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Jan. 11, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Los Angeles Fires - the Latest Updates! Live with Evacuee Mark Groubert! Viva Frei Live!

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	We're live now, but they've got to tweak some things.
	But otherwise, I like the fact that you can set up on all four platforms through one link.
	That's great.
	Grobert, what the hell is going on, man?
	It's just been crazy.
	It's just insane.
	I spent some time with your partner yesterday, Barnes, trying to go over this on Freeform Friday yesterday.
	We covered as much as we could.
	But this thing is in flux.
	I'll tell you that right now.
	This is actively live, like an active live volcano.
	So this story is not going to go away.
	I won't ask you too many details.
	No, no, it's okay.
	I don't care.
	So you had to evacuate from your primary residence?
	Yeah. I don't know.
	You may not know the geography, but maybe some of your audience knows.
	Frequently these fires happen out there.
	They had this, you know, no water.
	They had the reservoir that was empty.
	There's a lot of reasons, a lot of blame to go around.
	However, that being said, all of a sudden, in the middle of the night, there was a fire in Griffith Park.
	And I live, like, literally in Griffith Park.
	And the fire was in back of the Hollywood sign, the famous Hollywood sign, Viva.
	In back of the Hollywood?
	Absolutely. Not an accidental.
	Totally an arson by homeless.
	This has happened many times.
	Unfortunately, they put it out immediately all the time, but they didn't have any helicopters to deal with it, so it spread so fast that they called for the evacuation of Hollywood, which led to a disaster movie of total gridlock in the streets.
	Immediately, whoever pulled that emergency evacuation, in Hollywood per se, that's like evacuating Manhattan, and the fire is out in Long Island.
	You know what I mean?
	But in other words, this fire was right there in Griffith Park, and it was arsonists in intent because we have had arrests in other years.
	But because everybody was busy out of Pacific Palisades, there were no resources.
	So... Uh-oh.
	Because the internet is freezing up.
	Because that led to the fire trucks not being able to get through.
	Complete chaos.
	Yeah, this is...
	And I live to the right of that.
	I hike up there all the time.
	It's right in front of my house.
	Would you...
	I mean, they're saying...
	So... Oh, yeah.
	Go for it, please.
	No, no.
	So I'm saying...
	So I went outside and I saw how far it was and how far it was spreading and what was going on.
	And I...
	I didn't want to get involved in the gridlock, so I waited until the next morning and left, and I fled down to San Clemente, the former home of the Nixon Western White House, deep into the southern region of Orange County, which is a beach community down here where I am now.
	That being said, this thing is far from over up north because it's now on the precipice of Brentwood, and if it gets into Brentwood...
	The next door is Beverly Hills.
	If it comes over the hill into Brentwood, and it's in Mandeville Canyon right now for people who know the layout of L.A., which is, keep in mind, L.A. is the largest city and county in the country, just geography-wise, just sheer geography.
	This woman, who is the mayor, is merely the mayor of L.A. City.
	There's a lot of people who don't understand what's going on.
	Yeah, she's not the mayor of Malibu.
	I'm having the mayor of Malibu come on the show on Tuesday.
	She's the mayor of LA City.
	Nobody in Pacific Palisades or Malibu voted for Karen Bass for mayor.
	It's out of their voting district.
	That being said, these are incorporated areas, like Pasadena is a separate incorporated area, as is Beverly Hills.
	LA City and LA County are two different things.
	LA County...
	In which the fires are in is the largest county in America.
	It's 10 million people.
	That's the county.
	That's not her gig.
	But she is incompetent, nevertheless, because L.A. City fire, which is her responsibility, and L.A. County fire, which is not, seem to have been completely DEI'd and made into a diversity training operation for large lesbian women.
	It's almost a joke.
	You try not to notice these things, but they're proudly lesbian.
	They're overtly lesbian women.
	Not that that changes anything, but it's just when the focus is on that, it's clearly this.
	Los Angeles...
	You can trace my finger here as to where the fires are.
	You've got the big fires on Malibu right here.
	You can see the cursor.
	Right, yes.
	You can see how far away that is from Pasadena.
	I've lived in Pasadena.
	If you look at Pasadena, right next to Pasadena, an inch up is Altadena, which is the next neighborhood.
	These are both middle-class, working-class neighborhoods, Pasadena and Altadena.
	Not to be confused with Malibu and Pacific Palisades, which are not.
	So it's cutting a broad spectrum.
	And if you blow up that map, you might see Hollywood in there.
	You'll see where I'm based, which is really Los Feliz in East Hollywood.
	It's a little tricky, but it's okay.
	I can explain it nevertheless.
	Karen Bass was in Ghana.
	She seems to not care about retail politics.
	She's an ideologue.
	She visited Cuba doing Castro's regime over 50 times.
	She was involved with gunrunning into Cuba into the 70s and 80s, not the original 1958 gunrunning.
	She was investigated by the DA of Los Angeles at the time, somehow got cleared.
	She was involved in these Marxist revolutionary groups.
	She's overtly Marxist.
	This is absolutely overt Marxist.
	In fact, Rick Caruso, who ran against her...
	He stupidly did not stick around for the vote count.
	He went to bed with a substantial lead on election night, and three weeks later, as I said to you many times after the long count, which the registrar refused to have any oversight, they came up with enough votes to make her mayor of Los Angeles and let the games begin.
	Because as mayor of Los Angeles, she immediately started to divert millions upon millions of dollars to DEI diversity causes, which Rick Caruso as a builder, as a local Trumpian figure, would never have done.
	You're talking this most recent election, like this is November.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	Before. The year before.
	Okay. What was the margin by which she squeezed through after having found the votes?
	I believe 1%.
	I'd have to go back and look at it.
	They stopped counting when she had enough to win, which is what I've explained to you repeatedly.
	They've extended the limit of counting legally to three weeks.
	And they use every last minute of the three weeks that they need to defeat an opponent.
	And Rick Caruso was branded as a Trumpian figure, whatever the deal was.
	He is the biggest builder in Los Angeles.
	He is the one who builds the shopping malls.
	He builds restaurants.
	He builds everything, Caruso.
	That being said, and I'll try to explain this to you as clearly as possible.
	To get a 100% approval rating...
	From the environmental agencies.
	And I mean, this is the equivalent of not environmental agency.
	I'm talking about the Sierra Club and that group.
	To get the 100% money that you need, the 100% approval rating, and the money that you need from the environmental lobby, which apparently is far stronger than the Israeli lobby out here, David, they need to check all the boxes.
	And all of those boxes means, among other things, the fire department is not allowed to dig gullies to be firebreakers.
	They're not allowed to use salt water right out of the ocean to put out fires.
	They're not allowed to get rid of the incredibly flammable eucalyptus trees that are firebombs.
	This is all to get the 100% rating from the environmental lobby.
	And you need that in LA and SoCal to get elected.
	And it gives you millions of dollars in campaign money.
	They have a stranglehold on the politicians in Southern and Northern California.
	This is the problem.
	In other words, their climate change boobomysis is really just a distraction from the fact that they have a stranglehold and incredibly bizarre, incredibly bizarre religious-like No,
	it's just like it's...
	A comedy of errors that almost seems by design.
	It's not just that they don't cut down the eucalyptus trees.
	From what I understand, Mark, they plant them, right?
	They're like, people like the way they look.
	They are fast growing.
	Also, the closing of the dams, the emptying of the aqueducts, the emptying of the reservoirs.
	This is not an accident.
	Don't let them bullshit you.
	They have been doing this for years.
	They hate dams.
	They hate reservoirs.
	They hate aqueducts.
	They hate anything that's man-made.
	They have stopped building them for 10 years, possibly longer in Los Angeles.
	Just to clarify, you have not had your property burnt down?
	Not that I know of.
	I'm not home, so I assume no.
	I'm not at home.
	I mean, we fled in the morning to come down here and worry about that shit later.
	I don't really care about that.
	We have to go to one by one.
	They plant eucalyptus trees.
	They're fast-growing their tinderboxes.
	Everybody knows it.
	They don't dig, like, trenches, which would be a barrier.
	It would be like a vegetation barrier.
	Right. There's berms and trenches.
	They're both.
	There's berms and trenches.
	They're not allowed.
	L.A. Fire Department in L.A. County is not allowed to do that.
	They had then been replaced by these DEI lesbian women because they were barking about these things.
	So the DEI...
	Just to show you, I did not know...
	Karen Bass, by the name, I was picturing...
	If we're being honest, I was picturing a white, older Jewish lady, but I didn't know.
	Then I hear that she's in Ghana.
	Oh, no, no, no, no.
	And they're like, why would she?
	Because I went to school with Abbas.
	And so that's my memory.
	Yeah, so she went back to Ghana because it was the second inauguration of a corrupt dictator in Ghana.
	You can't make this up.
	You can't make this up.
	He was interrupted for his second term because he...
	He won the second election.
	He was out just like Trump.
	He was in for four, out for four, and he just retook power through corrupt dictatorial means.
	She felt it necessary to leave the city of Los Angeles to help commemorate this Idi Amin Dada figure in Ghana and celebrate his inauguration while the city burned.
	You can't make this up.
	I don't want to steal a minute.
	She was gone when it started.
	She didn't leave after it started?
	No, no, no.
	But the warnings were coming for weeks because this is when we have Santa Ana winds.
	This is when we have a dry season.
	This is when this kind of shit happens.
	So she knew what she was doing.
	And there's all kinds of reasons that a mayor of a city doesn't go to a foreign African country to celebrate some foreign policy victory.
	Well, I had to look up even why she's there.
	She's the mayor of L.A. She has some...
	Prior involvement with the Ghanaian or African relations on all expenses paid trip to Ghana.
	So she's out when it happens.
	Okay, we're going to go through all of this.
	Eucalyptus, no berms, no trenches.
	No salt water.
	No salt water.
	You're right on the ocean.
	Because, well, they're doing it now, but I guess, you know, too little, too late, and not even better.
	But the reason for the saltwater is, A, a lot of people say, why don't you run the saltwater through the machines?
	You can't run the saltwater through the mechanisms, but why don't you dump it?
	Is the excuse, actually, that saltwater would harm the vegetation after it's used?
	Yeah, well, that's the environmental lobby's excuse, absolutely.
	Now, the story that nobody's talking about is the incredible sheer tonnage.
	That Karen Bass just literally 20 months ago gave away to the Ukraine.
	That includes airplanes, firefighting equipment, trucks.
	This is all firefighting stuff, not military equipment.
	She gave away almost 20% of the L.A. Fire Department's arsenal.
	She also today, just as today, refused the offer of help from the New York City Fire Department, saying we don't need your help.
	This is unprecedented.
	I've been talking about the donating of the fire equipment to Ukraine.
	It happened in 2022.
	I'm sure they say it wasn't surplus stuff because we were understaffed in any event.
	And I drew the analogy to Justin Trudeau donating PPE to China in February 2020.
	Yeah, but this is a fire plague region.
	And now the chickens have come home to roost.
	Or in this case, roast.
	They're not roosting, they're roasting.
	Barnes and I talked about it yesterday.
	There's a book about Malibu burning and there's a leftist tradition that they want this all to burn down, that it's unnatural.
	There's also the political angle like the Canadian situation where there's ancient Indian burial grounds underneath Malibu.
	That's a long known situation with the Native Americans.
	There's a lot of people on the left who are cheering the burning of this region.
	From what I can see from videos, there's a lot of people on the left who are contributing to the burning by setting fires.
	The fire hydrants running dry, Mark.
	I've heard several excuses, several explanations.
	Some say it's only the fire hydrants at the higher elevations because there's not enough water pressure to get the water up to the higher elevations, as if that's an excuse.
	Thank you for telling me why it happened.
	The fact that it happened is the problem.
	Other reports are saying that the fire hydrants were broken, were not being maintained, and they knew it.
	They had cut the budget for this and they didn't have the resources to repair and maintain the fire extinguish.
	Let me reiterate a story that we've covered many times on America's Untold Stories.
	The stealing of the fire hydrants for the metal and selling them to junk dealerships.
	They have been using cars to smash, stolen cars, you can't make this up, to smash into the fire hydrants and steal them and take them to metal yards to get the money for...
	The metal, the bronze and stuff that's in the fire hydrant themselves.
	This is an ongoing problem.
	It's cost tens of thousands to replace a fire hydrant.
	Many of them have not been replaced.
	There's just a hole there.
	Oh, no, no, dude.
	This whole thing may be the greatest thing to ever happen to this region.
	Bring California back to...
	Yeah, to put this under a national microscope and to show...
	And he's scampering Newsom.
	He does not want his dirty laundry to be aired in public.
	He is running around like a chicken without his head to keep a lid on this and gaslight the American people into what is actually going on.
	It may be too big, though.
	It may be too big.
	It's too big.
	There's too many eyeballs on it right now, and it's reached...
	What's the word?
	Cataclysmic momentum.
	He wants to control and censor disinformation and misinformation.
	And the fire...
	It's an amazing thing.
	I have these fights with people on the internet.
	It doesn't matter what your excuse is for why the fire hydrants didn't have water.
	If it's no pressure because it's high elevation...
	Good explanation for something that you know is a problem.
	It's not new, this issue to California.
	Well, I mean, the 118 million gallon tank.
	Has been under repair for years.
	So that was just foot-dragging and bureaucratic stuff.
	But I'm saying to you...
	No, flesh that out.
	There's a reservoir nearby that holds 182 million gallons.
	That was empty.
	The head of the LADWP came out, a woman who English is apparently her third language.
	She used to work for PG&E, which is the electric company up north that caused the fire in the north in Paradise, California.
	She's now the vice president of the LADWP here in Southern California.
	And she came out and said that she contradicted everything Karen Bass says.
	Her salary is $750,000 a year.
	And just moments ago, just moments ago, SoCal Edison revealed that one of their transformers caused the fire itself.
	It's a confirmed fact.
	I don't even blame them.
	I mean, the winds were 100 miles an hour for them to take down.
	They should have turned off the power earlier, which is what they're supposed to do.
	But then Biden is saying they cut the power, then they don't have generators to pump the water.
	That was their excuse for why the fire hydrants lacked sufficient pressure to actually have water.
	I mean, it's definitely a domino effect.
	But I mean, the fact of the matter is the proof's in the pudding.
	None of their planning worked.
	Whatever their finger pointing is, it's an excuse machine at this point, you know, trying to explain and cover their ass, you know, David.
	People, you know, I'm fairly certain Gavin might want to add his name to the pardon list of Biden before he leaves office, because what are they doing with the federal funds that they're receiving?
	There was a theory, there's a hypothesis out there, they don't mind the disasters because they don't...
	They get more federal funding when they happen, and so they can then not use state funding to take care of these problems in advance.
	Well, he squandered away all this COVID money that was stolen by even criminals and people in prison in Arizona.
	The money was never accounted for, the federal COVID money.
	Billions of dollars was lost.
	The budget is now billions of dollars in the red.
	He has bankrupted the entire state.
	It had a surplus just two years ago.
	Now it's completely underwater, billions of dollars in the red.
	And with Grandpa leaving, he now has to deal with Uncle Harsh, Donald Trump.
	And he's in a battle to the death with this guy.
	They do not like each other.
	Trump famously came out there, was with him four years ago, and stood in the woods and said, this is bad forest management.
	He said to his face...
	That's what your problem is.
	The problem that Newsom won't explain is that he's forbidden by the environmental lobby to do what Trump is telling him to do.
	So he's between a rock and a hard place.
	No more funding for your campaigns.
	No more 100% approval rating by the Sierra Club if you do what Donald Trump says to do.
	I want to get into the lobby in a second.
	There was a 10-minute video explaining the Resnicks who own wonderful palm pistachio and allegedly control a quarter of the freshwater or control a substantial portion of the freshwater in California.
	Are you familiar with the Resnick family or the farm family?
	First of all, there's a lot of pistachio growers up there.
	They've been there.
	The bulk of them are Middle Eastern, by the way.
	It is something that the Lebanese are heavily into and brought over, famously, pistachio trees from Greece originally and from Armenia and also from Lebanon.
	So it is an area that makes a lot of money for the state of California in terms of growing pistachios.
	But the Resnick family in particular, they apparently own a lot.
	What am I doing here?
	No, don't do that.
	There's a documentary or at least a 10-minute expose that talks about how they secured control over the water.
	Okay, just so you know, we had the rainiest year this year and probably in 40 years in L.A., and they captured none of the water.
	Forget about the pistachio nuts.
	That's a separate issue.
	Just the capture of free water coming from the sky was not allowed because of their environmental policies.
	Okay, so who is the environmental lobby in California?
	It's a combination of these different groups like the Sierra Club.
	There's a bunch of them.
	And they are the ones who control...
	You've got to understand this.
	These environmental groups, and I don't mean...
	I mean groups like the Sierra Club and the others.
	They control California.
	They don't make noise.
	They operate behind the scenes.
	He has put all of these people on these boards who are termed out.
	In California, everyone's got a term limit.
	So the way he rules by fiat, Newsom, which people aren't aware of, is when you're termed out, you have to come to him.
	That's why he controls the state.
	Nobody's hip to this.
	Nobody's hip to this.
	Because of term limits, he has found a way to really empower himself by giving you a job after you're termed out.
	I feel tremendously stupid because I don't know anything about the Sierra Club.
	Okay, well, it's a far-left organization that started out as a, you know, friendly hike-in-the-woods group that went crazy.
	Wow. Yeah, and they're not alone.
	There's about 25, 35 of these Sierra.
	What is the environmental problem from allowing the frickin' 117 million gallon reservoir, or whatever it was?
	To retain water.
	What's the issue with collecting rainwater?
	There's a number of issues.
	One, they don't believe in...
	It's hard to explain to a normal person, but they don't believe in reservoirs.
	Is there not an issue about not collecting the water also?
	They don't believe in dams.
	They have a moratorium legally on building dams to dam water, to have water, to do these things.
	You can look at Chinatown in the movie.
	It's all about water, Jake.
	I urge you to watch Chinatown.
	I have to go back.
	I watched it, I was 10, and I didn't really like it because I guaranteed...
	Well, go back and look at it because it's quite contemporary right now.
	Okay, that's...
	Everything in LA is about, and California, Southern and Northern, is about water rights and water and distribution out of the Colorado River.
	And the power, political power, comes from water and the control of water.
	It's also an extension of water.
	It is environmental control of these laws and regulations.
	I take for granted, or I took for granted, everybody watching knows who you are.
	Is this guy a journalist?
	This guy, Mark Robert, is to, I say, conspiracy.
	In entertainment and politics at large, what Barnes is to law and geopolitics?
	Grobert is the second biggest brain that I know on this earth.
	Just to answer the guy's question, I was investigative reporter for the LA Weekly for 12 years, just as a regular beat reporter in LA, if that'll satisfy your question on that.
	I also work for some other newspapers, but as a straight, strict ink reporter, 12 years, LA Weekly.
	Okay, the smelt.
	The smelt is almost a joke.
	Is it a red herring?
	That's funny.
	Is it kosher?
	Can you eat this thing?
	You can eat the smelt.
	I mean, you're a bigger fish guy than I am, but it used to be the snail darter in the 70s.
	That was the fish of the decade, was the snail darter, now apparently replaced by the smelt.
	The snail darter, I would not think is kosher.
	That looks like one of those prehistoric fishes.
	But a lot of people are saying the smelt is just the pretext to prevent the use of the water or to monopolize it.
	No, no, no.
	It's, again, one of these Sierra Club things that they're willing to die on this hill.
	They are so far left that their policies, the reason they don't advertise their policies is because they wouldn't make your head explode.
	That's funny.
	There's a lot of them.
	I like the smelt as the red herring.
	That's a good one.
	Mine is better.
	The smelt being the red herring is good because, first of all, from what I understand, and you'll know better than me, the smelt hasn't been seen in the Delta in six years.
	Yet they still use it as the excuse to flush fresh water into the Delta to reduce the salinity.
	These are all theoretical things.
	By the way, everything that the Sierra Club is pushing, and when I say Sierra Club, I'm talking about Sierra Club et al.
	Everything they're pushing is theoretical stuff that has physical problems to it and physical results.
	They do not give a shit.
	All they care about is their theoretical environmental crap.
	But, on the other hand, as part of their defense system, their Delcon shield, anyone who challenges them, they say climate change.
	I'm just looking at the executives of the Sierra Club.
	This is quite funny.
	Ben Jealous?
	Oh, I would change my last name if it were Jealous.
	No, no.
	Ben Jealous is...
	People know who Ben Jealous is.
	He's a pretty famous operative.
	Holy crap.
	Look up Ben Jealous.
	Former investigative journalist.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's as far left as you could get, Ben.
	He's a political operative.
	I think he was a guy who was on these podcast shows.
	Yeah, it's a whole crew.
	It's a whole crew.
	But the problem is...
	It's the containment of these fires right now, to get back to the actual fires instead of the politics.
	The fires themselves, the physical...
	The containment of these fires is going to be exacerbated Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday because massive Santa Ana winds are returning with 50-mile-an-hour gusts again.
	This is a calm before the storm.
	Saturday today is the calmest of it.
	Sunday it's going to start to pick up.
	Tuesday and Wednesday, from what I'm hearing, it's going to go back to 50 to 70 miles per hour.
	And in there lies the problem of how you deal with that.
	They're racing against time.
	They're racing against the Santa Ana winds returning to that area.
	I'm going to delve into what the Santa Ana winds are after you take off.
	Do you have any idea?
	I'm reading 10,000 buildings have been burnt, but by the looks of it, it can't be...
	Well, it's more like 15,000 at this point.
	I mean, it's not going to stop.
	You understand, this is not going to stop for weeks.
	Again, this is a runaway freight train.
	They are trying to dump as much fire retardant on as much houses and that green gel that you see them dropping.
	Then they do the scoopers where they go out into the ocean.
	They'll scoop your pool right out.
	That's our final line.
	They could go into your backyard and scoop out your pool.
	That's how good these guys are.
	I mean, they are masterful at what they're doing.
	But the fact of the matter is, they don't have enough manpower.
	They brought in...
	They said the National Guard's coming in.
	Okay. They brought in 400 National Guard.
	They stationed these guys standing next to their trucks so people can't get into a neighborhood and loot.
	They're just standing there.
	They're not helping.
	They're not digging.
	They're not doing anything physical.
	They're literally just standing there guarding the outskirts of a neighborhood.
	Now, looter scooters...
	I don't know if you know about this.
	The looter scooters are going around in packs of 100, looting in various homes in Pasadena, Altadena, and there's nothing left in Pacific Palisades, but they're going into any place they could find in groups of 100 and pulling out whatever they can.
	The scooter looters, or the looter scooters, as they have been called, is another problem.
	We had Nate Hockman on the show.
	He's the new district attorney of Los Angeles.
	He was on the show during the election this year, and he vows to incarcerate them.
	The guy they caught the other day who was the arsonist with the blowtorch, they didn't even charge the guy.
	I mean, the neighborhood had to wrestle this guy down and make a citizen's arrest.
	He was using a blowtorch on garbage cans.
	Just tell everybody, your show is America's Untold Stories with Eric Hundley.
	Friday afternoon at 5.30.
	Friday and Tuesday at 5.30 Eastern.
	We'll be on Tuesday with more of that.
	But I'm trying to get the mayor of Malibu on Tuesday.
	I know he's busy.
	We're trying to get him on the show on Tuesday.
	These places have small mayors.
	Pasadena has a mayor.
	Altadena has a mayor.
	These are the people that I'm trying to deal with to give people a sense of what's really going on.
	Because anything above that rank in California is then taken over by the DEI person of information.
	That's my question.
	The mayor of Malibu, what responsibility does he bear or power does he even have for general infrastructure issues?
	It's basically ceremonial, but they have information.
	That's the point.
	They're not guilty of anything in terms of structural damage, but the mayor of Malibu and the mayor of these different places have information, and that's what I'm trying to get out of them.
	Are they...
	Are they amenable to playing into spilling the beans?
	I don't know.
	I'll find out.
	I mean, we had Hockman on here, and Hockman beat George Gascon, the Marxist, almost by a two-to-one margin and won the election because George Soros was cut off from funding, stopped funding George Gascon.
	And we finally started to arrest people in Los Angeles and incarcerate them.
	This is all new.
	This is all new.
	You know, the chief of police is controlled by Karen Bass.
	The sheriff's department is not.
	So, I mean, for years I've said that the mayors of these blue cities should not be allowed to have a private army, David, that they control by appointing their hand-picked chief of police.
	It's insane.
	It has to be an elected position like sheriff.
	When you say the fires are going to burn out of control, what I understand is in these densely populated areas, what level of brush is there to even burn?
	Well, the homes themselves.
	These homes are completely surrounded by brush.
	You could barely see out the window because they like to look at trees, and they refuse to clear their own brush.
	Years ago, they used to use prisoners would do it, you know, in orange jumpsuits.
	They found that to be, you know, too painful to the prisoners.
	I mean, there's a number of reasons why they haven't cleared the brush.
	But all of those homes in Mandeville Canyon and Brentwood are packed together, surrounded by eucalyptus trees.
	And if one of them goes, they're all going to go.
	And then the houses themselves, light wood frame structures that burn like tinder.
	In fact, For months, a whole year, everyone's been talking about the home insurance companies flying drones over everyone's homes and then finding this loophole where the insurance companies, and this is to people who have had the same homeowner's policy for 30 years, David, and have never filed a claim.
	All of a sudden, and this is the past year up until a month ago, They had drones flying over their homes filming their roofs.
	And then they would get a letter from the homeowner's insurance company saying, you must replace your roof within 30 days or lose your policy.
	Good luck finding contractors to replace your roof in 30 days.
	So what they did was they cut all of these people's homeowner's insurance using this roof scam.
	They were flying drones over people's property?
	Yes. Holy crap, apples.
	I mean, I had heard, I had read that Allstate had canceled like 30,000 policies because...
	Right, this is how they did it.
	This is how they did it.
	They flew over, videotaped your roof, said it needed to be replaced to maintain your insurance policy.
	They gave you 30 days to replace the roof on your house.
	And when they couldn't comply within 30 days, they canceled their homeowner's insurance policies.
	That's... That's absolutely wild.
	What about the issue that they couldn't increase premiums more than 7% without the state approval?
	Yeah, there's regulations on the top of how far you can go.
	They're bailing out of the state.
	This has been going on for two or three years now.
	The state insurance executive for the state refuses to give press conferences.
	No one knows where he is.
	They've canceled all these policies.
	There's a thing called FAIR, where you can dip into money in a state organization called FAIR.
	For homeowners insurance, that's bankrupt now.
	There's no more money left in that.
	All of these, Cloward and Piven, good call right there, Jenny.
	All of these chickens are coming home to roost.
	All of these DEI leftist policies mixed with natural disaster, which they used to exploit, has now overwhelmed them.
	Where do people...
	There's going to be...
	Okay, eminent domain, the government saying it's now a disaster zone.
	You don't even get to go back to the lot.
	Yeah, I think the state is going to seize the entire swath of land that is Pacific Palisades.
	I think their dream, quietly and secretly, if this happened, would be to build low-income housing all along that strip.
	Of course, you've got to keep in mind, it's illegal to build a single-family home in Los Angeles now.
	I don't know if people realize that.
	Why? You have to build multiple family dwellings.
	This is, this is, when I, I've been calling commie foreign, California commie foreign.
	You have no idea the depths of the regulations.
	So you can only build, you can only, literally, you can only build communal living.
	You cannot build individual.
	Absolutely. That's true.
	You can't open up a gas station.
	All gas stations have been banned.
	If a gas station burns to the ground, it's done.
	You can't open up a new gas station.
	They made that illegal.
	People are hypothesizing, and I can't blame them, that this is above and beyond being enhanced by eucalyptus, natural stupidity, no water, arsons.
	People are going with directed energy, lasers.
	And I'm not trying to make fun of them because it's not the craziest thing out there.
	The fires are burning out of control, not from any sort of superpower accelerant.
	This is just the natural...
	Oh, yeah.
	We have it all the time.
	We have it all the time, but it's usually controllable.
	But when you give away, like, 20% of your firefighting equipment to another country that's at war with another country, and you're ordered to do that by the Biden administration, believe me, she didn't wake up Karen Bass and say, I'm going to give away 20% of our firefighting equipment.
	That was an order from the Biden administration.
	And then the layoffs.
	I mean, the COVID layoffs.
	When they wouldn't take the COVID vaccine, they all got fired.
	You have a loss of manpower.
	I'm hearing numbers like 100, 115.
	Some are saying 400.
	Some are saying more.
	Do you have any specifics?
	We know what happened.
	The only question is, to what degree?
	In terms of firefighters?
	In terms of numbers of firefighters.
	These cases are still active, so I don't know.
	Barnes would probably know more than I do about it.
	You could ask Robert.
	Robert knows more about that.
	Robert was talking about a policy of Burn, Malibu Burn.
	Which is a Marxist policy, which is basically overall what I'm talking about.
	You can read City of Courts by Mike Davis.
	There's a lot of lefty hatred for everything.
	So they hate the city of Los Angeles and they hate, you know, Malibu being on the Indian burial grounds and Pacific Palisades and the sheer wealth that is there or was there.
	What's going to happen now that the houses are no longer there?
	I think the state's going to buy up the property.
	This looks like Maui.
	I think that Maui was a model.
	The landslides are coming.
	The mudslides are going to start to come the end of January and early February.
	This is a fucking catastrophe, Mark.
	But it's a catastrophe because of their planning.
	They used...
	DEI and diversity and environmental radicalism to plan and control a state that is a one-party, supermajority state.
	There is nobody who could stand up to them, and that's why I believe these states cannot be allowed, and I've been talking about legislation for this for years, you cannot allow a state in the United States to have supermajority control for 15 to 20 years.
	This is the result of that.
	And I say that on the Republican side or the Democratic side.
	There are people who have to live under this regime who have businesses here.
	Now, I'm saying this as a cynical joke, and I more than half expect it to happen.
	What's going to happen with the actual 180,000 homeless people?
	Is Newsom going to ship them to Texas?
	Okay, let me get into that because they were told by the city of L.A. to check into hotels.
	So the people who were at the Civic Center in Pasadena tried to get into the Willard Hotel downtown.
	However, it was filled with illegal aliens and homeless because the city bought up those rooms years ago.
	There are no rooms available to any of these people who are now homeless.
	They are now part of their Marxist homeless numbers count.
	In other words, a family that had a $2 million home or a million dollar home in Pasadena is now simply another number in the Marxist homeless count.
	They can't get into the hotels.
	They can't get into any of these areas because they've all been taken by the city already for the homeless and the illegal aliens.
	In fact, the money...
	That should have gone to all of these firefighting causes went to the homeless and illegal aliens.
	They will not discuss it because it's such an obvious taboo economically.
	It was the same thing with North Carolina where they say, no, no, no.
	We have two separate bags.
	You see, we got FEMA and we got illegal aliens.
	It's two separate bags.
	It's two hands in the same bag.
	Yeah, they bankrupted the city with these illegal aliens and the homeless.
	They've bankrupted the entire city.
	Let me ask you another silly question.
	I mean, touch wood, your property makes it out.
	Who's going to buy anything?
	Like, even if you want to sell and leave, who's going to buy properties?
	I mean, they built those homes 25, 35 years ago for $100,000.
	They're now worth, or were worth, $2 million to $3 million.
	Now you can't sell anything.
	All you've got is a pile of dirt.
	They don't have the money.
	The people who...
	If you built those or bought those in the 70s or the 60s for $80,000, they don't have the economic strength to rebuild.
	So who is going to buy that plot of land?
	The government's going to buy it for fair market value, which is going to be wildly reduced.
	James Woods posted a video.
	He's like, by the grace of God, his property didn't get destroyed.
	And I'm thinking, A, the mudslides and landslides are going to come.
	They're going to say, you can't come back to your house.
	This entire area is a wasteland.
	And your $10 million mansion is now worth zero.
	Well, there's no water.
	There's no electricity.
	I mean, he's got a shell of a building.
	What is he going to do?
	He can't go in there and live there.
	What about the...
	And I'm concerned about the air quality because...
	That's why I'm here.
	That's exactly why I'm here.
	First of all, did you see the flames burning or how close did you get?
	I just walked down this trail.
	Oh, of course.
	Of course.
	But it's the smoke.
	It takes...
	Okay, so until this, even when in a good year, until the Santa Ana's come in and clear out the smoke, you can't leave your house.
	But this is too long of a period of time to not leave your house.
	I mean, you could stay in your house with your air conditioning going, but it becomes problematic over a long period of time because you have to go outside.
	Not being hyperbolic.
	This is, how is this burning?
	Asbestos, light bulbs.
	Everything, yeah.
	Rubber tires, you know, glass, plastic, garbage.
	It's not campfire.
	It's not campfire smoke.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It gets right in your lungs.
	You start coughing immediately.
	Are you having...
	No, I've been down here.
	I'm down at the beach.
	I'm 75 miles south.
	Holy hell.
	Yeah, I mean, I know what to do.
	I've lived there for over 30 years.
	I kind of have my own routine.
	But this, I had to make a quick judgment because of that stupid evacuation of Hollywood.
	What have you, did you get any?
	They eliminated it at 7 in the morning.
	Now there's a curfew.
	They say they'll arrest you if you go out after 6 p.m.
	In the area.
	Yeah, good luck enforcing this.
	Even in Hollywood, in L.A., good luck enforcing this curfew.
	Who's going to go to jail for this?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I mean, these people all control each other.
	You know, I mean, it's very frustrating because the DA keeps saying if you're going to rob these houses or pull off these Internet scams on people with GoFundMe scams and robbery, physical robbery, you're going to go to jail.
	But there's a whole bureaucracy that he's not able to overcome one man.
	To put people into prison.
	Did they not arrest the guy, the Kenneth arson?
	They arrested him on a probation violation, and they didn't charge him with the arson.
	He had an old probate.
	Everybody's got some sort of probation.
	They said he was homeless, and I read reports that he had an $80 or $100 blowtorch, which is curious.
	Very curious.
	Do you suspect that any of these people are actual paid agents?
	No. What are they, just crazy homeless people?
	Yeah, they're just crazy homeless people.
	I mean, before this, the L.A. Fire Department announced that 126% increase in the fires are all homeless, that they have to deal with every day.
	All they do all day when there's not fire season, when this is going on, all they do all day and night, every week...
	Is put out fires at homeless encampments.
	And I went over and I talked to the firemen at the fire station.
	That's all they do.
	Every once in a while, there's a regular fire and they've got to put it out.
	But for the most part, it's about putting out fires at homeless encampments.
	The fires, they're not trying to set things on fire.
	They're just trying to keep warm at night because it gets cold in California?
	Or are they trying to burn shit?
	Well, it's a combination of smoking meth, which is the big reason.
	I'll just explain it this way.
	When you're smoking meth, you're constantly having to light that pipe.
	And the people who are meth users in your audience know that.
	You're constantly flaming the pipe.
	It's not like lighting a cigarette and just kicking back.
	You're hitting that lighter, or in this case, the guy had a butane torch, which a lot of them have, because you're constantly taking hits off the meth pipe, the glass pipe.
	So because of that, you're constantly You know, flaming on, flaming on, flaming on.
	And then if you're not out and the torch hits the bed or shanty that you're in, everything goes up.
	This is happening every single day all over L.A. for about 10 years.
	Are they continually smoking crack to fulfill the high, or is there a reason why they have to keep it lit?
	No, no, no.
	With meth, in other words...
	With meth, the high lasts such a short period of time that you're constantly hitting the pipes.
	Same with crack.
	You're right.
	So because of that, you have exposed flame by tens of thousands of deranged homeless people, possibly with schizophrenia, lighting torches, not once, but thousands of times a day.
	Think about the math of that.
	Well, I have never even thought about the phenomenon of the homeless crack meth population.
	What is the homeless population?
	It's 180 some odd thousand in LA?
	It's about 200,000.
	It's about 200,000.
	Dr. Drew was part of a survey two years ago and came back and reported to me that his estimate is 88 to 92% are meth or crack cocaine addicts.
	And also fentanyl.
	No, but they're allowed.
	They get their mail delivered there.
	They can vote there.
	They're untouchables.
	They are a class among themselves.
	They are untouchables by the police.
	They're untouchables.
	These agencies come and treat them as if they're a Brahmin class.
	They are exploiting it every which way they can.
	I don't blame them.
	And now they are starting to start fires, which they've done before.
	There's a new hot band, Viva and the Meth Heads.
	I like that.
	2028, LA is supposed to host the Olympics.
	People are suggesting this was to burn it down, build a 15-minute city.
	I'm talking about it with my wife, and we're like, there's not even enough time to rebuild this in time for the Olympics if that were the goal.
	Keep in mind, the playoff game between the Rams game had to be moved to another state.
	This is the game tomorrow, let alone the Olympics years from now.
	They can't pull off a football game.
	It had to be moved to Arizona tomorrow's game.
	Are you leaving there, Mark?
	Are you going to come to Florida?
	I mean, it's Florida.
	I hope Florida stays better in terms of the...
	I don't know, but I'm leaving the show right now because I've got to go do something.
	So we'll discuss that whenever we get together.
	But anybody have any questions, we could take a couple of questions.
	Yeah, let me do that.
	I'm going to minimize everything.
	Maybe I can answer them.
	I'm not going to see you here.
	I'm going to go to the commie tube ones because those are...
	I screen grabbed them.
	We'll be able to find those later.
	Mark, sorry, but this is from Pat M. I have a room in Tahoe.
	How did Biden...
	Yeah, that's a great question.
	She lied about that.
	She said it was the wind that they couldn't fly.
	He flew in and they created a no-fly zone in and out while he was in.
	Oh my goodness, this is so Biden- Absolutely, absolutely.
	So the airplanes that the LA Fire Department uses to drop could not get airborne until the day that he left.
	Absolutely true.
	Absolutely true.
	Holy crap, Apples.
	Okay, let me see.
	I'm going to go prioritize the locals over here and see if anyone's got questions for you.
	Tipped. Viva is such a naive, innocent soul.
	It's hilarious seeing Mark steal his innocence, virgin mind.
	I still remember Copperfagia, Mark.
	That one I haven't forgotten.
	Well, that's a special episode.
	I mean, we all love that episode.
	Mark, did the government intentionally sabotage the ability to fight the fires, or is this gross incompetence?
	No, you understand, there's a middle ground where they would prefer this to happen.
	They leave all the breadcrumbs for it to happen.
	Then it happens, and they reap the benefits by being able to institute their crazy policies when it happens.
	They don't have to physically do it.
	It was the same with the Secret Service, Viva.
	By not covering Trump...
	You're leaving them open for a nut who can come in and take a shot at Trump.
	It's very similar to their environmental policies out here.
	By not filling up the reservoir, by not allowing dams to be built, by not fixing the fire hydrants, what do you think is going to happen?
	It's going to happen, and they have think tanks that have played this scenario out.
	To where in the think tanks, in the white papers at the Rand Corporation, I guarantee you it says the worst case scenario is the state will buy that property and build Section 8 housing for the homeless and the illegal aliens on Pacific Palisades on that water.
	And to them, that's a plus.
	That's a plus.
	We're going to clip that for a short because that is extremely damning and it's extremely plausible.
	Boopsie says, got here late.
	You saw the satellite image of the fires.
	I mean, it's time-lapse.
	It didn't happen spontaneously, but they did three start roughly at the same time.
	I would be more inclined to think that that's wind blowing over power lines that start the fire.
	The wind was so powerful at 100 miles an hour, the embers are just flying everywhere.
	They're just flying everywhere.
	Jeez Louise, Mark.
	And then someone had one more here.
	It said, Mark, where can I send a book?
	Mark, where can I send a book funds to help restock your book collection?
	Glad you are sounding the alarm about what's going on in LA.
	So yeah, may I ask you, Mark, where else are you going to go to put this stuff?
	I mean, it's got the eyes of the world on it and certainly the eyes of the biggest mouths on Twitter.
	Where are you going to put this on blast?
	Well, we're going to do it on Tuesday on the show, and we did it with Barnes yesterday, and we'll do it on Tuesday and Friday on the show.
	America's Untold Stories.
	There's PayPal links for me if you want to donate for the books.
	You go over to the channel on YouTube, America's Untold Stories, and also unstructured.locals.com is our Locals page for Eric and myself.
	Did they refuse Oregon?
	Yeah, I mean, that's another story.
	I mean, these are quiet stories that nobody puts on blast.
	Because the politicians themselves are being blackmailed by these environmental organizations.
	That's the dirty little secret.
	And they want the campaign funds and they want that 100% environmental rating.
	It's the equivalent, not to say that they're morally the same, it's the equivalent of getting 100% NRA rating for some conservative on the road.
	It's always an eye-opening and black-pilling experience, Mark.
	First of all, I wish you...
	You have a place to stay here.
	Yeah, thank you.
	You'll have to dodge the dog poop.
	No, I'm used to that.
	I'll be back shortly.
	And come and see the show Tuesday, 5.30, America's Untold Story, on YouTube, Rumble, and Locals, if you don't want commercials.
	And Eric and I are on.
	Hopefully we get this mayor on.
	Barnes was on yesterday for three hours with me.
	He seemed better, that's for sure.
	He's better.
	He definitely seemed healthier.
	Mark, if you can, I know you're going to go now.
	Flip me the links, although I'll be able to find them.
	I'll put them in the pinned comments so everybody can find you after this.
	Okay, I'll do that.
	And we will talk sooner than later, man.
	Stay safe.
	It's like it's beyond anybody's control.
	You just have to accept the fact that you might lose all of your earthly possessions.
	Yeah, there's nothing I can do about that.
	There's nothing I can do about that.
	All right, later, my friends.
	Okay, talk to you soon.
	All right, bye-bye.
	Bye-bye.
	I'm going to kick him from here so that there's no accidents.
	Everybody, I'm going to play you one thing while I go.
	He used...
	He is used to this shit, Viva, says Nacho Kitty.
	I'm going to go over a couple of things in a little bit greater detail that Mark mentioned.
	The Santa Ana Wins.
	It's very interesting.
	Also known as the Devil Wins.
	Let me play something that's going to give me time to go do what I want to do, which is make a nice dry martini, people.
	Let me see here.
	Do I want to play this?
	No, not this one.
	I need a little bit of a long video.
	I think we're going to go with...
	Oh, come on.
	I had a three-minute video that I was going to play.
	I can't see if I play this.
	Let's see what happens with this one.
	Oh, here we go.
	You can play this one.
	This will take me two minutes to do my business as well.
	Let me see what the context is here.
	Very misleading statement by the LA Department of Water and Power CEO, Jasmine Quinone.
	I'm noticing trends here, people, and I don't want to, but you cannot notice statistical over-representation when pretty much everyone in positions of power here happens to fit certain check marks on a box, whatever.
	On video, she was talking about backup tanks from Mr. Jeff's video above, but not the main source of water, the Santa Inez 117 million gallon reservoir that sat dry because it was under repair for the roofing or topping or whatever and why they have to drain 117 million gallons entirely.
	We now have a better idea.
	Listen to this.
	We ran out of water in the first tank about 4.45 p.m. yesterday.
	We ran out of water in the second tank about 8.30 p.m.
	And the third tank about 3 a.m. this morning.
	Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants and the hills of Palisades.
	And because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line and so much water was being used before it can get to the tanks, we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough.
	So the consumption of water was faster than we can provide water in a trunk line.
	So I want to make sure that you understand there's water on the trunk line.
	It just cannot get off the hill because we cannot fill the tanks fast enough.
	What is the number of hydrants that could not get water because of these pressure issues?
	What percentage of the system in Pacific Palisades wasn't getting service at that point?
	We were trying to keep water at all altitudes on the Palisades, and I think about 3 in the morning, that's when the hydrants went dry above the Brentwood area.
	We are able to push water on that trunk line on the east side of that.
	And we have some water on higher elevations, 16,000 to 18,000.
	But at 3,000, at 3 a.m., all of the fire hydrants went dry in the Palisades.
	What are we doing now?
	We're sending about 20 water tanks for our construction crews.
	Full of water to support the fire department.
	We identify other areas in our system where our tankers can refill.
	It takes about 30 minutes to refill about 4,000 gallons of water, and we're constantly moving that water to the fire department to get them as much water as we can.
	For the people on Stip Code 90272, because we're pushing the water system so hard, Our water quality is decreasing.
	So we're going to be issuing a boil water notice this morning.
	And that will extend for about 48 hours.
	The water quality is low.
	We have a lot of ash in the system.
	And so please, if you're going to be drinking water, you need to boil the water.
	Those boil waters will continue to increase as the system starts restoring.
	Boil the ash out of the water.
	Now, I used to do a lot of camping people when I was a kid.
	I never liked boiling, even boiling river water, but you have to.
	But you know that you boil stuff, fecal matter, beaver fever, giardium.
	You boil bacteria, parasites out of water.
	You boil it for 10 minutes, you let it cool, it tastes like crap, but you drink it anyhow.
	You can't boil heavy metals out of water.
	You can't boil certain chemicals out of water.
	And you can't boil ash out of water.
	And if there's ash in the water, chances are there's ash in the water because there's...
	The byproduct of burn in that water.
	And if it's, you know, rubber particular matter that's in there, I don't know that you can boil all of that out safely.
	I know that you're not going to have a place to buy water from because the local store has just been burnt to the ground.
	And these idiot scoundrel liars, what they do is pretend that, oh, yeah, the only reason we didn't have water at higher elevations was because of water pressure.
	Congratulations, you're fired.
	What is this, your first day on the job?
	The first fire in California?
	Oh, you know, because we had a lot of demand, so we didn't have water where you needed it.
	Be on your way.
	You explaining to me how you failed doesn't change the fact that you failed.
	And you failed at something for which you cannot fail.
	Oh, yeah, sorry.
	The reason why the would-be assassin got a clean shot at Trump was because the roof was not covered, because of the angle.
	Congratulations, you're fired and you should go to jail.
	Period. The reason why we failed, you don't get to fail.
	Oh yeah, it was a very big fire, so fire hydrants lack pressure.
	Bullshit! And if that's the excuse, anyhow, you're fired.
	At best, you're fired.
	I think they should be prosecuted.
	But she's lying.
	Because if that reservoir has 117 million gallons of water in it, and it's elevated, which from what I understand it is, the pressure comes from gravity.
	Thank you.
	So it's not just inexcusable.
	It's tough to think this is not by design.
	I had some other good stuff to play here.
	Just the classics.
	Nick Sorto getting the bombs here.
	Look at this guy.
	Here's another one explaining, yeah, here's why we can't properly notify you of emergencies because we can't control the notification of the Amber Alert emergency alert things that you get in California.
	By the way, you want to laugh?
	I'll play this twice.
	I say laughs cynically.
	It looks like the translator guy, the deaf guy with his...
	What's that called?
	The hand...
	Sign language guy.
	The hand-thinking guy can't believe what he's hearing.
	He looks like he's about to have some form of aneurysm.
	Rupture an aneurysm.
	Look at this.
	This guy's explaining why there are unintended non-manned issuances of emergency alerts, which obviously don't...
	Are not warranted.
	Listen to this.
	They're explaining away why they are all incompetent and deserve to be locked up.
	In other countries, they would wish that they should be locked up.
	It would be for their own protection.
	Listen to this.
	Well, in coordination with our federal and state partners, how we can stop the messages that are going out right now that are not being initiated by human action.
	There you go.
	They're hearing one right now.
	The guy's doing a press conference on emergency alerts to save people's lives, and he's getting a bogus, unwarranted emergency alert because they're being issued without human intervention.
	And then understand how that occurred?
	Hold on.
	I'm going to start it from the beginning because I'm going to shut my big mouth.
	I just want to say this.
	Jail. Jail.
	Oh, no.
	But they're not responsible for anything.
	They're just employees.
	They're just little cogs in a wheel.
	Little wheels in a machine.
	I'm going to play it and I'm going to shut my big mouth, I promise.
	Well, in coordination with our federal and state partners, how we can stop the messages that are going out right now that are not being initiated by a human action to stop that and then understand how that occurred so that the...
	That the tool can still be used for what was identified as a critical fire weather that we're still experiencing and will continue to experience.
	The sign language guy cannot believe what he's hearing.
	He has to be able to hear it, actually.
	So he cannot believe what he's hearing.
	He's like, oh my god, what's ALS for vomiting because of the bullcrap that you're spewing right now?
	We can't figure out why the warnings are being issued.
	Just, you know.
	Minor details.
	It's my first day.
	Everyone should go to jail for this.
	Period. Listen to Joe Biden.
	Reassure, by the way, I gotta zoom in on this.
	Listen to him reassure.
	I can't zoom in on this.
	Look at Karen Bass's face on the bottom.
	Listen to Joe Biden reassure them that they're not to blame for the fact that the fire hydrants didn't produce water when it was needed in a fire emergency.
	Listen to this and tell them.
	If you replace Joe Biden with Gamaccio and you replace these three people here with whoever else, you've got idiocracy.
	It's not your fault that the fire hydrants were dry during the fire.
	Silly, silly you.
	I mean, it's just because they cut the power.
	And when they cut the power, the generators to push the water out don't work anymore.
	So you deserve a raise.
	I think you're getting a bad rap.
	I know you're getting a bad rap about these fire hydrants don't have enough water in them.
	Give me a break.
	Give me a break.
	What this is all about is the utilities understandably.
	What they did is they cut off power because they're worried about these high-tension lines coming down and causing more fires in the wind, right?
	When they do that, guess what?
	They shut off the power that controls the ability to pump the water.
	And so now they're getting generators.
	I mean, this is complicated stuff.
	They're going to have a lot of demagogues out there trying to take advantage of it.
	It's complicated stuff?
	To have backup generators to push water to where the fires are.
	Oh, it's real complicated.
	Come on, man.
	And then you have demagogues taking advantage.
	You understand that that's a cheap shot at Trump.
	Jail, jail, jail, jail.
	And Kamala Harris?
	Jail. Come on.
	This is complicated stuff.
	It's called your job, for which there is a no-failure option.
	Oh. I was having thoughts of doom and gloom all day today.
	I don't think it's healthy.
	Listen to this.
	I have to measure my cortisol levels here.
	I haven't said the serenity prayer in a while, but there's no point saying it if I know that I can't divide by it.
	Listen to this.
	Listen to Kamala Harris.
	Joe Biden made a joke.
	He said, fire away.
	And then the media went crazy.
	That joke?
	Okay, fine.
	He's a stupid, demented old man making a pun.
	Good for him.
	Listen to the verbal diarrhea that comes out of Kamala Harris's mouth.
	It flows like the sound of Capistrano.
	I forget what it is.
	You could not script.
	You could script AI to say, give me verbal diarrhea a la Kamala Harris, and it would sound just like this.
	I know you're directly affected, so you fire away.
	Oh, look at the way he touches her hand.
	I know you're directly affected, and he touches her hand.
	Oh, yeah.
	She's directly affected.
	Madam Vice President, I know you're directly affected.
	There you go.
	Fire away.
	Fire away.
	No pun intended.
	Indeed. Thank you, Mr. President, and also for the work that everyone around this table has been doing with the appropriate sense of urgency.
	Because this is an urgent matter.
	Oh, oh, oh, it's an urgent matter?
	The catastrophic, out-of-control fires that have destroyed 15,000 billion, it's an urgent matter?
	Thanks, Captain Obvious.
	My goodness.
	Her ability to actually just accurately assess, it's one of a kind.
	It's an urgent matter.
	Listen to her emphasize the urgency.
	What we have seen in California, and in particular in Southern California, is apocalyptic.
	In terms of the nature of it and the unprecedented nature of it as well.
	So it's apocalyptic in terms of the nature of it and the unprecedented nature of it.
	It is unprecedented, this level of cataclysmic failure, but the phenomenon itself is actually quite routine, quite predictable, and quite well documented.
	The nature and the unprecedented nature.
	That's good.
	That's a nice way of saying the exact same thing twice.
	And what we are seeing is a situation that is extremely dynamic.
	Oh, dynamic.
	It is very much in play.
	Return on investment.
	And to some degree, unpredictable.
	Oh, to some degree.
	It's dynamic.
	This woman's an idiot.
	She's the biggest idiot on the face of the planet.
	It's dynamic.
	And to some degree, it's unpredictable.
	Because we're waiting to see what the wind blows.
	Well, you've got four options.
	North, east, south, west.
	It's unpredictable.
	It's dynamic.
	And let me just try to say as many words as I can to sound as smart as I am because I'm a big, stupid poo-poo head.
	Which way the wind blows.
	And I cannot praise enough the local leaders, most of whom I have talked with, and in particular our firefighters, who, as the president has said, they are working around the clock.
	They are working 12-hour, even longer shifts, and they are doing it with a sense of optimism, but also with an understanding of how serious this moment is and how important their work is to real lives and real people.
	She makes me want to puke.
	We are governed by idiots.
	We are governed by corrupt Marxist idiots.
	Period. I'm glad the urgency of the unprecedented and somewhat unpredictable situation.
	Yes, forest fires annually.
	Oh, by the way, it's so unprecedented.
	It's so unforeseeable that the Santa Ana winds are literally called the devil winds.
	Why? Listen to this.
	The Santa Ana winds, occasionally referred to as the devil winds, are strong, extremely dry.
	Santa Ana winds are known for the hot, dry weather that they bring in autumn, often the hottest year.
	What month are we in now?
	We're in January.
	But they can also arise at other times of the year.
	They often bring the lowest relative humidities.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	so dry winds that are powerful, to coastal Southern California and beautifully clear skies.
	These low humidities combined with the warm, compressionally heated air masses plus wind speeds create critical fire weather conditions and fan destructive water.
	Holy shit!
	It's like, oh my goodness!
	The Karen Bass's of the world have not even read Wikipedia.
	It's like, oh my god, how do we prepare for these things?
	I mean, they come annually, and they're very dry and destructive for wildfire, so you know what we should do?
	We should not fill the reservoir, and we should do construction on the reservoir at the exact time that the high winds of the Santa Ana winds, the devil winds, come.
	Well, the devil winds have blown their devil breath all over Los Angeles now.
	Typically, about 10 to 25 Santa Ana events occur annually.
	A Santa Ana wind can blow from 1 to 7 days with an average wind lasting 3 days.
	The longest recorded Santa Ana event was a 14-day wind in November.
	Damage from high winds is most common along the Santa Ana River.
	The base...
	Well, by the way, if you saw where the...
	It's very interesting.
	Now that you look at this and Wikipedia is good for what it's worth, but they're going to probably want to edit this and...
	Memory hold it so that those jackass Marxist idiot communist politicians can claim ignorance.
	You saw that satellite image?
	I'm going to leave this up here for one second, actually.
	Let me just go back and get the satellite image.
	Satellite Fire LA.
	Because it's actually...
	Let me just get this here.
	That's because I spelled everything wrong.
	Satellite Fire Los Angeles.
	It's actually quite...
	Here you go.
	This is going to be amazing when you see this.
	I mean, amazing in that...
	Pay attention to this map.
	Okay? These are the Santa Ana winds.
	And this is the satellite image.
	Now, I wish I could overlay it.
	You can see this is virtually exactly where...
	Although, that's interesting.
	I don't want to make a mistake here.
	Those winds look like they're coming off the coast and not necessarily from Santa Ana.
	Hold on.
	Let me go back here.
	Okay, that looks like...
	I've zoomed in, but it's not going to...
	Santa Ana wins.
	Oh, you see no up here, and then maybe they blow back.
	It's not Monday morning quarterbacking.
	It's not backseat driving.
	This is what they exist for.
	And, you know, none of us out there...
	I certainly never knew anything about the Santa Ana wins.
	I knew about the fire seasons.
	I knew about the smelt.
	You know, for those of us who don't live in this environment, it's not stuff that we pay attention to.
	Now that we're paying attention to it, what does it take?
	Four days?
	To understand the dynamics of the risks?
	And these idiots whose job it is to make sure that they can take care of these crises screw up like this?
	It's not a screw-up.
	It's just deliberate.
	Amen, Viva.
	Communist Marxist idiots must be dealt...
	Well, okay, I want to bring that up here.
	Let me take that...
	I'll just read the rest of that before I bring it up.
	They need to go to jail.
	Let's just...
	They need to go to jail.
	So the Santa Ana wins.
	Well documented.
	Well documented.
	And this is the...
	Okay, well, we got that one here.
	Let me get this out of here.
	It's tough.
	It's like...
	The ride is fun, but...
	You'd rather be on different rides.
	Hey David, last week Elizabeth May of the Green Party said they were taking California.
	It's like she knew they were talking to California.
	It's a comedy of errors.
	One of the water picking up plane thingy things that came from Quebec is downed because it hit a freaking drone.
	I take for granted everybody knows this, but if you don't, Quebec.
	Water Plane Drone Los Angeles.
	Well, they've already announced they can't control the skies, so, you know, what's the big deal?
	The FBI is investigating after a Quebec water bomber fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was grounded after colliding with a drone flying in restricted airspace, officials said.
	Two planes from Quebec operated by the firefighting agency CEP.
	It means fire in French.
	Have been fighting the wildfire since Tuesday.
	I do ask the question, why doesn't...
	California is the size of Canada.
	Do they not have enough waterplanes?
	Do they need two waterplanes from Canada?
	It's great that they're doing it.
	But I've got questions, if I'm allowed to still ask those things.
	There's a commie tube rant here.
	It says, Biden, if you need to pump the thing...
	You just make sure the 10% goes to the big guy.
	That's from Theophrastus.
	It's criminal, and there's no other way to describe it.
	Full stop, period.
	And I'm not saying this to rage bait.
	I've got my sisters out there, my brother-in-law's out there, my nieces and nephews are out there, my aunt, who had to evacuate because of an arson fire.
	I believe it was the Kenneth arson, because she's not far from where that was.
	Had to temporarily evacuate.
	She's back home.
	We got immediate family.
	I don't know if first cousins or distant family.
	That's immediate family.
	Friends, acquaintances, people we know from the...
	They're out there.
	And they're all suffering.
	And that's just the immediate ones that you can do something tangible to help.
	There are people who are going to lose everything they owned on this earth.
	And it's just earthly possessions.
	They're not going to get reimbursed by insurance.
	And they're going to get that $750 FEMA from the federal government.
	I mean, Rogan has said it a few times on the show, like, individuals are not meant to deal with the collective misery of 8 billion people of the world.
	And yet we are.
	So we're going to do what we can about it.
	Okay, I think that's it.
	Let me see what's going on in locals here.
	VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
	Paracleric says Bora wins 215 km an hour sustained.
	Croatia, no fires.
	1 minute 33 seconds.
	Let's see what this looks like.
	I'll bring it up here.
	Through some of it.
	Holy Thank you.
	Holy... Okay, but these guys think that they're safe.
	You have to appreciate, you get hit in the head with an acorn at 200 kilometers an hour, you're going to the hospital!
	Where was I?
	I was with my kid, and we're driving by a fire on the road.
	It was an accident.
	I was like, you can't be far enough away.
	You think you're far enough away.
	Once you've seen how bad it can go in a heartbeat, you'll never do it again.
	An acorn.
	A piece of debris hitting these pieces.
	Dude, a pine needle.
	In your eyeball?
	You're not dead, but you're in trouble.
	This is so cool.
	I think I would do this, however.
	That is...
	What are those little balls banging around there?
	But first, let me get a selfie.
	Okay, that's wild.
	Thank you for locals for that.
	That's magnificent.
	That came from Paracleric.
	Boops, he says, Viva, didn't you know?
	Only you can prevent forest fires.
	Even Smokey the Bear tells us they're incompetent.
	RyanPD911 says, there's a video on TikTok of how all the outside fire departments need to get inspected in Sacramento before they can go to LA to help.
	It's deliberate.
	It's deliberate.
	It's by design, and there's no other way to look at it.
	Period. And like, you know, the celebrities who've lost their homes, I feel bad for everybody.
	On a purely financial basis, okay, you know, a celebrity loses their house, it's terrible, and whether or not they have the insurance, it's also terrible.
	They've got other assets, and they'll make do, and they'll be somewhere else, and it's not to minimize anything.
	It's like, you lose irreplaceable items, and it's terrible.
	To the extent you live with your life, I'm looking at my dog.
	As much as these dogs drive me crazy, I still love them.
	You leave with your safety, your family, and your pets, and the things that are truly irreplaceable, and you're fine.
	But there are people out there, and tens of thousands, who are going to lose everything that they've ever owned on this earth, and they're not going to have any insurance to cover it.
	And how do you even possibly try to start to think about helping those people?
	We got C. Carroll on Rumble.
	It says, look up Hinkley MN 1894 firestorms.
	Over 400 died.
	Cold air meets warm air creates wind.
	Lots of dry brush from logging.
	Lesson learned, 1894.
	No, no, no, no.
	You see, you need to accept the fact that the fire hydrants didn't provide water in the case of a fire emergency.
	And if you don't, it's misinformation or you're a Russian asset.
	Back to locals.
	Ryan PD, Boopsie says, the way they give excuses and reasons for the fires and the resulting disaster, it makes it sound like people shouldn't even live there.
	Inevitable fire, no water, no insurance.
	There's an argument for people shouldn't live there in as much as people shouldn't live in hurricane-prone areas because they come and you might be screwed.
	But it would be one thing if you built and you were uninsured from the get-go, but to be cut off immediately or abruptly.
	As a result of government policy, because jack up your insurance premiums.
	Okay, fine.
	You want to live there?
	You have to be able to afford it.
	I'm not saying there's no, like, you got what you deserve, period.
	It's like, you'll end up gentrifying in a sense that the only people who will end up living there are the people who can afford the premiums that the insurance companies need to charge to cover your property.
	At least do it that way.
	But they do it in the sense that, okay, well, we want to jack up premiums.
	No. Okay, canceled.
	And... Now you are royally screwed.
	It is absolutely deliberate, says Kathy1010.
	Oh my gosh.
	So I started doing push-ups again.
	And I'm sore.
	Holy cows.
	I mean, I do like 100 or give or take, but I'm sore.
	I feel a little soft and old and cranky.
	What do we have up here in Boopsie?
	The way they give excuses.
	Ryan PD, Mark and Viva need to have more fatherly talks.
	Anyway, we can make that happen.
	Boopsie says, got here late.
	Any idea why the satellite image?
	Can we look at that?
	It's very interesting.
	It very much coincides with the Santa Ana winds.
	I think they were all started.
	This is to say, why did the fire start simultaneously in three different spots?
	I think these strong winds blew over power lines and they started fires.
	What we're seeing now in the cities is eco-terrorism, period.
	Full stop, without a question.
	Viva is such a naive and innocent soul.
	This is RyanPD911.
	Alien Baby says, Mark, did the government intentionally sabotage the ability to fight the fires or is it gross incompetence?
	We got that.
	And Encryptus says there is extensive evidence that using salty seawater on vegetation a few times a year increases growth and health of plants, soil, and not damages it.
	It would only cause damage in high quantities on a regular basis.
	You know what allows me to conclude that you're correct, Encryptus?
	Trees grow on oceanfronts.
	There are palm trees on beaches.
	So, bullshit.
	There's the episode of The Simpsons where Homer does something to Ned Flanders' property.
	You'll remember this one.
	Where they say, did you have to salt the property so that plants would never grow back again?
	And Homer goes, yeah.
	I'll pull up that clip.
	I'm trying to find it.
	Plants grow on the ocean.
	Palm trees grow on the coastline.
	So, bullcrap.
	And... Okay, I mean, let me just understand the rationale.
	The rationale is not to use salt water because it will kill the vegetation, which would harm things in a year's time, where your house will be gone tomorrow if they don't.
	Okay. There's no cure for stupid, people.
	There's no cure for stupid.
	Okay, well, encrypts.
	We got that.
	Entry required over on Local says they have to want help.
	They have to realize they have a problem.
	LA rejects assistance just like NOLA, New Orleans, rejected assistance after Katrina.
	I wasn't conscious during Katrina, so I can't even form an opinion.
	Okay, what time is it?
	8.18.
	I gotta go eat dinner.
	My wife, she went out for dinner with the kids.
	There's no blame.
	I actually kind of didn't want to eat pizza anyhow, so this was a good excuse to not go eat pizza.
	That's it.
	You all know what's going on a little bit more now.
	What about the sea salt spray?
	Goes at least a mile, right?
	Helen. That is hello there, 25. It's deliberate.
	People need to go to jail.
	Trump is coming into office.
	I'm going to go look at the Calci markets and see if...
	What are the odds now that...
	What's his face?
	Newsom needs a pardon.
	Okay, Benny Thompson, Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci are top contenders.
	What about Gavin?
	There's no market for Gavin.
	Can someone please make a market for Gavin so I can go bet on it?
	I'm telling you there's federal fraud that's going on here.
	So Gavin Newsom, this might be a state issue.
	I'm telling you there's federal fraud going on with the federal assistance for state disaster.
	Sure as sugar, these people are criminals.
	They need to be prosecuted.
	They need to go to jail.
	The lesbian fire chief, and I'm only saying it because they said it, who got fired, her getting fired doesn't make her blameless.
	In fact, her getting fired is just the circular firing squad that we're going to see right now.
	Karen Bass?
	Jail. Gavin Newsom?
	Jail. I even forget the fire chief's name?
	Jail. You overcooked the fish?
	Jail. Miss your dentist appointment?
	Jail. You burned down a whole fucking city?
	Jail. Oh no, but don't worry, because the fire hydrants, they just don't have water pressure when you need the water.
	Jail. It's just a catastrophe.
	I need to double check with my sister and make sure that they're all right.
	Harry Toe 2 says, Did you see BLM founder Patrizia Cullors lost two of her mansions in the fires?
	It's ironic after she burnt down cities.
	Let me bring this up.
	I'm not putting you on blast, nor am I suggesting this is what you're saying.
	There is, in fact, a list of all of the celebrities and people who have lost their properties.
	Harry Toe.
	It's a very funny name.
	Let me look at my toes.
	My toes are not that hairy.
	I'm not accusing you of doing this.
	No, but.
	Don't rejoice in even the evil people suffering hardships.
	If only.
	I mean, some people are going to say, look, they're evil, they deserve it.
	Fine. The reason why you can't celebrate it is because the amount of innocent people, bystanders, who are now victims of their corruption, incompetence, and malevolence...
	Rejoice in that BLM woman losing two of her three mansions.
	I do wonder if she had insurance.
	The amount of actual black Americans, if that's what they were ever interested in protecting, who are going to suffer as a result of this, don't have insurance, lost all of their earthly possessions, you can rejoice in that woman losing her two mansions.
	Indirectly, you are rejoicing in the suffering that that itch bay has caused.
	So don't do it.
	It's also bad karma, bad juju.
	Don't put it out in the universe.
	And it will...
	Hopefully, if you're lucky, not come back to bite you.
	What the heck is that?
	Let me see what this is.
	This is a hair, and it's one of my hairs.
	Look, if you're going to get hair in your mouth, it's better off yours than somebody else's.
	For those out there who are going to pull a Karen Piper and rejoice in James Woods losing his house, don't do it.
	It's unbecoming and it lowers you and it degrades you.
	RyanPD911 says, not wanting pizza?
	This is un-American.
	Pizza wreaks havoc on my metabolism.
	Zoji says, what is this?
	As long as we support Netanyahu and Zelensky, I don't really care what happens in LA or Hawaii or East Palace.
	Let me bring this up here.
	I am not sensitive to any of these discussions.
	When is this from January 9th?
	This is Thomas Massey.
	I believe.
	I agree with you.
	The amount of money that has been squandered on foreign aid to foreign countries could have upgraded the fire supply system so that fire hydrants were not running dry when you needed fire.
	Period. Here, Thomas Massey put out a tweet that says, The U.S. House did only one thing today.
	We passed a bill to protect Israeli PM Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court.
	I voted present.
	The ICC, International Criminal Court, has no authority over the United States, but we should not get involved in disputes between other countries.
	Focus on America.
	That is the most anti-Semitic thing I've ever heard in my life.
	I'm joking.
	Sarcasm, people.
	I like Thomas Massey.
	I trust Thomas Massey.
	I trust his judgment.
	I don't trust that he's right on every issue, and I don't trust that he gets everything right as a matter of fact.
	I trust his judgment in that he's diligent and conscientious and principled.
	He might make mistakes.
	You need to trust but verify everybody.
	But when you trust someone's judgment, it's because they have a track record of being diligent and conscientious.
	You can trust the judgment without trusting the results, and you say, like, okay, fine.
	If they screw me, trust is gone.
	Thomas Massey has yet to screw me.
	That's gonna...
	Hey, he has yet to lead me astray.
	Sorry. But there, he's $175 billion in aid to Ukraine.
	What would it have cost to rebuild Lahaina?
	I think it was $5 billion.
	I'm going to go to Grok because I actually, I trust Grok.
	But if it leads me astray, we're going to have an issue.
	Hold on a second.
	X. X. X. Come on, then.
	Grok. What would it have cost to rebuild Lahaina?
	Lots of titles.
	Let's see if we can figure this out.
	Share my location?
	No, thank you.
	It would have cost around $5.5 billion.
	Okay. What would it have cost to re...
	What's the word I'm looking for?
	Refurbish? Re...
	Rebuild. Let's say rebuild.
	Los Angeles Fire Water System.
	Let's see if I can figure this out.
	$2 billion?
	I mean, how much could it possibly cost?
	The cost to rebuild the Los Angeles Fire Water System, particularly in the context of the recent fires mentioned, would involve several complex factors.
	Yada, yada.
	Give me a dollar figure, Grok.
	AI, tell me what to think.
	Estimates suggest it would run into the billions.
	Okay, good.
	Oh, okay.
	So some estimates say 50 to 150 billion.
	Well, they could have taken everything.
	It wasn't money aid.
	It was just military stuff and yada, yada, yada.
	Sorry, I got distracted.
	I'll bring this one up so people know why I just got distracted.
	Whoever did this, thank you for distracting me.
	Right here.
	Yeah. 150 billion to Ukraine.
	This is what distracted me.
	This is real.
	This is an AI.
	Do I have those glasses here?
	Burps
	That's actually kind of cool.
	Hold on a second.
	Watch this.
	Okay, look at it.
	Look at it.
	Look at it.
	And... So yeah, Viva didn't read my $10 super chat, says Barbara Isan.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Oh, well...
	$10 super chat.
	Hold on.
	That's on Commitube?
	I don't like this.
	Hold on.
	I might have missed something, but let me just see because I screen grabbed.
	Okay, close this.
	Barbara Raisson, I would never.
	I know you?
	Where are my screen grabs going?
	Okay, Barb, put it in the Rumble chat and I'll get to it because I don't think I screen grabbed it, which is very much irritating for me.
	And if it's in the Super Chats, I can't get them anymore because they've already expired in terms of my accessing them.
	Barb, go to Rumble.
	I'm going to Rumble right now.
	I'm going to scroll this down.
	Get out of here.
	Go to the chat.
	Put it in, Barb.
	I'm looking only for Barb.
	Barbara Isan in the chat and I'm going to read it and I'm not going to do anything until it happens.
	Barbisa Ariane.
	Put it in.
	First one, Mark was still on.
	Barb put it in and I'll ask Mark to answer it while he's out for dinner tonight.
	I'm waiting.
	I'm not waiting to put pressure.
	I just don't want to miss it.
	Barbisa Ariane.
	Newsome is Trudeau's buddy.
	King of Biltong is in the house.
	Well, hold on a second.
	You know what?
	We'll watch the chat together until we see this.
	And then I'm going to go make a steak.
	I'm going to fry up a big piece of red meat.
	Yeah. Biltong says, start your journey this year with some tasty high-protein meat snacks.
	Biltong is packing B12, zinc, creatine.
	Get some!
	Builtongusa.com.
	Use code VIVACO10 for 10% off.
	Okay. Nope.
	Your loss?
	Oh. Look at it, people.
	I'm diligently...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I'm diligently trying to get it, Barb.
	Anyways, I know Barb and I, we've known each other on the interwebs for a long time.
	So I know you don't take offense, and nor do I. But let me just go see if you're actually going to ask the question down there.
	Purposely failed leadership must be declared treason.
	The narrative is not going the way Newsom desires, so he's begging for pardon to intervene on his behalf.
	Newsom is a very nasty man.
	Very nasty man.
	And Jed is a very, very, very bad man.
	I'm trying to find two things, by the way.
	There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer's in a car and he says something about the ambassador of Ghana.
	And then the driver says, why would the ambassador have done such a thing?
	And I can't find that clip.
	I know I can find the episode sooner than later.
	Oh, hold on.
	I got distracted by another one in our locals community, but this one's going to be good because this one allows me to flex, pun intended.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	Okay, we're going to do this right now.
	We're going to see if my push-ups have caused my biceps.
	Look at that.
	Yes. That looks Photoshopped.
	Do you know why I know that that's photoshopped?
	Because it's clearly photoshopped.
	Holy crap.
	I was like, dude, if you could make me look like that.
	Okay, that's funny.
	That's very funny.
	This is photoshopped.
	This is my right arm.
	It doesn't...
	I mean, it could look like that on a good day.
	And that's my left arm.
	They're very much commensurate.
	Ooh. But that's...
	Hold on.
	Let me go see what the comment is on that.
	Escape. Especially, that's gotta be, that's gotta be, that is Photoshop, is it not?
	Please tell me it's Photoshop.
	Okay, now let's go back over.
	Oh, I'm still looking for Barlisa Ariane.
	Lupek says Lupek.
	Hold on, now I gotta go to Lupek.
	Where is all the army equipment that was stolen?
	Oh! I did forget to ask Mark that question, but they haven't found it yet, and I have a feeling there will be...
	A few follow-ups on that question.
	I did a video on it earlier today, so check it out.
	Check it, Uri.
	Right arm is huge.
	Okay, that's funny.
	All right.
	We're going to do this.
	We're going to go to locals for a bit and have a little bit of an after-party.
	Then I'm going to go eat dinner because I'm very, very hungry.
	Everybody? Oh, that's cool.
	I did a slow motion video like that way back in the day, but the way the video, based on the frame rate, actually makes that look.
	That's funny.
	Okay, we're going to go to locals to have a bit of an after party there.
	Tomorrow night we will be on with Barnes.
	We're going to talk about this, obviously.
	So, hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Last one, I promise.
	This is not photoshopped.
	This is when I caught a pike.
	Does everybody remember these days?
	Jeez, Louise.
	I'm fairly certain I recall that pike being eaten.
	Because if you zoom in, that's the wire leader, and maybe that one got away.
	The hook would be well in its mouth.
	That fish is smiling.
	Yeah, I don't often.
	I'll show.
	Okay. Yeah, this is real.
	Okay, good.
	That looks like me.
	Simpler times, people.
	Simpler times.
	Okay, let me give everybody the link to Locals so you can all come on over to Locals if you want.
	And if you don't want to, I'll see you tomorrow anyhow.
	Locals, bada bing, bada boom.
	You all get it.
	And that is it.
	Locals, I'm just looking at the chat here.
	I've screwed up a bit of a typo.
	Northern Pike.
	Yeah, I think I caught a 12-pound Northern Pike once upon a time.
	That one I'd give is like 5'5".
	Viva, you are a good man, says Curtis Bartle.
	I'll take it.
	Small blessings, people.
	Okay, we're going to end it on both everything.
	All three things except for vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Going straight over tonight.
	Thank you all for being here.
	Grobert is amazing.
	Keeps things in perspective.
	And it's a miserable stress.
	I mean, I think, like, I know what I would take in terms of things of value.
	I know what I would be pissed off at if I lost in terms of nostalgia.
	But at the end of the day, you have your life, and you have your loved ones, and you have your pets, and you have things that actually matter that are irreplaceable.
	I would release all the fish, the three turtles, into the water.
	Godspeed. God bless.
	It's up to you.
	I would release the mollies, even if it's against Florida law.
	I would release the fish that we have in the outdoor fish tank.
	And if things burn to the ground, you hope for the best, and that's it.
	Plan for the worst.
	We're going to locals, vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Short one, but we're going now.

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