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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, you know, this there's a lot of outrageous moments in all of this, what's going on in Southern California.
Now in the Hollywood Hills, now Santa Monica evacuated.
No end in sight, no containment that is happening.
All these people losing their their homes.
A mayor that is just totally completely and utterly clueless beyond the fact that she was out in, I guess, on a trip to Africa and Ghana at the time, didn't make a way back quickly enough as far as I'm concerned.
And then when questioned by a reporter about her absence and about the fires, uh she just refuses to answer any questions.
And it even got worse during a press conference when she doesn't even know what what uh website to give out for people to go to to get help, what number to give out for people to get help.
Listen.
Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?
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?
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Now if we we can go back and play Donald Trump warning about this four months ago, Donald Trump warning about this in 2018.
Gavin Newsom slamming Trump for politicizing the wildfires.
Uh back in 21, uh, Gavin Newsom suggested that wild uh fire preparedness will be better under Biden once he's in office.
Well, it turns out not to be true, and all Joe Biden seemed to care about.
He happened to be out in California.
I'm sure he would not have made the trip otherwise.
He didn't make the trip to East Palestine after that train derailment.
He never made the trip after Hurricane Holeen, devastated areas in Georgia and South and North Carolina and Tennessee.
Never bothered to help those people out at all.
And uh, I mean it's it's unbelievable.
The the science of forestry is real.
Now they have an insurance crisis that we've discovered.
All these insurers have pulled out because they saw the risk.
They knew this was likely to happen.
They knew they would not be able to stay in business.
And when these, you know, California rules, their their adherence to environmental radicalism rather than the science of forestry, uh, caused them to to get out of the insurance business, the home insurance business, you know, going back well over 18 months ago.
And now a lot of the people involved don't have insurance or are way underinsured.
I mean, thousands of structures structures now destroyed.
Uh and it's it's getting worse by the day, and there's seemingly no end in sight.
Now, somebody that was deeply impacted by all of this, friend of this program, Gillian Michaels, I call the workout guru, but I mean fitness guru guru of all gurus.
She's so good at what she does, and this is not the first time she's had to deal with this.
Now, she made the move out of the state of California to the free state of Florida, and I think she didn't get out soon enough, and she was back helping her mom who happened to be sick, and and it turns out that in California wildfire territory, she lost one but not two houses at at times that she had owned.
Uh Jillian Michaels joins us now.
She put up on X a big picture of Gavin Newsom with the word resign on it.
Um I'm so sorry about all you're going through.
I really am.
I uh I I I want you to explain it so people understand just how bad it is.
Of course.
Well, first of all, Sean, thank you so much for having me and allowing me to discuss this on your platform.
Second of all, I'm lucky.
I I lost a house in the 2018 fire, so I am uniquely familiar with what goes on in California.
Um, to mention the forestry mismanagement, the water misappropriation, things of that nature.
But I was insured, I got lucky, I got out, hold my family hold the animals hole.
It's it's not about me.
It's about watching this happen in California over and over and over again.
It's about watching firefighters putting flames out with women's purses because the fire hydrants are broken or the reservoirs are empty.
It is about watching people lose their homes.
Several people, we don't even know how many right now have lost their lives.
And the reality is there is simply no excuse for this.
And I am I'm not trying to politicize a catastrophe.
And I'm gonna go so far as to tell you, listen, California has the Santa Ana winds.
It's always going to struggle with wildfires.
We know this.
On top of that, I'll tell you, climate change, listen, there's no snow on the ground in New York right now in January.
Definitely I I'm willing to go there.
I don't know anything about it, but I'm willing to say Actually, there was snow on the ground in New York.
Um I I hate to burst that bubble, but the only other person that said that um was I think Bernie Sanders was blaming, you know, climate change on it.
But I I I think the bigger focus is why are why do they seem to care more about endangered species, environmental radicalism?
Why, for example, why did they cut the budget of the LA Fire Department while simultaneously, you know, getting federal funds and state funds appropriated six hundred and fifty million uh to make the port of Los Angeles um environmentally friendly?
Shouldn't they be knowing the problems exist out there, and and this was not a drought year in Los Angeles, but knowing that this exists, why didn't they spend the money and clear the brush, the kindling for these fires?
Why didn't they practice forest management?
Uh why didn't they have hydrants that actually worked?
Why didn't they have more you know, firefighters available?
And and why are they appropriating six hundred and fifty million dollars to the port of LA to be environmental um environmentally friendly?
This is insane.
No, you're completely right.
I'm I'm simply trying to play devil's advocate so that when people make that argument, well, California has fires and there's global warming.
My argument would be I'm gonna give you all of that.
Let's say you're a hundred percent right, all the more reason that you needed to be prepared.
And this is where we launch into everything you just said.
So let's start at the beginning.
Why are you not doing controlled burns?
I grew up in California.
We did controlled burns every year.
Native Americans, the Chumash used to do controlled burns.
Everybody knows that California needs to burn at least a million acres a year to keep these things from happening, and yet they don't, and they haven't for about twelve years now, maybe a little bit longer.
And the question becomes you know, people hypothesize it.
Well, is it that they don't want to spend the money doing it?
Is it because you know it's it's bad publicity with the potential for the fire to escape and and there to be lawsuits or people don't want the bad air.
Well how about now?
When the fire is destroying acre upon acre, when people are losing everything.
Lives are being lost.
You want to talk about something getting out of control?
You want it out of control when you've got 70 to 100 mile an hour winds instead of when you can control this during a controlled burn.
Nobody really has answers.
That's the other problem with the leadership in California if they just deny, negate, avoid nobody has answers on why they don't do it.
And then when you look at the water, you know, this one really infuriates me.
In 2014, Californians voted for proposition one.
And that was meant to allocate literally billions of dollars to build new reservoirs.
And you've got Gavin Newsom standing out there going, well Jim, hey, we went through the reservoirs, you know, it's just this is it's meant to handle just a few fires and you know they're overwhelmed.
You know, the people will figure it out.
Well you know what, Gavin?
We voted to figure it out.
In 2014 and build new reservoirs ten years later, not one is built Sean.
Or how about the fact that 80% of the state's water goes to big ag and I'm not talking about little small local farmers.
That is not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about one family in particular that controls hundreds of billions of dollars worth of water or gallons worth of water and they're But they're but but they're also putting pure water into the ocean.
Why would you do that?
Yep why haven't they built aqueduct from north the northern part of the state where they have plenty of water down to you know the Southland.
It is the most ridiculous so you've got you the ecological piece of the environmental piece of oh we need to protect and listen I'm all for environmentalism.
I I agree but when you're prioritizing human lives and homes you you can't find a way to strike a balance so they're diverting water to these small smells that ecosystem it's it's people are getting five percent of the water that they're requesting from the state.
But here's the other part where this connects back to big ag is they've got this thing called the Delta Tunnel.
So you're like, oh we is hold on now is is is Gavin Newsom doing the right thing with his delta tunnel where some of the water is going to you know the smell fish and some is going back to the urban areas where people need it.
Nope that's going to big ag so it's literally a toss-up between billionaire big ag companies and tiny little fish while people are literally running and this is the next thing I want to bring up running on foot from fire.
You've seen cars stacked up in the streets like it is the walking dead because there is no plan in place.
There is absolute gridlock before I went on your show last night my wife had stayed behind stayed with my mother they'd relocated to West Hollywood another fire cropped up the sunset fire.
Everybody's evacuating and it's gridlock.
Nobody can move nobody and I okay you're shutting the power off.
Get people out there to direct the fires to direct traffic during the fires you know on Sunday he put out a cross release saying like oh I I had prepositioned fire truck.
Why did you not call in the National Guard?
I have friends that are reserve sheriff that still haven't been called in to help people.
I I cannot I don't I can't wrap my head around it and this isn't about saying what happened in North Carolina wasn't awful.
It was awful what happened in hurricanes awful this is about the has greatly exacerbated this problem.
Lives have been lost I don't even know how many homes Sean I can even keep track of it's like a hundred thousand people had been evacuated as of this morning.
People are in flux there's fires burning all over the city.
No one can get out it's gridlock the hydrants are broken.
And let me say this I'm so sorry I'm I'm so upset that I neglected to mention what started my fire was uh a uh uh an electricity pole that was a hundred years old that hadn't been updated the infrastructure of California wasn't updated and it started a fire from a private utility company that the governor protected so where is the money when you're charging Californians the high estate tax,
the highest sales tax, the highest tax on gas, and your fire hydrants don't work, and the equipment on your electric poles is a hundred years old, and you have no emergency plan in place for evacuation, and you didn't build all the reservoirs that the citizens voted for in 2014.
I I I'm I'm outraged.
I cannot wrap my head around how people are not demanding that this guy resigned.
I can't I can't believe it.
All right, quick break.
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Gillian Michaels, she now lives in Florida.
She was out protecting her elderly mom from the struggles of the wildfires.
She lost two homes in in wildfires over the years.
Pretty unbelievable when you think about it.
And we're talking about the disaster unfolding before our eyes, and is probably will go down as the worst fire in the history of the country when it's all said and done.
You know, I I'll probably keep you through the break, because I mean I've got so much to ask you and so much to tell you as well.
I don't know if you knew this, but a number of years ago I went to the San Joaquin Valley and all of the you know, probably hundreds of thousands of acres, certainly thousands and thousands of them, farmland were not usable because the state refused to give the farmers the water to protect the delta smelt.
The delta smelt is like a minnow fish that you would use for bait if you like to go fishing.
Uh it is not an endangered species, but they chose that little minnow fish, the Delta smelt over the ability of farmers to feed human beings.
Can you explain that to me?
Well, they're very they're giving it to big acts.
There's one family in particular, the resnics that control a vast majority of the state's water.
And they have done it systematically over the past two decades, and they're top contributors.
They were top contributors to St. Feinstein, and now they're top contributors to Gavin Newsom.
But yes, the regular farmers, the family farmers, the smaller farmers, the middle-sized farmers, they're not getting the water they needed.
It's extraordinarily corrupt, Sean.
Extraordinarily corrupt.
Aren't you glad you moved to the free state of Florida?
Yes, I just need to get the rest of my family out.
I think you're gonna have to move everybody, you know.
I think I think Florida's population is about to go up uh significantly.
Uh Gillian Michaels is with us.
We have a lot more to play for you.
I want to play Gavin actually saying, well, locals will have to figure this out.
I mean, I think that was the one statement that angered me.
And you know, then standing there with Joe Biden who's celebr talking about his son Hunter maybe losing his home, but then you know, celebrating the birth of his great grandchild and taking no questions.
Uh uh it's just so outrageous, so out of touch, so disconnected from what is actually happening out there.
Uh more with Gillian Michaels on the other side.
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And uh I we we've had a lot of discussions both on and off air about fitness and nutrition, and you know, uh the one thing you did convince me I needed to add more vegetables to my diet of basically meat and eggs.
This is good.
I'm I'm glad I accomplished something so far this year.
Now I just gotta get you to am I allowed to put you on blast or this one thing you do.
Yeah, you can blast me.
Everyone knows it's it's been viral for a long time.
Go ahead.
You gotta stop vaping, Sean.
You gotta stop.
You must stop.
I'm gonna get angry and whipping.
Hang on, let me let me take this out of my mouth.
All right, go ahead.
Oh, I know I know in my heart that you're right.
I'm not gonna sit here and argue in favor of what I do, but I'm on the air four hours a day, and it just it's sort of like a cup.
I'm not I'm not gonna make a million excuses.
You're right, I'm wrong, and and I will take the one hour class if you have the quarter pound of a cheese, although I feel awful getting you to agree to that because in your mind you think it's poison.
In my mind, it's like, wow, one, two, three times a year, I get a treat because I love the way a quarter pounder with cheese tastes.
Have you ever been in an outburger when you lived in California?
You have to love in an outburger.
Do you not like it?
You can get it in a lettuce wrap.
Oh, you can't Sean, listen to me.
I'm already upset.
I'm I'm I'm whipped into a friend of here.
I haven't been able to convert myself for days.
I got you vaping and freaking talking about fast food.
And then, and then you have the nerve to read me your purpose.
But if you watch how they make French fries, for example, I I assume they cook it in healthy oil.
I may be wrong.
I don't know what oil they use.
I hope they use absolutely no, they don't do that.
They cook it.
They still taste great, but they take they take the potatoes right in front of you and they slice them.
Oh my god.
No.
I get a double double, and I thought I was doing myself a favor because I have it in a lettuce wrap.
Because I don't eat bread.
Do me a favor.
Google.
I'll take levity to be dead honest with you.
Even though it's extraordinarily upsetting, I I I I will take it.
Google how seed oils are processed.
Well, seed oils are the worst.
You know who would agree with you the most is my daughter.
My daughter, she literally comes to my house and starts ripping out things that she deems unhealthy and seed oils like at the top of her list.
So I use avocado and olive oil.
Not when you're going and eating your quarter pounder, though.
No, but I only have two a year.
I don't eat them that often.
Smell of grass-fed beef.
Sean, listen to me.
You're more finicky than my 12-year-old.
I I don't like the smell of grass-fed beef.
Oh, I love my quarter pounder.
What are you doing?
No.
Man.
No.
Linda, what is the first thing that we do?
Tell Gillian if we land in Utah, where's the first place we go?
I want Gillian to be your friend.
So I'm not going to tell her what you do when you go on the road because it's terrible.
No.
Where do I go?
The first stop if we end up in in Salt Lake City.
Where's the first stop?
God.
It's Crown Burger.
It's in and out burger.
It's KX.
What do we do in Chicago?
What do we do in Chicago?
Chicago hot dogs.
It's hot dogs.
Yes, it's hot dogs.
Big time.
Why?
If it's Georgia, Atlanta, I go to the varsity, which probably is the worst of all of them, but I still go there.
It's sentimental for me because I I work four years in Georgia.
All right.
I I I did not mean to digress this much.
Um, but you do have such a wealth of knowledge, and I do pay mem way more attention to this than you think.
And I'm listening to you.
I listen to my daughter, I listen to everybody in my life that is telling me, you know, to do this and that, and I'm getting better, and I do work out every day, and I do have a healthy weight.
You gotta quit that, Sean.
All right, all right.
It's on my on my to do list.
Um chemicals.
Less about the nicotine, more about the inhalation of the chemicals.
Switch nicotine gum.
That is the most important thing.
You want to have your quarter pounder once in a while.
Okay, fine.
I mean, I would much prefer you have a grass fed burger or fries cooked in beef tallow, for example, but your blood work looks good, you know, that's fine.
Once in a while, that's okay.
But uh you're simply not permitted to vape the way you do on a regular basis.
And to take a more serious tone with you, people love you and they so get it together, Sean.
You know what it is?
I feel like I'm getting I'm getting the big loser treatment right now.
Um, but let me get back to Gavin and and what's happening because it's so serious.
You know, the it is so heartbreaking, and you've lived through it twice.
You've had this happen to you twice.
But you know, when you really think deep down and people lose their home, it is the American dream.
People want a home.
People, you know, work their entire lives to get that home.
And then they finally get it, and then it goes up in flames, and all the dreams that were associated with that home are just up in smoke.
But Gavin Newsom says, Well, the let the local people figure it out.
This is what he said.
What is the situation with water?
Obviously, in the in uh Palisades rain all last night in the hydrants, I framed the firefighter in this block.
They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system.
I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire, you have something at this scale, but again, that's gonna be determined by the local.
That's gotta be determined by the local when meanwhile it is a predictable event, a wildfire with Santa Anna winds in in Southern California.
I mean, what kind of answer is that?
Well, that's that's exactly the point.
That's why I wanted to play devil's advocate in the beginning.
If you're going to say, Oh, we're prone, oh this, oh that, oh, it's well, then shouldn't you take every single precaution?
What is your answer for a hundred-year-old equipment on the power lines?
What is your answer for hydrants that don't work?
What is your answer for the backup reservoirs you didn't build?
What is the answer to that?
Why?
Knowing that the state has these problems, did you cut 17 million dollars from the budget for fire?
Why?
Why did you wait days to call in backup for the firefighters?
All right, quick break right back more with fitness and health expert Jillian Michaels.
Uh your call's coming up on the other side as well.
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All right, we continue now with fitness health wellness expert Gillian Michaels is with us, you know, talking about the devastating, you know, political side of what is happening in Southern California is homes continue to burn out of control, no water available seemingly in many places, and a lack of concern, certainly by the mayor and uh a lot of finger pointing by the governor.
What what are these families gonna do?
I mean, when you look at the issue of insurance out in California, for example, State Farm, California's largest insurer, said last year it would not renew policies for seventy-two thousand property owners,
and that puts them on California's what's known as their fair plan, which works as an insurer of last resort, which is more than doubled in the last five years with like a half a million residents now turning to the program for basic fire insurance, but they're not gonna be able to cover it.
Uh my understanding is most people will be underinsured, incapable of building back the home that they loved and and God only knows w where they end up after that.
Well, first of all, you realize Malibu just burned down again a few months ago.
All of North Malibu burned down.
It's like my home burned down in 2018.
It burns down every year.
And nothing is done, no fire abatement, no infrastructure, nothing is fixed.
Nothing is done.
So yes, the insurance companies are going, okay, no thanks.
Like we're here ultimately to make money.
They're a business they're going to pull out of the state if they're watching it burned down over and over and over again.
And you know, Adam Corolla said something that I saw where he goes, Good luck getting your permits when some twenty-eight year old kid at the Coastal Commission tells you you can't rebuild.
I live that.
It took a year, a year just to get the permit to clean up the property.
When I tell you that the pool from my home in 2018 had it's actually disgusting and sad, but I'm going to paint this picture for you because this is the reality had dead animals in it that were running from the fire.
Uh no way the water.
A year, Sean, of rot and burning and chemicals and debris to get a permit to clean it up.
And there are many reasons that are.
If there was an election tomorrow, why do I think Gavin Newsom would win by a healthy margin?
Because of what I brought up earlier, ready.
Well, it's global warming, and you guys are denying that, and that's what's really doing it.
And you know, we went through the three reservoirs of water, and you know, California has Santa Anna winds, and uh this is this is the counter argument.
And it's a counter argument because nobody wants to take responsibility for the fact that they fought so hard to keep this guy as the governor year after year after year.
Nobody.
I have a friend in California, and we were arguing about this, and he's like, you know, you're politicizing this.
And I'm saying, Am I politicizing this?
This is costing people their lives in their homes.
So yes, if you're calling it politicizing, I am.
Here's a great video about what happened in my fire with PG and E and how Gavin Newsom let them off the hook and how they contributed his campaign, and he goes, Well, I'm not gonna watch it.
And I go, Well, this is exactly why you're here, because you don't want to know.
And they make it partisan.
So once you make it partisan, you start assigning blame.
And that's the part where I want to just say, listen, for Gatrick, this guy's a democrat.
Can we just say he stinks?
Is that okay?
How about we look at the budget?
How about we look at the crime?
How about we look at the homelessness?
How about we look at what's going on in schools?
How about we look at the fact that this guy is prioritizing like woke uh uh department store play sections where it's like we can have gender neutral toy sections of department stores and toy stores, it's instead of prioritizing infrastructure for people to escape during a fire, having an evacuation plan.
I I Sean, it's so crazy, it's hard to wrap your head around.
Do you realize that there is a law in California that was changed under Gavin Newsom's leadership that he signed that says a 24-year-old man can have sex with your 14-year-old son and not have to register as a sex offender if they deem it to be consensual?
He signed that into law.
This is doing while none of the reservoirs no, you cannot.
I couldn't believe it.
I it was something put forward, I believe, by Scott Weiner, and he signed it into law.
And and you know why he signed it into law?
Because I believe that for heterosexuals, there's a 10-year window starting with 14-year-olds, where the man may not have to register as or the woman may not have to register as a sex offender if the sex is heterosexual and consenting.
So it wasn't fair to the gays.
So instead of changing that law to protect heterosexual children who have been abused by older sex offenders, now gay sex offenders uh get the same liberties.
It's I swear to you, you can't make it up.
This is the stuff that goes on in California while the state burns year after year after year.
How about the billions of dollars, billions of dollars that they send to these corrupt NGOs to help the homelessness crisis that's only increased by thirty percent instead of decreasing and the money isn't accounted for, but you're cutting the fire budget by seventeen million.
And listen, it's an eight hundred million dollar budget.
Clearly it's still not enough.
You really think you should be cutting it when the state burns year after year after year.
And the reason I keep saying that is because you can't go, well we didn't know.
Well we couldn't have predicted well, you know, l live and learn.
We have learned year after year after year.
And it one thing I'll say is Adam Corolla also mentioned Suzanne Summers and how she couldn't rebuild her home.
Okay.
I lived in that home of where before I bought my house in Malibu and it burned down a few years before that.
The same beaches, the same mountains, the same town burn every couple of years, different areas year after year after year, and now this is the worst one and nothing improves.
Nothing I always tell people on this program don't ever count on the government to do anything well.