Tosh Show - My L.A. Wildfire Evacuation

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

Daniel takes a break from his weekly interviews to give an update on the wildfires that devastated Pacific Palisades and Altadena.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's what people think of California. Yeah. Good God. Tosh Show. Tosh Show. Tosh Show. Welcome to Tosh Show. Daniel Tosh, live and in the flesh. And it's good to be back.

I'm in a great mood, Eddie. How are you? Eddie's not here. Eddie's not here. Now I'm in a better mood. And I'm going to pass those savings on to you, the viewers. The money that I would have spent on Eddie being here today. Now, where is Eddie?

That's a great question. You guys know where he is? Yeah, he's in the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys. He's in Key West doing shows. No better place to be when Hell and Fury has struck down here in all of Southern California Well, I should check in on Eddie. I should at least make sure Eddie's fine. Let me see if Eddie's fine

Yeah, let me call Eddie. What do you do when you're in Key West? Have sex with men What's up big dog, oh yeah, you're on the pod Eddie we're checking in on you. Oh, hey, how's it going everybody? How's Key West? Key West is great. I just got here and I'm in like a little bungalow and Faces of the sunset so man, this might be this place is cool. All right. Well, glad you're safe. Stay safe, Eddie Oh stay safe Stay safe Stay safe. Okay, I'll stay safe. You too, buddy.

Stay safe. Stay safe, bye. Eddie couldn't live further away from the fires, just so we're clear. He lives in South Bay. Before I get in to the wildfires that have rocked SoCal. You ever call it SoCal? I never do. Never.

I hate people that call it that. No, I don't think anyone calls it SoCal. If I'm writing it down, maybe I would write SoCal just because it's less time. But anyway, before I get in, I gotta talk about a few other things. Some of you are probably, hey, Dan, why do you still have the beard?

Have you been out fighting fires? No, no, no. The reason I still have the beard is because I was gonna shave it, clean up, and my wife's like, don't, don't shave that. You look way better with it. And I was like, whoa. No, I don't think that our relationship has lost some of the spice,

but if there's something that's given me an edge, then I'll keep it. You tell me I just gotta grow some ball hair on my face? That's what it feels like too. It feels like a 14 year grow some ball hair on my face That's what it feels like to it feels like a 14 year olds balls are on my face now before you you take that and run With it. Well, how do you know what a 14 year olds balls feel like on your face? No, I don't really have an answer for that last week I told a story about how I had a poop in the woods and Unfortunately, I story about how I had a poop in the woods and unfortunately I mentioned or

fortunately depending on who you ask I mentioned the bakery which was a cakery that I went to first and I just want to reiterate because they immediately texted me like hey I hope you weren't implying that our place gave you the shits and I'm like no! And I'm sorry that it came across, I was saying I'm lactose intolerant and I eat like a child. That was just too much for my stomach. My stomach can't handle anything. I could eat coelium husk for breakfast.

I'm still gonna go diarrhea at some point. Yeah. Okay, well anyway, I just wanted them to know, my friends at Sugar Pine Cakery, that I love them and their food's amazing. And don't let one story of me pooping in the woods make it sound like I'm not a huge fan. Yeah, does not cause diarrhea.

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When you have wildfires in California, California is so big that everybody reaches out to you. Oh my goodness, are you okay? Nobody ever understands how big certain areas are. Los Angeles isn't a town. It's just a throw-up of the devil. You know, if you lived in in North Carolina and a wildfire broke out in Delaware, you wouldn't call your friends in North Carolina like, how are you guys doing? Are you okay from the Delaware fires? That's nowhere near us.

You know, the other thing that was, I found so terribly annoying during this is all the people's, again, I'm sure I'm putting this on them, but the sincerity was in question with everyone reaching out Oh, everyone's so worried. It's weird how everyone's so worried when normally everybody just loves to shit on California constantly But now everybody's just heartbroken over what we're going through. I'm like, are you are you really heartbroken? You know when when the door's closed, no one's around

and you're pounding away on your keyboard about how fuck these liberals, blah, blah, blah. You're really heartbroken. Hate us because you ain't us, right? That's what Joey said. You know, people would always say that about the patriots when they were having their run. That's just how they are about California.

You love to shit on us because we're the best and we're the best by a mile. Now you could argue and say, oh, it's not true. I wouldn't want those wildfires. Okay. Where do you live? Tornadoville? Hurricaneville? Everyone's got something.

But you ever have your Apple TV on and not watch something? Just keep it paused for a while and then it goes to a screen saver And then all of a sudden these beautiful images of our planet Earth come up You want me to tell you something out of the 30 stock images that they have slow motion moving around 50% of them are from the state of California. Yeah. Yeah, you know why cuz it's beautiful Yeah, cuz it's the prettiest place in the world. Rarely are they panning over some random town in Kentucky. There's, there's, there's no shot of the mall just outside of Arkansas.

Just go through that screensaver and, and if you can't find your hometown in there, know that there's a reason. Nobody wants to see the Ohio River. Oh, it's so beautiful. Look at the Ohio River. Everyone checked in. I can't believe what you've gone through.

I'm like, first of all, you don't know what we've gone through. And second of all, I haven't gone through anything. If I haven't said this already, I'm good. I'm good. I'm fine. We, we filmed, uh, an episode last week, uh, the day that the fire started. And I remember calling the guys and I said, Hey, you probably want to get out here early because the winds are picking up and when the winds pick up Edison, uh, the power company shuts off the electricity to be preventative for wildfires. So I was like, get out here early so that we can film.

Now we pushed the shoot up. We're shooting literally, I'd say 30 minutes after we finished shooting the episode, boom, power went off and then they drove home and as they were driving home, I'm like, guys, do you see that plume coming from the palisades? And they're like, yeah, yeah. And they drove right by it. They filmed it.

They're like, it's getting worse and worse. And sure as shit, that was it. That was our Tuesday. And I don't, you know, I'm not gonna get into conspiracies on what started the fire. I, you know, I don't know if it was climate change versus God. I don't know if it was some MAGA arsonist that that couldn't figure out that his candidate won the election.

It was like, well, I still have these plans to destroy California, whoever it is, whether it was a fire that started six days before. Hey, maybe you blame our tone deaf governor, who's really, listen, he's going to fix this, come hell or high water, because he's got an Olympics to put on. I don't care what it was, it happened, and now there's destruction. And I also want to point out this.

In 2018, the Woesley fires, I was building my current home near completion. We had investment property next door that housed all of our stuff. And the Woesley fire came through and it burnt my house down and it burnt down that neighbor's house that had all the stuff in it. So I've been through it. And my wife was seven months pregnant at the time, and it was just the worst thing in the world. But the point is, I've gone through it.

It's horrific. And, you know, I'm not gonna live in a state of depression for the next three to five years when I was fortunate for this particular fire. You know, what am I gonna do? How is Malibu and Palisades gonna rebuild? Well, they're going to. Maybe it, maybe it, you can't see it now, but it's gonna happen. And I hear people when they say this, you know, not everybody in Malibu is wealthy, not everybody in the Pacific Palisades is wealthy. Well, no, okay, not

everybody, most of them, not everybody. And a lot of people are hurting and they've lost everything. That's horribly tragic. I certainly know that if it were in other areas of Los Angeles, the numbers might be much higher and the coverage would be much less you don't have as many celebrities living in Alta Dena as you do the Pacific Palisades so I feel like they're not getting the equal coverage

but we care about you just as much well maybe not as much as Steve Kerr's family home or JJ Reddick's house. But you get it. I mean, okay, so anyway, it wasn't near us. And I'm like, it's the direction of the is okay for us. We don't need to leave. And I've got a generator at my house. It's hooked up to a main gas line.

They shut the gas off and they've never done that before. And then the internet went out and I'm like, oh, this is bad. Now I've got to evacuate. I got a one year old. I can't live like that. I can't entertain a one year old. She already knows about technology. You want me to pretend like it's a little house on the prairie?

So we had to go. We headed out to Montecito. Oh Beautiful go to the Rosewood Miramar most expensive hotel You it won't even it'd make you sick and they were they were nice enough and it's funny Here's what I learned during an evacuation. No hotel is allowed to Turn away animals. Dogs. That's interesting.

Every hotel becomes pet friendly during an evacuation. Anyway, this place is pet friendly regardless, but everybody that was getting out of their car had two or three pets and a mother-in-law. And it was just hysterical. And nobody was packed properly. You know, they had a hamper filled with random toys, clothes piled up. All of the people there are people from Calabasas and Malibu and the

palisades and everybody's just in different states of shock. I immediately ran into a Chandler Parsons there. He's got tequila screaming 50 50 coach50 coach, if my house is gone. Made me laugh. I'm like, good, this is who I wanna be with right now. I tell you what though, evacuation life was good for Chandler. He was golfing every day.

One day he was with his daughter and she was just sobbing, crying. I was with my daughter, happy as can be. And I say to his daughter, oh, would holding a Bluey make you happier? My daughter has a stuffed Bluey she was holding it, and then my daughter just, without hesitation, just hands it to his daughter.

She immediately stops crying, and then Chandler just leaves and takes it. I mean, I asked for it, like, the next day. I said hey how about that stuffed animal back and you know he's like oh yeah I'll get that back to you and that hasn't happened. By the way one day Chandler was this was funny he's like hey I'm gonna bet bet the Chargers to beat the Texans I go don't do it I can show it to you I had text I'll say don't do it. I can show it to you. I had text, I was like, don't.

He's like, I'm doing it. And then I keep seeing him. I'm like, don't do it. He's like, no, no, they're gonna easily beat them. I'm like, ugh. He's like, I'm putting 30K on it. I go, no, don't. Yeah, how'd that work?

He got kicked out of the hotel. He was tired of that place. He got kicked out of the hotel. He was tired of that place. He got kicked out? Well, he thought his reservation was through, you know, one day and it wasn't. And they're like, you gotta move on. But guess who replaced him as basketball royalty entered the hotel?

Dwayne Wade. Oh, wow. Yeah, I didn't see his wife, which would have been a better sighting. But I went up to Dwayne. Again, I was with my daughter, and I said, hey, how are you, Dwayne? Hey, what's going on with this Butler situation? No, he didn't give me any insight on that.

I do my normal thing. Hi, I'm comedian Daniel Tosh. Mm-hmm. I'm a fan of the Miami Heat. I have been since day one, 1988, or was it 89? I don't fucking remember. You ready for this? Yeah.

Day two after the fires, who do I run into? I'm standing in the lobby with Carl and I'm holding my daughter waiting for a glass of whole milk, which oddly was hard to get from time to time. And who comes in with an assistant or somebody? Oprah Winfrey. Ooh.

Royalty. Wow. The A-list celebrity sighting of all. Comes walking in. What does she do? Does she look at my beautiful daughter and give her a nod or a smile? Absolutely not.

Looks at Carl, immediately gets excited. Just immediately does, look at that dog. That's what she, she goes, look at that dog. Wow. I was like, look at that Carl. Oprah. And he was ungroomed, right? He was horribly ungroomed. Oh wow. If she would have saw him today, oh man, man, she would have been taken back. No, he was looking awful. He is a little, you know, little dreads appropriating some culture. Whenever you're at these nice hotels, they love to tell you what celebrities have stayed there. And I'm always like not impressed because I'm like, well, of

course they've stayed here. It's a nice hotel. Where else would they stay? It's a nice hotel. Where else would they stay? I would be more interested in shitty hotels telling me what celebrities have stayed there. You know?

Uh-huh. You're telling me at this Fairfield Inn, Diplo stayed here? All right. That's interesting. That's great. Why do you think Diplo was there, huh? By the way, don't think I didn't do right by people. I've offered up our Tahoe house

to anyone that needs to get away that we know. I mean, even people that don't really know. We kind of secondhand know them and they need a place. I'm like, here, when the time is right and you just want to get away for a week, a couple days, whatever, go on up. I'll have it opened up for you. But then we had a rental house immediately after our hotel stay and we invited everyone, any families that needed to come.

We had a big house, we only needed one room. We crammed in, I put, um, there was two, uh, closet areas in my room, so one kid got one of them, one got the other, and then the rest of the bedrooms, we just divvied up to other families that needed it. Just really, you know, just generous. Mm-hmm. Poor Ava.

My beautiful, old, sweet, confused, 15-year-old dog. She doesn't do well when you bring her anywhere else. my beautiful old sweet confused 15 year old dog She doesn't do well when you bring her anywhere else. She just doesn't understand where she is And when we got to the rental house, you know, this lady is showing me around how to use stuff I'm pretending to listen. Here's how you turn the jacuzzi on I can never figure it out Anyway, she leaves. I happen to be walking outside, and I watched Ava quickly just walk right into the pool.

And then when she walked into the pool, she didn't even attempt to swim. Didn't kick her legs, just started sinking to the bottom. Jesus. Swear. Just started sinking straight to the bottom. I reach my arm, and I grab her by an ear and slowly pull her up and get her out, dry her off.

And I'm like, hey, honey, let's not kill yourself right now. Jesus. But I had, you know, because of all the travel and not being groomed, she got matted. And I've had to shave her down. Oh, my goodness. Still cute. And she's doing good. Everybody says, no, no, no, she's still got life in her.

She's still enjoying things, you know? Remember when our vet friend was on, and he said, you come up with a list of 10 things that they like, and when they stop doing five of them, start having the conversation? She has stopped all 10. She eats and poops. That's the only time I can ever tell

if she's got any joy left in her. But every now and then there's just some life. I don't know. I don't know what to do with her. I love her though. By the way, my wife's birthday is this coming weekend and I've already reserved a hotel for us up in Montecito, and we're gonna go. I have to act like it's like, no, no, it's not,

it's different, it's your birthday, we're gonna celebrate. We didn't just do this. No, I'm just gonna pretend that we haven't just been in a hotel, and a rental house, and in Tahoe Like we've been in our house for two days this year. 2025 guys, man, starting off strong. Oh yeah. Ha! Oh brother. Speaking of wildfires and how long it takes to rebuild, you remember when Australia had those horrible wildfires? Oh yeah. I was working there right after those fires in 2019.

It was right before the pandemic. And I remember people going, oh, I can't believe you're going. Like the wildfires are too out of control. You should cancel. And I didn't. I went. And then I felt guilty because of the wildfires. And I, you know, donated all the money that I made

to help rebuild. And now it's been four or so years and I haven't checked in but I was watching the Australian Open this week and I'm like, nobody even mentions it. Things look normal, things look good. I could be completely wrong but the point is in four years, things look good. I could be completely wrong, but the point is in four years, things will be good or better, I hope. I can't even imagine how strong the economy is gonna be

when this new administration fixes everything. You'll be sitting on a fortune. Come out ahead. Yeah, you're gonna be coming out ahead. I'm gonna tell you something else about Australia. When I was there, you wanna know how bad those fires were? It rained while we were in Melbourne and the fires were so bad that there was like

dust, dirt, ash in the air that the rain was coming down. I shit you not like mud. It was reddish. Reddish. Like, I remember my wife's shoes were immediately ruined from walking outside in the rain. You couldn't wrap your head around that. And I just think, whoa, that's worse.

If it was raining blood here in LA right now, I can imagine the news coverage. Yeah, this would be a different... here in LA right now, I can imagine the news coverage. Yeah, it'd be a different. Here's my, a little bit of my hostility toward the coverage. I understand some of it's informative, but a lot of it is just the world we live in now where everybody just like, look at the suffering.

Look what they're going through. And I'm just somebody, when my house burnt down and I came back, I would have appreciated more stories of like, look at this, this place made it, this place made it. When they say that 5,000 structures are damaged, that doesn't necessarily mean 5,000 homes. It's not one for one. And you know, I

don't know how many homes survived in the Pacific Palisades, but I know homes did. The person that built my home twice, he bought me a little Honda pool drainer pump to fight fires. I got 200 feet of two-inch hose and I drop a line into my pool and I can you know stop any spot fires that come. And that's another thing that happens when they tell you to evacuate and in some people refuse to evacuate you're like oh but then they have to save you. Yes you should listen to evacuations, but certain people that are capable of helping, you can't convince me that it's not beneficial. For instance, the guy that built my house lives in the palisades and sure as shit he

had to evacuate and then he snuck back in on foot around police, got up back to his house, saw that his neighbor's house was on fire, put his pump in his pool, got their house out, drained his entire pool, went to his neighbor's house, drained their pool, just soaking everything, went to the next house, drained their pool, soaking the next two houses, saved four or five houses right there on a Palisades road, you know, by himself. I'm just letting you know, not every, not everything is gone. People are like, oh, the whole, the whole town, there's some places that are okay. Not every place is completely destroyed.

And some of the places that are, that that are damaged not the whole thing is damaged And let me tell you something building in California is a nightmare and Guess what now? Oh They're gonna have to be more lenient and they're gonna have to like expedite all of these permits and that's a good thing Yeah, people will you know, they won't have to it's not gonna be the process that it is Normally when you try to build and everybody's got answers. I talk to people I listen You know, we're getting this entire System put in our home that changes the humidity by over 50% and fires will just go around it. I'm like, alright I'm gonna buy a different house

Or what do you think these people that hire private firefighters? I'm jealous if I could bribe a Truck to just park it out in front of my place when a fire was coming that I think it'd be great Am I gonna look into what it costs to get a private firefighter? No. No, I think it'd be great. Am I gonna look into what it costs to get a private firefighter? No, no I'm not. You know, I kept checking in on my house because if you watch the news, the looters, the looters are everywhere.

Okay, you know who buys into that stuff? Remember my AV guy, John, that I interviewed on the show? Sure enough, he was checking in on my house constantly and he's like, I got a gun on me. I'm like, what? That maniac's walking around with a gun. I'm like, if you shoot Rufina, I wonder what kind of gun he has.

Lord knows he shouldn't have a gun. I just know that if there's a criminal with a gun, and my AV guy with a gun, I'm putting all my money on the criminal Although if I came to my house and he was just like shot in the leg or something like that I would probably think that's the greatest thing has ever happened. I bet that field Juvenating oh that would be juvenating you bet that's John Juvenating huh, and then you hear oh my goodness

We are using prisoners to fight the fire. And I'm like, they're the ones fighting the fire? We gotta use everybody. What are they in jail for? Violent sex crimes. No, apparently none of the crimes are violent. Any crime, it couldn't be a violent crime that they were in for that released them to fight fires.

Well, I'll take them at their word. Yeah. You know, thank everyone for doing their work. I filmed just, just around the corner from my house, just the hundreds and hundreds of fire trucks that are set up and where they're sleeping and going the bathroom every day and you're like, Oh man, this man, this isn't what I thought they signed up for. You know, when you think of a firefighter, when you're a kid, you're like, look at this truck. And they're in there just making chili,

posing in their underwear for sexy calendars. And then you find out, no, no, you gotta breathe awful fucking air for days and days and poop in these awful little toilets guys anyway I'm just so happy to be here and wanted to let you know that I'm doing great my neighborhood is good all of us that work on this show are fine and safe and haven't lost anything so we're very fortunate and We'll help those that we can help. Okay

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not just about connecting with deceased loved ones. It's about learning through them and their new perspective. Join me on the Ghost Therapy podcast. Whoa, my lights in my living room just flickered. I'm a little nervous. I'm excited. I'm excited and nervous. You know, I'm a very spiritual person, so I'm like, I'm ready and open. That was amazing. I feel so grateful right now. I got to speak to my great-grandmother

Abuela and she gave me a lot of really good advice that I'm gonna have to really think about. Wow, okay. That's crazy. Yes, that is accurate. Listen to the Ghost Therapy Podcast as part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, Carl, how have you enjoyed evacuation life? Do you like meeting Oprah? Well, he doesn't get impressed by celebrities.

I love it. But he, he acts like he's, I was like, whatever. Your hair looks great. What else? We plug our, our standup. I got a new tour. Gonna be through the Midwest, Carl. We're going to the Midwest.

We're gonna be in Minneapolis. We're gonna be in Omaha. We're gonna be in Kansas City. None of these interest you? What about Madison, Wisconsin? What about Milwaukee? What about Chi-town? You falling asleep for real? All right, Eddie's gonna be with us. You know what? I think every city we should audition them to be our new home in case California burns completely. If I had to pick one of those cities to live in, it would be Minneapolis.

You know I love it. I've always loved it. I have good memories there as a young comedian. All right, time for the free plug. Hit the free plug music I don't think you should have played music that was gonna put Carl to sleep deeper somber no all right our free plug it should be our free plug should be should be the Red Cross if you want to donate to help for the wildfire victims of the Pacific Palisades and any other areas

that were affected. Southern California, all of Southern California. Let's not just pick the Palisades because they're closer to us, but that's not our free plug. Our real free plug, it's Girl Scout Cookie Time, guys. Yep. That's right. This week's free plug. Girl Scout Cookies. They're not a sponsor, nor should they be. This is about getting guilt tripped into buying four boxes. How many boxes do you guys buy when you're forced to? Always four.

Always four. I give them 20 bucks. I do two boxes of thin mints, and then you have to put them in the freezer. They taste, first of all, these cookies don't taste good. None of them are good. They're all fine. Oh, my favorite is Samoa's.

Okay, because that's the one that tastes the most like candy, the least like a cookie. Are you even allowed to say Samoas anymore? I don't know. I'm sure under this current administration, you have to say it. Yeah, exactly. I like the trefoils.

Is that how you pronounce it? I don't even know. That's just the shortbread ones. Whatever, they're all garbage, but they help but we should we should do it We should buy them But you know what? What I don't like though. They used to go door-to-door And now it's like they set up outside of a grocery store They come to your office and they just hit everybody. They're barely doing any of the legwork anymore

Yeah, remember Bill Bill used to, at Tosh.0, this guy used to come in, his daughter, and he would just be, she wouldn't even come in. Yeah. He just would pass the paper around, we'd all have to sign it, or we were shamed. Yeah. And then the cookies would come,

and she wouldn't even come. He would just say, here's your cookies. Sometimes he wouldn't even bring the cookies, he'd forget. It's like, oh yeah, I forgot about that. You guys ordered a bunch, didn't you? Ugh. Do you have to pay when you receive the cookies, you'd forget. It's like, oh yeah, I forgot about that. You guys ordered a bunch, didn't you? Ugh. Do you have to pay when you receive the cookies? I think that's the case.

I mean, nowadays, nowadays you just go, they're at the grocery store and you're outside and they've got the boxes, you buy it, you get the cookies. So that's, you know, back in my day, you know, a little girl knocked on your door, you know, you'd get so excited. Like, who's this little smoke show? No, I'm, I was a child at two.

I'm talking about when I was like 15 years old. And then I'm like, hey, what's up? You know? You tell her how you were kicked out of the Boy Scouts for eating brownies. It was always a fun time. Anyway, you know, you would just fill out the paperwork and then, you know, two seasons would go by

and then all of a sudden one day cookies would show up. Yeah. Nah, they're all shit cookies, let's be clear. They always try to take cookies off the roster and add new ones but none of them work. The money raised though goes to local councils, financial aid for those who can't afford it, troops, what else? I don't understand what it goes to. Basically just goes to Girl Scouts. Yeah, and baking and distribution. All right. Caramel chocolate chip. That's a flavor. Caramel Delights. Those are the

Samoas. Peanut butter sandwich. Dosey Dose. Girl Scouts s'mores. Those are gonna be discontinued after this year. Lemonades, don't know what that is. Lemon-ups, what? Peanut butter patties or tagalons, thin mints, toasty-ay, those are gone after this year so and toffee-tastic. Okay. Girl Scouts, get it together. I don't know, am I gonna let my daughter be a Girl Scout? You better believe it. Okay? She's an American and that's the American way. We'll see you next week.

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