothing for CO2, right?
01:07:48.000And I feel bad for the young meteorologists that are under this whole spell today because they have no choice.
01:08:07.000For me, hey, listen, I know what God made me to do, and I'm going to do it as hard as I can until I leave the playing field to forecast the weather.
01:08:15.000But climate and knowing what happened before is essential.
01:08:20.000And because it's essential, when someone, as the great Clint Eastwood used to say, Pardon my French.
01:08:27.000Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining because that's exactly what these people are doing in this situation.
01:09:55.000All that stuff also doesn't get decided locally.
01:09:58.000The environmental people, they sue in D.C. where they can go and they can play on the heartstrings of some liberal judge rather than people who are actually affected, rather than people who actually understand the real problems.
01:10:42.000Well, so you actually, Dean, you left Malibu a few years back, literally over this exact issue of mismanagement, and you were worried something like this was going to happen.
01:11:49.000I mean, everybody with any foresight whatsoever could see.
01:11:53.000All the terrible policies, the forest mismanagement, the water that we voted on in 2014 to bring all these reservoirs on, none of them built.
01:12:00.000You could just see it coming, so I was able to get out of there.
01:12:04.000But everybody who can prepare, like I mean, the stuff that you know, like if you were in charge of the forest management in California, I would have probably stayed.
01:12:14.000I mean, it's so different what they've done.
01:12:18.000When your biggest concern is being misgendered or, you know, DIE, I call them DIE policies, when that's your biggest concern, you know you're in very, very good times.
01:12:30.000But there's that saying, you know, weak men create hard times.
01:12:34.000Well, we're in the hard times now, my friend.
01:12:39.000So hopefully someone steps up and does something about California.
01:12:44.000I mean, you grew up in L.A. The houses you lived in, they're seemingly all gone.
01:12:49.000I mean, some of these pictures I'm seeing, I mean, it's like the villain in some of the movies you've been in was able to get away with it.
01:13:04.000You know, where does Malibu go from here?
01:13:07.000Does this spark a real pushback against the leadership or do they just continue the same old ways?
01:13:12.000You know, I think everybody can talk about the things like, you know, like I said, DEI and D.I.E. or whatever that is, and words being violence and all that stuff until it hits home.
01:14:34.000I mean, I guess I'd ask you, I mean, you're one of the few people in Hollywood, you sort of became outspoken against some of this insanity, whether it's the climate change, whether it's some of your commentary about the transgender nonsense for minors, just legendary stuff.
01:14:54.000Are some of your friends coming to that same realization?
01:14:57.000I mean, there used to be such a consequence.
01:15:00.000I'm sure you've faced plenty of hardship due to it.
01:15:04.000I'm sure you lost acting gigs or jobs, probably even friends, because of the things that you're saying.
01:15:12.000But do you see people finally coming to their senses a little bit?
01:15:16.000I'm sure you have conservative friends too, but more on the people who aren't.
01:15:19.000Are they waking up and saying, you know what, maybe we don't need to go all in on all of the insanity all of the time?
01:15:26.000Yeah, when it hits home like this, Don, people wake up.
01:15:51.000I mean, you look no further than, you know, like...
01:15:53.000The young Turks, Anna Kasparian, and people like that going, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense, because they're starting to see the results of these horrible policies.
01:16:02.000Look, I saw the writing on the wall, and I bolted as fast as possible.
01:16:05.000You know, they make fun of preppers and, you know, have your things together.
01:16:09.000Look, we just got an alert moments ago.
01:16:12.000My son's mother, you know, is in that area, and suddenly the alert pops up, and I hear my son on the phone, because I've taught him while he's 24 years old.
01:16:20.000He's like, get your car packed, get all the things that you need, make sure you have enough water, you have an escape plant.
01:16:25.000These are the things that I know you take care of because you're an outdoorsman, you're a hunter, you understand it all, you're a shooter.
01:16:32.000I'm a shooter, but probably not as good as you, especially from distance.
01:16:36.000But these things are hugely important.
01:16:39.000And people just think, oh, electricity will always be there.
01:16:55.000I think we're going to find a lot more bodies.
01:16:57.000I think we're going to find a lot more, you know, these.
01:17:00.000Who knows what the, quote, investigations will show because they have an ability to, you know, hide things like they've been doing for the last few years.
01:17:08.000But anybody with common sense realizes that they've been voting the wrong things.
01:17:13.000You know, Billy Crystal losing his home and how many celebrities that have voted for these policies that cost them their home.
01:17:19.000This should be a wake-up call for common sense governance and real competent governance.
01:17:25.000So, I mean, I know the firemen, the guys on the ground, those guys are real heroes.
01:18:49.000at your job and that's it's insane when you see oh my our our focus you know our singular focus is on DEI and we want someone to come in to uh when you when you see someone show up at your house when there's a fire you want someone that looks like you I don't care What you look like.
01:19:07.000If you can carry my ass out of the fire.
01:19:10.000To be clear, if you're green and can carry me and or my kids out of a fire, if I'm incapable of doing it myself, I'm totally fine with that.
01:20:49.000I mean, he's been right about so many of these things.
01:20:51.000Earlier in the show, we're talking about, I mean, just a few weeks ago, a few months ago, on the Joe Rogan podcast, he was talking about it.
01:20:56.000In 2018, when these fires ravaged California the last time, you know, not as populated an area, he was talking about all of these issues.
01:21:03.000It's not like it's unknown and people are surprised.
01:21:06.000I mean, it seems like it's common knowledge, even for people who aren't there.
01:21:11.000And yet it's still allowed to happen, which is truly a travesty.
01:21:45.000It's time to make this stuff happen because everybody, because they're living now in California.
01:21:51.000So many of my friends and so many people that I know and family members are affected by this.
01:21:56.000So many people lost houses and homes and everything.
01:22:00.000It's hard for me to even wrap my head.
01:22:02.000I mean, looking at that is just insane and heartbreaking when you know that it could have been prevented.
01:22:08.000By good policy, good forest management, good water management.
01:22:14.000I mean, just everything that your father talked about, everything that was there is just total common sense and people scoffed at it, laughed at it, and now they're reaping what they sowed.
01:22:23.000Of the people that you know that have been affected by this, lost homes, are they staying there and rebuilding or are they just leaving and fleeing?
01:22:31.000You know, fortunately, a lot of people I know are very wealthy and they can have other homes and they can do things.
01:22:41.000And this is one of the things that Adam Carolla did a great job of discussing.
01:22:45.000You know, even from the Woolsey fire back in 2018. Such a small percentage of the homes that were burned have been rebuilt.
01:22:53.000Something like some tiny, I don't even want to pick a number, but it's tiny, way less than 50% of the homes.
01:22:58.000So what these people are going to find now is the California Coastal Commission, all the bureaucratic regulations, all that ridiculousness.
01:23:05.000Go ahead and try to pull a permit to rebuild your house.
01:23:08.000Go ahead and try and get fire insurance.
01:23:10.000Mine got canceled after it burned up in my backyard and I filed a claim.
01:23:14.000California insurance companies are going to go possibly bankrupt.
01:23:17.000They're going to not give any fire insurance anymore.
01:23:20.000Try to pull a permit to build something there.
01:23:23.000You are not, the backlog is going to be insane.
01:23:26.000And all of a sudden, you're going to be, those people will be concerned about the bureaucratic mess, the red tape that President Trump talks about all the time and that anybody with any sense who has dealt with it.
01:23:37.000Understands it's ridiculous and things aren't going to get done and they're going to turn that blue state red.
01:23:43.000That would be the silver lining in my book is if people realized the idiocy of what they've been voting for and they turn that blue state red and vote for common sense and things that make California great again.
01:23:57.000So you've been very vocal for quite some time.
01:24:00.000You're one of the few guys to really start.
01:24:01.000I think you brought a lot of people with you.
01:24:04.000Any chance you ever get into politics, Dean?
01:24:09.000You and I can talk about this quietly on the side, and I will listen to you.
01:24:13.000You'll probably quietly tell me not to do it, because when I watched it, look at the, I mean, I don't have to tell you anything, but the stuff that comes out, the way they attack everybody, if I ever did...
01:24:26.000It's only because I want to do good for my state, my country, and the citizens of the United States.
01:24:33.000I would go there to serve, very much like the 47th incoming president.
01:25:00.000And you look at some of these people, I've met many of them, even on our side, and I'm like, wow, they wouldn't be good at anything else.
01:25:05.000They're just good at being bureaucrats, but they're good at that.
01:25:08.000And, you know, they're able to hold those positions and they do what needs to be done to keep that position to get reelected every two years, even if it means making bad decisions for short-term gain.
01:25:20.000I would be there to do the job of representing the people and trying to put common sense back into our government to help the people of the United States, which is what they're really supposed to be doing.
01:25:31.000I mean, when we were founded, we weren't supposed to be in session all the time.
01:25:34.000They would come in, do a couple weeks, and get out.
01:25:36.000People thought that, you know, the founders thought that people wouldn't want to be politicians, and that makes sense.
01:25:54.000So, yeah, I would be a true citizen politician if I did it.
01:25:57.000The people who are in, I mean, some of the people who are in office, when I sit down with them personally, and you hit the nail on the head, I'm like, how in the world can you, I wouldn't hire you to run my, you know, my pool in the back of my house because you're.