Adam and Connor discuss the wildfires that are currently burning through Los Angeles and the wild conspiracies theories that have flared up around them.
Show notes: https://conspirapod.link/ep316
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I.
Hey everybody, welcome to
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Conspiracy the Show.
I’m your host Adam Todd Brown,
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joining me as Co host this week.
Connor’s here.
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How’s it going, man?
Going better now that I’m
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talking to you, Adam.
Hey, ain’t that always the way
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shit is going down where Connor
and I live?
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California.
The Golden State.
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Yeah, I don’t mean the apartment
we share.
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We moved out of the apartment we
shared together a long time ago.
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After Adam failed to kill me in
the womb.
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Howard that he is.
But the city we live in, Los
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Angeles, maybe people have heard
it’s on fire right now all over
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the God damn place.
Yeah, I, I saw someone use the
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phrase, which I felt like, given
the circumstances, was totally
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accurate.
You said he was caught in the
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midst of an explaining
hurricane, which like that
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should be a drink that you
order, not a fucking thing that
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happens to your house.
It is crazy.
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That’s what it’s like.
It’s not just a fire because
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it’s a fire happening while the
Santa Ana winds are happening.
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Over 100 miles an hour sometimes
I heard that I heard this.
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This fact blew my mind.
So that embers can travel over a
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mile with that.
So one fucking lucky spark can
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take out your whole, you know,
Pacific Palisades home.
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I’m in San Pedro, damned like
right by the ocean, and we’re
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getting ash down here.
Oh, it’s like raining ash.
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Yeah, yeah, and it has been for
a while.
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So I’m far enough away that fire
isn’t a threat yet, but also
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people set a fucking park on
fire last night and that got put
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down quick enough.
But.
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Like, like a like an arson, just
someone lit up a oh God.
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Yeah, yeah, So douchebags.
Who knows that you said you’re
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in Toluca Lake?
I’m in Toluca Lake, sort of like
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in between the Sunset Fire and
the Kenneth fire and the Lydia
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fire.
I’m kind of in the middle of
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that triangle, but far enough
away from all of them that
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wasn’t really terribly at risk.
And I notoriously, I’m not a
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news reader.
I am not on Twitter every day
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and seeing what’s going on.
I don’t ever check anything
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ever.
So the day that the fire
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happened, one of my New Year’s
resolutions, I quit smoking in
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late December and I said I’m
going to walk 10,000 steps every
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day.
So I’m outside.
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I walked probably 5 miles the
day.
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The air quality was absolutely
the worst.
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No mask, no nothing, but it felt
just like normal walking because
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all the benefits of quitting
smoking cancelled out all the
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detriments of breathing in
poison fumes.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, I I’ve been trying to work
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out more and I went for a pretty
intense walk on a morning this
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week when I probably shouldn’t
have, like.
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Oh yeah.
And I even started out and I was
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like, yeah, this is fine.
I don’t even smell smoke.
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And by the end it smelled like
the city I live in was fucking
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on fire.
That you were inside a campfire.
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Yeah, it was nuts.
You’re a fucking Adam S’more
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Brown.
Yeah, it’s bad.
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It hasn’t been is bad for me
because I live a good distance
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away but still in LA County.
But I definitely there’s
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definitely people who’ve had to
flee who are the network.
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I have a friend who lost her
house in Altadena.
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One of the coolest I’ve always
wanted to move to Altadena.
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That was my cool secret
neighborhood that I was going to
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be be a cool old man in go to
the record store.
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I had it all planned out now.
Well maybe property value is
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going to be lower so.
Yeah, probably afford it now.
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Yeah, Yeah.
The Altadena fire was especially
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crazy because it started in the
mountains, but because of those
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winds, it was just blowing.
Pushed into the urban.
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Areas everywhere, yeah.
Yeah, it was that was the one
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that I feel like went like
deepest into maybe Pacific
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Palisades was was just bigger
just by the sheer size size of
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it.
But that one like really just
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penetrated like where people
live.
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Not like not like weirdos.
There’s like there’s all,
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there’s all these weird houses
in the hills in LA that have
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been owned by 1 old Kookie
family for 100 years or whatever
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the fuck.
But this was, this was just like
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a hood, just like a, just like a
local fucking.
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This is like where people live.
I don’t know how to put it in
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that, you know?
Yeah, even the Malibu fire.
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I don’t think anyone with
beachfront property was
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expecting their house to burn
down in a fucking wild.
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Forest fire, Yeah, that’s
insane.
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And that’s exactly what
happened.
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All these houses along the beach
burned down.
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And yeah, it’s been in an event
and it’s still ongoing.
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The wind is supposed to kick
back up today.
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As people listen to this, the
winds are supposed to get pretty
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crazy again.
But fear not, California.
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Our finest unpaid inmates are
doing their very best to fight
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the blaze.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So of course, there are a lot of
conspiracy theories.
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Oh, I should mention, I’m glad
you’re OK.
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I’m glad you’re safe.
At first I thought we couldn’t
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record this because I asked if
you were free or if you’d be
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fleeing fires and you were like,
I’m free but I’ll be fleeing
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fires.
So I took that to mean you
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couldn’t record when the truth
is Connor is in a van right now,
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flames nipping at the fucking
bumper.
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Undisclosed secure location.
Adam, thank you.
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On the road to bring you
content.
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At my grandma’s house,
explaining to her over and over
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and over again that we don’t
know if it was arson that
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started the fire.
My grandmother’s gone scene
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island.
She was just staring at the TV
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like, oh, it’s so horrible.
People like those fires.
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It’s awful.
And we’re like, we don’t know if
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it was people to load the fires
20 seconds later, Oh my God.
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And people just light those
fires anyway.
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Yeah, I think the Kenneth fire
they’ve determined was arson,
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but beyond that, I.
Don’t.
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Yeah, they have a person of
interest.
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Yeah, a homeless person with a
flamethrower.
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I heard them described as which?
Imagine that being the last
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possession you hold on to.
Yeah, your flamethrower.
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This is my Boring Company Elon
Musk flamethrower.
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It was a limited drop.
It’s.
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Technically a welding torture.
You could pry it through my
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cold, dead, homeless hands.
Exactly.
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That guy lit the Kinder fire.
Sorry, unhoused hands, right?
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Yeah, No, I was going to say
he’s been talking all kinds of
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shit about this and we’ll, we’ll
get to it in a minute, but Elon
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Musk was a guy who made it
flamethrowers readily available
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to the American public for a
fairly low, probably 300 bucks
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or something.
Yeah, they were very affordable.
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The only reason I don’t have one
is they sold out super.
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Quick, Yeah, no shit.
Same here.
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Like I would have definitely
bought a flamethrower.
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You fucking kidding me?
Of course.
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I would have turned into one of
those like, you know, you ever
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meet like the liberal who’s
like, ah, you know, he’s a piece
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of shit, but he makes a good
car.
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I would be like, yeah, you know,
he’s kind of a douchebag, but I,
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I love to light things on fire.
Like a flamethrower feels like
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the spray bottle for cats, but
for intruders.
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Like someone breaks in, you just
set that thing off once and
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they’re getting the fuck out of
there right back asleep.
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As long as you don’t set the
house on fire, obviously.
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That is, that is a perfect
analogy.
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What the fuck are you going to
do, you know?
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Just.
So I could be busted out a three
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section staff and do a bunch of
tricks like I don’t know if you
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can hurt me with that, but I
don’t want to find out, yeah.
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No, no, it’s me taking on an
intruder.
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So there’s conspiracy theories
about these fires, obviously,
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and almost all of them are kind
of stupid.
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It’s a lot of hogwash today.
Yeah, shockingly, Trump comes
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through at the end with the one
that is the most the most
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stalient, believable, which that
we’re we’re living in the upside
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down everybody well.
You know, broken clocks break
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twice a day and he he has been
breaking out one of my favorite
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nicknames of Newscum, Gavin
Newscum.
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It doesn’t exactly roll off the
tongue, but to see it written is
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just perfect.
Yeah, Gavin Newsom is one of
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those Democrats that I just
gruesome.
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Newsom I just have 0 sympathy
for that.
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Yeah, I love to watch him fail
and and be derided and to see
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him going to the fucking fancy
restaurant during COVID and all
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this.
He’s just, he just stinks.
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I fucking hate that he’s going
to be the nominee.
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And most likely, you know, like
I’m just, I’m just, I’m.
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Why don’t we keep having to see
this motherfucker’s face?
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Yeah, apparently The Onion ran a
headline after the fires that
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said Gavin Newsom spotted eating
in the ashes of Nobu, which
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that’s.
Funny.
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That is the thing that kind of
put me off on.
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Gavin Newsom was issuing that
stay at home order and then
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being at French Laundry the same
night unmasked.
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It’s like, man, you are the
elite, huh?
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Like, you know, working in TV,
I’ve met and kind of gotten to
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know a decent number of like
what I would say very rich
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people, people that have more
than $5,000,000 and they just
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want to go to a nice restaurant.
It is that is like their entire
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world is the good table at a
nice place, and they know that.
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And it’s, it was all that these
people, I’m so hard not to say
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names, but it was all these
people talked about during Covic
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and all that shit.
And it was, yeah, just kind of
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funny.
But people’s priorities are when
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you get rich.
Yeah, yeah, that’s nuts.
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It has been kind of at least.
At least this has affected
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mostly the rich.
You know, I brought that up.
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We did an episode.
I mean, this week’s You Don’t
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Even Like This show was also
about the fires, but not the
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conspiracy theories around them.
And I brought that same thing
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up.
It’s not like not so much with
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Altadena, but Palisades and
Malibu.
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It sucks what happened, but
that’s a lot of people who
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they’ll at least be able to
rebuild.
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Yeah, that probably have
insurance and fucking all that
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shit, you know.
I mean, there are also some
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people who insurance companies
have refused to renew their
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policies because of all this and
those people are fucked and
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that’s a whole different thing.
But.
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At least the wildfire stayed
away from Echo Park and Watts
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and.
Yeah, like it’s not burning
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through South Central Los
Angeles.
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I appreciate that.
Yeah, that’s nice.
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For one thing, it would be
barreling down on me if it was
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because I’m way closer to that
than I am to Altadena or
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Palisades like that.
People are calling it the
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socialist wildfire.
So let’s talk about these
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conspiracy theories.
Yes, theories.
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One of the most prominent or the
one I found the first which it
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must be the most prominent if I
found it the first.
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These fires were started by a
directed energy weapon.
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There are two reasons people are
saying this.
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One, there was video going
around of an object flying
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through the skies above the LA
fires and for the life of me I
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cannot imagine what that object
would have been.
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Surely not a drone operated by
some fuck face who eventually
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crashed it into one of the only
two useful planes we had for
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fighting these fires.
Did you hear about that?
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Yeah, I did that.
Someone hit one of the Super
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scoopers that goes, I love the
Super scooper.
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That’s the coolest part of any
fucking wild park.
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Flies out to the ocean, gets way
down low, drops a shoot, scoops
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up a bunch of water and then
goes and poops it out on the
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fire.
I mean, what could be better
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than that?
And some dipshit like fucking
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crashed his drone and the
propeller fucked it all up.
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Yeah, we had two of them from
Canada that were helping to
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fight this fire and some ass
wipe with a drone crashed their
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drone into one of them and put a
big ass hole in the side of the
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tank and now we only have one of
those.
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Whatever happened to Occam’s
razor?
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We, we never fucking assumed the
simplest, the most like likely
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explanation to anything anymore.
Everything is the fucking
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conspiracy theory.
It’s it’s like, I don’t know,
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everyone’s playing our tune now,
Adam.
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Yeah, but they’re not.
They don’t know the notes.
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It’s like, oh, it couldn’t
possibly be one of the hundreds
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of models of readily available,
easy to fly and use commercial
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flying machines that exist at
your local fucking target.
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No, it’s a satellite with a
space laser.
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You fucking what?
Are you fucking stupid?
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I can’t imagine how many drones
were flying over these fires.
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Oh, of course, anybody with the
drone was going to be trying to
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get, you know, the shot.
So that video is meaningless to
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me.
I haven’t even seen the video,
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but I don’t fucking need to see
it.
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The other thing people pointed
to is all of these pictures of
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palm trees looking like they’re
completely intact and undamaged
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while everything burns around
them.
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So people are like, see it was a
directed energy weapon but no
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it’s not.
Trees actually survive shit like
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this all the time.
I remember we talked about the
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theory that there might have
been like an ancient nuclear war
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that happened.
Yes, yeah.
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On one of the very first
episodes.
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I remember that one.
One of the things people always
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point to is, well, there’s still
structures standing from then.
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There wouldn’t be structures
standing if there was a nuclear
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blast that went off.
And my push back to that is
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always look at those early
nuclear weapon tests.
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You see these explosions happen
and trees just bend a little bit
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and they like don’t even get
blown over.
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Yeah, and I and I think in two
2000 BC and Mesopotamia, I don’t
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think they were using like
standard stucco and drywall for
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any of this shit.
I think it was more like stone
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and Adobe and like really like
actually durable building
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materials.
Yeah, stuff that gets harder
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when it gets hot, you know?
Yeah.
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It’s probably made made your
house better.
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Oh thank you.
You fast fired my house.
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And with fires, trees, for one
thing, just inherently contain a
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lot of moisture and their bark
over the years has kind of
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developed or, you know, evolved
to prepare for fires.
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Yeah.
Did you ever try to build a fire
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with just like wood you got from
like the fucking forest?
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If it’s like it’s like wet, it
doesn’t burn, it pops.
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It’s like really difficult to
get going.
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You know, water really is
kryptonite.
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I saw a guy on local LA news.
He saved his house by buying a
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couple of those sprinklers you
put on your lawn that go back
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and forth and you just put them
on his roof and left and the
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fire you could see made its way
to his house and like stopped
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and fanned out to the left and
right.
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I.
Just went around it, wow.
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Yeah, and every house in front
of his, like down the Canyon was
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saved because he had those
sprinklers on his roof, so.
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Fucking like what?
What $45.00 investment to save
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your entire house?
What a fucking G.
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Yeah, yeah, that’s I, I could
not believe that fucking story.
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So yeah, sometimes trees aren’t
going to burn.
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And then there’s also a ton of
videos of trees burning too.
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Yeah.
And when palm trees like they
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share the layer of skin, you
know those weird like palm tree
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like damp, like the like a like
a scab that comes off of them,
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like they get dry.
But I think like a a lot of like
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the core of them is where the
water is and it’s hard to burn.
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So if there’s not a bunch of dry
shit around them to like, act as
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kindling I don’t like, I totally
make sense that a palm tree
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would be left standing.
Yeah, the thing that would burn
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would be the canopy.
The stuff lay up high on top
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right.
And with a fire like this the
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heat is usually at ground level.
There are the ones that are.
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There’s videos of some palm
trees burning though and those
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just got hit by fire that was up
high enough.
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Probably embers flying.
Yeah, some of those mile, mile
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long embers we were talking
about.
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Yeah, those embers fucked people
up.
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That was, that’s what really did
a lot of people in because
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again, the winds, that’s what
makes it so different.
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So yeah, trees not burning is
not proof that this was a
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directed energy weapon, but
there’s more to it than that.
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The thinking isn’t just that
they were set deliberately, but
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there was a purpose behind it.
Here is a quote from a very
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coherent social media post.
Los Angeles Pacific Palisades is
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totally engulfed in flames.
And very interestingly, LA is
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positioned to be an AI, a smart
city by 2028.
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Was it a targeted DEW strike to
grab up some more precious land?
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End Quote.
So the thinking here is LA is
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burning its communities down so
it can rebuild them as smart
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cities in time for the 2028
Olympics, I guess.
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I want to say sincerely that if
the government is going around
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burning down billionaires homes
in one of the most beautiful
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neighborhoods in Los Angeles
with a space laser so they can
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replace them with sustainable
urban planning and affordable
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housing, then for the first time
ever, Connor Mcspadden says go
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the government.
That’s actually fine.
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You have my fucking backing.
You only had 11 cattleties too.
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You did this shit pretty clean.
Yeah, yeah, that.
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I mean, this, it wouldn’t be the
most nefarious conspiracy
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theory.
It’s what people want, you know,
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eat the rich.
Maybe eat is just a metaphorical
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thing that means burn their
house.
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You know, So what is it?
A fire eats away at a hillside.
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Yeah, so we can put a smart city
up, but also I feel like if this
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was a thing, there have to be
cheaper ways to turn a city into
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a smart city that don’t involve
burning everything to the ground
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and starting over.
And also, why start in the
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Palisades?
Yeah, it’s not like an urban
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center.
It’s all pretty spread out.
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You know, it’s like, it’s sort
of suburban, but like just in
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the with a slightly rural
backdrop.
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Yeah, there are towns and cities
in California already that could
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probably just be adapted to that
kind of thing.
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But yeah, I don’t know, a 15
minute city sounds great.
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It does sound great.
I do think that if they were
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going to do it sincerely, they
might just go cut down the trees
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and sell the lumber or use it or
you know.
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Yeah, that would make way more
sense.
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Although I suppose then you’ve
got to get through the Pacific
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Palisades Homeowner Association,
which I imagine is like Darth
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Vader’s fucking conference room.
Oh yeah, yeah, that’s, that’s
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going to be a rich goddamn room.
That is a fuddy Duddy
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environment.
Yeah.
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So yeah, the 15 minute city
thing, yeah.
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It’s just it’s heavy-handed,
even for the government.
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Yeah, and I don’t know, it’s
they could just do it Like the
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government has no problem taking
land.
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We’re gonna take fucking
Greenland probably like, oh, OK.
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How does that sound?
Birth control.
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I noticed that excessive system
clutter is detected on my
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computer.
Well, now.
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Now I’m self-conscious.
It must be all that malware I’ve
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been sending.
You Trojan horses from the
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government and shit.
I got to say, every time we sit
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down to do Conspiracy the show
and I’m like typing up like my
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little notes and jokes I’m going
to say and reading the notes
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Adam wrote, my computer is never
slower than when I’m doing
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Conspiracy the Show shits.
It always is fucking glacially
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molasses slow every time I’m
questioning the floor.
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Ed’s trying to hold us down.
They can’t.
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Speaking of people he can’t hold
down, let’s talk about Diddy.
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Diddy.
He’s got a lot going on right
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now.
Or, as I call him, Blepstein.
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No, that’s not going to stick.
He has a whole lot of concerns
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right now.
Chief among them, his home in
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the Pacific Palisades is at risk
of catching on fire.
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It seems the final winner of the
Freak Off was the Flames.
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Mr. Diddy.
And one of the houses the police
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raided when he got charged with
sex trafficking was this home in
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the Palisades.
So that has gotten people to
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wondering where these fires set
intentionally to destroy
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evidence in the Diddy case.
And I feel like the weirdest
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part of this is that this theory
is coming from a former HUD
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official in the George HW Bush
administration.
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So this woman’s like 1000 years
old.
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And like I’ve I’ve read kind of
a lot about Bush and Cheney.
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I’ve never heard of this woman.
She’s a real zilch, you know,
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like she’s got no name, no
credibility.
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Catherine Austin Fitz, She was
assistant secretary of Housing
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and Urban Development or
Housing.
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OK, if anyone’s asking, and this
is her quote on her own podcast.
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In situations like the LA fires,
I look at patterns.
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I look at some of the
communities involved.
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How many of the homeowners were
on the P Diddy list?
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End Quote.
Again, it’s heavy-handed.
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We’re not just sure if you’re
going to burn down Diddy’s
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house.
Don’t burn down all of
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California just to cover.
Well, also it seems like she’s
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suggesting, well, all these
celebrities lived around Diddy,
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so most of them probably went to
his parties and some of them are
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obviously going to be involved
in all the sex trafficking.
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And so these fires were set to
destroy that evidence and it’s
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like they could just destroy the
evidence.
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Why would they burn their
fucking city down?
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If any evidence existed in these
houses, it all got burned in a
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fucking oil barrel fire the
minute this dude went to prison.
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Yeah, somebody dumped some
hydrochloric acid out in the
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woods and that was that.
Yeah, there’s no way anyone’s
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holding on to that shit.
Just hoping the FBI doesn’t show
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up and find it.
This is.
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Yeah.
And I got to figure like, you’re
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in a situation like this where
you have whatever, you’re a rich
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guy with compromising shit in
your house that links you to P
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Diddy.
You’ve you’ve installed the big
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red button that says burn it
that you pressed immediately
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when P Diddy was incarcerated.
Yeah, we did an episode of the
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You Don’t I Don’t Even Like This
Band podcast.
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I don’t know why I didn’t do
this on the conspiracy pod, but
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are you familiar with what’s
going on with Pros Michelle from
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The Fugees?
No.
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He is facing 22 years in prison
on espionage charges.
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OK, and the story is nuts.
It starts with him showing up at
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The Four Seasons in Manhattan,
walking up to a concierge who’s
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he was told to say the word
banana.
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Two eyes wide shut.
He says the word banana.
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The guy hands him an envelope
that has instructions that say
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walk around the block twice and
then come back.
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He does that and gets ushered
into an elevator and taken to a
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penthouse where he meets one of
the top officials in the Chinese
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government.
That’s all real shit.
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Yeah, He basically sold the
photo op with Obama for $12
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million.
And that’s why he’s.
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OK, yeah, that makes sense.
That’s that’s the kind of
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fucking shit that Pras could get
into all right.
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But the reason I bring that up
is you mentioned, you know, the
431
00:24:06,200 –> 00:24:09,480
red button you push.
That actually happened in this
432
00:24:09,480 –> 00:24:14,040
case, one of the people involved
in it who is still a fugitive I
433
00:24:14,040 –> 00:24:16,560
believe.
When the Fed showed up to raid
434
00:24:16,560 –> 00:24:21,280
his apartment in Manhattan, it
got remotely detonated and
435
00:24:21,480 –> 00:24:25,320
destroyed, which is the coolest
fucking thing I’ve ever heard.
436
00:24:25,480 –> 00:24:28,960
Yeah, that is pretty cool to
have like a fucking shred it,
437
00:24:28,960 –> 00:24:30,800
burn it, blow it up button that
you can.
438
00:24:31,520 –> 00:24:34,520
Now I’m now I’m upset that I
don’t have any incriminating
439
00:24:34,520 –> 00:24:37,600
evidence to.
It’s no fun.
440
00:24:37,840 –> 00:24:40,720
Yeah, and I only, I mean, what
AII don’t know what a what kind
441
00:24:40,720 –> 00:24:43,440
of budget I have for
incriminating evidence.
442
00:24:43,440 –> 00:24:46,240
I just have to put it in one of
those Barbasol cans that’s
443
00:24:46,240 –> 00:24:48,600
actually.
Like could you hide your weed
444
00:24:48,600 –> 00:24:51,280
in?
Yeah, also this theory.
445
00:24:51,400 –> 00:24:55,480
What are people missing about?
The FBI already raided this
446
00:24:55,480 –> 00:24:57,480
house, do we think?
Yeah, right.
447
00:24:57,840 –> 00:25:00,760
Raided the house and we’re like,
oh, that’s incriminating.
448
00:25:00,760 –> 00:25:03,520
I hope this place doesn’t burn
down before we come back and get
449
00:25:03,520 –> 00:25:05,400
it.
Like they took everything.
450
00:25:05,720 –> 00:25:08,720
There’s nothing in that house.
That was a huge case.
451
00:25:08,720 –> 00:25:12,040
They probably had sonar imaging
going into the ground to see if
452
00:25:12,040 –> 00:25:14,160
anyone was buried there.
Like I’m sure they went over
453
00:25:14,160 –> 00:25:16,200
everything with a fine tooth
fucking comb.
454
00:25:16,480 –> 00:25:19,800
Like a fine tooth Combs, I
guess.
455
00:25:19,800 –> 00:25:25,120
Sean Combs word play.
Because say what you will about
456
00:25:25,120 –> 00:25:27,880
the FBI and, you know,
incarcerating some of our homies
457
00:25:27,880 –> 00:25:30,200
and killing some of our other
homies, say they’re pretty
458
00:25:30,200 –> 00:25:31,920
meticulous.
You got to give them that.
459
00:25:32,040 –> 00:25:36,040
Yeah, I imagine if there was any
concern that there was something
460
00:25:36,040 –> 00:25:40,440
in this house in need of saving,
the FBI would just go in and get
461
00:25:40,440 –> 00:25:42,760
it.
So yeah, this is another dumb
462
00:25:42,760 –> 00:25:45,880
ass theory that makes no goddamn
sense.
463
00:25:45,880 –> 00:25:48,440
No one who would have
incriminating evidence is just
464
00:25:48,440 –> 00:25:51,320
going to keep it.
And then burn their entire town
465
00:25:51,320 –> 00:25:53,120
down to hide it.
Nuts.
466
00:25:53,560 –> 00:25:56,280
Yeah, I think like and also I
think part of like turning our
467
00:25:56,280 –> 00:26:00,080
Internet take economy into
whoever says the craziest thing
468
00:26:00,080 –> 00:26:05,080
wins has maybe not turned out to
be the best moves going forward
469
00:26:05,080 –> 00:26:08,640
for news and all that shit.
It’s not just a bunch of no name
470
00:26:08,640 –> 00:26:13,120
fucking Republican barnacles.
This woman’s a fucking Barnacle.
471
00:26:13,120 –> 00:26:17,840
She’s the, she’s like the
ancient HUD, the assistant to
472
00:26:17,840 –> 00:26:20,360
the ancient HUD.
Never heard of her before in my
473
00:26:20,360 –> 00:26:22,240
goddamn life.
And now she’s trying to make a
474
00:26:22,240 –> 00:26:24,960
name for herself with this
cockamamie theory, which is what
475
00:26:24,960 –> 00:26:27,280
everybody does.
Oh yeah, I’m the guy who fucking
476
00:26:27,280 –> 00:26:29,120
blew up with this cockamamie
theory, you know?
477
00:26:29,480 –> 00:26:31,800
Yeah, yeah.
And people will stick with that
478
00:26:31,800 –> 00:26:36,360
shit no matter what.
And in this case, also you.
479
00:26:36,480 –> 00:26:39,240
We’re also getting that thing
where people just, like,
480
00:26:39,280 –> 00:26:44,200
intentionally misinterpret words
to make it fit their theory.
481
00:26:44,240 –> 00:26:48,440
One of of Diddy’s accusers, a
woman named Allie Carter in
482
00:26:48,480 –> 00:26:54,000
October 2024, she, people claim,
predicted these fires after
483
00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:56,600
saying a lot was about to come
out, there would be another
484
00:26:56,640 –> 00:26:59,800
arrest, and then she says this.
Like, I’ll, I’ll give it to you.
485
00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:02,320
This is sort of weird.
It’s sort of weird.
486
00:27:02,520 –> 00:27:06,520
But if you think about it for 10
seconds, yeah, like it’s sort of
487
00:27:06,520 –> 00:27:09,800
weird that she chose a fire
analogy, I guess, but.
488
00:27:10,560 –> 00:27:15,680
Yeah, it reminds me of someone
at one point tweeted Kobe Bryant
489
00:27:15,680 –> 00:27:18,400
is going to die in a helicopter
crash someday.
490
00:27:18,520 –> 00:27:21,800
And they tweeted that because it
was well known that Kobe Bryant
491
00:27:22,000 –> 00:27:24,400
commuted to and from his home.
Helicopter rounds.
492
00:27:24,600 –> 00:27:26,440
It lived in Orange County.
Yeah.
493
00:27:26,480 –> 00:27:28,040
Went to LA.
We were trying to get him on our
494
00:27:28,040 –> 00:27:30,520
show, Lights Out with David
Spade, but we couldn’t get the
495
00:27:30,520 –> 00:27:32,960
helipad things sorted out.
We couldn’t find a place for his
496
00:27:32,960 –> 00:27:34,960
helicopter.
Oh shit, yeah.
497
00:27:34,960 –> 00:27:39,200
So that like that person was
just like guessing and doing it
498
00:27:39,200 –> 00:27:41,440
as a joke.
And it, you know, it turned out
499
00:27:41,600 –> 00:27:43,720
in this case, this is what Allie
Carter said.
500
00:27:43,840 –> 00:27:47,200
Watch for those fires.
Explosions make fires too.
501
00:27:47,320 –> 00:27:49,760
Explosions make accidental fires
too.
502
00:27:50,040 –> 00:27:52,440
And then cops.
We don’t know how that happened.
503
00:27:52,760 –> 00:27:55,680
Then you look into it and you
see that it’s tied to something
504
00:27:55,920 –> 00:27:59,480
that’s tied to something that’s
tied to something that’s tied to
505
00:27:59,480 –> 00:28:01,960
trafficking.
And then you realize, oh, it
506
00:28:01,960 –> 00:28:04,040
wasn’t just an explosion or a
fire.
507
00:28:04,280 –> 00:28:08,400
It wasn’t an accident.
And quote I I don’t think she’s
508
00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:13,440
actually talking about fires,
and definitely not wild fires.
509
00:28:13,680 –> 00:28:15,800
Yeah, I would love to see the
rest of the interview or the
510
00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:18,920
rest of the quote, but it’s just
it’s, it seems so clear that
511
00:28:18,920 –> 00:28:22,520
she’s talking about the story
breaking as being the explosion.
512
00:28:22,720 –> 00:28:27,080
Yeah, the Diddy arrest is the
explosion, and then the fires
513
00:28:27,240 –> 00:28:30,080
will be the other arrests.
That’s all she’s saying.
514
00:28:30,120 –> 00:28:34,000
She’s not saying there’s going
to be wildfires in California.
515
00:28:34,480 –> 00:28:36,720
If Jay-Z is going to get
arrested, this isn’t going to
516
00:28:36,720 –> 00:28:38,680
stop it.
I I know one thing, I’m never
517
00:28:38,680 –> 00:28:41,520
going to ever put things in
terms of an avalanche of
518
00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:45,960
evidence for a Blizzard of
accusations.
519
00:28:46,160 –> 00:28:48,840
But I mean, if you do, you might
get famous or that.
520
00:28:49,560 –> 00:28:51,320
That could be good for the show,
actually.
521
00:28:51,720 –> 00:28:54,320
Having predicted some shit,
nothing wrong with that.
522
00:28:54,440 –> 00:28:56,440
You predict shit all the time,
you never get famous.
523
00:28:56,720 –> 00:28:59,200
Yeah, that is a goddamn
excellent point.
524
00:28:59,360 –> 00:29:03,720
All right, this next one,
firefighters, Connor, are using
525
00:29:03,720 –> 00:29:07,120
women’s handbags instead of
hoses to fight fires.
526
00:29:07,320 –> 00:29:09,440
Boy, I’m ready to write a Tim
Allen bid.
527
00:29:10,640 –> 00:29:15,400
Because of budget cuts.
Yeah, that’s right, Liberal
528
00:29:15,400 –> 00:29:18,040
budget cuts.
And for some reason, this
529
00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:22,040
specifically is Democrats
diverted funds to Ukraine and
530
00:29:22,040 –> 00:29:27,000
now LA firefighters are using
women’s handbags to fight fires
531
00:29:27,000 –> 00:29:29,920
because you know how cheap
women’s handbags are, obviously.
532
00:29:30,520 –> 00:29:33,040
Yeah, you don’t want to, you
know, fuck up just like some,
533
00:29:33,040 –> 00:29:36,360
some bulk canvas material you
might get at a fabric store for
534
00:29:36,360 –> 00:29:39,160
like a, a large, you know, gross
rate.
535
00:29:39,560 –> 00:29:42,080
You want to, you want to get
like a, like a, like a fucking
536
00:29:42,080 –> 00:29:45,000
real Dior or Louis Vuitton,
Something that’ll last.
537
00:29:45,280 –> 00:29:49,360
Yeah, I I just love that line of
thinking like, well, I want to,
538
00:29:49,800 –> 00:29:52,280
I want to make this seem like a
problem, but I also want to make
539
00:29:52,280 –> 00:29:56,720
California seem gay when I
spread this theory too.
540
00:29:56,920 –> 00:30:00,280
Yeah, it’s this is all this
stuff is kind of cut out for
541
00:30:00,280 –> 00:30:03,600
people that hate, you know, like
we want to use California as a
542
00:30:03,600 –> 00:30:07,120
scapegoat for why liberalism is
going to fail or whatever, which
543
00:30:07,120 –> 00:30:09,560
it will, but.
Yeah, it’s going to fail.
544
00:30:09,560 –> 00:30:12,440
It’s going to fall into the
ocean for sure, but that’s just
545
00:30:12,440 –> 00:30:14,360
going to be Rancho Palos Verdes
at first.
546
00:30:14,360 –> 00:30:16,680
And then?
Yeah, and then pretty soon, like
547
00:30:16,680 –> 00:30:19,160
Bill Hicks said, where this is
all going to be Arizona Bay
548
00:30:19,560 –> 00:30:23,040
beachfront property for Arizona.
A very good album.
549
00:30:23,760 –> 00:30:27,600
So this video that’s going
around, it actually just shows
550
00:30:27,600 –> 00:30:31,800
firefighters using a regular
piece of firefighter equipment
551
00:30:31,960 –> 00:30:36,160
because what they’re fighting in
this video is I heard it
552
00:30:36,160 –> 00:30:38,960
described as a garbage fire, but
it looks like a garden fire
553
00:30:39,240 –> 00:30:41,240
either way.
What you got to take into
554
00:30:41,240 –> 00:30:44,520
account about California,
there’s a lot of swimming pools.
555
00:30:44,720 –> 00:30:48,800
And a lot of times if you need
to fight a fire in, say, a
556
00:30:48,800 –> 00:30:53,520
backyard, that pool full of
water is very useful in doing
557
00:30:53,520 –> 00:30:55,560
that.
So what these firefighters are
558
00:30:55,560 –> 00:31:00,200
doing is actually, I’m guessing,
scooping pool water with these
559
00:31:00,200 –> 00:31:03,280
canvas bags and throwing it on
this fire.
560
00:31:03,480 –> 00:31:07,040
Yeah, it’s just a thing they do
because it’s quicker than
561
00:31:07,040 –> 00:31:09,560
setting up a hose for a really
small fire.
562
00:31:09,680 –> 00:31:11,440
Yeah, and you can use them to
tamp the fire out.
563
00:31:11,440 –> 00:31:14,200
I mean, everyone is like, put
out a small fire with a fucking
564
00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:18,720
sheet of something, you know?
And it’s it’s also kind of like,
565
00:31:18,720 –> 00:31:22,040
I don’t know what you call it,
like ironic, I guess is a word
566
00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:26,800
that all these like right wing
Bros are like shitting on what’s
567
00:31:26,800 –> 00:31:30,160
literally a part of their kit,
this tactical equipment, the
568
00:31:30,160 –> 00:31:32,840
whole thing that their whole
fucking deal is about guys who
569
00:31:32,840 –> 00:31:35,760
have Velcro on their fucking
going out pants just because you
570
00:31:35,760 –> 00:31:39,680
got to be fucking tactical, man,
with what if I need my 44000
571
00:31:39,680 –> 00:31:42,560
lumen flashlight when I go to
Applebee’s, whatever.
572
00:31:43,120 –> 00:31:46,960
Yeah, those motherfuckers
probably have these bags in
573
00:31:46,960 –> 00:31:50,200
their fucking Survival kit.
Oh it’s gay when they use them
574
00:31:50,200 –> 00:31:52,760
in California though.
Sorry man.
575
00:31:52,920 –> 00:31:55,360
Good.
So yeah, that video does not
576
00:31:55,360 –> 00:31:58,960
show California firefighters
using women’s handbags.
577
00:31:58,960 –> 00:32:01,440
And again, where would the
women’s handbags come from?
578
00:32:01,680 –> 00:32:03,840
That would require budget money,
too.
579
00:32:03,840 –> 00:32:06,280
Or do our firefighters just
carry women’s handbags?
580
00:32:06,280 –> 00:32:09,040
Is that where you’re getting at?
Is there like a firefighter
581
00:32:09,040 –> 00:32:11,680
that’s like, all right, Barry,
go hit the thrift shops.
582
00:32:11,680 –> 00:32:14,480
We need a new run of bags kind
of getting beat up.
583
00:32:15,080 –> 00:32:16,640
Oh man.
Can you look for something
584
00:32:16,640 –> 00:32:21,840
floral for me?
Well, surely this next one is
585
00:32:22,200 –> 00:32:24,560
accurate though.
You know what would have stopped
586
00:32:24,560 –> 00:32:26,920
these fires, Connor?
What’s that, Adam?
587
00:32:27,240 –> 00:32:29,200
More white dudes.
Probably.
588
00:32:29,560 –> 00:32:32,680
This is ADEI failing is what it
is.
589
00:32:34,600 –> 00:32:38,360
Makes a lot of sense because 3%
of the firefighters in Los
590
00:32:38,360 –> 00:32:43,400
Angeles are female.
Exactly, just teaming with the
591
00:32:43,440 –> 00:32:46,320
EI hires.
But they fucked it up so bad
592
00:32:46,320 –> 00:32:50,840
they they fucked it up 97%.
Those 3% female firefighters.
593
00:32:51,160 –> 00:32:56,120
Elon Musk has been especially
active in spreading this claim.
594
00:32:56,440 –> 00:33:00,200
He’s literally doing DEI with
his H1B visas.
595
00:33:01,520 –> 00:33:03,520
He’s literally being like, we
need more diversity.
596
00:33:03,720 –> 00:33:06,680
But that’s to his benefit, so it
works out.
597
00:33:06,840 –> 00:33:10,360
Yeah, sorry.
This is He circulated
598
00:33:10,360 –> 00:33:14,640
screenshots of the LA Fire
Department’s 4 year old Racial
599
00:33:14,640 –> 00:33:17,480
Equity Action Plan and added the
caption.
600
00:33:17,480 –> 00:33:21,960
They prioritized DEI over saving
lives in homes.
601
00:33:22,280 –> 00:33:24,240
What?
What does that even mean?
602
00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:28,040
I can’t imagine that’s in the
racial equity action plan.
603
00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:32,680
Hire more black people first
before you fight a fucking fire
604
00:33:32,840 –> 00:33:34,880
motherfucker.
Yeah, yeah.
605
00:33:34,920 –> 00:33:38,640
If you don’t have a racially
diverse firefighting platoon,
606
00:33:38,800 –> 00:33:43,320
that home burns, sorry.
Yeah, like Ross dressed for less
607
00:33:43,560 –> 00:33:45,480
when I worked there as a
teenager.
608
00:33:45,600 –> 00:33:48,360
Like, we would post shit in the
bulletin board.
609
00:33:48,560 –> 00:33:51,800
And if I pick the right one of
those, I could have been like,
610
00:33:51,800 –> 00:33:55,720
well, Ross is just all about
canned food drives for the
611
00:33:55,720 –> 00:33:58,720
homeless man.
They put that above selling
612
00:33:58,720 –> 00:34:01,960
clothes.
Yeah, and as luck would have it,
613
00:34:02,120 –> 00:34:06,080
the current LA Fire Chief is an
openly gay woman.
614
00:34:06,480 –> 00:34:10,280
Sure, she’s also a 22 year
veteran of the fire department,
615
00:34:10,400 –> 00:34:12,600
but still, it’s a game of.
Course, that’s that’s why I
616
00:34:12,679 –> 00:34:14,320
thought she was kind of cute.
Of course she’s gay.
617
00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:20,320
Yeah, so she’s definitely a
diversity hire from 22 years
618
00:34:20,320 –> 00:34:22,440
ago.
Yeah, right.
619
00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:28,080
And yeah, I just, this is a
quote from Charlie Kirk because
620
00:34:28,280 –> 00:34:30,440
boy does he deserve to have his
words heard.
621
00:34:30,560 –> 00:34:33,840
When you focus your government
on diversity, equity, inclusion,
622
00:34:34,040 –> 00:34:39,040
LGBTQ pet projects and you are
captured by environmentalists.
623
00:34:39,360 –> 00:34:43,800
We’ve been warning for years
that you are worried about
624
00:34:43,800 –> 00:34:47,480
abstractions, but you can’t do
the basic stuff.
625
00:34:47,880 –> 00:34:51,360
End Quote, captured.
Aaron Rodgers used that word
626
00:34:51,520 –> 00:34:54,800
recently on the Pat McAfee Show.
Aaron Rodgers is such a right
627
00:34:54,800 –> 00:34:58,320
wing fuck face.
I, I mean, I would agree that we
628
00:34:58,320 –> 00:35:02,040
do like worry ourselves with
abstractions when we can’t do
629
00:35:02,040 –> 00:35:05,160
basic things, but everything
else is pretty.
630
00:35:06,880 –> 00:35:09,000
These, these people, these
people are so transparent.
631
00:35:09,000 –> 00:35:13,280
Like they’re trying to gin up
that fucking feeling of being
632
00:35:13,280 –> 00:35:15,880
cheated in people so that they
can follow them.
633
00:35:16,080 –> 00:35:18,080
You know, they’re like,
actually, it’s the white guy
634
00:35:18,120 –> 00:35:20,080
getting fucked.
I just found out about 10
635
00:35:20,080 –> 00:35:22,080
minutes ago.
We got to do something.
636
00:35:22,240 –> 00:35:25,920
And this is such standard
operating procedure for right
637
00:35:25,920 –> 00:35:31,920
winners now, anytime anything
even sort of tragic happens in a
638
00:35:31,920 –> 00:35:38,240
state that is even sort of
controlled by Democrats, DEI is
639
00:35:38,360 –> 00:35:42,280
the reason it happened.
When the fucking door blew off
640
00:35:42,280 –> 00:35:46,720
that Boeing plane, Fox News
asked if it was maybe because
641
00:35:46,720 –> 00:35:50,000
of.
Well, and with a lot of these
642
00:35:50,000 –> 00:35:54,120
issues, like 99 out of 100
times, it’s not that like white
643
00:35:54,120 –> 00:35:57,120
people are getting fucked, it’s
that poor people are getting
644
00:35:57,120 –> 00:36:00,680
fucked, Yes, and you.
And now they have convinced you
645
00:36:00,680 –> 00:36:03,000
that it’s white people.
You’ve missed the point entirely
646
00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:04,760
and will do nothing productive
to change it.
647
00:36:04,920 –> 00:36:08,240
Yep, you, you, you bought back
in on capitalism and the whole
648
00:36:08,240 –> 00:36:12,040
fucking thing, you know?
And imagine with that Boeing
649
00:36:12,040 –> 00:36:16,400
thing blaming DEI and not just
blaming Boeing.
650
00:36:16,560 –> 00:36:21,800
A whistleblower shot himself in
the parking lot of his motel
651
00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,880
over that shit.
Like we know why that door blew
652
00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:29,360
off that Boeing plane.
It’s not DEI hires, it’s because
653
00:36:29,440 –> 00:36:32,960
they are hiring too many people
with not enough people to
654
00:36:32,960 –> 00:36:35,800
oversee them.
It’s pretty fucking simple.
655
00:36:36,760 –> 00:36:38,880
And also because they’re hiring
gay women, so.
656
00:36:39,040 –> 00:36:42,000
Just budget cuts and apathy all
the way down, huh?
657
00:36:42,680 –> 00:36:45,440
Yeah, it’s just dog whistle
bullshit.
658
00:36:45,640 –> 00:36:49,800
Laura Ingraham has been
especially active pushing this
659
00:36:49,960 –> 00:36:52,080
on Fox News.
We shouldn’t.
660
00:36:52,080 –> 00:36:54,320
Say that Ingraham, we should
call her Ingraham.
661
00:36:54,520 –> 00:36:55,840
No Ingraham.
Ingraham.
662
00:36:56,720 –> 00:36:57,640
Oh, is that?
Yeah.
663
00:36:57,640 –> 00:36:59,360
I don’t even know how you
pronounce her fucking name.
664
00:36:59,360 –> 00:37:01,640
Is it Ingram?
I’ve heard Ingram, but maybe I’m
665
00:37:01,640 –> 00:37:02,160
wrong.
I don’t know.
666
00:37:02,400 –> 00:37:04,680
I just when you said Ingraham, I
was like, yeah, fuck you, your
667
00:37:04,680 –> 00:37:06,960
name’s Ingraham now, you stupid
bitch.
668
00:37:07,160 –> 00:37:09,240
Yeah, don’t have that a in the
middle, it’s not.
669
00:37:09,240 –> 00:37:11,320
Supposed to there what you put
that for dummy.
670
00:37:11,480 –> 00:37:12,680
Yeah, you don’t want me to say
it.
671
00:37:12,680 –> 00:37:14,520
Don’t put it there.
Yeah, that’s not the only thing
672
00:37:14,520 –> 00:37:17,440
you about you that’s got 2A’s.
You’re fucking bra.
673
00:37:17,440 –> 00:37:20,080
Laura.
I don’t know.
674
00:37:20,080 –> 00:37:21,600
Maybe she’s got big titties.
I have no idea.
675
00:37:21,600 –> 00:37:22,520
I don’t know what she looks
like.
676
00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:23,800
Who knows?
Who knows?
677
00:37:24,560 –> 00:37:26,280
Mel Gibson.
Let’s talk about him.
678
00:37:26,680 –> 00:37:29,160
Oh, this is this is good.
Yeah, we got to talk about
679
00:37:29,160 –> 00:37:31,880
Mouse.
His name has popped up in all
680
00:37:31,880 –> 00:37:35,920
this, and shockingly, it’s not
because of Jewish space lasers.
681
00:37:37,280 –> 00:37:41,520
Yeah, it’s really shockingly.
He was on The Ingraham Angle on
682
00:37:41,520 –> 00:37:45,160
Friday night to talk about the
idea that these fires were set
683
00:37:45,280 –> 00:37:47,200
on purpose.
Why?
684
00:37:47,400 –> 00:37:48,960
He’ll tell you why.
Here goes.
685
00:37:49,160 –> 00:37:52,840
California has a lot of problems
that sort of baffle the mind as
686
00:37:52,840 –> 00:37:55,960
far as why they do things.
And then in the events like
687
00:37:55,960 –> 00:37:58,520
this, you sort of think, well,
is it on purpose?
688
00:37:58,880 –> 00:38:02,880
It’s an insane thing to think,
but one begins to ponder whether
689
00:38:02,880 –> 00:38:04,680
or not there is a purpose in
mind.
690
00:38:05,040 –> 00:38:07,880
I can make all kinds of horrible
theories up in my head,
691
00:38:08,120 –> 00:38:11,000
conspiracy theories and
everything else, but it just
692
00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:13,040
seemed a little convenient.
And quote.
693
00:38:13,160 –> 00:38:16,040
I trust no one needs any further
explanation than that.
694
00:38:16,200 –> 00:38:18,840
Like, I mean, who would have
thought that the first climate
695
00:38:18,840 –> 00:38:22,480
refugee of global warming and
climate change would be Mel
696
00:38:22,480 –> 00:38:24,120
Gibson?
I thought it was going to be
697
00:38:24,120 –> 00:38:26,800
some Eskimo whose fucking house
melted or some shit.
698
00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:29,360
Nope.
Mel Gibson, He did lose his
699
00:38:29,360 –> 00:38:34,360
house in this fire, and that
really speaks to what I’m saying
700
00:38:34,360 –> 00:38:36,480
about this hitting a lot of rich
people.
701
00:38:36,480 –> 00:38:40,080
He’s very nonchalant about it.
He’s like, I don’t have my shit
702
00:38:40,080 –> 00:38:42,080
anymore.
I’m Mel Gibson.
703
00:38:42,080 –> 00:38:45,760
It’s fine and it will be fine.
But he also asked if people were
704
00:38:45,760 –> 00:38:47,960
commissioned to start these
fires.
705
00:38:48,160 –> 00:38:51,080
I’m sorry, I keep I keep looking
at this quote and it makes less
706
00:38:51,080 –> 00:38:55,960
sense the more I read it.
Yeah, it he’s really just saying
707
00:38:56,360 –> 00:38:58,880
what’s crazy about it is that
he’s getting a national
708
00:38:58,880 –> 00:39:01,480
television platform.
Yeah, to say this like
709
00:39:01,480 –> 00:39:05,680
conflicted, confusing, probably
like subtly racist thing.
710
00:39:06,840 –> 00:39:09,680
Yeah, there’s like nothing
behind this theory.
711
00:39:09,680 –> 00:39:12,120
He’s just like, well, I hate
Democrats so.
712
00:39:12,280 –> 00:39:14,480
He’s sort of just going like,
shit’s weird, man.
713
00:39:14,480 –> 00:39:17,560
I don’t know what’s it could be
anything man.
714
00:39:17,760 –> 00:39:21,800
And again, I mean, aside from
building smart cities, if
715
00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:24,440
Democrats were going to start
fires, why would they do it in
716
00:39:24,440 –> 00:39:27,480
California?
Like there’s other states that I
717
00:39:27,480 –> 00:39:30,400
think we would burn down 1st.
Arizona’s got a lot of beautiful
718
00:39:30,400 –> 00:39:32,880
forests we could totally burn.
Yeah.
719
00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:35,200
Well, I mean, we can send
hurricanes and things.
720
00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:37,840
I don’t know if we can get one
to Arizona, but you know, yeah.
721
00:39:37,840 –> 00:39:39,440
The government.
The government has a hurricane
722
00:39:39,440 –> 00:39:41,400
gun.
Yeah, we control the weather.
723
00:39:41,400 –> 00:39:45,000
That’s why Kamala Harris won,
because Democrats sent that
724
00:39:45,080 –> 00:39:49,680
hurricane to all the Republican
leaning areas in the American
725
00:39:49,680 –> 00:39:53,800
Southwest to sway the election.
Nice try libs.
726
00:39:54,000 –> 00:39:56,480
I like to imagine sometimes
people are kind of like tuning
727
00:39:56,480 –> 00:39:59,280
in and out of the show and they,
they, they don’t really register
728
00:39:59,280 –> 00:40:00,880
one.
We’re being sarcastic or not.
729
00:40:02,320 –> 00:40:03,320
And they’re like, oh shit, I
didn’t.
730
00:40:03,320 –> 00:40:05,400
Even if Adam says yeah, maybe
they did.
731
00:40:06,160 –> 00:40:09,040
Yeah, that’s got to be happening
out there and I’m sorry, I’m
732
00:40:09,040 –> 00:40:11,880
sorry.
Yeah, I’m, I do it a lot more
733
00:40:11,880 –> 00:40:14,280
than you, so I’m sure I’ve got
responsible for more
734
00:40:14,280 –> 00:40:19,840
misinformation.
So the last one that I want to
735
00:40:19,840 –> 00:40:22,520
talk about, I feel like Gavin
Newsom has enough working
736
00:40:22,520 –> 00:40:25,880
against him that you shouldn’t
have to make shit up to
737
00:40:26,320 –> 00:40:28,840
criticizing.
So many of these people, if you
738
00:40:28,840 –> 00:40:32,000
just took the actual quotes and
the actual facts, it’s plenty.
739
00:40:32,160 –> 00:40:35,320
Yeah, but also, I don’t know if
that’s completely what’s
740
00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:37,920
happening here.
What happened after these fires
741
00:40:37,920 –> 00:40:40,800
started?
Trump went on fucking true
742
00:40:40,800 –> 00:40:45,520
social and called out Gavin
Newsom, saying he, among other
743
00:40:45,520 –> 00:40:48,880
things, quote, refused to sign
the water restoration
744
00:40:48,880 –> 00:40:52,720
declaration put before him that
would have allowed millions of
745
00:40:52,720 –> 00:40:56,240
gallons of water to flow daily
into many parts of California.
746
00:40:56,320 –> 00:41:00,680
California, End Quote.
And the pushback from Newsom’s
747
00:41:00,680 –> 00:41:04,480
office was that there is no such
document as the water
748
00:41:04,480 –> 00:41:08,200
restoration declaration.
They said that is pure fiction.
749
00:41:08,360 –> 00:41:11,880
And a local news outlet also
mentioned that since Newsom has
750
00:41:11,880 –> 00:41:15,360
been in office, there has not
been legislation that would do
751
00:41:15,360 –> 00:41:18,960
what Trump is describing.
And that’s sort of true.
752
00:41:18,960 –> 00:41:25,400
But all he’s referring to is a
2019 proposal by the Trump
753
00:41:25,400 –> 00:41:29,760
administration that would have
redirected water from the
754
00:41:29,760 –> 00:41:33,920
Sacramento San Joaquin River
Delta to Central Valley farms
755
00:41:34,280 –> 00:41:37,200
and Southern California urban
areas.
756
00:41:37,360 –> 00:41:41,360
And there ended up being
lawsuits filed over it by
757
00:41:41,360 –> 00:41:46,160
officials in California and by
environmental groups because it
758
00:41:46,160 –> 00:41:50,640
was going to impact a fish
called the smelt.
759
00:41:50,960 –> 00:41:53,920
Have you ever ate smelt?
Unfortunately, I’ve never had a
760
00:41:53,920 –> 00:41:55,400
smelt.
I’ve never had a smelt melt.
761
00:41:55,640 –> 00:42:00,400
Smelt is it’s sort of I mean in
terms of size, it’s like an
762
00:42:00,480 –> 00:42:07,240
anchovy or sardine in size and
it’s they fuck with them in
763
00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:10,160
Spain a lot.
But I’ve also heard it’s like
764
00:42:10,160 –> 00:42:14,120
poor people food in Spain, but
it’s just like a really small
765
00:42:14,560 –> 00:42:17,160
fish.
You usually fry it, bread it and
766
00:42:17,160 –> 00:42:19,680
fry it and then you can just eat
it whole.
767
00:42:19,680 –> 00:42:22,800
The bones are like so soft you
just eat the whole thing.
768
00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:24,560
Oh, like a like a soft shell
crab.
769
00:42:25,280 –> 00:42:27,680
Gross.
Yeah, Oh, it’s actually pretty
770
00:42:27,800 –> 00:42:29,840
pretty fucking delicious.
Oh, really?
771
00:42:29,840 –> 00:42:30,560
It’s good.
OK.
772
00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:33,640
People didn’t want to be without
them, apparently.
773
00:42:33,800 –> 00:42:36,040
I’ve never seen one in
California.
774
00:42:36,040 –> 00:42:39,240
You could get it at grocery
stores in the Midwest where I
775
00:42:39,240 –> 00:42:41,400
grew up.
It was a very common thing, but
776
00:42:41,560 –> 00:42:46,560
all these lawsuits were filed
over this plan and it got shut
777
00:42:46,560 –> 00:42:48,360
down.
I do kind of love that Trump was
778
00:42:48,360 –> 00:42:52,280
like, it’s a stupid fish, nobody
likes the fish, the fish is bad.
779
00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:54,280
Very.
Bad, salty fish.
780
00:42:54,520 –> 00:42:58,200
And The thing is, that’s
probably what he’s referring to.
781
00:42:58,200 –> 00:43:02,160
So to say that nothing like this
ever existed isn’t completely
782
00:43:02,160 –> 00:43:06,320
accurate.
But in December, Biden and Gavin
783
00:43:06,320 –> 00:43:10,760
Newsom signed off on new
regulations that do the exact
784
00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:14,320
same thing.
They divert water to the same
785
00:43:14,320 –> 00:43:17,800
places you would think, except
without the environmental
786
00:43:17,800 –> 00:43:21,080
concerns.
But no, this, if I’m reading it
787
00:43:21,080 –> 00:43:23,680
correctly, is just going to kill
salmon instead of smelt.
788
00:43:24,440 –> 00:43:26,640
OK, well, we got more of those I
guess.
789
00:43:26,880 –> 00:43:31,320
So everyone’s lying here.
Basically, Gavin Newsom’s office
790
00:43:31,320 –> 00:43:34,320
isn’t being completely truthful
when they say there was never
791
00:43:34,320 –> 00:43:39,160
any legislation like this, and
Trump is lying when he says no
792
00:43:39,160 –> 00:43:41,280
plan like this ever got put in
place.
793
00:43:41,280 –> 00:43:44,800
Granted, just got put in place
in December, but that’s still
794
00:43:44,800 –> 00:43:46,360
before the fires.
Barely I.
795
00:43:46,360 –> 00:43:49,840
Just I, I do like that we’re at
a point with climate change that
796
00:43:49,840 –> 00:43:52,520
we’re like, look at which do we
like more, Penguins or the brown
797
00:43:52,520 –> 00:43:54,360
bear?
We got to decide because, I
798
00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:56,040
mean, it’s one or the other
gang.
799
00:43:56,200 –> 00:43:58,920
It really is.
And yeah, I don’t know.
800
00:43:59,160 –> 00:44:03,160
I mean I like smelt and salmon
both, but I eat way more salmon
801
00:44:03,280 –> 00:44:05,440
so.
Yeah, salmon is, I think the
802
00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:07,880
classier.
I don’t want to eat this bone in
803
00:44:07,880 –> 00:44:09,440
fish.
I think you lose a lot of people
804
00:44:09,440 –> 00:44:11,120
with that.
No, you’re not.
805
00:44:11,480 –> 00:44:14,200
You don’t even taste it.
It’s like it’s like not even
806
00:44:14,200 –> 00:44:16,720
there.
It’s like not even cartilage
807
00:44:16,720 –> 00:44:20,120
consistency, like it might not,
might not even be might as well
808
00:44:20,120 –> 00:44:21,960
not even be a bone.
It’s just.
809
00:44:22,760 –> 00:44:23,640
OK.
All right.
810
00:44:23,880 –> 00:44:27,200
I fuck with the smell.
I, you know, I got a little too
811
00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:32,400
much autism in my system for
some of this food you’re talking
812
00:44:32,400 –> 00:44:34,120
about here, but I am happy for
you.
813
00:44:34,440 –> 00:44:36,360
Yeah, now I got to track down
some smell.
814
00:44:36,480 –> 00:44:38,160
Where’s that water getting
diverted to?
815
00:44:38,560 –> 00:44:41,600
And go fucking get me some
wildfire smelt.
816
00:44:41,720 –> 00:44:45,520
My old man actually works for
the Metropolitan Water District
817
00:44:45,520 –> 00:44:49,960
to dealing with all of this shit
his whole life and documenting
818
00:44:49,960 –> 00:44:52,000
rivers and dams and man made
lakes and all this shit.
819
00:44:52,000 –> 00:44:55,640
And as I understand it, like the
vast lion’s share, majority of
820
00:44:55,640 –> 00:44:59,080
California’s water comes from
the Colorado River, and
821
00:44:59,080 –> 00:45:02,440
everything else is just a bunch
of like, you know, weird
822
00:45:02,440 –> 00:45:07,320
Chinatown shit.
Do you remember when we did the
823
00:45:07,680 –> 00:45:09,800
Burn Booth episode in Santa
Cruz?
824
00:45:10,080 –> 00:45:13,040
Oh yeah, yeah.
And one of the nights before
825
00:45:13,040 –> 00:45:18,160
that, or maybe it was the night
of, we did a show at a wine bar
826
00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:19,680
and.
Terrible show if I recall
827
00:45:19,680 –> 00:45:21,320
correctly.
Yeah, it’s still one of the
828
00:45:21,320 –> 00:45:23,560
worst shows I’ve ever been a
part of.
829
00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:27,640
I did my set sitting down
because I just want whatever
830
00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:32,840
match the audience’s energy and
at one point I was just like the
831
00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:36,360
fuck is wrong with you people
and someone sitting like 5 feet
832
00:45:36,360 –> 00:45:39,440
from me was like LA steals all
our water.
833
00:45:40,240 –> 00:45:42,600
Yeah, it’s.
Like we needed to do cool shit,
834
00:45:42,760 –> 00:45:44,960
you know?
There’s all kinds of signs when
835
00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:47,840
you drive up, down, up and down
the Grapevine like they took our
836
00:45:47,840 –> 00:45:50,800
water, which they probably, I
mean, they probably did.
837
00:45:50,800 –> 00:45:52,880
I’m not trying.
I shouldn’t, I shouldn’t use my
838
00:45:53,360 –> 00:45:56,800
belittling accents for these
people in this situation.
839
00:45:57,680 –> 00:46:00,720
But I also was reading that
there’s a bunch of private
840
00:46:00,720 –> 00:46:04,000
companies that own.
So I heard 57% of L as water is
841
00:46:04,000 –> 00:46:06,560
owned by the wonderful company
that makes that like pomegranate
842
00:46:06,560 –> 00:46:09,080
juice, which is owned by a
billionaire couple called the
843
00:46:09,080 –> 00:46:11,360
Resnicks.
And they actually, that’s what I
844
00:46:11,360 –> 00:46:13,600
read was that they export
drinking water from more
845
00:46:13,600 –> 00:46:17,600
agricultural counties like Kern
County where Fresno is down to
846
00:46:17,920 –> 00:46:21,440
LA which is is kind of fucked.
Yeah, that is pretty fucking
847
00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:22,920
wild.
I didn’t know any of that.
848
00:46:23,080 –> 00:46:24,600
We should do an episode about
that.
849
00:46:24,760 –> 00:46:25,440
We should.
Yeah.
850
00:46:25,440 –> 00:46:29,320
That kind of blew my mind as as
first of all, that pomegranate
851
00:46:29,320 –> 00:46:31,080
juice had that much power, I
think.
852
00:46:31,080 –> 00:46:34,240
I’ve never seen anyone drink
pomegranate juice in my life.
853
00:46:34,640 –> 00:46:36,920
Yeah, it’s got that antioxidant
power.
854
00:46:37,160 –> 00:46:38,880
That’s all I know about
pomegranates.
855
00:46:39,200 –> 00:46:41,840
Who the fuck even knows what
antioxidants do?
856
00:46:42,960 –> 00:46:44,000
No clue.
Nobody.
857
00:46:44,120 –> 00:46:47,560
Not me.
No clue. anti-inflammatory?
858
00:46:47,720 –> 00:46:49,080
Sure.
No idea.
859
00:46:49,400 –> 00:46:51,280
I don’t feel.
I feel fine.
860
00:46:51,280 –> 00:46:57,320
I’m not trying to get inflamed.
So yeah, that for now is I think
861
00:46:57,320 –> 00:47:00,920
all of the conspiracy theories
about these wildfires.
862
00:47:00,920 –> 00:47:04,280
I’m sure there will be more.
Yeah, we’re kind of early in the
863
00:47:04,840 –> 00:47:08,440
in the news cycle.
You know it’s about a weekend.
864
00:47:08,640 –> 00:47:12,440
Yeah, we don’t know the cause of
most of them yet.
865
00:47:12,680 –> 00:47:15,880
There’s I think the kind of fire
they determined was arson, but
866
00:47:16,080 –> 00:47:20,040
beyond that the Palisades fire.
All I’ve heard is it started in
867
00:47:20,040 –> 00:47:24,360
someone’s garden in their
backyard and a dude like filmed
868
00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:27,400
it starting.
So that’s probably not a Jewish
869
00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:29,000
space laser either.
But.
870
00:47:29,120 –> 00:47:32,160
Well, if a Jewish if the if the
big Star of David in the sky
871
00:47:32,160 –> 00:47:35,840
shot a laser beam into my
gazebo, I would get a camera.
872
00:47:37,000 –> 00:47:41,040
100% yeah.
The Eaton Canyon fire I’m sure
873
00:47:41,040 –> 00:47:44,320
is a space laser though.
That’s the one, but.
874
00:47:44,360 –> 00:47:46,480
It’s got it’s got space laser in
all over it.
875
00:47:46,600 –> 00:47:50,200
We’ll, we’ll obviously keep tabs
on this story because it is
876
00:47:50,640 –> 00:47:53,000
unfolding all around.
Close to home.
877
00:47:53,200 –> 00:47:56,880
Yeah, I would say I hope the
fires have ended by the time
878
00:47:56,880 –> 00:48:00,560
this goes up, but they have not.
This goes up tomorrow, so
879
00:48:01,920 –> 00:48:06,200
barring what would probably be
an apocalyptic rainstorm if it
880
00:48:06,200 –> 00:48:08,400
managed to kill all of those
fires.
881
00:48:08,560 –> 00:48:11,960
Yeah, if unless everybody that
knows weather is completely
882
00:48:11,960 –> 00:48:16,720
wrong about everything.
Yeah, fucking 2004 election exit
883
00:48:16,720 –> 00:48:21,480
polls of weather just.
Fucking be wrong. 2016 exit
884
00:48:21,480 –> 00:48:26,400
polls of weather.
So yeah, keep keep me encounter
885
00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:30,440
in your thoughts because, and I
mean the rest of LA too, but
886
00:48:30,440 –> 00:48:32,040
like especially.
Come on, Connor.
887
00:48:32,320 –> 00:48:34,520
Yeah, we we give us those
thoughts.
888
00:48:34,760 –> 00:48:38,400
Yeah, obviously give us first
and then distribute.
889
00:48:38,480 –> 00:48:40,120
Because it’s women and children
first.
890
00:48:40,360 –> 00:48:42,240
Yeah, yeah.
Well, us then, women and
891
00:48:42,240 –> 00:48:45,280
children 1st and then.
I was referring to myself as a
892
00:48:45,280 –> 00:48:48,920
woman or a child, but.
I guess that makes sense too.
893
00:48:49,080 –> 00:48:52,920
So Connor, thank you for doing
the pod as always.
894
00:48:53,440 –> 00:48:56,840
Thank you for having me.
Do we, do we, do we have
895
00:48:56,840 –> 00:48:59,400
anything to plug this?
This does legitimately feel like
896
00:48:59,400 –> 00:49:03,400
a weird time to plug shit, Yeah.
It is a very weird time to say
897
00:49:03,400 –> 00:49:06,520
that you should watch my comedy
special Jokes About Fucking on
898
00:49:06,520 –> 00:49:08,480
YouTube.
And it’s, I feel even more
899
00:49:08,480 –> 00:49:11,040
uncomfortable, frankly,
recommending the hilarious
900
00:49:11,040 –> 00:49:13,880
comedy stylings of myself, Keith
Carey and Tom Goss and the Mean
901
00:49:13,880 –> 00:49:16,760
Boys podcast.
But you know, I’m going to power
902
00:49:16,760 –> 00:49:19,400
through anyway because it’s
about the brand.
903
00:49:19,720 –> 00:49:25,280
I definitely would not say that
a solo podcast for me might be
904
00:49:25,280 –> 00:49:28,960
what people need at a time like
this, but just in case, my solo
905
00:49:28,960 –> 00:49:32,720
pod in broad daylight will be
back this Friday, so go listen
906
00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:34,640
to that.
And that’s it.
907
00:49:34,640 –> 00:49:36,640
Let’s get the fuck out of here.
Connor, say goodbye.
908
00:49:36,880 –> 00:49:37,560
Goodbye.
Everybody.
909
00:49:37,800 –> 00:49:38,760
Goodbye everybody.
We love you.