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January 13, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael Good Monday morning, one week and four hours until Trump.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Oh wooh, that Kenny reminds me, let's let me swerve
away from something I was going to talk about instead
of talking about that talk back, because it is it's
exactly a week. Uh and about let's see our time
at six, so it's eight am and about four hours

(00:30):
so a week in about four hours from now, he'll
be taking the oath of office. But have you ever
thought about what's going on now? Like what's happening right now?
It's uh now, I notice on the chiron for CNN earlier.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh real quick.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I just want to make sure everybody is also prepared
that nothing will change instantly. You're all wanting something to
happen so quickly, but it won't. It will take time.
You've been warning us for a month at least at

(01:06):
least that when he takes office, it will take time
for things to change.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
I know your.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Hopes are big and hopes are high right now, but
just take a.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, and let's put that in perspective, because I mean,
some things will change almost immediately.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I heard not Stephen Miller's.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
The Jason Miller who's the senior one of the senior
policy advisors to Trump. I happened to catch him for
just a few minutes on Fox sometime over the weekend,
and he was talking about how they're ready to go
day one, and they have upwards of one hundred executive
orders that they're going to sign on that day.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're probably executive orders that were executive orders that were
made to correct the other executive order.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Baby, yes, yes, So we're gonna re verse what they
had done reverse four years ago.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
So and so that will be an immediate change because.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
The the policies and some of the rules and regulations
that they had said, we're going to follow this and
we're going to do it this way and that way.
That will you know, go back into effect at and
again because on inauguration day a week from to day uh,
the president, you know, they have all the pomp and

(02:29):
circumstance that you know, it'll God, there's so much going
through my head right now because that's stupid talkback on
talkback just sends me off off.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
The deep end.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
First he has to be sworn in, but all the pomp,
pomp and circumstance before that. I don't know, but traditionally
the president elect arrives at the South Portico, and they
are greeted by the exiting president and so the President

(03:03):
elect and First Lady, So Trump and Millennia, they'll pull
up in the second beast and well, actually they'll pull
up in the beast because they're going to travel together
to the first ladies will travel in a separate vehicle.
The presidents will travel in the beast together up to
Capitol Hill. And so that will take some time. I

(03:27):
don't want time in the morning that will start, I
don't remember. And then they will get up to Capitol Hill.
There'll be some meetings and everybody will be gathering in
different offices inside the Capitol building. And then finally they'll
all start stepping out, and there'll be all this coverage about, oh,
look who's coming down the steps now, and look who's
standing where, and look who's wearing what, and look there's

(03:49):
Obama and there's book. I assume they're all going to attend.
They better all attend. And so then they'll go through
all of that, and then at twelve oh one, Chief
Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office, and
then Trump will give his inaugural speech, and there'll be
all the stuff. Then they'll be parayed back up you know,
Constitution Avenue, and then he'll go back into the White

(04:09):
House and then they'll you know, and then there'll be
the inaugural inaugural balls that evening and all of that.
But he will go to work on that day and
he probably will sign those executive orders at some time
while he's in the Oval Office. But now let's unwind
all of that. Let's go back to today.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't know that. I do know that sometime this week,
whether they whether they're doing anything now or later, because
they have to move Joe and Jill and Hunter and
his wife and the kids and everybody else.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
That is grandkids and the great grant.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
The grandkids and the great grandkids and everybody else and
in fact, who knows the hoboes and the lobbies and
everybody else that's camping out at the at the White House.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
They'll have to start moving them out of the East wing.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
And whoever was had the cocaine, Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Whoever had the cocaine, they'll have to be gathering up
their coke and getting it back into the little plastic
bags and getting.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
That all out.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
So or maybe you know, actually, maybe they won't. Maybe
they'll just leave the coke there in hopes that you know,
somebody as they move in will go, oh, maybe I
can't move into my office because there's cocaine here, and
they'll have to bring in, you know, the people in
the hazmat suits and everything else. So it may just
be a total cluster f you know, trying to move
in and move out. But what most people never think

(05:28):
about are those behind the scenes things that take place
that are beginning to take place.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Now, if I told you if I'll use Dragon as
an example, because I can just imagine the inside of
Dragon's house, because I know that missus Redbeard, for example,
likes to collect all these small figurines and.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Things, action figures.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Action figures, and so they'll have all of those, and
I she'll want those carefully packed.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes, she's not going to just take them and get,
you know.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
A black, big trash bag and just take her arm
and sweep them into the bag.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
So they're gonna have to all be wrapped up.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
So all of that stuff that belongs to doctor Jill Biden,
all her medical gear, her medical bag, all the plaques,
all the plaques she's earned, all of that, the Emmys
and the Oscars and the you.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Know, the People's Choice Awards and all.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Of that all have to be carefully wrapped up and
packed and put in boxes. So just as you and
Dragon and missus, Redbeard would have to move out of
their home, and they have you know, they've been evicted,
you know, and so they have to be out by
noon on Monday, a week from today, so they might

(06:45):
actually start like, let's get rid of some stuff. Let's
take this move as a chance to get rid of
some stuff. Now, there's not going to be a roll
off on the south port ofic of the Whitehouse. The
Red Beards would have a roll off in which they
would start throwing stuff out that they want to get
rid of, or one of those big you know bags
that you can output on your driveway that people will

(07:06):
hold stuff off.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
With a little waste management bag or yeah bagster, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
The bagster.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
So the bagster will be there, but there'll be people
that will start taking stuff out and helping the first
family begin to pack up. And then sometime later this week,
now remember he's only moving to Delaware, so they don't
have to travel a long distance, so they can actually

(07:34):
wait until even say Thursday or Friday this week for
the trucks to finally be packed and drive off. Then
there there's one final truck and that is because they'll
spend the night Sunday night in the White House and
all of that stuff will that they then use for

(07:58):
that will be put into you know, that just depends
how much stuff they want to keep for the for
the final night in the White House. But there their toothbrushes,
they're toilet trees, a change of clothes machine, the seapap machine,
all the medications, uh, you know, all of the drool
rags that they.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Used to the imagine the pill box that they must.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Have him alone, right, So all of that stuff gets
packed up. That stuff gets packed up while they're at
the Capitol. So Monday morning, all of that, all of
that final little stuff, the little things that you might keep,
you know, all the things you might keep like if

(08:43):
you're staying in a hotel for one night, that will
then get packed up and that will either be hauled
over to Andrews Air Force Base so they can load
it onto the plane so that when the President takes
his you know, because it's kind of it's really kind
of fascinating as as Trump's giving his inaugural speech, that

(09:07):
van or truck whatever it is will haul ass out
to Andrews. So they can load all of that up
into the cargo hold of Air Force.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
One, which will be waiting. Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
And he will go to air Force or to Andrews
and Air Force one. But he won't go in the
beast because at twelve oh one whatever seconds, he's no
longer the president. He's the former president. So now he
gets and and I love how this works. So other

(09:41):
than air Force one, everything else gets downgraded.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well, it's it's not titled air Force one.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's the same plane, right, same plane, right, it's not
but it's their fight.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
It's his final flight on that seven forty seven.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
What do they call that plane for a former president.
He'll have a call signat it doesn't have one.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, he'll just be a call there'll be a call signal, okay, yeah,
So whatever, they'll you know, it'll take it off and
it'll it'll be.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
You'll squawk old fart one, yeah, old.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Fart one, a squawk two nine six seven, and they'll
take off from Andrews and land and where they're going
to land in nolwhere.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
And then while all of that's going on and all.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Of the stuff is happening at the at the Capitol,
they'll be unloading all of the Trump stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
And now I don't know whether Milan.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm sure Milania will have some stuff there, but I
don't know that Mlania is moving into the White House
because I'm assuming that. Well, Baron, I think is he's
not in college yet, is he?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I think he.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Starts college next year, and I understand he's going to Columbia,
NYU or someplace in New York. So she may be
planning to move some stuff to New York later on,
but I don't know that she'll move everything into the
White House. So she may move some stuff so that
she can, you know, travel between mar Lago and the White.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
House and Trump Tower, so she'll have.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Some stuff everywhere, but all the President's stuff, you know,
and I shouldn't say all of it because obviously he
has more than one suit, So you know, some stuff
will be moved into the White House. Some stuff will
be left at Marlago. But those trucks are now at
mar Lago, and he's beginning to decide what he wants
to move into the White House. What he wants to
take with him, Well, it's gonna stay at Marlago, And

(11:26):
of course I'm sure everything is still furnished in Trump
Tower too. So there's this big dance in the background
that's going on that starts this week. Now, let's think
about all the staffers. The staffers this week will now
start to clean out their desks. Now, Biden seems to

(11:49):
be trying to build a legacy, or to preserve the
rags of whatever legacy he has left. So he's going
to be giving a speech to the State Department today
on foreign policy. Does anybody care what he has to
say about foreign policy this week? No? Now I do
only in the sense that he could still start World

(12:09):
Worth three between now and and Monday. So this dance
just takes place in which this moving out and moving
in the staff begins to wind down.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, I'm talking about the appointed staff. The permanent staff
will stay there. But think about that.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I don't know who the White House Chef's going to be.
But until they get a new White House chef appointed,
if they do, they may keep the old one.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
I don't even know who the current one is. But
the White House Mess starts planning for, Okay, we got
to We've got a imagine a hotel that has one customer,
and that.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
One you're gonna need big Max fries and catch up
Diane Coch.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, that's pretty much all they need, right right. But
that's true for well, that may be true for several meals.
I can say that may be true for lunch, that
could be true for dinner too. But he'll also want,
you know, some flam and Young, He'll want some Kobe beef,
he'll want some Wagou, he'll want all of that.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
He doesn't drink, so I don't worry about any alcohol
or anything. But the White House Mess starts planning for
that transition too. Then the White House Comms starts practicing.
Because the football which will travel with the President Biden
up to the White up to the US Capitol on Monday,

(13:39):
that will be the transferred and that staff almost always
remains the same. But once again they have to plan for, Oh,
we got a transition. Secret Service has to transition. Think
about that. So Biden's presidential detail goes away. Trump's been
in the process of appointing and selecting his presidential detail,

(14:03):
which may include some of the current people. Plus because
that entourage expands, he has to pick new people. So
now they're all planning for the transition. The White House Butler's,
the White House housekeeping staff.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
All of those, most of those stay.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
But and if most of those stay that have been
there through the Trump presidency and then through the Biden
presidency won't have quite a difficult job. But they're getting
briefed about what they have to do about. You know,
what does Trump expect, what does he want, what does
he like? So all of that transition is beginning to
take place this week. So it's just this dance of

(14:44):
a giant hotel that has one customer, but that one
customer's every needs are met that guy the current occupants,
because it's like the Beverly Hillbillies. They'll be moving out
and then the Trump family will moving in and I
and they have to plan for the entire family because

(15:05):
I'm sure there will be times when Baron will be
with them there, as will Don Junior or.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Eric and the others. Uh. It's just it's something the
people never think about.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
According to a couple of goober Texters, Baron Trump started
college at NYU on September fourth. That's according to the
New Year's Post, New York Post. According to this Texter,
and the Air Force one when it doesn't have potus
aboard is just called SAM twenty eight thousand to eight
zero zero zero.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, So I guess that's what they call it. And
I'm sure we'll squawk something on its on its transponder
and it'll move on and then story right back to
Andrews Air Force Base and probably be ready for Trump
to make a trip to California sometime next week. Who
knows he may or may not do that. So Dragon's

(16:01):
point about not expecting political change is spot on, except
that here's the other dance that's going on this week.
You know, yesterday I started putting pulling out of my
cabinets and my file cabinets, like tax returns that were

(16:24):
more than seven years old. And then I'm starting to
clean out some of the stuff that I've already used
on the second book I'm writing, and getting rid of
the stuff that I'm not going to be using. So
I started pulling all of that stuff out.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
All those chapters about me in the new book. You're
just throwing those away, Yeah, I'm just throwing those away.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
That's I just, you know, like the photo you showed
me the other day of the weight you lost, I
decided that should not probably go in the middle of
the book.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
So I think, yeah, I'm not gonna pathetic.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
But I ran aross my White House folder, the White
House Office of Personnel that has all of my stuff
in it. That not all of it, but the initial
security clearances, my S F eighty six I think this
or S F fifty six, I forget we did. I'm

(17:19):
sure somebody will tells me about that too. I don't
care eighty six fifty six, whatever it is, but you know,
I'm keeping that folder. But it reminded me that there's
some controversy going on right now about some of Trump's nominees,
because we should start having hearings this week. Christy know,

(17:40):
Pete Hegsith probably Cash Betel Fbi, Rubio at State, and
Chris Wright, for example. I talked about Chris right on
My Brown Minute this morning. And not all of their
paperwork is going to be complete, because some will be

(18:03):
easier than others. For example, Marco Rubio is a US Senator,
as someone who already has a lot of clearances. Some
of that stuff just has to be updated now, some
of the stuff for cash Ptel because he was on
the Intel com He worked on the Intel Committee and
some of the investigating committees, so he has a lot
of current clearances. But some Democrats are bitching, EMONI, the

(18:26):
little paperwork's not finished yet. That's always been true, and
they've still held hearings prior to the new president coming in,
so that Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
Homeland Security, FBI director, some of those others can be
start the jobs on January.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Twentieth also, so there's not that going on right now.
Good morning from South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
One big challenge for the White House chef is he's
going to have to learn how to make solid food.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Everyone have a great day.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
That made me literally burst out laughing when I first
heard that.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Great Thank you, South Dakota.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Grandpa. Oh my, that was brutal. That's funny, It's absolutely brutal.
H badly, that's just good. That was classic.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
We're gonna talk off and on today about the California wildfires,
simply because there's so much to untangle and deconstruct about
everything that's being said what's happening. I noticed on the
news coming in this morning that the weather report is

(19:51):
that they expected Santa Ana wins to kick back up
to sixty seventy mile an hour sixty seventy miles an
hour again today And since they have, I think they've
contained one of the four or five fires. There will
be more that will, you know, flare up and the
fires will continue to spread. But I did a lot

(20:16):
of thinking about the Cedar fire that I was involved
in in two thousand and three in southern California, in
the San Diego area, and changes in the law that
were passed after the two thousand and three Cedar fire.
We're supposed to prevent repeats of these kinds of fires,

(20:37):
these kinds of catastrophes, which is why whenever I hear
anybody talk about we're going to fix this so that
it never happens again, I just chuckle to myself. And
that's why I hate that phrase because and it kind
of goes back to a book that I mentioned over

(20:59):
the weekend about why complex societies collapse, and this society
may be on the verge of that of the beginning
of that kind of collapse, because we just don't seem
to be able to do anything. And the more complex
that our society becomes, the less we seem to be

(21:21):
able to mitigate against or to protect ourselves from basic
things like the weather or the climate. But I repeat myself,
the Healthy Force Act and changes in regulations at the
state level has so far proven to be just utterly ineffective.

(21:47):
The federal Healthy Force Act, now let's be clear, it
applied only to federal lends. The state of California still
gets to utterly mismanage its own lends and thereby creating
risks in the form of fuel build up, a lack
of any sort of fire breaks, and not doing any
sort of controlled burns, or at least I should say

(22:07):
to be fair insufficient controlled burns, but more robust defensible
space regulations for private homes didn't save anybody in the
Pacific Palisades area wind driven wildfires, and the reason for
that is a wind driven wildfire renders any sort of

(22:28):
mitigation efforts that you do just utterly ineffective. I go
back to the innisclosed location as an example. We've mitigated
the fire hazard around our home in New Mexico because
it is surrounded by brush Russian olives, pine trees, gigantic

(22:48):
cottonwood trees, and other than cutting down some of the
giant cottonwoods that are within I would say twelve feet
of the house and not many of them, but on
the back side of the house there are probably three
or four. Not one of them since died. But and

(23:09):
of course we've had it torn down and uprooted and
turned into firewood. But other than that we keep in
the spring and summer, we keep the grass watered. Although
it's don't think of grass in terms of, you know,

(23:29):
a lawn in the suburban Denver, Colorado. Think more in
just terms of just you know, buffalo grass and just
natural grass that would grow. We keep that wet and
green as much as possible. But then if if a
wildfire comes blowing through the way, the wildfires jump the

(23:53):
tops of the trees easily. A wildfire could jump some
of the trees that are or twenty thirty feet forty
to fifty feet away from the house, could still jump
across the tops the crowns of those trees and still
ignite those trees, and we would have and then hit

(24:14):
the cottonwoods, and then boom, we've got fire next to
us or depending on how dry it is, we could
try all we want to, but if the grass has
died out because of a drought, we can water it
all we want to, but that grass is still going
to not so much. It will burn, but burn slowly,
and there might be time. For example, when we had

(24:34):
the last when we had the most recent which has
now been god, it seems like four years ago or
maybe even longer, when we had the fire that came
within just a quarter mile of the house, the insurance
company brought in its own irrigation system because it was
cheaper to do that, and so we had a tanker

(24:56):
truck outside the perimeter of the house with pipes running
in and then they had put up these and the
irrigation system all around the house and it was just,
you know, they were pumping water into it, and it
was just it was like a rainstorm right there on
that house. And by the way, my rates didn't go
up either, because they determined that it was you know,

(25:19):
obviously it was an active god and it was cheaper
to protect the house by bringing in that firefighting equipment
and putting up that irrigation system that it would be
the total cost and the replacement cost of that of
that home.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
But the point is.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
That defensible space regulations for private homes are not necessarily
going to save a private home. It might help in
New Mexico, but when you live in an urban area,
it's not going to do it because the wind driven
fire is just what makes those mitigation efforts just ineffective.

(25:57):
Not having plants within five feet of your house did
nothing in Pacific Palisades. When you face such an event
as they have faced over the past, what almost weak now.
But don't get me wrong, requiring defensible space around homes
it is still worthwhile, but it only helps in lesser

(26:18):
events than what we're seeing in Los Angeles right now.
But what could help, Well, they could have had deep
fire breaks. They could have had at least the eighty
twenty reduction in fuel load.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
How deep deep?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
If then can blow embers a mile away, then you
need a mile deep firebreak. I mean it sounds extreme,
but that's because of the nature of the threat itself
is extreme. And I can hear the greeny whenies just
going ballistic about that. Imagine and you see this if

(26:55):
you've ever flown over some of the really heavily forested
areas of the Rockies, including in Canada and along even
along the border, you know the border between US in
Canada in highly forested areas. And you can see this
on Google Earth. If you go look at the bat
you find the right location, the right points there is

(27:19):
about a mile wide fire break. Now it's a fire break,
but it's also used to designate the border in those
wilderness areas well.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
A mile wide.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Just if you're in your car right now, just imagine
a mile in front of you and all around Jewish forest,
except when you hit the fire break, you're going to
drive your car a full mile before you get to
the next wooded area. That's really how deep a fire
break they need in California, surrounding those outer perimeters of

(27:55):
the of the urban area. They need to repeal outright
the environmental regulations that prevent that size and that deep
of the fire break. And then you need alternative evacuation
routes for existing communities that have only one alternate or

(28:17):
that only have one evacuation route. Right now, none of
those things were done, and many of those things will
never be done because we still believe, for some odd
reason that while if you're a hunter or a fisherman.

(28:38):
You know that we call the herds. Now some trout
is only catch and release. But you also know that
there's a limit on the amount of trout that you
can catch and take home or just fry up right
there on the bank. Best meal you ever have fried
trout on the side of the bank or the bank

(28:59):
of the river with a can of pork and beans.
Oh wonderful. But you know that there's a certain limited
number of elk tags or deer tags, or bear tags
or mountain.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Lion tags, or well there are no wolf tags.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
But we do that because we believe that, and we
know scientifically that we can manage the herds and so
we can keep the herds healthy, alive, reproductive, so that
you know, people can still hunt and fish, and we
can still maintain that balance inside those areas where they live. Well,

(29:42):
if we believe that about wildlife, why don't we believe
that about the forests themselves. Why is it we don't
believe that we can't do controlled burns? Well, some people
will argue because well, it creates smoke. Smoke is a
health hazard. What do you think that? What do you

(30:03):
think the toxic smoke in California's right now. I mean,
it's got to be absolutely awful. It's got to be
almost as bad or as bad as the smoke that
drifted out of the towers after nine to eleven.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, yeah, there's cars and tires and all that crap.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Everything is burning, Every toxic substance is being burned right now.
I saw some photos of cars where the aluminum in
the cars had melted and then you know, started you know,
streaming down the street until it cooled off enough and
then reformed into a solid. But for some reason, we
believe that cutting forests a mile wide a mile deep

(30:43):
is unhealthy for the forest. Why or control burn is unhealthy.
Why So, even though after the Cedar fire we put
those regulations in at the federal level, it's still up
to the state and local levels of government to do
the same thing, and they all to do so in California,
And now we see the results of that.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Good morning, Doom, Good morning gloom dragon. I just thought
i'd mentioned Michael's been talking about for weeks already how
things are already changing, and that Donald isn't even in
office yet, not hating, just saying.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, and I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Get to that too, because I did a story on
Saturday that I want to share parts of with you
this week, and it has to do with Greenland, because
that's not quite as shocking as you think it might be.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
And to my defenser, I would say, yes, attitudes have changed,
but policies have not.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I think some foreign policies changed. Okay, yeah, I think
some form. Yeah, the domestic policy is going to require
him to be an office to actually make changes. But
some foreign some foreign policies are beginning to change. But Steve,
who's a retired law enforcement officer lives down in Oklahoma,

(32:09):
wrote this on the text line and I want to
address it. Biden said the government would cover one hundred
percent cover Biden said the government would one hundred percent
cover the cost of the California fires. He's not going
to be in office, but what would that really mean
if he was, Well, they are going to cover one
hundred percent of the cost of the response to the fires.

(32:35):
This is what I'm not I'm not picking on you, Steve,
but this is what drives me nuts about the cabal
because they don't they just you know, the sound bite
is Biden's announced he's going to cover one hundred percent
the cost of the fires in New York, in California
and everybody. Here's what they want to hear. So if

(32:56):
you're a fire victim, if your house is burned down
and you've lost everything, then you think, oh my gosh,
he's going to cover one hundred percent of my cost.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
This is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'm going to get a new shirt, I'm going to
get a new car, I'm going to get a new house,
and they're going to cover the one hundred percent of costs. No,
that is not what they mean. Generally, when a natural
disaster like this occurs, there is a general regulation that
says that FEMA will reimburse state and local governments seventy

(33:27):
five percent of the costs of responding. Now, responding means firefighting,
emergency management, law enforcement, public health. You know, rebuilding a school,
rebuilding a highway, rebuilding a bridge, rebuilding a courthouse. You know,

(33:49):
the response and the cost of bringing in under mutual
aid firefighters from around the country.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
The general rule is, you cover seventy five percent of
the cost. Now, why is that the rule. The rule
is because you want them to have some skin in
the game. You want them to be as concerned about
expenditures because they're going to be responsible for twenty five
percent of those costs, which could be astronomical and actually
break the bank of some small communities. So you want

(34:21):
them to be very careful about how they're spending money.
You want them to watch every little nichol and diamis
being spent. So that's why the general rule is you'll
cover seventy five twenty five.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Well, normally.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
That's done, but there's been this trend over the past
twenty years, and it quite frankly started started. It started
back during Clinton when things would happen, and of course
Bush carried it forward to where states would then ask, hey,
can you cover ninety percent? And okay, well we'll cover
ninety percent, and then it reached one hundred percent, and

(34:58):
so you you now and now, in something like a Katrina,
which is humongous, or in Florida where you had four
back to back hurricanes almost whambam, thank you, ma'am, it
wasn't unusual to say, look, we understand this is truly overwhelming.
We'll cover one hundred percent of those costs. Well, that's
what Biden said, We'll cover one hundred percent of the

(35:20):
cost in responding to the fires, which means we're going
to pay for the cost of firefighting. We're going to
pay for the cost of the evacuations of the law
enforcement it took. We're going to cover one hundred percent
of costs rebuilding public facilities, not individuals. We're not going
to cover a hundred percent of the costs for an
individual to recover, only government, which means a lot of people.

(35:47):
It's going to be fascinating to watch because many people
may just walk away
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