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Fires Rage Across LA, How Dems Destroyed the Golden state, Live with Alex Marlow, John Phillips, and Joe Bastardi | TRIGGERED Ep.206

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	Thank you.
	Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
	It's been one hell of a week.
	I figured we'd spend most of today's show talking about my trip to Greenland.
	That was pretty epic, actually.
	And we'd be talking about the inauguration.
	But honestly, these California fires are now at the top of everyone's minds.
	And there is just so much to cover.
	It's not a scene from some sort of Hollywood apocalyptic movie.
	What we're seeing is real life as fires take out some of the most beautiful and affluent neighborhoods anywhere in America.
	From Malibu to Pacific Palisades to Santa Monica, thousands and thousands of homes are gone overnight.
	And the far-left leaders in LA and the state of California are simply and completely unfit for the moment.
	This is something we are witnessing before our very eyes.
	My father's been talking about these things for years.
	He even spoke about the lack of preparedness on Joe Rogan's podcast before the election.
	And as usual, he was right.
	He sees it.
	He calls it out.
	But that's not where their focus is.
	They are a disgrace.
	And we are not letting them off the hook.
	Destroying California, where woke policies come before competence, where inept leaders get positions because they check boxes.
	That's what we're witnessing.
	And unfortunately for so many in California, the consequences of that kind of insanity are playing out before our very eyes.
	And we have a jam-packed show tonight.
	We have reporters in California who have seen this destruction firsthand.
	We're also going to be joined by weather forecast Joe Bastardi, who's been warning about this exact doomsday situation regarding high winds in Los Angeles for a long time.
	Plus, we'll have actor Dean Cain, who will also stop by.
	So this is going to be a fast-moving show, so get your best questions and comments in the chat.
	I'll be paying attention to that right here as well, so I'll try to integrate that into some of them.
	Can they be charged?
	Jimmy Boom Boom.
	Good question.
	They should be charged.
	Again, my father's been talking about this for years.
	He talked about it last time California had wildfires.
	But between the insane environmental regulations and trying to save a minnow that prevents them from filling up the reservoirs to actually fight fires where fire hydrants are totally empty to the slashing of fire department budgets in Los Angeles to hiring DEI-type candidates to lead these things.
	It's a serious problem, folks.
	So there should be liability.
	There should be accountability.
	But because of, again, one-party rule in California, there probably won't be.
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	And we'll get into all of the top news in just a moment.
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	So, guys, with that, so much to discuss tonight.
	Let's get into the top headlines.
	Now, just before this show started, a woman who was impacted by the fire actually confronted Governor Gavin Newsom on camera.
	And you have to see this.
	Check this out.
	I'm here, Governor.
	That was my daughter's school, Governor.
	Please tell me what you're going to do.
	I'm not going to hurt him.
	I promise.
	I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter.
	Can I hear it?
	Can I hear your call?
	Because I don't believe it.
	I'm sorry.
	There's literally...
	I've tried five times.
	That's why I'm walking around to make the call.
	Why is the president not taking your call?
	Because it's not going through.
	So I have to get self-service.
	So let's get it.
	Let's get it.
	I want to be here when you call the president.
	I appreciate it.
	I'm doing that right now.
	And it's to immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help you on a devastating point.
	I'm so sorry.
	Especially for your daughter.
	I have four kids.
	Losing the school.
	Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.
	They lost two homes because they were living in one building in another.
	Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you going to do with the president right now?
	We're getting the resources to help rebuild.
	Why was there no water in the hydrants, Governor?
	That's all literally...
	Is it going to be different next time?
	It has to be.
	Has to be.
	Of course.
	What are you going to do?
	To fill the hydrants?
	I would fill them up personally, you know that.
	I would fill up the hydrants myself.
	But would you do that?
	I would do whatever I can.
	But you're not!
	I see the...
	Do you know there's water dripping over there, Governor?
	There's water coming out there.
	You can use it.
	I appreciate it.
	I'm going to make the call to address everything I can right now, including making sure people are safe.
	Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing?
	Could somebody have a contact?
	Can I have your contact information?
	Good for her.
	It's about time these leaders face some actual tough questions, right?
	They like to blame this stuff on climate change and all that other crap.
	It has nothing to do with it.
	Newsom deserves to be confronted like that.
	He's been a disaster.
	Back in 2021, he claimed that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.
	Well, guys, let's just say that didn't age too well like all of the liberal takes that are out there about Trump.
	Is we are committed as a team, as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies, including now the federal government, no longer a sparring partner, but a working partner, federal government, where we're not addressing headwinds, but tailwinds in terms of the support, a memorandum of understanding doubling.
	Our respective commitments to vegetation management and forest management have prescribed burns to support the Biden administration with resources, not just rhetoric, to help this collective cause.
	It's a different paradigm.
	It's a different framework.
	Newsom is completely wrong, by the way.
	During my father's first term, he tried to increase water diversions on federal land to help California's water supply.
	California didn't accept the help and instead sued the federal government, putting petty politics above people's lives, as always.
	Newsom's actually on the record at the time saying with my father when we were talking about COVID, hey, anything that we ask for from Trump, they got it the next day.
	So the fact that they're trying to pretend that my father wasn't prepared or wasn't willing to do anything is a lie.
	Just go back and find it for yourself.
	The fact that Joe Biden is incompetent is a big part of this.
	And again, liberal policies that place wokeness ahead of competency, ahead of people who are actually able to do the job, caused these problems.
	It has nothing to do with climate change, and it has nothing to do with my father's administration.
	It has everything to do with the inept policies of today's Democrat Party.
	Will they ever just admit that my father is right and actually knows what he's talking about?
	I mean, just think about it.
	There wasn't even enough water in the fire hydrants.
	You can take my word for it, or you can listen to this MSNBC clip.
	They're not exactly fans.
	Hear what they have to say.
	An apartment building engulfed in flames.
	I saw the fire engine pull up this afternoon.
	A fire captain have one of his firefighters attach a hose to a hydrant.
	And that hose didn't fill up, Alex.
	And I asked the captain, out of every ten hydrants you attach to today, on average, how many are you getting full water from?
	He says little to none.
	And it was at that point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at this apartment building, and they realized there was nothing they could do except...
	The response to this fire, guys, has been atrocious.
	There have been multiple reports of firefighters finding that there is no water in fire hydrants.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I'm not a fireman.
	I have some friends that are firemen.
	I imagine having water in fire hydrants is sort of the purpose of a fire hydrant.
	If there's no water in them, what purpose do they serve?
	The brush wasn't cleared out.
	The city officials were barely communicating with residents.
	Here's one man saying that he actually called 911 only to be told and I quote, there was no fire where he's talking about a fire.
	I called 911, LAPD, they answered the phone and I said, you need to get some police officers down here because I'm a former journalist so I kind of know how to get things done.
	I said, you need to get police down here to manage traffic.
	And she said, why?
	I said, because we're being evacuated from the Pacific Palisades.
	She says, there's no evacuation out of the Pacific Palisades.
	I said, oh really?
	Is that why my phones were blowing up for 15 minutes?
	I said, there's a fire.
	She says, there's no fire there.
	And we were literally gridlocked on sunset.
	And that was after I waited for five minutes on hold.
	So, you know, this city needs some work.
	The response, guys, guys in these woke cities is so bad that 911 does not even know when and where there are fires while citizens are being alerted to the fires in the areas they're calling about.
	Think about that That's insane as well.
	And guys, you'll be shocked to find out, shocked I tell you, that DEI also played a role in the failed response.
	Here's the LA Fire Department's Assistant Chief, Christine Larson, explaining how when you're struck or stuck in a burning building, you'll apparently be very concerned about diversity.
	Yes?
	You'll literally, when you're stuck in a burning building, guys, you're gonna be very concerned about diversity.
	You can't make this crap up anymore.
	Somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you.
	It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
	Is she strong enough to do this?
	Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire?
	Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
	Are you kidding me?
	Can we rename DEI to DIE? Since that seems to be what happens when you place woke virtue signaling far above ability and competency.
	It was just a year and a half ago when NPR published this very headline.
	And I quote, firefighting is mostly white and male.
	A California program aims to change that.
	Guys, I have a question for you.
	How'd that work out?
	I don't know.
	When there's a fire, if I had to be rescued, my kids had to be rescued, I don't care about someone's color.
	I want someone who's actually able to do the job.
	I want someone strong enough to actually carry me.
	Not, well, if you got yourself in that situation, on your own, you're SOL, folks.
	That doesn't work.
	I think we're witnessing that before our very eyes.
	Hopefully the people...
	And the woke people of California are starting to understand that these policies are abject failures.
	And speaking of complete failures, have you seen L.A. Mayor Karen Bass?
	She was in Ghana.
	She was in Africa when the fires first broke out.
	You know, obviously, she needs to be there, not at home.
	Who knows?
	There were warnings.
	Who cares?
	There were warnings that a major fire could break out due to the winds, due to the dryness.
	But, you know, whatever.
	We're not going to interrupt our trip for these kinds of things.
	Once she finally flew back to the US, she was confronted by a reporter.
	And you have to see the response.
	You'll probably believe it because it's about as incompetent as you'd imagine it to be.
	Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?
	Have you nothing to say today?
	Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
	Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.
	Are you considering your position?
	Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster?
	No apology for them?
	Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?
	What about her press conference today?
	She told Los Angeles residents to visit, quote, the URL for help.
	That's even worse than Joe Biden.
	She's completely clueless.
	She has no idea what these things are.
	Visit a URL? Which one?
	How about, like, maybe giving us the actual URL, not some sort of general ridiculous statement?
	But she doesn't know.
	BTW, by the way, she was on the shortlist to be Joe Biden's...
	Just so we're clear, this is someone who was on Joe Biden's running mate shortlist.
	So incompetent, but again, it doesn't matter.
	If you check off a couple boxes, you too can do anything.
	But Kamala got the job instead of her when it was uncovered that Bass was part of a pro-Fidel Castro, presumably communist, group.
	I'm shocked to hear this, folks.
	Again, the fact that this is happening...
	And it keeps getting worse.
	Doesn't surprise me even a little bit.
	It turns out we're not just sending money to Ukraine.
	California also sent them, wait for it, fire trucks.
	Look at this tweet from June.
	I wonder if they're perhaps regretting now sending all that incredible equipment that could be used to save Americans.
	Paid for by American taxpayers.
	Over to Vladimir Zelensky in the Ukraine.
	They probably don't even care.
	That's the reality of it.
	And by the way, when we had Pretty Boy reporter David Muir from ABC News, who apparently wanted his fake tough guy firefighter jacket to fit a little bit better.
	So what he actually did was put clothespins on the back of it.
	You got to see this picture.
	Imagine how vain you have to be.
	To put clothespins on it so that it would fit better.
	You can look sexy.
	You know, because that's what matters.
	Not just reporting the news.
	We got to look like a sexy firefighter.
	This is them.
	It's all smoke and mirrors.
	It's absolutely pathetic.
	Now, all of this is the problem with far-left woke nonsense and the government that espouses these policies.
	When times are tough, they can't even carry out the most basic tasks and the lives and property gets destroyed.
	California is too worried about resisting my father than actually protecting its 40 plus million people and their property.
	I mean, think about it.
	They didn't even have water in the fire hydrants, folks.
	It's a disgrace.
	And now, some of the most beautiful Neighborhoods in America are completely gone.
	They're destroyed.
	They don't exist anymore.
	It looks like a war zone or a scene from a movie, but it's real life, and it's Democrat destruction.
	What's that?
	We're going to take a couple questions first before we get to our first guest in a couple minutes, but was that the dude?
	For Harris.
	Yes, John Muir, the guy that did the clothespin thing, or David Muir, whatever his name is, David Muir was one of the, and I quote, moderators.
	They called him a moderator, but he was really a participant on the team of the Democrats and Kamala Harris in my father's presidential debate with her.
	That's the same guy.
	So once he stopped being a Democrat participant, apparently he's trying to be a sexy firefighter on TV. It's bad.
	It's so terrible for these people.
	And again, these are not people necessarily.
	I mean, I imagine this is a fairly liberal area, but it doesn't matter.
	They're Americans.
	They deserve competent leadership.
	And hopefully they'll get that.
	But again, so much of this stuff is done at the state level that they need to make a switch.
	Guys, you don't have to vote.
	For Democrats who are going to fail you.
	You don't have to simply virtue signal and hire incompetent fire chiefs or otherwise.
	You don't have to do that.
	You can actually find people that are actually competent.
	It's okay.
	It sucks that lives had to be lost or homes had to be lost.
	People's entire existence had to be lost to maybe get this message through.
	But perhaps that's where we are.
	What are the chances of resignations?
	I'd say probably zero, because that's the reality.
	Right now, in Democrat-run areas, despite what we see, there's been nothing but incompetence.
	We've seen failure after failure, and yet we've seen no accountability.
	So if you can get away with it, I guess you can get away with it.
	How was Greenland?
	Greenland was awesome.
	Greenland was incredible.
	I mean, so many people there, so excited about the visit.
	Especially the youth.
	It was interesting.
	Over there, the Danes, Denmark treats them like crap.
	If they go over to Copenhagen, they're told to, and I quote, go home Eskimo.
	That's what they were telling me.
	I mean, there's literally racism there.
	Denmark won't let them utilize any of their incredible natural resources.
	It's amazing.
	But you would not be shocked to find out that all these people are saying that Danish television, which controls the television in Denmark, has basically been doing like an anti-America campaign because they understand that people, if they knew...
	What they could actually have.
	If they knew their full potential, they'd never stay in Denmark or with Denmark.
	And so there's been an active media campaign basically crapping all over the United States so that that doesn't actually happen.
	The stories are amazing.
	But our first guests are here.
	So let's get to that because obviously this fire is just such a huge thing.
	So joining me now for a reaction.
	To all of this, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, along with KABC radio host and LA Daily News columnist John Phillips.
	Guys, great to have you on here.
	Glad to be here, Don.
	Thank you.
	So, Alex, I know you were on just fairly recently.
	What's the latest on the ground?
	I know you're at Breitbart, but you actually live out there.
	You see what's going on.
	And just what went wrong with the response here?
	I mean, it feels like it's...
	So easy to have actually just preemptively taken care of many of these problems, but that clearly didn't happen.
	Yeah, it's decades in the making.
	It's one of these things where, and I'm sure John will agree with me on this, that this has always been bound to happen.
	L.A. was always going to be lit on fire so long as we had a government that was more concerned with DEI and more concerned with abortions and more concerned with going to presidential inaugurations in Ghana rather than trying to actually take care of the citizenry here.
	You can see it in the answers that Kieran Bass wouldn't give in some of her interviews that she's done since she arrived back from Africa to L.A. What's gone on in this state
	is that people have allowed for things to depreciate for decades.
	Don, your dad was talking about this, and he was entirely accurate about this.
	Our entire scheme, the way we deal with water, was upended a couple decades ago to preserve the Delta smelt, a bait fish, because the salinity in the water was incringing upon their rights to exist at the expense of humans, and not just in terms of fire safety.
	California used to feed the world, the central plains of this state.
	It looks like a desert now.
	It used to be lush and green, and it fed people all over the planet.
	We don't do that because of the smelt.
	And no one in state government cared.
	No one cared.
	They weren't clearing out brush.
	They weren't making sure our reservoirs were filled.
	They weren't making sure infrastructure was up to date.
	They weren't making sure enough first responders were ready and trained.
	And there's no culture in the citizenry in terms of fire preparedness.
	No one was aware that all these insurers got out of the business of insuring people for fire because the Democrat governance of this state.
	Half the amount of money insurance companies could make on these transactions.
	That was a socialist communist plan and it led to a bunch of people now who are going to have to pick up the pieces and rebuild with nothing.
	They have nothing because they weren't insured for this stuff.
	The list goes on.
	We could go on for hours about this.
	It is a true 360 degree failure of what happens when you have a socialist state that's single party.
	Yeah, I mean, my father spoke about this almost, you know, prophetically on Rogan just a few months ago, a couple weeks before the election, talking about that because he was out there the last time they had disastrous fires trying to give, you know, whatever aid.
	But it's not like this is a surprise.
	I mean, this is...
	You know, common knowledge, you know, John, you know, from the governor to the mayor of L.A., we see nothing but failure.
	Is that ultimately what one party Democrat rule does to a state?
	There's been little sense of urgency even to protect residents like I will get to it.
	I mean, who cares?
	You saw maybe the lady in the intro, you know, asking, you know, arguably the most basic questions and they have no answers whatsoever.
	Well, the one-party aspect of it is certainly a key component.
	But you also have people like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who are state elected officials, but they see themselves as national thinkers.
	Gavin Newsom thought when Grampy Joe was on the ropes that it would be him and not Kamala Harris that would be the Democratic nominee.
	That didn't happen.
	Karen Bass, of course, was on Rampy Joe's shortlist to be vice president, and it wasn't until Kamala Harris and her aides here in California kneecapped Karen Bass so that she could be the vice president.
	And when you see yourself as a national figure, you see these sorts of state and local issues as being beneath you.
	So Gavin Newsom has no interest in fire.
	He has no interest in water policy.
	Neither does Karen Bass.
	So we have these absentee landlords that are gallivanting all around the globe trying to...
	Put themselves on the same stage as all of these heads of state because that's where they think they belong.
	And then we're just left on our own.
	This is not like an earthquake where it just happens in the middle of the night.
	You don't know when the earthquake is going to hit.
	She knew a week ahead of time that we had these severe winds and this extreme fire risk, and she decided to go to Africa anyway.
	And what was the first thing that Gavin Newsom did when the fires broke out?
	He blamed your dad.
	Your dad hasn't even put his hand on the Bible yet this time around.
	He had nothing to do with the fires.
	He had nothing to do with the response to the fires.
	But Trump derangement syndrome is real, and all of these people suffer from it.
	It impacts virtually everything that they do.
	Every decision that they make is through the prism of what can get them national attention and what gives them an opportunity to go after your dad.
	And ultimately, the people who are suffering are the people of California because we have to live with their incompetence.
	Yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point when you think about it.
	I mean, Karen Bass was going to be, you know, possibly a VP contender.
	She was certainly on that shortlist for Joe Biden.
	You know, Gavin Newsom, definitely, you know, one of the top guys in the Democrat, let's call it the bench for 2028. And yet here they are, just abject incompetence.
	I mean, is there even...
	I mean, do they even face any real questioning later on?
	I mean, is this even penal to them in those future prospects?
	Or is it just like, it doesn't matter.
	If you're a Democrat royalty, you can kind of get away with murder, so to speak, and maybe perhaps in this case, quite literally, without a consequence or accountability.
	Well, for Gavin Newsom, he's a lame duck.
	In fact, he's such a lame duck, I think some Haitians just ate him.
	But Gavin Newsom, if he's going to do...
	I like that.
	Anything in the future, it's going to have to be president.
	He's gone as far as he could go in California.
	So it's the White House or bus.
	But, you know, here's the problem for him.
	Some issues in politics are really complicated, and it's hard for the average Joe to understand.
	Everyone understands there's a horrible fire.
	The firefighters go to the fire hydrant.
	No water comes out.
	That is a total failure of government, and he's the guy in charge.
	I don't see how he gets past that.
	Yeah, and these are also his donors.
	You know, I mean, I know I saw James Woods lost his house, but I imagine he's one of the few remaining conservatives in a lot of these areas.
	I mean, these are the people that have been supporting that machine.
	I would hope that if you lose your house, maybe you rethink your thoughts.
	But, you know, Alex...
	I mean, you've talked about this sort of at length about just how toxic sort of the anti-Trump resistance culture in California is.
	And again, I think we're seeing the consequences of that.
	Even the most basic functions of government break down.
	What does it tell you about all that?
	Yeah, it really does.
	And I think that a lot of people who think of themselves as independent and free thinkers are going to start reappraising whether or not, if Donald Trump said it, it must be wrong.
	Because they've had this approach for eight years.
	If Trump holds this position, I must hold the opposite position.
	What other explanation, Don, is there that they elevated Liz Cheney?
	Liz Cheney stood for everything the Democrats opposed for the first three quarters of my life.
	She was a warmonger and a war criminal, and so was her father, according to them, for 30 years.
	I mean, it's not like it was new.
	I grew up in LA. I went to Berkeley.
	Dick Cheney was the devil.
	He was the literal devil.
	And now all of a sudden he's a star in the Democrat Party.
	Why?
	Because he's opposed to Trump.
	So there's going to be a huge reappraisal of that.
	I will tell you my sleeper story of the day is this actress, Sarah Foster.
	Who wrote a beautiful, incredible tweet summarizing all the arguments that I talked about just now, just in a much more concise way.
	This is a person who's Hollywood royalty.
	Her dad, David Foster, wrote almost every song you've ever heard.
	She's got a Netflix show.
	She's a fashion designer.
	She's got a hot podcast.
	She's at the height of her power.
	She's in her early 40s.
	This is someone who's going to be a Hollywood star.
	She's currently a Hollywood star.
	She's going to be a Hollywood star for decades.
	And she's out there saying that everyone needs to go.
	Full resignations.
	Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom.
	The water is warm.
	It is now time for us not just to be angry.
	Of course, I'm angry.
	I'm angry for my friends.
	My friends lost their homes.
	I'm sure John feels the same way.
	But it is also time to be recruiting.
	We need to be using this as an opportunity to say, it is time to leave the Democrat Party.
	They failed you.
	It's their fault.
	And it's a political statement not to call them out.
	The political move is to refrain from the judgment that they all deserve.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I saw a tweet from Rick Grinnell, who's a friend, but, you know, lives in California and sort of understands.
	And when you think about it, I mean, this fire is within, like, inches of the ocean.
	You have water.
	You have options.
	If you don't want to deal with the river, like, there's other ways to do it.
	Like, how do you not have water when you live literally on the Pacific Ocean?
	I mean, that seems like a big deal that's not even being talked about.
	I mean, maybe they want to redirect fresh water, but, like...
	There has to be ways to deal with this, especially since people have known for years that this is basically a tinderbox waiting to happen.
	I mean, we saw the California wildfires a few years ago.
	That was further from the ocean.
	But I mean, this is oceanfront property that's burning down and they don't have water.
	I mean, that's special.
	Well, go back to your initial point of it being a one-party state.
	We had a water bond on the ballot in 2014. And in a one-party state, whenever you have a bond on the ballot, you're going to spend a lot of money.
	That's when it's Christmas Day.
	They get to be Santa Claus.
	They get to take care of all of their left-wing friends.
	They get to take care of their political benefactors.
	And they just do essentially what Joe Biden did with the infrastructure bill, which is you call everything that you want to spend money on infrastructure, and you load it up with pork.
	None of the money is actually going for things that people assume it's going for.
	So in this water bond that we passed in 2014, voters were told that it would go to collect water.
	None of those reservoirs have been built.
	None of them.
	But Karen Bass, who was the Speaker of the Assembly at the time, put money in that bond for a park in her district in Los Angeles.
	Warren Buffett, a billionaire, got a $250 million bailout from the people of California.
	And ultimately, we're left with a situation where we have very dangerous fire conditions and no water comes out of the fire hydrants.
	We did that to ourselves.
	Yeah, well, John, we've also seen LA leadership prioritize DEI, or as I want to rename it, D-I-E, at the fire department over actually fighting fires.
	We saw very disturbing parallels during COVID where it was all about diversity instead of actual health policy.
	Just how destructive is this social justice agenda?
	And why do Californians keep voting for it?
	Well, the fire chief was told that her first priority is to diversify the fire department.
	And it looks like it should have been to make sure there's water in the fire hydrants.
	But that wasn't number one.
	And we're paying for it because of that.
	This is something that's not just an L.A. thing.
	It's not just a California thing.
	This is emblematic of what the left wants to do.
	The diversity and the racial and gender makeup and sexual orientation makeup of the fire department is more important than their ability to carry out their duties.
	And once you get to that point, once you get to the point to where these organizations are for the people who work there and not for the people who are supposed to be getting the services, that's when everything goes down the tubes.
	And I'll say this, as much as they proclaim to hate your father and as much as all of them have Trump derangement syndrome, the odd thing is, is he's going to be the one that's going to end up saving their bacon because he's a builder.
	He knows how to rebuild these things.
	He knows how to do these tasks that need to be done that they're incapable of doing.
	They'll benefit from him going into office, but they'll give him zero thanks and continue to attack them.
	Well, I put out a tweet earlier today saying basically that, which is if they spent half the time actually trying to prepare for these things that they do trying to, you know, fake dunk on my father, these issues wouldn't persist.
	So I guess, Alex, you know, for this, what does recovery even look like?
	You know, again, you have a lot of people, I mean, you know, I guess, hey, if you don't have insurance on your car and you total your car, you can come back from that.
	If you don't have insurance on your home, you know, that's most of people's worth.
	You know, their net worth is tied up into their home.
	Will the California Coastal Commission, you know, we've dealt with them in the past.
	We've seen what they've done to Elon Musk.
	I've dealt with them because we own a golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes just south of you guys.
	Will they even let residents rebuild or will it just be endless red tape to try to create an unpopulated area because whatever environmental agenda they're pushing?
	Yeah, a few points here.
	First of all, we're...
	Talking about this as if it's past tense in some ways, and it's very much present tense.
	We're seeing 0% containment for the Palisades Fire.
	We're seeing 0% containment for the fire in Pasadena, and we're seeing 10% containment for the Hearst Fire just north of LA in the Sylmar area.
	All this stuff is still going on.
	We were at the beginning of the windy season.
	We don't know if there's clearly arsonists that are starting some of these, if not all of them.
	We don't know for sure where they're coming from.
	We know there's irresponsible people who are not literate in terms of fire safety.
	The image in the destruction is so bad.
	Don, the the Bel Air fires from the 1960s were world famous, and people who are literate in LA history are aware of these things.
	500 structures were destroyed.
	We were at a thousand structures within 24 hours of this fire, and we're just beginning to understand the level of the devastation.
	So it starts from there.
	So what does it look like rebuilding the way the permitting?
	Process works in California.
	It's almost impossible to get a wall built on your property because there are so many hoops you have to jump through.
	Now imagine thousands upon thousands of people trying to build at the same time with a government that is not prepared to process all of this.
	There's going to have to be wholesale reappraisals of what regulatory processes Go into being able to rebuild.
	And it's a historic opportunity to your dad because the Democrats who are here are not up for reelection for at least a couple of years, and they're not going to show leadership.
	So hopefully President Trump comes in.
	And he takes the reins on this thing and he's able to start getting people back on track.
	But even best case scenario, we're talking years upon years of rebuilding.
	The insurance companies are going to take an absolute bath on this.
	A lot of them are going to probably go bankrupt.
	If not, they're going to stop insuring certain homes in certain places.
	The ripple effect is going to be so deep.
	We're going to need a full scale reset in terms of what happens in the city of L.A. It will never be the same.
	It will never be the same after this.
	John, you know, what are you hearing from your listeners to your radio show?
	Just how pissed off are they?
	Will more people keep leaving the state of California and the city of LA? Oh, yeah.
	I mean, pissed off is a polite way of saying it.
	I mean, every caller, I feel like is going to turn into Andrew Dice Clay at a certain point with the swearing.
	But they have every right to be angry because we pay a fortune to live here.
	You expect the government to throw the ball, catch the ball, hit the ball, do the basics of government, police, fire, those sorts of things.
	And they spend the money on everything but that.
	Karen Bass defunded the LA Fire Department by $17 million.
	We don't have money for that.
	We have money for health care for illegal aliens.
	We have money to give needles to drug addicts.
	We have money for every pet project that they want to have money for, but we don't have the money to fully fund the fire department.
	Yeah, well, they have money for transgender surgeries for illegal alien criminals in prison.
	I mean, they got that, but they don't have water in the fire hydrants.
	Hey, Ukrainian fire departments.
	We got Ukrainian fire departments.
	We got to fund those first.
	Yeah, no, I mean, it's...
	Listen, I mean, it's terrible.
	I feel so badly for all of these people.
	But I mean, if South Park were to do an episode on incompetence, it's like you really couldn't add much.
	I don't think they could up the ante even a little bit.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, John, go ahead.
	With the state on fire.
	And all these images on TV, oh, we don't have money to make sure that there's water in the fire hydrant, but if your 15-year-old wants to go to the chop shop for a sex change, then go right ahead.
	And at a certain point, people say, well, you know, why am I paying this?
	And the grass is greener in Arizona or Nevada or other places.
	And there is a reason why our population is in decline, and I expect it to continue.
	Yeah, I mean, Alex, talk a little bit more about that, you know, in terms of sort of the You know, the flight out of California and out of these blue states.
	I know Breitbart's been covering this for years.
	You know, it's interesting.
	I deal with it a lot here in Florida.
	And yet, strangely enough, it's becoming more red.
	Initially, the concern was, hey, all these New Yorkers, me being one of them.
	But, you know, I think my conservative bona fides are pretty solid.
	But it does feel like the concern of people bringing their crappy politics with them.
	As it escalates, as it keeps getting worse, as the Democrat Party has just totally lost its way, it doesn't seem like the people that are fleeing are actually bringing that stuff with them nearly as much as people were concerned about.
	No, and if you look at the Palisades area, the Palisades area voted for Rick Caruso, who was kind of a fake Democrat.
	He's mostly a Republican, but he would talk crap about your dad just to score some points, and he claims he was pro-abortion.
	But he's a builder and otherwise is a more conservative guy.
	The Palisades wanted him for mayor.
	So a lot of the people who are going to be displaced here, if they end up leaving the state, then they're not – don't be too afraid.
	They might not bring terrible politics with them.
	But hopefully this is a – Moment where Californians can mature a little bit and understand that the promise of the DEI and the wokeness and the infinite abortions did not keep you safe and it did not protect what's most important to you, which is your home and your friends and your family.
	So I'm optimistic that the result of this will be a huge surge in Republican MAGA voters and will bring that to those who stay and rebuild.
	And when there are people displaced and they move, I'm hoping that they're going to.
	See the Democrat failures clearly enough that they're not going to infect any of your states, those of you who are watching.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, you're right.
	I mean, the focus on being able to get a drive-through abortion probably shouldn't have been, you know, the number one policy.
	You know, making sure that three-year-olds should be able to get, you know, gender-affirming care without parental consent.
	You know, probably not a big one when you lose your house.
	Due to a fire that could have easily been preventable.
	I guess a question for both of you.
	Maybe we'll start with John and then, you know, then go to Alex.
	But how do you think the new Trump administration will engage with California?
	You know, again, Gavin Newsom is on the record during COVID saying, hey, anything we needed from the Trump administration, we got it the next day.
	I'll give them, you know, I'll give them a couple points there for at least being honest about that.
	Will they be as eager to help if they're going to get sued at every turn?
	You know, what does that look like?
	I mean, the radicals that still control the legislature, you know, how do you help someone that doesn't seemingly want to be helped?
	What does that all look like to you?
	Maybe, like I said, start with John, and then I'd like to hear Alex.
	Well, I don't think their behavior is going to change until they feel like they might lose re-election.
	And even though Kamala Harris won the state statewide, if you look at the margins of the states from 2016 to this last election, California moved farther to the right in the direction of your father more than any other state in the union.
	We didn't move enough to give our electoral votes to him, but there was a lot of movement.
	And I think that once these guys start to think that going after your dad nonstop is not going to pay off for them, that's when they'll change their behavior.
	But as of now, I mean, you look at the legislature, they met today to find different ways to sue your dad's administration.
	The Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, is going to try to run for governor on the platform of filing as many nuisance lawsuits against the federal government as humanly possible.
	If he doesn't make it out of that primary and the legislature ends up with egg on their face, which is exactly what's happening.
	I mean, the Speaker of the Assembly just got absolutely obliterated by the press court today because they were so tone deaf going after your dad instead of dealing with the fires in Southern California.
	When they start to feel the heat, I think that's when their behavior will change.
	But unless they feel the heat, I think they're just going to keep doing what they're doing.
	So we obviously just got through an election, John.
	When does that happen in California?
	Is this something that's two years from now where, again, I have a hard time believing people forget about their house going up in flames, but is that the kind of thing that maybe they can just forget about this and the media, I'm sure, will run cover for them?
	Well, two years from now, we have the governor's seat up.
	And Gavin Newsom will be turned out, so it'll be an open seat.
	And you'll have a huge field of candidates.
	And if you have a lot of Democrats who are credible candidates who can raise money and have some degree of name ID, then a Republican should be able to make it on the November ballot with our top two primary system.
	And then you'll have a real debate.
	If you just have two Democrats whose politics are the same, but their race is different or gender is different or whatever, then it doesn't matter.
	But if you can get a Republican on that November ballot and you can re-litigate all of their issues, all these issues, all these failures that we've all lived with, I don't see how they have any answers for that.
	Alex, what about you?
	Yeah, so I look at California and I feel like we're a little bit...
	Misunderstood by the rest of the country.
	And there's huge problems with the state.
	The taxes are ridiculous.
	And the priorities of our elected leaders are ridiculous.
	But keep in mind, the most conservative voters, the most Republican voters of any state in the country is California.
	Now, I know it's the most populous state, so it's not the most by percentage, obviously.
	But the most quantity of Republicans who are here and the Hall of Fame.
	Of California Republicans is the best of all time.
	I mean, think about Andrew Breitbart, Rick Grinnell.
	Steve Bannon was an executive out here.
	The Daily Wire was started out here.
	Dennis Prager and PragerU started out here.
	Leary Elder, Michael Savage.
	I've been listening to John on the radio and KBC for 20 years.
	I mean, it's one of these things where...
	People forget how it is an incubator for conservative thought and MAGA thought in particular.
	And so I'm eternally optimistic that California will wake up and turn around one day.
	But there are some real headwinds.
	The Democrats are, they put their head in the sand and they like to pretend certain negative things like crime and homelessness going on around them.
	Illegal aliens have ruined the state in a lot of ways, particularly the education system.
	And that's not discussed.
	So we got to break through to those people.
	But the Republican Party is completely disorganized in the state.
	It's kind of pathetic.
	And I'm sure there's good people there.
	I don't know many of them, but I'm sure there's good people.
	There needs to be at a party level, at an organizational level, at a grassroots level, a real effort to take this opportunity to re-engage with the state because the water is warm.
	You can see it with all these people turning on Democrats now.
	The woke era is ending.
	Cancel culture is ending.
	People want free speech again.
	We've got to take advantage of that.
	Silicon Valley is showing some leadership.
	A lot of Silicon Valley executives saying they support your father now.
	Don, that's wonderful stuff.
	We've got to ride that momentum because it's an uphill But I think it's winnable.
	Yeah, I mean, California.
	I mean, you also have Richard Nixon, who, while he's been sort of lambasted in the press.
	Ronald Reagan.
	And Ronald Reagan, obviously, the other part of that California bench.
	So maybe there is still hope.
	God knows the people need it, and God knows they deserve it.
	So hopefully we can make something happen there.
	So Alex Marlowe, John Phillips, thank you so much both for joining tonight.
	I really appreciate it and look forward to hearing more.
	Hopefully some good news.
	In the next couple of days.
	Thanks, Don.
	Thank you.
	Be well, guys.
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	Joe, thank you so much for joining us today.
	I think we got to get Joe to unmute.
	We'll work on that.
	That's been a consistent theme this week.
	Maybe I'll take a question or two while we're figuring that out.
	Let's see.
	Oh, we there?
	Maybe not.
	Give me the live chat and we'll...
	Let's see.
	Bribing.
	Just announced dispatching eight C-130s to the fire.
	Yeah, well, hopefully it does something.
	I mean, it's interesting.
	I mean, the people of North Carolina got $700 after losing their homes.
	You know, that was a slap in the face.
	You saw the lackluster response to the fires at Maui.
	Hopefully it's better in California, and hopefully they make it right to all of those people, not just in California because that, you know, funds the Democrat regime, which controls so much.
	We shall see.
	So, let's see.
	Let's see.
	No mercy to the deep state.
	I agree.
	Someone just said they just opened their window.
	It smells like smoke.
	Well, if you're in California, I would imagine that's the case.
	I know in areas, when I've been up in, sometimes in the woods, you see some of these forest fires.
	You can smell them.
	You can breathe it.
	You can see the sort of...
	Smut and be a part of it, even if you're miles and miles away.
	So hopefully we can stop that.
	Have you spoken to LAFD arson investigators?
	You should.
	That's CKN fun.
	That's a big one.
	That's actually a good idea because it wouldn't surprise me at all if other people are starting some of these things.
	It wouldn't surprise me at all, but it also could be just high winds and fire.
	I mean, that sort of happens, especially when you don't do any kind of management of the woods when it's dry.
	We see this all across the West.
	The left woke gets in there.
	You can't cut down a dead tree that's been standing there for 20 years dead.
	You can't create those jobs.
	You can't utilize it as a natural resources.
	You can't allow the new growth forest to come up in, which helps not just The fauna, but also the flora.
	And instead, you end up with a matchbox up there.
	So that's pretty problematic.
	But, you know, maybe one day we'll learn, folks.
	Hopefully we can have a little push from the federal government, my father's administration, but you never know.
	But I think we have Joe.
	Joe, are you there?
	Yes, I'm here.
	Thanks for having me on, Don.
	Well, I appreciate you joining.
	So, Joe, you've actually been sounding the alarm about this exact situation.
	And California's lack of planning and prevention.
	What did you see?
	What went so wrong here?
	If you've been sounding that alarm, you clearly have a big voice there.
	How come no one's listening?
	Well, I think there's been a concerted effort to silence people.
	I call it Hunter Biden laptop meteorology and climatology, where they don't want to confront the situation because if you actually knew the situation, you wouldn't be able to buy into the climate missive anymore.
	And it's strictly a political-type situation.
	In fact, I have ideas on how we can counter these people once and for all, and sometime I'll talk to you about them, because what you have to do is get out in front of the situation.
	Let people know with a big bullhorn two, three weeks away that we've got a situation setting up, and then you start telling people it's similar to this year, this year, this year, years in the past, and they understand that it's not some magic CO2 fairy that's decided to light up the Southwest.
	And the policies of these people are depraved in difference.
	This is the third big event besides the hurricanes.
	You know, last year on December 7th, we put out a hurricane forecast from Weather Bell for the United States to have a hurricane season from hell targeting where these things were going to go a year in advance.
	So there are times when you can see it, and if you can see it, you can war plan or battle plan for the situation, have people in place.
	Now, here's an interesting question, folks.
	How did the Romans know?
	To build aqueducts, to get water to roam, and California doesn't seem to understand that with the increased three-fold increase in population and also in the whole infrastructure of the area, that you can have the same rain amounts that you had in the 1950s, and the demand would be so great, it would be draining your resources.
	And your father is exactly spot on right.
	When he says this stuff, it's common sense.
	He told Newsom back in 2018, this type of thing, you cannot prevent things like wildfires completely.
	But we're burning less than one-fifth.
	Of what we used to burn in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
	The situations are predictable, but you have to have the resources in place to fight them.
	And you can't just, oh my gosh, it popped up overnight.
	Where did this come from?
	And that's the attitude that these politicians have.
	Like I said before, folks, think about climate change this way.
	If you go bowling and you put three times the amount of pins on the lane, The same bowling balls go and knock down more pins.
	We have so many more people living there, and we have so much more infrastructure, and the shame is that this country is more than capable of adapting to whatever weather challenges that come at us, and that's what's really going on here.
	People don't want to do that.
	You know why?
	They could turn around and blame climate change and then demand money.
	It's fascinating watching this stuff.
	It doesn't seem like money solves all these other problems around the world.
	Everyone wants more money to fix problems they can't fix it.
	The statistics, you'd know better than me, but if I recall, I think the statistics over the last 75 years, the average climate has gone up 0.2 degrees.
	I don't think that's a changing thing.
	I don't think that's enough to create these headaches.
	And yet, we think we could spend trillions of dollars to alleviate a problem that, statistically, probably speaking, is not a problem at all.
	And this is from government statistics.
	Well, the problem is that people don't understand that it's water vapor that's driving the whole chute match.
	And if the oceans are going to warm...
	Then guess what?
	There's going to be more water vapor in the air.
	The oceans can't warm from the so-called back radiation of CO2. They warm from the sun and they warm from geothermal impact.
	And believe me, I think I've shown people this many times on Twitter.
	There is an outstanding causation, correlation type of situation going on now between the increase in geothermal input into the oceans.
	That's strictly natural.
	So what happens is, it's like this Don Quixote over here chasing windmills, and then these people try to tell you they're your heroes.
	We're going to save you from the very problem they create themselves.
	It's really a very, very fascinating situation that sociologists should be studying, and hopefully someday they will to find out.
	What kind of mass insanity took over that almost drove our country to the ground?
	If your father was not elected in 2024, I don't know what would have happened.
	Well, we always see this sort of reflexive response from the left to just shout climate change, blame everyone but themselves.
	I'm sure you'll see a lot more of that coming in the coming days as people start asking more questions.
	How do you respond to that?
	There's a problem.
	What's fact and what's fiction?
	There's a problem.
	We should be setting the playing field before.
	You had a lot of great people helping your dad in the first administration, but there were no weather forecasters.
	50 years I'm in the private sector.
	I have to be right or I'm going to get fired.
	I used to wrestle at Penn State.
	The weather to me is a wrestling match every single day.
	So there's a bottom line.
	So what happens is you have to be proactive.
	You have to get out in front, explain to people, like on September 8th, I tweeted the last week of September and the first week of October, major hurricane situation for Florida and the southeast part of the United States.
	You could see it coming.
	So here's what you do.
	You get out in front two to three weeks away.
	You explain what's coming.
	You line it up against things in the past, and then they walk into your trap.
	All we do is we sit there and wait for something to happen, and it's very frustrating.
	You can tell I'm frustrated.
	We sit there and we wait for something to happen, and then, okay, we'll punch them back.
	In the meantime, they've got the media.
	They've got this whole false missive that they've been spreading in our schools and throughout for the last 25 or 30 years.
	So you have to go on the attack with this, and you have to have someone willing to stand up and do that.
	And let me tell you the problem that they have with me.
	I'll tell you, I could pull, every time they say something's going on, I could pull out five storms off the top of my head.
	And it's because my father was a meteorologist and taught me, hey, if you want to know the future, try to figure out the past.
	And if you see something coming along, you've seen it before.
	Chances are you'll be able to forecast it.
	So it's a simple matter of common sense.
	But we've got to get aggressive.
	We can't just keep being a bunch of punching bags with this situation.
	They're already trying to cost us $93 trillion.
	I'm sorry.
	Ben out of shape about this stuff.
	But there's no reason.
	You should be.
	I mean, I didn't realize, you know, I'm aware, hey, every 10 years you have an El Nino cycle and that leads to X or a La Nina cycle.
	But you're saying that I imagine there's more like you in your field of expertise that say, hey, here are the stats.
	Here's what's going on based in the past.
	You're saying this is actually more common knowledge to a lot of people that you could expect and forecast even these regulars that are, say, you know, off those majors.
	Well, I'm not sure.
	You know why?
	People are so addicted to the climate models.
	They've become their gods.
	For instance, on December 20th, I have to forecast for energy companies.
	And by the way, what's odd is solar and wind power are first derivative profit centers for me.
	In other words, they have to know the weather every day.
	An energy company has to know two, three, four weeks away down the road.
	But our climate model, the CFSV2, had one of the warmest Januaries on record predicted for the United States seven, eight days ago.
	It's going to turn out to be the exact opposite.
	So what happens is you have a lot of very brilliant people that are working in the weather today, but they're all into the modeling.
	And not looking at what happened yesterday.
	And if you don't know what happened yesterday, you're going to repeat that mistake tomorrow.
	We all know that.
	It's common sense.
	Well, you talk about that a lot, how the left sort of weaponizes weather.
	Greta Thunberg became the high priestess of climate change.
	It's sort of one of their deities.
	And now we're seeing just how dangerous it is to put radical ideology over basic tasks about making sure we have water to fight fires.
	I mean, this seems like really basic stuff, and yet it's totally neglected.
	What more can we do?
	To try to make sure our country is actually better prepared.
	Is it just a matter of better leadership?
	Can it be that simple?
	Yes, it could be that simple.
	And it could also be getting out in front of the situation.
	We have a spokesperson come out.
	It's not afraid.
	He's going to take some hits from people.
	All right.
	I volunteer to come out and say, listen, in three weeks, this is going on.
	This happened.
	And this year, this year, this year, back in the past, it's similar to that.
	It's not going to be climate change.
	And what it's going to be is the weather doing what the weather's supposed to do.
	You know what?
	These people are narcissistic.
	I guess that's the word to use.
	They're egomaniacs their whole life.
	Is climate, climate, climate, right?
	Now you say to me, well, Joe, you talk about the climate all the time.
	It's because I need it for what God made me to do, which is the forecast, the weather.
	If the climate fight went away tomorrow, it doesn't hurt me.
	I still have to get up and unwrap that Christmas gift, which is the weather, which I absolutely love, the next morning and forecast and go to battle.
	So every single day, the weather is going to challenge me.
	But we've just sat back and taken it.
	And it's been so frustrating because I've tried to get in contact with people and say, listen, we've got to get out front of this stuff instead of just letting them do it.
	They will respond, no, it's not climate change.
	Let me show you this.
	By that time, the horse is out of the barn and all the way down the street, and we're sitting here holding the bag.
	So, Joe, before we roll, are there others that sort of have your capabilities that are just simply unwilling to say, The truth or say what you're saying, meaning they know it, they're just unwilling to say it because there is a social consequence to that.
	There are penalties.
	If you're perhaps getting government money and you don't espouse to the beliefs of climate change, you're just out, sort of like what we saw with COVID. If you said, of course it came from the lab that studies the exact virus in question at ground zero in Wuhan.
	Of course it did.
	You lost your government grants.
	You were thrown out of academia.
	Even though it was always the right answer, it was always the most plausible answer.
	It was just basic common sense.
	Yeah, my book in 2020, The Weaponization of Weather and the Phony Climate War, there were two chapters on how COVID was a warm-up for climate, and I wrote it in April of 2020. You can see as plain as the nose in my Italian face what was going.
	I think there are going to be people that are going to be speaking up that know about this.
	What we've got to do is we've got to get the meteorological community to sit there and look at it and go, wait a minute, wait a minute.
	How come water vapor is directly linked to temperature?
	We have to use what we call saturation mixing ratios, but how come there's nothing for CO2, right?
	And I feel bad for the young meteorologists that are under this whole spell today because they have no choice.
	What are you going to do?
	If you sit there and stand up, you're going to get fired.
	And if you're like me, if this is all you ever wanted to do since you were two or three years old, boy, that's a tough thing.
	That's a tough thing to do.
	For me, hey, listen, I know what God made me to do, and I'm going to do it as hard as I can until I leave the playing field to forecast the weather.
	But climate and knowing what happened before is essential.
	And because it's essential, when someone, as the great Clint Eastwood used to say, Pardon my French.
	Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining because that's exactly what these people are doing in this situation.
	So that's about sums it up, brother.
	Well, I really appreciate it, guys.
	WeatherBell.com, Chief Meteorologist Joe Bestardi.
	Joe, thanks so much.
	I'm sure we got to have you on for a longer period of time.
	The comments love it.
	I think we want to get into this in greater detail.
	So we'll be in touch and we'll have to do that again.
	Thank you.
	Well, God bless you.
	Enjoy the weather.
	It's the only weather you got.
	Exactly.
	Well, I'm living in Florida.
	It's like 50 degrees, which means I have to put on like a flannel when I go outside.
	So that's pretty rough.
	But, you know, everything's relative.
	Everything's relative.
	Well, thank you.
	Okay, guys.
	Actor Dean Cain will join us in just a few moments.
	But first, I'll take one or two questions from the live chat.
	We'll do a little talking.
	Oh, I need to pull up the live chat.
	A lot of guys like Joe on there.
	So yeah, I like the passion, man.
	That's amazing.
	Foxy Moab forestry.
	Yeah, that's what I was talking about earlier.
	We don't do any kind of forestry management because they don't want to go in and allow people to bring in machines to cut down dead trees.
	You know, that's better for new growth.
	That's better for the animals because, you know, there's nothing worse than sort of dead old growth forest.
	No light gets to the ground.
	Nothing.
	Doesn't create any other food.
	It's a real problem.
	And it's also a matchstick waiting to happen.
	That's bad policy from governments.
	All that stuff also doesn't get decided locally.
	The environmental people, they sue in D.C. where they can go and they can play on the heartstrings of some liberal judge rather than people who are actually affected, rather than people who actually understand the real problems.
	And that's an issue.
	I got more questions on Greenland.
	Greenland was awesome.
	An incredible trip.
	What a beautiful country.
	Such a great strategic asset for so many people.
	So I had an awesome time there.
	We got him.
	So guys, joining me now, actor, patriot, all-around good guy, Superman, many would say, the one and only Dean Cain.
	Dean, good to have you with us, buddy.
	Good to be here with you, brother.
	Wow, what a time.
	Well, so you actually, Dean, you left Malibu a few years back, literally over this exact issue of mismanagement, and you were worried something like this was going to happen.
	How do you digest what you're seeing?
	I imagine many of your friends, perhaps family, are still there living through this dystopian mess.
	Dystopian is right.
	I mean, it looks like the Pacific Palisades looked like someone dropped a nuclear bomb on it.
	It's just gone.
	I left there like 19 months ago, moved here to Henderson, Nevada, because it was getting insane, and I could see the writing on the wall.
	There had been fires before, burned all up to my house, all around it.
	Great firefighters saved my house.
	I appreciate that.
	They're superheroes.
	They're fantastic.
	I love them.
	But then shortly after, My fire insurance canceled me.
	You could just see all of the bad policies, all of the failure of leadership.
	I say this was a perfect storm of mismanagement and a failure of leadership.
	We saw it coming, so I got out of there.
	I was fortunate enough to have the means to get out of there.
	Saw this coming.
	I mean, everybody with any foresight whatsoever could see.
	All the terrible policies, the forest mismanagement, the water that we voted on in 2014 to bring all these reservoirs on, none of them built.
	You could just see it coming, so I was able to get out of there.
	But everybody who can prepare, like I mean, the stuff that you know, like if you were in charge of the forest management in California, I would have probably stayed.
	I mean, it's so different what they've done.
	It's crazy.
	When your biggest concern is being misgendered or, you know, DIE, I call them DIE policies, when that's your biggest concern, you know you're in very, very good times.
	But there's that saying, you know, weak men create hard times.
	Well, we're in the hard times now, my friend.
	Well, yeah.
	And hard times create strong men.
	So hopefully someone steps up and does something about California.
	I mean, you grew up in L.A. The houses you lived in, they're seemingly all gone.
	I mean, some of these pictures I'm seeing, I mean, it's like the villain in some of the movies you've been in was able to get away with it.
	I mean, they're torched.
	Entire swaths of cities.
	You know, where does Malibu go from here?
	Does this spark a real pushback against the leadership or do they just continue the same old ways?
	You know, I think everybody can talk about the things like, you know, like I said, DEI and D.I.E. or whatever that is, and words being violence and all that stuff until it hits home.
	Lack of preparedness and stuff.
	So there's so many people, you know, I'm hoping and praying that California turns red fast.
	Because it's all gone.
	I mean, I know that stretch of land so well that we're looking at right now.
	I lived in a house right there.
	Six houses that I previously lived in and two that I used to own are gone.
	Just completely gone.
	And it's surreal to see it.
	You'd think it couldn't happen.
	So I think that people, oftentimes it takes some crazy giant event like this for people to wake up and go, maybe I was making a mistake.
	And you're seeing it.
	I mean, thank God President Trump is coming in in two weeks.
	Again, we talked about that.
	You know, weak men create hard times.
	Hard times create strong men.
	We got a strong man coming in.
	It's about time.
	Your dad was dead right on this before.
	Talked about it.
	They mocked him.
	They said stupid things.
	That's just the same old story.
	But here we are looking like California, looking like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on top of it.
	It's devastation.
	People need to wake up and start.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I guess I'd ask you, I mean, you're one of the few people in Hollywood, you sort of became outspoken against some of this insanity, whether it's the climate change, whether it's some of your commentary about the transgender nonsense for minors, just legendary stuff.
	Are some of your friends coming to that same realization?
	I mean, there used to be such a consequence.
	I'm sure you've faced plenty of hardship due to it.
	I'm sure you lost acting gigs or jobs, probably even friends, because of the things that you're saying.
	But do you see people finally coming to their senses a little bit?
	I'm sure you have conservative friends too, but more on the people who aren't.
	Are they waking up and saying, you know what, maybe we don't need to go all in on all of the insanity all of the time?
	Yeah, when it hits home like this, Don, people wake up.
	And look at the people.
	Look at the list of celebrities and types who've lost their homes.
	You have lost your homes.
	Very blue voting people, very outspoken people.
	You have lost your homes because of mismanagement and a failure of leadership.
	Period.
	There are people to blame for this.
	So it will wake people up.
	I mean, you look no further than, you know, like...
	The young Turks, Anna Kasparian, and people like that going, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense, because they're starting to see the results of these horrible policies.
	Look, I saw the writing on the wall, and I bolted as fast as possible.
	You know, they make fun of preppers and, you know, have your things together.
	Look, we just got an alert moments ago.
	My son's mother, you know, is in that area, and suddenly the alert pops up, and I hear my son on the phone, because I've taught him while he's 24 years old.
	He's like, get your car packed, get all the things that you need, make sure you have enough water, you have an escape plant.
	These are the things that I know you take care of because you're an outdoorsman, you're a hunter, you understand it all, you're a shooter.
	I'm a shooter, but probably not as good as you, especially from distance.
	But these things are hugely important.
	And people just think, oh, electricity will always be there.
	Oh, water's fine.
	Everything's great.
	And it's not.
	And you have to be prepared.
	And they're not prepared.
	So we were just getting her prepared and her two kids in order for them to be able to get out of there.
	And a lot of people didn't have that.
	I think we're going to find a lot more bodies.
	I think we're going to find a lot more, you know, these.
	Who knows what the, quote, investigations will show because they have an ability to, you know, hide things like they've been doing for the last few years.
	But anybody with common sense realizes that they've been voting the wrong things.
	You know, Billy Crystal losing his home and how many celebrities that have voted for these policies that cost them their home.
	This should be a wake-up call for common sense governance and real competent governance.
	So, I mean, I know the firemen, the guys on the ground, those guys are real heroes.
	Those guys are great.
	I've been crapping all over leadership and there is always a distinction.
	No different than when I crap all over the leadership at the FBI, knowing that the door kickers are still with us in most cases.
	Same thing with the military.
	Leadership has gotten politicized.
	You know, the operators are still, you know, home team.
	I know you've played roles.
	Where you've been a firefighter in those roles, I imagine, in the training for that.
	What did you learn from those?
	Just how tough is that job?
	And just how bad are some of these policies?
	You saw the thing just a few weeks ago.
	The firefighters in LA, they're mostly white and they're male.
	It's like, we've got to change that.
	I mean, is there anything wrong with just wanting capable and competent firefighters?
	Firemen, I know that's going to brand me racist or misogynist or one of the ists.
	Who the hell cares anymore?
	Who knows?
	What have you learned from doing that in your role?
	First of all, I'd say that would brand you common-sensist.
	It's meritocracy.
	United States is a meritocracy.
	Firefighters, meritocracy.
	Police officers, meritocracy.
	Football players that I played forever, meritocracy.
	The military, police should be meritocracy.
	You get the best people.
	Who cares what color they are, what their sexual preclusions are?
	I mean, nobody cares.
	Just be good.
	at your job and that's it's insane when you see oh my our our focus you know our singular focus is on DEI and we want someone to come in to uh when you when you see someone show up at your house when there's a fire you want someone that looks like you I don't care What you look like.
	If you can carry my ass out of the fire.
	To be clear, if you're green and can carry me and or my kids out of a fire, if I'm incapable of doing it myself, I'm totally fine with that.
	Everyone can be green.
	It means nothing to me.
	I don't want someone who weighs 92 pounds that cannot pick up my rather chunky ass.
	That doesn't help me or anyone as far as I'm concerned.
	100% true.
	And nobody cares.
	And see, I'm a sworn deputy sheriff in Virginia and a reserve police officer in Pocatello, Idaho.
	I know what these people go through, the training that they do.
	And if you're not good at it, if you can't do it, you're gone.
	When police get called in and then there's an emergency situation, your life is on the line, firefighters, this is when they shine.
	EMTs, all these first responders.
	You don't care.
	It doesn't matter to you if they're black, white, green, yellow, especially, you know, especially green.
	It just makes no difference.
	You want somebody and you and you see them as the heroes they are because they trained for this.
	They're competent.
	They can carry you out.
	That's what you want.
	And the same thing with the military.
	You want door kickers.
	You want guys that are trigger pullers.
	You know, I know we're called triggered right here and there's a lot.
	That's a good double entendre because that's the kind of people you need.
	That's why.
	You know, I can't wait for, you know, January 20th that the world, not just the United States, but the world is going to change.
	A guy like Pete Hegseth in charge of the DOD changes everything.
	And I love it because these people, all of this woke garbage, I don't know who said it.
	I think it was President Trump said anything woke turns to shit and he's dead right.
	Listen, that's the sad part.
	I mean, he's been right about so many of these things.
	Earlier in the show, we're talking about, I mean, just a few weeks ago, a few months ago, on the Joe Rogan podcast, he was talking about it.
	In 2018, when these fires ravaged California the last time, you know, not as populated an area, he was talking about all of these issues.
	It's not like it's unknown and people are surprised.
	I mean, it seems like it's common knowledge, even for people who aren't there.
	And yet it's still allowed to happen, which is truly a travesty.
	Yeah, no question about it.
	It boggles the mind.
	I think we're going to look back at this time and say, it's the same thing when the Nazis took over in the 30s in Germany.
	Everyone goes, well, that could never happen here.
	How did it happen?
	It's pernicious.
	It happens slowly.
	It happens with the Soros prosecutors coming in and not prosecuting crimes.
	It happens with lawmakers coming in more concerned about misgendering somebody than again.
	Crime or life-threatening situations, building reservoirs.
	It's time for common sense.
	It's time to make this stuff happen because everybody, because they're living now in California.
	So many of my friends and so many people that I know and family members are affected by this.
	So many people lost houses and homes and everything.
	It's hard for me to even wrap my head.
	I mean, looking at that is just insane and heartbreaking when you know that it could have been prevented.
	By good policy, good forest management, good water management.
	I mean, just everything that your father talked about, everything that was there is just total common sense and people scoffed at it, laughed at it, and now they're reaping what they sowed.
	Of the people that you know that have been affected by this, lost homes, are they staying there and rebuilding or are they just leaving and fleeing?
	You know, fortunately, a lot of people I know are very wealthy and they can have other homes and they can do things.
	Their idea right now is to rebuild.
	But then you get into this.
	And this is one of the things that Adam Carolla did a great job of discussing.
	You know, even from the Woolsey fire back in 2018. Such a small percentage of the homes that were burned have been rebuilt.
	Something like some tiny, I don't even want to pick a number, but it's tiny, way less than 50% of the homes.
	So what these people are going to find now is the California Coastal Commission, all the bureaucratic regulations, all that ridiculousness.
	Go ahead and try to pull a permit to rebuild your house.
	Go ahead and try and get fire insurance.
	Mine got canceled after it burned up in my backyard and I filed a claim.
	California insurance companies are going to go possibly bankrupt.
	They're going to not give any fire insurance anymore.
	It's going to be insane.
	Try to pull a permit to build something there.
	You are not, the backlog is going to be insane.
	And all of a sudden, you're going to be, those people will be concerned about the bureaucratic mess, the red tape that President Trump talks about all the time and that anybody with any sense who has dealt with it.
	Understands it's ridiculous and things aren't going to get done and they're going to turn that blue state red.
	That would be the silver lining in my book is if people realized the idiocy of what they've been voting for and they turn that blue state red and vote for common sense and things that make California great again.
	So you've been very vocal for quite some time.
	You're one of the few guys to really start.
	I think you brought a lot of people with you.
	Any chance you ever get into politics, Dean?
	You and I can talk about this quietly on the side, and I will listen to you.
	You'll probably quietly tell me not to do it, because when I watched it, look at the, I mean, I don't have to tell you anything, but the stuff that comes out, the way they attack everybody, if I ever did...
	It's only because I want to do good for my state, my country, and the citizens of the United States.
	I would go there to serve, very much like the 47th incoming president.
	I would go to serve.
	I would go there to do the job and get out.
	I don't ever want to be a career politician, but I would do it if I thought I could be effective.
	An effective leader.
	But I'll tell you this, I would do it for the right reasons.
	How many politicians, and you don't have to answer this, but I know it's going to be a big number.
	Well, the number will probably be close to zero.
	How many people do it for the right reasons?
	I'd say the number is close to zero.
	And you look at some of these people, I've met many of them, even on our side, and I'm like, wow, they wouldn't be good at anything else.
	They're just good at being bureaucrats, but they're good at that.
	And, you know, they're able to hold those positions and they do what needs to be done to keep that position to get reelected every two years, even if it means making bad decisions for short-term gain.
	That's 100% it.
	They're doing it to get reelected.
	I would be there to do the job of representing the people and trying to put common sense back into our government to help the people of the United States, which is what they're really supposed to be doing.
	I mean, when we were founded, we weren't supposed to be in session all the time.
	They would come in, do a couple weeks, and get out.
	People thought that, you know, the founders thought that people wouldn't want to be politicians, and that makes sense.
	So go have a regular job.
	Don't just be the governing.
	Go back and be governed and see how you like all the red tape and not being on the inside, so to speak.
	And things would change.
	So, yeah, I would be a true citizen politician if I did it.
	The people who are in, I mean, some of the people who are in office, when I sit down with them personally, and you hit the nail on the head, I'm like, how in the world can you, I wouldn't hire you to run my, you know, my pool in the back of my house because you're.
	Inept.
	And your thought processes are completely wrong.
	I wouldn't even do it.
	So, yeah, it is shocking.
	Well, I always say, if Joe Biden pulled up in an Uber and your kid was getting in the car, you would definitely cancel that ride.
	Even if it was a self-driven Tesla, cancel.
	If he's in the driver's seat, out.
	Well, Dean, thank you so much.
	Really appreciate you being an incredible voice.
	It takes guts and there are consequences.
	We appreciate you doing that.
	That's absolutely awesome.
	I look forward to seeing you soon, buddy.
	Thank you.
	Likewise.
	God bless.
	Be well.
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