Fire Hydrants Ran Dry in Southern California Just When They Were Needed Most

Fire hydrants ran dry in Southern California just when they were needed most. Longshoremen reach tentative agreement with ports, shippers, averting a potential strike. Pacific Palisades fire burns in Los Angeles, Eaton fire kills 5. Consumer Electronics Show opens in Vegas. Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research, talks the California wildfires.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson show Hell on Earth, apocalyptic, horrific, terrifying, tragic,
use any of those words.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
And sad, sad that it has come to this for
many people in California who are looking around at their leaders, going,
you guys are incompetent and useless. Now other hosts of
you guys may here blame everything on the politics. You guys,

(00:49):
listen to the show. You know, nature will mess you up.
We've talked about that, and nature is going to do
what nature does. It nature's but you got to be
able to put up a fight. And because of politics,
nature did what nature does without any worry of being

(01:14):
stopped or even slowed down. And so politics is front
and center right now because when I hear people go,
it's just too early for politics. They can't believe they're
talking politics. Politics, they should talk politics. Just too early
to talk politics. No, it's not because by the time

(01:39):
the first embers jumped from the fire to a house
climate change. We don't let things settle, We don't let
people get past it before the leaders and the people
start talking. And partly because at this point in time
in life can't afford to never let a tragedy go

(02:07):
to waste. You shouldn't anymore because you're gonna have to
get people's attention. And California, and I've said this, and
it's something I've stood by for a very very long time.
We can sit here and talk politics all day. I

(02:27):
can give you facts and data. I can tell you
what's going on. Most people, their minds are made up.
Most people. Some people are open enough to go, I'd
like to see what that. You know, you're in it
long enough, you understand. But for most people, they've made

(02:47):
up their minds until something affects their life and it
gives them a new outlook. That's what happened in the
last election. We hit a critical mass of people that
were on the left who were seeing unfettered access to
the border, billions of dollars being spent on people who

(03:07):
weren't citizens, inflation running rampant, and they said, no, we're
not doing this, We're not California. You guys, get what
you vote for, and you vote for crazy politics, You
vote for progressive lunacy. You vote to put people in

(03:31):
places where they prioritize stuff that makes them feel good,
virtue signal. But the results, well, right now they're speaking
for themselves. Period, what's going on with all the fire hydrants?
What is the situation with the water?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Obviously in the Palisage ran out last night in the hydrants.
I was turned the firefighter in this block they left
because there were no water in the hydrants.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Here.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Local folks are trying to figure that out.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
I mean, just when you have this a system there,
it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily
large scale fires, whether it be pipe of electricity or
whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system.
I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires,
maybe one fire. You have something at this scale. But
again that's going to be determined by the local folks.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, determined by the local folks. It's their fault. Well,
I'm going to give you a snapshot of where they
spend their money. So the budget twenty twenty three twenty
four fiscal year Los Angeles about eight hundred and forty
million dollars for LA Fire Department. The budget for the
homeless one point three billion. Way. LA Fire Department's budget

(04:45):
was reduced by over seventy million. And let's not forget
that the homeless start a ton of fires upwards of
about thirty teen to fourteen thousand, mostly small. But we're
putting it out there. Now, let's juxtapose this against Texas.

(05:13):
So Texas has a deep freeze coming in as you know,
So you've got really you got the chaos of the
southeast and the eastern seaboard with this massive Arctic bomb,
and now Texas is going to be feeling the wrath
for the next about forty eight plus hours. That includes snow, sleet,
freezing temperatures. Well, they've been through this before, just a

(05:35):
few years ago.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
The current cold snap is a bit of reminder of
the deep freeze of twenty twenty one to one millions
of homes and businesses across Texas lost to electricity. Governor
Greg Abbott says that because of infrastructure hardening since then.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
If there is a loss of power, it's not going
to be because of the power grid, because of some
impact on a local power line.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Like a down utility pool or a tree falling into wires.
Utility provide. See, there's more than enough generating capacity to
meet this week's added demand.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
He has been Governor Abbot out everywhere speaking. They've been
preparing the roads this is not Buffalo, This is not
a blizzard. But they understand the disruption, they understand the
issues that they're going to have with this, and they

(06:30):
also understand that the Great freeze of twenty twenty one,
tad Cruz we're looking at you in can'tcon caused death,
billions of dollars of damage. And so they go, let's
rectify it, not let this happen again. Well, what's your deipolicy.

(06:54):
My DEI policy is, I don't have one. My DEI
policy is no DEI, get it done. When you focus
on nonsense, you get nonsense back. And California is the

(07:15):
king of nonsense.

Speaker 8 (07:18):
It is.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
You know, Jimmy Carter, they're gonna lay me to the
rest today. His famous saying about California is the Petri
dish of you know, kind of insanity. Well, yeah, you
prioritize things that don't need prioritizing. You push things that
don't need it because you want to feel somehow superior,

(07:40):
think it does something. Let's prioritize this, that and the other.
Oh good god, get it done. Period, case closed. And
when you're not doing the things like prioritizing DEI or
cutting the funding or spending tons of money on homeless
programs with no account of you raise money and you

(08:02):
go out there and you tell the taxpayers we're going
to put a bond out there and people are going
to vote on it, and then they do, and then well,
all right, it passed. So fix the fire hydrants, fix
the water supplies, fix all the things that they need
so when they go and hook up to the fire hydrant,
the water comes out. Do that or.

Speaker 9 (08:24):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so our hydrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need and only
a fraction of that money has been spent, has all

(08:45):
been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare. Then you have the
workforce itself. You have fire, LA County, LA City Fire.
Their numbers are depleted, LAPD, LA Sheriffs their numbers are depleted.
Where's the National Guard here? I mean there's a lot
of things, a lot of power that is missing. And
it all goes from twenty twenty four The whole defunding.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
The whole defunded movement. This is where it came from,
because it's easy to go after the fire department and
the police. The police are evil and bad fire department
and nobody's paying attention to them. It's easy to do that.
But you got the money from the bond. What did
you do with the money? Oh, it's tied up in stuff. Well,
what do you mean, it's tied up in some bureaucracy,
you know, like, Hey, I know we're gonna we're gonna

(09:29):
retrofit some of these, but we're gonna have to do
environmental plan to make sure that the wee willie winki
worm isn't here. And they diddle while Rome burns more
from the former La County Sheriff. Could this have been
potentially prevented?

Speaker 9 (09:47):
Oh, this is very, very preventable because you called the
fire department, both city and county fire, part of the
whole first responder infrastructure that has been one of the
targets of politicians from twenty twenty four to take money
away from and deplete those resources. Suppose under this grand
scheme of we're going to reinvest it in the community, Well,

(10:08):
the community right now needs exactly what they don't have,
which is the staffing levels for fire and for first
responders from law enforcement to be able to safely evacuate
and to be able to fight these fires. I mean,
a lot of it is going to be obviously, the
nature is gonna is having its way with us right now,
but at some point when humans can successfully contain the

(10:30):
fire and secure the area and all that stuff and
care for the evacuated, it's a humanitarian crisis that's going
to unfold right now as we're seeing it, and we
don't have the resources we should have. And those are
political decisions that happened years ago.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And alas here we are nature, like we say, will nature,
Nature will do what nature does. But you're not even
putting up a fight. And the fight should have started
a long time time ago. It should have. Texas did
wait till this week to fix the grid. They didn't.

(11:06):
California is the poster child of a kid who waited
til last minute to do their homework, didn't do it.
Told the teacher that not only did a dog eat it,
but then that dog micro aggressed them and that's why
they couldn't do it. And could they get a pass

(11:30):
frustrating talking to family and friends out there who understand
how bad this is going to be. And just to
let you guys in on something. This will be the
most costly disaster in US history. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 10 (12:58):
Show, Chad Benson.

Speaker 11 (13:10):
The agreement finalizes a six year deal, part of which
was negotiated after the union went on strike briefly last fall,
the port operators agreeing to a twenty four dollars an
hour top pay rate bump over six years. Had a
deal not been reached, ports could have closed as early
as next week, potentially costing the economy hundreds of millions
of dollars per day.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
They got a deal done at the ports which would
have cost us. Now, nice little race. Some people are
probably going to soa they're only getting twenty four bucks
an hour. No that will that twenty four dollars will
be broken out over six years. They're already making tons
of money. Now, that wasn't the sticking point, because remember

(13:53):
that was the one thing they decided on in October
that they they would extend a kind of mini contract
keep everybody working. And the one thing they decided was okay,
well here's your pay raise, and they were fine with that.

(14:13):
But it was the other thing, that automation thing, that
they were worried about.

Speaker 11 (14:18):
The deal between port operators and the Longshoreman's Union overcomes
a major sticking point, the introduction of automated cargo moving machinery.
The tentative deal includes a compromise that allows the ports
to modernize shipyards with new equipment as long as jobs
are added alongside that technology.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yes, gotta have get rid of automation, eh Horse and Bucky.
I say that because you can always text the program
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listen to me go to the ports, in particular in
southern California, So they're in other states, but they're the
ports that they spend a lot of time at. Those

(14:57):
are in Long Beach in La Harbor. And one person says,
I'm a port truck driver travels from Phoenix to Long
Beach every other day and being at the ports and
working in the ports. They are the laziest sobs and
get paid so many dollars and they're horrendous. Automates automate, automate. Oh,

(15:20):
several other people didn't put it like that. They were like, yeah,
it needs to be automated. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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(15:42):
Love it when you do that right here on the
Chad Benson Show. But they got what they wanted. And remember,
while they're a few and we don't want people to
lose their job, the reality is if we're not efficient,
that costs the consumer, and you and I are the consumer.

(16:08):
That's what we're trying to point out there. Speaking of
Southern California, it's on fire still with all of.

Speaker 12 (16:15):
The flames coming off of these buildings. You can feel
the heat of the fire as it is moving from
neighborhood to neighborhood. And we keep hearing these explosions as
ammunition and gas tanks and other things are exploding inside
of these homes and in the cars, and there are
some people who are up on their roofs that they
have not left. They are using garden hoses trying to

(16:36):
put any amount of water they can on their homes,
trying to save them.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
It is devastating to watch people do everything they can
and try to save their home. Because so many of
these people who because everybody thinks that well everybody lives
there is rich and famous in all these places, they're
not in the fast vast majority of the people that
live in these places can can't even afford to buy

(17:01):
their homes today. They've owned them for decades and decades,
and they're in a position now where they're fighting not
only to save their home but to save their future
because a lot of people don't have insurance because they
paid their home off ten fifteen years ago that got dropped.
It's too expensive, and now they're watching everything go up

(17:26):
in flames or potentially golf in flames. They're gonna fight hard. California.
It's done a bang up job three two, three, five,
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It is a lot of stuff to get to it.
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Speaker 13 (17:37):
Show, Sun Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 14 (18:00):
The Chad Benson Show, devastation, destruction, thousands of properties destroyed,
damaged houses, businesses, and they're just really starting to count.

Speaker 15 (18:16):
The Sunset Fire, fueled by this week's historic wind eveded
Los Angeles at nighting in the hills just north of
Hollywood Boulevard, and another fire springing up in nearby Studio City.
This as the Palisades Fire grows to over seventeen thousand acres,
becoming the most destructive wildfire in LA history. At least
a thousand structures burned in the Palisades and in Malibu.

(18:38):
Number expected to grow significantly.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
And it's going to continue to grow because they don't
have it under control. Hopefully by today they will, but
we'll find out. And some of you are like mad
because you're like you're politicized. I'm not politicizing. I'm just
being honest with you, and some of you going well done,

(19:04):
way to be honest. And then of course you got
the usual. You don't believe in climate change, you're an idiot.
Well see an en didn't take long to jump into
their climate change world.

Speaker 16 (19:17):
Joining us now is climate scientist Michael E.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
Mann.

Speaker 16 (19:20):
He is the director of the Pen Center for Science,
Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. He's
also the author of Our Fragile Moment, How Lessons from
Earth's Past can help Us Survive the climate crisis, And Michael,
how does climate change contribute to this perfect fire story?

Speaker 17 (19:38):
Santa Ana wins, that immediate factor and the underlying dry
conditions that are definitely related to a trend of drier
conditions in California, the Western US, caused by human caused
warming due primarily to the burning of fossil fuels.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Okay, that's what it is, kids, fossil fuels, it's all
of those. It's climate change. It's climate change. It's all
fossil fuel's fault. Climate change. It's getting hotter. When I
was a kid, we never had said, oh, we had
sant Ana wins and we had heat. We did so talk.

Speaker 16 (20:15):
You know, this has become a bit of a political issue.
I wonder if you can explain or kind of fact
check for us, because we're hearing from President elect Tromp,
who is blaming Governor Gavin Newsom and saying that this
is about water policy to protect threatened species, and really
that is the culprit for what we're seeing. Is that

(20:37):
part to blame here?

Speaker 17 (20:38):
No, it's really unfortunate to see, you know, the president
elect engaging in what can only be characterized as disinformation
and politically moted disinformation. We know what's going on here.
This is part of a larger trend.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh tell me more, tell me like it's disinformation, it's life.
So wait, they don't go out of the way when
it comes to the water. They didn't celebrate getting rid
of reservoirs and stopping them for some for a Native
American tribe. They didn't do those things. They didn't take

(21:14):
money not fix the hydrants. They didn't decide to stop
essentially cleaning up areas of forestry that should have been
cleaned up. They haven't done any of that. Okay, I'm
just I just want to make sure.

Speaker 17 (21:35):
Hotter, drier conditions due to the warming of the planet.
And that's the reason that we have seen the most destructive,
fastest spreading, the most deadly wildfires in California history. The
fact that we're seeing wildfires like this in the middle
of winter during what is supposed to be the dry
season is testament to the fact that there's a new ingredient.

(21:55):
There's a new meteorological ingredient here, and that's climate change.
And what the President elect appears to be trying to
do is to deflect attention away from the fact that
his incoming administration, his priority is going to be essentially
dismantle all climate and clean energy programs in the United
States that are our effort to actually deal with the

(22:16):
underlying problem.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay, so it's climate change. Now, remember he makes his
living because of climate change. So do you think maybe
it could be biased. Do you think if somebody came
to him tomorrow that was not for climate change, that says, hey,

(22:43):
this is all natural. These things have happened before. Hey
look at these things. Hey we're gonna pay you more money,
come work for us. Do you think maybe he changes too, Chad,
It's been like this forever. Climate change is real.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
Now.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
When I was a kid growing up, we had fear
of nuclear war that was huge, right, the Cold War,
and then there was the Coming Ice Age. Wait what Yeah,

(23:18):
the Coming Ice Age because you see there was going
to be a coming ice age when I was younger,
they were talking about global warming or the dry conditions.
Everything was going to look like buffalo.

Speaker 8 (23:33):
I think we'd have to think about moving from place house.

Speaker 18 (23:36):
Move where the brutal buffalo winter might become common. All
over the United States, climate experts believe the next ice
age is on its way. According to recent evidence, could
come sooner than anyone could expected, and weather stations in
the far North temperatures have been dropping for thirty years.

(24:00):
Sequels glory of summer ice are now blocked year round.
According to some climatologists, within a lifetime, we'd be living.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
In the next ice here.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Hold on a second, who am I supposed to believe?
Leonard Nimoy Spock in Search of Time magazine, had it
now I was supposed to believe. I don't know who
to believe. I don't know either. Your gas is as
good as mine yet.

Speaker 19 (24:31):
I mean, I'm sitting here and I'm hearing the climate
guy on seeing ed going. You guys don't even understand
because you're stupid and uneducated.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
It's climate change, it's drier weather. It's the Santa Anna wins,
which we've never had except always and by the way,
we didn't name the Santa Ana wins us crackers, right,

(25:05):
that was long before the arrival the Oblo, the Devil Wind.
So I just I don't know. I mean, I want
to like, you're there and you're like, I'm a professor
of media and sustainability and that means climate change. It
has to happen because that's how I keep my job

(25:27):
and get my grants and get my stuff published. But
then there's Leonard Nimoy and you know, he spuck and
he's like, you know, it's only logical. So I'm thinking,
I'm thinking one of you isn't telling me the truth
because one of you makes your money off climate change.

(25:51):
And I've said this, the climate changes always has and
there's eight billion of us. Of course we're gonna have
some effect on it. But is it negligible or is
it so big that the Earth is falling apart? No, No,
that's not true. It's minu and we need to take

(26:14):
better care of our planet. You don't crap where you eat.
But this fire was made far, far, far, far far
more worse because of poor governance, because the failure of
people like Karen Bass the mayor, and Gavin Newsom to

(26:39):
be forward thinking and making sure that everything was fitted
the way it was supposed to when it came to
the fire hydrants, the retrofitting of all of the stuff
when it comes to the water that gets to the
fire hydrants. Essentially the infrastructure and the infrastructure shouldn't be

(27:01):
based on feelings or the color of the skin or
who you love. It should be based on, Hey, there's
a good chance we're gonna have a fire here and
it could be big, So maybe we should be putting
things in place that can combat that immediately if a
situation like that so arises. But alas here we are

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in California. The winter weather is hitting the rest of

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the country. We'll talk about that a bunch of other stuff.
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Speaker 22 (29:02):
So Interstate forty, Interstate twenty, those are the areas you're
going to need to watch. We time it out here.
So Thursday into Friday, protects Our Cannon with kind of
that mix of freezing rain, sleet and then snow. Is
on the northern side of it. Dallas is going to
be ugly going into the drive Thursday afternoon, and Memphis
picking up the heavier snow south of Nashville. Heavy snow Huntsville, Alabama,
northern Mississippi, and yeah, snow over Atlanta there.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I was talking to Anthony early in the wee hours
of the mornings put the show together, and he's like,
we're supposed to get snow later. I'm like, we should
probably bundle up and stay in there. Snowmageddon. It's kind
of what it is that's going to come to some areas,
no matter. In Nashville, we're gonna get snow tomorrow. Oh
my god. My kids are thrilled by the way. They're like, Dad,

(29:46):
is a real snow? I said, it's real snow. Some
flurries a couple of weeks ago, you know, get some
here and there so far. But they're pretty excited because
we're supposed to get about you know, four or five
six inches. Then it's supposed to be enough to go,
you know, snowball fights and stuff like that. And then
last night doing a bunch of stuff for Mistation in Dallas,

(30:10):
and I'm telling you, guys, Snowmageddon. No, not really. But
the thing that I find interesting and I try to
explain this to people, if you don't live in a
place where you have snow, then when snow comes, not

(30:34):
only is it a big deal, it's a kick in
the grundle.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
It is.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, it's an absolute kick in the grundle. So
Ohio State in Texas playing tomorrow night in the Sugar
Bowl at and T Stadium, Jarre's house by the way.
Side note, I was talking about this yesterday. I'm a
Nashville show. I do a lot of shows, and we're

(31:01):
talking about how acting's pretty easy, and how rock stars
will go do acting and they're fine. Athletes go into
acting and they're fine. But rarely you don't see too
many people who are actors that become musicians that are

(31:22):
really successful. You don't, I mean not not really. And
you never see anybody goes and is an actor and
then decides to play pro sports. You see the opposite
or was it fest Parker didn't he play? You know,
Chuck Connors. There's a long list of athletes who went

(31:46):
on to become big actors. Jerry Jones, who owns the Cowboys,
was in Landman the other day. Here's a guy who's
what eighty five years old owns the Cowboys, and he
was great. It's just that was my side now to
at and T Stadium. But the people who are from Ohio,
because the game's going on tomorrow night, they're looking at

(32:08):
people in Texas. Come, what the hell's wrong with you?

Speaker 18 (32:10):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's like, you know, four or five inches of snow.
It's not about how much snow there is. It's about
the fact that the roads aren't prepared in the way
that they are in a place like Ohio or Buffalo.
That's why when you know, when in Phoenix and the
rains come, well, if you don't have rain for eight
months and then you get some rain, everything floods, but

(32:32):
the ground turns to oil slicks. So it's also that
part of it which people don't quite understand. People are
freaking out. Panic buying. We're going to talk about that
because there's some panic buying going on, for sure, not
in southern California. Not going on in southern California. People

(32:54):
are frustrated they're angry. This could have been seen for
a billion miles away, and many people called it. Joe
Rogan talked about it a couple times. One time pretty
damn specific those dude.

Speaker 23 (33:10):
One day he goes, it's just going to be the
right wind and fire is gonna start in the right place,
and it's going to burn through La all the way
to the ocean, and it's not something we can do
about it. I go, really, He goes, yeah, we're just
we just get lucky. He goes, we get lucky with
the wind. The wind hits the wrong way. It's just
going to burn straight through La and there's not going
to be a thing we can do about it. Because

(33:31):
these fires are so big, dude, when you're talking about
like thousands of acres that are burning simultaneously with like
forty mile an hour winds, and the wind's just blowing
embers through the air, and those embers are landing on roofs,
and those houses are going up, and they're landing on bushes,
and those bushes are going up, and everything's dry, and
once it happens, it happens in a way where it's

(33:51):
so spread out that there's nothing they can do there's
nothing to do, nothing, nothing that can do.

Speaker 8 (33:57):
You just got to get out of there.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Nothing who can do. And you've got the Santa Annas.
And this is one of those things we always talk
about nature messing up. Well, nature is going to decide
when this thing is going to be done, either it
runs out of steam and fuel or nature being the
Santa Ana Wins, decide we've had enough. We're not going

(34:19):
to blow the way we used to. You guys will well,
you guys will be able to figure it out from here.

Speaker 16 (34:23):
You've got those Santa Ana wins.

Speaker 22 (34:24):
Yes, we get those from that four corners high, a
surface low. You squeeze those together in a very strong
pressure gradient. But this one was different because we had
an upper level low pressure system supercharging those winds dropping
to the ground. So tonight we'll see those winds relax
a bit tomorrow morning, that's the low point. Then they
kind of go back up with a little something coming overhead.
Red flag warnings, critical fire danger through the end.

Speaker 8 (34:46):
Of the week.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
So it's uh, I mean, just prayer. At this point
in time, you're watching people put out trying to put
out fires with their garden hoses, doing everything they can
and you know, we are getting a first hand account
of everything that is going on, like really never before

(35:10):
because of the vast amount of people who are filming
their experiences. And some people are idiots because there are
some people that are like staying behind so they get
that perfect selfie, so we know how you died. Three two, three, five,
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(35:31):
It's your Twitter, your Instagram, all the other things right
here on The Chad Benson Show. Coming up second hour,
More on the fires. Who's to blame? Because there's plenty
to blame, And I'm not talking about how it started.
I'm talking about why are they so underfunded? Why is

(35:53):
there no water? Why did nobody heed the warning? Those
are all real questions that have nothing to do with
the actual fire itself, because as we know, nature will
do what nature does, but you should be able to
at least try to put up a fight, and for
many of these fire departments, they stood no chance. That's

(36:16):
a government thing. Talk about that bunch of other stuff.
You can see the show Shame, read the podcast Chat,
Beans and Shoe.

Speaker 10 (36:22):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
The Chad Benson Show devastating, apocalyptic, an effing disaster that
was somewhat preventable. You weren't going to prevent it all
because we know, guys, nature messes you up. Nature does
what nature does, and you're going to end up losing something.

(37:16):
But a loss this size, I mean we talk about like, well,
you know x amount of people have to evacuate when
it comes to a thing like you know, millions of
people for a hurricane or some of these things. Okay, yeah,
that's big, but ninety nine percent of the homes are

(37:37):
going to be Okay, it's the cost. Remember we're always
talking about the cost. This the cost is this is
changing the landscape of southern California. And I don't just
mean because of backyards. I mean the way that people
are going to live. Who's going to live there. Many

(37:58):
of these people have lost everything and they're never going
to get it back. And I'm not just talking about
their mementoes and their memories and their pictures. I mean
their life is changed. Some of them do not have
insurance because they've owned their house for forty years, it's
been paid off and they got dropped and then it
became two damn expensive. And some of the people that

(38:21):
do have insurance, Well, you're gonna find out that that
house that you bought for one point one million. To
get that house again, it's gonna cost you four point
five million, and they're not giving you four point five
million to make your whole.

Speaker 24 (38:36):
As the smoke cleared, the Palisades village looking at more
like a war zone than a popular shopping area, Skeletal
remains of the businesses unrecognizable. Some homes were spared, but
the inbers that were blown by the powerful Santa Ana
winds would burn homes just next door.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
That's all it takes. Yesterday, at one point the fire
was burning at five football lengths a minute. So think
about that. How fast that is.

Speaker 24 (39:09):
The Palisades fire scorching everything in its path, disintegrating homes
and vehicles. Residents like Curtis losing everything.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
It's just pretty devastating.

Speaker 24 (39:18):
Sixty five year old Randy Stokel says his neighborhood has
been turned upside down.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
It's a tough, tough day today, and.

Speaker 24 (39:25):
The fire sweat through the Alta Dina neighborhood of Lisa,
Marie Burnside and Stuart Brawley, leaving it unrecognizable.

Speaker 10 (39:32):
It's really hard to process what a town that's been
destinated by fire looks like.

Speaker 24 (39:37):
Shelters packed with evacuees. So many residents don't know if
their home is still standing.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
So as we currently stand, one hundred and thirty thousand
have been evacuated, with another one hundred thousand given orders
to be prepared to evacuate. There is six fires and
none of them are close to being put out. So devastating.
And when you hear people talk, this is James Woods

(40:06):
yesterday on with CNN. And if you guys know anything
about James Woods, he's a rity supports Trump in Hollywood
and CNN, as we all know, not really a fan
of the president and most conservatives outside of lonely Scott.
But as he was discussing in his hotel room, which

(40:27):
is where he lives now because his house is gone,
that his wife was on the phone with her niece
and it's heartbreaking.

Speaker 25 (40:35):
Sarah was on with her eight year old niece last night.
She came out, I'm sorry, one day you're swimming at
the pool and the next day it's all gone. But
she came out with her little piggy bank for us
to rebuild our house.

Speaker 26 (40:50):
Oh my gosh, James Woods. We all hope that you
will be able to rebuild your house, maybe starting with
that little Yetnie piggy bank. We're just that you're okay, yeah, no,
I mean this is real and it's raw.

Speaker 27 (41:04):
You don't you know what.

Speaker 26 (41:07):
It's strength is not measured by whether you know you
hold in crying or not. You have so much strength,
and we appreciate you coming on to reflect what so
many others just like you are experiencing in that raw
emotion right now.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
And there is raw emotion from a lot of people.
One of them doesn't seem to be the mayor of
Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who was in Ghana, and I
want to point this out to everybody. I say this,
and I'll say it again. She went to Ghana. She
went there for something and it was Mary Oral whatever
and to I know, there was a reception, some sort
of thing like that, but you know they do that.

(41:44):
And then the fires came, and then she was should
I go shouldn't I come back? So she gets off
the plane and you would think that once she gets
off the airplane, your city is burning. That once you
get off the airplane that you would expect there may
be media there, you would expect that. The look on

(42:09):
her face as if she had never seen a human
being before. I don't even know what you creatures are.

Speaker 28 (42:14):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
department budget by millions of dollars?

Speaker 19 (42:22):
Madam Mayer?

Speaker 28 (42:25):
Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing
to say to the citizens today? Alon Mosk says that
you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor?
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
You're dealing with this disaster, No apology for them.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Just goes on and on a bunch of people, ask
your questions. Nothing. Finally she gave a she gave a
little speech, took a few questions. You know, stand there
next to the governor in the whole nine yards of
the podium.

Speaker 29 (43:12):
I spoke with President Biden today and Governor Newsom earlier today,
and they assured me of full federal and state support
to those who fled their homes, especially those who have
lost your homes.

Speaker 27 (43:25):
Our hearts are breaking for you, and we.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
Stand with you.

Speaker 29 (43:29):
I know the world is looking at images of our
city's devastation. I have seen the front lines of the
Palisades fire and it is staggering.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
She wasn't finished there. I want you to listen to this.
She's going to tell you how to get help.

Speaker 27 (43:44):
Build stronger than ever right now.

Speaker 29 (43:47):
If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.

Speaker 27 (43:53):
All of this can be found at URL.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
What where was that AGAINL I went to RL I
couldn't find anything. How did the citizens feel? His assistance?
Is not happy?

Speaker 30 (44:07):
Karen Bass needs to resign now gets off the plane.
At noon, A Sky News reporter confronts her, and what
does she do?

Speaker 10 (44:15):
Nothing?

Speaker 30 (44:16):
She stands there in silence, looks straight ahead.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Do you know why?

Speaker 30 (44:19):
Because our California politicians believe that they don't have to
answer our questions. That's how they've been living in this ecosystem.
Thank you to the Sikaphans at La Times and Sacramento
B and everywhere else that has never asked a hard
question or never requested a follow up to an idiot
answer from any of our politicians ever, and now we're

(44:42):
all paying the price for it. I frankly think you
people are complicit in this mess. You don't hold our
politicians accountable and it's literally your job.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Wow are you done?

Speaker 31 (44:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
You got more?

Speaker 30 (44:53):
Karen Bass needs to resign now, and Brankley, every member
of the Los Angeles Time Board needs to resign too.
You're killing us with your incompetencyat all. The Progressive California
media needs to take one million seats.

Speaker 27 (45:11):
You've betrayed us.

Speaker 30 (45:12):
You're a prosthetic and you're the reason Karen Bass thinks
she can stand there and not answer her own constituents
as to why she has been a wall while her
city burns to the ground. Karen Bass needs to resign now.

Speaker 8 (45:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, she's useless. She is, She's useless. She's a big
part of this. Cut the budget by seventeen million. On
top of that, the budget for the fire department, I
think is like eight hundred and thirty million, but the
budget for the homeless is one point three billion, and
they start a lot of fires. Adam Carolla, how are

(45:51):
you feeling all.

Speaker 32 (45:52):
The people in the palace, says I checked it out.
It's about eighty percent Blue, eighty percent Progressive, eighty percent Democrat.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Now, these these.

Speaker 32 (46:00):
Are all sitting around crying about Karen Bass.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Water pressure.

Speaker 32 (46:05):
How come the forest wasn't cleared of all the brush.
What's happening with the infrastructure? You guys all voted for
Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, who all voted
for Gavenusom and now you get what you get?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
A men, it's a theme around here if you're new
to the program, and that theme is simply this that
in facts will work for some people, but a lot
of people are more interested in information, not affirmation. It
isn't until something affects you personally that you take stock

(46:40):
in what's happening and maybe look at something differently.

Speaker 32 (46:44):
Oh, now that your house is on fire, Now you
want to know what's going on, what's going on around here?
You didn't give a about what was going on when
other people's houses were on fire, but now you cast
So here's what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
All these people who were deep blue.

Speaker 32 (46:59):
Democrats now gonna have to pull a permit to rebuild.
They're gonna get the twenty eight year old from the
Coastal Commission telling them to go fuck off, and then
they're gonna vote for Trump or whoever's Trump being next.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
You see, they're gonna get turned.

Speaker 32 (47:14):
They're gonna get turned hard, but go deal with this city,
try to pull a permit.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Oh so true. Once it affects you see people who
are much more pro build a wall and let's have
a strong immigration policy. After getting tens of thousands and
hundreds of thousands of people bust and sent to their cities,
their mind changes rather quickly. Same thing here three two, three, five,

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Speaker 10 (49:47):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 11 (49:54):
Today, Carter's casket arrives at the Washington National Cathedral for
a national funeral service that includes the US Marine Orchestra,
the Armed Forces Chorus, and generations of dignitaries task with
putting Carter's legacy into words. The former president this afternoon
travels home to Plains, Georgia one last time.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
They're laying him to rest after flying him to DC
so they can fly back to Georgia again. I find
it weird. I do. I find it bizarre. I don't.
I don't get it. I don't know, I don't know.
Not everybody was happy, though.

Speaker 33 (50:33):
Capitol police say the man trying to enter the building
through the Capital Visitors Center, where Americans have been lining
up to pay their respects to the late President Carter.
Police say in his bag the man had a machete
and three knives. He's been charged with multiple counts of
carrying a dangerous weapon.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Is it insurrection or is it just? What was it?

Speaker 27 (50:52):
Chad?

Speaker 25 (50:54):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (50:55):
There are people waiting in line again. I find it weird.

Speaker 8 (50:58):
President Carter was the first person I ever voted for.
First time I was able to vote.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Just so impressed with him, the way he carried himself
and how we served our country. I fascinated. Like my
interview would be why are you here? Well, because now
why did you come from wherever you came from? To
walk into the rotunda to walk by a box? That's

(51:30):
that to me is fascinating trying to be me and
just kind of being honest there.

Speaker 34 (51:36):
I think his legacy is really his time after his
presidency that he shows that like he obviously like reached
the highest office in the land, but then went on
to still like fight for causes he believed.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
In, like getting rid of that guinea worm. That was
a big thing for him. In this worm. It affects
a lot of people and it's awful. It doesn't kill you,
but you're gonna wish you were dead. And then he
built a lot of houses for you know, habitat for
humanity was it was a great thing. So but it

(52:11):
is you know, they're laying him to rest today, and
I'm fascinated by the three two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show, to
your Twitter, your Instagram, everything else right here on the
Chad Benson Show. It's funny because I was talking to
my buddy the other day and said, well, you know this
is about this isn't about the person that's died. This

(52:34):
is about the others, and I'm like, who are the others?
Like his family, I mean, his wife's past. Meanwhile, as
California burns down, it's it's terrifying to watch what nature

(52:55):
can do. But to see places that you once went
to and had fun and hung out with this kid
is completely gone. And I don't know how much of
the fire they have contained because the weather, as we
all know, will be the biggest factor. You know, we

(53:16):
talk about nature messing you up, Well, nature will mess
you up. But having no firefighters to fight the fire
is also an issue.

Speaker 35 (53:24):
We are asking for help. This is significantly trying. We
do want more firefighters.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
And why don't they have more firefighters? Well, they've got
it funding over the last I don't know, several years,
and they just don't have enough.

Speaker 35 (53:42):
We want to do the absolute best we can for
those we serve, and you got a ton of firefighters
with a ton of horror, and we want to be
able to serve the community the best of our ability.
So we do want to be fully funded.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Well good luck with that. God only knows what California
lay in particular doing with the money. Three two, three,
five three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benton Show, Sure, Twitter,
your Instagram, all of the other things we're panic buying.
Talk a bit about that because of the cold weather,
a bunch of other things. Get to it.

Speaker 13 (54:15):
It's a chat Benson Joe, then Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 10 (54:38):
The Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Paracue panic, panic, panic, panic, panic, panic, panic, panic, panic, panic.
Why do we panic? It's a good question. Psychology behind
it all. Why, lots of reasons. But if you don't
believe me, we can always ask a doctor is doctor

(55:03):
James Roberts. He is a consumer behavioral specialist the Good
Doctors from Baylor University, and he understands the panic.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
I think it's a common response to you know, to
the anxiety that's related to bad weather. So I don't
think it's anything that we can consider to be not
illogical or not logical. But I think we have to
be a little bit more measured in our response. But
it's a common social psychological response to perceive threat. Right,

(55:39):
bad weather is a threat. We could run on a food,
we could you know, we could be stuck in our homes.
And so no, I don't think it's uncommon to be
afraid of bad weather and maybe the possible food shortages
that are associated with it. But I think it's also
common that oftentimes we overestimate the threat and that kind
of leads to paddic by what.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah, so as California burns, which sucks the deep freeze
throughout the southeast and the East coast, is the Arctic
bomb blast whatever it's called, rolls on in and what
ends up happening. People are like, Oh, here comes something,

(56:19):
so I better go and do something and purchase everything
I can because for whatever reason, in the COVID era,
we thought something that was a viral chest infection upper respiratory,
it's gonna make us have diarrhea, so we bought all
the toilet paper we could ever have. But they have

(56:40):
a name for this, and it was very interesting because
as it putting the show together, texting with Anthony today
because they've got snow coming into hot Atlanta which today
is gonna be cold Lanta, he says to me, everyone
is making French toast.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Yeah, I love it. You know again, it's called the
French toast the syndrome. Again, I'm not much of a cook,
but that means that when we do have these types
of panic buying. Often people go and turn to the
staples of bread, eggs, and milk, so they call it
the French toast cinderme. I think that's a great way
to put a funny spin on this whole idea of
panic buying.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
It's interesting, right, because there's a psychology to it. It's
the am I going to have enough better to have
and not need than need and not have. Well, that's
great when we're talking about guns. But you went the
Costco and we're going to have a storm that's going
to last a day and a half. We're probably not

(57:41):
going to lose any power. We could still go places,
but the roads are icy, so we need to be careful.
I don't know if you need to go to Costco
and buy twelve pounds of mayonnaise, But.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
I think the most important thing is to remember that
everyone else is going through the same kind of problem
that you are, and for you to run in and
go fill up on and take all the mill or
all the eggs and things like that just leaves other
people without. And I think our heightened panic bind, or
our panic bind has been heightened by the recent COVID. Right,

(58:09):
we all remember about the toilet paper shortages.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
We do remember about that. My god, it's I mean,
we like seeing some people in the Southeast like panic
over are they going to have enough food? And they're
like looking across the street at their neighbor like it's
the movie Alive, Like they're playing just Crashed and you know,

(58:34):
the andes and they're like, I might have to eat gym.

Speaker 8 (58:37):
It's like or.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
You could have toast. I mean it joyce is yours,
but maybe not. It's psychological.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Why do we react with panic buine when we're threatened?
You know again, shopping is a way to reduce anxiety.
We actually call it in research, we call it something
called mortality our own you know, life and death exist,
but mortality salients the idea. When we're threatened, we find
comfort in things that we can buy, you know, like

(59:07):
in war times and times really you know, could be COVID.
Certainly a lot of compulsive shopping because of those you know,
massing things make us feel better. It kind of helps
us to reduce, maybe even help us distract us from
the anxiety we're feeling about you know, COVID, or about
the impending storm.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
The impending storm very interesting, indeed, three two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show, is your Twitter?
Tweet at us text the program. Meanwhile, it's California burns
and they cut budgets and do all those kinds of things. Well,
let's make sure that we've got the right color, make

(59:46):
and model of the people we need to serve. Everybody.
Here's the LA Fire Department. Chief diversity, that's what makes
us a mess.

Speaker 27 (01:00:02):
I'm super inspired.

Speaker 36 (01:00:05):
She took time out of her already busy schedule to
tell us about her vision for the department's future, one
that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

Speaker 37 (01:00:14):
People ask me, well, what number are you looking for us?
So I'm not looking for a number. It's never enough.

Speaker 36 (01:00:18):
Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, only one hundred
and fifteen are women. Right now, She's already looking at
ways to change that. She's quick to point out that
doing so has a greater purpose attracting the best and
brightest for the job.

Speaker 37 (01:00:32):
They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part
of a cohesive team.

Speaker 36 (01:00:36):
But Chief also checks another box when it comes to
inclusivity and diversity and this department, she's a proud member
of the LGBTQ community.

Speaker 37 (01:00:45):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, oh,
I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me. H, well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
It's good, that's fantastic. That's really is that helping. Has
that helped anybody? No, you know, when we don't wantsy
when lives depend on it, we just want the best.
If there's issues with the plane, do you care if

(01:01:14):
your pilot is black or white, a man or woman,
gay or straight? What do you really care about? Are
they the best? Are they going to help us land?
When you're going in for brain surgery, you don't go, hey, hey, hey,
my surgeon is part of a group of people who've

(01:01:35):
been marginalized. Am I correct? I just want to make
sure that that that you've checked that box. I mean
they even said it in the in the in the
spot there she checks the box. No, I want the
best now for her part, that's part of the job nowadays.

(01:01:56):
And she the reason there's only one hundred women because
you actually have to pass it when it comes to
saving lives, when it comes to doing certain things. It's
funny how everybody's like, we really like diversity. Is this person,
the best person. I just want to make sure. Yeah,
but the best person's a white guy. Well, I don't care.

(01:02:18):
It's my brain. I want to make sure that whoever
the best is is doing the job. Oh cheah, that's
not very nice, Adam Carolla talking about his once long
ago chance to join the fire department, or so he thought.

Speaker 32 (01:02:37):
I graduated North hollywod High with a one point seven GPA.
I could not find a job. I walked to a
fire station in North Hollywood. I was nineteen. I was
living in the garage of my family home. My mom
was on welfare and food stamps. And I said, can
I get a job as a fireman? And they said no,
because you're not black, Hispanic or a woman.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
We'll see in about seven years. And I went to
construction site in.

Speaker 32 (01:03:01):
Dug Ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Wow, waiting for the call. I guess so he was
none of those things. So seven year passes kind of what.

Speaker 32 (01:03:14):
I got a letter in the mail sent to my
father's house saying, your time has come to do the
written exam for the LA Fire Department. I took it
and I was standing in line, and I had a
young woman of color standing behind me line and I said,
just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to
become a fire man? Because I did it or a
person seven years ago, and she said Wednesday, that is

(01:03:36):
an example of my white privilege.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yeah. Now, even if you checked a lot of the boxes.
Back in the day, when I was growing up, being
a fireman in southern California or northern California was hard
af to get the gig. You had to essentially be

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born into it, lots of legacy, or know several people
that you were very close with. There were times when
they would, you know, have like not a job fair,
but they'd have a few openings for the fire department
in an Orange county and it would be on the

(01:04:22):
news and you get like, there is six thousand applicants
for four jobs. I mean, it was one of those things. Well,
now they don't have enough, is it because it's not
diverse enough. Well, they cut their budget. People aren't interested
in working as both sheriff, police constables, fire paramedics. It's

(01:04:49):
not good. But as long as diversity is up, that's
all that matters. You really mean that, I don't care.
I don't care if the best surgeon is a trans
woman who is the greatest surgeon with the hands are
immaculately they can do. I don't care. I want the best,

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and the best happens to be a white guy. So
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Speaker 38 (01:06:28):
Show, Deep States, No Deep Doo doo E, The Chad
Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Cees is going on Consumer Electronics Show. A lot of
cool things out there in the world of electronics. I
was checking some stuff out the new home Soft Serve
ice cream maker. Oh incredible. They've got these new dishwashers

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that are perfect for apartments. Maybe it's just you and
your wife or you by yourself, whatever it is, And
it holds like ten fifteen dishes. It's just so tiny
and super efficient, which is always nice. And your dishes
are washed in like ten fifteen minutes. That's cool. And
of course TVs zach trends.

Speaker 39 (01:07:24):
Remember that scene in Poltergeist where the hand comes out
of the TV that's kind of the idea behind a
new Samsung display that the company is showing off at
CEES this week.

Speaker 40 (01:07:37):
Imagine a shark is swimming at you in an aquarium,
and as it hits what should be the fourth wall
the screen, it actually bulges out of the screen, giving
it sort of a three D effect.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
I don't know if i'd use the word bulge, but
you know what you're going with it, so or okay.

Speaker 39 (01:07:54):
Caleb Dennison is the editor at large of Digital Trends.
He says the display may sound like movie magic, but
the tech has practical applications. For example, vehicle infotainment.

Speaker 40 (01:08:05):
Often you need to reach for the touchscreen display to
change the volume or the radio channel or what have you,
but you don't really know where your hand is on
that screen. This could actually provide tactile feedback so that
you knew that you were pressing in the right area.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
That's kind of a trip. Soon they're just gonna come
right off the screen. It's not even gonna be three D.
It's gonna be four D. Remember the movie Jaws, Remember
the guy got bit. Well that's gonna happen to you. Well,
that's how good it is now it wouldn't be CS
or technology if we didn't talk about the elephant in
the room. And I'm not actually talking about an elephant.

(01:08:46):
I'm talking about the fact that all these nerds rarely
get dates, and so they've decided to make companions. No,
not those kind.

Speaker 31 (01:08:55):
But maybe this is arioch So this is our flagship Cuminoid,
aipowered robot. She's highly realistic act she has her own
social media, so she might be competing with you one day.
What makes her really special is that she can talk
to and asked question. So maybe we can have her
introduce herself and say something.

Speaker 30 (01:09:10):
Hello, I'm Maria, the flagshift female companion robot of robotics.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
What's the purpose of this.

Speaker 31 (01:09:16):
Some of our peers in the robotic space make robots
to replace human labor. We think that's a great area,
but we think there's a much bigger area in having
social robots. So, for example, at a convention like this,
we can draw a crowd very easily. Aria has been
a little bit of a rock star here with people
taking pictures and coming over, so she can promote your brand.
The AI is all customizable, so she can learn all
about you and your brand, and she can continue to

(01:09:36):
communicate to people. It's a huge eponemic amongst adolescents and
seniors on lonely moss. So she can be programmed to
know you and learn more about that, so she can
make that bond with you that feels like a genuine
and human connection.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
In the houses, we don't have the ability to.

Speaker 8 (01:09:50):
Clean the house.

Speaker 31 (01:09:50):
They don't do physical labor, but they're more there to
converse with you. It's companionship. They can actually even be
a boyfriend her girlfriend. So we have built that into
our AI as well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Yah, there we go right there to they can also
be a boyfriend and a girlfriend.

Speaker 31 (01:10:04):
They can actually even be a boyfriend or girlfriend, So
we have built that into our AI as well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
So she can be my girlfriend. Are they machine washable?

Speaker 41 (01:10:19):
I don't care. What can I have sex with her?
She had atomically correct, It's all they want to know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
That's it. Do you think? Yeah?

Speaker 41 (01:10:31):
Do you think she doesn't need like she's regular power?
How does that work? Some of these weirdos?

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Oh my, and she's like it's a it's a great
looking replica. I mean it's it's you know, looks beautiful.
And my whole thought process is good. God, the things
you're about to see. Yeah, you gotta go over to
your friend's house. She's like, dude, what have you done
to your nothing? Really? Because you got cheeto fingers all

(01:11:03):
over it. She loves me. I don't know if she does.
I must say. No, there's some cool stuff there that
isn't just the hot bot as I like to call
it hot bot. I you know that's it's so funny

(01:11:27):
because my uncle sent me, you know, pictures and stuff
of it today just and he's like, you know what
this thing is gonna go through. I'm like, I know
what it's gonna go through. And this guy's like, no,
it's it's great. You could be a companion. Oh yeah,
but can I have sex with it? No? But the
good news is it can help you if you're lonely.

(01:11:48):
But can I have sex with it? Because you know,
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you do that. On the Chad Benson Show coming up
third hour, more on the wildfires. There's now six of
them raging in southern California.

Speaker 42 (01:12:24):
To date, we have over one hundred thousand people under
mandatory evacuation. We've had five fatalities, and then we have
close to another one hundred thousand people who have been
warned to evacuate because they are on a danger.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Zone and it's going to get worse before it gets better.
So we're going to talk about that, the politics of
the fire, which you knew there's going to be politics
of the fire, and there should be in this case,
absolutely talk about that. Much of other stuff missing any show,
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Speaker 10 (01:13:01):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
The politics of tragedy and disaster can't escape politics, especially nowadays.
Does it matter when it happened. There is no letting
it get away. You used to let something kind of breathe,
let the people deal with it, let the tragedy be over.

(01:13:53):
But we don't work that way anymore. We don't. Trump
took more swipes yesterday, and I believe rightly so at Newsome,
but even more so it should have been directed at
the idiot that is the mayor.

Speaker 43 (01:14:08):
The governor has not done a good job. With that
being said, I got along well with him when he
was governor. We worked together very well, and we would
work together. I guess it looks like we're going to
be the one having to rebuild it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
He hasn't done a good job. And on top of
him not doing a good job, the mayor Karen Pass
who is as useless as they come, a career politician
who took away funding from the fire department. And here's
something you guys probably don't know, but about eight hundred

(01:14:40):
billion is what LA Fire gets. Okay, so eight hundred billion,
homeless gets about one point four one point three for
projects there, and the homeless population started about fourteen thousand
fires last year in and around LA in southern California.

(01:15:06):
Oh jeez, Gavin Newsome and yes, Anderson Cooper.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
I hate to even ask this question, but the president
electus to attack you, blame.

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
The you four days and one can't even respond to it.
People are literally clean, lost their lives, families completely torn asunder,
church has burned down. This guy wanted to politicize it.

Speaker 8 (01:15:29):
I have a lot of thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
And I know what I want to say, I won't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
I stood next to a president of the United States
of America today, and I was proud to be.

Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
With Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
You stood next to a feeble old man who at
the end goes and the good news is I'm a
great grandfather. You jacked the pooch here. You screwed up,
and you've done it over and over again. You've prioritize
closing revel reservoirs. You prioritized protecting a smell that I'm
not even sure anybody knows if exists anymore. You've prioritized

(01:16:01):
cutting off southern California and northern California when it comes
to water. You've prioritized a lot of different things. But
let's just get rid of those for a moment. Okay,
let's just put those over here. The biggest issue of
all of this, besides the fact that you don't do

(01:16:22):
any of the things that would help, as far as
making sure that the groundcover is completely clean, because we
don't do that. We don't clean this part of the
side of the mountains and canyons up because climate change,
all of that is take all that away. This is

(01:16:42):
the former LA Sheriff talking about the real issue here,
because the hydrants had no water. Okay, so they got
no water. So you're not going to fight a fire
with no water unless you're magic. Well, where did the
money get? What money checked? Well, there was money to

(01:17:04):
make sure that we collected water.

Speaker 8 (01:17:06):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:17:07):
Well, you got to recognize that there was a bond
measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure to capture water in reservoirs.
They have that available, so our hygrants would be basically
full of water and then times of need and only
a fraction of that money has been spent, has all

(01:17:28):
been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare. Then you had the
workforce itself. You have fire, LA County, LA City Fire.
Their numbers are depleted, LAPD, LA Sheriffs their numbers are depleted.
Where's the National Guard here? I mean there's a lot
of things, a lot of manpower that is missing. And
it all goes from twenty twenty four the whole defunding ovid's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Yeah, they took money away last year, Karen Bass took
money away. They stopped clearing brush and doing things again.
All in the name of woke progressive ideas of climate
change and all of that stuff. It's funny. They're like,
I can't believe they're politicizing this. It's climate change, Like

(01:18:11):
that's not politics, that's not You have people that are dead.
You have people that have lost everything. And by the way,
when I mean lost everything, they're never getting back. They're not.
There isn't a rebuild Pacific Palisades, that area that really

(01:18:32):
went up and you see a lot of the stars
and stuff there, Well, that was the number one insurance
drop when it comes to fire. So that was a
number one insurance drop when it comes to fire where
they said we're not going to ensure you, and they
were dropping people. Many of these people that live in

(01:18:53):
these places, they're not wealthy. They have property that they've
probably owned four or five six decades, and they don't
have insurance anymore. They've paid the house off, insurance was
too expensive or they got dropped, so they don't have
any So they're losing their house and the ones who do,

(01:19:15):
they won't have enough to rebuild unless you're wealthy. Everybody
thinks that everybody in California is a millionaire on paper
because of your house maybe, but I would say a
vast majority of people in California that have owned a
house for the last decade or two can't afford the
house they live in if they had to buy it today.

(01:19:39):
And now watching people knowing that their homes are gone,
that if they do have insurance, it's not going to
cover the cost of rebuilding. And it's sure in the
hell not going to cover the cost of rebuilding in California.

(01:20:00):
They're gonna go, Yeah, it's gonna be this, it's gonna
be that. They're gonna nickel and dime. You'd dragging on forever.
They've lost everything, and these are things that could have
been prevented and or at least mitigated the damage. Remember,

(01:20:20):
nature's gonna do what nature does. So if nature wants
to be nature, it's nature. It's gonna do that. The
Santa Ana wins all that stuff that it's going to
do that. But when you don't have water, when you
take people's money, when you take money from the people

(01:20:41):
through taxes, you give more to the homeless. When you
take people's money and say we're gonna do a bond,
we're gonna put all of this here, and we're gonna
go in and we're gonna retrofit, We're gonna fix all
this stuff up, we're gonna catch the rain water, we're
gonna do all this stuff. We're gonna make sure that
it's ready to roll in case of an emergence. And

(01:21:01):
then you don't spend that money and you tie it
all up in bureaucracy. That's a you problem.

Speaker 9 (01:21:07):
Oh, this is very very preventable because you call it
the fire department, both city and county fire part of
the whole first responder infrastructure that has been one of
the targets of politicians from twenty twenty four to take
money away from and deplete those resources. Suppose under this
grand scheme of we're going to reinvest it in the community, Well,

(01:21:28):
the community right now needs exactly what they don't have,
which is the staffing levels for fire and for first responders,
for law enforcement to be able to safely evacuate and
to be able to fight these fowers. I mean a
lot of it is going to be obviously, the nature
is having its way with us right now. But at
some point when humans can successfully contain the fire and

(01:21:52):
secure the area and all that stuff and care for
the evacuated, it's a humanitarian crisis that's going to unfold
right now.

Speaker 35 (01:22:00):
We're seeing it and.

Speaker 9 (01:22:00):
We don't have the resources we should have.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
And those are political decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
That happened years ago. So I had a friend's dad,
who's awesome guy, lost their house yesterday. A couple other
friends of mine have been evacuated. They one thinks their
house is gonna be okay. The other one doesn't know.
They've lost everything. They've lost everything. If it goes down,

(01:22:28):
it is. It boggles to mind and preventable again. Nature's
going to nature. Nature's gonna do what nature does, and
that includes the Santa Ana wins things that that stuff happens.
But you know this stuff is coming. You know there's
gonna be earthquakes and there's gonna be fires. You know
these things are going to happen. Why haven't you done
enough to prevent it. This isn't a shock. Now, Let's

(01:22:51):
juxtapose that for a moment against Texas deep freeze for
the next few days. And remember a few years ago
Ted went to Cancun, uh massive failure on the grid.
Roads were a nightmare. It was an absolute fact show.
Guess what they learned their.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
Lesson the current cold snap is a bitter reminder of
the deep freeze of twenty twenty one to one millions
of homes and businesses across Texas lost Electricity. Governor Greg
Abbott says that because of infrastructure hardening since then.

Speaker 7 (01:23:24):
If there is a loss of power, it's not going
to be because of the power grid, because of some
impact on a local power line.

Speaker 6 (01:23:32):
Like a down utility pool or a tree falling into wires.
Utility providers see, there's more than enough generating capacity to
meet this week's added demand.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
So while they get ready for snow, sleet, rain, all
of that stuff that is coming in the next twenty
four to forty eight hours, that's going to disrupt everything.
They learned their lesson, the difference between red and blue.
We learned our lesson. Let's make sure this is going

(01:24:02):
to go the right way this time. Let's put the
money where it needs to be. Let's put it in infrastructure.
Let's get it done. Not DEI programs. Not programs that
will benefit your friends who run homeless programs, who are
making a killing all the while the homeless population's growing.
Oh and by the way, if you're doing that, don't
show us any of your results. Because we don't care.

(01:24:23):
That's why this thing became political. And the thing I've
said for a long time, most people's politics will not
change no matter how many facts and figures and data
points you put in front of them. But what does
get people to change? Things that affect their life, and
I think this counts as one of those things that

(01:24:47):
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Speaker 10 (01:26:27):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Now it's time to find out what's trending? What's trending?

Speaker 44 (01:26:34):
Signed James Dean, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sera.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Jump the boon, what trupping? That's what I was trending
the webs of the inter in the net. You know,
long ago we would add to find out what was
trending by carrier pigeon. So there's that. What do you

(01:27:11):
think the number one trending thing is yes, fires, fires
and more fires start. Over in the magical world of Twitter, Newsom,
Gavin Gruesome, Newsom Studio City, State Farm like a good neighbor.
State Farm is broke Arson. Here's something that's not that

(01:27:36):
aw Dynamite, Beverly Hills, Bob Sagett, Why is he trending?
There's actually a movie coming out where I think it
was the last thing he did and they're just now
getting around to releasing it. David MUIRR trending Sodom and Gomorrah.

(01:27:57):
I think La is Sodom and Gomorrah. Maybe my wife
thinks it's that. Ain't no doubt about that. Over to Yahoo,
Pacific Palisades, Jimmycatta, Donald Trump, Rush, Ukraine War, Atlanta weathers
just speaking of Anthony earlier, Snow. I'm getting snow tomorrow

(01:28:18):
here in Nashville, American Prime Evil. So what it is?
Eval it's the new show Netflix Western looks pretty cool.
Cotton Bowl trending. And finally over to Google, number one
trending thing not even close, Hollywood Hills fire. So we

(01:28:40):
have four fires with the studio fire as well. Pacific Palisades.
What's left of it? Talked to her buddy Jim Kennedy
coming up here in a little bit about all these fires.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
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(01:29:08):
Winter storm Warning, wooding Warning, Smeltfish, Bonneroo also trending. That
is in the magical world of Google. So they announced
the lineup for Bonneroo. So bonn Aeroo is a big
concert festival thingy. So you've got Coachella, Lollapaloosa, those are big.

(01:29:35):
Coachella is the biggest Bonneroo. It's the music and arts festival.
Headlining Thursday night, Loop comes. I got a fast Car.
He did the fast Car, Well he didn't do it,
but he redid it. Then Friday you got Tyler the Creator,
John Summit and Glass Animals. Actually one of the only

(01:29:57):
things I'd like to do as far as seeing any
bands on this because there's people, and you guys know,
I don't do well with crowds because they just drive
me crazy. The Red clay Strays, if you've not seen them,
check them out. Saturday. Olivia Rodrigo, Avril Levigne, Nelly. I
Love me Some Nelly. And then on Sunday, Hozier Vampire

(01:30:18):
Weekend and Queens of the Stone Age light up for Baroo.
We need some good music camaraderie. What with the world
burning and everything? Three two, three, five, twenty four to
twenty three at Chad Benton Show, it's your Twitter coming up.
Jim Kennedy speaking of the world burning. He handles all

(01:30:40):
things politics for us when we get deep into stuff.
But he's a California guy and he does a lot
of stuff in California politics, and California politics is front
and center. We'll talk to him straight ahead. It is
the Chad Benson.

Speaker 13 (01:30:51):
Shown Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 10 (01:31:18):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Fires are our raging and we turned to our political ANIMs.
Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research, because he
is in the fire zone. Ish if you will in
southern California. You're always up to date on all things
California because the politics and top of national stuff. And Jim,
I asked you, I said, can you see the fire?
You can't. You can't see the smoke from where you.

Speaker 45 (01:31:42):
Are, correct, And there are four different fires that are
burning right now. And as you know, there was a
fire that started last night in the Hollywood Hills that is,
you know, still ongoing. But yeah, I've got friends that
are literally don't know if their house is burned down
or not, had to evacuate. But yeah, it's a around here. Luckily, Brian,
the air quality is okay and the only fire close

(01:32:04):
to me is burning away from me at this point,
So knock on wood, I'm doing okay. But it is
obviously what is pretty much an obsession right now to
feed what's going on, and it's just horrible seeing the
devastation in all these areas that are that are affected.

Speaker 8 (01:32:18):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Let's talk about the California politics because it plays a
lot into it. I was just telling you earlier, did
a bunch of stuff for you know, for for for
Texas and doing stuff for Dallas, and you know the
juxtaposed the two. You've got Abbott who's been out there.
They've got a big snowstorm coming through. They had the
Great Freeze Dead Cruise of course went to Gankun, the

(01:32:40):
big controversy there. They have got everything set up now
where they're fully ahead of the game. They learn from
their mistakes, They fixed a vast majority of their problems
and again nature where we'll do what nature does. California
once again has a fire problem, and this time they
didn't learn from their mistake. There's no water in areas

(01:33:02):
where there is the fire there is. They're undermanned that
everything that you would think, there's no way they would
do this and let us smelt dominate the conversation of fire.
They did. They're idiots.

Speaker 45 (01:33:17):
Yeah, no, it's it's pretty bad. I don't know what
the long term ratifications are going to be. I hope
people finally step up and understand how bad that the
state is being run, the city's being run, the county
is being run, and it's just an absolute disaster.

Speaker 8 (01:33:32):
And unfortunately people are paying.

Speaker 45 (01:33:34):
Thousands of people are paying for it with their homes
and unfortunately a few people paid for it with their
lives over the last couple of days. But yeah, the
water usage in California is a problem.

Speaker 8 (01:33:44):
Water sworage is a problem.

Speaker 45 (01:33:46):
There was an initiative pasted about ten twelve years ago,
five billion, seven billion to build more dams.

Speaker 8 (01:33:51):
Not a single dam has been built. In fact, Gavin.

Speaker 45 (01:33:54):
Newsom has very part of the fact that he's torn
down three dams in northern California because now the can
run freely as the way they did when the.

Speaker 8 (01:34:02):
Indians ran California.

Speaker 45 (01:34:04):
The Indians were rampant in California, and he's very proud
of that. So it's an absolute disaster in California. They've,
as you said, they've run out of water in Pacific Palisades,
they've drained them down because the infrastructure simply couldnot support this.
There were almost no air assets over in the Altadena
fire on Tuesday night. Nobody was hearing any helicopters, and

(01:34:28):
if you notice, there were no helicopters in the air
showing the fires, and that was because Joe Biden's in
town and there is what's called a TFR temporary flight restriction,
and helicopters could not go up.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
The firefighting ones could, but none.

Speaker 45 (01:34:40):
Of the news helicopters could go up to show anything
to let people know where the fire was. And those
are very very important for people that are watching the
news to see where the fire is moving. They can
talk you through it, and you've got assets on the ground,
but the helicopters in there are extremely important, and they
were not allowed to fly.

Speaker 8 (01:34:57):
They finally got into the air this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
So frustrating talking to Kennedy Kennedy into public policy research.
The politics of this we know about. You know, Trump's
already been out saying his stuff, but you know, this
is another one of those weird things where Trump was right.
Politics played a large part in a lot of these issues.
In California. You talked about you guys don't use the

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water correctly when it comes to more rural areas. You
don't clean the forest the way you should. By that
taking up all the dead debris as much as possible.
You've allowed social justice and trying to feel good to
save a smelt or help the natives you know, from
tribes that aren't even there anymore, feel better. They got
in their way. But on top of that, even when

(01:35:44):
they did do something I thought was right, which was
seven billion dollars bond for catching you know, water rain
water to turn it into it you, the bureaucracy stopped
it from happening.

Speaker 8 (01:35:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 45 (01:35:56):
Absolutely, I mean it's basically, you've got a fire chief
for La, for RelA city that is a DEI higher,
and basically she has been very vocal about making the
you know, making the La Fire Department more Dei friendly,
though she even she was able to call out the
mayor for cutting seventeen million in funding last year that would,
they said, would severely restrain them from training, new equipment

(01:36:19):
additions and basically quote unquote being prepared for disasters. And
clearly they were not prepared for a disaster. So it's
all of that. It's also you're getting lectured right now
from the TV weather people about why this is climate
change and if you haven't bought into climate change, well
you know, it's probably your own fault that your house
burned down because you should have bought into it. But Chad,
you lived in California. I have lived here for fifty years.

(01:36:40):
This happens all the time here. We get san Anas,
it gets windy, we get fires. We come with two
things in California. You're gonna have earthquakes, You're gonna have fires.
I don't know how many times I've seen Malibu burn
in fifty years here. I don't know how many times
I've seen, you know, various areas Hollywood Hills burn in
fifty It just happens when you get those certain you know,

(01:37:03):
weather events. It's set up with a low pressure over
the Great basin and a high pressure off the coast
and a low pressure in New Mexico or Texas, you
get sant Ana wins.

Speaker 8 (01:37:12):
It's not a climate change. It's happened for hundreds and
hundreds of years, and.

Speaker 45 (01:37:15):
It happens, and it's not because of climate change, and
you've got to be prepared for it. And unfortunately for
the people of southern California, we were not prepared for it,
and we are paying the price for it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Andsuit of Public Policy Research,
as we break down the fires and the insanity California.
You know Karen Bass who is the mayor. Everybody's mad
while she was in Ghana. I don't blame her for that.
You know mayor's governors, they take trips like that. She
got back today, but she was useless when she got back.
And I've said this for a long time because people say,

(01:37:47):
why do Democrats continue to do the same thing and
get stuff like this? And I say, for a lot
of people, Jim, in politics, when it comes to politics,
data facts mean very little. It is actually going through
something and having it affect you that changes people's minds.
This is you know, you understand explaining this to a

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lot of people. Imagine Dallas burning, Imagine New York City burning.
This isn't a rural area. This is one of the
most populous cities in America in the world, and it's
on fire.

Speaker 45 (01:38:25):
Yeah, and it's in high density housing. They're gonna be
I mean, it's going to be in the multiple thousands
of houses that are lost. In My friends the school
that his elementary are is elementary school his child went
to burned, and there's probably four or there may be
three or four other school elementaries that burn. What do
you do when half of the elementary schools in a
district have disappeared overnight because of a fire. I don't

(01:38:47):
know how you handle that and how you prepare you know,
how do you basically reassign all those students who are
still there and many of them are going to be
in transitory housing for years because there's thousands and thousands.

Speaker 8 (01:38:58):
Of houses that burned around on those schools.

Speaker 45 (01:39:00):
The problem with the Democrats in California is they never
bear any repercussion for any of their actions. They just
skate scott free because hey, they got a DTA next
to their name. You know what, We'll vote them in
and they'll fix that problem so it doesn't happen again.
We just didn't have enough Democrats. It's like San Francisco
has been going through this. Now they're find to begetting
to realize, you know what, maybe voting for Democrats isn't

(01:39:22):
the brightest thing. But what they've done is they're just
going from, well, we'll stop voting for progressive Democrats and
we'll just vote for regular Democrats. Well, that's not going
to fix your problem. You got to start voting for
people who aren't Democrats. And in LA it's the same way.
And I don't know how long it's going to be this.
I don't see how Karen Baskets gets re elected after
this disaster. There are a lot of mad people, and

(01:39:44):
these areas that burn were all very heavily voting Democrat.
They voted probably seventy five or eighty percent for Kamala
in the election. So you know, they're beginning to wonder
what am I voting for on the Democrats if they
are going to be there and provide all this great
infest structure on my house burns down.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Yeah, absolutely. Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy and who did
public policy research. Let's switch from there and then we'll
get you my Jimmy Carter question here in a minute. Uh,
let's talk about the insurance. This is already the biggest
disaster in California history. And by the way, as we're speaking,
some of you listening to this a little bit later,
maybe on a podcast, there is zero containment and if

(01:40:25):
fourth fire is broken out, it's already the biggest disaster
in California history dollars wise, Who the hell's ever going
to ensure there? Again, that's a.

Speaker 8 (01:40:36):
That's a great question. It was already.

Speaker 45 (01:40:38):
Fire insurance is already a huge problem after the fires
in the North in seventeen eighteen nineteen. And the thing
that for people to understand is when you're looking at
these houses that are burning, these are not two hundred
thousand houses, two hundred thousand.

Speaker 8 (01:40:52):
Dollars houses, not thousand dollars houses, no so big palisades.

Speaker 45 (01:40:58):
I don't think there's a house that's undred million dollars
in there. I don't you know, maybe there's a one
bedroom starter for eight hundred thousand, But you're talking one
point four million, one point six million, two million dollars
on average, and you're talking fifteen hundred houses.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
Actually, I'm going to give you this right now. The
average home price in Pacific Palisades medium home price Jim
four point five million dollars. Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:41:22):
Okay, it's even worse than I thought. Yeah, that's just crazy,
and it's just going to be.

Speaker 45 (01:41:26):
So you're talking right there, you're talking a five to
ten billion dollar loss for the for the insurance companies.
This is something unfortunates probably have to have federal help.
The Feder're gonna have to jump in and I'll subsidize this.
And if you remember far enough back after I think
it was a Northridge quake, they basically put together a
quasi governmental earthquake insurance program because the private insurance companies

(01:41:48):
could not undertake the risk of Northridge round up being
somewhere around a twelve to fifteen million dollar insurance loss,
and they just said, look, we can't do this. So
they put together a quasi public private consortium for selling
earthquake and shirts in California, and then it slowly slipped
back towards the private sector after a number of years,
and the reserves got built up, and then probably have
to do this with fire and shirts in California.

Speaker 8 (01:42:09):
That was all that was funny.

Speaker 45 (01:42:10):
That was the first thing my friend said when the
fired were starting was like, who's gonna be able to
get fire inshirts in California again?

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
And I well, if you're buying a new home, it's
virtually impossible. If you have your old home, you better
hang on to it. But Pacific Palisades, get ready for this.
The number one area in America for dropped fire coverage,
Pacific Palisades.

Speaker 45 (01:42:32):
Yeah, there was talk that there were some people that
were concerned, especially with people that are in their seventies
that had lived there their whole lot, They had lived
there for thirty forty years, that you know that got
that dream house and then been living in it for
forty years after their kids left. That they heard stories
about people that had been counting their fire insurants or
just not gonna be able to get it because it
cost so much and they paid off their mortgagees they
didn't have to have it. You have a mortgage, it's required,

(01:42:54):
but if you don't, you're at your own wrist. So
there's people that had two and a half million dollar
houses like you're talking about, that may not have had
insurance coverage on them because of this problem.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
And even if you're had insurance with California, they write
your check for a million bucks. Your house is worth
two point five million, and it's gonna cost you seven
million to build there again.

Speaker 45 (01:43:15):
Yeah, and it's going to be incredibly expensive to rebuild
because everybody's going to be rebuilt. He's gonna be like
the Oakland fires of I think it was eighty nine
or ninety or ninety two, where they had twenty five
hundred and three thousand houses and that took some of
those houses never rebuilt. Now took them ten years probably
to rebuild most of those houses.

Speaker 8 (01:43:34):
Lumber prices are going to explode. It's going to be
you know it.

Speaker 45 (01:43:37):
This is where you I mean, you know again, I'm
you know, as you know, I'm a conservative, but this
is where your federal government is supposed to kind of
jump in and help out. This is that size of
disaster where you need me not just FEMA for housing
and for supportive people, but basically for a way to
put this whole infrastructure back together and the insurance infrastructure
back together in this one because it's otherwise, there's no

(01:43:58):
other there's no way that it's going to work in
its current form.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
There you go. Love talking to your brother, Jim. You
stay away from the fires, Jim, because you also live
in an area where fires have been known to happen.
And then we will talk to you soon about more
pressing things like next week about Trump. And here we
are moving forward as we had to inauguration day. Be safe, brother,

(01:44:22):
and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 8 (01:44:23):
Thanks Chad.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Jim Kennedy right there, Kennedy Institute Public Policy Research. I
love talking to Jim, and it is it is nasty
and continues to get nastier out there, which is unfortunate
in normally we have Jim on when it comes to
all things politics. But being right there, oh my god,

(01:44:44):
I just feel for the people out there. And I
have tons of friends and family out there, and some
of them I talked to late last night that they
don't know. They're uncertain if they have anything left in
their home or if they have a home at all.
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Speaker 21 (01:46:24):
Welcome to cheste No, not the country, the Institution, the
Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 29 (01:46:33):
I spoke with President Biden today and Governor Newsom earlier today,
and they assured me of full federal and state support
to those who fled their homes, especially those who have
lost your homes.

Speaker 27 (01:46:48):
Our hearts are breaking for you, and we stand with you.

Speaker 29 (01:46:51):
I know the world is looking at images of our
cities devastation. I have seen the front lines of the
Palisades fire and it is staggering.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Karen Bass right there, the leader of Los Angeles. She
she's an idiot. This is what career politicians look like.
And as we're wrap it up the show today, I
love California. It's born and raised there. The Left took

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it over and have driven it into the ground. The
only way it succeeds is because of the amendities that
God has gifted it through its nature. The weather right,
all of that stuff, and California has managed to jack

(01:47:45):
the pooch like no other and continue to do so.
And she is a perfect example of how bad it
is in California when you have career politicians who are
absolutely that idiotic. She got off the airplane yesterday from

(01:48:09):
Ghana and I said, I don't blame her for going
over there. You make those trips and stuff. She got back.
They were trying to ask her questions at the airport.
She looked as if she had never ever seen humans, right,
She just stared like, it is awful to see what

(01:48:36):
is happening. But so much of this was self inflicted
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Solid fun show today, as fun as you can have it.
Let's be honest, it's tough. You're talking about the one
of the biggest cities in the country burning down, You've
got winter storms smashing into well a bunch of stuff,
and it's just one of those things you're like, oh,

(01:49:19):
thank goodness, We've got some college football on tonight. Which
is fantastic, and college football tomorrow. You guys have a solid, amazing,
and hopefully safe rest of your day. We will do
it again tomorrow. Hold on a second, I see you
Friday Night Night Chat.

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