Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – 1/14/25 – Flame Wars

Episode Date: January 15, 2025

Tonight we debate about the debates about who’s to blame for the big LA fires, and it’s everything except the thing to blame. It’s wokeness, deaf people, Chilean gangs, and one specific lesbian, but – you’ll be relieved – not anyone who's cooking the planet.Support the show

all right everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's skews day when you're watching this at least we warned you last week we might start pre-recording well that's what we've done we're coming to you from the past it's actually monday evening about five o'clock pacific on the left coast i'm this is still skews though i'm still trying that still mark how you doing mark good man yeah we wanted to pre-report anyway but Matt's worried about the rolling blackouts. They're still going on Los Angeles during the fires, which we're going to be talking about for the entire show today.

And I wanted to make a quick announcement, we lived, bitch. Some people didn't. It's been a fucking hellacious, miserable week in the city, even if it was kind of weirdly normal for a lot of the time. Well, but isn't it? I mean, the winds are coming back, aren't they? The next couple of days, like the bad, so I mean, like, but I mean, how likely is it that it could be like last week, like with the winds, I mean.

Like now there's a lot more active resources in place and stuff. Like, is that going to make a different? Right. So hopefully this week it won't, you know, knock on wood. It won't go like it. But yeah, the winds are about to return. So it's still people still. Yeah, there's firefighters and equipment in from all over the country in the world now.

So it's a lot more resources brought to bear. And also, you know, the winds are blowing south this time, which is the Santa Ana winds, which is more normal for this time of year. and it's pushing it back sort of towards areas it's already burned and, you know, away from our part of town, which is, it's weird to like be like, well, which way is the wind blowing? Somebody's going to get fucked. You know what I'm saying?

So, yeah. Right. So my experience of it so far has been like we lost power for about 24 hours, Wednesday and Thursday. So we went and stay with some friends on Wednesday night to have, you know, electricity. and light and the friends were staying with

the woman she was getting texts from her fame on the East Coast and they're getting their news from Fox

and they hadn't mentioned the winds they're trying to figure out why the city hadn't got the fire under control

and they're just completely ignoring the hurricane force fucking winds yeah that's no wonder people are so amped up

and paranoid about shit they don't understand anything about the fucking weather it just like also don't get told

you know depending on where they get information from they don't you said they hadn't even mentioned it you know so it's like they're not even being made aware that that's part of it and we're going to go through a bunch of the different dumb shit people have been saying there's of course conspiracy theories and all this stuff and it's like it's not nothing about this is like hard to understand as far as what happened here if you know that there were hurricane force winds happening you know for date when it first broke out it's like Of course, it spiraled out of control very quickly.

I mean, like, if fire and no humidity, complete dryness and wind blowing like that and the wind was blowing so bad at first, they couldn't even be in the air, which takes out a whole other aspect of like what they do to try to fight the fires in the first place. It's like, it's all everything, it's awful, but there's nothing weird about it outside of like it being weird in the way that all the, you know, super storms we're always getting as weird and how the wildfires get worse. year is weird and you know weird and they like oh the planet feels like the dying type of weird not weird and they like how could this possibly have happened type of weird you know yeah i mean like it's like the hottest recorded year in world history last year if you believe the weathermen and it hasn't rained here since last may which you don't need to get from a weatherman you could have just looked out your window occasionally and though it's supposed to be a rainy season it's running behind. It's supposed to rain soon,

I think, thank God. But, like, I was always, one of my old neighbor text threads. I love this guy who's an insane conspiracy theorist, and he was going on about it. They obviously knew it was coming. That's why the insurers, their home insurance companies pulled out of Southern California, a lot of them.

I'm like, well, they did know what's coming, because they have spreadsheets. They didn't know what's coming the sense they're going to set the fires. They know it's coming the sense they can do math. Like, it's not fucking any. So, I was camped out of a place with electricity on on Wednesday to do some work and um this woman from context I'm assuming is well off like a rich lady just by affect in general you know I'm just

profiling based upon her uh clothes she was wearing and this time a day in situation or whatever but she was like very upset she was inconvenienced by the fires because her bunda class had been canceled I don't need what is that it's a workout that I'm assuming is done by rich white ladies and yoga pants I don't know. I don't know. I didn't bother to look up with Boondias. Sorry. But she was like, basically like, why won't the government do anything about the wind? Right. Yeah. Well, they have, well, I saw Marjorie Taylor Green wondering the same question because she was basically, her thing was like, well, look, we all know that they have the, you know, Jewish invented, Democrat-controlled weather machine that, that we famously deployed, you know, last whenever that, what, a few months back to make those hurricanes in the southeast. She was like, why aren't they using that?

Like, they have that. So why would they, they have that? And this is a big liberal city. Like, why would they not use that to save it? It doesn't make any sense. A lot of people are asking these questions. Right. Well, because one of the areas,

the fact about the fires was pretty wealthy. So people were doing the dump thing or finding people's old posts or whatever, about, like, supporting Trump and wanting to cut their property taxes. People that were complaining about wanting to cut their property taxes are now begging to hire private firefighters. Do you know what property taxes pay for it, right? Public firefighters. And, like, I don't feel like dunking on people

who are about to lose their house or whatever, but, like, like, much of Americans apparently don't, their understanding of the government is that the government should not have the power to levy taxes, but should have the power to make the earth spin the other direction on its taxes.

And I don't know how to fucking understand the thought process. But like, you and I both were panic texting because we both got the same evacuation notice at the same time. Yeah, that really freaked me out for sure. I'm sure freaked a lot of people out, but yes, Birdbank has been thankfully relatively unscathed, but last Thursday

I think it was. All of a sudden, I just got an emergency alert, said you're, you're under an evacuation warning or whatever you need to pack. Warning, yeah. Aaron, my wife, sorry, go ahead. It just, you know, it just freaked me up. And like, and that's when it got, like,

because I was leaving to go to Tacoma, Washington the next day to do that stand-up shows and stuff, and I was already feeling bad about that. And then that happened, and immediately it was just everything it's like oh this is this shit just got real to quote the bad boys will smith and martin lawrence uh but um but yeah and but katy immediately was like no that that has to be some kind of mistake and we turned the news on and they were already talking about on the news because even the news anchors and everybody had gotten this alert and everybody was just saying like

yeah that has to be a screw up they'll presumably correct it soon but i still i mean i ship myself for sure yeah they said it's all 13 million of us uh And then, which is deeply funny because it's like somebody at the headquarters like set their coffee on the wrong button or something and then had then had a really bad day probably the rest of the day. And then, but like there was evacuation warning, which of course my wife, because she has anxiety was like read it as an exact evacuation order. And I had to be like, no, read it carefully. It doesn't say to flee. It says be ready to flee. Right.

But even then, I bet it's a mistake because Trey said he got it and we're 20 miles apart. There's no reason we'd both be evacuating the same time with the same notice. And then, but like, the funny thing is, whatever glitch did it kept sending evacuation orders to just her phone. Yeah, Katie got some, some people continued to get, I did, like, Katie got a couple more that I did not get. And the fact that I didn't get them and she did was like, okay, those must be fuckups too. But yeah, it was putting me, putting me on edge. I don't know how they determined who did and did not receive those, but erroneously, apparently. Yeah.

yeah so anyway it took them like a half an hour to get out of a new notice to their phones but yeah the news had said that we didn't have to run but uh it was like like like the news apparently i'm getting text from every text i get from somebody on the east coast like apparently looks like all of los angeles was burned down yeah which is not remotely the case but like like like but like just the way that you know if it bleeds it leads kind of stuff and i get it but like the it was utterly the bizarre part is how normally it was for from people were going to work, shopping, going out to eat, just under a haze of a hellish sky, right? And probably the most, the degree to which things just do not happen in this country, you've already forgotten COVID, the Iraq war did not happen, the Afghanistan war did not happen, you know, 9-11 happened, but we remember it's wrong, he doesn't have financial collapse, all that, all that shit. Like, it was, the fires were already not happening while they were happening. I want you to read, I want to read this quote for you.

This is an interview with like a, a, like, a. random mail-in-street thing for the New York Times, I think. Bruce Wagoner, a director who lives in the Hollywood Heights in the evacuation area, stepped into his third floor balcony to see the Hollywood Hills oblase in the distance. Helicopters carrying water churned overhead and sirens blared. He planned to monitor the situation, leave at the fire scene to become more of a threat. He was waiting for a $300 Amazon Fresh delivery. There was still scheduled to arrive in about an hour.

Yeah. Yeah, well, I've actually wondered, I don't know if you know anything about, you know, how this works. but like so you get you get that watch duty app like that has to be the most most downloaded app in southern california recently but yeah the watch duty app it shows all the where the fires are and the you get alerts and stuff and evacuation notices well i've seen on a few of the evacuation orders they'll give like information or details underneath it and one that they usually include is like there's like an uber and lift promo code right for like people like fleeing the fire then get like a free ride out of there whatever but i'm like but i just wonder how that works

for like the driver like if you're an uber or lift driver you know what i mean like do you have to like sign up like for hazard duty or something do you know what i'm saying like they just if you're just on that day you just might have to go to where a fire is coming because i get that people need rides out but like you know it's a it's like a side hustle gig for a lot of people and it's just i just wonder how that works you know they just lift lift drivers are now first responders right uh it would have been a nice use of public resources to like move city buses through there i don't know what do i know before we continue uh still got some business to cover here if you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person go to tray crowder dot combe check up coming tour dates like i said

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and get some more skews for yourself. All right. so as for the show tonight as mark said what else you expect us to talk about we're all living it well out here we are the two of us are uh the la fires because as with that no matter how straightforward and or horrific any situation is in this era we live in uh people will get real offensively dumb about it and this one has been no different so we're going to talk about that but first we start with a daily dumbass clip of course mac graphic please Tonight's D.D., people who don't think it's suspicious that Mel Gibson was conveniently out of town when his mansion burned down.

Did he know someone should investigate this? This is Mel on Fox News talking about the fires. Well, you know, I know they were messing with the water, letting reserves go for one reason or another. They've been doing that a while. California has a lot of problems that sort of baffled the mind as far as why they do things. And then in the events like this, you sort of look, well, is it on purpose, which it's an insane thing to think. But one begins to. All right.

Thanks, Mel. Yes. He, of course, then goes on to say that he totally does think it, though, that they are. You know, he's speculate, just asking questions here. why would this is one of those things where it's like with a lot of conspiracy theories it's like why so what is mark you up on conspiracy theories and theorists like what is his answer to that quite like why that that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what they're trying me crazy but these people do never like like usually conspiracy theories have a conclusion you look at the thing that's happening it worked backwards from it yeah they're doing this because they're doing this because they don't make any sense no one if you want to take land you don't want to be burned right if you like what kind of person with money wants to ruin like the economy of the uh america's second or third largest like like the most important city economically la is famously a to them a democrat run hellhole it's one of the biggest

one in crime-ridden disease infested you know liberal hellscape but also the democrats are purposefully destroying it for for some reason it's like you know instead of just destroying it by allowing migrants to come in and, you know, throw fentanyl all over the place. They're actually literally burning it down now. It's like, do y'all, so in your theories, like the Democrats just hate everybody. I want them to die except for, you know,

except for drug addicted psychotic migrants or something. Like, I don't get it. It's not a smart plan, Democrats. How are you going to force the kids to turn trans if they move to Oklahoma? It doesn't make any sense. There are way more Trump voters in L.A. County than there are in goddamn Wyoming. Oh, yeah.

Because there's so many people here. Right. Millions. Millions of conservatives out here. Yes. Like, at least have sympathy for Mel Gibson. He just lost his house. You know, the guy who yells freedom and the jiff you post every time a health department recommends you stop eating raw chicken.

You know, that guy? Like, why don't you fucking care about him, if not the rest of us? I don't know, man. It's like, it's really fucking difficult to comprehend how they, how they, like, radicalized a bunch of people against the existence of a state where 50 million people live. It's fucking crazy. Right. And they act like, you know, like when those hurricanes happen and they affected red states, you know, again, they blamed that on the Democrats too because of the weather machine or whatever, but also on a more, on more like, you know, some ostensibly more practical level. They also at the time we're talking about how like Biden and the Democrats were going to, you know, they were withholding resources. They were purposefully not helping people and that type of thing when, when all that was going on, which like wasn't true. They, you know, were helping the whole time. And then, but. But now that it's happened in California, conservatives are saying maybe we shouldn't help them. Yeah, there should be conditions.

There should be investigations before we give them any money to figure out why this happened and make them answer for this stuff. And it's just, you know, it's a period. I would like to thank the fires for gifting us with this guy who appeared in local news, who just summed up every political debate in this moment in this country, like how it is right now, if you got this video clip out. Yes, I can hear you. So the family with a poor little girl who was...

Say that again? Why is there a fire happening right now? There are multiple fires that are taking place. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah. You're in use, though. You're supposed to know.

Well, I don't know how it started. We don't know how it started. They're, you know, wins. I think it's all the gay people in L.A. Okay. There we go. Okay. Unacceptable.

Classic. Give this man a job on Fox News, the next DOJ, dude. I don't know what they're like, this is like, what, why did this happen? You can't immediately tell somebody all the answers. Like, well, I guess it's because of gay people or trans people or Antifa or whatever. It's every fucking thing. It's like, it's exhausting. Yes, that guy seems like, you know, like a dumbass troll.

So yes, he would fit on Fox News very well. He's got a future there. But yeah, but yeah, I don't know. All right, let's get into it. If you guys somehow don't know exactly. what we're talking about. I feel like it's national news and the amount of texts I've gotten from, like, friends and college friends and my family.

But so, like, fires, there's a bunch of different fires. The biggest one was a Palisades fire, which is still only, like, 13% control, I think. They're filled by, a bunch of, like, very harsh winds. It killed at least 24 people so far. That number's going to go up when they could actually search the areas that were gulfed by fire, I'm sure. It's burned 40,000 acres in the Great L.A. area. destroyed entire communities and 12,300 structures they count.

I think those 2,000 are homes. It's a lot, man. I know a few people have lost their homes. It's fucking atrocious. I'm not sure why this estimate comes from Accuweather, but the best estimate I could find for the financial damage is $135 billion and $150 billion in property damage. Which like Gavin Newsom said, it's the worst natural disaster in American history. But I think he's just talking about property values,

which, of course, that's the way he'd talk about it. Um, but I just want to know, we're not going to be talking about climate change a lot tonight, but like, we're going to be paying the hard way because comforting lies about how paying the easy way was what bullshit. We're, we're spread far and wide. Oh, that's been what you just said applies to the entire conversation about, uh, climate change and the, uh, inevitable repercussions of the way that we've approached that conversation and, and, and, uh, situation so far. It's like you said, it's like, because it's, because it's gay to help earth now. or whatever, it's going to cost us so much more money and lives than everything down the road because we refuse to do so, so, yeah.

Yeah, and it's not going to be the fever swamp theories. You're not going to eat the bugs. You're not going to live in the pod. You just lose your job and have to move when your home burns down and is washed away. That's like the future we're all looking at. And like, I guess I'm still in denial a little bit because I still live here, but where are we supposed to go?

Asheville just go wiped out by a fucking hurricane. So like, I just will note that, when we talk about immigration, a lot as a culture the next couple years undoubtedly because we don't control the megaphone anymore that like the only thing it separates me from a refugee from anywhere else is

fucking luck. That's it. It could happen to anybody, yeah. And with the whole like, you know, all the insurance companies pulling all those policies and stuff too, like, you know, through, I mean those people can try to fight that in court or whatever but they had no recourse there. They just got fucked and like they'll just

be fucked. You know, if you're in, fire insurance gets pulled and then your house burns down and you got a mortgage on it and these fucking million dollar houses out here, I mean, that's like your life. You got to, at the best case scenario, declare bankruptcy or whatever, if you're, you know, they could just ruin everything very quickly. I know the insurance companies are insured themselves, but I'm wondering how many of those companies are going to declare bankruptcy because a lot of people still were insured. California also established like a state-run insurance fund, people to buy NG, which is probably

the future of property insurance in a lot of the coastal states and the Gulf states looks like. But I just want to say, like, they're going to have to be backstocked by the federal government because the federal government can't put in some money and states can't. And if we have a national property insurance system before a national health insurance system, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. That would be very American, yeah. They prioritize the commercial real estate and stuff over the momaws. What hangs over all this is when you say this is an act of God, this is an act of fucking Satan.

And nothing could have really done much to stop it. We talked about the wins earlier. I want to quote here from these like fire suppression experts in this piece from the LA time. Experts, including strong proponents of brush clearance, said that the winds fanning the flames were so fierce and ground conditions so dry that clearing more shrubs wouldn't have had a significant effect. The Palisades hit fire ignited January 7th amid hurricane force winds with gusts of up to 100 miles an hour recorded in some areas. Quote, you could have put a 10-lane freeway in front of that fire and it would not have slowed at one bit, said Chief Brian Finnessy of the Arms County Fire Authority. It was blowing sideways from house to house. Like grass wasn't catching on fire in between.

It was jumping straight from house to house. Yeah. So like, you know, if you were here and out, I mean, the winds were insane. Like, I mean, it was truly nuts. And I just can't, again, we didn't, thankfully didn't have any fire here, but just imagining fire, like a big ass fire, actively burning in the middle of winds like that. I don't, I don't know what anyone could expect a person to have done or a scene. Right.

And they do a ton of the big, the big time fighting of these big time fires from the air. and the aircraft couldn't fly. Couldn't fly because it was too windy, yeah. Right. So what the firefighters chose to do is the only thing they could do, which is go house-to-house evacuating people and tell them that we can't fight this fire. You need to run for your goddamn life.

And you did a good job doing it. And, like, let me quote this fire chief again, added a thousand more firefighters and a million more gallons of water and you still have the nation's most expensive disaster. Right. Climate change, or if you don't believe in climate change, just the weather.

The wrath of God. The wrath of God did this. And, like, like, arguing about all the small, like, the fights are having about the budget priorities. And, yes, I fucking hate that the, L.A. cut the fire department budget to give more money to the cops. I hate that the cops, the Seattle's department and police department each have 17 helicopters, where the fire department has one, I have 70, sorry. Like, it doesn't make any sort of sense for the world we live in to be investing our money this way. But it would not have helped this fucking situation and cannot pretend like all these assholes are doing that my ideology trumps reality here.

It just doesn't. So the first thing what I wanted to do is to separate into two buckets the people who are helping who are mostly people who exist in the real world and the people who are hurting

which the people that consume reality of fucking TV screens and their phones. All right? First group of people helping hooray for fucking firefighters, dog. God damn here.

I was watching videos of water drops in planes and helicopter. They're so good at their goddamn jobs, dude. I watched a video of like a chopper drop like a mountain on fire. One fail swoop drops his load, keeps on truck and fire complete out, black of night. I'm like, set that fucking shit to Howie to the Danger Zone.

That's a goddamn American hero. Yeah, and they're all doing it. Yeah, that's the accuracy that they have with just dropping a tank of water from however many feet up in the sky while still moving is fucking is nuts. Yeah. It's Luke Skywalker taking out the death store by firing a bomb through that one little air vent. It's saving, like, saving real life lives instead of, you know, wookies or whatever. Hey, wookie lives matter, Mark, okay? Yeah, wookie lives matter.

We need to change the episode, so I don't know. So, like, because it's being, you know, our age, like, like, my wife was crying on the couch, watching video of a firefighter running back into a burning house to save this old man's cat because of the only thing he had left. And the firefighter running out with a cat and the old man collapsing in the grapillar. grass weeping and I'm like this is all we this is this is this is all this is this is all this you said your wife you're watching that it's like yeah but I mean that would have gotten me too Mark I would have been right there with her sobbing oh I she she described it to me I didn't watch it because I did not want to cry I was watching football yeah um so let me quote here from a Canadian member of parliament named Charlie Vangas we have fire crews in

the danger zones the Canadian military is now full alert to help that's what we do we help our neighbors in times of crisis. Vladimir Zelensky offered us in 150 guys from Ukraine. Mexico also sent a bunch of help. I'll just tell you trade is dope. They say they did play music. Hold up a Mexican flag.

Thank you. Grasias, me amigos. I thought they weren't sending their best. Isn't that? I know what they said? That's what some fucking asshole said. Literally the best of them that they sent up here. Look, I'm not naive.

This is why we send help the foreign countries, too, is to help our, like, like the people's view of us. And what they're doing is a government siop to increase public sympathy for them. So Trump has less, you know, public support to fucking bomb them and invade them and economically pressure them. And I've got to say that being nice to someone, so they're nice to you back is not cynical always. And they're helping put out of fire. So fuck you if you want to be cynical about it. And I'm sure a lot of those like on the ground firefighters from Mexico just being stereotypical here,

they probably have connections to L.A. and shit and stuff like that. Oh, sure. Or if not L.A., America. I'm sure they have family and everything, you know, and it's a very Mexican city, too. So, I mean, you know, the government may be doing it for whatever reason. I'm sure those guys just want to do it. Also, firefighters in general, that's, you know, that's what they do. Yeah.

Fight fires and they're, you know, happy to go elsewhere and do so. Yeah, they like running the burning buildings. Not for me, but you guys, I appreciate you guys doing it. Individually, man, everyone I know has been texting me, offering me help that I largely do not need. and I appreciate it. Some of the viewers of the show have messaged me on social media. Like people in the street, neighbors I see walking my dogs whose names I don't know or dogs just need each other.

I've been like, how are you doing? You're doing okay? Please stay safe. Like my wife organized a clothing driver, a friend of hers who lost her house. Let me quote him, a reporter named Mel Bauer on our way out of the Evak zone. We stopped for smoke and came across a group of neighbors having a party and a lot of a laundromat. Across the street, dozens of residents are cooking food and organizing a mountain of donations for folks to take.

like come and take whatever you fucking need if you need something take it like it also i wanted to note here just a funny one a very very la thing happening right now a roving horde of magicians has been outlifting spirits and quote unquote lifting spirits the evax centers i know it's just me i hate magic so much but please just let me burn dog so another uh very l a this just made me laugh this announcement with a picture of ella pernell fallout season two filming halted due to l fire. So, basically what they're saying is the post-apocalypse show is pausing for the apocalypse. Yeah. Yeah, it's some a delicious irony there, I guess, on that one. Yeah. Talk about

having to leave the set of a, there might have been people like dressed as ghouls, you know, like make up as ghouls and like the base of the sort of like zombie-esque creatures in the, in the nuclear wastelanders fall out who had to like leave to go get their shit and go or something, you know, in real life. I'm still dressed like that. I hope the ghouls are still in makeup, because if you guys are familiar with the video game or the show, the ghouls, they're supposed to be affected on nuclear radiations.

They look like burn victims. So they're running out of L.A. Right. That would be unfortunate. So it's also an inspiring amount of GoFundMe's and donations that it's sprung up for people. And like, it's inspiring that people are donating.

It's oftentimes when GoFundMe has happened to fund people's health care or funerals or whatever or scholarships for their kids after they die in some stupid, unnecessary American way. It's like, it, it, it, like,

conceals a tragedy. Like, the things were forced to, like, manage to go fund me in this fucking country, like feeding people through a genocide, well,

our tax dollars dropped the bomb on them, drop bombs on them, and housing people through a fire, because not enough for our taxes go to pay to save them or prevent fires. It's fucking crazy, dude. We're the world's richest country.

It's like, yeah, the go fund me thing is like, you know, on the one hand, it's, you know, it's wholesome and inspiring how much people will do for other people.

but the fact that it's necessary is also dystopian and everything it's like uh the go for me as always kind of reminded me of the like uh like in college sports when they'll do the the like you know if you can hit two half court shots we'll pay for your college or whatever and it's like you know you go out there and dance for the college otherwise they'll be unable to afford it and be paying off their student loans for the next 25 years or whatever and it's just uh you know everybody just cheers without thinking about it too. much, how weird it is. You shoot a basketball from half court, and you're like, if it goes in, I can live my dream

of living a life of service, helping people by teaching in an underprivileged community, but if I miss it, I've got to go work at a bank. Yeah, right. Yeah. So I wanted to note all the people, you know, being very human and helping because, like, you talked about the Republicans making noise about withholding disaster aid from blue states. Like, we're probably, but we, I mean, the people of this country. who exist and work and have friends and community we're probably on our own for a little while

maybe it'll be enough that's the fucking hope but anyway i i appreciate everyone being good people and uh making me feel less bleak about our climate future and our federal our coming federal government um now let's move on to the people who aren't helping i wanted to start with the guy who disabled a water drop plane accidentally by flying his fucking drone into it um yeah that was a canadian water drop plane and you read that quote earlier from that Canadian official who's talking about how this is what you do you help your neighbors out and it's like we've just been

talking I know California hasn't but America has just been talking so much shit about Canada recently and just threatening to invade and all that stuff and then it's like having a neighbor I said a version of this on stage this week but it's like we're the shittiest neighbors because like if you walk outside one day and your neighbor's like fuck you I want your yard

and then the next day they were like hey could we borrow your hose we got a situation over here if you and then the next day I can I get my hose back Actually, I broke your hose, but you can still go fuck yourself. You know, it's just, it's, I appreciate that Canada's better than us in that way. Yeah. It's been pretty shitty to it. I just wanted to mention the drone taking out the water drop plane because it supports my theory that every TikToker is a fucking terrorist, except for the hobby horse hobby farms accounts.

So the thing driving the theories here, and I will say, it is weird here, but let me quote here, This is a guy talking about how we've constructed our homes all the wrong ways to, like, stop these fires from spreading. He says, when you study the destruction of Pacific Palisades and Altadena, note what didn't burn, unconsumed tree canopies adjacent to totally destroyed homes. Now, that quote in a different context would be just at home on info wars. And it has been quoted by conspiracy theories. Throw this picture up. I was sorry, go ahead.

Right. I was about to say that. The conspiracy theories have been, they've been, I'm not saying they're using that quote, but the pictures and stuff. They've been like, you need to tell me that house is burned down, but trees don't. And again, it's like, what is your explanation for that, though? Like, what did they do to avoid burning the trees or to keep the trees from burning? Or what's that even? And, of course, it's like, you know, I saw people on Reddit responding that being like, yeah, trees are fucking made of water.

And the houses are not built to withstand this. It's like there's a million reasons why this could happen. and, but it's just, but yeah, they see something that looks weird in a picture and they're like, something, you know, something has to be off about this. Right. This needs to be looked into. And also, from this picture, we don't know if the trees didn't burn three minutes later, but like, like, trying to figure out what they think happened. Like, it's like the two, I've been thinking about a lot and the two possibilities I've come up with are either the CIA invented a new kind of fire or they invented a new kind of tree. Right.

But I just don't even get, even if they invented a new type of. of fire. What's the point of putting R&D dollars into inventing the type of fire that will spare trees but burn houses? And then, do you know what I mean? It's like, what's it even supposed to? But yeah, but on the actual note, though, of what the guy was saying about the way the houses are burned, I have also seen pictures of some houses that are surrounded by it. It's just gone. Every other house around is completely gone, but that house is still there and looks relatively okay. I'm sure the inside of it's all fucked up. But I saw people saying that's like, yeah, that house was, you know, constructed different. A lot of attention was paid to fireproofing measures or whatever, trying to make it disaster proof because, like, you can do it. Of course, it's expensive. It costs money. But, like, there's ways you can build houses and communities that are better equipped to, you know, handle the types of things that befall us out here on the West Coast. Yeah, like earthquakes and also wildfires and stuff.

I don't know shit about home construction, but he was, one example, he was pointing out, like, fireproof siding, for example, a lot of houses out here don't have. Maybe the one you saw it did. But he was, he made the point that, like, after the great Chicago fire, they changed everything about how buildings were built in Chicago. And there hasn't been another great Chicago fire, but like, maybe that's a coincidence. I don't know. But, like, he's been trying to give speeches around different municipalities in Los Angeles and no one's listened to him. Maybe they're smarter than this guy. I don't know, but I didn't know a bunch of houses just burned down.

So, all right. It's good on to the wider swath of morons who've been inspired to weigh in on this shit. And their theory is you will not be surprised or are the drones. The drones, I guess, finally made it all the way from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to fulfill their mission of starting the drones, starting the fires, I guess. Also, foreign attacks. Naomi Wolf was saying that the fire retardant, the pink slime stuff they drop is full of antidepressants, which is why people in L.A. have been so calm about this, which is weird because no one's been that calm about it. Uh, there was an image, there were a bunch of images going viral on Facebook, a fake shit that didn't happen. Uh, one showed the Hollywood sign on fire. What is the, it's not even the part of town the fires were in kind of, but like, why would you make that and why would you want to share it? I don't understand. I think that with any, any, like, fake news stories or anything like that that ever gets started and, and crops up somewhere and it ends up being bullshit. I mean, well, sometimes you can see it's like a narrative pushing thing, but a lot of times it's like,

I'm always like at the at the root of this someone made a thing up and knew they were doing it when they did it you know what I mean like they made the effort to fabricate this what is the point of the like what drives a person to do that type of shit especially with something like that a fake picture of the Hollywood sign burning when it hasn't burned like to what end what are you accomplished by doing that it's not like you even really get credit for enough. then nobody knows it came from you. I don't, you know. Also, the Hollywood sign did burn before. Like, famously, it's why we're called Hollywood. The original sign was Hollywood Land, the land part burned down. So, like, so, like, it's like, it's like, it's a good chance.

Yeah. It kind of works, doesn't it? Yeah, it's better. It's better that way. So, like, like, I don't understand. I guess the people that monetize it, I get at least on a cynical part, but, like, what a way to spend your life, dude.

There's also, like, like, the, the, the stories of looting have been way more widespread than these sort of actual looting. Somebody took a picture, like, not just fake images, but willfully misunderstanding, honest images. Like, somebody took a picture of, like, neighbors helping a person carry their belongings out of their house. They were trying to move stuff out before the fire got there.

And then a person just captioned it, fires and looting, a regular Democrat-run city. And what's the, what do you get out of that? Like, right. It can't even be that big of a dopamine hit.

But, like, But anyway, that's... You just get to feel right and superior about, you know, your philosophy as opposed to the other sides, I guess, but... Is their philosophy not to flee fires or what? I don't, like, it's... Well, the fire part, yeah, I don't get... You know, fires and looting, typical Democrat city, I'm sure they're, in their might, it's like, you know, they're always on fire because we're always rioting and all that stuff. Oh, okay.

It's still with crime and looters and stuff. You know, I'm assuming they're going for. It's still hugely assholeish thing to say. but um yeah the the looting thing well go ahead oh i was going to move on the next thing but you go ahead we're going to talk about looting more later if you want to save it oh okay all right well then yeah did you uh after the democrat sorry if you said this and i just missed it but the the video where they said fires and looting a regular democrat run city the the thing that that video showed wasn't even that right no it's it was a family help it was sorry i said friends it was family members

It was a resident's family helping them save their belongings. They were not stealing. They were helping. They were just like taking the stuff out of the house to keep it from burning or being ruined. But people, I'm assuming those people were probably Mexican or black or something, too. And they were just like, you know, just like, stealing TVs. Of course they are. And a type of thing just infuriates me.

I can't handle one of my biggest things in life period is like I can't handle being told that I'm wrong when I know for a fact that I am right. And, and, uh, but also being told that like, something is true when I know that it isn't. Do you know what I mean? Like being told, actually you're wrong about that. It's this. And I know that that's not correct. And that's a really bad, uh, or that's a really inconvenient hang up to have in the world that we now live in. You know what I mean?

We're like everything is just faked all the time and no one knows what's real or people, or at least people, you know, profess not to be able to. and it's just people are always making bullshit up and pushing some kind of narrative and just, it's just I don't know, it gets to you. Narratives. And like, like, we don't have time to get into it today, but I've been, but we'll probably do a whole episode about this at one point, but like, people arguing about like,

the, do the Democrats have a messaging or ideology slash policy problem? It's like, but it's the same thing. You can't, you can't, you can't control a narrative if you don't have one. You don't have a narrative because stories have a villain and a bad guy. You're not willing to call anyone a fucking dickhead, right? If you can point to a villain who's wronging people, you can prescribe a policy that would stop them from doing that. Do you know what I'm saying?

And it's like we're just not, we're just not doing that. A lot of us, a lot of liberal and left-wing politicians just are avoiding doing that at any cost because they don't want to pick a side in a fight. Meanwhile, what thing the conservative media like reflexively does is pick a side in every fucking fight. For example, Alex Jones has no dog in his hunt. He lives in Texas. of his shit burned down. None of it's affecting him. But here's him and Elon.

Elon lives in Texas now, too, by the way. Here's a post he put up on Twitter. This great, he said, the fires are part of a larger globalist plot to wage economic warfare and deindustrialize the United States before triggering total collapse. And Elon responded, true.

That's so crazy that this dude is, you know, controlling the puppet strings of our incoming president. and is basically, you know, bought the office and is the richest man alive is on the social media website that he owns saying, yeah, I agree with you, this is a Jewish plot to collapse society in response to a wildfire. It's just like, it's so crazy and irresponsible. And I also like, and this is not that one we just saw was worse. But I saw another thing, Elon and getting in the Twitter comments as he does.

Justin Trudeau said something. He was just saying, like, there's no way we're ever going to become an American territory or state. It's not going to happen. And Elon replied to it and said, girl, you ain't even in charge up there anymore. So it doesn't matter what you say anyway. But he said, he, like, responded in a sassy, stupid sounding way. And it's just like, I don't know.

He's just such a, just such a shit lord, man. He's just so immature. Yeah. And he's the richest man alive and one of the most powerful. It's fucking, he's a, makes me want to die. Global security threat.

We end up at war at war with, any of the pantism that's going over there, but we end up at war with England over Elon Musk. So speaking of Elon, he's pretending to help. And what he did was, he's making a lot of talking a lot about it. What he did was send eight cyber trucks around LA

to serve as Starlink Wi-Fi hubs with trunks full of snacks. Eight cyber trucks. Which, by the way, he sent into fire zones, even though they constantly fucking explode and catch fire. Rich this man in the world sent eight trucks. And he made a big show of being like, if you're waiting delivery of your cyber truck, have you seen the sales numbers? They've gone through the floor. Nobody's buying these motherfucking things anymore. So in response to all this, God bless him, Gavin Newsom having the most Democrat brain of any Democrat standing.

He started a fact-checking website to which he just quote tweets. he posts screen grabs of him quote tweeting these maniac claims saying stuff like that's not true with a link to a fact like buddy that's not going to work no of course not what killed me one of the conspiracy theories he fact checked was somebody saying that Gavin Newsom has announced that he's going to confiscate the land in the

palisades to build high density housing for low income people on it which uh and he's like this is not true and I'm like what if it was though I'm not saying I'm not saying you take these people properly we do need a lot more low income like high density low income housing so like they're accusing you of doing

a good thing and you're like that's not true like set the fuck up dude all right well it's funny I mean you already said that some people pointed out it's like well you know the palace says a lot of rich people

is there and that means they're conservative and they like Trump and so that's why they're targeted but and so I know that that's how they look at it but the idea that like the Democrats if this was a conspiracy where they set these fires

or did whatever it's like they would not it wouldn't be in Malibu you know what I mean that's not it would never happen period but if it did it wouldn't be in

fucking Malibu or the Palisades like to begin with they burned down Mani Moore's house America's sweetheart from you know one of everybody's favorite shows so like like

these for those that's the Illuminati lives up there y'all and what y'all think you know what I mean like they ain't burning their own houses down and if you want to talk about how they're taking like the Palisades is beautiful real estate all right like like

it's like it's like it's a really nice, wonderful area. It's also very cool up there relative to the rest of Los Angeles. Like, like, nothing near the middle about the wallfire is there's probably 35 degrees the day the fire busted out. So like,

whatever you think of like what Los Angeles weather's like. It's not like that. But like, so how do you explain the Al-Tadena fires and the fire that broke out like a mile west of me that's like in a residential neighborhood? None of that's really premium real estate. Altadena's like a working class like black neighborhood

from my understanding. So like, what do you like that'll get gentrified now, of course. That's a disaster capitalism works. but what, like, what was Glendale and Pasadena doing anybody? Nothing. Like, like, it's like, what kind of conspiracy theory do you have to target, like, the rich Jews in Pasadena, but also the working class Armenians of Glendale?

Like, what the fuck? What's the plan here? Anyway. Right. And to be fair, one of the one close to you, and I know you're about to mention it, but like, they do, the story still is that that that one that was closest to you, the third. Kenneth fire, right? The Kenneth fire, that it, uh, it, uh, it like, was closest to you. They called it.

The Kenneth fire. It, like, was started by a guy, right? They don't know that. That's what the news reported. They don't know. After the fire was going, some residents saw a guy trying to start a different fire with either a propane tank or a blowtorch, and they have citizens arrested the guy. He was taken into custody on unrelated charges and had not seen an update whether or not

or not. Well, what I was going to say is, even if it was some pyromaniac lunatic or whatever, who did start that fire, it's still it's still not the reason that it raged the way it better than any of them. You know what I mean? It's still the fucking, the weather, the goddamn weather and the wind and just the circumstances in general

even if, because I know you posted a thing in our group chat about comedian Whitney Cummings, talking about people reporting to her that people are dumping gas and sewers and starting fires to loot shit and all kinds of stuff. And it's like

it's just, I don't Now, again, as I said up top, it shouldn't be hard to understand what has actually happened. I don't know why you need all these extraneous questions and things you're looking to explain or be pissed about or whatever when it's like pretty clear what has happened here. I thought it, like, that made me laugh so hard because it's like you see somebody committing it, but it's basically a terror attack, like dumping gas in the sewers during wildfire season. And your first move is I got to, I got to report this to Whitney Cummings. Right. Yes. So, oh, God.

But, like, they wanted to be arson or, like, or, like, a homeless guy's, it could have been, it could have been, it could have been, it could have been, like, a homeless person starting, like, a cooking fire. A fucking gender reveal part of it. Yeah. But, like, they wanted to be that so bad, so bad they have someone to blame, but that's, like, that's still not the problem. You're just what, it's still not the problem. You're skirting around it.

Like, we as a society or powerful people are oil companies or however you want to frame it, is basically like we built a doomsday machine. And there's a big red button available to the point. public that sets off the doomsday machine and what you've done is hung a sign above it says please do not press so like a maniac's going to press it someone's going to start a fire right there's no way around this shit like you're still you're still skirting around the fucking problem um so also in the this time about looting for a second okay uh also not helping or the way the stuff the police administrations in this in this town are getting up to i'm not talking

The actual, like, running-of-the-mill police officers, a lot of them are helping with Evax. They're running around clearing roadways. Like, people had to abandon their cars at the behest of, there was a traffic jam because people couldn't get away fast enough. And the cops were like, you need to get out of your car and run towards the ocean. All right? So, like, they did, they've been doing, they've been doing yeoman's work also helping people and saving lives.

But what the, what the press conference has been about, have been about the looters they've arrested. All right. Throw up this headline up here, Matt. Amid L.A. Evacuations, fears of looting take hold. All right. This is a really dangerous headline.

We're talking about how misinformation in dangerous lives. Like, you've got the big picture sense where we can't, you know, we can't get on the same page for any sort of collective action problem about how, like, stop COVID or fight clavit change or, God forbid, engage any sort of like, you know, war of necessity or whatever. Somebody tries to, no one's going to be it. But I'm saying, like, we can't, we, we cannot repel any sort of, like, an evasion right now because we all hate each other and we have no unified reality, right?

Half of Americans would take China side because they're not woke or something. So, but like, like, this is a direct way misinformation puts people's lives in danger. What this fear of looting is going to lead to is people sneaking through into evacuation zones to protect their property because they think the fires are covered for looting, all right? Right. People are going to refuse to leave their houses because they think that people are going to steal their TVs. And the cops are feeding into this fear. Today they announced a grand total of 10 charges, nine are for looting. 13 million people in this town

120,000 people who evacuated They arrested nine people for looting and one for arson And that's what we're fucking talking about in the newspaper It's stupid Yeah, that's insane I didn't know that I had not heard that number Because we've been watching the news like crazy And they've had the cops home so much

They've talked about looting so much You know, they talk mostly about the firefighters and the firepower part But they always devote at least a little bit of time To the looting problem We're interviewing a cop about looting or the sheriff or whatever talking about, you know, how it will not be tolerated. I didn't know it was nine people. I'm here to tell you.

A week. Yeah, I think I've seen a total, nine charges press. I think I've seen a total of 24 arrests. Maybe the other people got charged with something else besides looting. I don't know. But it's still not a big enough number to be fucking gloating about and making big news about at a time when I don't have to tell you, if your house doesn't burn down, but your TV and jewelry gets stolen, you're lucky as fuck. And that shit is still insured. Okay.

Right. So be happy. be happy you got robbed. So the one that made me laugh, a guy was arrested allegedly looting in a firefighter uniform. He'd used to sneak into an evacuation zone, which like real firefighter uniforms are hella expensive and specific. Right. Yeah, the stuff they're made out of and everything. It's like, yeah, it's not like a Halloween costume of a firefighter.

But that's what I don't seriously doubt he had access to that very expensive kit and oxygen tank and shit. So was he trying to rob a house in like a party city firefighter uniform? or like a stripper outfit or something. I got sight paper. There's like, I think a male stripper just broke into our house. So that guy made me laugh.

Thank you for bringing some liberty to my life. So let's talk about anatomy. Describe this as the anatomy of a moron fairy tale. This is a game of telephone based upon dumb cop stuff. Okay. So some Silicon Valley Dick hit, I don't even want a name to give me any sort of clout. He had started a rumor that went viral about how the fires are being started

by Chilean gangs as cover for robbing people's houses. okay and I was trying to figure out what is related to then I saw this story the CNN has a story headline professional athletes homes are still getting broken into here's how the FBI says the thieves operate and the first paragraph says federal investigators are now warning professional athletes across multiple sports following a rise in sophisticated home burglaries thought to be emanating from international criminals okay uh what happened here was they broke and stole a bunch of jewelry and like belongings from like lucodont into an NFL star Joe Burroughs

row. So they're targeting our baddest-ass white boys tree. We've got to do something about this. We'll not be tolerated. Not by me anyway. Yeah, but I mean, isn't this like a thing where it's like they're just, they make good targets, right? They're like very, very high profile. Right. Right. And a lot of, they're very like flashy and rich as fuck. So people assume oftentimes correctly that they have a lot of very nice, expensive shit. And everyone knows who they are. Right. And you can find out, all you got to do is find out where they live and social media. and stuff not that hard to do, so there you have it. And you also know when they're out of town because you look at their road schedule. Right, yes, that too, yes, exactly. So it's a very, it's a layup of a crime if you're an organized burglary ring, okay?

So one thing I want you to notice is that paragraph, there's no attribution for that at all for any of it. There's no sourcing for the international criminals part of it, specifically, which is what we're concerned about, okay? So lower in the story, there's this paragraph that offers the only evidence, which is just purely conjecture, okay? It says the latest FBI bulletin indicated many of the tactics mirror those of South American criminal gangs

who, quote, conduct physical and technical surveillance in preparation for these burglaries. The perpetrators also use publicly available information and social media to identify a pattern of life for prospective victims. What they say is they display such as specific to Latino behaviors such as looking around, making a little plan, and having the internet.

Yeah. That's fucking called case in the join. Right. Those are like SOP for thieves. right what you're supposed to always do is I understood it okay now let's get on to the real fault of all this all our problems the woke stuff okay um the right wing internet spent the last day and a half in a full fury after watching these press conferences from all these public officials about sign language interpreters have you seen that story I did I saw that they

were mad again I've been watching the shit out of the news so I've seen the sign language interpreters and I did wonder if there's like a lost in translation thing because I don't speak sign language obviously because it felt like because I don't know can you like can you sign somberly or morosely or whatever do you know what I mean because some of the time the stuff they were covering was you know was like bleak obviously and really upsetting and and the you know the it was just it was an odd dynamic but deaf people need to be able to know whether they're going to like survive or not or whether the fire's going to be put out and whatnot. So, of course, I don't have a problem with it. But it was kind of

surreal. And live, in live, close captioning fucking sucks because the robot does it. It's always way off. It sucks so bad. We always have closed caption on. And any live thing, it's terrible and very far behind. To answer your question, actually read an article about this about why, like, because they aren't really bugged by the enthusiasm and the expressiveness of the people. That's part the grammar of time language is how you move your lips and how you express your face. I figured it probably was. So my mom speaks a little sign language because

she taught special ed for a long time. I do not speak any of it. So if I if that's wrong, blame the article I read because I'm just saying what it said. So but yeah, Chris Rufo who's Rhonda Sanchez's brain basically. Charlie Kirk, we're all mad about this. Richard Hanyanya, who's a racist blogger

who is a JD Vance is a big fan of said ADA requirement. I didn't realize that this Americans of Disabilities Act requires language interpreters at like these at these big press conferences but he said it's quote led to a nightmare so basically it's woke to be deaf and not want to buy it not going to die in a fire the last wokeness thing we'll get to and this is the big one DEI this is all the fault of DEI what isn't you know yeah Elon was posting about how DEI makes people DIE so that's very clever he figured that out This is all because the city of Los Angeles has a lesbian fire chief. Okay.

Her name is Kristen Crowley. She has been with the department for 22 years. She started as a grunt as a firefighter. We then work as a paramedic engineer, fire inspector, captain one, captain two, battalion chief, assistant chief, deputy chief, chief, chief, chief, chief, chief, and then fire chief. Okay. She's been there a long time. She paid her dues. Have no idea if she hits her job.

shit about fucking firefighting or fire chiefer, okay? It's not about that. Neither it's fucking Elon, mind you. And it seems to be that she can only be the fire chief because specifically she's a lesbian and not because of the 22 years work she put in. And therefore, she must also be bad at it. And he started doing this

early Wednesday morning before we woke up here and knew the extent of the first day of damage. They're already going after her. And look, there are a lot of reasons you can complain about the LA Fire Department and their budgeting process. Like Crowley's been on the TV news blaming the mayor. There's fucking mayor who

was in Ghana when the fire started for whatever reason out of the country in Africa at a presidential inauguration or something for some fucking reason. What is the job of mayor anymore? I don't even know what a mayor is. I don't know if any way they'd affected the response, but mayors don't go to Ghana. So, like,

one of the reasons Crowley was appointed chief is because they faced, the fire department faced a lot of lawsuits from bullying and, like, bad acting, fucking like, racist and sexist firefighters. not getting punished for the behavior and the city getting dinged with a bunch of lawsuits. So if you want to say whokeness is the problem here, I don't think it is. I think trying to make the department a little more woke would save the city a lot of fucking money.

But what do I know? Anyway. Right. And lawsuits that don't happen and things of that nature. Yeah. But what they glombed on to is like they go through the, whenever this kind of kind of shit happens, they go through the line items of the city budget process. And the LA Fire Department has a $900 million budget, okay?

It's a little less than $900 million. And last year, I guess they spent $100,000 or something on fighting, on like homeless AIDS prevention. 100,000 is a very small percentage of 900 million. It also, firefighters respond to a lot of medical cause. It is in their personal self-interest as people who have to deal with a lot of blood to have there being less HIV around out there. Yeah.

But again, I mean, what even is that percentage? Yeah, you said $900 million budget, $100,000. I mean, it's like very much a drop in the bucket. Yeah, it's fucking. Yeah. But that, but that, the fact that they did that illustrates why the city is burning down or whatever, you know.

Also, like, LA County's municipal structure is very stupid and complicated. But what are they going to need people to understand is like the actual city of L.A. that she's responsible for has one of the dozen fires or whatever in it. The fact that she, I think it's the palat, I think it is the Palisades fire.

So it is the big one. But, like, like, the idea that they're focused specifically on harassing this one woman, which is why she's defending herself by attacking the mayor, like, sending death threats to one lesbian is not going to stop the wallfires, dude. I don't know what the fuck you guys are on about. There's no way to, like, live life, go outside, harass a different fire chief for a day, take a day. And also, the one last thing, and I know it's almost time to get out of here. I lost track of when we started. We're about an hour, right?

Yeah, Matt gave us a time call a minute ago. You know, it's fine, obviously. But, yeah, we're good whenever. Yeah. So, um, you look at who's actually fighting the fire. Like one of the reasons, one of the reasons complain about the firefighter, the DEI being a problem for the LA fire department is one of the reasons they've had these recruiting efforts to try to hire more black firefighters is because they're overwhelmingly white. Right. It's, it's still like 70, 70, 75% straight white dudes, which is whatever. I'm not even complaining about that right now. I'm just saying like the reality you guys are fucking complaining about also doesn't, like just does not exist. And who is actually fighting the firefighters are a lot of inmates, okay? So, like, what color inmates? A commercial program that. Yeah.

California's got a prison program where they were, yeah, inmates fight fires or whatever. But anyway, you're saying. Yeah, so like, they also use people in Juvena and Juvie. So a lot of teenagers, these are people over 18 though. You don't go to real prison to your toe over 21 in California, I guess, or 18 and age, 18 and 21. Teenagers and young men, 95% of whom are black, Latino or Filipino, earned between $2.20 to $4 per hour. plus an additional dollar an hour where they're actively fighting fires. And I've read an interview with them where they said they're glad to do it.

They actually enjoy it more than any of their part of being in juvie. That's what I was going to say. It's like, look, yes, it's indentured servitude and it's life-threatening and all that. And I get it optically. But everything that I've read about it, first-hand accounts from the guys doing it has been like, it's like a sought-after program that they want to do. Hey, they want to help. They're doing something.

They can get certified. There's job placement, all that stuff. You get out of the fucking jail. out of the prison and stuff, you know, it's just apparently it does hit for them, the ones that are in it. And like if you, if it becomes a job pet, like the part that kills me is when the

felon, because they're felons, they're precluded from being firefighters after they stop serving as firefighters mandatorily. That's the part that fucking really bug me. Yeah, they need to fix that part in California for sure. I would say, but that's not true in every other. Of course, you know, if they're from California, they have to leave the state or whatever, but they

you know, hypothetically could still become a firefighter else. swear, but yes, that part is fucked up. For sure. So, in closing, my main point was, when looking at those numbers, 95% black, Latin, Latino, Filipino, if you want to make the firefighters more white, what we have to do, Trey, is incarcerate more white juvenile offenders. Yes. That's what they're calling for.

Arrest more white kids, please. Yeah. That's a nice Democrat agenda item. I love that. Anyway, thank you guys for watching. Hopefully it went smoothly on your end when you see this in the future tomorrow night. But also, as always, remind you, go to Treycrowder.com. Check out my coming tour dates.

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