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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To Night.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing a
heck of a job.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, you're listening to the Weekend with Michael Brown. I
don't know why you're doing it, but I'm glad that
you are. I hope you find it interesting. I hope
you find it challenging. And I hope you find it
makes you makes you think, laugh, cry, get mad at
me whatever, because frankly, frankly, my dear, I don't give
a damn. Just as long as you're listening, that's what
makes me happy. The book I was trying to think

(00:31):
of earlier, I just checked it. It is still available.
It's back in reprint. It's called The Collapse of Complex Societies.
It's written by an archaeologist, but it really talks about
the political disintegration that is persistent throughout history, the collapse
of complex societies. It's written by Joseph Tainter. It's an

(00:52):
expensive book because it's a textbook. But I this was
the theory that my old professor always talked about when
I was studying political science. And if you if you
are interested in that sort of thing. This is a
good textbook to read anyway. It's The Collapse of Complex
Societies by Joseph Tainter, and I think that's kind of

(01:15):
what we're witnessing here. And I want to continue on
with this idea of California before humans in California after humans,
because this idea that somehow it's climate change and we've
got to do all of these things to somehow either
stop or reverse climate change is absolute insanity. There's some

(01:40):
rules of engagement. First, if you want to send me
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(02:00):
the word Mike or Michael. Either one doesn't make any difference.
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go do that right now. So let's go back to
this idea that it is wrong to blame climate change. Now,

(02:22):
I want to establish this baseline about it's wrong to
blame to blame climate change, because here's where here's where
the program's going today. We're going to go from this
idea of the before and after to the And I'm
giving away my political position here, which I don't I
don't care to the utterly insane policies of not just California,

(02:48):
but of progressive Marxist Democrats, or the political elite, the
ruling elite, the media elite, all of the people in
this country that think that somehow, let's, you know, let's
put fear in the hearts and minds of not just adults,
but particularly young people, as Rush used to call them,

(03:09):
those mush brained rug rats, so that we can then
control them. We can control where they live, how they live,
how they work, how they eat, what they eat, how
they transport themselves, how they cool themselves, how they heat themselves,
how they do everything. And that's the ugliness, the evilness

(03:31):
behind climate change. So if you go back and you
imagine that California without anything, all those hills, the chaparral
and the oaks and the redwood forest, the beaches, the ocean, everything,
everything in California, but no people. You still had fires

(03:52):
that swept through all the time. You still had droughts
and wet periods, you still had beach erosion, you still
had the dynamic equal lib that existed long before humans arrived.
Was just the natural course of nature, and we can't
stop any of those things. All we can do is

(04:12):
learn to mitigate against those things. Before European settlers arrived
in California, wildfires were just a natural part of the landscape,
and those fires when people started arriving, were significantly larger

(04:34):
than the fires of today. So that when I hear
that we've never seen anything like this before, I think
that's because you have your blinders on, because you're not
looking at history. You're not looking at the past. All
you see is what's on that I've got a sixteen
inch MacBook Pro in front of me, plus a bunch

(04:57):
of other larger monitors, and the he monitor over there.
You're just looking at that sixteen inch screen. You know,
if you would learn to use that sixteen inch screen
and all of the info that it can bring you,
you could actually look into that screen and see the past.
Imagine that. So when people tell me that the internet's

(05:20):
all bad. I say, no, no, no, wait a minute. Now,
the internet is the convenient way now of going to
a public library or ordering a book or reading that
book that I told you to read. No, it allows
us to look at the past. Environmental progress has a chart.

(05:40):
Area burned in California has declined. The area burned in
California has declined by eighty percent since Europeans first arrived. No,
they also point out that's not necessarily a good thing
in prehistoric. Now, prehistoric and the averages that I'm going

(06:05):
to give you from nineteen fifty to nineteen ninety nine
come from studies that were done by cal fire. In
prehistoric times, more than four and a half million acres burned.
This is on an annual basis. From nineteen fifty to
nineteen ninety nine, about that dropped to two hundred and

(06:27):
fifty two thousand acres, barely over a quarter of a million,
So from four and a half million to barely a
quarter of a million. And then from two thousand to
two thousand and nine, the number of acreags that burned
increased from slightly less than a quarter of a million

(06:48):
to slightly more than a quart slightly more than half
a million, and then from twenty ten to twenty nineteen
it increased again to almost or slightly at three quarters
of a million. We haven't even gotten back to a
million acres. We're still at based on this latest study,

(07:08):
we're still at three quarters of a million, a long
ways from the four and a half million acres that
burned in prehistoric times. Now, why, well, what you know
you think about this? We now have amazing fire suppression
ability in your home. You got a smoke alarm near

(07:33):
your home, you've got a fire hydrant. Now, in Colorado,
we keep we you know, I like California. We keep
ours full of water and we get good water pressure too.
So I'm just saying, California, you might want to think
about that. If you're listening to me in your car
right now. You may not think of that as a
fire suppression apparatus, but it helps you get away from

(07:57):
the fires, so that the number of lives lost to
fires decreases because you know how to escape a fire.
Let me look up in this studio. I mean, yep,
there it is right there over my left shoulder is
the sprinkler system. So if fire breaks out in this building,
those things go off and I get drenched. Fire suppression

(08:19):
is now amazing. When fires do occur, they are often
more intense though, because if the fire suppression in this building,
even though it may suppress the fire, the fire may
be more intense because just look at everything around me
that's gonna burn, and most of what's gonna burn where

(08:41):
I'm sitting right now is going to turn into toxic
fumes and could easily kill me. But by by prioritizing,
which is what we've done because of environmentalists, we prioritize
extinguishing every fire that ever occurs. Stop it. You know
there's a fire, stop, go stop it right now. Well,

(09:04):
that allows all the vegetation and all the fuel that
fuels these fires to accumulate. So I and those of
you listening to me that listened to me during the week, No,
I've already talked about this, but I want I want
all of you to know about it too. So back
in two thousand and two or sometime, I fly from

(09:29):
DC back home, and I decided I wanted to do
this at home in Boulder, Colorado. And I wanted to
do it at home in Boulder because one gave me
a trip back home to escape d C for a weekend.
But I wanted to do it in my own backyard.
I wanted to do it in my own backyard because
Colorado is just as bad as California in this regard.

(09:51):
We want to suppress and extinguish any fire that occurs
the minute occurs. But then we don't do what we
should be doing, which is managing the forest by clearing
it of all the underbrush, all the field that accumulates,
all the pine needles, all the shrubs, everything else, because
we don't allow mother nature to clear herself out. We

(10:12):
don't allow mother Nature to poop. Yeah, so mother Nature
gets all stove up. Mother Nature needs some I don't know,
some laxity of some sort, and that laxity needs to
be us, and we need to go out and we
need to just clean it out. We need to clean
out mother Nature's colon, which is that forest floor, and
we don't do it, so it builds up. So when

(10:35):
the fire hits, when a lightning strikes, whether there's a spark,
whether there's an idiot or there's a homeless person by
to repeat myself, then all of a sudden boom, you
have an out of control wildfire. We just don't do
what we're supposed to do if we're going to start
putting out every single fire that occurs. It's the Weekend

(10:58):
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(11:18):
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So let's talk about droughts for a moment. If you
want to know what, Yeah, I'm not trying. I'm not

(11:41):
trying to sell books here. I don't make any money
off selling these books unless you want to read my
book Deadly Indifference, which you can find online too. But
there's a book called The Worst Hard Times and the
author has escapes my brain real quickly. But it's about
the dust Bowl, the dust Bowl of the thirties and

(12:04):
how bad it was. And I remember the book and
the movie very well because they actually interviewed some old
teachers that I had who as young children, grew up
in the dust bowl. And so drought is something that
has always kind of been interesting to me because of
my family background. And so every time I hear about

(12:27):
a drought and that, oh, my gosh, is the worst
drought ever, once again, I think, well, no, you haven't
read the Worst hard Times, and you don't understand exactly
how widespread and how bad that drought was. So I
started digging. I thought, Okay, what's the baseline in California? Well,
of all places, the San Jose Mercury News did a

(12:51):
story back in twenty fourteen, so just over ten years ago.
In a story where they talk about are we really
facing a two hundred year drought? A California newspaper points
out that the while there's always been droughts in California,

(13:16):
the twentieth century, I know we're in the twenty first century,
but the twentieth century was one of the wettest periods
in California in the last millennium. Now, how could that be? Well,
if you go back to that story, you'll see that
the in medieval times, in fact, all the way up
to I would say, looking at the fifteen hundreds, the

(13:38):
droughts and the percentage when you look at tree ring evidence,
the droughts were huge, covering almost sixty percent of California.
Then you start getting into the oh, i'd say, fifteen hundreds,
forward to about the nineteen hundreds and we entered into

(14:01):
a significant wet period. And then there's a little spike
here and there, and you get to the two thousands
and there's an again little spikes of little droughts. And
I say little drafts because comparatively speaking to the droughts
of the medieval mega droughts, they're like a little blip.

(14:22):
It's like a little tiny blip. So while the recent
droughts are indeed impactful, they pale in comparison to the
natural extremes that are recorded in the pre industrial past.
So when you hear commentators, or you hear government or
so called putative scientists talking about, oh my god, the

(14:45):
drought's causing this, I call it utter bull crap. On
that utter bull crap. You see where we're getting to
is as we narrow down and start eliminating climate change,
we're going to have to start looking at Okay, so
as we industrialize and as we popularize all of these places,

(15:06):
and we start moving in and building all of this infrastructure,
and then we latch onto the idea that there's man
made climate change and we have to take all these
actions to you know, correct it or to reverse it.
I still I renew the question I always ask, and
that is what's the ideal temperature? Because you keep telling
me we're You used to tell me we're getting too cold,

(15:29):
Now you tell me we're getting too warm, and now
you just tell me, well, we're just changing too much.
So climate change ends up being just a convenient excuse
for problems I wouldn't even say problems, but for natural
phenomenon that has always existed. It's just that now there's
more human beings, we become more industrialized. We have now

(15:52):
built up more infrastructure, roads, bridges, highways, buildings, houses, everything
you can possibly imagine. Plus we've multiplied. We like to
make babies and we populate, and now you look at
the size of the population of California, and you think, well,
Jimney Christmas, have you ever thought about this in terms

(16:14):
of California. First congratulations to California on somehow getting or
Californians maybe just innately understanding themselves how to get the
hell out of Dodge. The biggest one of the one
of the biggest problems I had during Hurricane Katrina was

(16:35):
a governor and a mayor that refused to evacuate New
Orleans on time at least here. And maybe the difference
is there is a huge difference between a hurricane and
a wildfire. Hurricanes you can see on forming out in
the goal for out in the Atlantic, and you know
they're slow moving most of the time, compared to a
raging wildfire that you can see on the ridge. As

(16:56):
you sit down there, you're you're eating your in an
out burger, looking up at the at the the uh
Bridge and it's burning. It's a beautiful site, but it's
burning like hell, and it's racing across that ridge, and
people tend to go, oh, I think they I'll move,
I think I'll get out of here. And California's have
done a very good job of that. Now I don't
know where they're going. I honestly don't know where they're going.

(17:21):
But the shift in the narrative of going from well,
here's what we have known happen to Oh, let's use
climate change as an example that serves a purpose, a
very distinct purpose. And so now let's swerve into that.
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(17:43):
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Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Director at talkshow Michael Brown. Brownie, no Brownie, You're doing
a heck of a job.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
The Weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Hey, welcome back to the Weekending with Michael Brown. Glad
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Brown USA. At Michael Brown USA. The word of the
day is mitigate, make less severe, serious or painful, lessen

(18:31):
the gravity of something, mitigate. So we can't stop fires,
we can't stop drafts, we can't stop flus, we can't
stop any of these things. So anytime that policy makers
or the cabal, anybody in the media, any politician, anybody
else starts telling you that, well, the problems climate change.
So we need more government intervention to control how you
live your life, what you eat, and all of those

(18:51):
sorts of things, you stop and say no, don't let
them get by with that, because that kind of narrative
just to allows them to shift blame away from them
onto this nefarious idea that you really can't define as
climate change. Even though United Nations own IPCC is starting

(19:14):
to move away from their models, recognizing that maybe we're
maybe we're over selling this problem. You think, so where
you been, at least you've seen the light, but claiming that,
as Newsom and others have in California, that well, this
is because of climate change, and everything that we've done
and not done for the past twenty or plus years

(19:38):
that's made these fires even worse is because of climate change. Now,
those decisions have exacerbated the challenges that those firefighters are facing,
and those families and those individuals and those businesses are
facing right now in California. Poor forest management practices have

(19:59):
turned what was ma Bible fire prone areas and do
well literally right now a disaster as we speak. Just
like water mismanagement, including the failure to invest in storage
infrastructure during wet years, has left California ill prepared to
handle any drought. Go back to twenty twenty three. In

(20:24):
twenty twenty three, California snowpack was two hundred and fifty
percent statewide, with many areas above three hundred percent, and
was continuing to grow. Water supplier reservoirs were approaching full pool,
with those that remained below conducting large water releases in

(20:46):
anticipation if you'd run off starting later in that spring. Now,
I know you can't build a reservoir or a dam overnight,
but if you understand the cyclical nature of weather, you
know they're going to be wet, p and dry periods.
So rather than just you know, well, you know, we
got to save the smeout, we got to do this,

(21:07):
We got to do that. We'd rather spend our money
on DEI. We'd rather spend our money on you know,
an electric fire truck. We'd rather spend our money on homelessness,
would rather spend our money taking care of illegal aliens.
We'd rather spend our money on everything else. But what
we need to be doing. I told my audience during
the week that one of the things that I had
to do as the undersecretary was for the White House

(21:31):
and the Office of Management and Budget. Every probably year,
they would ask us to go through look at all
of the programs we had, and I had to identify
those programs that you that were described as inherently governmental projects,
inherently governmental functions, and then there were those that were

(21:51):
not inherently governmental functions. Well, what's an inherently governmental function? Well,
I would say that law enforcement. I'm talking about the
state level right now, let's forget the federal level. I
would say that it's state level. It's law enforcement, firefighting,
polite or roads, bridges, highways, and unfortunately, public education and

(22:18):
what else, sewer systems, water systems, and that's pretty much it.
Everything else is not necessarily inherently governmental. The private sector?
Can you do it? So you go back to twenty

(22:40):
twenty three and California has a two hundred and fifty
to three hundred percent snowpack, and they've done nothing prior
to that time to start the process of building an
anticipation of wet seasons where they can capture water in
reservoirs and keep them keep that water, store that water
so they have it. That snowpack also would provide water

(23:06):
for farmers in the Central Valley of California that produce
forty percent maybe higher now forty percent of this country's fruits, vegetables,
and nuts. California does produce a lot of nuts, but
I'm talking about the kind of nuts that I like
to eat. California has not added any reservoir storage since

(23:29):
nineteen seventy nine. The population in nineteen seventy nine was
around twenty twenty three million. The population is nearly forty million,
maybe over forty million. I don't know how many people
have escaped. So all that water, all that snowpack from
just two years ago is gone. That's water mismanagement. And again,

(23:57):
you know, you talk about mitigating against the effects of
Mother Nature, you can also take advantage of the effects
of Mother nature. You have a you know we have
in Colorado because we get most of our water from
the runoff off the mountains, off the continental divide. So
we get reports. Our weather reports often include what's the

(24:20):
snowpack like in some areas, you know, different mountain ranges,
it'll be eighty percent or maybe fifty percent. Other places
it will be one hundred percent or two hundred percent,
depending on the year. Well, we've learned, although I think
we're unlearning the lessons that we need to capture that runoff,
preserve that runoff, build more reservoirs, build more dams. As

(24:43):
somebody said on the text line, sorry, I don't have
in front of me right now, so otherwise I give
you a gouber number out. Why is it that we
celebrate the wonderful dam building that beavers do to the
benefit of beavers, but we just credit damned building by
humans that's for the benefit of humans. We're always putting

(25:06):
our own lives beneath the lives of animals and everybody else. No,
it's time to stop that insanity. And that's what it is.
It's utter insanity. So if we're going to move forward,
if we're serious, if California or the rest of the country,
because trust me, and we'll get to this too. The

(25:29):
rest of the country is gonna end up paying for
a lot of this. So if we're as a nation
going to get serious about wildfires, droughts, mitigating against all
the things that Mother Nature does, then we have to
start acknowledging the historical context in which these disasters occur.
They're not new and they're not solely the result of

(25:52):
anthropogenic climate change. That the environment in California is no
different than the environment in Colorado or Ohio, or New
York or Carolina's or anywhere else. It's it's totally dynamic,
it's shaped by natural forces. There is some human intervention
in the sense that you know, if you if you
pave over the you know, pave over the landscape to

(26:14):
build a parking lot, well, when it rains, you're gonna
have runoff and you're gonna have street flooding. Or if
you have a fire and you've built, you know, a
subdivision right next to the to the wild land, Uh,
that fire is going to jump that imaginary line and
it's gonna start burning houses or the costcos down, it's

(26:35):
gonna start burning down everything. So once we decide as
a country that those kinds of policies are insane, and
if we're going to learn to mitigate. Then we can
restore a natural fire cycle by using controlled burns and
the proactive land management. And we ought to be investing

(26:57):
in water infrastructure. You know it just it boggles my
mind that water, fresh, postable water is probably going to
be now, maybe not in my lifetime, but certainly in
generations to come. Water will become as valuable a commodity
as oil and gas or gold or anything else, because

(27:19):
we need it to sustain life. So what we ought
to be learning to do is learning how to take
advantage of Oh, there are wet seasons and dry scenes,
and when there's wet seasons, we ought to be learning
how to you know, capture that runoff and keep it.
But blaming climate change that's just a way to escape

(27:40):
accountability and it's not in any way a substitute for action.
So when we look at these wildfires, I want to
swerve into accountability because some of the stupid going on

(28:00):
at the same time that there's brilliker Again, you think
about what firefighters doing. They're doing everything they humanly can
with their hands tied behind their back. Now, how can
I claim that, well, stay tuned and guess what you'll
hear some of the insanity of what they're doing in California.
It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Go follow me on

(28:22):
X right now. It's that Michael Brown USA. I'll be
right back. Hey, welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown.
So we've been talking about the California wildfires and how
climate change is allows the excuse for the incompetence, in
the mismanagement and the failure to do those basic, inherently

(28:47):
governmental functions that the state of California ought to be doing.
And listen, I'm not picking on California. It's simply because
California is fighting these wildfires right now. Because I live
in a state there's become California Junior. It's not California
Senior Colorado, which is doing the same stupid stuff that
California is doing. Victor Davis Hansen, he's quite honestly a

(29:11):
hero of mine, has a short, just a very short
video I want you to hear, and he explains in
the video how California is being decivilized. Now, what does
that have to do with the fires? Take a listen.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So it was a total system's collapse from the idea
of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention,
in forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy.
You put it all together and it's something like a

(29:48):
DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. Gavin Newsom was fiddling.
He's almost neuro Newsom and this has been something that
is just automatic, this system's breakdown and what to finish.
What we're seeing in California is a state with forty
million people, and yet the people who run it feel

(30:11):
that it should return to a nineteenth century pastoral condition.
They are de civilizing the state and de industrializing the
state and d farming the state. But they're not telling
the forty million people that their lifestyles will have to
revert back to the nineteenth century, when you had no

(30:33):
protection from fire, you didn't have enough water in California,
you didn't have enough power, you didn't pump oil. So
we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy,
not to develop a timber ministry, not to protect the
insurance industry, not to protect houses and property, and we're

(30:53):
doing it in almost a purely neolistic fashion. And Karen
Bass should resign. She came to the airport back from Africa.
She had nothing to say. She was confronted at the airport.
Why were you in Africa? Why did you cut the
fire department? They cut the fire department by almost eighteen
million dollars. They gave fire protective equipment to Ukraine's first responder,

(31:19):
and she had nothing to say. She had nothing to
say because she couldn't say anything. I don't want to
be too pessimistic or bleak tonight, but this is one
of the most alarming symptoms of a society gone mad.
And if this continues, and if this were to spread
to other states, we would become a third world country,
if we're not in parts already.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
He's right, he says it perfectly. Well, allow only if
you will, to give you a few examples, because what's
happening is that as we go through all of this,
we begin to realize is that, oh, things are happening
that have long term consequences. Now again, what you're about

(32:08):
to hear is the Los Angeles Fire Department's assistant chief,
Christine Larson. She's a dei hire. She fits all of
the boxes that you would want to fit if you
were doing a Dei hire. And now I want you
to think about a firefighter before you hear this, and
I want you to think about a firefighter. Male or

(32:29):
female makes no difference to me. I watched firefighters go. Well,
you think about the firefighters nine to eleven. What do
they do? They got their turnout gear on, weighs sixty
to one hundred pounds or more. They're climbing steps to
save lives. I'm not sure this woman can make it
up my basement steps. She's that big. When a firefighter

(32:54):
comes to your house because your house is on fire,
or they respond to your grandparents' house because it isn't fire,
don't you you first, you don't care what their sexual
preferences are. You don't care what their skin color is.
You care all the thing I think you care about
is are they qualified, trained? And are they able to

(33:14):
physically do the job? And if grandma or granddad are
stuck in the house, can they get grandma or granddad out.
That's what firefighters do, That's what first responders do, and
that's why we honor the lives of firefighters and the
work that they do, because they'll rush into the building
while we're rushing out. This woman personifies, exemplifies I want

(33:40):
to put this. It's going to have to be steel reinforced,
but I want to put this lardass woman on a
pedestal for an example of how DEEI kills people. This
is her when the Los Angeles Fire Department implemented its
DEI policy twenty nineteen. She decides that she must make

(34:04):
a video and here's what she says.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
I see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency,
whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that
looks like you. It gives that person a little bit
more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
carry my husband out of a fire? And in which
my response is seek out himself in the wrong place.
If I have to carry him out of a fire.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
What is she strong enough to carry my husband out
of the fire? And my response would be why should
I have to carry him out of the fire? What's
he doing there in the first place? I mean, you
couldn't get more opposite of what the job and the
mindset is of the firefighters that I know they're going

(34:54):
to go rush into a building to save your ass
because they know that's their job, and she wants to
know what were you doing in there in the first place.
You shouldn't question whether I can carry you out or not.
You should question how you got caught in that fire.
Huh well, sweet hard, let's just eliminate fire departments, because
I sure as hell don't want you on the fire

(35:15):
department that responds to a fire at my place of
business or my home. But this is what Victor Davis
Hansen is talking about in terms of decivilizing ourselves. Now.
That video is six years old, but I want you
to think about six years ago. Nobody's thinking about what's
happening right now because they weren't planning for it. They

(35:36):
were cutting budgets, they were buying electric fire trucks, they
were doing stupid stuff, all of which those of us
who understood how stupid those policies were were screaming from
the mountaintops about how at some point we're going to
pay for all this stupidity. And now we are. We're

(35:56):
paying for it dearly. And trust me, you think just
because you live in Minnesota, Ohio or Tennessee, you won't
be paying for it. Oh silly, you stay tuned, because
I'll show you how you're gonna be paying for it.
It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Thanks for tuning in.
Don't forget Follow me on X It's at Michael Brown
USA and send me a text if you want to

(36:16):
the numbers three three, one zero three, use the word
Micha or Michael. I'll be right back.
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