Timcast IRL - LA Wildfires WIPE OUT Entire Towns, Trump WARNED Us On Rogan MONTHS AGO w/Nick Shirley

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

Tim, Phil, & Ian are joined by Nick Shirley to discuss the LA wildfires completely destroying the Pacific Palisades, Trump blaming Gavin Newsom for the LA wildfire disaster, California democrats refusing to do basic fire & forest management, and New Yorkers losing it over new congestion fee. Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Nick Shirley @nickshirleyy (X) Nick Shirley is a 22-year-old content creator and social media influencer known for his on-the-ground reporting and interviews, with a significant following across platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The wildfires in Los Angeles are getting worse. There's a photo that's going viral that just shows the Pacific Palisades are gone. If you don't know, this is a neighborhood in the Los Angeles area, and it's just been completely wiped out. There's this really sad video of James Woods breaking down in tears because of the elderly neighbors that he has, the risk to their lives, and just everyone's lives being destroyed. So, man, it's getting brutal lives and just everyone's lives being destroyed. So, man, it's getting brutal out there. I hope everybody gets out. The death toll is now up to five, but people expect it. Officials expect it to get worse. There'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. A lot of people have been talking about it and not to mention the issue of homeless individuals setting fires. So this has been epic mismanagement from day one. And I think it's important to point out this viral clip from Trump where he says exactly this. They're not getting the water down. And now fire hydrants are empty. Firefighters are overwhelmed. They don't have the resources to fight this fire. And I don't know what the current percentage is at, but not even that long ago, the fires in California were at zero percent contained, burning for over 24 hours, spreading rapidly. It's horrifying stuff, man. We'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. Nobody doing anything about it. You've got the story of, as I mentioned, the homeless people, the failures of water, all of these things lining up.

And then it gets weird. Insurance companies dropped tons of these homes, specifically covering fire insurance, between a few months and a few weeks ago. The insurance companies knew. And if they knew, the government knew. And so here we are dealing with the failures of policy. And we'll get into all that. Before we get started, my friends, head over to castbrew.com and pick up some Cast Brew coffee.

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Who are you? What do you do? I'm an independent YouTube journalist. Go all across the world, whether it be the jails in El Salvador or the streets of New York City talking to migrant gangs. Wow. Talking to everybody. I've seen some of your clips where you're like asking people.

It's like a very dry, like, hey, what do you think about this? And then you see people sometimes freak out. Yeah, I just ask people stuff and let them explain. They either make themselves look really good or make themselves look really bad. Isn't it crazy that you can just do journalism? You can just show up and ask people the questions. Yeah. I mean, there's an art to it.

There's some ways you gotta do it. But yeah, it's pretty amazing. I love just going to talk with people. Right on, man. It's gonna be fun. Thanks for joining us. We got Ian hanging out. Yeah, it's good to be back, man. Thanks for having me, amazing. I love just going to talk with people. Right on, man. It's going to be fun. Thanks for joining us. We got Ian hanging out. Yeah, it's good to be back, man. Thanks for having me, everybody. And also shout out to everybody that picked up a bag of Graphene Dream.

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Don't mess up. It's the best solution. Drinking is a young man's game. I'm almost 40. I'm not going anywhere near it at all. Yeah, I don't really drink either. But regardless, Michaela, thank you so much for sending this to us.

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My name is Phil Labonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal and all that remains. I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. Tim, let's go. Here we go. First, we'll start with some updates here. We have this from Forbes, California wildfire live updates. Officials say five dead as fires expand.

We have this map here from fire.airnow.gov. Take a look at these fires that we have in the LA area. So you've got, this is the Hearst fire up north. It looks small relative to the others, but it is still very massive. And you can see it is dipping down into residential areas. So hopefully people are taking that seriously. Over here, you have the Eaton fire. There's actually now, I think maybe even seven different fires in the area, although these are the major ones. You can see this. This is the Eaton fire, and it is spreading crazy. Altadena, look at this. All of this residential area stuff just being wiped out. This is crazy, man. And then, of course, we have Pasadena, which is the bulk of this. This is the Pacific Coast

Highway. Absolutely not. Stretching into Malibu. This is crazy. I mean, let me see. I got this photo here. Take a look at this. People are just saying the Palisades are gone. The houses are just gone. This is absolutely insane. And the worst thing about it, it is and it was preventable. Now 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. If this goes to Santa Monica. It's in Santa Monica. It is already in Santa Monica. That's like the economic. It's not the epicenter, but it's, it's in Santa Monica. It is already in Santa Monica. It's like the economic. It's not the epicenter, but it's like part two in Los Angeles.

Santa Monica is like the entertainment number two capital in the world next to Hollywood. So that is like, I mean, and you could say the Valley, but the Valley is huge. Santa Monica is a tiny little focused area of auditions and studios. You know the entertainment that comes out of the Valley, Ian. Damn, dude. A lot of. This is what people need to understand. You know, I know a lot of people who live in L.A.

You totally get this. People have been there. You get this. Los Angeles is tiny, but Los Angeles County is massive. And so when people talk about going to Hollywood or L.A., a lot of these celebrities, they live in Santa Monica. They live in the Palisades. Some, of course, live in the Hollywood Hills, which is, you know, more up here or whatever.

You've got West Hollywood, Beverly Hills. But the Palisades, this, of course, live in the Hollywood Hills, which is more up here or whatever. You've got West Hollywood, Beverly Hills. But the Palisades, this is why James Woods is living up there. It is common for actors and celebrities in Hollywood to be living in the Palisades. The fact that it's gone is just absolutely insane. You ever drive the Pacific Coast Highway? Of course, dude. I used to go every weekend. That drive through the Palisades up into Malibu is iconic.

And now, I mean, mean obviously you can rebuild it but all those houses on the left because what happens is the road goes right up the beach it's like basically right up the ocean the entire way and then on the fires on the water if you're going north if you're going west to the to your left is all these like houses they have beachfront property i bet they oh yeah look you can see them right here all these houses they're beautiful architecture and they're on fire some of them are on fire according to the a lot of them are gone left right there's nothing left over there and well this is this is pch going into malibu it's not the same as palisades but a lot of them are burning and you can see this it's and they haven't contained hardly any of it either like yeah i don't know i saw some some

statistics are saying yeah i think I think the last I saw on Fox News had 0% a couple hours ago. That's insane. Like how? Well, someone tweeted that the humidity was at 0.78.

Yeah. That's crazy, dude. I mean, it's super dry. There's tons of fuel on the ground. And there's the Santa Ana winds. Like, I was talking to a firefighter friend of mine that used to do the,

um, he would jump out of planes and into the, the, into fires and stuff to, to fight fires. And he's like, look, man,

you know, even God isn't going to put this fire out right now, you know? And, and that's if they had water and, and normal things they have to fight fires, but because of mismanagement by the mayor,

well, by the state, they don't even have water. This has been going on for a long time, man. Because 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. California's a desert. These

kind of things are going to happen and they have to plan for it and they don't. And this is what you end up with. And now it's crazy. But I think that the truth here is these wildfires happen every year in California. We see it's wildfire season. They've mismanaged the forest floor once again, the brush fires, they've mismanaged it once again. The 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. You know, someone asked me, like, how do you get trapped in a fire? And I'm like, dude, the fire is traveling 90 miles an hour. People, you need to understand, with the winds blowing at that speed, you're sitting in your home, everything looks normal. Then all of a sudden,

you look outside and you see fire sweeping across the trees. And then you go, whoa, I don't know what I'm supposed to do right now. And so maybe you call 911 and say, hey, we're seeing fire sweep across it. Get out now. You open your door and there's an inferno in every direction. Some people end up getting trapped because of this.

So quiet. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, there's a video of these guys running out their front door and the trees, the regular trees are burning embers, just like this tree was alive. And now it's so hot and the fire is so intense that your front,

the tree in front of your house is just literally a glowing ember. You said that it was preventable now. And I think that that's, so what I've heard is the PG&E, which is I think Pacific gas and electric. I don't know what the P stands for gas and electric. Probably they 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. And because of that, the brush then can catch fire if, like, a power line goes down or if there's a spark. And 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 it's the government is just allowed because it's like, hey, we need power. We're not going to make you run a line all the way around the park so yeah you can

run it through the trees at what risk and then now you're saying that also the diversion of the water which has been going on since at least the early 1900s. That's why they can't fight it. The diversion of the water doesn't really have a lot to do with why it may have started whether it be PG&E a PG&E line that that broke and and is that what they think caused it i i don't know i'm only referring i'm only addressing what he had he'd mentioned which it's possible completely totally possible um i've heard stories that pg and e doesn't decided to not fit uh 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. But 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. So 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. California is an example of extraction. This is what happens when a beautiful state with some of the best weather, and it's large, it's massive.

You go up north, you got mountains, you've got skiing and snowboarding. You go south, you got beaches. This is what happens when over a long enough period of time, good men do nothing. The government eventually gets taken over by people whose only intention is short term extraction. When I was living in Los Angeles, everybody said NIMBY, not my backyard. So they have what is described as the it is the worst homeless crisis for the developed world in Los Angeles. And you'd ask everybody, why can't one of the wealthiest cities, counties in the country do anything about it, even 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 L.A. goes not in my backyard. So it never ends up getting done over a long enough period of time as politicians simply extract. They tell you what you want to hear. They pass policies that increase their personal benefit. You get this this it is horrifying mismanagement and you know the funny thing is when you zoom out to the macro and you look at red states and red cities you don't see it we covered this a few years ago you had per capita crime all blue cities and then when you well how come how come all of the highest crime cities are democrat run and they try and argue,

well, it's because they're bigger. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. That doesn't mean anything. The question is, why are bigger cities more likely to be Democrat? And why are they full of crime? And if you want to argue, because they're big, they're full of crime, we're talking per capita. So you take a look at West Virginia, lower crime, dark, deep red, regular working class people. Crime is low, lower on average. So I got to tell you, what I see with the Democratic Party, not completely, but leaning towards, you look at the state of California,

you don't need me to give you any examples. How 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? Yeah, that is crazy. She's not even there when it's all going on. I mean, I guess she's— Africa. Like, what's she doing in Africa?

I guess she's flying back, so— And aren't they understaffed on their—like, the firefighters as well? Because they were too concerned about hiring too many white firefighters. Two years ago, they reported there were too many white firefighters. You saw that story? I didn't realize. No, I didn't see that. I didn't realize that there was a DEI angle on it. But god damn.

Now a lot of people on the left, they're saying you can't blame the mayor for being in Africa. No. There was a warning that went out a week ago saying fires were likely. And the mayor was like, I'm out. So I gotta tell was like, I'm out. So I got to tell you guys, I don't think Republicans are perfect.

I'm not making a comment on the Republican Party as a whole. There's a lot of neocon scumbags that don't care about you. No one's going to sit here and praise Lindsey Graham. But the Democratic Party is largely a component of short-term gains, long-term losses.

We're looking at it right now. And people are losing their homes, their lives. And I can't believe this map, dude. So 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 that cut them all off. And people are making connections to the insurance CEO that was killed recently in New York. Well, I want to jump to the insurance CEO that was killed recently in New York. Well, I want to jump to the environment thing too, but I'll just say this before we jump to the next story.

All of these liberals are saying, see, it's climate change that proves it. And 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. And 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 and he goes no the actual problem is that the environment is bad so we're going to keep going the same direction they keep saying climate change is

causing this as their policies literally make it impossible to stop. They're the most pro-climate change people as well. I know! So when they say climate change is the problem, look at the fires, I'm like, bro, it's California. Where have they implemented climate change policies more than where you live? And you are the cause of all of this. And the thing about the climate change angle is

even if there were to be all the changes that people on the left want in the U.S., like that doesn't change what China and India are going to do. And those two countries both have one point five billion people. So the argument that, oh, we need to do all these things here in the U.S. and we need to to make all these changes to our infrastructure and stuff because we need to be able to to to fix climate change. It's not going to fix a thing, not one thing. Let's jump to the story from the Daily Mail. Trump blames Gavin Newsom for raging California wildfires. The ultimate price is being paid. I mean, this is sad, man, but it is true.

Newsom comes in for his photo op. But here's the issue. Gavin Newsom had an opportunity to address this year after year after year, warning after warning after warning. And he didn't do it. So check this out. Quote, he wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water. It didn't work, but didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow into California. He is the blame for this.

On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes, a true disaster. As of this moment, Gavin Newsom and his L.A. crew have contained exactly 0% of the fire. It is burning at levels that even surpassed last night. This is not government. I can't wait until July 20th, Trump wrote. No water in the fire hydrants, no money in FEMA. This is what Joe Biden is leaving me. Thanks, Joe. Well, check this out. Here's a clip from Colin Rugg. He says Trump was mocked for sounding the alarm on the California water fire crisis during his interview on Joe Rogan. Turns out he was right.

Trump spent nearly seven minutes ranting about the issue, blasting Newsom for doing nothing. Take a look at this clip. We'll just play a little bit of it. Let me give you one that you may not know. Okay. Which I think you know everything, actually, as a student of yours. But water. You know in Los Angeles you can't get proper amounts of water.

Right. And it's unbelievably expensive. And you might have a house in Beverly Hills, and they're actually thinking about rationing water. Can you believe it? I was in the farm court country with some of the congressmen. We're driving up the highway. And I say, how come all this land is so barren?

It's farmland and it looked terrible. It was just brown and bad. I said, but there's always that little corner that's so green and beautiful. They said, we have no water. I said, do you have a drought? No, we don't have a drought. I said, why don't you have no water?

Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water. More water than they could ever use. And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured. You've got to see this. We're driving up, and I had never seen it before.

It's the most, it's like Iowa. It's the most fertile land. Iowa's blessed with great land. Idaho for a potato, right? But these, they're just, by the way, you know, some land is good for a potato. Some land is good for corn. It's the craziest thing. I love the farmers. They're great. They're the greatest. And by the way, they're getting killed right now. They're getting killed because of this stupid administration. But so I see this. And Obama said, you've got to be kidding. I said, you mean you have water? And I looked at it. It's like a valve in your sink,

except it's massive. The thing's five times taller than your ceiling. Did you know the center of California was a giant lake? That's true, too. But instead of going off on that tangent, let me show you this. When we zoom out, he's talking about the the Delta area. It's in the Bay. And so you come up here and there is. So the issue is basically this. All of this water right here is pushing into the Pacific. So you can see fresh water up here and you've but brackish is kind of the mix between fresh and saltwater. So what ends up happening is they can have all of this beautiful, beautiful water that flows from up north come 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. The issue is that if they stop the flow of water into the Delta, then the pressure stops and ocean water pushes in, turning the Delta brackish and killing off all the farms. It's not just about the fish. The excuse used, of course, is that it would kill off all the Delta smelt. That is largely the reason, because they could still create a dam or some kind of system that would prevent the ocean water from coming in and wiping out the Delta. They don't do it. And I think it's not just the fish. That's the point I'm trying to make. It is the state doesn't have willpower. Long term investment is not within the minds of your average democrat governor or state yeah i didn't i didn't

i wasn't aware of the uh of the the fact that the without the flow from outside that it was gonna that the brackish water would move further inland um but still i mean they they if they're siphoning the water off so that way it helps farmers that's pro that to me seems like it would probably be uh some kind of lobbying issue you know oh yeah it is lobbyists are doing it and that that means that the people that have lost their homes those people are wealthy people and they have you know they have means and it it should inspire them to tell the politicians, look, I'm not donating to your candidate, to your campaign now because you allowed my house to be burned down. It'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. But in California, I lived there once and it felt like everybody's you versus me so it's like, and you didn't even know who was living next to you. Nobody's from California. Yeah. And so it's going to be

interesting to see like these people hurry and get together and they do whatever they can and get these like donations running or whatnot or is it going to be

every person for themselves? I think it's, I think it's not, I don't want to be so callous because- Or are they just going to move out and just abandon whatever they had left?

They're going to move out, like Maui. What do we see? These big celebrities who had land there are just like, I'm out. Because they're rich, right? When you look to the areas that are being affected in L.A. where there's poorer people, because Palo Alto is not all rich people, of course. There's some—it's expensive. These people can't do anything.

The rich people are going to be—I look at them and I feel for them. Because your home is your home. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, your home is your home. Losing your home is devastating, but they are still going to survive this. And so I don't want to be so callous because James Wood was saying that, you know, really warmed his heart to see that it wasn't political, that it's Democrat, Republican, none of it mattered. They were neighbors helping each other survive this disaster. And that's what I'm hoping we get out of it. However, as to what Phil was saying with like donations, these people, I don't see them like Mark Hamill, for instance, I think he, his, his home may have been affected by this, but these are the kinds of people that don't read into it.

Right. This is what Jimmy door made a really great point on, uh, on, you know, trusting your doctor. He has that bit it's Epic. And you should, you should hear it where he's like, you know, they kept saying during COVID don't look into it. And he's like, that's epic. And you should you should hear it where he's like, you know, they kept saying during covid, don't look into it. And he's like, that's insane. Imagine doing that with literally anything else. Like, I'm going to go buy a car. Don't look into it. How am I supposed to know which cars are I when? Trust the salesman. He's the expert. It's brilliant. But this is how Democrats largely operate. And again, I'm not trying to roast literally every single Democrat, but this is what's going to happen. They'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.

And you're like, my dude, you had no water and you didn't manage the floor of the ground in the hills. You didn't do floor management for the wild lands. And they're going to go climate change. You're going to say PG&E has has power cables running through areas with high risks of fire. And they're going to go, climate change. And we're going to, it was going to, okay, California, do your thing, I guess. But they're going to blame Trump for it. They're going to keep pushing nonsense ideas.

And like I was saying, you were saying, Phil, about donations. They're still going to donate. There's two ways I see this. Them saying, don't know, don't care. I got hurt and it's your fault. Or they're going to say, this proves it. Climate change is the problem. Please stop Donald Trump.

The man who warned us about our lack of water in this area three months ago. Insanity. Don't twist it and make somehow it be Trump's problem and whatnot. But Gavin Newsom has literally been in there for the past few years. And 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 $600 a month to be able to keep buying drugs while they live on the street, or the migrants coming through the border. Every single time he's had a chance to do something, he has gone against the majority of the people that would benefit. So is it so hard to believe that these Democrats

are intentionally trying to destroy the country? I mean, that even defies short-term gain. You 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? He's like, we're going to do that because it's politically expedient. I get through it. I say, we solved the problem. Thank you and have a nice day. Not going to think about it.

But I'm kind of like, I don't know, man. That's not a short-term problem. Thank you and have a nice day. Not going to think about it. But I'm kind of like, I don't know, man, the short, that's not a short term gain. You're literally setting a political fire. The politics of, of nice have been a massive problem for the United States. And in the, that's why Donald Trump, I think was successful in his first term was as successful as he was, whatever, whatever amount of success you believe he had, which generally around, around this table, we, we have a fairly positive view of what he did. And that's because he didn't ascribe to the politics of nice. He wasn't worried about if it sounded nice.

And there are so many people, particularly in California, that all of their politics is I just want to be nice and I want to do the nice thing. I want to be nice and I want to I want to do I want to do the nice thing. I want to be the good person. So we should give that that drug addict the drugs that he needs to prevent withdrawal. And we should give allow those homeless people to stay homeless and shoot up drugs. And we should we should let people that are repeat offenders out of jail because there might have been some kind of some kind of problem that that was business as usual in California for ages and ages. And 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? Yeah. This wouldn't have happened. yeah would not have happened and they they teamed up to shut him down larry elder

i don't know how they're gonna solve for this this wildfire thing because if i mean maybe you could use ocean water and drones we talked about that before the show i think it was not drones you could use you could use plane gigantic no no just constantly scoop and dump. Yes, here's the issue. The winds are at 100 miles an hour. So getting any flight is like a challenge. It's an extreme challenge. It's very difficult for the smaller aircraft to fly here. So they were reporting.

They 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. They have been sending in flights now, and there's some really great videos of them just dumping water on the fire. I'm glad to see that. Other solutions could be like putting the power lines underground, because I always look at these power lines thinking of as massive vulnerabilities. Anybody can blow them up. Anybody can knock them down. They can catch fire. Adam Carolla was saying that.

He 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 i was living in venice and it would just buzz outside my window the salt water just causing chaos well there's no underground with venice so they you mean venice california i just watched a documentary on venice italy today it's fascinating how they built that city um on big wooden sometimes you walk the streets of uh la and you wonder if you're in south america or if you're in America. You are correct. It's just the power lines. You don't see that everywhere.

Bro, when I was in Brazil in the favelas, the power lines are really scary. It's a black cluster of tangled things hanging from a post. And you're like, how does anyone connect anything to that thing? And if it fell down, ain't nobody going to figure out how to fix it. So you got the power lines, obviously, which is probably the biggest culprit of setting the fires, maybe. But then the water. Like, you got to get water. They built the city in the desert because it was a nice environment.

But now you got a city in the desert that relies on imports. Well, they had river water coming in. And the city is just growing beyond its capabilities. The L.A. River. Yeah, it's like some years there's no water. Wildfires happen. The LA River. Yeah, it's like some years there's no water. Wildfires happen. Wildfires happen. If you want to have a population of 13 million people

spread out across an area that has a high potential for wildfires, you have to have forest floor management. I guess it's not a forest, it's brush floor or whatever. But let me pull up this video right here. We got this tweet from Kyle Zink. He says, this is our neighbor's backyard in LA right now. Power lines sparking against trees. Neighbor and I have been trying to call 911 and fire department for 45 minutes with no answer.

As instructed by power company. Yes, a lot is going on, but the city is failing us. Check this video out. I mean, for those who are just listening, it's a fireworks show. What is causing that? The power lines are just sparking like crazy on a tree. So you think a base station blew up and now power lines are just discharging? I have no idea.

That's what Serge is saying. There was a lot of, there 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 landed on the ground. Another 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. Well, what do you do? I 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. It was a machine that was built in like the early 1800s, early 1900s, and we've never replaced it. It's just one big, massive machine where there's several areas of weak parts.

Obviously, when we build new stuff, it's up to code, but it's all connected to this very old system. We'll use Elon's boring company to drill holes to pass graphene wiring underground. We got it. Now we need to just weather the storm and get there. Or Tesla's wireless energy transmission, which I don't know if it's actually real. He would send it through the ground and cause an earthquake. I don't know if there's the same tech. He caused an earthquake in lower New York, in lower Manhattan.

Really? The cops came and checked it out. there's a same tech. He caused an earthquake in lower New York, in lower Manhattan. Really? Yeah, the cops came and checked it out. It's a great story. Yeah, his earthquake machine that he was building. He was all about sending electricity through the ground because the air, there wasn't enough contact. I think what we're seeing with this stuff, with the power lines, with California is sooner or later it was going to happen. You've got way too many people in an area where no one takes responsibility. So short term gain, short term loss. So you think

the Newsom that the politicians are thinking like if we did hire people to clear out the brush, it's going to cost us 30 percent GDP, whatever the hell. What happens is Newsom says, guys, we got a problem with this brush floor. The Tinder is building up. Can we clear it out? And they go, we could. It'll cost $30 million. And he goes, fine. It's better than a billion dollars in damage.

And then someone's at the door. Open it up. There it is. Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Environment America. And they're like, you ain't touching nothing because no matter what you do, we're going to lobby against you. And 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 they say there's

a fish that lives here and you cannot take its water away when it comes to the smelt this is a little i wouldn't have said this 20 years ago but like sometimes you got to let animals some animals go extinct to preserve the human species. It's a sad utilitarian. Is the smelt going to go extinct though? I mean, you might kill the specific delta smelt. No, because they can create sanctuaries before they switch the flow off. They just won't do it.

Look, you know, Alex Jones came on the show a few years ago, was talking about that book. Was it Ishmael? Yeah. And that's why we have the shirt on the Timcast store of the gorilla saying I am a gorilla because the point was in this book, the gorilla is basically a psychic gorilla. I never read that. Yeah, it's a great book. I read it. Daniel Quinn is the writer. He's telling people that they're destroying the planet. Is that what it is? Yeah. He's telling this guy about how humanity is kind of destroying itself. There's the levers and the takers and there's too many takers on earth right now. I don't think it's wrong to say there's too many takers. I think most people would agree.

There are a lot of people who extract. They think they deserve everything and they're required to do nothing. And 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. And I'm like, you ain't doing nothing. You're taking more than you need

and you're giving back nothing. Remember that time the Soviet Union destroyed an entire sea? No. Yeah, the Soviet Union destroyed an entire sea? No. Yeah, the Soviet Union emptied out a whole sea. They did? What's it called? Remember when they murdered millions of people because they didn't care for the Ukrainians

and took all their food? I do. The Holodomor. Yeah, Holodomor. That was a... It was a man-made famine. Yeah, that was... Yeah, they were basically like,

ethnic Ukrainians don't need food, Russians do, so they took all their food. Oh, that's so crazy. Yeah, they were basically like ethnic Ukrainians don't need food, Russians do, so they took all their food. Oh, that's so crazy. Yeah. And they called the people that had a little bit of ability to farm that had like a cow and a farm, they said that they had stolen that from the people.

Like, 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. So when they killed the farmers, there was the famine that killed millions of people. So someone said, they said, no, Tim, the smelter are migrating fish. They need, they live in rivers, not bays. They need moving water to survive.

You know, I'm just going to say it. Who was it? What was that line from fight club about pandas being too stupid to bang each other for their own species you know you remember no i don't remember like for every panda that was too stupid to have sex to save its own species it's like dude some animals aren't supposed to exist and this is the crazy thing the liberal mentality they want you they want you to believe that – I love this. The group that views the world predominantly through the lens of evolution doesn't accept evolution.

They're going to tell – you have Christians who believe in creationism. I personally don't. I believe in evolution. And then you have liberals who are like, evolution. And you're like, okay, well, the smelt are going to go extinct because they're dumb and they live in an area where they can't survive. And they're like, nah, we will use man-made artificial power to keep them alive and then let everyone in Southern California burn. It kind of sounds like you hate humans. There's a heat map that I've seen shared on X.

And people that are conservative, the heat map, basically it's a preference of of people that are close to you or an abstraction of people people that are conservative the heat map is all the people that are close to them the heat map shows that they prefer people that are close to them their families their communities their loved ones and the the left and or progressive people the heat map says says that all the people they uh 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.

It's like they want to accept everyone but protect nobody. Well, yeah. Right? Let me see if I can find it. The moment they bring you into the fold, they're like, yeah, we don't care about you. Yeah, and then the moment you do something wrong,

you're excommunicated. I mean, it is funny. Once you go woke, they just... Once you're an apostate from wokeness? Yeah, like there's no family in wokeness. Yeah. Nope. You mess up once and you're done.

There's no going back to sleep. They don't believe in planting trees whose shade they know they will not sit beneath. And you know why? It's because they don't have kids. It's more than just that. That's a big part of it. Yeah. People, you know know when that dude

mangione shot the ceo first thing i said was he's single he's got no kids of course come on like a dude who's got kids is substantially less likely to go into something insane like that because he's going to be like as angry as i am i have children and they need me to feed them also i think they're like embedded in TV. I think like entertainment, they're embedded in entertainment. Like they got their television, their sports. They got their TV shows. If you're watching the show, tweet. And you know that he met Ben, I'm talking about, tweet it at me so I can share it here.

I can't find it. Because it's easy to disassociate from your neighbors if you got like your 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 those old shows were I don't know for sure lack of kids is probably the number one reason also not owning property for me I think here we go when once you own your land there's a big reason to take care of it owning anything yeah any kind of ownership. Even car ownership. Oh, dude, you see the video of that leftist woman who gets her phone stolen? And then she's arguing with the homeless people,

being like, come on, I'm not rich. I'm a good person. Can you give me my phone back? And they're like, screw you. And she's like, but steal from rich people. Oh, yeah, you know. Now you're getting it, right? Yeah, fire doesn't care what it burns.

That's right. Light a fire. It spreads in every direction man and that's we're on earth so it's only two dimensions i can't believe the leopards ate my face says man who voted for leopards eating your face party uh you know uh i you found the heat map yeah i did you sent it to me yeah yeah do you want me to put in the slack yeah yeah yeah okay we will we will pull up the why liberals hate everybody map. Is that what it is?

Well, it shows the difference between liberals and progressives in the IRL. Okay, liberals and progressives. Well, I'm sorry, conservatives and progressives. So the center, the one on the left is conservatives, the one on the right is liberals. And it shows that the conservatives care for their family and the people in their lives and their community. Liberals devote much of their concern to plants, trees, and inert identities such as rocks. There's this great— Well, I wish that were true because they'd protect ancient relics and things like that.

You'd think. There's a meme that you see frequently. It's like, oh, the communists are siding with the bugs again. Anytime you put up a Starship Troopers meme, people are like, well, you know, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, look, the communists are siding with the bugs again. Anytime you put up a Starship Troopers meme, people are like, well, you know, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, look, the communists are siding with the bugs again because they're creepy and weird like that.

Maybe what we need to do is we need to have like an Ozymandias, Dr. Manhattan style hoax where the smelt stage of, we stage a false flag where the smelt attack the Delta. And then we have no choice but to divert the water to stop the evil threat of smelt. Like a smelt eats a guy, like the smelt attack the Delta. And then we have no choice but to divert the water to stop the evil threat of smelt. Like a smelt eats a guy. Like the smelts attack a dude.

Smelt carry COVID. Let's just tell everybody that. Oh, yeah. The smelts carry disease. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like shaking someone awake to the harsh reality that some things have to die. And it's like a horrible thing to say. But like 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 it will we will wipe that out we're not thinking twice self-preservation is number one and it sucks that we've colonized the desert maybe that was a human mistake but we're about to colonize mars which is another form of desert you know i love it's like when I see a stink bug in here, they're harmless. They're smelly, so I don't like them. But, you know, we'll scoop them up. We'll bring them outside. If I see anything that looks remotely like a venomous insect, it dies. Even ants, man. I crush

them. Yeah. They don't stink. I'd like to take them outside, but it's such a lot of effort. It depends on if there's like a ton of ants. To walk outside. If there's like a bunch of effort. It depends on if there's like a ton of ants. To walk outside? If there's like a bunch of ants, then you gotta stop them. Yeah, the pheromone trails and all that stuff. If it's one, it might be a scout. I'll scoop it up

and I'll just throw it in the garbage or something. And it's like, I don't know. Ants are a different story. They're kind of just... I like them, but I don't treat them like stink bugs. We got crickets all in here. We just bring them outside. We throw them outside. And we could also collect them and give them to chickens. Yeah.

You know, that's just, you know, food chain, right? If it in any way is a threatening bug, it dies. Yeah. Let's just say that the smelt have stingers and they will sting you. Poisonous venom gills. Just tell them the smelts hate Trump. No, they vote Trump. They vote Trump.

The smelts are Trump voters. Yeah. Gotta divert the delta. They'll be killed. Really, it's this diverting water away from san francisco bay if that's going to destroy the bay and annihilate the farms of san francisco um that's that's a problem that's that's an insurmountable well let's let's let's bring this to the uh class argument we got this story from newsweek california insurer canceled policies months before Los Angeles wildfires. This is weird. Politico reports L.A. fires could break California's insurance market.

So how is it that a few four months ago and a few up to a few weeks ago, there's an insurer, a couple of them, I think a bunch of them actually in Malibu and Palisades in Los Angeles that abruptly canceled fire insurance. There's a video of a woman at a actually, in Malibu and Palisades and Los Angeles that abruptly canceled fire insurance. There'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. What did these insurance companies know and when did they know it? They probably knew what we've all known for 15 years, which is California is a tinderbox. Mismanaged. Yeah, maybe they knew something, though,

particular about this year. But I know, like, what was it? 2018, I think. 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.

So what I heard, sorry, I heard that there's a law. There was a law saying that the insurers could not raise premiums premiums by a certain amount and so the insurance company said okay then we can't cover the cost of insurance canceled that's why because they're like if the flood insurers of florida or the hurricane the people that insure like for flooding and i know it's very that's a big hot point too like there's a lot of companies that just won't insure for flood damage in Florida because of the hurricanes. But if they were to pull out right before hurricane season, that's why we have government to prevent private companies from, he's just pulling it over on people. The reason that the companies ended all

the insurance or whatever, they canceled the insurance policies is because they did an assessment of the situation. Insurance companies aren't in the business of losing money, right? And if they look at the situation, they see that the government is not managing 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. A fire like this, ostensibly in that area could put an entire insurance company out of business. Right. Like you're talking billions and billions of dollars in damage.

Right. It could totally put an insurance company out of business. So they canceled those policies, not because they're like some evil insurance company like the left thinks, but they looked at the situation and they said the state is not handling their job. They're not taking care of the forest areas or the brush, and so this is too great of a risk. The 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 you know that's

the that's the long and short of it they look at the situation they say we can't take this risk on because if there were a fire like what's going on now it could literally put our entire company out of business because of the paying out of all of these these policies so they cancel the policies because they couldn't handle the risk which is completely normal when it comes to how insurance works. Serge just sent me a list from Twitter of fires in California, one of the big ones. And this is what we got on 2020, 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. There was probably some big degradation going on.

Then 2009, 2008, 2007, back all the way to 2003 and so on, 1993, 1991. So, I mean, maybe there's been a string of fires in the last seven years, although I guess 21, 22, and 23, we looked pretty clear. So 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. The 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. But as multiple fires currently are burning through Southern California, causing devastation, many will likely need to rely on their insurers, yada, yada, we get the point. I wonder, do you think it's possible

that the mismanagement is intentional so that they can justify their climate change policies? Damn. Would you put it past communists to be like, let's do everything we can

so that there's wildfires, we can then claim it's climate change and it's Trump's fault. I mean, how could you claim climate change to in California where they literally try everything they can to protect climate change? Because they're dumb enough to believe it. I mean, you have a point. The idea of intentionally destroying an area to recoup it is not far off.

I don't know. I feel like they're doing that in Ukraine. They're letting, they're just decimating it to rubble so that BlackRock can rebuild it and own a portion of it or something. I don't know that I think that they're doing it in order to blame climate change because they, they have ample, uh, excuses for climate change. You know, everything, whether it be there's, there's an entire season of hurricanes that they blame on climate change every year there's these fires i don't think they need to have a more dramatic um you know no more dramatic catastrophe so that way they can blame climate change i think they're gonna they'll blame climate change no matter what um and they it'll rain and they'll claim it's climate change yeah it, it doesn't matter what happens.

They're going to blame climate change. Remember when there was a storm in D.C. and the storm sirens went off and AOC was like, this is climate change. It was a tornado. It's a tornado. Like, there's a... The funny thing is there are storm sirens

because tornadoes do happen in the area and she was like, this is climate change. No, that's... We installed the storm sirens because this is common, actually. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's like, we know it happens i mean dude there was a there was a tornado in new england maybe like 10 years ago and which is you know you think new england because it's all

hills and and stuff you'd think that they're they wouldn't happen at all but there was you know they can happen just about anywhere um so but it's I don't think that they need they need an excuse. They're just going to blame climate change. And like I said earlier, look, 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, 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, the, that's what I find the stupidest thing about climate change is we have these other countries,

other places where literally their populations are three times as large. And if you watch the videos, it's like, there's like no controls on what they're doing. Like all these buses, everything. They're emitting all these things. I'm kind of happy we live the way we do because these countries, if you look at the videos out of China where it's a smog everywhere.

Oh, I'm extremely happy we live in America. And so we're looking at these countries. For once, I'd love to see Greta Thunberg say, How dare you to China? Just one time. You know what I mean? How dare you? Instead she goes to Europe and she's like, you got rid of plastic straws and you're all

drinking out of chemical paper. How dare you? And we're like, China is the one that's dumping everything in the water, dude. Come on. Southeast Asia is where all of the plastic that is in the Pacific Ocean, all of it comes from Southeast Asia. It's all coming from China and the islands and

stuff like an actual um yeah if there i have a i have a picture that a huge majority comes out of yeah there's a third like there's more people that live in a 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. It stinks. You're going to, people are going to poop. You can't make them stop. People are going to create waste.

You can't make them stop. People are going to burn wood. Can't make them stop. They're going to burn coal. They're going to burn gas and oil. Can't, can't stop them. Unless like Phil said, you want to militarily invade and stand there on the corner with rifles. And so you can't make them stop. They're going to burn coal. They're going to burn gas and oil. Can't stop them. Unless, 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. So we need to figure out how to reuse the stuff, the waste product, not stop making the stuff or complain about it. Here's what I want Trump to do. He's going to set up something called the review. And in every city, there will be a building where you are required by appointment to show up. And then they just ask you a simple question like, what are your thoughts on climate change? And they're going to say, oh, I think it's bad. And it's like, do you think that we should ban the use or restrict the use of oil? Yes. OK, boys. And 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, and they can live in a mud hut. I'm joking. The point is, all of these well-to-do liberal types that are like, but climate change. There's a hilarious video where you've got these, what are those protesters? They block the streets, whatever. I keep seeing those.

Palestine protesters? No, no, no, no, the energy ones. Oh, the climate. Extinction Rebellion? Yeah. And there's a guy, and he's like, you're wearing a jacket made from petrochemicals. Like, it's a petroleum-based plastic jacket with plastic synthetic filling. Like, literally all of you are doused in oil, and you're sitting here complaining about it.

It is the most ridiculous, stupid stuff. I tell you this. If you want to complain about oil, we start with you. Okay? No more oil? Fine. First thing is, if you want to complain about oil we start with you okay no more oil fine first thing is if you want to complain about oil you're allowed to that was always allowed if you actually want to implement policy and make us change you have to abandon all oil products first i uh you

know if you want to check out i put up the uh tweet it out well i put it in the in the slack in the timcast irs slack i just don't like how they make like i remember in school they were telling us like oh by 2030 new New York City will be underwater. And it's like, I go to New York City, it still looks just fine. So it's like. The Maldives. And I'm also like, I also think, like, things are just going to happen. Like, you can't stop all forest fires.

Like, it's inevitable that they're going to happen. It's like a process of. How old are you? 22. 22. So you said when you were in school, how long ago was that? 45 minutes. No, I remember elementary school and they're telling you by 2030 or whatnot.

Right, right. I know, but that's still like what, 10 years ago? Yeah. Bro, 25 years ago. Were they telling you guys this? I'm 38. Yes. It's like nothing's changed.

I'm going to be 50 this year. And they were telling you that too? They were telling you that too? There'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. A 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. So it's like you're full of crap. The evidence is that none of the stuff that you've been saying for 30 years has come to fruition at all. So why am I going to listen to you now? They'd give you, um, you know, models, but they don't take into account mitigating circumstances. A lot of times like things will change. Technologies will be invented that will now? They'd give you models, but they don't take into account mitigating circumstances a lot

of times. Things will change. Technologies will be invented that will redirect the path that you're looking at in 30 years from now, so don't panic. That's the biggest thing, is don't panic. Don't create alarmism. Maybe you want to ring the alarm, but do it with a purpose, with a solution. But they should be saying, it's up to you to solve

for this problem. Good luck. Instead of saying, the end is nigh, sorry, bye. Yeah. You should 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. I think we can find symbiosis with the climate,

but it does take a global effort. Like if the Chinese and the Indians are going to burn untold amounts of methane and carbon, you know, then what we can't. They burn dung. A lot of people in India still burn dung because India is still like basically a third world country. Like there are parts of India that are modern. Sorry, do you mean like cow dung? Yeah. Well, I'm actually not sure if it's cow because they look at cow as sacred. So it might not be cow. But the poop, I don't think.

I don't know. I don't want to offend anybody. And they use a lot of kerosene a lot of places. I mean, I don't know. But the point that I'm making is when they're burning waste like that, that's because the options they have are very limited. So, like, you've got burning, you know, they're burning wood, burning dung, burning some places or burning coal and stuff. And like I said, there's a billion five in India.

Maybe 500 million of them live in modern cities and stuff like that. That 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 i mean they're living like they did 500 years ago and in china there are fewer people that are living in the in the out in the the wilderness like like the like the indians but there are still a large portion of china they're they're poor people and they live on farms and they you know they got to do what they got to do to heat their homes because China has weather just like everywhere else in the world. So it's not it's not like 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. Or even if you get everybody to buy electric cars and I'm not against electric cars.

I love mine. I got a Tesla. I think it's the coolest thing in the world. I love it. I got a solar array on my house in New Hampshire. I love it. It's great. I'm not against this stuff but the idea that you can just flip the switch and say here everybody go to this now. That's not happening.

If there's a solar flare you got to burn oil. You need combustion. You can't rely on batteries constantly forever. Bro, 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. Your carbon emissions have been too high this week. Only if you live in Canada. Stop breathing. Oh, everywhere, man. We took a driverless car. Canada, don't they have a carbon tax? Probably. They might, yeah. They probably have a white privilege tax as far as I know.

I'm sure they do. Carbon consumption, you get taxed on it? Yeah, you get taxed on your amount of carbon you emit. Emissions? Oh, did you guys see the congestion fee now in New York? Uh-uh. Yeah, it's like $9. $9 for cars, yeah.

For what? Per day or per week or what? Every time you pass the street. What? What street? Like once you enter into downtown Manhattan. If you go to Lower Manhattan. I think 60th Street, you get charged $9.

But the stupid thing is these service companies as well that have like the plumbers, electricians, they're charging them anywhere from like $15, think like 35 or 25 bucks so uh they're trying to stop the flow of traffic meanwhile they're just going to cause the prices they want people to take a look at this subway check it out this is a new york city drivers turn a tiktok to share illegal hacks to dodge 15 congestion fee i thought it was nine dollars this is from car scoops it's nine dollars for if like me and you were to drive in but it goes up for different sorts of different vehicles cars yeah it makes sense yeah collecting from most drivers so 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 so to the human eye it

looks normal but when you take a picture with a flash, it just blurs out white. And 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. They 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. That way they can be like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize a leaf was on my license plate. It's not my fault because they don't want to pay this fee. I mean,

it's ridiculous. It's already paying so much money in taxes. And then every single day, like they give $12 million to migrants in New York city, right? They want everybody to go into the subway and get lit on fire. Have you seen the photos and the videos of people all hugging the walls now? Oh man, in the New York City subways.

So I'll tell you, when I used to take the subway in New York, I would always stay the F away from the edge. Because 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 yowling and shaking, and I'm like,

you just never know. I've seen fights break out. Then with all of the people, did you guys see that video from like last week where the dude is on his phone and then some dude just walks up and shoves him right in front of a train. Yeah, he survived. That guy did, I heard.

Critical injuries, but he survived. They found the guy that pushed him. Yup. Thank God. And why did he do it? So now there are these videos and photos popping up where everybody's just up against the wall. Good.

Good? No, dude. We have to live this way. And I wonder if it's like downtown Manhattan, because we've all done taking 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.

I 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? I'll blow your face up. I was like, what? He's like, blow a spread everywhere. I'll knock your ass out. I was like, what the heck? You're crazy. You have a mental illness problem as well. And people are on the subways as well. And they're dangerous. Like that guy that threatened me that day, like he said he was going to shoot me because I was looking at him, called me Eli Manning. I was like, what? You do look like Eli Manning. A little bit. You do.

I was like, oh, hell yeah, you do, dude. You look like Eli. But it's just like a little dangerous. And then, I mean, now they're just going to have so many people on those subways going in. Because 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. They're gross. I mean, so we did All That Remains, the band that I 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. We did one on Long Island and we did one in Jersey. Because going into Manhattan is too much of a pain in the balls. What's the point? Like, you drive a bus in. You have to – if you can drive the bus in, you can only get dropped off

and the bus can't stay. The bus has to go and stay at the Vince Lombardi in Jersey. You cannot bring trucks in. You can't bring an 18-wheeler or a box truck in. You can't stay there. So it just makes everything about playing in the city a pain in the ass. And we go to the Starland Ballroom in Jersey, which is a phenomenal room. It's close enough where people will go, like the surrounding area, they'll go to the Starland.

And if you play somewhere on Long Island, people will go there. It's not like there's a lot of people on Manhattan that are looking to, or there's, it's not like there are people on Manhattan that won't leave New York. You know, of course there's some people that are like, well, I don't have a car and so I don't want to go too far away. But at the same time,

you, if you can go to these, these other rooms and have the same turnout or better because people don't want to go into the city anymore. What's the point of going to the city? And I know that all that remains isn't the only band that's like, I don't want to go and play in the city. It's too much of a hassle.

I can't get my bus in there. I can't get our 18-wheeler in there. We can't get our box truck in there. It's too much of a pain in the ass to do it. So why would people go do it? And why are they penalizing tourism as well? Yeah. And do you feel bad for the people that have these service companies?

Because, 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. It makes it even harder for them to make money inside these big cities where it's already hard enough to make enough money. Are people that have electric vehicles, do they not have to pay? I think they do. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they all do. It's about congestion. It's a congestion fee?

It's like in California when you just have all these random tourism taxes 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 i think that you got to pay money to cross the bridge obviously the one in new jersey for sure when you enter it's like it was 10 bucks 12 bucks 15 bucks what back when i was living there 10 15 years ago and uh i think that was just a payoff it was supposed to be a temporary fee i could be wrong about that i don't know if you guys know the story better fees that are ever temporary yeah they yeah right they spin it up and they're like this is to pay off the cost of the bridge and then all of a sudden they're like wow now we use the money for reoccurring taxes and I-90 in Massachusetts was supposed to have a toll just until it was finished being made.

And then after that, they held on to it. And they were saying, oh, once the big dig is done, then we'll get rid of the toll. Big dig's been done for like 15 years or something like that. And they've still got a toll there. It's kind of like the Panama Canal. Like once you dig it, you want to keep it forever. Same way with these tolls. Anyway, I just want to talk about the Panama Canal a panama canal i'm glad that trump wants it back i mean it's a military need

but anyway i digress and what's annoying too about these tolls is like 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 $50. I mean, I go all across the country, and I have hundreds of dollars of these toll fees. I'm like, where did I cross? Do you E-ZPass? Do I? Yeah.

Not when I'm renting all these cars. You can't take your E-ZPass from car to car? I probably could. I need to look into that. Here's a funny thing. This is a congestion pricing advocate attacked at NYC subway station. I guess not as new.

Nine dollar toll pushes people to mass transit. So be careful what you wish for. A vocal proponent of the state's controversial congestion pricing plan was was attacked in Manhattan subway station over the weekend. Layla 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. Geez, man. New Yorkers ain't having it. Does that count towards Rudyard's, you know, thing? She's alive, so thankfully she's alive.

Yeah, I feel like I should have taken up Rudyard on that bet because I think I'd win. I mean, I think you're right, but at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if it does get into double or triple digits. So 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. Yeah, they're very much mad.

They want all people taking Ubers and whatever, autonomous vehicles, basically. They want Waymos. Yeah, he took those in Phoenix for the first time. A driverless vehicle, dude. It was awesome. Except it's going to rain

and you're going to walk out and the Waymo's going to pull up. You're going to sit down. It's going to drive two blocks. A thunderstorm's going to start and it's going to stop dead in the middle of the street. It's going to be like

must wait due to inclement weather. And you're going to go, okay, I guess I'm stuck. Is that coded into the thing? I don't know much about it. Tesla can't auto drive when it's a bad storm. And you can't get, oh, okay. It technically can, but every single time it's rained or snowed out here,

it says auto drive, auto steer unavailable. Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe Waymo's got that big spinning thing on top that can navigate better. Waymo's doesn't use cameras, do they? It's all sonar. Sonar. Really?

And New York's nice gridded, so it's like you're either going straight or you're turning 90 degrees for the most part. Maybe they put nodes on every intersection on the corners so the car knows where it is. And then every other car is going to have this node installed on it. That would be pretty cool if you walked down to Lower manhattan and it's just constant the 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 that's the plan that's what the technocrats want they want it so that no one owns a car you open up your uber app and you you click vehicle and then like an egg-shaped pod pulls up opens up and it's just chairs facing other. You sit down and it drives you where you want to go.

And then if there's a forest fire, you're like, where's my Waymo? Like, no, get out. Get out now. You're like, but I don't have a car anymore. Get out. Good luck getting out of the city. You will own nothing and you will be happy. That's what they want? Ah, man, it's so convenient. Have you taken a Waymo? I have not. Have you been in a driverless

vehicle? No, just a few Teslas. Yeah, but have you seen that video? The Waymos are so spooky looking. They've got these propellers on the top, all these things. You're like, what? Who 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? Nightmare fuel.

Was that Cliff talking about that the other day? Do the Waymos at least have a steering wheel inside? Let's see if I can find that. It's a regular. If you sit in the front seat, the driver's seat, it'll stop and it'll call the customer service

of the Waymo. We found that out at first hand. Oh, you tried? Yeah. Because I wanted to put my bag in the driver's seat because I was like,

wait, it's a big empty spot to like store something while we're moving. No, it's not. But they were like, they warned me, don't do it, Ian. Yeah.

Which is still a little dumb in my opinion. Like they should utilize that area for storage, of course do it, Ian. Which is still a little dumb in my opinion. They should utilize that area for storage, of course. Me, Serge Carter. Man nearly misses flight as self-driving Waymo taxi drives around a parking lot in circles. Where's the video, though?

Furious. What is this? What happens if you just open the... Why is this happening to me on a Monday? I'm in a Waymo car. This call may be recorded for quality assurance. This car is just going in circles. I'm calling from Waymo support. I'm just calling because I received

a notification that your car might be experiencing some routing issue. Please bear with me while I... Yeah, I got a flight to catch. Why is this thing going in a circle? I'm getting dizzy. Look at what it's doing. I understand. I'm really, really sorry really sorry mike we're currently working with the situation of the vehicle is it circling around a parking lot it's circling around a parking lot i got my seat belt on i can't get out the car the future is gone what's going on i feel like if he'd

done something somebody had a steering wheel on me. And I got a flight to catch. I understand, Mike. I'm really sorry for this. We're working with this, but do you have an access to your Waymo app right now? Yeah. I'm going to be pulling the car over while we are trying to assist the car. It really is just going in a circle. Oh, my goodness.

I just better not be late for the flight. You guys are going to take care of the flight. That part. Yeah, she doesn't want to pay for that. This is crazier. Oh, there it goes again. Open the door. Can't you just do it?

You should be able to handle it. Take over the car. You don't need my phone. Wow. Oh, my gosh. do it you should be able to handle it take over the car you don't need my phone i don't have an option to control the car wow that's amazing dude one of my favorite memes was like the future is stupid and it's like my book ran out of batteries it's like yep that's where we're at right now i'm excited for the future though i love the convenience damn, they can drive your car from a distance. That's pretty crazy. Have you seen the, there's a company that offers the dog-style robots, offers them now for $1,600.

What? Holy crap, we've got to get one of those. What? Get an office dog. Get like three of them for the office. Security parameter checks. Yeah, I don't know the name of the company off the top of my head, but I'll grab it for you. I was listening to the All Inin podcast and uh it's a

chinese company so anything that's probably i mean dude you can get it on amazon exactly um and they have the uh humanoid style one for around 15 grand what and 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? Because that's essentially what LLMs are right now. But if you can get an AI to say, hey. Oh, yeah. Here it is. Yeah.

It's crazy. It's crazy good. Dang. There's one that it does. It's dancing. What's it doing? I wonder if it can ride a skateboard, dude. Look at that. It's dancing. We've got to teach it how to ride a skateboard. There's one that Yeah Look at it It's dancing What's it doing I wonder if I can Ride a skateboard dude

Look at that We gotta teach it How to ride a skateboard There's one that Has wheels There's a video Look at it go Look at it go

It's got moves There's a dude Sitting on it With the wheels And he's just Hauling ass These will shoot fire As well

Well I've seen those Yeah Mount some cameras To that thing Give it a skateboard What's it's face doing That's just the gyroscope To help it

You know that thing's Gonna be able to drop it On the demon drop That's just the gyroscope to help it. You know that thing's going to be able to drop it on the demon drop? That's not a gyroscope on its face. Yeah, that's why it's spinning. Dude, that thing's going to be able to skate this park

better than anything. I'm not 100% sure, but that's what I'm saying. No, a gyro's going to be like a disc inside its body. Oh, it's a sonar. Sonar? Yeah, that makes sense.

So listen, if they do perfect... Oh, look at that. They got the human one. Yeah, this thing is like 15 grand. Oh my God. Oh, dude. It doesn't have hands on it yet, but-

You'll get it at a skateboard, bro. Can we buy this and just have it run down Martinsburg full speed, like down Main Street? I'm going to steal it. Well, maybe, actually. Look, we're less than a year or maybe 18 months away from androids being available to do your dishes. Or your security. Well, I mean, security... Security is fine.

At least alerting the press. The point that I'm making is once you get an actual AI that can actually do, perform tasks... Yeah, like washing dishes. Exactly. The robot like that is $15,000 and what's going to happen is your average middle class person, right? Poor people aren't going to be able to yet.

But 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. Look at this. That's a skate park. You know what I want to do? I want to get like 50 of them. And then I want to have them attack Special Mike.

He'd beat them all. One of our team riders. I'd just give him a sword. Give him a big stick. Good luck. That out there would be sick. But I mean, look at $1,500. So in the next year or two, Musk has talked about at some point in the next five years,

there's going to be more robots running around the world than there are humans. And the reason is because if they're right about the price points and your average person, you know, can pay $15,000, $500 a month for five years or whatever, you know, it's like that's right, a used Prius, right? So, like, 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. Bro, I've been watching Westworld. Because I watched the first season and never watched the rest of it because I hear it's bad.

So I was like, well, you know, I'm waiting for Landman on Sunday. So I put on Westworld. And this is kind of freaky stuff. Oh. Have you seen Westworld? No. It's about... It's like an old West VR realm or something. It's not VR. They make a bunch of robots that are like humans so you can just goof off and do whatever you want.

So it's a real place? It's not a virtual? It's a real place. But the robots come to life? Like, wake up? These things are Chinese? That real place. Okay. And then, but the robots come to life, like wake up. Dude, these things are Chinese. You said they're Chinese? Yeah, they're Chinese. That's some spyware.

It's a Chinese company, yeah. You buy one of these and put them in here, CCP's got you mapped out. Bro, I'm going to buy like, I'm buying this. Like special Mike. I am going to, I'm not going to tell Mike and it's going to have it chase him one day. Like he'll walk in and go, hey guys,

and it just like, it just runs out of the room full speed. Ian, you're right. It is going to, it is is basically chinese spyware but there's going to be as the technology progresses this is the same kind of this is the type of thing that will get significantly cheaper as people as more people buy them just like your cell phones and just like your tvs like you can buy a tv that has all the all the features you could possibly want, HD, 4K, for $1,000. I imagine cars are intentionally kept expensive. I could be wrong about that, but $16,000 for a car seat. Look at what a Model 3 can do for $35,000.

I'm not sure about that. Yeah. So it's not that they're intentionally kept expensive. So with these things, because I want one of these robots, I want to literally go buy one tonight. I'm not going to because it's CCP. Are you? Yeah.

I'm going to buy three to have them monitor the perimeter. That's sick. And they'll just be walking around, and then they'll give us alerts when they encounter people. Give them each a name because I want to be like, oh, hello, Rufus. I'm going to number them one, two, and four. Okay. Perfect.

One, two, Rufus. I'm going to number them one, two, and four. Okay. Perfect. One, two, and Johnny five. Well, the point is if the people find the three of them and they say one, two, four, they'll be like, where's the last one? Did someone let the dogs in at the end of the night? You won't need to let them in, actually, ever. You know what I'd love to do is I'd love to have Seamus ride one of them. The cat or the man? There's a video.

Depending on how big they are. There's a video of a human being riding one with the wheels I saw. I don't know where it was. I don't think it's on their website. It might have been on YouTube. There's one with wheels and one without. What is this industry one? What's the point? I don't understand. Unitree.

So can you swap the legs in and give it wheel feet? That's cool. Modular. And then what industry like he'll be used for transporting wood and materials and stuff don't you just think it'd be like really fun if you were like standing and 10 of them were running full speed at you and you had like a sword and you just had to fight them off i'd rather play space pirate in the uh discord there's a link to the uh to the kid dude riding it what in the discord i don't know if i can pull that one up

it's on youtube yeah i know but what's what's the title of it why don't you why don't you put send it to me there it is your car will become your robot i mean that's what he names an optimist elon he said to me he's the transformer so you could ride your car and then the car will stand up and become like humanoid and then we'll go look at this i got it okay yeah and this is legit And this is legit. Like, this is not AI. What? So this is the thing we could buy right now? Yeah, you could buy it right now. Bro, I'll ride this to the store.

That'd be hilarious. Dude, that'd be awesome. And then, like, when I go inside, I'll be like, RoboDog, stay. Wow, look at that. You know, I just want to point something out real quick. Like, you hear that rock music in the background? That's AI. Music? Yeah, I just, I don something out real quick. You hear that rock music in the background? That's AI. Music?

I don't know for sure. No, 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. It was funny that all these companies use rock as their background music despite it not charting. Oh, is it a 180? Look at that. Oh, crap, dude.

180. Can you defeat the dog? I want to fight this thing. Play a at that. Oh, crap, dude. 180. Can you defeat the dog? You know, I want to fight this. They gave him a skate with that thing, dude. Do you think China ever just laughs at us when we're, like, talking about climate change, and meanwhile they're just building all this stuff? Absolutely. Look at you guys.

I mean, Boston Dynamics has stuff that really makes this stuff, or that does all this stuff as well. It's just that China, they just release it to the public faster than the U.S. is allowed to. It's like getting your video game console into your house for cheap. I want to see it hit that handrail. Wow, look at that. Like, that was a, Nintendo just wants you to get the console for cheap so that they can

make you buy a bunch of games. They just want you to get this thing for cheap so they can spy on you. 40 kilograms, dude? Yeah. That's carrying 80 pounds. Look at that, just over obstacles and stuff. You could go to the store and pick up milk for you. Dang, that thing's got a motor on it. What? Here we go. Is this thing real? I'm buying this. Put a saddle on

with some stirrups to keep your feet off the ground. He's riding it. Yeah, I told you. Oh. No, I believed you. Look at that. Dude, this thing will do the vert. Dude, this is like for real. Yeah. I bet it could do the drop in.

100%. It's kind of like a motorcycle. Like you've just sort of just bypassed turning cars into these things. And you've built them that have the same function as the car. Obviously, it's tiny, but that's a quad cycle. I mean, you got to call them and they're in China. Buy now. Shop. $ mean, you got to call them and they're in China. Buy now. Shop.

$16,000 for the human. Oh, man. I think we got to do it. Yeah, dude. And we got to put like a human silicon mask on it. That sounds good. Yeah. We'll get like an expert with facial reconstruction.

No, like here's the problem. You go to order it and it's like, contact us. It's like, uh-huh. You probably spend extra to get it rushed. Oh, here we go. There you go. You can buy it right now. Yeah, if you buy it, you can buy one from Amazon for $4,000.

Does it come with the wheels? They have the top 3D shop, Unitree. Yeah, what are wheels here? Unitree. This is like the deal with the devil. Unitree, $29. Unitree. This is like the deal with the devil. This is like putting Alexa in my house. We're not going to bring it inside. Alexa off.

It's going to walk around outside. Yeah. The EDU weighs 15 kilograms. Aluminum alloy, high-strength engineering plastic. Is that the top level? Payload, 8 kilograms. Aw, see, it's 80-bitty. 8 kilograms.

I might have to buy one to see how it takes five, five, six rounds. Yeah, geez, what are they made of? Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Okay, these things are lightweight. How do I buy the guy? Could you imagine just like this dude, this robot walking around,

and then someone comes here to act a fool, and the robot just walks up? But he's just sitting down there. Security at the front desk. But I mean, the point of bringing it up, this stuff is a couple years away from being You can put an arm on its back. An arm? That's pretty sweet.

What would you do with that arm? Throw rocks at people. You could spin around real fast and let loose. Open doors. Spin it around and sling it at you. Give it a sling on the end of the arm. The future is weird, man. The robotics are

significantly further along than people realize. We're all pretty plugged in to things like this, to technology and stuff like that. And this is a surprise to most people. Oh, dude, we could put the human robot in Ian's seat. There you go. That'd be great.

Get a wig for it. And 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. What if I could just voice chat through it into the microphone from home? That'd be bang. Nah, it's more demeaning if the robot pretends to be you. Yeah, that's fine.

Just remind people you're an AI. Hey guys, I'm Robot Ian. Yeah. Hey, Robot Ian. Always remind me. Have I mentioned graphene yet? Yeah. No.

Buy my coffee. Buy my coffee. As long as, if they build an AI of me, you've got to always remind the people that you're an AI version. Because they're going to make AI copies of all of us in the future. They're like, are you going to live forever? I don't know what that means, actually. But my personality will be embedded in this video.

Sorry, Phil. This is the actual rope. This is the humanite. But this looks like CGI. No, it's real. Are you sure? I do that exercise. Oh, look at that.

Oh, my gosh. Wow. This is CGI, yeah. Wow. This is CGI, bro. No. Look at when there's a part where a human's going to come in, and it's little. Okay. It's actually shorter than a human. Maybe that's why it looks fake.

Oh, yeah. Okay. It looks real now. See, the robots are going to watch these videos and they're going to turn on us. Yeah. Oh, no way. Remember this? It'll show.

No, I'll get out of here. Okay, hold on. I'm just going to pause real quick. I'm pretty sure if I actually punched that thing full force, it's fallen down. Yeah, I mean. You hope so. You're probably right. He's kind of pulling his punches.

Yeah, but. Like if you do a flying cross into his chest. Look at that, dude. That is creepy. He's folding of pulling his punches. Yeah, but... If you do a flying cross into his chest. Look at that, dude. That is creepy. He's folding himself up. Yeah. For packaging. Wow.

Probably 30 pounds? No. 40 pounds? Oh, it's got a weapon. Oh, man. Now that's kind of... Look at that. It's threatening us.

Swinging a bow staff. But I mean, it's not... Bunch of them. What is this supposed to show? Oh, God. It's threatening us. Swinging a post out. But I mean, it's not. Bunch of them. What is this supposed to show? Oh, God. An army of robots. It's not very long until you see. I mean, it's going to show you the thing doing some stuff around the house.

There you go. Oh, it just shattered a walnut. It's not very long until these things are going to be able to do dishes. And you're like, who made the mess? It'll be like, robot, did you make the mess? Whoa. I am not programmed to clean it yet. It's cooking.

Why is it putting itself in the finger? I think it's just showing the motions that it can do. Oh, it's soldering. Soldering, dude. Yeah. Yo, that's wild. Whoa. That is crazy.

You're talking about a year before these things are... I want to fight that robot. It's kind of like... I think you'll win. It'll have... I wonder if it can plunge your toilet. It'll probably be able to build microchips before it will be able to unclog a drain. Can we program it to defend itself and then have a sparring match with a bokken or something?

I imagine that's only a couple years away. To be honest, I feel like one hard strike with a bokken, that thing would explode. It would hold pads for you, I bet, though, if you want to do practice roundhouse kicks and stuff. Dude, that guy punching it was not really punching it. No, he was pulling them. You 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 screen protector and she lightly taps it to show the screen protector's working?

Like, we get it, dude. You're not actually trying to break the screen. I'd like to see Tyson or Jake Paul. Jake Paul should do it. He should get one and train with it. And that would be the biggest publicity stunt. I mean, I got an idea. We should buy one and then invite Colby Covington to just throw his strongest punch right in its face.

Yeah, dude. Yes. Boom. And ask the robot what it thought after. Are they embedded with AI mentally? That's the thing that i was trying to say is is it's not like the functionality of it is now limited only by how intelligent the ai you put in it is right so it's like you can program robots to do all sorts of things just computer aided machining is all robot stuff and they can be as like incredibly delicate and and make tiny tiny uh you know

literally only a couple microns of a of a cut right but that's all programmed by uh it's all it's all mapped out early when i when we were talking about uh or when i was mentioning agentic ai once you get an artificial intelligence in the robot that can say, 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, take 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. That's when people will be like, I'll pay 500 bucks a month for that. When you can tell your robot, go to the grocery store and get these things. And then the robot walks out, gets into the Tesla. It has wheels, it can drive itself.

You could do that. But if you're talking about the suburbs, it goes out and gets into the tesla it is it has wheels it can drive itself you could do that but when if you're talking about i'm talking about the suburbs it goes out and gets in the car the car drives to the grocery store right goes inside buys all the stuff you want pays for it because you've given it your your credit card yeah walks out and then gets in the car and brings it back and then brings the stuff in and puts it into the, like loads it into your fridge and stuff. Guys, guys, guys. People will absolutely pay $500.

We've got breaking news. So this broke about a half an hour ago, but there's an update on this. A new wildfire has broken out in Runyon Canyon Park just north of Hollywood Boulevard. How are these fires? Flames are engulfing 10 acres. They've just issued an evacuation order right now. So this is just within the past few minutes.

L.A. Fire Department brush fire sunset fire evacuation order. They say, what did it say? Hollywood Hills West, approximately 10 acres burning between Runyon Canyon and Waddles Park. A mandatory evacuation order is now in place for Laurel Canyon. Bro, I got friends who live up there, man. This is really terrifying stuff. So I hope everybody's okay. I know people who work here have family up there.

This is affecting... This is going to affect millions of people. Yep. If you're there, get out. Listen to this dude get out. Why are they just, like, spawning, too? Like, the one in Pasadena and the one in... Embers are flying through the air.

Posseids. 90-mile-an-hour winds rip the embers up. They land on the ground ground and it goes up. LA's also extremely dense. If these flames are going to keep going and they haven't contained anything, when will this stop? There needs to be rain. Everyone better be praying for some rain.

On your right is a new fire. This is the Hollywood Hills. This is a location that we were given. 2350 North Solar Drive. That's between Nichols Canyon and Runyon Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. There are a number of homes surrounding that. Chris Christie, are you available to give us some information about this? Mark, very concerning sight here in the Hollywood Hills. We're just west of Nichols Canyon, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, where a major fire has just sparked in the last Hills. We're just west of Nichols Canyon, just north of Hollywood Boulevard, where a major fire has just sparked. In the last five minutes, we were over the Pacific Palisades.

We saw the glow coming from over the hill. And just in the last couple of minutes that it took us to get over here to Hollywood, this thing has exploded in size. You can see northerly winds coming through the canyon here, just west of Nichols, just east of Runyon Canyon. And you can see this is all very thick fuel that is fueling this brush fire. L. A city fire is aware of this fire. They have immediately called for the 20 closest trucks to respond out here. However, accessing this fire is going to require more the trucks. They're gonna have to get a quick reaction force over here as soon as possible, or more likely L. A city fire choppers over here as soon as possible, depending on what resources are available. But this thing is blowing up before our eyes. It is a very sizable fire that is spreading rapidly. I'm going to try and get some more exact streets here. If you bear with me one second, Lucas, pan over to the right. So that's Runyon Canyon Road to the right there. And if we pull out, pull out all the way so we

can just put this into a frame of reference. It's just south of Mulholland Drive. And if we come all the way out, you can see due north of Bonita Avenue and Vista Street off of Hollywood Boulevard. So we're talking about a mile and a half north of Hollywood Boulevard that is now on fire. It appears to be all brush at this point. Do not see the closest structure just yet. However, I think there's a house or a group of homes on the north side, on the other side of this fire towards Mulholland. We can't see it through the smoke right now, but this appears to be majority brush that is fueling this right now. Chris, I've hiked Runyon Canyon so many times. I know Mark surely has as well. This, and you mentioned the streets, Bonita and Vista, those are all the streets that,

you know, I take to get to Runyon Canyon. I'm concerned. There's a lot of homes there, a lot of apartments, and our fire resources are already stretched so thin. Are you seeing any evidence of any response yet? I know it is dark, and I know we're just starting to follow it. Wow, man. I know a bunch of people who live right by there. That's right by Hollywood and Highland. Oh, yeah. That's like the spot. Yep. That's like, what, 10 blocks west of Highland? No, not even.

That's the La Brea. No, no, La Brea is a different area. No, bro. That's La Brea. It's Hollywood and La Brea, like just northwest. Oh, I thought you were talking about the La Brea Tar Pits. Runyon's so legit. I got to do the pray for rain thing.

I got to go into my weird control the weather. Make it rain-ian. Okay. It's nearpitz. It's Runyon. So legit. I got to do the pray for rain thing. I got to go into my weird control the weather. Make it rain, Ian. Okay. It's near the Chinese theater. Yep. Imagine if it burns down to the road, it's going to stop. No. So much concrete.

All those trees, all those buildings. All the fire, the lines. There's a video of one of these buildings burning, and you're looking at metal on fire. And I'm sitting there being like, the metal frames are burning. What is burning off that? Is it magnesium or something? That's crazy. So you think that was just a little ember that flew and then caught on fire?

Yeah, that's usually what happens. I mean, the 90 miles per hour. There was a fire in Jersey when I lived in Union City, New Jersey for a while. And a fire, one building and then two blocks away a church caught on fire because embers from the house went up into the air and then

fell down and started the church on fire. Yup. Two blocks away and there's only two structures that were affected by it. Absolutely insane. I did it during the hurricane. I focused energy to calm the wind. You have a magnetic field. Your body has one and so does the earth and Lightning is magnetic heat is you know I don't I don't think you want to go down this

Right hole. Oh god. Is that means when the fire started you did nothing. I did nothing You did not just been enjoying I've been playing the bizarre. I've been playing a bunch of video games while the world burns Hmm you hear this. I'm looking at like the whiskeys right there, the marquee. Oh, yeah. Yup. Yup. The comedy store. Like all these places that we played and like really, really famous places in Hollywood.

It's really close to that stuff. And if it does get down to the roads and stuff, it's not that there's too much concrete. When people talk about Hollywood, it's Hollywood and Highland. That's where the Walk of Fame is. It's where Jimmy Kimmel, I think he's not that there's Hollywood. Yeah. When people talk about Hollywood, it's Hollywood and Highland. That's where the walk of fame is. It's where the, it's where Jimmy Kimmel, I think he's a crazy. He's basically right there.

He's at the, uh, El Capitan right across the street at the El Capitan theater. So, so it's not, it's not where the big Hollywood sign is. No, no.

That's like when people are like, I want to go to Hollywood. Like the walk of fame is that is Hollywood Boulevard and Hollywood Highland. It's like, you got Ripley's right there. You got all the restaurants, all the little knickknack stores yeah it's like 15 blocks away from runyon roughly and then there's the sunset strip just a couple blocks south of hollywood

is sunset next one down i mean the the i'm not sure the exact area that was destroyed in the palisades but i but if this fire does get down into hollywood the actual populated areas to where the streets are, you could see a lot of damage really, really fast. They've got to be getting cars, I would imagine. Now the fire trucks are on Franklin, on Hollywood. It's in the canyon right now, and there's no roads that can actually lead to it. I don't know how it started, but where it is, you can look at it. It's in the canyon.

if they're going to be able to get trucks to it before it gets out of... It's already probably out of hand, I guess. It's bad. This is crazy. Just north of Hollywood Boulevard. It's nuts. The only way it will stop is if it rains or if somehow they figure out how to contain it.

What's the weather? Show me. I want to look. Dry. That's it. Not raining. Sunny and dry for a week. I swear, California's got to be cursed or something.

Doomed. Forbes. It is the government's fault, though. All this stuff like fires are natural and and there's a lot of a lot of you know plants and stuff like that that have over the the course of thousands of years they've evolved to be able to survive this stuff because of the humans in this area there's there's they don't want fires so they do everything they can to put them out and it you just if you leave the fuel on the ground it's gonna happen fires are

usually small yep when we stop them and the tinder builds up you're creating a recipe for it what you're creating a literal tinderbox you got to manage that you got to go to the forest floor sweeping and trump called them out over this they wouldn't do this is years ago it's like 2019 trump has this thread where he's like they they're not doing the floor management. They make fun of him for it. So at a certain point, it's just like, what can you do? Too late to play defense when they should have been playing offense. What do you do for people who entertain and enjoy a life that leads to these things and then scream and beg for help?

Obviously, we help them, but there's only so much we can do. They're going to be recovering for a very, very long time. I mean, Maui, Hawaii, I went there a few months ago, still completely destroyed. Oh, yeah. Like nothing has been built in the main parts. Palisades aren't going to come back for decades. No.

If anything. No. And land is going to be worth nothing. And then on top of all the restrictions they have just to build stuff, all the permits you have to get inside California, like, cooked. They're done. Wow. For a while.

That's crazy. You guys think Hollywood's cursed? California's cursed? Oh, well, I think that good men do nothing, and California's turned into this. Do you think all this bad, like, all this Hollywood corruption, pedophilia stuff is now coming back to,... Hedonistic. I don't think it's supernatural. I think that when... God's coming to chastise them.

No, I don't think it's supernatural at all. When you have evil people ripping apart at the foundations for personal benefit, it falls apart. The collapse is inevitable when you have... Like Sodom and Gomorrah don't need God to smite them. They cannot sustain themselves on their own. Cities of debauchery and degeneracy will fall apart. Also, I think the one that 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. So you build a city in the desert, and you rely on imports for water. Well, there you go. I guess they had a river. There's just so many things they could have done just years and years ago to prevent something to this level. I mean, you can't stop all forest fires, but to this level, there needs to be something that they should have been able to prevent it. Man, this is the downside of what was that? So there's a lot they could have done.

Yeah. The downside of voting for your candidates and having them seeking reelection is that they waste so much time trying to raise money and please people when you the the upside of authoritarian governments which is also i don't like it is they move very quickly they can just get masses of slaves together hordes of people and command them you're all doing this now and if that means you're all digging out the the sticks out of the woods in you know southwest southwest California, they're going to be doing it. They're going to be building pyramids. They're going to be doing it.

California has Apple. They've got IBM. They have plenty of tax base in that state to be able to have enough funds to deal with this. They have Hollywood and they have Silicon Valley. There is ample money in taxes that California takes in. They're the ninth largest or something like the ninth largest or fifth largest economy on Earth, bigger than like 185 of the countries on Earth.

So it's not a matter of funding or whether or not they- And they tax more than any other state in the United States. Exactly. So it's not a matter of they can't afford it. They absolutely can afford it. They have the tax base that they need. It's a lack of will. It's they don't want to just like it's force of will. They want the state to fall apart. Well, I mean, that could be. But people have been leaving in droves. This is only going to drive more people out. People that have money that are like, you know, Calabasas.

I have a friend that I just texted and he lives in Calabasas. And I was like, yo, you know, how you doing? He's like, things are okay for now. You know, but like, I mean, if you, if you're, if you're up in Calabasas, right. And, and you're like, you seeing this stuff happening 45 minutes away, 30 minutes away from your house. Like, why are you going to stay? There's a lot of people that are just going to be like, I'm getting out of here, man. I'll sell my

house and they might sell it for a loss. They probably have multiple other homes, but getting out of there is probably going to be on, on the radar of a lot more people because that's already been happening. This, this kind of, this kind of tragedy 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 they're i can't insure my home anymore we didn't get into the story but we'll talk about this in the members only when uh someone tweeted james woods his home is burning it's karma keith alberman said was basically saying good and cheering for this i'm telling you these people are evil.

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LADWP or SoCal Edison. Wow. LADWP or SoCal Edison. Department of Water and Power, I think. Is that what it is? Yeah, it sounds like it. Brad Peter 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. You know what, man? I 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. Remember when prices were collapsing in New York? Bill de Blasio said he was going to buy up buildings for pennies on the dollar to convert them into public buildings, public housing. These these communist Democrat types, I'm not saying all Democrats are communists. I'm saying the communists that are masquerading as good American politicians. Bill de Blasio is a commie. Absolutely is. They want to burn down the system and then buy the land for pennies. Now the Palisades is worthless.

And Newsom does not care about his people. No. What does he do? Makes a lot of money by funneling money from other organizations that help him buy $5 million houses in San Francisco. Dang. All right. Chirst says, Tim, don't let up on the mayor. The left went after Ted Cruz during the freeze in Texas because he was on vacation.

Yeah, but I think the freeze happened and then he went on vacation, right? Yeah, and also Ted Cruz is a senator. He's not the mayor or the governor. What's a senator supposed to do? A senator doesn't have any power inside of Texas. A senator represents Texas in Washington, D.C. The freeze didn't happen in Washington, D.C.

So it was just, it was, it was, it was just, it was only, you know, for looks that they went after Ted Kennedy. The actual stuff that's going on. Cruz. Yeah, Ted Cruz. I'm sorry. But the actual stuff that's going on in California, like the mayor and the governor could have done something about this. Stevie VV says,

Did Bad Religion have it right 20 years ago with Los Angeles is Burning? Maybe, but I will give a shout out to Bad Religion for what is one of the best songs ever, You. You guys know that one? Those lyrics are epic. They should. Isn't Tony Hawk 2 soundtrack?

Yeah, but I absolutely love the writing in that song. There's a place where everyone can be right, even though you're made determined to be opposed. Admittance requires no qualifications. It's where everyone has been and where everybody goes. So please try not to be impatient, for we all hate standing in line. But when the farm is good and bought,

you'll be there without a thought. Eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time. Ooh, I like that. It's great. It's brilliant. The place where everyone can be right. All one, all alone. That was Duncan Trussell said the word alone is like the word all one.

It's like where everything is all. Did you guys know that the mayor of Los Angeles cut the fire department by $17.6 million? Yes. I didn't know that. And they sent excess supplies to Ukraine. Unbelievable. Oh, that's... Yup!

And I wish we got into all of this. There's just so much. It's making me want to borrow Serge's cast for tonight. We walk in and Tim's like, man, there's no news tonight. Well, no, no. I was saying the only news is the wildfire. So everybody, hear me now. YouTube.com slash Timcast. So my first channel on

YouTube, I did a video essay every day at 4 p.m. And then the morning show, which is Timcast News, is just like press go, press record, and then talk about the news. The YouTube.com slash Timcast videos at 4 p.m. are more like essays where we bring up all this evidence and everything. We're bringing it back. Today we launched the first one. It was a little bit late, went up at five. We're gonna bring them up at 4 p.m. Today, 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. Tomorrow, we're doing a deep dive on the wildfires and how it is quite literally the fault of Democrat politicians. Trump warned them. They gave away equipment to Ukraine.

They cut the budget. They refused to hire firefighters because they wanted less white men. This is exactly what we've all been talking about for so long. Cernovich had a great tweet. I think it was Cernovich where he said, DEI is literally killing people. Yeah. Insane.

So tomorrow, youtube.com slash Timcast, 4 p.m. The show is coming back. We're bringing back the deep dive essays. How's it work? Is it just you on a camera or do you have a team? Oh, cool. Do you have people sourcing info with you or do you? So when I first did the show, it was just me.

I did everything. But now we have a great team. And so Lisa Reynolds, who has guest hosted Culture Award. Yeah, she does booking for the show. She's super smart, well connected. She's helping produce the underlying facts and everything. So that way I can do the morning show and then also produce the essay breakdown. Oh, that's cool. So 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 and adding things to it. So it's like co-written by us. She launches it. I read it. I add a few stories to it. And then we're getting an editor who's going to put it all together so that we can get out. It was 18 and a half minutes. The goal is to get a deep dive on all of these big stories with facts and sources. So it's more than just like on my morning show. I kind of just say, here's how I feel about things. What I used to have on the Timcast was basically like, here's what happened with the fact checkers. Here's what Zuckerberg said.

Here's what the news said. The fact checkers are claiming that they're not biased. Here's proof from Duke University and like the Missouri University Public Affairs Department proving bias. Here's all sides proving bias. Here's the meter. Here's the images. Here's the evidence. And here's their statement.

So that way it's much less opinion and much more deep dive fact on the issue. That's awesome. I like seeing things side by side, like the lie and then the contradiction right literally next to each other on the screen. Oh, that's one of the things that we did at the end of the episode was I showed the two Politico articles, one that says that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary. And then the other Politico article, same company saying the claim that Ukraine interfered was Russian disinformation. Both stories considered true and contradictory. And I'm like, this is it. So right now, Lisa's working on pulling up all of that info, a lot of stuff we talked about. But we're going to put the videos, we're gonna put the documents and we're going to show exactly

when they said no more white firefighters, when they said sending Ukraine, all the stuff, exactly when they said we're not going to divert water to save the smelt. All of that stuff, breaking it down. And our hope is that we'll get a video up every single day of the week. Sunday to Sunday, no stopping. Impressive. Yeah, because this is, you know, I used to do it on my own. Now 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. Use that chat GPT to organize. No. You guys organize. GPT is all fake, dude. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty surface level.

It's worse than that. And look, like, honestly, I like Grok and I like GPT, but people went into Grok and said, did Tim Kass sell to the Daily Wire? And it was like, yes. And it was just like literally a rumor that wasn't true. But Grok, he didn't. Did he sell? No.

And you're like, what? Right. And then it would be like, he didn't. Did he sell? No. And you're like, what? Right. And then it would be like, he didn't. And you'd be like, but you said he did. And it's like, I must have been wrong. And it's like, okay, you guys. Sorry to interrupt you. Is there a better one than GPT and Grock yet?

Have you noticed anything better? They're both good at different things. Yeah. Let's read some more super chats. We've got this from Samuel Ayrton. Says, 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. We lose jobs and forest. Hear, hear.

Sounds like a forester. They were talking about it on Fox News that there's downed trees and they leave them. Oh, you've got to remove them. Those things burn. Nuts, man. They don't care. You got to send the drones in. Especially in California

where like they dry out so fast because it's such a dry climate. Like it is so ridiculous to leave that stuff. It's so dangerous. Clearly. Yeah. All right.

What have we here? Common 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, et cetera. Better question is, why build a megacity in a desert? LA already steals all of California's water.

Hear, hear. Yeah, William Mulholland was one of the guys that redirected all that water from the Owens River Valley in the early 1900s to help create, they named Mulholland Drive after the guy, helped create Los Angeles and screwed over a bunch of farmers to do it. Wow. We got Riley Butts. He says, I will accept Canada being adopted by America if Mexico gets California. If 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. Fair.

I don't know. If we brought Canada, it would be the 51st state. It would be a collection of states. Yes. And so you'd add a bunch of red states, but it still is dominated by liberals. Yeah, probably annex state by state if we're going to take if the country wanted to join us. We'll keep the red ones

in Canada. Could they just make them all territories and then not have them? That's too respectful. I'd say we make them colonies subjugated by the American Empire. We need to negotiate with Emperor Charles because he's the king of Canada right now, the monarchy of Canada, so we'll have to dislodge that

somehow. It's wild how old the queen was. Now King Charles is the king but he's also basically got a year left to live. And then Harry? Harry? No, he was out, isn't he? No, his brother, William. He's like 30 or 35.

He's probably pushing 50. He's younger than me, I think. I don't think so. Anyway, that guy. I talked to a lady in Canada about becoming the 51st state and I was like, do you think they'd be able to withstand the United States? She's like, well, you remember what happened to the White House? Remember what happened to the White House? We know where it's at.

We know where the White House is at. My bad, he's 42. What does she mean by that? I guess at one point the Canadians came down and burned down the White House. It was British. We went to Montreal. She was also a witch. Oh, okay.

We were about to conquer Montreal, and then they burned down the White House, and we were like, God, crap. But then in the Mexican-American War, I think it was, we actually won and seized half of Mexico, and then Polk was like, I don't want it. And the American people actually wanted to keep it, and they were like, yo, they were pissed. Is it because he couldn't defend it? No, I don't know.

I don't get why people are mad about us, like, wanting to expand. I think it'd be pretty cool if we expanded. It's funny because the same people who are like, we shouldn't take Greenland are like, we should conquer Ukraine and crush Russia. I'm like, let's not go to war. Did you guys see Zelensky interviewed by Lex Friedman? Really cool.

Historic. I didn't watch the whole interview. I've watched like 20 minutes. I heard Friedman cooked him. Did he? I don't know. Held his feet to the fire? I heard that. I didn't watch the whole interview I've watched like 20 minutes I heard Friedman cooked them did he? I don't know held his feet to the fire I heard that

I didn't watch it it's actually very good and we're living in a cool time where we literally have a war going on and that president is giving a 3 hour podcast as well

super legit and what Lex did he did it in Ukraine, Russian, and English they spoke between the three and he had like some AI that made the voices sound literally exactly the same

for when it switched and whatnot. Except it was very robotic. When Lex talked, it was very... That's Lex! Yeah, but it's also... It was awesome. A little bit more than normal. He criticized the AI.

He was like, it didn't capture the way we felt when we were talking, but it's effective enough. But Lex, we know you don't feel. All the Ukrainians were so mad at Lex Ruman for wanting to do the interview in Russian when he's just trying to

do it in the most way where they could express themselves in the best way. Ukrainians are very touchy right now. When I went to Ukraine and I posted a video after, I think I had the whole entire Ukrainian country come after me. Yeah, they're very sensitive.

What was the video? Well, I did a full documentary on it, and then I also did a video where I walked around Kiev, and I showed these nice parts of Kiev, and I was like, this is where your taxes are going, and there's BMWs and Teslas. Wow. And the Ferris wheel, and people got really mad.

What time of year did you go? Last, like four or five months ago. Oh, okay, so like fall? Yeah, and I mean, it's really, really sad. You go to Maidan? No, I just went to Kiev, Bushe. Yeah, Maidan is in Kiev. Yeah, then probably.

I can't remember all the names. You know that big glass slide? The mall where it's like they've got that big... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went down there. I'm pretty sure. Some dudes tried to slide down it and they like shattered their spines. What the f...

Yeah, it's like a mall in Maidan Square what the f yeah it's like 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 you hear the crunch and they're like like oh what are you thinking dude it was like three stories whoa like straight down

yeah let me see I'll play to the members only keep was an interesting place and you'd think like people be very skeptical about talking about the

war but everyone oh yeah I found it very like we'll got a filter on it were they just exhausted on the

war in Keeve yeah and it's sad because like there'd be eight girls and one guy like all like the young men my age are at war

and so I thought it was actually cool in that like streaming interview when uh Zelensky is talking like, yes, like we will work on something with Trump. Because, I mean, there's going to get to a point where Russia is going to have no more middle aged men or teenagers to go out and fight. And I mean, Ukraine's already like already pulling in women. Yeah. And 50 year olds.

I 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. Wow. Well, Russia's bringing in North Koreans, and they're bringing in Houthis. Are they bringing in Houthis, too? Fact check me on that one. I'm pretty sure I thought they were bringing in Houthis, but I could be wrong about that. Where are they from?

Yemen. Yemen. Oh. Yeah. Let me get a fact check on that one. Checking right now. Something also interesting about the people in Ukraine. Yep. Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. Oh.

Russia reportedly used Yemeni fighters recruited through a company linked to the Houthi rebels to fight in Ukraine. Wild dude. Wild, dude. Oh, I was saying like... Oh, they were, according to multiple reports, the enemy 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. Sick. Wild.

Rough. Wow, that is rough. Never trust the Russians. Man, you knew Germany was really losing the war when Hitler started drafting 64-year-olds. I think he raised the draft age up to 64. There's like 14-year-olds. I don't know if it was that.

I'm pretty sure it was super, super young. And 64-year-old. But that was like when the Russians were entering Germany and the allied forces were entering germ western france and stuff let's grab this one you got mike zero sources tim did you catch benny johnson's videos about homeless people starting fires all over la i didn't but we did mention that the other night we had a story from only a week ago in bakersfield in california homeless people were setting record amounts of fires here we we are. I kind of feel like it's very probable that homeless people started these fires.

And they got propane tanks, too. When you go into these homeless encampments, a lot of these people have propane tanks. And they just start fires out on the street. Okay, conspiracy theory. Illegally entered the country. Militant-age men from some foreign hostile country. Maybe they were even Russian. Who knows?

They colluded to light a bunch of fires over the course of two days in Los Angeles when it's dry. And they wanted it in Runyon. I mean, the economic damage is tremendous. Huge. And they don't have to do anything. They just light the spark and walk away. It's crazy. Well, to be fair, the humidity is at.78, like record low humidity or something?

Was it? And we got Karen Bass, or what are you talking about? We got multiple wildfires. Is that aerial footage of Los Angeles? Let's pull it up. Oh, good. Wow.

Wow, man. It's's spreading are those little ones are those also fires right there yeah yeah oh we can't hear you bro 90 saying it's 90 mile an hour winds in search of sand what is that like high up or like down near the ground they're flying in a plane no i mean the winds are the winds which high up or are they near the ground? They're flying in a plane. No, no, I mean the winds. Are the winds high up? No, it's on the ground. It's blowing the fire. And the fire's contributing to the speed of the wind because of the heat? No. You sure?

Yes. Because it was doing that in the firestorms in Germany. I mean, nuclear bombs will cause massive gusts of wind. These are the Santa Ana winds. They're an annual thing. It's crazy windy this time of year out there. 100 mile an hour in Altadena or in La Cunada. That's crazy, man.

I got a lot of friends who live down there. Yeah. It's like a hurricane. 100 mile an hour. It was a hurricane. That's right. It is. They're calling it hurricane force winds.

Yeah. And it's crazy because, you know, I lived in L.A. for a couple of years. And so, like, Hollywood is not nice. People should understand you know like broke people like to live in and around hollywood yep palisades is wealthy and uh you're not i think santa monica is rent controlled so i knew a lot of young people who had like rent controlled apartments nice beautiful yeah venice is i lived in venice just south of santa monica kind of scummy but super nice venice is super scummy homeless people yeah i lived there

when they made it law that the homeless people could no longer sleep on the beach in their campers and they pull them all out when was that like 2000 2010 really yeah that's when i was i was i was there around then and everybody was oh nine yeah it was awesome it was kind of cool that they were in their campers showers yeah there's public Yeah, there's a bit. Public showers right there. And it's not like bathing showers. It's beach showers. So it's like there's like a brick structure with like pipes that come out, and it's just totally open to the public. You walk up and press the thing, and it sprays with water.

You're not like going in a booth or anything. I 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. Oh, dude, the Bloods and the Crips were there every day at the skate park. KTLA, the station might have to evacuate. Whoa. Where's that? In LA.

Do you know where it's located in the city? In Hollywood. Oh, jeez. KTLA. Wow. All right, Citizen7 says, Tim, I spent a few years in Scotland as a preteen. Not a single power line in sight.

In the sky, everything was underground, and the view of the sky was pristine. Yeah. Where was that? In Scotland. Oh, dang. Which, I mean, you know, depending on where it is, it's possible for some things. Okay, let's start getting real quick. Gunface says, California passed a law that says insurers must provide insurance for high-risk areas with price controls.

That's why they pulled out of California. Oh, they pulled out of California. Totally. Which makes perfect sense. You know, we pulled out of California. That's not a joke. Zuckerberg just pulled out of California. Timcast 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.

And 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. None. Mines. We did that with mines, too. We had issues with California. It was weird. They had Zuckerberg just moved the headquarter and now he's moving Facebook headquarters

from Palo Alto to, I think it was Palo Alto, to Texas. The whole headquarters? He's moving. Yeah, I think that's what he says. He's moving the headquarters to Texas. I thought he said the moderation team. I think he was Palo Alto to Texas. The whole headquarters? He's moving. Yeah, I think that's what he says. He's moving the headquarters to Texas. I thought he said the moderation team. I think he said the headquarters because he was tired of the way they reach. They passed this thing about you can't contract people anymore.

It's like after a certain amount of contracted jobs, gigs they do, they have to be given a full-time position. So we just immediately were like, we will no longer work with anyone out of California. And the gig economy was flourishing at that time when they made a stupid law i think uh sports uh what website was it sb nation was a vox company and they fired like 200 writers because they were like dude we don't have staff writers people sell us stories and we'll pay them for it and they're like no you gotta hire them full-time it's like, why do they make business so impossible to do there?

Because they want to burn it all down. Like, here's the thing. Imagine you make birdhouses right in your garage. And then you come to me and you're like, hey, you want to buy a birdhouse? I'm like, sure. I'm going to buy a birdhouse from you. The Californian goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. You have to hire him as an employee.

And you're like, what? I only want a birdhouse. Yeah, well, you're buying a birdhouse once a month. And I'm like, I know. I like birdhouses. And like, well, he's an employee now. Okay, sorry, dude. I can't buy birdhouses from you, well, you're buying a birdhouse once a month. And I'm like, I know, I like birdhouses. And like, well, he's an employee now. Okay, sorry, dude, I can't buy birdhouses from you anymore because I'm not hiring you as an employee.

And that's basically what they did. And that was, it was funny because the Democrats were the ones who pushed that. The unions did. Because the unions were like, the gig economy is destroying the unions. And then all of these liberals lost their jobs because of it. Sorry, you know, you reap what you sow.

Yep. All right, let's grab, we'll grab one more here. Let's see, what do we got? We'll grab this here. What does this say? Alex Lulo says, one thing people forget to notice is that the president talked to us for a lengthy address and we understood him. That's a good point. Am I Biden or Trump?

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We're going to go talk to the people in Greenland. What are you going to talk about? About becoming part of America. See what they want to say. Yeah. Love it. I see what they got to say. Where you got to fly in from?

Canada? Don't you fly to Newfoundland and then fly to Greenland or something? Fly to Iceland and then from Iceland. Iceland. There's only two places you can either go in from Copenhagen or from Iceland. Ah. You're going to spend any time in Iceland? No. I'm just going to spend four days

in Greenland, go hang out with the people down there, go talk to them. Give yourself a day in Reykjavik, man. It's fun. Yeah, we'll see what happens. It's going to be interesting. Right on. I mean, I think it'd be a good idea if they became part of the United States. I agree. And I mean, if we can give billions of dollars to Ukraine, I think we could give a billion dollars to

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