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Jillian Michaels - January 9th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, you know, there's a lot of outrageous moments in all of this, what's going on in Southern California.
There's the fire continues to spread.
Now in the Hollywood Hills, now Santa Monica evacuated.
No end in sight, no containment that is happening.
All these people losing 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 her way back quickly enough as far as I'm concerned.
And then when questioned by a reporter about her absence and about the fires, she just refuses to answer any questions.
And it even got worse during a press conference when she doesn't even know what 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 back home?
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Now, if 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.
Back in 21, Gavin Newsom suggested that wild 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 Helene devastated areas in Georgia and South and North Carolina and Tennessee, never bothered to help those people out at all.
And I mean, it's unbelievable.
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 adherence to environmental radicalism rather than the science of forestry caused them 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 now destroyed.
And 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, Jillian Michaels, I call the workout guru, but I mean, fitness 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 it turns out that in California wildfire territory, she lost one, but not two houses at times that she had owned.
Jillian Michaels joins us now.
She put up on X a big picture of Gavin Newsom with the word resign on it.
I'm so sorry about all you're going through.
I really am.
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 lost a house in the 2018 fires, so I am uniquely familiar with what goes on in California, 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.
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'm not trying to politicize a catastrophe.
And I'm going to go so far as to tell you, listen, California has the Santa Ana wind.
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'm willing to go there.
I don't know anything about it, but I'm willing to save.
Actually, there was snow on the ground in New York.
I hate to burst that bubble, but the only other person that said that was, I think, Bernie Sanders was blaming climate change on it.
But I think the bigger focus is why do they seem to care more about endangered species, environmental radicalism?
For example, why did they cut the budget of the LA Fire Department while simultaneously getting federal funds and state funds appropriated $650 million to make the port of Los Angeles environmentally friendly?
Shouldn't they be knowing the problems exist out there?
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?
Why didn't they have hydrants that actually worked?
Why didn't they have more firefighters available?
And why are they appropriating $650 million to the Port of LA to be environmentally friendly?
This is insane.
No, you're completely right.
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 going to give you all of that.
Let's say you're 100% 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 two mash, 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 12 years now, maybe a little bit longer.
And the question becomes, you know, people hypothesize.
Well, is it that they don't want to spend the money doing it?
Is it because it's bad publicity with the potential for the fire to escape 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 is 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 1.
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, this is meant to handle just a few fires.
And they're overwhelmed here.
The people will figure it out.
Well, you know what, Gavin?
We voted to figure it out in 2014 and build new reservoirs.
10 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 they have gallons worth of water.
But they're also putting pure water into the ocean.
Why would you do that?
Why haven't they built aqueducts from the northern part of the state where they have plenty of water down to the southland?
It is the most ridiculous.
So you've got the ecological piece of the environmental piece of, oh, we need to protect.
And listen, I'm all for environmentalism.
I agree, but when you're prioritizing human lives and homes, you can't find a way to strike a balance.
So they're diverting water to these small smell that ecosystem.
People are getting 5% 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, hold on now.
Is Gavin Newsom doing the right thing with his Delta Tunnel where some of the water is going to the smelled 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 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 press release saying, like, oh, I pre-positioned fire trucks.
Why did you not call in the National Guard?
I have friends that are reserve sheriffs that still haven't been called in to help people.
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't even keep track.
It was like 100,000 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 gridlocked.
The hydrants are broken.
And let me say this.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so upset that I neglected to mention what started my fire was an electricity pole that was 100 years old that hasn'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 highest state 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 100 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'm outraged.
I cannot wrap my head around how people are not demanding that this guy resign.
I can't believe it.
All right, quick break.
We'll have more with Jillian Michaels.
Then your call's coming up, 800-941-Sean, as we continue straight ahead.
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All right, we continue now.
Jillian Michaels, she now lives in Florida.
She was out protecting her elderly mom from the struggles of the wildfires.
She lost two homes 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'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.
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 giving it to big act.
There's one family in particular, the Rusniks, that control a vast majority of the state's water.
And they have done it systematically over the past two decades.
And our top contributors, they were top contributors to Dan Feinstein, and now they're top contributors to Gavin Newsome.
But yes, the regular farmers, the family farmers, the smaller farmers, the middle-sized farmers, they're not getting the water they need.
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 going to have to move everybody.
You know, I think Florida's population is about to go up significantly.
Jillian 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 talking about his son, Hunter, maybe losing his home, but then, you know, celebrating the birth of his great grandchild and taking no questions.
It's just so outrageous, so out of touch, so disconnected from what is actually happening out there.
More with Jillian Michaels on the other side.
We'll get to your calls as well.
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Sean is on number.
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We'll get to your calls coming up.
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Everybody that listens to this program knows I love to cook.
I cook almost every meal I eat.
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And we've had a lot of discussions both on and off air about fitness and nutrition.
And, you know, 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 glad I accomplished something so far this year.
Now I just got to get you to, am I allowed to put you on blast?
There is one thing you do.
Yeah, you can blast me.
Everyone knows it's been viral for a long time.
Go ahead.
You got to stop vaping, Sean.
You got to stop.
You must stop.
I'm going to get Ainsley and whip.
Hang on, 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 going to 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 couple.
I'm not, look, I'm not going to make a million excuses.
You're right.
I'm wrong.
And I will take the one-hour class if you have the quarter pounder with 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 and out burger when you lived in California?
You have to love In and Out Burger.
Do you not like it?
You can get it in a lettuce wrap.
Sean, listen to me.
I'm already upset.
I'm whipped into a frenzy 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 personal.
But if you watch how they make french fries, for example, 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 not.
They don't do that.
They cook it.
They still taste great, but 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 will take it.
Google how seed oils are processed.
Oh, 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 oil is 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 don't like the smell of grass-fed beef.
Oh, I love my quarter-pounder.
What are you doing?
Man.
No.
Linda, what is the first thing that we do?
Tell Jillian if we land in Utah.
Where is the first place we go?
I want Jillian 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 Salt Lake City?
Where's the first stop?
Oh, God.
It's Crown Burger.
It's In-N-Out Burger.
It's chaos.
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 work four years in Georgia.
All right.
I did not mean to digress this much, but you do have such a wealth of knowledge.
And I do pay 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've got to quit that, Sean.
All right.
All right.
It's on my to-do list.
Chemicals.
Less about the nicotine.
More about the inhalation of the chemicals.
Switch to 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 you are 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 the big loser treatment right now.
All right, but let me get back to Gavin and what's happening because it's so serious.
You know, 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, let the local people figure it out.
This is what he said.
What is the situation with water?
Obviously, in Palisades, we ran all last night in the hydrants.
I fired the firefighter into this block.
They left because there was no water in the hydrants here.
The local folks are trying to figure that out.
I mean, just when you have a system there, 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 got to be determined by the local.
That's got to be determined by the local.
When, meanwhile, it is a predictable event, a wildfire with Santa Ana wins in Southern California.
I mean, what kind of answer is that?
Well, 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, well, then shouldn't you take every single precaution?
What is your answer for 100-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 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.
Your call is coming up on the other side as well.
800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we continue now with fitness health wellness expert Jillian Michaels is with us, you know, talking about the devastating, you know, political side of what is happening in Southern California as homes continue to burn out of control, no water available, seemingly in many places, and a lack of concern, certainly by the mayor, and a lot of finger pointing by the governor.
What are these families going to 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 72,000 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 has 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 going to be able to cover.
My understanding is most people will be underinsured, incapable of building back the home that they loved.
And God only knows 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 burn down over and over and over again.
And, you know, Adam Carolla said something that I saw where he goes, good luck getting your permits when some 28-year-old kid at the Coastal Commission tells you you can't rebuild.
I lived 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, it's actually disgusting and sad, but I'm going to paint this picture for you because this is the reality.
It had dead animals in it that were running from the fire.
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 people.
Tell me this then.
Am I wrong?
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 we went through the three reservoirs of water, and California has Santa Ana wins.
And 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 ⁇ E and how Gavin Newsom let them off the hook and how they contribute to his campaign.
He goes, well, I'm not going to 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, forget that 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 department store play sections where it's like we can have gender neutral toy sections of department stores and toy stores instead of prioritizing infrastructure for people to escape during a fire, having an evacuation plan.
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 what I'm doing while none of the reservoirs.
No, you cannot, I couldn't believe it.
It was something put forward, I believe, by Scott Wiener, and he signed it into law.
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 get the same liberties.
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 sent to these corrupt NGOs to help the homelessness crisis that's only increased by 30% instead of decreasing, and the money isn't accounted for, but you're cutting the fire budget by $17 million?
And listen, it's an $800 million budget.
Clearly, it's still not enough.
Do 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, live and learn.
We have learned year after year after year.
And 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 before I bought my house in Malibu, and it burned down a few years before that.
The same beaches, the same mountains, the same towns burn every couple of years, different areas year after year after year.
And no, 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.
We appreciate your time.
Thank you.
Well, thank you, Sean.
I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to speak about it.
800-941-Sean, our number.
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