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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is off, but Chief also checks another box when
it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She's
a proud member of the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh,
I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I have a.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
We have worked since early this morning on this evening
show trying to understand these fires. More importantly, I'm less
interested in the fire itself as a as a as
a physical phenomenon, and I am much more interested in where.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Government has failed.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
And this is not to me a political football to
be used to win elections, except for the fact that
the failures by Democrats are for very foreseeable and predictable reasons.
Let's take the case of Karen Bass, who was a
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congressman who was on Joe Biden's short list to be
his vice president, but her praise for Fidel Castro and
her avowed Communist sympathies prevented that. She is a ridiculously
stupid person. And guess what a person can be black
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and also happened to be stupid, and I can point
it out without people needing to be upset. Now, if
they choose to be upset, that's their business. But don't
you cringe because she is stupid. I wish she was white.
I wish she was a man. Because nobody's mad at
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me for calling Governor Goodhair Gavin Newsom out for his
stupidity and his bad policies and politics. Nobody's mad about that.
You're okay with me criticizing him or Joe Biden. But
when it's a black woman, A lot of people on
our side, they hold back. But you shouldn't because what
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you're seeing right now are real repercussions. Sky News reporter,
Why did it have to be a Sky News reporter?
Why is it not a local reporter who cares so
much about Los Angeles that they ask these tough questions.
But here we are, here we are, That's that's where
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we've arrived. Here's sky News reporter. Here is the Sky
News reporter peppering Los Angeles Mayor Karen bass.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Dos an apology for being absent while their homes were burning.
Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions
of dollars?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Madam Mayr. Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Elon Musk 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. There's
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no apology for them. Do you think you should have
been visiting Ghano while this was unfolding?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Back home?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Adam Mayor?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Let me ask you just again, have you anything to
say to the citizens today.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
As you returned, Madam Mayor, just a.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Few words for the citizen today as you return to
the catastrophe.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
David, As you say, she wasn't very keen to answer
any of your questions. There and five chiefs are also
admitting that they just don't have enough personnel to take
out the fires.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, they're fighting all sorts of challenges. They're talking about
a water shortage, there are reports of far hydrant failures.
They've been on able to use fire fighting aircraft for
much of the day due to the smoke that is
billowing ominously from the hills where the wildfires are raging.
And I suppose despite that political storm, this is, of course,
at its heart a human story because with now eighty
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thousand people evacuated, tens of thousands of others are on
standby to be evacuated. Two lives have been lost in
the Eaton fire, which is what's causing the consequence behind us.
The city's iconic landscape almost shrouded completely by the smoke,
and they're really just taking it one step at a time,
hoping at some stage the wind going to change direction
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or to die on and that they're going to be
able to get this fire under control.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
The Rick Caruso, successful real estate developer in Los Angeles,
called in to Box eleven and said, we're out of water.
Then the anchor there at the station said no.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Firefighters had told us we're out of water. And then
the reporter out in the field said, yeah, they're they're
telling us they're out of water.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Can you imagine the most basic service you heard?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Gary of Gary and Samantha Morning Show in Los Angeles
on our sister station k if I. His co host,
Samantha Shannon Sorry said, you know, I don't need the
government to do all the variety programs to travel to
Ghana to you know, all these little silly things that
they spend their time on. I just need them to
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take care of police, fire, roads, and water. That's all
I need the government to do. And if you're doing
all those other things, then you're not able to do this.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Remember the time James Clyburn was on MSNBC. He chaired
Joe Biden's campaign in South Carolina and stole that state
for him. Allegedly, he was on MSNBC gas lighting viewers
about inflation. Oh, you think inflation is a problem, And
then remember this.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
There are concern about things like inflation. But what we've
got to get them to see is an inflation today
is about forty percent of what it was when Joe
Biden took office, and so the inflation rates are down
and people's incomes are up. Unemployment is on the decrease,
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and although we see the prices at the stores costing
more money, people are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In fact earning greater incomes.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
So what we've got to do is make sure that
people see the policies of the Biden administration how they
affect their everyday lives, and get them to see in
his policies that which is real, not what they may
here on social media. One of the focused group. People
talked about social media and the misrepresentation, disinformation. All of
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those things are out there, and that's the battle that
we have to fight, and we've got to do a
better job of fighting it more effectively.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, you think you can't afford your groceries. You think
everything costs more, but you're not making more and you're suffering. Hey, housewife,
trying to keep it all together, keep your kids fed.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You think that it's harder than it was.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Did you hear that there's inflation and your bill is
much higher than it used to be When you don't
buy anything new.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's not true. Just telling you it's not true. This
is called gaslighting.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You know where terms comes from a movie called Gaslight,
where a woman was driven crazy by her husband who
would turn off the light and she would He would say, oh,
you think it's turned off. No, it isn't happening. You're
going crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
The Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mitz Michael Ferry,
which has a beautiful way.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our guest is Colonel Kert Schlichter.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Some of you know him from the airwaves, some of
you know him from townhall dot com. Some of you
know him from his many, many wonderful, entertaining, engaging, big selling,
best selling books, or you may know him a hundred
other ways. He is an army veteran, he's a conservative commentator,
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and I'm proud to say he's a friend. And he's
also married to a nice girl with the family in Texas,
which gives him extra credibility. For me, it's always fun
to give him recommendations on steakhouses when he comes to town,
because we are a steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Town is Houston.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But he is our guest today for the reason that
he is a California resident and very close to the fires.
First of all, Kirk, how close are you to the
fires where you live?
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Well, well, technically, I'm also a Texas resident.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I just bought a house in Houston, so I thought
you were going to I would be commuting. I did
it promptly, busts a pipe and it's now being rebuilt
by some of your great craftsmen there.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
So I'm in California.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
I am at the moment in Manhattan Beach, which is
near where I live. I was just out on the
pier looking north at the fires, and I got to
tell you it's smoke wall. The wall I can't. I
can't see it anymore.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
It is that bad.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So I figure people can see the footage, which is
very compelling on the television. If they're listening to us,
I'd like to give them things they won't know. Let's
start with, how much do we know about how this
thing started? And what would you say has been their response?
I mean, obviously the mayor is Karen bass is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We knew that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Are praise of Fidel Castro. They're running a DEI program
out of the fire department. As we've discussed earlier. Everyone's
named Kristin and they're all lesbians, and all they want
to do is bring in more lesbians into the fire
department rather than fighting fires. We know Adam Carolla seven
years ago applied to be a firefighter and they told him, now,
we don't need white males around here.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We just want a bunch of lesbians named Kristin.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It's very weird, but it's not surprising because the same
thing has happened to Houston and New Orleans and Baltimore.
In Philadelphia, it's just that it's at a moment like
this that innocent citizens have every right to expect that
their taxes went to a fire department in a city
that prepared for moments like this, and they seemingly haven't
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your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well, keep in mind, these innocent citizens.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Are also the people who vote for these Democrats Pacific
palisades which burned out, And again I'm I'm I'm not
dancing on the ashes. I'm simply pointing out a fact
they supported with their money, their votes, and their showbiz credibility.
The very same leftists who decided that it was more
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important to have a bunch of unattractive lesbians. I mean,
if it was lipstick lesbians, I'd be more down with it, Michael,
but it's not. I mean, they're frankly lesbians of halfed
so they check the fat box too. They have tolerated
a entirely Democrat political system from their city council all
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the way up to Governor Gavin Hairstyle, and this incompetence
is the result. And I was pointing out for my
wife today, how it's very interesting that we're getting there's
the same vibe here as there is in England with
the giant mass rape scandal. The liberal elite creates this
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giant problem and then gets really angry when you point
it out, and in fact, the problem is not actually
the problem, like the inability to prepare for a fire,
for the inability to.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Protect your kids.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
The problem is us noticing their failures and attempting to
hold them accountable in their minds. I may write about
this a town home next week, this kind of fire,
that kind of abuse in England, the kind of crime
you see in New York City on the subways. That's
a small price to pay for their glorious leadership. We
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peasants should just shut up and be grateful. Apparently, but
sadly the US peasants are revolting.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, you know, you and I share I don't know
that we've ever disagreed on an issue. You and I
share a belief, you know, a cynicism toward government, a
sort of celebration of the individual. But there are rare
cases that become the case that government is needed, a
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collective response is needed, and law. You and I believe
that the private sector should solve all the problems. This
is one of those cases where you have every expectation
that all the money you've poured into government should go toward, oh,
I don't know, keeping riots from occurring and keeping fires
from burning down palisades.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, this is this is awful.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And tragic in a way that when you get down
to the anecdotal individual level, it just breaks your heart.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
And I'm as a conservative, you know, I was in
the army for twenty seven years. Obviously I believe there
are some things we need to do together through our government.
There is a reason to have government. You keep law
and order, you secure borders, you you have the capacity
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to fight mass disasters, and you know, these are basic
things that government should do.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Have you noticed that our liberal elite.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Can't do these basic things, But they're really good at
things they shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Be doing, like, oh, I don't.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Know, hiring people because of their race, sex, gender, or weight.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's it's not only.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
That these people are misguided and obnoxious, they're bad at
their jobs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, they're they're.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
There are governing elite. It's like it's the West Wing
was replaying seventy's glorious liberal you know, go getters. It
was Larry Kirkley and Moe and probably be more entertaining too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
But the fact is they're not the Elite's not elite.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
They Daniel Greenfield who's a journalist and part of the
Daniel David Horwitz Freedom Center.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He posted a tweet or today.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I don't know if you've seen it, but he said,
the Los Angeles Fire Department is very diverse. It's run
by lesbian's named Kristin. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Meet the team.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Here's Kristin Crowley, first LGBTQ fire chief, four hundred and
forty thousand dollars Harvard Business School mission quote the creation
of systemic equity and inclusion across the LAFD. Number two
Christine Kapner, first lesbian Assistant fire Chief of the Los
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Angeles Fire Department, Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations.
Greatest accomplishment accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend.
Number three Christine Larson, lafd's first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief
pay four hundred thousand, co founder of Equity on Fire.
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Got the job by constantly accusing the lad of being
racist and sexist. Number four Jamie Brown, first LAFD Lesbian
Training Commander. Greatest accomplishment not being named Kristin. Christine Christina
the old Los Angeles Fire Department was not diverse. It
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was run by white men. It's now run by lesbian's
name Kristin. The LAFD is much worse at fighting fires,
but at least it asks the fires.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For their pronouns.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
First, we'll continue our conversation with my friend Colonel Kurt
Schleister about what's going on in Los Angeles with the fires.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
From the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
You're the kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You're like a smacking an ass.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Back to Los Angeles, I mean, bad choices along the way.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, life Angels. So let me ask you, Kurt. You're
a smart guy when it comes to politics. You're an
organizational guy. In addition to being a very sucessful lawyer.
You're an army colonel and you're still involved with that.
You understand leadership, you understand management, you understand organizations. Do
you think it's possible because you can't change the demographics
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of a city. You can't fix Baltimore, you can't fix Philly,
you can't fix New Orleans because you don't have enough
citizens in those places to elect a person on the
right basis.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Right, that's true.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You have driven out all the normal people.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, and I don't think you can ever fix San Francisco,
although they did at least recall their district attorney.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
How bad is it possible?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I mean, you have had Reordan, you know, you have
had Republican mayors, for what that's worth. And Schwarzenegger did
come in in the state and get elected, even though
that was more about star power and a weird recall.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But is there any hope that politically you can change
this leadership.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I think it's gonna be very, very tough.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
The fact is.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
The California is now kind of a feudal system. There
are very rich people and they're Democrats, and they're very
poor people and a lot of them and they're also Democrats.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And then normal middle.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Class people have largely left. The very poor people are
never going to vote for someone who's not willing to
give them more money. The very rich people who stay
because the lot of rich people are leaving. They're very
rich people who stay have these liberal views that are
more akin to a religion. You would think that when
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your house burns down because of government and competence, and
when is inevitably going to happen, they.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Try and rebuild. And the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Screws them over on permits, and the Coastal Commission refuses
to let them rebuild. They're not going to Very few
of them are going to take are going to have
the strength of character to actually challenge their own quasi
religious beliefs. Remember, woke liberalism is a replacement for religion.
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It's what fills that space inside normal people where you
usually have Jesus.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Instead they have Ebram x Kendy. And it's very hard
for them to to.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
You know, come confront the fact that they've been wrong
about everything. I mean, if you look at if you
look at social media, you know half the people on
it are mad at Donald Trump because Donald Trump's pointing
out the incompetence of the response. And that's the real problem,
isn't it people noticing their failures and demanding accountability. That's
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the problem. And you see that over and over again.
You see that in the New York subway crimes free,
you see that in the rape gangs in England. The
problem is you people not being happy that we bless
you with.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Our rule over you.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
The upside of having a polemicist as a guest as
opposed to a an expert on a subject is there
are always good terms of phrases, and you're always good
for that. When we've talked about your books, I know
that to be the case, you know, Kurt, I use
this exam I use a lot of sports analogies much
as Klay Travis does. I don't claim to have his
sports knowledge, but I think a lot of people have
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some sports background, at least as a fan, and most
people play to youth sports, and as a fan, they
you know they will tolerate their team losing. And so
I often make the point, for instance, if we used
DEI to choose our quarterback of our favorite football team,
you wouldn't tolerate it because the team loses. And what
we're seeing here is the city of Los Angeles losing.
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There are actual consequences to all these fat, dumpy, lazy
lesbians who are running the Los Angeles Fire Department. And
I will make the point because Daniel Greenfield made the
point that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It is hold. I'm sorry, I had I had background,
I had some sound on my background, but that it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Is the case that these individuals were being promoted without
having any experience because they wanted lesbian women in these
positions of authority. And they were being promoted not by performance.
And so what you've got here is somebody that can't
play quarterback for the team, and you're going to lose.
Except this isn't a sporting event. This is real life,
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and people's lives are being turned upside down and lost
because of this.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And that's the part that Chap's my ass, Kurt.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Roddy, and it should and we saw it last week too.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Remember when that guy you know ran the truck through
a bunch of people in New Orleans outcomes you know,
special Agent Nosering who could barely speak English, and.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Decides, oh, well, it can't be terrorism.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Nobody look at that black iceis flag waving from the
back of the truck.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And then in the police chief of New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
The four four hundred year old lady who may or
may not be a lesbian. You know, you look at
her and you're like, this is your top cop. The
fact is dei and wokeness. The whole purpose is to
promote incompetence people based on criteria that doesn't matter. Look,
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if I would be the first to be going, hey,
check out our own Christine lesbian fact chick fire department leadership. Look,
they Look how they took on this fire and beat
the hell out of it and.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Saved all these houses. They're the best?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Would I'd love it if you're the best, be.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
A giant lesbian named Christine.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
They're not the best.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
They're the worst.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
And I'm tired of it. And the fact is that
it's going to be very tough for a lot of
these people in Los Angeles who are so invested in
their leftist identity to turn around and say, you know,
maybe I was wrong. Maybe we should just find the
best person for the job. You know, do that whole
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Martin Luther King thing that we heard so much about
and promptly decide to ignore.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
It's frustrating because if it was simply a question of
one sporting I can handle.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Look.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I've been a Houston sports fan for years.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
The Astros didn't win the championship till twenty seventeen, Rockets
didn't win it till the mid nineties, and the Texans
have never been to the Super Bowl, much less winning.
Although I'm hopeful for this year, I can handle losing
sporting events. My life is not tied to it. What
I can't handle is people making decisions on something other
than performance and what we're watching in Los Angeles, and
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you're a military man, you're an army colonel. We're going
to see this on the battlefield. And that's the part
that is even more horrified.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Oh, it's already getting people killed. The failure of our
military to stand up against wokeness has already gotten people
killed and will continue to get people killed.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
That's why I'm so hopeful that peat.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Hags that comes in acts like a commander, looks these
four stars in their beaty, little bureaucrat eyes and.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Says, DEI is finished.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Generals, admirals, do you have any questions about what.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
My intent is. It's over, It's done.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Come back here by Friday and report to me that
it's finished and you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Have rooted it out.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
And if you don't do that, I am going to
relieve you for cause and retire you at a rank
lower where you last perform satisfactorily. Anyone have any questions. Look,
I've taken over many, many units. I was one of
the guys that generals would send to broken units to
go fix them. You walk in, you set the standard,
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and the standard has to be You guys need to
be the best. I don't care about your I don't
care about your collar. I don't care about your gender.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I don't care about.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Anything except whether you're going to kill more of the
enemy and say and keep more of my guys alive
than anything else.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
That's all that matters. That's my pastor.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
You have a.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Military I appreciate your service, and I appreciate you being
our guest. I am up against a break, my friend.
We'll talk again soon. Stay safe, Oh thank you, Arrest
me or.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Take me to Texas. So talking about it, he gets
out of this stage.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I think Michael Berry robs Michael Show, I like you.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
We have a listener named Harry Wilkinson. He's a musician
in Nashville. He's been around a long time, played on
a lot of important things, not the least of which
is that he was the drummer or Michael Martin Murphy
who had a song called Wildfire. And when I was
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a kid, we would walk around as it was it
was hot. On the radio, she ran calling wildfire, and
almost everybody my age knows that term. And it's not
until many years later that I even listened to words
of the song and realized it's not actually about a wildfire.
It's about a horse named Wildfire. And I have used
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the term wildfire in the course of my life to say,
you know, I think that things spread like wildfire, and
it's sort of like.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I would explain it. And my grandmother.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
She had chickens and we'd go out and get the eggs,
and you know, she'd cook the eggs for breakfast, and
she had hogs and had butchered the hogs for the bacon.
And it was always very interesting because she was a
lady of the earth. She was tough, she was ruddy.
She cut her own hair and it wasn't it wasn't pretty.
She didn't wear any makeup, but what was she tough?
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And boy could she cook? Buy did she ever teach
me a lot of things? And the first time I
remember witnessing her walking out barefoot, walking up to a chicken,
snapping its neck and then throwing it down to let
it run around and die, which would take, you know,
ten seconds or so. For the rest of my life,
that image was burned running around. I could chicken his
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head cut off, because that's what it did, went right right, right, right,
right right, and then fell over. And so when I
used that term, that visual imagery is there. But when
I would say in the course of my life that
something spread like wildfare, or when someone described something that
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was not an actual fire, I really never understood what
that meant. And then we had these horrible fires in Bastrop, Texas,
which is outside of Austin. Elon is kind of building
a tech city there and it's it's just an idyllic
little community that's some rolling hills and it's very green,
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and it was a beautiful, beautiful, kind of untouched place
that's changing now because of all the people moving in there,
the jobs and development. But there were there were horrible
fires there, and I remember driving through months later and
all the green was gone, all the glory and the
beauty was gone, and in its wake was this very
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very ugly black char I asked my wife's aunt one time.
She was a surgeon in New Jersey and we called
her choti Aunty, and I said, chunt, what what is
when you open She was doing a breast removal the
next day because this woman had breast cancer. I said,
when you open that up and you see that cancer,
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what does it look like? And she said, exactly what
you would imagine. It looks like it's black and burned,
it's it's charred, it's it's it's ugly. It is exactly
what you think, because cancer is awful and it's ugly. Well,
right now we're still in the burning embers phase. But
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I got to tell you I'm still of an era.
Maybe a lot of people aren't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That. I love America and I love everything. I love
all the lore that I I grew up with.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You know, I think of Baltimore as the home to
the famous Pratt Library, if not the greatest library in
the world, one of them. I think of New York
as a place that I always wanted to, always wanted
to go and visit, the great New York in Miami
with its great Cuban heritage, and Chicago with the commodities trade.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
This is my country and I love it. I love
the physical spaces and the history of them.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
But I.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Expect you to do that. Sorry. I love the people.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I'm an American first last always, I am an American,
and I love my fellow Americans. I despise is the
idea of breaking into our country, and you are nothing
to me if you do so, because you don't respect
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our country, our laws, and our people. Because our people
are the government. We are a self governing people, a republic,
not a democracy. And I got to tell you, folks,
I don't mean to sound corny, but when I watch
my neighbors in Los Angeles, and I say that as
a lifelong Texan, but these are my neighbors.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Every person there.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Has a family member who's fought for this country. Most
of these people have a family member who has served
as a police officer, as a firefighter, as a school teacher.
They've delivered our mail, they've taught our kids, they've cleaned
the streets, they've cooked our meals.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And to watch what's happening, I want.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
To be very clear that no one misses the point
of my I am angry at Karen Vass and Gavin
Newsom and Joe Biden and these fat lesbian women that
have occupied the fire department, and all they care about
is hating men who failed their jobs. I want to
be very careful that you understand. I take no pride.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't gloat that hey, we were right, they were wrong.
I'm going to point it out, but I would rather
they do their job well.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You know, I wish there wasn't a dimes worth the
difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I wish that was true. That would be better. I
wish that was true. I wish it was the case that.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
The Democrats were governing well, that they had responded to
these fires and extinguished them and saved the people and
saved the property.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I wish that were the case. Well, it's not, and
there have to be consequences.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
And to channel that anger into love for the innocence,
love for the victim, repudiation for those who are at fault.
But let's make sure, and I'm saying this to myself
as well, that while we're screaming and hollering in anger
at those Democrats and their failures, we remember the victims
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because this is not their fault. And if you say, well,
they voted for this, no, I'm a Republican in the
Democrat city. I didn't vote for Sheila Jackson, Lene. I
didn't vote for the Democrats to screw things up. I
didn't vote for Joe Biden, but I had to live
through it, and we've all been victims of him as well.
And I would like to close by saying, there are
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good people doing good things in California right now. Some
of them are wearing uniforms. Some of them are on duty,
some of them are on overtime, and some of them
are small business owners and retirees and veterans recently home
and moms and dads and school teachers and everything else
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who are getting out there, who are taking people into
their homes, who were helping evacuate people. This really does
demonstrate the best of America. So while we have focused
on the show entirely this evening and maybe too much, okay,
maybe too much, we have focused entirely on the evils
of the Democrats who have failed the people of their state,
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it should not go without saying that there are good
people who knows their politics.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
They voted for Trump and guarantee.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
You, but who are out there serving and sacrificing and suffering.
They're fellow Californians, fellow Californians. So for every single one
of you who's doing that in Los Angeles, beyond God,
bless you and thank you from all of us.
It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is off, but Chief also checks another box when
it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She's
a proud member of the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh,
I didn't even know that that was an opportunity for me.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I have a.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
We have worked since early this morning on this evening
show trying to understand these fires. More importantly, I'm less
interested in the fire itself as a as a as
a physical phenomenon, and I am much more interested in where.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Government has failed.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
And this is not to me a political football to
be used to win elections, except for the fact that
the failures by Democrats are for very foreseeable and predictable reasons.
Let's take the case of Karen Bass, who was a
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congressman who was on Joe Biden's short list to be
his vice president, but her praise for Fidel Castro and
her avowed Communist sympathies prevented that. She is a ridiculously
stupid person. And guess what a person can be black
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and also happened to be stupid, and I can point
it out without people needing to be upset. Now, if
they choose to be upset, that's their business. But don't
you cringe because she is stupid. I wish she was white.
I wish she was a man. Because nobody's mad at
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me for calling Governor Goodhair Gavin Newsom out for his
stupidity and his bad policies and politics. Nobody's mad about that.
You're okay with me criticizing him or Joe Biden. But
when it's a black woman, A lot of people on
our side, they hold back. But you shouldn't because what
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you're seeing right now are real repercussions. Sky News reporter,
Why did it have to be a Sky News reporter?
Why is it not a local reporter who cares so
much about Los Angeles that they ask these tough questions.
But here we are, here we are, That's that's where
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we've arrived. Here's sky News reporter. Here is the Sky
News reporter peppering Los Angeles Mayor Karen bass.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Dos an apology for being absent while their homes were burning.
Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions
of dollars?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Madam Mayr. Have you nothing to say today?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?
Elon Musk 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. There's
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no apology for them. Do you think you should have
been visiting Ghano while this was unfolding?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Back home?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Adam Mayor?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Let me ask you just again, have you anything to
say to the citizens today.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
As you returned, Madam Mayor, just a.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Few words for the citizen today as you return to
the catastrophe.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
David, As you say, she wasn't very keen to answer
any of your questions. There and five chiefs are also
admitting that they just don't have enough personnel to take
out the fires.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, they're fighting all sorts of challenges. They're talking about
a water shortage, there are reports of far hydrant failures.
They've been on able to use fire fighting aircraft for
much of the day due to the smoke that is
billowing ominously from the hills where the wildfires are raging.
And I suppose despite that political storm, this is, of course,
at its heart a human story because with now eighty
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thousand people evacuated, tens of thousands of others are on
standby to be evacuated. Two lives have been lost in
the Eaton fire, which is what's causing the consequence behind us.
The city's iconic landscape almost shrouded completely by the smoke,
and they're really just taking it one step at a time,
hoping at some stage the wind going to change direction
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or to die on and that they're going to be
able to get this fire under control.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
The Rick Caruso, successful real estate developer in Los Angeles,
called in to Box eleven and said, we're out of water.
Then the anchor there at the station said no.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Firefighters had told us we're out of water. And then
the reporter out in the field said, yeah, they're they're
telling us they're out of water.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Can you imagine the most basic service you heard?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Gary of Gary and Samantha Morning Show in Los Angeles
on our sister station k if I. His co host,
Samantha Shannon Sorry said, you know, I don't need the
government to do all the variety programs to travel to
Ghana to you know, all these little silly things that
they spend their time on. I just need them to
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take care of police, fire, roads, and water. That's all
I need the government to do. And if you're doing
all those other things, then you're not able to do this.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Remember the time James Clyburn was on MSNBC. He chaired
Joe Biden's campaign in South Carolina and stole that state
for him. Allegedly, he was on MSNBC gas lighting viewers
about inflation. Oh, you think inflation is a problem, And
then remember this.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
There are concern about things like inflation. But what we've
got to get them to see is an inflation today
is about forty percent of what it was when Joe
Biden took office, and so the inflation rates are down
and people's incomes are up. Unemployment is on the decrease,
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and although we see the prices at the stores costing
more money, people are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In fact earning greater incomes.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
So what we've got to do is make sure that
people see the policies of the Biden administration how they
affect their everyday lives, and get them to see in
his policies that which is real, not what they may
here on social media. One of the focused group. People
talked about social media and the misrepresentation, disinformation. All of
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those things are out there, and that's the battle that
we have to fight, and we've got to do a
better job of fighting it more effectively.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Oh, you think you can't afford your groceries. You think
everything costs more, but you're not making more and you're suffering. Hey, housewife,
trying to keep it all together, keep your kids fed.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You think that it's harder than it was.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Did you hear that there's inflation and your bill is
much higher than it used to be When you don't
buy anything new.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's not true. Just telling you it's not true. This
is called gaslighting.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You know where terms comes from a movie called Gaslight,
where a woman was driven crazy by her husband who
would turn off the light and she would He would say, oh,
you think it's turned off. No, it isn't happening. You're
going crazy.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
The Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mitz Michael Ferry,
which has a beautiful way.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Our guest is Colonel Kert Schlichter.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Some of you know him from the airwaves, some of
you know him from townhall dot com. Some of you
know him from his many, many wonderful, entertaining, engaging, big selling,
best selling books, or you may know him a hundred
other ways. He is an army veteran, he's a conservative commentator,
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and I'm proud to say he's a friend. And he's
also married to a nice girl with the family in Texas,
which gives him extra credibility. For me, it's always fun
to give him recommendations on steakhouses when he comes to town,
because we are a steakhouse.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Town is Houston.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
But he is our guest today for the reason that
he is a California resident and very close to the fires.
First of all, Kirk, how close are you to the
fires where you live?
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Well, well, technically, I'm also a Texas resident.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I just bought a house in Houston, so I thought
you were going to I would be commuting. I did
it promptly, busts a pipe and it's now being rebuilt
by some of your great craftsmen there.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
So I'm in California.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
I am at the moment in Manhattan Beach, which is
near where I live. I was just out on the
pier looking north at the fires, and I got to
tell you it's smoke wall. The wall I can't. I
can't see it anymore.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
It is that bad.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So I figure people can see the footage, which is
very compelling on the television. If they're listening to us,
I'd like to give them things they won't know. Let's
start with, how much do we know about how this
thing started? And what would you say has been their response?
I mean, obviously the mayor is Karen bass is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We knew that.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Are praise of Fidel Castro. They're running a DEI program
out of the fire department. As we've discussed earlier. Everyone's
named Kristin and they're all lesbians, and all they want
to do is bring in more lesbians into the fire
department rather than fighting fires. We know Adam Carolla seven
years ago applied to be a firefighter and they told him, now,
we don't need white males around here.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
We just want a bunch of lesbians named Kristin.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
It's very weird, but it's not surprising because the same
thing has happened to Houston and New Orleans and Baltimore.
In Philadelphia, it's just that it's at a moment like
this that innocent citizens have every right to expect that
their taxes went to a fire department in a city
that prepared for moments like this, and they seemingly haven't
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your thoughts.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Well, keep in mind, these innocent citizens.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Are also the people who vote for these Democrats Pacific
palisades which burned out, And again I'm I'm I'm not
dancing on the ashes. I'm simply pointing out a fact
they supported with their money, their votes, and their showbiz credibility.
The very same leftists who decided that it was more
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important to have a bunch of unattractive lesbians. I mean,
if it was lipstick lesbians, I'd be more down with it, Michael,
but it's not. I mean, they're frankly lesbians of halfed
so they check the fat box too. They have tolerated
a entirely Democrat political system from their city council all
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the way up to Governor Gavin Hairstyle, and this incompetence
is the result. And I was pointing out for my
wife today, how it's very interesting that we're getting there's
the same vibe here as there is in England with
the giant mass rape scandal. The liberal elite creates this
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giant problem and then gets really angry when you point
it out, and in fact, the problem is not actually
the problem, like the inability to prepare for a fire,
for the inability to.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Protect your kids.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
The problem is us noticing their failures and attempting to
hold them accountable in their minds. I may write about
this a town home next week, this kind of fire,
that kind of abuse in England, the kind of crime
you see in New York City on the subways. That's
a small price to pay for their glorious leadership. We
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peasants should just shut up and be grateful. Apparently, but
sadly the US peasants are revolting.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, you know, you and I share I don't know
that we've ever disagreed on an issue. You and I
share a belief, you know, a cynicism toward government, a
sort of celebration of the individual. But there are rare
cases that become the case that government is needed, a
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collective response is needed, and law. You and I believe
that the private sector should solve all the problems. This
is one of those cases where you have every expectation
that all the money you've poured into government should go toward, oh,
I don't know, keeping riots from occurring and keeping fires
from burning down palisades.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, this is this is awful.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
And tragic in a way that when you get down
to the anecdotal individual level, it just breaks your heart.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
It's horrifying.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
And I'm as a conservative, you know, I was in
the army for twenty seven years. Obviously I believe there
are some things we need to do together through our government.
There is a reason to have government. You keep law
and order, you secure borders, you you have the capacity
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to fight mass disasters, and you know, these are basic
things that government should do.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Have you noticed that our liberal elite.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Can't do these basic things, But they're really good at
things they shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Be doing, like, oh, I don't.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Know, hiring people because of their race, sex, gender, or weight.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's it's not only.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
That these people are misguided and obnoxious, they're bad at
their jobs.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, they're they're.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
There are governing elite. It's like it's the West Wing
was replaying seventy's glorious liberal you know, go getters. It
was Larry Kirkley and Moe and probably be more entertaining too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
But the fact is they're not the Elite's not elite.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
They Daniel Greenfield who's a journalist and part of the
Daniel David Horwitz Freedom Center.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He posted a tweet or today.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I don't know if you've seen it, but he said,
the Los Angeles Fire Department is very diverse. It's run
by lesbian's named Kristin. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Meet the team.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Here's Kristin Crowley, first LGBTQ fire chief, four hundred and
forty thousand dollars Harvard Business School mission quote the creation
of systemic equity and inclusion across the LAFD. Number two
Christine Kapner, first lesbian Assistant fire Chief of the Los
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Angeles Fire Department, Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations.
Greatest accomplishment accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend.
Number three Christine Larson, lafd's first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief
pay four hundred thousand, co founder of Equity on Fire.
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Got the job by constantly accusing the lad of being
racist and sexist. Number four Jamie Brown, first LAFD Lesbian
Training Commander. Greatest accomplishment not being named Kristin. Christine Christina
the old Los Angeles Fire Department was not diverse. It
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was run by white men. It's now run by lesbian's
name Kristin. The LAFD is much worse at fighting fires,
but at least it asks the fires.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For their pronouns.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
First, we'll continue our conversation with my friend Colonel Kurt
Schleister about what's going on in Los Angeles with the fires.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
From the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
You're the kind of guy.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You're like a smacking an ass.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Back to Los Angeles, I mean, bad choices along the way.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah, life Angels. So let me ask you, Kurt. You're
a smart guy when it comes to politics. You're an
organizational guy. In addition to being a very sucessful lawyer.
You're an army colonel and you're still involved with that.
You understand leadership, you understand management, you understand organizations. Do
you think it's possible because you can't change the demographics
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of a city. You can't fix Baltimore, you can't fix Philly,
you can't fix New Orleans because you don't have enough
citizens in those places to elect a person on the
right basis.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
Right, that's true.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
You have driven out all the normal people.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, and I don't think you can ever fix San Francisco,
although they did at least recall their district attorney.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
How bad is it possible?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I mean, you have had Reordan, you know, you have
had Republican mayors, for what that's worth. And Schwarzenegger did
come in in the state and get elected, even though
that was more about star power and a weird recall.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But is there any hope that politically you can change
this leadership.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
I think it's gonna be very, very tough.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
The fact is.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
The California is now kind of a feudal system. There
are very rich people and they're Democrats, and they're very
poor people and a lot of them and they're also Democrats.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And then normal middle.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Class people have largely left. The very poor people are
never going to vote for someone who's not willing to
give them more money. The very rich people who stay
because the lot of rich people are leaving. They're very
rich people who stay have these liberal views that are
more akin to a religion. You would think that when
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your house burns down because of government and competence, and
when is inevitably going to happen, they.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Try and rebuild. And the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Screws them over on permits, and the Coastal Commission refuses
to let them rebuild. They're not going to Very few
of them are going to take are going to have
the strength of character to actually challenge their own quasi
religious beliefs. Remember, woke liberalism is a replacement for religion.
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It's what fills that space inside normal people where you
usually have Jesus.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Instead they have Ebram x Kendy. And it's very hard
for them to to.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
You know, come confront the fact that they've been wrong
about everything. I mean, if you look at if you
look at social media, you know half the people on
it are mad at Donald Trump because Donald Trump's pointing
out the incompetence of the response. And that's the real problem,
isn't it people noticing their failures and demanding accountability. That's
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the problem. And you see that over and over again.
You see that in the New York subway crimes free,
you see that in the rape gangs in England. The
problem is you people not being happy that we bless
you with.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Our rule over you.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
The upside of having a polemicist as a guest as
opposed to a an expert on a subject is there
are always good terms of phrases, and you're always good
for that. When we've talked about your books, I know
that to be the case, you know, Kurt, I use
this exam I use a lot of sports analogies much
as Klay Travis does. I don't claim to have his
sports knowledge, but I think a lot of people have
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some sports background, at least as a fan, and most
people play to youth sports, and as a fan, they
you know they will tolerate their team losing. And so
I often make the point, for instance, if we used
DEI to choose our quarterback of our favorite football team,
you wouldn't tolerate it because the team loses. And what
we're seeing here is the city of Los Angeles losing.
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There are actual consequences to all these fat, dumpy, lazy
lesbians who are running the Los Angeles Fire Department. And
I will make the point because Daniel Greenfield made the
point that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It is hold. I'm sorry, I had I had background,
I had some sound on my background, but that it.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Is the case that these individuals were being promoted without
having any experience because they wanted lesbian women in these
positions of authority. And they were being promoted not by performance.
And so what you've got here is somebody that can't
play quarterback for the team, and you're going to lose.
Except this isn't a sporting event. This is real life,
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and people's lives are being turned upside down and lost
because of this.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And that's the part that Chap's my ass, Kurt.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Roddy, and it should and we saw it last week too.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Remember when that guy you know ran the truck through
a bunch of people in New Orleans outcomes you know,
special Agent Nosering who could barely speak English, and.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Decides, oh, well, it can't be terrorism.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Nobody look at that black iceis flag waving from the
back of the truck.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And then in the police chief of New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
The four four hundred year old lady who may or
may not be a lesbian. You know, you look at
her and you're like, this is your top cop. The
fact is dei and wokeness. The whole purpose is to
promote incompetence people based on criteria that doesn't matter. Look,
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if I would be the first to be going, hey,
check out our own Christine lesbian fact chick fire department leadership. Look,
they Look how they took on this fire and beat
the hell out of it and.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Saved all these houses. They're the best?
Speaker 8 (22:27):
Would I'd love it if you're the best, be.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
A giant lesbian named Christine.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
They're not the best.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
They're the worst.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
And I'm tired of it. And the fact is that
it's going to be very tough for a lot of
these people in Los Angeles who are so invested in
their leftist identity to turn around and say, you know,
maybe I was wrong. Maybe we should just find the
best person for the job. You know, do that whole
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Martin Luther King thing that we heard so much about
and promptly decide to ignore.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
It's frustrating because if it was simply a question of
one sporting I can handle.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Look.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I've been a Houston sports fan for years.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
The Astros didn't win the championship till twenty seventeen, Rockets
didn't win it till the mid nineties, and the Texans
have never been to the Super Bowl, much less winning.
Although I'm hopeful for this year, I can handle losing
sporting events. My life is not tied to it. What
I can't handle is people making decisions on something other
than performance and what we're watching in Los Angeles, and
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you're a military man, you're an army colonel. We're going
to see this on the battlefield. And that's the part
that is even more horrified.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Oh, it's already getting people killed. The failure of our
military to stand up against wokeness has already gotten people
killed and will continue to get people killed.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
That's why I'm so hopeful that peat.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Hags that comes in acts like a commander, looks these
four stars in their beaty, little bureaucrat eyes and.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Says, DEI is finished.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Generals, admirals, do you have any questions about what.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
My intent is. It's over, It's done.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Come back here by Friday and report to me that
it's finished and you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Have rooted it out.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
And if you don't do that, I am going to
relieve you for cause and retire you at a rank
lower where you last perform satisfactorily. Anyone have any questions. Look,
I've taken over many, many units. I was one of
the guys that generals would send to broken units to
go fix them. You walk in, you set the standard,
(24:36):
and the standard has to be You guys need to
be the best. I don't care about your I don't
care about your collar. I don't care about your gender.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I don't care about.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Anything except whether you're going to kill more of the
enemy and say and keep more of my guys alive
than anything else.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
That's all that matters. That's my pastor.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
You have a.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Military I appreciate your service, and I appreciate you being
our guest. I am up against a break, my friend.
We'll talk again soon. Stay safe, Oh thank you, Arrest
me or.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Take me to Texas. So talking about it, he gets
out of this stage.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I think Michael Berry robs Michael Show, I like you.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
We have a listener named Harry Wilkinson. He's a musician
in Nashville. He's been around a long time, played on
a lot of important things, not the least of which
is that he was the drummer or Michael Martin Murphy
who had a song called Wildfire. And when I was
(25:39):
a kid, we would walk around as it was it
was hot. On the radio, she ran calling wildfire, and
almost everybody my age knows that term. And it's not
until many years later that I even listened to words
of the song and realized it's not actually about a wildfire.
It's about a horse named Wildfire. And I have used
(26:03):
the term wildfire in the course of my life to say,
you know, I think that things spread like wildfire, and
it's sort of like.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I would explain it. And my grandmother.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
She had chickens and we'd go out and get the eggs,
and you know, she'd cook the eggs for breakfast, and
she had hogs and had butchered the hogs for the bacon.
And it was always very interesting because she was a
lady of the earth. She was tough, she was ruddy.
She cut her own hair and it wasn't it wasn't pretty.
She didn't wear any makeup, but what was she tough?
(26:38):
And boy could she cook? Buy did she ever teach
me a lot of things? And the first time I
remember witnessing her walking out barefoot, walking up to a chicken,
snapping its neck and then throwing it down to let
it run around and die, which would take, you know,
ten seconds or so. For the rest of my life,
that image was burned running around. I could chicken his
(27:00):
head cut off, because that's what it did, went right right, right, right,
right right, and then fell over. And so when I
used that term, that visual imagery is there. But when
I would say in the course of my life that
something spread like wildfare, or when someone described something that
(27:20):
was not an actual fire, I really never understood what
that meant. And then we had these horrible fires in Bastrop, Texas,
which is outside of Austin. Elon is kind of building
a tech city there and it's it's just an idyllic
little community that's some rolling hills and it's very green,
(27:42):
and it was a beautiful, beautiful, kind of untouched place
that's changing now because of all the people moving in there,
the jobs and development. But there were there were horrible
fires there, and I remember driving through months later and
all the green was gone, all the glory and the
beauty was gone, and in its wake was this very
(28:04):
very ugly black char I asked my wife's aunt one time.
She was a surgeon in New Jersey and we called
her choti Aunty, and I said, chunt, what what is
when you open She was doing a breast removal the
next day because this woman had breast cancer. I said,
when you open that up and you see that cancer,
(28:25):
what does it look like? And she said, exactly what
you would imagine. It looks like it's black and burned,
it's it's charred, it's it's it's ugly. It is exactly
what you think, because cancer is awful and it's ugly. Well,
right now we're still in the burning embers phase. But
(28:47):
I got to tell you I'm still of an era.
Maybe a lot of people aren't.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
That. I love America and I love everything. I love
all the lore that I I grew up with.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You know, I think of Baltimore as the home to
the famous Pratt Library, if not the greatest library in
the world, one of them. I think of New York
as a place that I always wanted to, always wanted
to go and visit, the great New York in Miami
with its great Cuban heritage, and Chicago with the commodities trade.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
This is my country and I love it. I love
the physical spaces and the history of them.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
But I.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Expect you to do that. Sorry. I love the people.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
I'm an American first last always, I am an American,
and I love my fellow Americans. I despise is the
idea of breaking into our country, and you are nothing
to me if you do so, because you don't respect
(30:06):
our country, our laws, and our people. Because our people
are the government. We are a self governing people, a republic,
not a democracy. And I got to tell you, folks,
I don't mean to sound corny, but when I watch
my neighbors in Los Angeles, and I say that as
a lifelong Texan, but these are my neighbors.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Every person there.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Has a family member who's fought for this country. Most
of these people have a family member who has served
as a police officer, as a firefighter, as a school teacher.
They've delivered our mail, they've taught our kids, they've cleaned
the streets, they've cooked our meals.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And to watch what's happening, I want.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
To be very clear that no one misses the point
of my I am angry at Karen Vass and Gavin
Newsom and Joe Biden and these fat lesbian women that
have occupied the fire department, and all they care about
is hating men who failed their jobs. I want to
be very careful that you understand. I take no pride.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I don't gloat that hey, we were right, they were wrong.
I'm going to point it out, but I would rather
they do their job well.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You know, I wish there wasn't a dimes worth the
difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I wish that was true. That would be better. I
wish that was true. I wish it was the case that.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
The Democrats were governing well, that they had responded to
these fires and extinguished them and saved the people and
saved the property.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I wish that were the case. Well, it's not, and
there have to be consequences.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
And to channel that anger into love for the innocence,
love for the victim, repudiation for those who are at fault.
But let's make sure, and I'm saying this to myself
as well, that while we're screaming and hollering in anger
at those Democrats and their failures, we remember the victims
(32:23):
because this is not their fault. And if you say, well,
they voted for this, no, I'm a Republican in the
Democrat city. I didn't vote for Sheila Jackson, Lene. I
didn't vote for the Democrats to screw things up. I
didn't vote for Joe Biden, but I had to live
through it, and we've all been victims of him as well.
And I would like to close by saying, there are
(32:43):
good people doing good things in California right now. Some
of them are wearing uniforms. Some of them are on duty,
some of them are on overtime, and some of them
are small business owners and retirees and veterans recently home
and moms and dads and school teachers and everything else
(33:05):
who are getting out there, who are taking people into
their homes, who were helping evacuate people. This really does
demonstrate the best of America. So while we have focused
on the show entirely this evening and maybe too much, okay,
maybe too much, we have focused entirely on the evils
of the Democrats who have failed the people of their state,
(33:31):
it should not go without saying that there are good
people who knows their politics.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
They voted for Trump and guarantee.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
You, but who are out there serving and sacrificing and suffering.
They're fellow Californians, fellow Californians. So for every single one
of you who's doing that in Los Angeles, beyond God,
bless you and thank you from all of us.
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