This is the FCB Podcast Network. A Prais Masoda day that we won't to say, then we won't to say, oh we got it does? No one can take that? Owady, this gonna be okay. A Prais Masoda day that. We won't with say then we won't to say oh we got it does? No one can take that. Oway don't say this don't be okay. Well, Hi, Hi, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Just Listened to Yourself with Kira Davis. This is our special fire edition and I am definitely really tired. And in fact, this is the second time I've had to record this episode because I have had technical difficulties, but you know, those are first world problems, considering I am recording this on Sunday, January twelfth. This is day number six of the Los Angeles fires. I'm an Orange County. My family and I are safe and we are pretty far from the flames. But all of the Southland is under the not evacuation warning, excuse me, what we call red flag warning, which is high winds warning. So the winds that you saw on Tuesday when the fires began that basically wiped out all of the Pacific Palisades. I mean it's almost all gone. Ninety percent of it is gone. Is gone. That's not me being hyperbolic, that's the fire department's own number. So it was the winds, right, it was the winds. That we have the best firefighters in the world, but the winds were just you saw it. It was impossible. So it's been quite a time. We're all stressed, we're all tired. Maybe I'll break all that down, since this is the second time I'm sitting down to do this, I'll break all that part down later. Maybe that's good that I'm not bothering that, because we do need to talk about what's happening in the administrative state here, and we do need to talk about just how awful all of this is and what it could mean going forward. And I thought the best way to do this would be to take Gavin Newsom's podcasts that he did with the Pods of America Guys on Friday and break that down. Now, this is the perfect example. It's the perfect sort of metaphor for what's going on totally because Gavin Newsome doesn't understand how to be a leader, but he's being asked to be a leader. So everyone in this situation is, by the way, shout out to the rank and file emergency services out there. They are all doing amazing work. I've been watching them NonStop on Live TV. Can follow me over on x at Real Kira Davis for updates, and they've just been incredible are And it's really really sad and tragic that their supervisors and their leaders, particularly in the administrative at the administrative level, not the rank of file. It's so pathetic and sad and tragic that they've just been abandoned to, you know, fend for themselves in one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. And they've been doing incredible work. And if it weren't for them, we really all would be screwed because we've learned we definitely can't depend on our leaders. They shut the water off, so you know, someone would shut the water off to people in a fire. We have problems. We have problems, is what I'm saying. And I've been ranting and raving like a lunatic, but I think it's time for me to get back to some real analysis here. And I want to say this. I want to say two things from the start. One and let me write this down. So I don't forget one about Gavin and leadership, but the other about politics. So I've been getting in a lot of my friends have been getting criticism. It's not just me from people saying, don't make this political. You're making this political. La is still on fire. Why would you make it political? And my thing is it is political. It is political, and they have been. They have been politicizing tragedy forever. They do it all the time. And then when we have a complaint during a bad time, they say, well, let's just get through this first and then we'll focus on that. And they've been doing that to us for decades. Let's just get through this first and then we can focus on that. So at what point do we say, no, We're going to do it now, even if it now is the most inconvenient time, because your politicking is really what has gotten us into this mess. Politicians can't control the win. Politicians can't control fire, but they can control crime. And when the story of these fires is told, all told, we will see it it was not a natural disaster. I don't want to say some of these fires are definitely arson. One or two is probably a hobo camp, honest to God's true, my hand to God. If I am lying, I'm dying. One of them is probably a hobo fire, and definitely something else is arson. At least so they could control the crime here, you know, they could do stuff like that, But then not to mention their water policies that are based on quote equity, which is really what was responsible for s Pacific Palisades running dry, because even though the state depends on the very wealthy taxpayers here certainly doesn't depend on those that are on welfare. The state depends on the very wealthy taxpayers. They don't give the taxpayers anything in return. The only thing that following the rules here in California gets you is more rules. So it's just been horrible from beginning. Dan, It's only going to get worse, and we'll talk about it. It's only going to get worse as a recovery effort start, and I think that's what's That's what we'll talk about as we move along. I won't take up this whole podcast with that because I want to get to Newsom. Now, Gavin Newsom, you've seen him, I don't have to explain it to you. He is affeckless ballless, knit wet. He really should be in jail. He doesn't know how to lead. And that's been good enough for California Democrats until now because California is so amazing and Californians are so amazing. You can make this place work for you despite all of the terrible politics, and a lot of people overlook them. But now it's in their face. Now it's burned our homes down. And now you see Karen Bass was in Ghana and she's come back and she might as well have not even been here. She's a ghost, a non entity. She says nothing, she does nothing. Same with Newsom. He comes down here for five minutes and Woodsy waives his hand around, sticks his hands in his pocket. It's a local problem. I don't know. I don't really know what I can do, and everything he does makes it worse. Why because he doesn't know how to leave and he's letting his gen Z interns advise him. Newsome, Gavin, you should stop doing that. Stop it. Stop taking advice from those people. They don't know anything, they don't have any perspective on life. That's how Camelo got that stupid man at right, the real men vote for Camela and it was like it was like a computer generated these images of men, like ask a computer what it thinks a real man looks like? Well, that was an ad that was made by gen zers who grew up with a non binary mom. And no doubt, like, these people have no life experience. They can't help you, Gavin, stop taking advice from them. So I know exactly what happened. Let me tell you before we break this down, because Gavin went on Podsave America on Friday, and this is what happened. I promise you I would stake my savings account on it. Gavin is freaking out. Twenty twenty eight is pretty much gone by this point. There's always room for a miracle, but by this point it's gone. He's trying to salvage whatever is left of that promise. What do I do? What do I do? Well? What did Trump do? One thing that Trump did that was really successful? He went on a podcast, and you should go on a podcast. Podcasting is the future. Never mind that Gavin has his own podcast. Gavin Newsom has a podcast, Everybody. It's called Politicking with Marshaun Lynch. That's another brilliant move. His gen z interns decided he should do start a podcast as he runs up to twenty twenty eight, because that'll make him more relatable. It's terrible, that'll make him more relatable. It's awful, it's awful. He's terrible. You can tell Marshaun Lynch doesn't like him. He has nothing to say. He's an empty suit. He doesn't have a person personality, So to put him on a podcast and expect him to be interesting, this is why he didn't go. So anyway, here's a conversation, because this is why that podcast wasn't Joe Rogan, which if you're going to go on a podcast, it should be Joe Rogan. And Rogan would have had Newsome, he surely would have. But instead his interns say, well, that's what Trump did, and what did and what did Trump do? He went on the most popular podcaster and we got to have our own liberal Joe Rogan forgetting that Joe Rogan is the liberal Joe Rogan and they drove him out of the left. Well, so what do they do. They go to pod Safe America, which is like ten years ago, five years ago. It used to be one of the biggest podcasts in talk radio in liberal politics at this point in the game. It's it's it's basically a zero. There's there's There are hundreds of podcasters YouTubers in politics alone who have put Pod Save America in their dust, Like a lot of you didn't even know what Pod Save America was, but you know who Joe Rogan is. So but that's still the mindset they're operating in. They're the Republican Party in two thousand and eight, where Republicans didn't get that the Internet was a thing and social media was a thing. They didn't understand it, they didn't use it. Right, they're that and so then they said, well, Joe Rogan, he does his and a very informal atmosphere. It's just kind of a studio like out back in his house or something. That's what he needs to do. So in this video, Gavin, they flew the po Jon Favreau, the host of Pod Save America, not the filmmaker, he's the host of the podcast, flew in from I guess he's from DC. I think to do this quickly. Now you have to understand they're in a trailer. This looks like a work trailer. There's a plastic folding table, and chairs. They've set up two microphones in a computer. It looks like it just looks like a construction trailer. That's on purpose. Even that's on purpose. This is how terrible they are at all this, Even that is on purpose. There's there's they want to mimic this relatable. I'm at work, I'm not worried about the way I look thing, and it looks terrible because it's fake. It's fake. It's all fakery. Let's just pretend that Newsome didn't have time to set up a space. He could have taken John Favreau to his office in Sacramento or any one of the hundred offices there. He could have if let's say Favreau couldn't leave Sacramento airport, he had to get off the flight and get back on the flight. You don't think the mayor has a private room at the Sacramento airport, Like, yeah, they could have done it there. They didn't. They could have done it anywhere. They could have rented an RV, you know what I mean. So all that's fake. They didn't need to be sitting there like that. But Gavin wanted to appear like he didn't care about what he looked like and also I think he wanted it to appear like he was working, but it was an empty trailer, just like his suit is empty. By the way, I'm pretty sure it's the portable trailers behind the Capitol in Sacramento. Just what you add, the extra workspace that they add because there's not enough in the physical building. I think that's where they are, So Favreau had to drive past all kinds of fancy places to set that shot up. Like it's just it's astro term from beginning to end. It's truly incredible. It's Newsome trying on his dad's shoes. He's trying to be Trump and he doesn't know how to be Trump because he doesn't know how to be a leader. Just to pretend to be a leader, and what does the pretend leader do? These things just copies what other people are doing. So I thought breaking down this podcast would be a great opportunity to talk about all of the things that have been going on and explain it while keeping it honed in on politics, because I'm very emotional and I got a lot going on, and I don't want to pull away too much from focus because I know I'm going to probably have to have a lot to say about this. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna play Gavin's interview with John Favreau, this fake astrcture interview, and I'm going to try to be disciplined enough to let it run for a few minutes at a time rather than interrupting constantly. Otherwise we'll be here all day. But this is Gavin Newsome calling in Fabreau. He's thinking what's the best way? Again, I want you to, as you're listening or watching to this, have this framework in your mind. This man has just left the scene of devastating fires in which there are some pretty big political blunders that have been made by his party, by his party, not by Republican by his party, huge, huge, huge mistakes by the party that he leads in the state. And now he's gone back up to the comfort of Sacramento and he's doing a podcast, And I want you to focus on what his focus is during this podcast. It's Friday as he's giving this. So Tuesday was when ninety five percent of Pacific palisades went up in planes. This is Friday him talking to John Favreau. So keep that framework in your mind as we move through some of this all right, here we go. We're building effort that's to come, and we talked about people's frustrations and hopes who are dealing with the devastation from these fires. Here's my interview with Gavin Newsom. Governor Newsom, Welcome back to Patzave America. Go to be with you. Under difficult circumstances. Very we are recording this Friday afternoon at the command center in Malibu. Just before we start recording, you invited Donald Trump to come here to Los Angeles see the devastation. Uh, you said, the hundreds of thousands of Americans displaced from their homes and fearful for the future, deserve to see us all working together in their best interests, not politicizing a human tragedy. Okay, I can already tell I'm gonna I'm gonna struggle with this. So I hope you, I hope you're watching this on video. If you're not, I'm definitely gonna have this up on YouTube. Again. I'm not doing anything fancy with the video just yet. I'm just kind of figuring my way in to the video space. So with me. But if you want to see this video, it's on my YouTube page, and I'll also have h Scott, my son's doing some work for me, put this to our rumble as well. But if you can see the video, Gavin is he's doing one of these things where you know, you rub your chin while you're thinking about it, and he's got it rubbing his neck and my body language guys say that anybody who who is holding their necks while they are speaking is vulnerable. That's somebody who feels that they are vulnerable, because that's protecting a major artery in your throat, right, and people will do it. They also call it big leaf pose, where you put your hands in front of your genitals. Like maybe you just cross your hands casually, you don't think about it. That's big leaf pos. That's a vulnerable area and you're protecting it. So he's already exuding vulnerability, and not in the kind of emotional way, but in the kind of way of like I'm closed. Here and spreading disinformation from the sidelines. So this is after Trump blamed you for the fires. He says it's the fault of water mismanagement. Your initial response to that was, I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say I won't. Yeah, it seems like you're trying to walk a very fine line here, extending an open hand to Trump as you signed your letter, but also calling him out for spreading disinformation. Is that because you have concerns that he might withhold disaster assertions when he becomes. It's been pretty straightforward about that. He's tried to do it in the past. He's not just done it here in California, He's done it in states all across the country. I mean, did it in Puerto Rico. He didn't, even in Utah, I didn't in Connecticut. In other states, Georgia, he got upset and without mercy dollars in twenty eighteen, even before I was governor of California, he tried to withhold money down in Orange County until apparently a staff member, and this has been well reported. Staff members said there were a lot of Trump supporters decided to change his mind. And so the rhetoric is very, very familiar, and it's increasingly acute, and obviously we all have a reason to be concerned about it. What's the disinformation? All right? That's two minutes and fifty four seconds into this thing. As he is speaking. People are burning as he is speaking. People are burning as he's talked, and he hasn't said this is the beginning of this podcast, and he hasn't said anything to those people. The whole disinformation Trump Puerto Rico withholding our funds. It's funny how he talks about that, how Trump wants to withhold our funds, and he never says why, because we've been bad boys and girls. Daddy's home now, and no one's getting dessert until you clean up. But again, all of the you know, he's acting like he's at a press conference and he's the governor of a state in which people are actively dying, as he's giving an interview in a fake workspace with a fake reporter about a fake problem. Why are you even worrying about what Trump's gonna do. He's not the president yet, and these fires are still raging, and on Friday they sure as how we're still raging. On Friday, we didn't even know if Brentwood was going to still be here on Sunday. I'm recording this Sunday night. We still don't know if Brentwood will be here tomorrow. When I tell you that California has had enough. It's palpable. And you were referring to in the letter, and what is the correct information? Well, I mean, look. What the President elect was saying about State Water project and the delta smelt somehow being culpable of, you know, somehow leading to some of the challenges that we faced out here was was it's it's words. It's a salad. It's a form and substance of fog. It's made up. It's this guy, the king of word salads, making stuff up as he goes along. It's all projection. We've already discussed it on the show. I can stay out of my higher register. I don't need to get upset about this, Kira, you don't need to get upset. You've already talked about We already know it's projection. Uh word salad. I said a word again. He just he heard somebody. I'll say that. You know how Gavin knows what a word salad is because that's the only way anyone ever describes how he talks. Again, Daddy trying on Daddy's shoes. He just heard someone use that phrase about him, because that's what we use about him all the time. And now he's trying it on for sise, so shoes so big. Gavin put him back in daddy's closet. Delusional, and it's a consistent mantra from Trump going back years and years and years, and it's reinforced over and over and over within the right wing, and so it's become gospel. And it's so profoundly ignorant, and yet he absolutely believes it. It's not an. Ignorance on his part. It's such it's sort of an indelible misinformation that he sort of manifested a falsehood and he decided to bring it into this crisis in a profoundly I know I. Said I was going to do this, but just very quickly, I want again. I want to think about if you're sitting in Alta Dinah, picking through the rubble the ashes of your life and hoping that your wedding ring is still there, and you turn on this podcast on Friday afternoon and you hear Gavin Newsen saying this, Do you feel comforted, Do you feel like he's in charge? Do you feel like you're going to be helped? Do you feel like there's going to be a way out of the situation. A light at the end of the tunnel. Do you have any confidence in the leadership in California? Just do anything to bring you peace of mind. This is the governor of a state that's currently on fire. Demeaning and demand and damaging way I say, demeaning to the facts, demeaning to the people that were suffering and struggling, to the kids. Literally we're watching their schools burn down. I was just talking to staff member who a good friend who's was burned down, and his four year old as they're driving away, say, daddy, do you remember did you get my bunny? And you know I got four kids. Yeah. No empathy, no compassion, no capacity to even to understand. Shocking. Just the guy wants to be understood and yeah, that's hard because a lot of people are. No. He he's saying. He's saying this after that video that I know you've all seen by now of him getting confronted by that mother running across the street from her daughter's school, going what are you doing? Why are the fire hydrants dry? Why aren't you filling them up yourself? Why aren't you helping us? And then he has the nerve to go in there and sit in front of John Favreau and say, oh, Trump has no compassion. I have four kids. I understand, and again, projection, projection, this guy is never going to be president. You're never going to be president, Gavin, You're never going to be president. I know Americas have a real short memory. The Californians are not going to forget this, and we'll make sure the rest of America has all these images in their minds when you try to step up in twenty twenty eight. We'll make sure your donors get T shirts of you smiling in front of that four families burning home while you tell Anderson Cooper it's a local issue. Oh, I've already got that still image, honey. Mm hm. It's going on a T shirt and it'll be a campaign shirt. You cooked, you are cooked. Or misled, and it's I think led to a lot of finger PORNI and consternation at a time when we're quite literally and I say literally because second before I was here, I just got the latest briefing or bring cadaver dogs out there in some parts of the fire where people are still potentially missing and we've already lost eleven lives. People are just are devastated in Los Angeles, they're scared, they are angry. Some of that is directed at local officials, state officials. You. Of course, we talk about how some of that anger is based on, you know, inaccurate information from Donald Trump and others. But from your perspective, is there anything the state of California could have done to be better prepared for a fire like this? And is there anything that state could have done better or faster? In responding, well, you always have to have some humility and grace as it relates to that question. And uh, and I'm very self critical in that respect, and so we in every incident do an after action report and we will take a sober and reflective look at that. But let's just look at the facts. Just in the last few years, I mean, gonody, let's just look at that. Far in the state. Look for me. Close to double the number of personnel. We've increased the size of our area fleet by sixteen new helicopters. We were finally able to get from the Pentagon, uh seven one thirties we got the first one up there. You saw it up there in the cal fire flag on this. Again body language, body language alert. This is his hands are clasped together. His shoulders are up in a shrugging position, and he looks like a little kid. He looks like a little kid when I I'll push this out through my substack and I'm just gonna take still shots of it so you can see. This is why he just looks like a little kid, if you I think it's very helpful to watch things with the sound off, because people say more with their bodies than they do with their mouths. And if you look at these people, they are not Not only are they not in charge, they're scared again. The people are burning right now. And here he's shrugging his shoulders. Look, I don't know what everybody's saying. We having LA's on freaking fire as he's talking, and he's making excuses as to why they absolutely did have everything they needed. And we'll file an action report when this is all over. Hopefully somebody will be left alive in LA to co sign that action report. Fire. We had pre positioned Saturday our state office at Mercy Service. We all got together before this event, days before the event, and we agreed to pre position in six counties here in southern California, hundreds and hundreds of assets. Let me be specific about that. On Sunday, we had one hundred and ten engines, hundreds of personnel, specialty crews, dozers, water tenders, helicopters. We pre positioned them strategically in multiple counties, and because we had prepositioned them, they were first on the scene. Many of these people supplementing the resources of this local fire department dealing with overwhelming wins in this overwhelming fire that I happen to be within the first few hours in stum ferstand that the hurricane wins the members going as far as two miles. That was overwhelming for the thousands of people that were down there fighting them. Concurrent not just here in the Palasades, with the fire out there eating and some of the fires five current ACTI fires we're doing with today, twelve thousand person our curently work, one hundred seventy five inntions that have come from five different states. We have people from around the world offering resources, notably from Canada and Mexico, and we're putting everything we happened. You just on a letter telling La and La County officials a breckon statey to investigate the causes of lost waters apply and water pressure during the fires. I thank there's also a. Large reservoir in Pacific Palisades, the San Yonez Reservoir, that was closed for repairs during the fire. Local officials have said the demand for water was just too great to maintain the pressure in the hydrants, especially since aerial water support wasn't available immediately due to the high winds. Do you not believe that explanation. No, it may be the absolute explanation. But there's so much mistrust and fingerpoint and let's just get the facts, and let's get them quickly. Let's stop the finger pointing. Let's just assess the truth. I'm not interested in who's to buy him. I want to know what happened. He just it seemed perfectly plausible analysis on the basis of personal experience with some of the biggest fires in US history, the Tubs Fire, what happened at the campfire, what happened in MAUI that you get systems that are completely tapped out and overwhelmed. They weren't designed for these level of fires. And so that explanation is the one that sort of almost I won't say universally, but I bet if you talked to nine out of ten of the folks that are out here at the command, they would subscribe to that point of view. Others are saying, no, it was the pump that went down, it's the pipes, it was an electricity. So let's just get the facts. It's DWP that ran this system, and we want to make sure this never happens again. Do we need more redundancy? Do we need a harden? I remember I was mayor of San Francisco. We did a bond to significantly. He's smiling while he's while he's telling this story. I am tired. I have been up for four nights in a row. All my friends, mostly women, were the warriors. All my friends have been up. My friends had to flee for their lives from this fire. Some of them don't know where their pets are. We don't know what's coming our way. Everyone is on high alert in four counties, four counties we make up. This is half the population of California down here that's terrified. We're under high red alert warnings until Monday. This is this guy's smiling. He's smiling while he's talking, as if he's just had a press conference. Why do you think that is I'll tell you why. It's something called duper's delight. Let's let Siri tell us what stuper's delight? Siri, what is duper's delight? Sorry if I whatever. Duper's delight is defined by satisfaction and their ability to lie to someone or to manipulate them. And it's not a voluntary thing. It doesn't you can't really control it. It's not voluntary. People when they feel pleased in their subconscious that they're getting away with something, they smile while they're talking to you. It's called duper's delight. Gavin Newsome is in the throes of duper s delight in this interview. Upgrade our infrastructure because we're concerned about a catastrophic earthquake and how that can overwhelm our pumping and fire suppression system. So we want to determine all those facts, not on the basis again of a. Finger pointing sign blame, but accountability and we want transparency. One of my best friends just wats size in Platas. He just again once ago it's able to get his two kids and his dogs and lots everything else. He texted met investigation own and said, what's going on here? You're just trying to pass the blame and just your point about the finger pointing and the blame. So many people are so angry, and you know, how do you how do you see that in a moment like this when you're trying to figure out, Hey, there's a you're, you know, governor of the largest state in the country, and what happens in LA isn't always going to come across your desk. Also, the ultimate you're you know, you're ultimately responsible is the the you know government. I mean, yeah, of course, Uh, I want to know the answers. So I'm the governor of California. I want to know the answer. I've got that question. I can't tell you about how many people what happened? My own team saying what happened? And I want to get the answers, And I was going I began with the one against straight answers. Yeah, I watched the press conference, I met with some of those leaders. We had my team start talking in local leaders saying, what's going. On our SNY. You weren't getting straight answers from I. Was getting different answers, and and so for me, that's not a strue. When you start getting different answers, and I'm not getting into the actual story and they're assessing it. And then I get that as well. You have got a little bit of grace back to the point we're in this EMERGENC environment everything else. I just wanted to determine the facts, but no one has any patience anymore, and this weaponize back to the Green and Stan, the Trump everyone else people. There's immediacy in life's travel of the proverbial world, and it's hard to get the facts out there unless you have the back backing of those facts and you communicate them soberly. And so that's what we're trying to achieve as lay I'm doing. But I have ten other things we're doing currently as well. I mean, across the board on recovery, on disaster assistance, getting the major disaster declaration and maybe the first one in US history, over a text with the White House within literally thirty six hours to get one hundred percent reimbursement for folks out here we've. Been what again, what does anybody give a shit about your one hundred percent BEMA reimbursement? You idiot? People are burning while you're talking to this man. This is he's not going to win twenty eight. It's over. It's over. And and you know you could trust me when I say that, because I've been telling you not to sleep on Gavin Newsom. I've been telling you We've elected him numerous times in different ways and for different offices, including governor in the state. And we live in this state, we live under his rule, and we see what thing and we still elect him. So you know, don't think that America wouldn't. But no, no, we won't forget about this. There's too much out there. There's too much. We can forget about it because the Americans love a good comeback story and we'd love to forget about the sins of our leaders. But there's too much. All of this. He can't run from it, and if he were a leader, he could pivot. He probably could Trump is that guy. There's somebody if you can pivot from every bad story, from every bad look, leaders lead their way out of those things. Everything he's doing, he's like he's in quicksand, and the harder he tries to pull himself out, the more he's thinking. Because he has no natural instincts. He is playing the part of a leader. Yeah, I'm gonna ask for answers, smiling, smiling, Yeah, I'm gonna ask for answers, of course, Yeah, I'm gonna ask for answers. He shouldn't even be sitting John. By the way, John Favreau, shame on you. What kind of bullshit podcasting is this? This really takes the cake you. You have lost all credibility, mister Favreau. There, this is bad form, bad form. This is not journalism. And no doubt some money exchanged hands for him to do this, and if it didn't, John, then you really are an idiot. I've been working concurrently in all of these areas. We're doing executive orders as I speak, as it relates to recovery and land use, dealing with speculation and fraud, and trying to address issues of Coastal Commission here and address the issue of planning for it and help we address all of the myrea. These were small businesses, all this in real time. Again, as the state, even though in I state, responsiblity to support in the city in the county that are overwhelmed at this moment, do you responsibility? Yes, it is the state run everything. This state gives us all our rules. The state is always in our business listen to him. Now, it's like, well, it's not a state problem, but we'll give them the help. But it's really not. Meanwhile, Gavin suing Huntington Beach. He's suing the city of Huntington Beach because they want to enact Voter ID, which they did and they're going to do anyway. By the way, they just set him the middle finger. They want to enact Voter ID. They finally said enough is enough, we'll just pass the law ourselves. And they don't want the city to come in and rezone their single family home neighborhoods. They don't want the state to do that which a state has done. The state has created You're going to start to see a lot of conspiracy theories around Pacific Palisades being rezoned for apartment buildings. It's not a conspiracy theory, nor is it a lie. It's just that that law passed two years ago. That was one of the results of twenty twenty, which meant that the state could rezone anything, and that that was designed to get rid of rich people in single family neighborhoods. And that's what Hunding and Beach is fighting. So Hunding in Beach doesn't want to rezone either, so they pushed back, and the governor's suing them. So the governor while he sits there and says, well, you know, these are local issues. I'm just a governor. It's not our job to get involved here, but will help He's all, please know, he's also suing a city for wanting to take control of their own laws. You can't make this stuff up. You cannot make it up. One thing I'm saying on the show yesterday is I feel like in this age, politicians, like officials, need to almost communicate. I meet as much possiblely. You've done the right your here. Do you think that that mayor Baths should have canceled her trip to Kana when you knew they were going to be an extreme I literally get judged. I don't know when she left. I can't. I can't assess that it's not and I mean it's like, it's not like at Peril. My response appears to be political because I literally do not know when she left. I know when she came back. I know that when I was on the scene a few hours the original ten acres was announced, that her team was on the phone and we were coordinating and we were hand in glove in that respect, and I was grateful for that, and I felt confident in the command response and the team that was assembled at the site. That said, I was not confident on the basis of the hurricane winds that we were experiencing that we were going to be successful in saving a lot of those homes. For one reason that the firefighters were coming down saying our focus right now is creating safety corridors. Our focus right now is saving lives and making sure people get out. Then we focus on property, and then we'll get to perimeter because of the acuity, the extreme, unprecedented. Do you see what he's done here. This is obsfucation. Gotta say that word slowly, obfucation. Yeah. Then he starts talking about the processes of the fight. Gavin. We're we're as you're podcasting, my friend, those of us out here in real California are actually watching the news. We're actually watching what you're describing in real time. It's something you could do if you would turn on the news or go to the site of the fire. I mean, yeah, we know how firefighting works, Gavin. We've been watching it for the last six days or four days at that point. But again he just it's a pivots. I don't want to answer this question about Karen Bass. No, they answer it, folks, I'll answer the question for him. The answer is no, I don't care if Karen Bass went to Ghana. He went to Montana during COVID. That's where his wife's family lives, that's where their mansion is, and that's where their kids could go to school and play sport. So that's what they did. And then when those of us tried out here tried to dig into it, we were accused of being right wing. Nut jobs. Who are governors in the state. He doesn't care that Karen Bass was gone to Ghana because he would do the same thing they all would. And they had hurricane force wins and how they were swirling in every conceivable direction. This is not not a big deal at all. But we went up to one of the canyons on the fire, sitting there feeling we're a good. Quarter a mile away. I'm not making this up. Video buried out. All of a sudden, we see a member hits the tree. Three golls on fire hundred secds caught mine as may have be ninety seconds the house in flames. I have members of flmes are taking off my hair and we're running ba into the car. Winds are swowing around, garbage skans were in the air and were getting the hell out of there. That's how quick. And we were with experts, we were the leaders the force. He said, we're good. We want to take close to keep you safe. All of a sudden they were like they also never experienced. It in January. In January, I don't remind people that drought. I mean, everybody, how are you wing a drought? What? Three? It's real? But plenty of water down here, I mean all the reservots more than full, though this one res are the local res wart. That's part of the debree. That was something that wasn't communicated originally. Probably one of the reasons to answered the question of your friend and others as well without getting stray in answers. That triggered me saying enough, let's get these facts and let's get them out today. Podsave America is brought to by zibiotics pre alcohol. Nice. After a night with drinks, you want to get bounce back the next day to get yours. I'm gonna have to. When you want to get the news out to the people who are dying, you definitely go on a podcast with ads in it. This guy and they have the nerve to sort of hit the table. Oh hang on, guys, my fire watch app. Watch you. The app going off. Let's see watch you. The the app has been amazing. They do real time updates and they have reporters. They have staff reporters who I think are just really firefighters who are just call or former firefighters who are calling around and getting real time information. The city of la does not have this. This is a private charitable it's not private. Actually it's five on one C three. It's a charitable app. And there they have been one hundred or one hundred they never miss, okay. So it's just an update of the containment areas all right, and operations. So eating fire is really starting to become contained. It's twenty seven percent contained and fourteen thousand. So that's the altad in a fire. So when my friend was involved in and they still can't go home and a lot of them will never go home, so sad. Right, all right, So that's what that was. All right, here we go, we gotta go back to News Newsom continuing. And then we're all sitting there in our house and the emergency evacuation goes up and people are close to the perimeter and freaking out, and I'm like, how is that? How is that happening in twenty twenty four? Yeah, I mean that's all this is. These are precise to the kinds of things. There are thousands and thousands of things that happen, some big, some small. All right, Favreau, I'm not going to back this up. Who wants to do that? Favreau has asked him about those because everything is worse everything one thing is worse than the last. We had three false emergency tax sent out. So Favreau was clearly asked News about this, And I want you to he's moving his waving his hands around. When somebody does that, they're dismissing you. He's just waving as well. It's stuff. He's he's moving imaginary stuff. It's stuff. It's all these parts and all these locals, and I'm going to demand answers to this stuff. Alsome you read about something, you never know about, some experience something someone else experience is all part of an a AP, which is the after action report that we put out, and it's good. In fact, I encourage people just looking at the. Wolves art I know every less from that. Of course, we had a fire with fires in November down here, fires in December your days. Actually we were able to. Star right there. That was because it was burned just recently in December. So all those things are analyzed. But let me just say this on the technology, we have people all around the world coming to California normal because we're leaders in technology on artificial intelligence. We knew here. I'm sorr if I too, where we're literally doing sandbox. We change who purement strategy on how we adopt technology. We pay for performance. We have a program called Techno Seller which does predictive mapping fire as systant We have a deal decntector for years and years plente gun on the vitaminstrition for satellite technology, drone technology and surveillance. All of these other cameras, thousand plus AI lak camers are calling before nine one. Someone calls nine one one to get the early suppression. It is a double traditional workforce. As relates the boots on the ground, we have two thousand more five fires inn the budget of the next tw years. We put a force management plan with ninety nine specific actions to dress vegetation management, force management, four billion dollars to back out two point five millions and spend one point five minutes in this years budget. And on that one hundred percent. I'm not making this up with have presomers a few months ago. One hundercent of those ninety nine actions are either adopted or are being adopted. This is again, these are the words of somebody who I don't know if you can listen that fast. It doesn't matter, it really does. And this is not a pertinent part. Some parts I want to slow down so you can really hear him. This doesn't matter. He's telling you how much money. He's telling you how much money that he sucked out of our wallets. This is This is Gavin's answer to every question. If anybody is like, well, what successes did you have, it's just well, we got this much money. So when you tell them, you know what, thirty percent, it's not thirty It's not thirty is it? I wish it was. I think it's something like twelve percent of fourth grade African American boys in the state can read only twelve percent less than fifty percent of African American boys in the state graduate reading at well less than fifty percent graduate and less than fifty percent of those graduate reading at grade level. And if you ask Gavin Newsom what they've done for education, he'll say, we spend the most money on education of any state in the country. It's always talking about money. When COVID was coming, we've been getting money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money. Here's money. I got money, I spent money. It's we're over it. It's meaningless. It doesn't mean anything for some idiots. It meant something for a long time, but now nobody's got nothing. And it really is an insult to hear him talk about money when really these people have none. So it doesn't matter. He's just giving you this a little stupid petty resume. We wave to see what environment roles is relay to get any penile spaces. We try to move heaven earth. It relates to forest fire, force management, vegetation management, set of support locals and to address anxiety people have. We had the National Guard doing handprew work. You're on day one the rattical in the Rotes state teams. I get airned fifty five National Guard as we speak, working not just the lines on the fire bettle. I betters say that that's a lie. They weren't here on day one. They were here on day two. Also offline to management supporting supplement again to big parties are not just running the old fire strategies where leaders in adaptation and boption and a lot of that at scale at this level not fully implemented to your point at the local level. But that's starting to change, and we're seeing a lot of private sector, not just the public sector, begin to advance some partnerships that maintain the state of our mindset. I'm gonna have the re building over it list. Say you're just being a special session on ody, say for the legal battles of being a comminisation. If you fought a calling special session focus on recovering. Day were textic change. Because we're a lots of cell services up there and we're gonna get together on whether we need to do that. I'm already working on the executive orders. We're looking to codify some of the executive orders through legislative action. Do we need a special session to do that or we can do it in a regular session I'm open to either, happy to do whatever moves needle forward. We already have tracks on insurance in the state's Fair Plan Reinsurance. I got a track on utilities. What this means the utility sector more broadly, Obviously, we're investigating responsibility, culpability, is it arson? Is it a public power agency? Is a private power agency? All those things like money times. I have to stop here. Some of you might not understand the gist of what he's just saying. Californias who deal with fire season here are going to be very nervous to hear him talking like this because these fires come up, and a lot of times it's been the fault of the power companies because they don't it's such a crony system. They don't have to comply with all the regulations, or they get away with it. They're a power line spark and cause a mess. So, but the power line companies, we're in it for like eighty five billion dollars or something. After the Paris fires up north and so they've been very careful. So PG and E one of the major providers, they have been shutting off power. They've been too cautious. Almost people are getting pissed. So to hear him say we're going to investigate the cause, whether it be arson or power, I know PGD is already going. He's coming for us because it's easier to blame them and then you can charge them. They're not going to take it lying down this time. They're definitely not because they did for the most part. They did because they didn't want to get in trouble. So already he's signaling he's gonna be playing some Shenanigans with them horses, arsen Of course it's arson. He can't deal with the arsenists because arsens are one h from across the border. They're never not from there. So this is all this is what this talk is of, like how we're gonna and listen to him talking about how we're gonna I'm gonna sign the executive again. I want you to remember just frame that as he's speaking, people are still burning alive in Los Angeles and he wants to talk about, well, we're gonna remove the red tape to help people, so you don't really need the red tape. What's the red tape for? Then if you can remove it and let people build, and you recognize that it stops people from making progress and having what they need, then why is it there in the first place. You know what I mean, all of this is and laid bare everybody. I'm not definitely not going to depend on the Republicans to explain that things to folks. That's why I've taken it upon myself. You can go over to my Twitter feed x feed to see more. I did some videos my Instagram. I did a video on the insurance market here why it collapse. It's not a conspiracy, everybody, It's Marxism. So if you want to know what they didn't get some memo ahead of time, the big weather machine. It wasn't like that. Believe me. If it was, I believe it. Believe my tinfoil hat pointy. Fine, yeah, but no, it wasn't that. It's not that we're just up against it in these people. So Newsom, he's just again. We're working on recovery prostures. It relates to if an atmospheric river comes here in the next few years, floods and mitigations, as it relates to hazard as waste traffic management. All teams a running these parallel tracks in real time. Again, we're trying to press my fires house. They to learn how I think like six billion in transposure under fair California's transgram not merely enough to those homes. Should the states have been and have help finance bridling these homes or the homeowners have to do and. So the fivers the threes ssen efec when ther refer to ease back the abovestments returnally's fifty seven bion. I mean if you haven't even been in, right, I just got an area and no one trust to been in. So I don't know how how you pssessed all the damage smarial assessment and their damage happening in real time, but they're catastrophic. Number building still estimated it was it's well. Northan ten thousands or fifty thousand, many changes up bout orastructus and much the structures are fullam or is it an adu? Is it? And what is excts? All that's gonna be stressed us. You're concerned? You want to market intern marketing across the contry, how even need to California that has been stretched and impacted by climate change? All right, okay, moving in the climate change, all right? I figured we get here. I just quick to point out that he's using a lot of words here, using a lot of words to say a lot of nothing. But he's you can notice that the I mean, I know, I have it sped up, but you'll notice that the pacing of it is a lot more smooth, and I'll slow it down. I'll slow it down in normal while he talks through this climate change part, because you're gonna notice that the pacing is a lot more smooth. And that's because he's comfortable with what he's talking about. So early year when we was talking about the fires and whose fault is it and shit Tarin have gone and gone on, he's like, well, yeah, well right, doing all of that pausing and breathing and laughing and chuckling and pitching and not really getting to the answer right away. That's because he's not comfortable talking about that right anytime. He doesn't have details or real knowledge about anything. You know, his sentences are short and choppy and iffy. So he's good. He's about to go right into where he's just like, this is his sweet spot climate change. There were, you know, an Olympic sport for discussing climate change, this would be Newsome's gold Medal match. So's just because the inability in some states like hel when you do climate money, as it relates to rate structures as well. We made reforms the last year to include climate money. We made some reforms ironically that just last week led to and this is now my words, led to they announced because of the reforms, led to an insurers to a new ensure going into Paradise, California to reinsure people there that have already recovered and moved back in. So we're finally making progress on that, and obviously this is going to set us back. That said Fair Plan has a reinsurance plan. It reimburses anywhere from thirty to ninety depending on the size of the claim. Uh, there's a socialization as it relates to the Fair Plan. It's not a state plan, it's not a public plan. It's run through this insurance this pool of which the current insurance market participant, and. So everybody there may be believe into the plan. That's why our insurance market is a mess. They're doing it on purpose. They want us all in this public exchange. He's lying. Pockets of those and it will impacted more broadly than you've got to cross the state. It's really really comfortable talking change. Here were models. Internationals. All of that is having a real time. Like I said, we have a whole team just on the insurance market looking utility. Remember in Paradise that led to the microcy of pege need the largest public utility r I investrinlywil excuse me? In United States America where we created a new fund under as we ten fifty four, the Wildlife Fund, which we're also stress testing right now. All of these things again in real time. What's the future look like on insurance that I mean thefounand of people have insurance policy cancel even the week before the fire, and the transmision came outside more for in for a year on any place it's an affected by the fires. So you know the legislation they deigned imblood exercise and he has called for voluntary extension that for aditional six months. We want to get in commcial sector as well, so that was timely that we least able to do that. Anyone that did lose their home, they canna canstr insurance legally cano cancer returns from m of year. But Liken, we love see that extended and we need to look at leglation again, trying to find the balance between market presures, realities and cost me the burden on the monthly of the plans. So the people we're pulling back seen across the country rights here. I mean, it's ironic. California is in trusting me. I'm on the receive and I lost someone of our ms, which is in the way were on their plan. Because we lost venguers, we pay more than the mortgage on the property. Oh my god, let's go back and let let's I'm I am gonna, I am gonna get back and listen. Let's go back and listen to poorl Gavin's plight. They lost insurance on one of their homes. Gosh for a voluntary extension of that for an additional six months. We want to get into the commercial sector as well. So that was timely that we at least were able to do that. So anyone that did lose their home, they cannot cancel your insurance legally cannot cancel insurance for a minimum of a year. But again we'd love to see that extended, and we may need to look at legislation again, trying to find the balance between market pressures, realities and costs, meaning the burden on the monthly the plans. So the people were pulling back seen across the country rates here, I mean, it's ironic California. And trust me, I'm on the receiving I lost in one of our homes, which is in the WUI. We're on the fair plan because we lost private insurance. We pay more than the mortgage on the property just for insurance, and it's significantly underinsured. Well, imagine, Gavin, if you made fourteen dollars an hour, it just happened to be living in your grandmother's house that she bought in Pacific Palisades back when the each was where poor people lived in nineteen fifty and she bought that house for twenty thousand dollars. Like imagine Gavin. Oh, and he's smiling again, he's smiling. We're supposed to feel sorry that they lost insurance on one of their houses, and we're supposed to feel his pain that they pay more for the insurance than they do on the mortgage, which was already a sweetheart deal. And you can go learn more about Gavin Newsom's real estate dealings from Jennifer Van laar over at Red State and believe me. If you think Gavin Newsom's going to be president in January twenty twenty eight, you've never met a girl named a woman named Jennifer van Laar. Now she's been keeping receipts for years. We're almost there, folks, let's go. We can do it. Come on, we can do it. We're almost there. I got ten more minutes in. Thing Wilelin Urban Interface. You got it, So I intimately understand the challenges of this. The market was beginning to stabilize again, farmers many announcement they were moving back into all this. We need to unpack and figure out what it's going to do the market, but adjustments will need to be made. And again when we quickly, since we're back in session, be a special session, a ragular session, and. Drive this down the road. Though, how do how do you get how do you make sure that the entrance companies will even ensure people in place in Californias or vulnerable YT we more vulnerable climate chang Force. And the executive I did a year ago where we talked about the prospect of allowing for thinking climate modeling for the first time, is to allow for rate to be established and also work insurance comission. Let the effort it requires if you're entered in the market and you are going to increase rates a certain part. All right, let me put the sun normal. He's about to describe to you the uh Marxism. That's what I was trying to tell everybody, the Marxism up our insurance market here. So basically what you're about to hear him say, I suspect is going to fill in a lot of questions for you about why our insurance market is so crazy. Again, I will I know there's a lot I know a lot of you want it to be whatever, aliens or whatever, and I I'll believe anything, like I'll believe anything. But I'm just I'm sitting right here and I actually I also how you know you can trust me on this is I sat in on this insurance hearing in Sacramento last year. It was crazy. I've never been to an insurance Commission hearing in my life, not a state certainly, not a state insurance commission meeting. But I was up in Sacramento. I was at an event and we got to go it was at the Capitol. We got to go to the Capitol and my friend Lance said, you need to find a hearing that's going on in sit It's always really interesting for political nerds, and I'm a political nerd. The only hearing that was going on during my day there was the Insurance Commission. So I was like, oh, I rolled my eyes. I'm like, okay, fine, But this was the hearing where all of the brokers from across the state had come to beg the insurance commission to please fix this problem. And the term that one of the brokers used was armageddon. And that was a year ago. A year ago, and you can go to my Facebook feed and you probably go to Red State. I wrote about it over at red State even and I said, these guys said that there's insurance armageddon coming to California, Like, should we be scared? Terms out, we should be taken from me? So let's play this and see what it is saying. Work in the insurance Commissioner led this effort. It requires, if you're entered in the market and you're going to increase rates a certain percent, that you have to ensure within these Wouie areas. So there's an actual prescriptive requires that requires. To actually ensure, not just run out of the market, and that is the areas that could that you won't have a lot of red. Impacts. The floor of the raids are off the charts. California is ironically a little below the national average. No one feels that way. I certainly don't as a as a as a rape bear, but this obvious is going to impact all that. Look, it's going to impact with the tires collection issue, his own property tax issues. We're putting our budget together. Clearly, the IRS under major Disaster Declaration is going to extend taxes. We'll have to conform with that appropriately in the state of California. So you go into budgeting a little differently with economic This is a tenpole economy in the state among the temples, and which in a state that it's a tempole of the US economy. The Fiffler's economy three point eight six trillion dollar year economy works quite literally in the next few days to specifically answer that question through the executive authority that's vested in me, and then get to work with the legislature in this legislative session. Last question, do you have a message for people who have have lost everything in the fires and who are scared and angry and frustrated and concerned that you know, the state's going to forget them or leave them behind, or they're not going to be able to rebuild. That's not in our DNA. It's just not in our DNA. Look, I maybe it's nature nurture. Five generations from I grew up in San Francisco. The flag of San Fransco is the Phoenix, Phoenix rising. I mean this Arisco pre nineteen oh six versus San Fransco today we built back, stronger, better, more vibrant. Yeah, dominant in every category. So it's better than ever. San Francisco's better than ever. He's like, and I love how I love his like humble bragg. Look, I just don't know how to give up. He literally ran away from Los Angeles. He literally ran away from his constituent begging him for help, and got into a limo and flew back up to Sacramento. He's like, I don't know. I don't win, we don't run, we don't run from anything. I'm sorry to skip that last ten minutes, but even I can't do it. Dory every way shape or form our spirit, sense, a pride, purpose, mission, and the camp campfire there was no way that was ever going to be repopulated. The fact that kids are back in school. We never turned our back on those folks. Will never turn our back on the folks down here, not just here on the coast, but those folks and that you know, the very diverse community uh near Pasadena and Altadena and in those communities have impacted by the Eating fire. We will be back. We have their back. It was the FEMA director today, I want that disaster assistance dot gov. But disaster assistance dot gov. Anyone you are an impacted go to that. We've got this major disaster declaration. I said to the FEMA, No one's going to You're not turning your back. I can't. I can't. Let's send us put me out of my misery. Yeah, we've been in our These people are evil, and I think as Trump comes in, and it's hard. It's so crazy because I should be really happy, like we're less than a week out now from inauguration, and it feels like I'm so desperate to get there. I know you are, but I can't think of anything else right now because of these fires. I don't just have I have Dervio might put out a recording that I did last week that I didn't release yet, and but just no I recorded that before the fire. It's like I've only been doing this, It's all anybody is doing or thinking about. And to look at Gavin Newsom and to see him up there in that trailer talking to John Favreau on a podcast while the rest of us are scrambling. Most people don't know where their next meal is coming from, what they're going to do with the rest of their lives, let alone tomorrow. You know, it's grossly insulting. And then to hear him talk about, oh, listen, I can relate because one of my houses, so that the the insurance is more than the mortgage. The silver lining of this terrible story, in fact, the last four years, will be that the suffering that we have gone through will have served to lay bare the last vestiges of this evil, vile system called progressivism and people called progressives. And it's cost us far too much. And I don't think we can afford to let people sort of just coast. It's time to educate, It's not time for persuasion anymore. I think in twenty twenty eight, when you ask what radicalized Kira Davis point to this moment, but I don't think that persuasion. There's time for everything under the sun that's scriptural, and you best believe, no matter what you hear coming out in my mouth, I always go back to the word. I always it's if it's scriptural. My daughter asked me today, do you think there's other universes where you there's a carbon copy of you living like a slightly different lighte And I was like, I don't think so, because I don't see that in scripture. But maybe it is, you know, maybe there is something in scripture that would lead us to that. But even though every idea I have is weighed against scripture, I guess that's what I'm saying. So there is a time for everything, and there'll be a time for persuasion. We're no longer in that time. Now is the time for education, because these people have ruined it up lives, So it's time to start hanging some people from the gallows. Write to me Jlty at ProtonMail dot com Jlty at proton Mail. If you want to know how to help victims, I suggest going over to Andrew gruhles Chef Andrew Gruhle's timeline on X and he's always posting stuff over there and you can send. They don't need any more items in Los Angeles last I heard, they need money and gift cards. They don't need clothes and blanket money and gift cards. So there are organizations out there doing stuff, and I think I might set up my own go fund me, just as soon as I find which charity, local charity is doing the most direct work, Like Andrew isn't even really taking money, he's taking stuff to other places, So I want to find that out first. I don't just want to set up an account and have you send money and not know where it's gonna go. But we're gonna be fundraising on this show, I think probably for the next year or so, just helping people re establish their lives and as things get going, I really want to help people rebuild. That's where my heart is. Chef Andrew, and you've seen Cernovic out there too. He's an Rnge County guy. You know, we don't hang out. He's an Orange County guy. They're out there, and there was a moment where I was like, should I go? You know, I'm not far and I know Andrew. As a matter of fact, we were just on box together the other night. I was like, should I go out there? But I was like, no, they have so much, they have so many volunteers, so much stuff is coming in. They don't need me. And that's the other thing. Sometimes everybody wants to be needed. You just got to know where you fit in and where your place is. So I definitely feel like just getting out information right now is where my little piece of help is. And then as we move forward, I really do want to help Californians rebuild their homes, so you can look for charity work here on jailt Why for that, I'll figure out the right way to do it though. Okay, love you guys. We're safe. Thank you for your prayers. Continue to pray for Los Angeles, and I'll just catch you hired. Our braiders all messolda day that we won't with Bathe, then we won't to say, oh we gott it does. No one can take that Owen. It's gonna be okay, O, braiders all messolda that we won't with Sathe, then we won't to say, oh we gott it does. No one can take that owen. With May it don't be okay. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network where real talk lifts visitors online at FCB podcasts dot com.
