SoCal Fires: Destruction and dumbassery (01-09-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] In the last hour, I mentioned Adam Carolla, a standup comedian guy, does a podcast. You've seen him. If you don't know the name, you've seen him, I guarantee you. But he is originally from, I think, originally from California. And he had testified, I mentioned this last hour, that he had testified in front of Congress about DEI policies. And he talked about, this was a while ago, he talked about how he was delayed application to the

[00:00:58] to the Los Angeles Fire Department because he was a white guy. They told him, your waiting list is seven years. And when they finally called him back, so he went to work in construction, he comes back. And then they, because they sent him a letter saying you can now apply again. And so he came in and he asked a woman behind him in the line, how long has she been waiting? When did she get the letter to come apply? And she said she got it Wednesday.

[00:01:26] Like a couple, like, so within the, within seven days ago. Right. And the point there, in case it's, you know, not obvious, which I think it is, is that he had to wait seven years and she did not. And the only reason was because he was a white guy. I forget if he said her race or not, but it doesn't matter because what they obviously were doing was, you know, hiring and promoting based on immutable characteristics that were not based on merit.

[00:01:55] And the fire department, along with the city of Los Angeles, they've spent millions of dollars on these DEI types of programs. And that means you lose focus. You devote resources and manpower hours, time and attention away from your core mission, which is to fight fires. Like, that's the main point. The only reason you have a fire department is so they fight fires. That's it. Right.

[00:02:22] But when you become distracted by the, the ideologically driven latest fad, then you lose sight of the core mission. And that's what apparently the LA fire department has done.

[00:02:40] Carolla also yesterday did a podcast where he talked about, uh, he told the story of Bill Maher, the host of, uh, used to be politically incorrect. And then it's been real time with Bill Maher. He's a standup comedian also. And, uh, you know, Bill Maher has angered a lot of leftists, uh, because they, you know, think he's been quote red pilled.

[00:03:02] And if you're not aware of what that term means, red pilled comes from the matrix, the movie, the matrix, where, uh, the main character Keanu Reeves is presented a choice. There's a red pill and a blue pill. And the red pill is that you, um, or the blue pill is pitched as you take the blue pill, you go back to sleep and you are unaware of the matrix, this false world that has been constructed for you.

[00:03:28] Um, if you take the red pill though, uh, as Morpheus, the, the character said, you know, you find out how deep this rabbit hole goes and that's where the term comes from. And so people say they've been red pilled when they've sort of been, you know, their eyes have been opened to the way things really are and what's really going on. And it's, it's an awakening of sorts, not to be confused with woke, but, um, red pilled. So Bill Maher is accused of being red pilled.

[00:03:57] Uh, I'm not so sure he is on, on, well, I know he's not on a great many things, but on some things on common sense, uh, types of things he has been. And so where does this go back to? And Carolla says it started when Bill Maher tried to get solar panels for his house in California.

[00:04:16] And it took him like three years to get solar panels approved for his house because of all the red tape regulations and these officious busy, busy bodies that made him jump through hoops and delay and delay and delay and just add more and more cost.

[00:04:35] Carolla tells a story. I forget who the actor was, but it was somebody famous. And he said that this person wanted to get a swimming pool put in. And in order to do that, you got to go through, it's something called the coastal co, uh, the coastal commission or something in Malibu and palace, uh, Pacific Palisades.

[00:04:53] And they required this guy to do a double hull on his pool, which means like, what does that mean? Like you're putting in a pool.

[00:05:04] They basically made him put in two, right? You got to drop one hull down and then you got to do another pool inside of that pool.

[00:05:12] And the rationale was that if the first pool leaks, then the second pool will catch it. So the chlorinated water or whatever doesn't seep into the groundwater.

[00:05:26] Now, again, this is at the coast. So even if the water had seeped in, even if it was chlorinated and it wasn't a saltwater pool, even if it got into the groundwater, it would go to the ocean, which is literally an ocean.

[00:05:39] There's a lot of water in an ocean. That's why they call it an ocean. That's why we say, man, that's as big as an ocean because oceans are really, really big.

[00:05:47] We don't even know where some of the floors of these oceans are. So that's a red pill moment.

[00:05:54] And what Carolla is predicting is that a lot of these people who have lost their homes that have the million dollar homes.

[00:06:05] They are going to now have to run the gauntlet of local government and they are going to realize the actual cost of their policies, because before they would just do one project.

[00:06:22] Maybe they do a renovation or something, whatever. But now, like because a lot of these people that sit on these boards and commissions and such, they don't want you to rebuild.

[00:06:35] They they they're sort of anti-humanist. They want that shoreline to be pristine.

[00:06:42] They don't want anybody building on the coast at all. And some of these homes like Malibu and Pacific Palisades, they overlook the ocean.

[00:06:51] They're right on the water and they may not get approvals to build.

[00:06:57] And. This is like I'm not so sure now, I just came across a post on the Twitter machine by Matthew Peterson.

[00:07:06] He is the editor in chief over at the Blaze. And he said Carolla is 100 percent correct.

[00:07:14] About. About at least half of what's going to happen, the California Coastal Commission, which has more power than many a third world dictator, simply won't allow a lot of rebuilding in Malibu and homeowners in the Palisades and Altadena, which, by the way, that's where the Beverly Hills 90210 house was actually located from the TV show.

[00:07:35] Beverly Hills 90210. It was located in Altadena or Altadena and that burned down. That's gone.

[00:07:44] He says the homeowners are about to walk through the gates of local government hell as they learn how hard it is to build anything in California, as well as how corrupt and deficient their systems of regional government truly are.

[00:07:57] Carolla should be right about the other half where this could be like a red pill for some of these people, he says.

[00:08:05] But I don't know. I hope so. But I don't know if that's going to happen.

[00:08:09] He said. As more than one friend has pointed out in the last 24 hours, there's something lost in all the talk about the fires and what has been lost is a lot more than some random suburbs.

[00:08:21] Altadena had some of the most beautiful homes and neighborhoods in California representing the best of early 20th century California.

[00:08:30] He said he used to live nearby. He would wander the streets and he would just marvel at the homes that were there.

[00:08:35] The idyllic Palisades were not full of the usual shoddy McMansions or super mega gaudy estates,

[00:08:43] but real communities and beautiful suburban housing that represented the rise of post-World War II Golden Age Southern California.

[00:08:51] The iconic Malibu coastline has stood as a symbol for millions for a long time.

[00:08:58] It always did for me, at least, he says. Commuting. He talked about how you drive through there.

[00:09:02] Didn't matter the traffic. He just loved looking at the neighborhood.

[00:09:06] And so much of that is now gone.

[00:09:09] And we are right to wonder if it will ever come back or if anything like it can come back.

[00:09:19] What was lost this week is much more than houses.

[00:09:22] What vanished in the smoke and flames is the physical remnants of an America culture,

[00:09:27] symbols that stood for the American dream.