Elected Officials in California Facing Criticism Over Wildfire Response

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show, Nature Doing Nature Things took a
bit of a break this weekend, but now picking up
steam again for the next seventy two hours. Nature may
rear its ugly head in a way that could devastate
more of Southern California, but the politics of it isn't

(00:32):
going anywhere. It's rearing its ugly head much like the fire,
and watching people defend how great their response has been
and how none of this stuff is their fault shows
you the kind of leaders that Southern California has. It's

(00:55):
not about how it started, It's about the response. That's
a big deal. It's the response. How did you respond?
Piss poorly would be a good way to describe it.
That's maybe the best way to describe this. You were
awful at your job, Karen Bass, We've talked about that.

(01:15):
You know that, I know that everybody knows that. In fact,
it's a little long, but I'm played. This is the
owner of the La Times. You almost think he's red
pilled talking about the incompetence of just governing in Southern
California and California in general.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
It's so crazy that we have leaders that are reactive
rather and proactive. I mean, it really emphasizes what I
treated yesterday about issues of competence, and I think that's
why I'm very, really concerned. We don't elect people with
great operational competence. There's really no surprise that we would
have fires. In fact, we lived through a five many

(01:56):
just a couple of years ago. So the idea that
for example, we don't create five we actually reduced the budget.
We actually don't inspect the hydrants, We don't parently there's
another who will be doing this investigation of a vowel
that actually could have actually increased the pressure the absence
of water in the reservoirs. Now you hear all these excuses,

(02:17):
and I just heard this excuse about disinformation. I mean,
I think that's outrageous when you have thousands of acres burning,
and so yes, I think the policies were misplaced. We
have to answer questions where are we spending the money
and why, and what is the sort of planning and
the logistics skill sets of actually preparing ahead for this.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
There is none, zero, zilch, nada none. They were not
prepared for something that was easy to prepare for. Now
doesn't mean it's easy to fight doesn't mean that you're
going to stop this, but you could have mitigated it.
You could have given them every thing you possibly could
give them in their tool bag to fight this fire.

(03:02):
We always talk about it. Nature will nature, nature will
mess you up. That being said, you failed and you're
running around and you're talking about You're on a call
on Friday talking about disinformation. We got to stop the disinformation,
Gavin Newsom, you got to stop that. Karen Bass just
more and more's coming out about her and how useless

(03:22):
she is, which everybody knew she was useless long before this.
But the beauty of California is most people there in
the area that she's in, eh, not the sharpest tools
in the shed, easy to manipulate and voila, you have
a perfect disaster. Gavin Newsom was on pod Save America

(03:47):
talking about this, you know, blaming Trump, blaming this dinse information,
blah blahlah. But then they asked him, hey, you know what, though,
your people, you got to get a hold of this
because you you haven't been straightforward and they haven't either.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I be canning with the one and getting straight answers. Yeah.
I watched the press conference. I met with some of
those leaders.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
We had my team start talking to local leaders, saying,
what's going on our state.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
You weren't getting straight answers from I was getting different answers,
and so for me, that's not a strung.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
When you start getting different answers, then I'm not getting
into the actual story and they're assessing it.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
And I get that as well.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
You have a little bit of grace back to the point,
we're in this emergency environment and everything else.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So I just want to determine the facts. But no
one has.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Any patience anymore in this weaponize back to the grievance
of Trump everyone else. People, there's immediacy and lies travel
the proverbial world, and it's hard to get the facts
out there unless you have the backing of those facts
and you can communicate them soberly.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And so that's what we're trying to achieve.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
In some of that stuff that he's saying there. He's
absolutely right. We don't want the truth. We want immediacy,
and people will go to their biases and they'll live
in their biases, and we can go on and on
about that. But that being said, much of the this
is about the response. How piss poor. It's been Much
of this is about the incompetence of the leaders. It's

(05:09):
one of the sayings I use all the time is
saying that I used to hear in England we fight
like lions, but were led by donkeys and the lies
sanny Inez Valley Reservoir completely empties, like I didn't know
about that. You should have one hundred and seventeen million

(05:30):
gallons not there opportunities along the way to do little
things to make this better, and you didn't do it.
You didn't do it. And then you want to talk about, well,
it's climate change and stuff like that. That's politicizing something.
But it's about being a leader. And the leader stands

(05:52):
up there and goes, we screwed up. We got to
fix this. They don't have leaders. They don't California doesn't
have any of that.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Hey, everybody, it's Mike Schellenberger. As a new wave of
fire and high winds threatens Los Angeles, the media is
reporting that California's elected leaders are not to blame, and
that right wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation
and politicizing a tragedy. Gender and racial quotas through DEI
aren't to blame, and No, Mayor Bass didn't cut the

(06:23):
fire department's budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn't cut Califire's wildfire
prevention budget. And no, there wasn't any way to prevent
those fires or the fire hydrant water from running out.
Climate change made them inevitable due to whiplashing rain levels.
Those are all lies.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Lies. Michael Shellenberger, if you don't know who he is,
he ran against Gavenusom. He used to be a pretty
pretty hardcore lefty, now more of a libertarian. But he
understands he's in the middle of it all. He gets it.
I'm not saying this thing was because I don't think
it was the way that some people think, Well, if

(07:04):
we'd have done this, this, and this. It's about the
reaction to what is coming. You know what's coming. There
will be an earthquake. They build for earthquakes, they retrofit
stuff for earthquakes, They've got stuff ready to roll for earthquakes.
This is about the piss poor management of a bunch

(07:24):
of people who emphasized equity and diversity over things that
matter like meritocracy and actually getting the job done. Regardless
of what color you are, who you love, who you worship,

(07:46):
et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
In truth, the amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by
Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are now
coming forward and speaking out. The owner of the Los
Angeles Times himself went on national television yesterday to call
it crazy that we don't elect leaders with competence.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
rather than proactive. We don't elect people with great operational competence.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Played that earlier, the whole thing because it was worth here.
It was brilliant. That's the owner of the LA Times.
We don't people elect leaders nowadays for the goodies they
will give them and don't tell me the truth, tell
me what I want to hear.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
The response from the news media has been that critics
of all this should just shut up. We're on fire,
editorialized the LA Times. Maybe this is not the time
for your political hot take. So why are the LA
Times and others in the media defending Bass and Newsome
in large measure because they officially endorsed them more than
that they actively campaigned for them. The hyper partisan turn

(08:52):
of California's media two decades ago predated the more recent
hyperpartisan nature of the national media. That Democrats had a
total supermajority control over the state for twenty years made
California and media super authoritarian. The LA Times in particular,
is now a radical left publication.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
And that's what the guy who owns the La Times
is changing. Remember they didn't endorse anybody this time in
this last presidential election. They're getting rid of all this
stuff that they had done in the past, and their
people are quitting this fine, you know what, somebody who'll
come work for the La Times. It's like one of
those things where if you want a job as a journalist,
you'll go work there. But he's trying to get out

(09:33):
of that insanity. And rightly so you pushed for this,
You wanted this, You care more about well, little insane
things like this. This is the lady who runs a department,
the LA Department of Water and Power, seven hundred and
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(09:56):
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You make almost double with the President of the United
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(17:05):
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
As the winds pick up, looks like it's gonna be
another at least forty eight to seventy two hours potentially
of horror in a battle second to none, on top
of the fact that the leaders have been just absolutely underwhelming.
It's being kind because I can't say the words I
want to say on the radio because I'll get fired.

(18:23):
I don't want that. Underwhelming is probably the best thing
that I can say. We know what the responses are
and how bad they've been. Question is, how did it start?
Because you've got several fires, how did they start? Last

(18:45):
week they arrested a guy who had a blowtorch. He
apparently is in the country illegally is being held for removal,
which California won't do. They have it. Charged him with arson,
But did they charge him with something else? Well, that's
gonna be he's got an outstanding warrant for something. I

(19:07):
think it was a gun possession, because you know that's
that's always nice, California. Keep doing what you're doing, keep
getting what you get. But how did this start? Because?
Was it arson? Was it potentially an issue with the
power lines? Was it because it wasn't lightning? Sometimes you
get that again, nature will do nature stuff. It wasn't lightning,

(19:30):
So your choices are arson, power lines. I don't think
anybody was out there, you know, Hey, what I was
smoking and they threw it? I don't but you never know, right,
I don't think anybody was, you know, not putting out
the campfire. Would it made smokey very sad? I'm gonna

(19:53):
go with either power line or arson.

Speaker 11 (19:56):
Twenty four people lost their lives in this fire, and
ABC News has learned that the ATF, the federal agency
tasked with examining investigating explosives and Arson, is going to
take the lead in investigating the Palisades fire, and Arson
is one of the factors that they are going to investigate.

Speaker 14 (20:13):
That is.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
Governor Gavin Newsom here has demanded an independent investigation into
the water issue, specifically here in the Palisades fire, hydrants
running dry. He called it deeply disturbing.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Deeply disturbing. Matt Gutman ABC News his aunt's house burned
down and he did a report from there last it
Saturday or Sunday. Just very tragic. You know, many people
coming back to their homes they're completely gone. Everything's gone,

(20:45):
memories are gone, everything is gone. Their neighbors are gone,
the neighbors, neighbors are gone. So yeah, people are going
to want to know how this started. But as the
weather starts to turn, are they for it? I don't
think they are. The fire hydrants. You know, this didn't
happen overnight. The cutting of all of the stuff happened

(21:09):
over really about two decades, and because of that, they
were ill prepared to deal what was in front of them.
And then you've got the other evil part of it,
which is the sobs that should be shot on site
who were looting people's homes.

Speaker 15 (21:27):
But when I was out there in the Malibu area,
I saw a gentleman and looked like a firefighter, and
I asked him if he was okay because he was
sitting down.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I didn't realize we had him in handcuffs.

Speaker 15 (21:37):
We were turning them over to lapd because he was
dressed like a fireman and he was not. He just
got caught burglarizing a home.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I have zero problems if you thinned the herd in
front of people. I know that sounds horrible, but when
you're running for your life and you're losing every and
people come and they're like, oh, I'm just gonna rob you,
that is just vile and disgusting. It really is. I

(22:11):
just I sit there and I think to myself, my god,
what the hell is wrong with people? A lot is
wrong with people. We have this angry world we live in,
right versus left.

Speaker 16 (22:20):
Go ahead, maga admit it. When you see California burning,
you're like, yeah, you know why. I know that because
every time I hear the hurricane's coming or a big
ass tornado, I always say, please, please, let it only
hit the white trailer courts, especially the ones with the

(22:41):
Dixie flag.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
So yeah, at least I'm not afraid to admit it.
Oh God, I think you'd be surprised how people out
here feel across the country that aren't in California. I
think you'd be surprised that they're praying, figuring out what
they can do to help, because they don't see you
as red and blue or rich or poor. Speaking of
the rich, I.

Speaker 17 (23:03):
Hate rich people. What the fuck do you mean that
LA is literally burning down and you're out here on
X Like, does anyone have access to private firefighters to
protect our home? In Pacific Palisades?

Speaker 10 (23:16):
Need to act fast here?

Speaker 17 (23:18):
All neighbors houses burning will pay any amount. And I'm
seeing like that everywhere, like these like super rich like
CEO types whatever, assuming that their life in their house
or whatever is more valuable than everybody else who's burning.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't think they assume that. I think the thought
process is what can I do to save my house?
And yes, private firefighters are absolutely being used two thousand
dollars an hour to protect homes and businesses two thousand

(23:54):
an hour. So if you have a chance would you
do it? Oh yeah, by the way. Rick Caruso, who
ran to be mayor, who's been out in front of this,
by the way, predicted this all the way back in
twenty twenty two, said that he deployed private firefighters to
protect his real estate, in particular certain parts of the

(24:20):
Palisades that didn't burn down, because he wasn't an idiot,
and it had nothing to do with oh, rich people
this or rich people that if you're poor and you
have a chance to get somebody to come help you fight,
you're going to do it. But this was all about
I got to do what's right for me, and you

(24:41):
guys aren't going to do it. I can't trust you,
the leaders.

Speaker 17 (24:45):
The absolute assumption that there is always a cheat code
or a shortcut for rich people is a big reason
that the world is burning down already. Like justice assumption
that's like, okay, but I'll be fine because I'm rich. Oh,
but there must be private firefighters for me. I'm not
supposed to burn down with everybody else. It's that same
exact lack of awareness that is empowering all these CEOs

(25:07):
and corporations to keep destroying the environment because they're like, well,
when it comes to it, I'm not going to be
affected by the world burning down.

Speaker 14 (25:13):
I'm going to have a shortcut. I'm going to have
a cheetco.

Speaker 17 (25:15):
That's why they don't give up about the rest of us,
because they think when it comes down to it, they
don't have to give up now.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
They care about themselves. And they also look around and say,
you know who's going to save me me? I can't
trust people like Karen bass Angelinos.

Speaker 18 (25:30):
We're still going through it. And to any of you
and all of you that have experienced a loss, the grief,
the anger, the just utter shock, I've seen the devastation.
It is unbelievable the amount of loss that people have experience.
But we have to get through this crisis, and I
know that we will. But we got to stick together.

(25:52):
We got to stand strong, and then we have to
rebuild our city. We stay together, and we will rebuild
an amazing city.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
She's a clown. She is. She's a clown. By the way,
supposedly they're gonna wave tons of regulations so people can
start to rebuild almost immediately. That is supposed to happen.
They've signed an executive order day being Gavenowsom that will
wave a vast majority of regulations so people can get
back at it. I will believe it when I see it.

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We're the most successful longest charting hits on Billboard Top

(29:54):
one hundred songs in the twenty first century chart?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
All right, so we've gotten right there. Through six, I
was like, all right, cool, some of those, all right,
they're there? What has been it? Though? I want the it?
Don't give me them. I want the it this century.

Speaker 14 (30:14):
Here are the top five.

Speaker 21 (30:15):
Number five I Got a Feeling by the Black Eyed
Talking Thout nine, Number four Party Rock Anthem by Lmfaoh good.
Number three Stay by the Kid Leroy and Justin Bieber.

Speaker 14 (30:29):
I know I forgot about that song.

Speaker 21 (30:31):
Number two is Uptown Funk by bark Ron Bruno Mark
and the biggest song of the twenty first century people
Blinding Lights by the Weekend.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yes, I liked that song, but the biggest of.

Speaker 21 (30:43):
The involves a fifty seven week run in the Hot
one hundred from February twenty twenty through April.

Speaker 14 (30:49):
Twenty twenty one. It was in the Hot one hundred
for more than a year.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
That's pretty awesome. You doing well. Then they had all
those streams, billions of streams, and they had the video
that was huge and needed the halftime show, and then
everybody's like, what's wrong with this face? What's wrong with
the Weekend's face, which was of course a big controversy.
It's nice we have big controversies have nothing to do
with I don't know, a state burning down. Yeah, it's

(31:14):
pretty good. This lady's been around for a while. I'm
gonna say this. I preface this because, as you guys
have followed the show, many of you have listened since
the beginning. Whenever I talk about somebody, especially somebody elderly,
something seems to happen and then they pass away and
the next thing you know, I get blamed for it.
This lady's been around for justice, Mitch.

Speaker 22 (31:33):
She's seen it all, well more than most of us
have seen. That's because this nun from Brazil was just
recognized as being the oldest living person. Aina Kennaborro Lucas
has reached the age of one hundred and sixteen years.
She was born June eighth, nineteen oh eight, and currently
resides at a retirement home in Porto Alegre. She began

(31:56):
her religious journey at sixteen and has spent most of
her life as a teacher. When asked about her longevity,
she gives all the credit to God and her faith.
The sister reportedly only started having mobility issues when she
reached one hundred and ten years old, and today she
uses a wheelchair, but she's still able to cheer on
her favorite soccer team, sport Club Internacionale. This is all

(32:19):
according to Longeviquest, which tracks super centenarians across the world,
people who are one hundred and five and older. It
says sister Cannabaro became the oldest living person when the
former title holder, a woman from Japan, died last mom.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay, so something happens to her. She's one hundred and sixteen.
That's just nature, all right, I just want to point
that out. But one hundred man, think about that, one
hundred and sixteen. Think about all of the things that
she has seen in her lifetime nineteen eight till now.

(32:54):
That is freaking incredible from virtually and especially living where
she's lived in Brazil. Virtually no thought of electricity, transportation, flight,
any of that stuff to us going to the moon
and satellites and all of that stuff crazy which brings

(33:18):
us to this. So they cracked open one of those
uh predictions about twenty twenty five from people in nineteen
twenty five. It's very interesting what thought process that some
people have one hundred and fifty that's where they think

(33:38):
people live to Soronald Ross, a British doctor who received
the nineteen oh two Nobel Prize in Medicine for his
studies on malaria, told the London audience that life expectancy
would continue to increase because of scientific advantages, and that
he expected people to live to be one hundred and fifty.
Not quite there yet, but do I think that we're

(33:58):
going to in my lifetime see one hundred far more regularly? Absolutely?
Rise of superpowers. Several people, including HG. Wells, thought in
one hundred years there will be numerous nations but only
three great masses of people. The United States. Then he
called it the United States of Europe and China, which

(34:20):
I thought was rather interesting. Now that we're not part
of the United States of Europe and China, that's pretty funny.
Lots of them thought there'd be one government, which I
found interesting, one world government, which is what everybody pushes against.
Some stuff. They did get right, waking up to an
alarm clock, which was pretty interesting because they got that right.

(34:42):
The airport of the future, the air travelers will walk
into a comfortable and well appointed waiting room in the
center of the city. An elevator will take them up
to the roof where they were strapped directly into a
roomy and really comfortable airplane cabin. Close but not quite it.
Some other stuff that people predicted way back in the day.
A substitute of sleep would be found. Chief ingredient would

(35:04):
be acid sodium phosphate. This one's interesting. People would use
a pocket size apparatus for communication to see and hear
each other without being in the same room. Boom. There
would be world peace, a common world currency, and universal
free trade. Some of those things are real, and the

(35:25):
end of poverty. That's what some people said, eh, not
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Show coming up, second hour. More on the fires. As
they continue to rage and rage, they're going to expecting

(35:47):
over the next forty eight to seventy two hours for
the winds to pick up and to cause hell again.
And this is that thing we talk about with nature.
Nature does what nature does, statual nature. Nature will mess
you up, and it is showing what it can do
when given the opportunity. And over the next seventy two hours.

(36:10):
This could really be something because if the winds pick
up the way they're saying, it could get even worse
than we already have it. Now we'll talk about that
a bunch of other stuff missing the show. We're at
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Speaker 8 (36:23):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Winds will be up and whipping in southern California and
could last two three days, which is going to make
fighting this fire already the biggest, baddest, most expensive fire
in the history of California, probably will be the most

(37:12):
expensive natural disaster in our history. It's gonna make it
so much worse to fight because we talk about nature
doing nature does well. Nature's going to nature potentially for
the next forty eight to seventy two hours.

Speaker 11 (37:26):
The exhausted fire crews trying to stuff out remaining hotspots
as officials are racing for the Santa Ana.

Speaker 23 (37:32):
Wind gusts today expected to reach seventy miles an hour.
Over the weekend, the Palisades Fire again flaring up, this
time near Mandeville Canyon. The fire encroaching on Brentwood and Encino,
triggering an unprecedented aerosault, the largest blaze. The Palisades fire
scorching nearly twenty four thousand acres with only thirteen percent containment.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
And the potential to get bigger and uglier is very, very,
very real, because it only takes for this thing to
whip up just one ember to sparks little something. All
of a sudden, Now you're fighting something over here on
the left or on the right, and it's just moving,
and the pace of which it moves is terrifying. But

(38:22):
then you've got the rebuild. People are asking questions about
insurance companies. Why did you guys leave all these people stranded?
Why did you guys walk away from these people? Why
did you just allow these people to suffer? You're evil
and bad, I said last week. They've become the new
United Healthcare State Farm and many others.

Speaker 24 (38:42):
Well, this could be the most expensive disaster in California's history.
Before all of this happened, insurance companies had been quietly
declining to renew policies for homeowners. Now, in twenty twenty three,
seven of the twelve largest insurance companies by market share
in California either Paul's or were stricted issuing new policies
in the state. State Farm discontinued coverage for seventy two

(39:06):
thousand houses and apartments in California last year, dropping nearly
seventy percent of its market share, and Pacific Palisade that
area almost completely engulfed. Still, some insurance industry experts say
something should have been done to fix the lack of
insurance in California when thousands of people were.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Dropped last year.

Speaker 16 (39:25):
These are for profit insurance companies, and so if they
can't make a profit, they're going to leave the area.

Speaker 8 (39:30):
And that's exactly what happened. And it's legal.

Speaker 16 (39:33):
They don't have to they don't have to keep doing
a business in California.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
It's is it ethical?

Speaker 11 (39:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Why is it not ethical California in the way that
they run their the you know the Insurance Commission, is
they crush any opportunity for you to raise rates. Remember
it's a business. So in a business, you're the opportunity
to make money and you're gamble is I'm going to

(40:01):
take more money in that will go out. But I'm
risking a lot here because you guys are in an
area that is prone to wildfires, top of the earthquakes,
mud slides, which we'll get to soon. So you guys
are in an area that I am risking a lot,
knowing full well there is at some point in time

(40:23):
going to be something big coming. May not be tomorrow,
may not be a month from now, maybe five years
from now, but something will eventually come. I've got to
be able to turn a profit otherwise this is a
charity and that's not what we are.

Speaker 24 (40:44):
These changes left home owners with little choice, having to
use California state run Fair Plan program, that plan in
some cases costing as much as four times what they
were paying, with less coverage than before that figure, forcing
some to go without coverage and really just that something
like this won't happen to them. But it's not just California.

(41:04):
Adrianna Senate report found that insurance companies were dropping people
all across the country, including in states like Iowa, Mississippi, Alabama,
the Carolinas, and even states up in New England due
to changing weather patterns. This means that thousands of Americans
are without insurance.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Because they're for profit and they're looking out there and
it's all about risk assessment. Risk assessment, same thing that
you know companies do when it comes to let's say
cars want to drive a car, Well, let's see what
your driving records like. If you've got several suspensions for
reckless driving and dui, chances are because of that pattern,

(41:44):
it's going to cost you a little bit more. That's
what they're looking at. Their risk assessment says, these areas
are bad and because of that, we think we will
lose too much money to be not just profitable to
stay in business. Now, the California Fair Plan, if you
guys don't know what that is. It's like Cobra but

(42:06):
for your house. It's really expensive. But they only have
so much money and this is going to break them
rather quickly. So the insurance commissioner can then go into
the other insurance companies and force them up to a
certain point to cover what they couldn't cover. Even if

(42:30):
you didn't insure them ever or stopped insuring them, you'll
be forced to cover some.

Speaker 12 (42:35):
Of it, right well.

Speaker 24 (42:36):
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Laura recently implemented a moratorium in
cancelations following the fire. This means that insurance companies can't
cancel or choose not to renew people in California for
one year. President Biden has also declared a major disaster,
meaning that people who have been hit by the wildfires
can apply for federal disaster relief money through FEMA, whether

(42:57):
they have insurance or not. One hundreds of people are
left with only the clothes on their back right now.

Speaker 12 (43:04):
I don't even have a toothbrush.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
I don't even have toothpaste.

Speaker 12 (43:07):
I mean, just think of all this stuff in your house,
and you're starting from scratch.

Speaker 24 (43:12):
Nonprofits have stepped up to help these victims with money
and shelter, and many of these victims are using GoFundMe
to raise money to replace everything they lost too as
they wait for potential relief from the federal government.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
And as far as FEMA, do you remember FEMA and
the big battle that went on there when it came
to the hurricanes, particularly North Carolina parts of Tennessee, Florida.
That was a big deal because they didn't seem to
be helping people. They didn't seem to be getting any
of the money that they needed. And is there any

(43:47):
money in there? Isn't there any money? We've only got
so much? What about this? And that battle went.

Speaker 25 (43:51):
On Congress in December before we left the one hundred
and eighteenth Congress passed the American Relief Act, which provided
billions of dollars to FEMA to not only deal with
the pre the hurricanes Milton and Helene, but also for
situations such as this. Although no one could predict what's
happening right now in.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
La No, not to this extent, because when we usually
talk about fires, it is fires that are mostly in rural,
mountainous areas with a much smaller population. And well, it

(44:36):
burns much more even when it as far as acreage,
even when it gets to homes, there isn't that many,
three sparse, And this isn't that the cost will be huge,
no doubt about that. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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(44:59):
You're in Instagram, out of the other things. Meanwhile, we
are a week away Donald Trump taken over, Oh my god, no, yes,
it's happening. And deportations, immigration, those are going to be big,
big things. Friday, making sure that Trump was going to

(45:24):
have a tough time deporting people, the Biden administrations decided, Hey,
we're going to extend about one point three to one
point five million people from various countries to allow them
to stay here in this country, and you just shake

(45:45):
your head and think, this is effing ridiculous. This is
absolutely ridiculous. Wasn't talked about. Obviously, the fires are sucking
the oxygen for lack of a better term, out of
all of what's going on in the world, but they've
decided to do that. The weekend, my orc is out
there once again talking about how amazing immigration's been.

Speaker 26 (46:09):
I will say right now, we are delivering to the
incoming administration here in the United States the lowest number
of individuals encountered at our southern border since two thoy nineteen.
The numbers are lower than the average in that pre
pandemic year, and that is because of the decisive action

(46:31):
that President Biden took in June of twenty twenty four
after congressional inaction. The key is to be strong on
enforcement while staying true to our values as a nation.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
So six hundred thousand Venezuelans we'll be staying a little
bit longer. Two hundred thirty thousand Salvadorians already living in
the United States can remained for another eighteen months. Biden
administration has strongly supported temporary protection status, which he has
broadly expanded to cover a million people. Homeland Security also
extended TPS for more than one hundred thousand Ukrainians and

(47:07):
nineteen hundred Sudanese that were already here. It is, it's amazing,
And how many times do we have to go over
the numbers again we start breaking out the numbers of
where these people actually are coming in through and what
they count as well. They came through this port, So
we're not going to count those numbers. These numbers over
here don't count. Everybody picks and chooses, that includes every

(47:31):
administration in certain things. But this is another slap in
your face. Welcome to this insanity brought to you by
Joe Biden and this half ass administration. And that's why
you lost. There's nothing else to say that right there
is why you lost us A little bit more on

(47:51):
that later, because he also talked about don't politicize what
took place in New Orleans, and you know, it's just
it boggles the mind, like and this will be another
situation where if something happens six weeks from now that
is a horrific terrorist attack and it's traced back through
the bs that had gone on in the border over

(48:11):
the last several years under this administration, they will point
fingers at everybody else with zero responsibility taken, which seems
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Speaker 8 (49:36):
Show, Chad Benson.

Speaker 9 (49:55):
Fourteen nominees are scheduled for Senate confirmation hearings this week,
including former Fox News host Pete Hegsett, who's nominated for
Secretary of Defense. Heg Sat spent several days on Capitol
Hill last month working to drum up support what.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
They want to do to make sure that department is
properly oriented for the threats of the world and make
sure that we're put into warfighters first.

Speaker 9 (50:15):
Also getting hearings this week, South Dakota Governor Christy Nome,
Trump's Homeland Security secretary pick and his pick for Attorney General,
Pam BONDI.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, now, I think most, if not all of them
are going to get through. Pam Bondy. She's a Trump loyalist. Okay,
I mean again, what does that even mean? Anymore. Is
he supposed to pick people that can't stand him? Is
that what Biden did? Is that what any president's ever done?
But is this about also? See, so much of this

(50:48):
has become about personality. It was supposed to be at
one time competency. You've been selected to do a job.
Can you do the job? The problem? Ah, what about her?
She's this, that, and the other. And hear the left
talking about her. Oh, she can do the job, no problem,
She's done it before for Florida, and her well, I

(51:11):
mean a record pretty damn solid.

Speaker 27 (51:13):
Sure, she's and said some pretty you know, controversial stuff
in the past, or at least expressed really strong loyalty
to Trump, which I think does make some people nervous
about whether there's going to be enough independence in the
judiciary at the Department of Justice under her leadership. But
she was the Florida state attorney general. She's taken on
big cases. She has a pedigree that I think makes

(51:33):
it harder to argue against her nomination.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
A pedigree. But then you've got Pete He says, Oh
my god, this guy.

Speaker 27 (51:41):
But when you just think in particular about policy at
the Pentagon, he's made these comments so he doesn't think
women should serve in combat roles. And here's Republican Jony Ernst,
former combat veteran herself. She did tours abroad leading other troops.
Does she go really public? Does she put it all
out there? She's had private meetings with him. I think
that it's going to be a really interesting dynamic.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
We'll see again how much of it is going to
be policy and how much of it is going to
be you're controversial and you're a loyalist to Trump. We'll
find out. The whole thing though, just makes me laugh.
three at Chad Benson Show's your Twitter tweet at as

(52:23):
text the program I do in The Chad Benson Show.
And I do think Tulca gabbartt actually has made some headways.
I think she's gonna I think she's gonna get through
this is I think he's going to get vast majority
of his people through. Meanwhile, in the Land of Delusion,
Biden still thinks he could have won president.

Speaker 14 (52:44):
You regret your decision to run over a reelection.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Do you think that that made it easier for your
credits exerch and now become very successful. I don't think so.

Speaker 28 (52:51):
I think I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump,
And I think that Common could have beaten Trump, would
have beaten Trump.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Wait, what last time I checked? She had a chance.

Speaker 28 (53:04):
I thought it was important to unify the party, and
when the party was worried about whether or not I
was going to be able to move, I thought it
was Even though I thought I could win again, I
thought it was better to unify the party. And it
was the greatest honor in my life to be President
the United States. But I didn't want to be one
who caused a party that wasn't unified to lose an election,

(53:28):
and that's why I stepped aside. But I was confident
she could win.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
But she didn't, and you wouldn't have. No, you wouldn't have.
She didn't and you wouldn't have. And America spoke because
you guys are completely tone deaf and continue to be so.
Which it really isn't that hard to listen to the people.
It isn't, but you guys find it hard, and you
make it harder than it should be. Not a shocker.

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Speaker 29 (54:19):
Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 8 (54:40):

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Ultra processed foods are coming for you. My god, there's
so much ultra process I wish there wasn't so much,
and I wish it wasn't so tasty. But this is
a problem I have, but we all have it.

Speaker 30 (54:55):
Apparently, Whole Foods isn't alone in its lack of unprocessed foods.
A study published in Nature Food finds that Walmart and
Target likewise stock their shelves by and large with items
that bear little resemblance to their grains, fruits, and vegetables
that they originally came from. The authors hope the findings
encourage retailers to add more whole foods to their inventories
and consumers to make better choices at the store.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
And that's the big part. Consumers make better choices at
the store because as consumers we have a choice, and
sometimes financially it's just easier to pick some stuff that's
way cheaper, and then sometimes we're like, mmm, I like
the taste of those. I like the taste of that.

(55:44):
And keeping with the theme of food, the battle of
fast food is here. Oh, yes it is. It's not
going anywhere, people, It's back.

Speaker 12 (55:52):
It's shaping up to be the year of the value meal.
Have you ever dreamt of getting two of your fave
when these items for seven?

Speaker 8 (55:59):
Fuck?

Speaker 12 (56:00):
Fast food chains rolling out deals to win back bargain
hungry consumers who've lost their appetite over higher prices.

Speaker 31 (56:07):
How fast food places were supposed to be a cheap
and fast Tell me why I got a burger with
fries and a drink and it was sixteen dollars.

Speaker 12 (56:17):
Restaurants are taking notice, McDonald's announcing it's extending its five
dollars meal deal through the summer and adding a buy one,
ad one option for a dollar more. Subway kicking off
the new year with a sandwich of the day, bag
of chips and small drink for seven bucks, and Taco
Bell set to launch its five, seven and nine dollars
lux Cravings boxes this week.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Ooh, it's a lot. What's in them? You talked about
ultra process I know, I did. These are double triple
ultra process. And it would be great if all the
food that is bad for you tasted like crap, but
that usually is reserved for the stuff that's good for you.

(57:02):
Being honest, I mean, it's addiction. It's what it is.
So the tobacco companies realized a long time ago, we
don't sell cigarettes, we sell addiction. So let's go buy
up all these companies and we get people addicted.

Speaker 12 (57:17):
It all comes after some chains raised prices to offset
the higher cost of food and labor.

Speaker 32 (57:23):
Households were sensitive to the higher prices, and as a result,
they shifted some of their spending on food to preparing
meals at home.

Speaker 12 (57:31):
According to government figures, the price of eating out is
rising faster than inflation, up three point six percent from
a year ago, more than double the cost of eating
at home.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Which is not something we're used to. Usually fast food
was cheap, quick and you're on your way. Now you'll
go and like you heard at the beginning of that,
we're like, I paid sixteen bucks. You could have gone
to a restaurant for the same thing. They got the
deals the same way. Walk in there Chili's or Applebee's.

(58:04):
I got that, you know, menu where you can pick
you know this this in the drink and you're like,
that's fantastic, I'll do that. So that's why the battle's here,
because people are moving away from going to the fast
food because they're no longer cheap.

Speaker 12 (58:18):
Consumers happy to see the value meals return.

Speaker 33 (58:22):
Today, I am super excited to tell you about Burger
King's new five dollars duo and seven dollars.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Trio deal they got going on.

Speaker 12 (58:31):
Experts say these fast food wars could mean more value
on the menu for consumers.

Speaker 32 (58:36):
I wouldn't expect these deals to stick around for a
long time, but consumers shouldn't worry too much about a
sticker shock in the future.

Speaker 12 (58:43):
He's excited about Burger King all right. Other ways to
save join a fast food chain's loyalty program and take
advantage of special in app only deals like McDonald's free
fries Fridays.

Speaker 34 (58:53):
Free fry Friday, freeze Freeze, free freeze, free fry, free
free fry Friday. Say it, free fry Friday. It seems
like it's hard, but when you actually think about it,
it's not that hard.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Free frive Friday. Join their apps if you have a chance,
because it will save you. They'll send you stuff, you'll
get stuff. I don't know why more people don't do it,
partially because they don't want to remind it of what
a fat ass they can become. Myself included, I love
me a French fry. I cannot tell a lie. I

(59:30):
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today in southern California is going to be a nightmare
in the coming days, potentially for the fighter fighters out
there fighting the horrific blazes that are going on throughout
parts of southern California. And we talked to earlier about

(59:53):
everybody wants to know what happened, Who did this? Who started?
I go back to that will come. They will figure
that out. Was it a down power line? Was it arson?
Was it an accident? Those things will come. It is
the reaction of city leaders and state leaders that needs

(01:00:17):
to be talked about, because you failed your citizens, you
failed the people, and you're looking to put blame elsewhere
when in reality, sometimes things happen and you're not going
to stop that nature. But how you react to it,

(01:00:41):
says the most.

Speaker 35 (01:00:42):
Three days ago, I had to evacuate my home in
California due to the fires. Now, fortunately I have friends
who I was able to stay with, but many people
don't have that good fortune, and now many people are
homeless and some have died.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
This disaster was caused by multiple variables.

Speaker 35 (01:00:57):
Some have identified arson, some have pointed to climate change,
but regardless of the cause, hopefully we can all agree
that we have a great degree of control over the response,
and the response has been well below what we actually deserve.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
And part of the.

Speaker 35 (01:01:10):
Reason why is because we have inverted our priorities and
are focusing on things like diversity, equity and inclusion instead
of efficacy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
So damn true. So all people in certain parts of
politics and blue states seem to care about checking boxes
diversity equity inclusion, not actually looking at any of the
things that may happen outside of diversity equity inclusion could

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have an impact on the greater area of folk that
don't care about your diversity equity inclusion when everything's on fire.

Speaker 35 (01:01:48):
A desire to make LAFDS visual representation more representative of
the racial and gender distribution in LA is understandable. When
we make diversity even a secondary goal, when efficacy is
the prime goal, that focusing on the secondary goal.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
At all can get in the way of the primary.

Speaker 35 (01:02:04):
Now, the current head of the LAFD is Kristin Crowley,
and here's what she had to say about her diversity goals.

Speaker 10 (01:02:10):
And people ask me, what number are you looking for?

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
So I'm looking for a number.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
It's never enough. It's never enough, Chad, we need more.
What they put at one in sixty four thousand chants
that the three heads of the La County Fire Department
would be the lesbians. Voila, there you go. And it's

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not just at the local level. California's priorities about everything
are a hot mess. Case in point this is Kevin.
Right over the weekend, there was a special session called
in Sacramento. Ooh, what's this for?

Speaker 14 (01:02:50):
Mmm, clay is burning to the ground right now.

Speaker 33 (01:02:54):
But it turns out that's not actually what this special
session is about.

Speaker 23 (01:02:57):
No.

Speaker 33 (01:02:57):
No, The legislature has gabbled into a special session called
by Gavin Newsom to provide millions of dollars in funding
for filing lawsuits against the incoming Trump administration. That is
what their priority is at this very moment, mister Speaker,
there could not be a starker illustration of the abject
political failure that has gotten our state to this point,

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and that has served to bring about the horrifying scenes
that the whole country is seeing on their television sets
right now, and that folks in Los Angeles are suffering through.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
They called a special session to talk about how they're
going to spend all of this money protecting what they
see as the evil of Donald Trump against California. They
called a special session to bring their people who represent

(01:03:58):
the entire state together to talk about all of the
stuff that they think that they need to do so
they can protect Donald Trump from attacking them and the
Trump administration and the evils of Trump. That's their priority.

(01:04:20):
That's why you're not leaders. You're not You're panduras who
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Speaker 8 (01:05:54):
Deep stinks no deep doo doo eeah, Chad Fins.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
And show.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
We're a week away from Trump becoming president again. Oh
my god. And people, of course they're losing their blanking
mind kids, because that's what they do. It's time to
play another episode of It's now time for another episode
of Trump derangement syndrome. The people who have lost their

(01:06:28):
mind because of Donald Trump living rent free in the dome.

Speaker 36 (01:06:32):
We've honestly just been playing this Trump thing all wrong.
Like he's seriously just such a pickmey little bitch that
just wants people that he thinks are important to like him.
I don't think he actually has any strong beliefs about
policies or politics at all. He's just a straight up
narcissist that craves adulation. And the reason he went so
psychotically far right is because those are the people that
embraced him and the people that he wanted to embrace him.

(01:06:56):
The New York elite laughed him out of the room.
They thought he was a tacky clown and wouldn't give
him the time of day.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Oh wow, how about that. By the way, he's not
far right. I don't know what this this. He's super
He's not. He's not uber uber conservative. I just want
to remind everybody that maga different kind of movement, populist movement,
not uber conservative, not fiscal hawks, not a lot of
those things, not the warhawks that everybody thought. So slow

(01:07:22):
your role there, but continue, sir, because you obviously have
an issue.

Speaker 36 (01:07:25):
So his entire political career is a social vendetta against
the people that laughed at him. The same thing is
true with his crusade against the media, like the liberal
Democrats of the New York Times that look down their
noses at him. They bruise his ego, and so he
hates everyone like them. But he could be so easily manipulated,
Like if you just gave in to his thirst for
approval and his need for adulation, you could get any

(01:07:48):
policy you wanted out of him, because he doesn't give
a about policy.

Speaker 10 (01:07:51):
He just wants to be worshiped.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Really like a god. Look, all politicians want to be loved.
They do, they do, so I tell everybody, never fall
in love with a politician, fallen like at best. But yes,
they all want that. They want that adelation, they want that.
Oh my god, these people love me. Trump's no different

(01:08:18):
that's the reality. He is the exact same as everybody else,
and nobody, by the way, everybody's like Trump's, He's got
thin skin. We have never, ever, ever, in our lifetime
had a president so attacked by the establishment media as

(01:08:41):
Trump has been. We can pretend, oh, no, no, nobody.
When you start off, and I go back to this
that January day in twenty seventeen when he was going
to take the oath of office and the Washington Post
front page the march to impeachment begins, that says a

(01:09:05):
lot right there, one more for you, sir, Like.

Speaker 36 (01:09:08):
That's why he wants to save TikTok obviously, Like he
hated TikTok before and then people liked him on TikTok
and suddenly it's his favorite thing in the world. But
instead the left makes fun of him, looks down on him,
caricatures him, talks about him, and so it makes him
hate everyone and everything to do with the left.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
He could be a leftist if you'd just kiss his ass. Okay,
well you guys should have tried that then, but you didn't.
This guy thinks, well, Trump is the thing that we
always say whenever you are looking at a lefty and
they're hearing Trump. What do they hear?

Speaker 12 (01:09:40):
Sor are you guys heading to the Trump victory rally
on January nineteenth? You know who else had a victory
rally back in nineteen thirty three?

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Schmidler.

Speaker 37 (01:09:46):
Which just so fun that in twenty twenty five we
could still make connections and find similarities between nineteen thirties
Germany and America today.

Speaker 38 (01:09:53):
So Trump having a rally because he won an historic
victory somehow connects him to the man you're speaking about,
because he also had rallies. I set it back to
you in hopes that you realize how ridiculous that sounds.
But I'll play along. Joe Biden has a dog. You
want to know who else had a dog?

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
Joseph Stalin Hitler had a dog, by the way, Blondie,
what's her name? Just letting you guys know that. Uh,
let's see here. Trump's practicing is he's practicing his speech
for for the big.

Speaker 29 (01:10:21):
Days to night.

Speaker 19 (01:10:24):
Justam me up, then, y'all, don't free filmy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Came for me, I promising everybody TikTok. And finally over
to a woman who hates America because of Donald Trump.

Speaker 17 (01:10:41):
I hate America.

Speaker 39 (01:10:46):
I hate it here. I hate everything about this fucking country.
And before any of you oakley wearing rednecks come at
me and be like.

Speaker 8 (01:10:54):
Don't leave, I can't. It's expensive.

Speaker 9 (01:10:59):
There's roll, just like there's rolling into our country.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
There is hours, there's rules.

Speaker 8 (01:11:08):
I can't ex expensive. It's expensive to leave too.

Speaker 39 (01:11:14):
So unless you want to start, you know, sending me
your bush light in Virginia, slims money and crowdsource me
to get the fuck out of here, I don't want
to hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
She's fun. What do I always say? People like I'm
gonna leave America? You know who says that? Wealthy people
and they can poor people, middle class people a little tougher.
Why are you here in our country? You buy house?
What you do? Oh my lord, the insanity of it all.

(01:11:48):
I just love it. Little Trump Derangement Syndrome segment for
you one week out of the big day.

Speaker 29 (01:11:54):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Just think about that. A week from today, all of
these people who will be enslaved because of that guy
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Speaker 40 (01:12:20):
After an intense firefighting weekend, firefighters racing against the clock
to contain wildfires burning across Los Angeles County before those
Santa Ana wins pick up again and tonight, the toll
this fire and others have taken across Los Angeles County
since Tuesday is staggering.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Staggering. Indeed, we'll talk a little bit about the staggering numbers,
and those numbers are huge, largest disaster in the history
of America and it didn't even over again. Talk a
bit about that, the politicization of this insurance companies. There's
so much about this that needs to be talked about.
We will do so the next hour of The Chad Benson.

Speaker 8 (01:13:00):
Sure, this is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you
look doing it. California's leaders look like crap. They have
failed gloriously, and they continue to do so and will
continue to do so over and over again, because that's
what they do. As California burns, and it is and

(01:13:55):
the winds pick up, oh baby, they are, and get
ready for some gnarly wins here over the next forty
eight to seventy two hours potentially, and they're going to
be heavy.

Speaker 41 (01:14:07):
We've got three days of red flag warnings. Part of
that is a particularly Dangerous Situation red flag warning. Now
that's something that usually gets issued every five to ten years.
We've had four now of these PDS red flag warnings
this year alone.

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
This setup is different.

Speaker 41 (01:14:22):
It's going to impact different areas. It's because we've got
this upper level support to the Santa Ana Wins that's
going to kind of fuel them and make them faster.
Those red flag warnings still through Wednesday, go all the
way down to the Mexican border.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Windy nature does nature things. You can't prevent that, those wins,
sant Ana Wins. Since I was a kid a fifty
four and so I was born and raised in California
where it's at sant Ana Wins, it's nothing new. How

(01:15:01):
they prepared for it, which is lack of preparation is
one thing, But the reaction to it has been something
completely different. It has been a failure, not just a
little failure, uh freaking failure of epic proportions.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
Hey, everybody, it's Mike Schellenberger. As a new wave of
fire and high winds threatens Los Angeles, the media is
reporting that California's elected leaders are not to blame, and
that right wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation
and politicizing a tragedy. Gender and racial quotas through DEI
aren't to blame, and no, Mayor Bass didn't cut the

(01:15:42):
fire department's budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn't cut Calfire's wildfire
prevention budget. And no, there wasn't any way to prevent
those fires or the fire hydrant water from running out.
Climate change made them inevitable due to whiplashing rain levels.
Those are all lies.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Y lies. It's such a failure. How you deal with
something shows you the leader you are. That's a huge thing,
how you deal with something. If you deal with something correctly,
even if it goes sideways, people are willing to forgive

(01:16:25):
you and give you a second chance. But they haven't.
If this was in the private sector, Gavin Newsom would
be fired, Karen Bass would be fired. They would even
bring in somebody inside of the company to take over.
They'd probably bring in to a third party. At this
point in time, that's how bad it's been.

Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
In truth, the amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by
Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are now
coming forward and speaking out. The owner of the Los
Angeles Times himself went on national television yesterday to call
it crazy that we don't elect leaders with competents.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
rather than proactive. I mean, it really emphasizes what I
tweeated yesterday about issues of competence, and I think that's
why we're really concerned we don't elect people with great
operational competence. There's really no surprise that we would have fires.

(01:17:26):
In fact, we lived through a five many just a
couple of years ago. So the idea that for example,
we don't create firebreaks, we actually reduced the budget. We
actually don't inspect the hydrants. We don't Apparently there's another
we will be doing this investigation of a vowel that
actually could have actually increased the pressure the absence of

(01:17:46):
water in the reservoirs. Now you hear all these excuses,
and I just heard this excuse about disinformation. I mean,
I think that's outrageous. When you have thousands of acres burning,
and so yes, think the policies were misplaced. We have
to ask our questions, where are we spending the money
and why? And what is the sort of planning and

(01:18:08):
the logistics skill set of actually preparing ahead for this?

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Probably none, very little. The buddy of mine, Chris, he
is a retired now, but he was a pilot for
Virgin and BA and several other big, big companies. And

(01:18:33):
I was fortunate enough pre nine to eleven to when
I fly back and forth in England, I would try
to plan it when he was going to be a pilot,
because he flew mostly to the West coast, and so
I would fly with him. And it's really interesting because
again this is pre nine to eleven. I'd get to
go up and sit in the cockpit. The minute the
plane took off, they come back and get me. You know,

(01:18:56):
are you chatting? Yeah? Would you like to come with us? Okay?
And then I wander up and I been the rest
of the plane, time in the cockpit and including the landing.
It was awesome. But I asked him one time, I said, hey,
when it comes to emergencies, like, how does that work?
And he says, we have a plan for a plan

(01:19:21):
for B. If he doesn't work, we have C if
he doesn't work, D if he doesn't work E, And
he goes on and on and on. They had no plan.
The old saying is failed to plan, plan to fail. Well,
they've failed. They failed miserably. And a true test of

(01:19:44):
a leader is how they react in times of trouble.
And they've reacted by blaming everybody else. They've reacted by lying.
They've react by saying it's everybody else's fault. Stop politicizing this.

Speaker 42 (01:20:05):
There's been so much confusion and chaos, partly because of
poor communication by officials, but I would say much more
due to miss and disinformation, hyper partisan content being spread
on social media by bad faith actors who are trying
to turn everything into politics. It feels to me as
if a lot of the noise around this very real emergency,

(01:20:29):
a lot of the fictional nonsense, is being driven by
people who want to be able to figure out who
to blame, and yet in some cases it's not that simple,
and in some cases it's actually up to Mother Nature
or an act of God. But there's a lot of
information pollution out there related to this emergency.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
Brian Stelter there hilariously funny. Always is that wrong? Sometimes
it's an act of God. It's not about that. It's
about the reaction to the true It's about the reaction
to the fires. It's about their reaction to the way
that everything's played itself off. And look, are there people

(01:21:08):
out there that are lying?

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Are there people out there that are spreading disinformation because
they think it's true? Yeah, no, that's true. But are
there people out there, for the most part, in good faith,
are telling you their stories about how things are going.
Are there people out there who frustrated because they're seeing
with their own eyes how poorly the reaction has been
from the state and from government officials one percent? It's

(01:21:34):
always somebody else's fault.

Speaker 19 (01:21:36):
Why is Donald Trump politicizing this?

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Why is he blaming people?

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Why can't he just.

Speaker 19 (01:21:40):
Be, you know, a reader like everybody else and wish
people well and say we've got to get our resources
together and stop this. But he has to like fit
people against each other, like that's our first inclination with
like internet brains, go to the Internet and talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
You know, I don't want to, like, I don't.

Speaker 19 (01:21:56):
Want to even elevate him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
To any sort of level, say, can you just be
a human being.

Speaker 19 (01:22:02):
For two seconds and stop it with the juvenile behavior?
Says a lot about what's inside of him, inside of
his mind and heart, and it ain't good.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
Now, there you go, sour Lemon, happy to go right
to the politics of it all and blame Donald Trump
for causing the the the misinformation disinformation Tray steven A. Smith, Steve.
Sometimes there are natural disasters you can't do a damn
thing about. When a hurricane hit your house dout in
South in Florida, what can you do? Are you yelling
at the politicians. I'm not out there to stop the wins.

Speaker 43 (01:22:33):
I'm not going off about the fire. The fires is
not their fault. But when firefighters are standing there and
saying there's not enough water in the fire, like that's true.
When when Donald Trump asked a water to be pumped
from Canada into the LA system and Gavin Newsom opposed that.
When you're hearing about environmentalists compelling him to protect smelt

(01:22:54):
at the expense of LA citizens, of California citizens, Kevin,
I don't need much else than that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
I just don't. Maybe you're nicer than me, Maybe I'm
too cruel. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it.
They gotta go, they gotta go.

Speaker 43 (01:23:07):
I'm you know what, they gotta go.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
They gotta go, Thank you very much. It's about the reaction.
It's about the reaction. How you handle it is what matters,
because life is going to throw things at you. Not
everything's going to go great. Sometimes things are going to
a little sideway. Sometimes things out of your control. Sometimes
it's stuff that you do that was in your control,
but you're screwed up. Now, how do you fix it?

(01:23:30):
That is it? That is it? That's the most important thing,
because that is life. Life is not smooth and easy
all the time. And it's not just black and white.
It was this or this no how you handle it.
Before the fire ever started, the damage was done. But

(01:23:53):
how do you react by blaming other people, by looking
to say it's climate change or it's this or that,
by doing the things that well leaders don't do, trying
to push off responsibility rather than stepping up saying, you
know what, we've got to get this handled. These are
the things we have to do and lead. And I've

(01:24:17):
seen none of that, zero, zilch, nada when it comes
to what is happening in southern California. I've had friends
who've lost places. I have friends who have no idea
what their place is like at this moment in time,
because it can't get back. And I have a lot
of friends who are praying and hoping that these wins

(01:24:41):
over the next seventy two hours don't turn a certain
way and destroy everything they've worked for. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 8 (01:26:27):
Chad Benson?

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 37 (01:26:33):
Signed James Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Serene.

Speaker 14 (01:26:52):
What trapping?

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
That's why I was trending on this beautiful Monday, Monday.
You say, Chad, Yes, it is Monday. It's trending out there.
Starts in the magical world of e La Fires, Taylor Swift,
Rory Sykes, former child actor from Australia who suffered with
cerebral palsy his whole life and he died in the

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Fires thirty two. His mom had a broken arm, she
couldn't get any help and he ended up dying. Mike
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on the Twitter or Instagram. Posted something she posted the
other day. She's not happy with Los Angeles. Let's just
put it that way. Head over to Twitter. Packer. There's
a lot of football here, guys, as well as you know.
It's Monday. Playoffs. Talked about it Packers, Jordan Love Broncos,

(01:28:07):
Latimore Playoffs, Herbert Tomlin, Gobert's Eagles. I mean, it's just everything.
The only two things on here are California and TikTok
that aren't playoffs. That's pretty awesome, nuscamb It's just wrong

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that he says that Chad is just wrong and Trump
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magical world oh Google. Obviously a lot of stuff going
on out there. But in the skies there was supposed
to be something Blue Origin. That's right. Elon Musk, his
rival with the Giants, with the giant phallic rocket Besos,

(01:29:39):
was supposed to launch today.

Speaker 31 (01:29:40):
The reusable rocket marks the first major competitor to Elon
Musk's SpaceX Falcon nine, which has been launching payloads for
more than a decade. New Glen is larger than the
Falcon nine and packs twice the power. Bezos is also
challenging Musk on other fronts, with plans to launch a
constellation of internet satellites to take on SpaceX's star Link
Internet service.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Gotta get it off the ground first, so they scrubbed it.
As the kids would say this morning, they scrubb it,
not getting it off the ground. We're scrubbing it. I'm
sure they'll get it up and running soon. Are you
struggling with a little RD rocket dysfunction? What do you
take for that? Billions of dollars, That's what you did

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know it's trending on the interwebs. A lot of stuff
to get to this hour, more of the fires, a
bunch of other things. Musicing the show, Read the podcast,
Chad Benson Show, Got Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 8 (01:31:18):

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, The countdown to the end of TikTok.

Speaker 9 (01:31:26):
A majority of the justices jured arguments Friday seemed likely
a week. Creators are now pleading with fans to follow
them elsewhere.

Speaker 10 (01:31:35):
Go follow me, you can find me on other platforms.

Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
President elect Trump has promised to save the video sharing app,
and there are a few ways that could potentially happen.
Trump could order the Justice Department not to enforce the ban,
but tech companies may not feel comfortable breaking the law.
Trump could also push Congress to repeal the law, but
it passed with broad bipartisan support.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
It's going to be interesting see what happens. Will it
go away? I know a lot of people are bummed
about it. Look, it's fun, there's no doubt about it,
and I know buying it so oh, but it is
sell it. They're never going to sell it, and they're
never gonna get rid of that algorithm. That algorithm is
a guarded secret. It is national security. It's not just

(01:32:20):
about them spying on us, right, It's not just about
the Chinese spying on us. It's about so many things,
including wasting our time, having us focus on other things
besides the division, the divisions on Twitter. You want division,
you go to Twitter. But it's not just about spying
on us. The question is it even legal to have it.

Speaker 12 (01:32:42):
It's important to know using the app is not illegal.
crime to go into it and to scroll. If it
does get banned, if it is, indeed, man, it's unclear
really what's going to happen. Even the lawyer for TikTok
said he's not completely sure. He told the Supreme Court
justices he believes it will just disappear. That's what happened
in India when they banned the app back in twenty twenty.

(01:33:02):
Apple and Google Play stores will not be able to
you won't be able to.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
Oh man, how would I even watch it?

Speaker 12 (01:33:14):
You could use your web browser a Usafari to get
on the TikTok website. That is going to be a
stripped down version, so the experience is going to be
really different. There's also VPN, the virtual Private network that
makes it think you're not in the country that's banned
the app. There's a small fee that goes along with that.
Whatever you do, though, if you're using a third party
or using these go arounds, be sure that you're not
leaving yourself vulnerable to malware.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Yeah, you don't have malware. It is a bummer, There's
no doubt about that. People trying to figure out what
to do. How do we get people over to wherever
I am going? Now? Who's going to fill the void?
Is it going to be Instagram reels or is it
gonna be Facebook? Is it going to be YouTube? Who's
it going to be? Nobody knows? Could they do something?

Speaker 12 (01:33:56):
The Apple and Google play stores will not be able
to host the app any law longer. So if you
never downloaded it, you won't be able to. If you're
one of the one hundred and seventy million people in
this country who have the app, half the country, you're
no longer going to get software updates. The Internet hosting
companies and data storage providers who support the app won't
be able to do that. If they do, they'll get
hefty fines.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
We'll see, can it be saved? Will it be saved?

Speaker 3 (01:34:22):
T doc?

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Dick doc dick doc from TikTok. We moved to meta.
So Zuckerberg was on with Rogan talking about a lot
of different next, COVID, a bunch of other stuff. But
I found this interesting. Something we have talked about for
quite a long time. About just corporations themselves, and the

(01:34:45):
neutering of corporations, and how corporations have given in in
so many ways to government, to many other things. He's
he's making a turn to the right, or he's just
looking around. He's reading the room, and the room says, yeah,
this is where the world's at.

Speaker 44 (01:34:59):
I think a lot of a corporate world is like
pretty culturally neutered. You know, I grew up, I have
three sisters, no brothers, I have three daughters, no sons,
So I'm like surrounded by girls and women like my
whole life.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
And it's like, I.

Speaker 44 (01:35:14):
Think there's something the the the kind of masculine energy
I think is is good. And obviously, you know society
has plenty of that, but but I think corporate culture
was really culturally neutered. Like trying to get away from it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
You think, oh, it absolutely was just like school. Perfect
example that is they've neutered boys at school. Now if
you're if you're if you're a little too loud, or
you're a little to this or a little to that,
they hey, it's drug them out, get them out right,
get them on a an i EP. This kid's got problems.

(01:35:49):
It's the same thing. They've neutered, they've seyed so much
of what has become corporate America. I do think that
there's just something.

Speaker 44 (01:36:00):
It's like, I know, these all these forms of energy
are good, and I think having a culture that like
celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits
that are really positive. And that has been kind of
a positive experience for me. Just like having a thing
that I can just like do with my guy friends
and like yeah, and it's like we're just like beat

(01:36:20):
each other a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
It's good. It is good.

Speaker 34 (01:36:24):
It's good.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
It's one hundred percent good something to it, no matter
what it is. Dudes being dudes, being around other guys.
It is important. It's outrage and aggression. It is a
good thing. I remember watching uh if it was Jordan
Peterson and they said, so it's good to be violent. No,

(01:36:49):
but you should be capable of it. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm
just talking about violence. Just all like, oh, for this
is about women. No, No, this is just a life.
It's good to have that. It's good to have the
capability of being physical, the capability of doing it that is,

(01:37:10):
those are good things to have. Nobody talks about it's toxic. Masculinity. No, no, no, no,
anything can be toxic. You don't think there's toxic femininity.
Of course there is. Anybody doing something stupid. You could
point to their gender if you want to and say

(01:37:31):
it's only because of their gender. That's ridiculous. Sometimes they're
just a holes regardless of jenner. But guys need to
be guys, and we have neutered guys. Corporate America has
neutered themselves and you know, wanted to be woke, and
you know now they're getting rid of all that crap.
But on the other side of it, we have neutered

(01:37:55):
young men in this country from top to bottom. We have, right,
We've just decided people at the top, you guys, have
to neuter everybody, and people down at the bottom, you know,
who aren't famous or running big corporations. You got to
do all you can to to neuter boys and keep
them in check. We're not raising young men, We're raising

(01:38:17):
veal calves that are wearing a manned suit, and that's
not good.

Speaker 44 (01:38:23):
But I think these things can always go a little far.
And I think it's one thing to say we want
to be kind of like welcoming and make a good
environment for everyone, And I think it's another to basically
say that masculinity is bad. And I just think we
kind of swung culturally to that part of the kind
of the spectrum where you know, it's all like, okay,

(01:38:45):
masculinity is toxic, we have to like get rid of
it completely. It's like no, like it's both of these
things are good, right, It's like, you want like feminine energy,
you want masculine energy. Like I think that that's you're
going to have parts of society that have more of
one or the other. I think that that's all good,
But but I do think the corporate culture sort of
had swung towards being this somewhat more neutered.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
Do you think, By the way, look at the fires
out there. Ninety percent of them are men fighting these fires,
but the three ladies that are running it kind of
run it in the ground.

Speaker 44 (01:39:19):
Smidge And I didn't really feel that until I got
involved in martial arts, which I think is still a
more much more masculine culture, and not that it doesn't
try to be inclusive in its own way, but but
I think that there's just a lot more of that
energy there and I just kind of realized it's like, oh, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
How you become successful at martial arts. You have to
be at least somewhat aggressive. Yeah so, but but yeah,
I mean there are these things. There are like a
few of these things.

Speaker 44 (01:39:46):
Throughout your life where you just you have an experience
and you're like, where has this been my whole life?
And it just like it just turned on like a
part of my brain that I was like, okay, yeah,
like this was this was a piece of the puzzle
that should have been there, and I'm glad it now
is solid.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
I agree, stop neutering men. Let men be men and
let boys be boys. You want to raise a healthy boy,
let him be who he is, let him be healthy,
let him run around, let him do stuff that's crazy
and wild, let him potentially break themselves and break stuff.

(01:40:24):
That's what they do. They're boys, not out of anger
and spite, you guys, get that, but just being boys.
Because when you do that, you raise somebody who's healthy.
And when you don't do that and you try to
put them in certain boxes, you raise somebody who's confused

(01:40:45):
and then finds out in life. They're a little bit
angry as they get older because of all the energy
they've had pent up and the fact that you neuted
them when they didn't need to be neutered. That's it simple.
In corporate America, you are a big problem for sure.

(01:41:05):
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Speaker 8 (01:42:37):
Running with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 21 (01:42:40):
Footboard has surveyed the performance of every song at its
top one hundred from the start of the year two
thousand through the end of the year two twenty twenty four,
and this hit, Mimi's Weave Along Together, comes in at
number ten. Other notable block box in the top ten
include Dua Lipa's Levitating at number nine and ed Sharan
Shape of You at number six on the But what

(01:43:00):
were the most successful longest charting hits on Billboard's top
one hundred songs in the twenty first century.

Speaker 1 (01:43:07):
We're going to find that out. So these are songs
that have been on the chart the longest time since
two thousand till now. So record of the way through
the century. What are the songs that have lasted the
longest this century?

Speaker 14 (01:43:25):
Here are the top five.

Speaker 21 (01:43:27):
Number five I Got a Feeling by the Black Eye,
thousand and nine, Number four Party Rock Anthem by Lmfaoh Good,
Number three Stay by the kid Leroy and Justin Peer.

Speaker 14 (01:43:40):
I know I forgot about that song.

Speaker 21 (01:43:42):
Number two is Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson Bruno Mark
and the biggest song of the twenty first century.

Speaker 14 (01:43:49):
People Blinding Lights by the Weekend.

Speaker 32 (01:43:53):
Yes, I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Song, but the biggest of.

Speaker 21 (01:43:55):
The It longs a fifty seven week run in the
Hot one hundred from February to April twenty twenty one.

Speaker 14 (01:44:02):
It was in the Hot one hundred for more than
a year.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
That's huge. And on top of that billions of views streams,
and on top of that Super Bowl. So I don't
know if I remember the Super Bowl thing. God, it
was so weird. He did his face was kind of
a weird mess. Everybody's like, what did he do to
his face. I don't know. I mean I listened to
some of those. Oh I'm like, God, it's already been

(01:44:29):
twenty five years. Remember why two K? The world was
coming to it in Oh God, it's why two K.
We're never going to be able to get money out
of the ATM ever again. And yet here we are
with all the new things that have happened since then,
things like TikTok, which could be going away very soon.

Speaker 9 (01:44:49):
A majority of the justices juried arguments Friday seemed likely
a week. The creators are now pleading with fans to
follow them elsewhere.

Speaker 10 (01:44:58):
Go follow me, you can find me on other platforms.

Speaker 9 (01:45:01):
President of Like Trump has promised to save the video
sharing app, and there are a few ways that could
potentially happen. Trump could order the Justice Department not to
enforce the ban, but tech companies may not feel comfortable
breaking the law. Trump could also push Congress to repeal
the law, but it passed with broad bipartisan support.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
It's odd because, like people say, how do I feel
about it? Well, I'm not a fan of it. As
far as you know, I know what China is doing,
they're lying to us. We played some of that stuff
earlier from Christophery last night on sixty Minutes, where she's like,
you guys, understand how bad China is. You have no
idea like the things that they want to do, how
bad they are, how they're willing to do anything. And

(01:45:46):
this is one of those things. I mean, this is
an app that is and it is addictive, don't get
me wrong. And it's the algorithm, because that's the whole
thing about somebody buy it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
It?

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
Could somebody buy it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:59):
There's a possibility of a sale.

Speaker 11 (01:46:00):
I think we offer a very compelling package to buy dans.

Speaker 9 (01:46:04):
Sharktingk Star Kevin O'Leary and a group of investors have
offered to buy the app's US assets from its Chinese
parent company, but the owners have said a sale is
a non starter. Even if the band does go through,
it does not mean the Apple vanish from your phone,
but you won't be able to get software updates and
internet hosting companies are not allowed to keep offering their
services to TikTok, so your feed may not show new videos.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
What even if you bought it, you need the algorithm.
That's the most important thing. If you do not have
the algorithm, it doesn't matter. It is the most important
thing is the algorithm. Everything else doesn't matter. You can
reshape it, redo it. But if you've got that algorithm,
that's the addictive part of it. That's the thing that

(01:46:50):
matters most. And they're not going to sell it because
they look at it as an actual secret, a government secret.
So that's why they'll never sell it. Now, could you
see it? Though? What if it goes away? What happens?

Speaker 12 (01:47:03):
Then you could use your web browser a Usafari to
get on a TikTok website that is going to be
a stripped down version, so the experience is going to
be really different. There's also VPN, the virtual Private network
that makes it think you're not in the country that's
banned the app. There's a small fee that goes along
with that. Whatever you do, though, if you're using a
third party or using these go arounds, be sure that

(01:47:24):
you're not leaving yourself vulnerable to malware.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Ooh, malware will want that. What about if I have it, Chad,
could I get in trouble? What if I view something
on the tick? That is the talk.

Speaker 12 (01:47:36):
It's important to know. Using the app is not illegal.
crime to go into it and to scroll. If it
does get banned, if it is indeed banned, it's unclear
really what's going to happen. Even the lawyer for TikTok
said he's not completely sure. He told the Supreme Court
justices he believes it will just disappear. That's what happened
in India when they ban the app back in twenty twenty.

(01:47:56):
Apple on Google Play stores will not be able to
you won't be able to.

Speaker 1 (01:48:05):
It's going to be very interesting. Then you've got the
other side of it. Okay, that would leave a giant hole.
Who's gonna fill it? Is it gonna be Instagram with reels,
shorts with YouTube? Is it going to be Facebook? I
don't know. One thing about Facebook is a lot of
business is still done there and a lot of people
on TikTok use TikTok in a very smart way for

(01:48:27):
their business. So and I remind everybody it's not a
free speech. This has nothing to do with free speech.
When people say you're taking away my free speech. No,
there is other platforms that you can go to to
have a speech, So this has nothing to do with that.
We shall see three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,
twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is your Twitter, your Instagram,

(01:48:51):
everything else right here in the Chad Benson Show. Meanwhile,
as the fires ray John and Southern calib even hardened
firefighters are shocked.

Speaker 6 (01:49:05):
We were there as firefighters from Kerrn County who traveled
more than one hundred miles to assist, inspected the destruction
in Altadena. Captain Tyson Kingsbury telling us he's never seen
a fire this devastating.

Speaker 1 (01:49:18):
The worse fire me.

Speaker 14 (01:49:20):
How long have you been doing this for thirty years?

Speaker 6 (01:49:24):
It comes as authorities announced they would suspend escorts for
residents into areas damaged by the fires.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
It's going to be tough over the next couple of
days as the winds whip up. We shall see say
a prayer for Southern California. We will do it again
tomorrow as always, Night Night Jack.

Speaker 8 (01:49:40):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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