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you know. One of one of the things that is great but also is able, I want to say, I don't want to be used for bad but used to make a point and really drive a point home, is is the ability to side by side these pictures of devastation with like Google Earth street View photos and and and see what these neighborhoods, these business districts, the It's crazy because the Pacific Palisades Mall, which somehow survived, is

really famous. The Pacific Palisades Mall. If you go on like IMDb and you look at like where it's a filming location for stuff, it's everywhere. I think they used they I think they used the Palisades Mall for Back to the Future too, when they're out there in the parking lot. But it's just and and it's just like the fire just went around it. And I've been to

the Palisades Mall. I you know, it's one of those things where when I went out there, I'm like, I got to go to these different spots for movies and stuff. And so I did do the little nerdy tourism thing just driving around La uh, you know, being a kid from Lowman, it was pretty fascinating. And it's all gone. Man, it's all gone. And again it's easy to say, well, it's California. I don't get me wrong. From a leadership perspective,

We're going to do a bunch of that today. We're gonna do a bunch of that today because it's it's even more atrocious than when we last left it. They were trying to ask questions of the mayor, who's over in Ghana. Remember she's over in Ghana for the new president's getting inaugurated. She's doing some like going back to does she run around there like a middle aged white dude from Boston landing in Dublin for the first time, right, going to one of those ancestry centers. I'm home, which

is fine, go ahead and do that. Unfortunately, you're the mayor of a city that's on fire right now and being being devastated, and there's a lot of problems, and so reporters obviously are there because you have the guiness is a guines Ghani's I don't know how you say it in mass but the new president of Ghana. So there's reporters over there and they're trying to ask her about it, and she's standing there, not speaking, just stoneface, staring at him, clearly not willing to answer questions about

what's going on over there. Now she did answer some, but not in a random environment, and you know, little nuggets start coming out, like how she diverted seventeen sixteen and a half million dollars that literally was the money for fire preparation and for the fire department, but specifically allocated for the maintenance side of it, which is things like making sure the hydrants have enough water source and are in proper working order. She diverted that to pay

for all of the illegal immigrant stuff. And obviously she's allocated a lot more money, but that was directly pulled months ago from the LA Fire Department's budget. So you have that, you have Newsom who's now said, Wow, it's the local people. You have the local media in Los Angeles who were watching their own city burn again but now in a much more insane and draving and fashion, who are literally there running running interference for people who

might be critical. Rick Caruso was the runner up, if you will, for the mayor of Los Angeles. And he's a big developer. He's a billionaire. He's a super rich guy. But he's a guy who obviously has some pretty good management skills. He's not some conservative, by the way, get that out of your head. But he's also not a lunatic at least from what I've seen of him. Like Bass, he would be kind of a be a California moderate if you will. And and so he's getting a lot

of time because he talked about this stuff. He talked about it during the campaign. He talked about how yeah, he talked about how poorly managed things are, and he wanted to bring his business acuum and his management skills, which, by the way, being a developer in California has got to be a bureaucrat nightmare of all nightmares. And you better have pretty good management style if you want to get stuff done and be profitable, and I want you

to listen to this. So you have this anchor there from is it KLA, well anyway, one of the local ones, and he's given a little report and he is playing audio from Caruso being interviewed by one of their reporters, and Caruso makes a statement that they're out of water.

You know the thing that yesterday while we were still on the air, there were already reports coming out of So Caruso says that it's part of the interview, and the anchor at KTLA decides he's going to go ahead and fact check the dude live on the air, and then goes to a reporter who's literally standing there in Palisades, Pacific Palisades, And I just want you to hear this whole thing because it takes a team. Okay, it takes a team. And well here we go, all right, So check this out.

to be under twenty feet of water. No Californians expect that when fire breaks out, it's going to be a problem, especially with San Ana wins this time of the year, so the time when it's the driest of the time, when it's the windiest. So this is not like western North Carolina. But but that is it. None None of the people in charge, they couldn't have they couldn't have fathomed this. They hold no responsibility. It's climate change. There's

nothing we could do, everyone's evil whatever. So those are the talking points absolving them of responsibility. So that's what this anchor is going to go ahead and try to do.

city agency. But this is basic stuff. This isn't high science there, and it's all about leadership and management that we're seeing a failure of and all of these residents are paying the ultimate price for that.

reporter didn't know who Steve Gutenberg is. I just can't even with these people. And when that's not going on, they're interviewing people on the street. And there's a lot, a lot of interesting cats in California. Arguably California should arrival Florida for just the sheer, weirdness and lunacy that's out there. And I don't know, I don't know if some of these people are screwing with the reporters or what's going Listen to this, this is an interesting theory.

All right, you're ready, let's test this theory.

San Francisco's not fine, I mean relatively right, right. It's the same drug dead that when we last left it. Okay, So I don't know about that theory, sir. I don't know that probably is probably is gonna be the leading cause there. But okay, all right, so yeah, it's just just wild times out there.

to get to. I don't believe people are giving me the proper way to say gunese peep. I think it's gnes. I don't think it's the thing you say. Okay, all right, not falling for that six ' nineteen Hang on with the David Muir thing. As they pushed back, they said, well, no, the reason he had an all clothes pinned like that is so that the jacket didn't flat roun in the wind, which is bs because one you can accomplish that without showing a six pack off through a jacket. Okay, look,

it's it can be done. I'm able to hide my six pack every day. Ross you ever see me wearing something so tight there's a six pack showing through No, So it can be done, David Muir. Secondly, none of the other reporters did that. They're wearing the same jacket you are. Uh. And Thirdly, where you're standing to anchor your show, right, you're not just doing a one off hit. You are outside kind of, But if you've ever seen how they set these things up, there is a ton

of those light reflective materials. I promise you there is a There is probably redirecting of wind because the air is so bad where he's standing. And three, I don't know if I necessarily believe he's fully outside and that's not a screen behind him, But even if he is outside, they have because the wind interferes with the audio and the cables and the everything that's going on, the ability to do an anchored show there. His hair's not moving.

like they're not even people. I know a lot of news anchors, and I know quite a few of that are not like that, but some of them are just there's a reason anchorman is a parody worked, Okay, and that's that's the vibes people are getting there. So now I'm not not buying that. Excuse, get out of here with that. All right, Let's check on just a couple

other things real quick, shall we. Okay, very good. So again, prognosticating and predicting that this thing was under the right conditions going to turn into what we've seen here was was not difficult, but was quite the political football. I saw a bunch of people yesterday were running around talking about Trump going to not well, I'm playing the Rogan thing here in just a moment, because they talked about this when he was on Rogan prior to the election.

But do you remember when Trump was talking about raking for us and they and and rather than to look up what that term meant, which I immediately knew what it meant, all right, and I'm sure some of you did as well. It's not just somebody going through with the rake, but sometimes it is. But really it's it's

getting the dry, burnable brush. They're like, when I grew up, if you wanted to log for fence posts, you could go to near burn areas or burn areas, so burn areas where they didn't they didn't take out the tree necessarily, or areas where there's a lot of underbrush. They would incentivize those to where bee where the logging permits are because inevitably you're also clearing down trees because you don't have to cut them at that point, right, and you're

going for fence posts. So not only do they get like it's like the permit was ten dollars a day or something, right, and we could make a lot of money busting our butt for a day. It was grueling work, but it was a good way when I was a teenager where we could make some quick cash. Right, And you go through and you do that and it's necessary, and where it's not and where you have a lot of downtimber from windstorms. The Forest Service goes in there

and clears it. That's what they're talking about. And they were running this report because he said he spoke about it with the President of Finland or the Prime Minister of Finland, whatever they have over there, and somebody asked the President of Finley. He said, no, we didn't talk about that. But the thing was they did, but the way they asked the question. And we know this because they taped them talking about it, and so that story

with the media turned out to be a lie. And now years later people are bringing the damn thing up again, and it's like, why are you fighting this. This is where a lot of you live, Like this shouldn't be a partisan thing. This should be an incompetence thing, and you should be on board with this, and you should understand what they talk about doing that, but the environmental lunatics don't want you.

with a de bank story. That was a gotcha Trump story from you know, six years ago or whatever, rather than going, holy crap, everything I know is on fire? Why is everything I know on fire? Just so you can get Trump again?

into Los Angeles, there's a ton of agriculture. The bread basket of America is what they love calling the central Valley the San Joaquin Valley there, and in many parts that is the case. But there's a lot of it that clearly has been tilled and planted before that's unutilized. And he's talking, and he was talking about that sharp contrast where it's what should be fertile soiled, nothing's being

planted in it. And then all of a sudden there's a very small portion of the owned property where they actually do agricultural work, and that's because they only can have so much water. California. Also, there's a massive thing that with a couple big agricultural operations, the almond people.

There's a family that's like the Almond Barns, and they were so up in local government that they have so much water rights that they've accumulated they hold on and then they had like they then sell it at like panic prices to people, right, So like they're making money off the almonds, but they're making a crap ton of money off the public water that they've somehow acquired through sweetheart deals that they sell back to people who are

desperate because the government doesn't have any more water to sell them. Oh yeah, it's I can't remember the family. It's a whole it's like a constant thing out there with this argument, and they wanted to but it's death by a thousand cuts. And even if you go look, it's the greedy almond grower family, which is that they're super super rich a little bit, but how do they get those deals because you and your cohorts, you elected officials,

allowed it to happen. You allowed it to happen while you screwed everybody else over because they had a better thing. I mean, it's it's the stuff that you hate about government, just under a microscope at this point, and you're able to stare right at it. And yet nobody. Everyone's just gonna, oh, it's climate change and and you know, Trump supporters or what I mean, whoever you're blaming. It's incredibly sad. I was able to. I talked yesterday to my family members

that live in California. They're thankfully not near they're north of the big Malibu fire there, but well we were just talking about and and somehow my cousin said, it's it's far worse than when I was there for fires. He's just like he goes, you know, you have no idea how bad it's gotten. And he was give me some descriptions and some of the regulations and stuff, and

it's it's crazy. It's like, and here's the problem. If you want to do everything purely the environmental way, right, and you want to make it look as though the land is untouched, then you're going to have to excommunicate a bunch of residents. You simply cannot have the population density that you have in these areas. If you're going to want to leave the land untouched, you can't do it.

It doesn't work. And even over in the European Union, where you know, arguably they might even be crazier on some of this stuff, they themselves realize that there is, you know, the whole the Netherlands, the whole of the the hole where the main cities portions are, and the expansion in the Netherlands is all man made. It is. It is one of the greatest examples of being able to control water for your advantage that the world has ever seen. It's really impressive. There's a name for the

project and I can't remember what it is. But when you look at what they were able to accomplish over there, and they're not putting up with this stuff, and they got brackish water behind them in ocean water on the other side, and somehow they make it work. California has a mountain range that produces the one of the largest quantities of runoff in the northern hemisphere, and they still can't figure this out. Nope, I just got to go ahead and make fun of, make fun of trump Man.

What is the situation with water?

how much water they can use. I've read many, many, many stories where it's the city arguing with the state about how much water they can draw off Kachuma. And so Newsome pretending like he's got no culpability here is just completely on brand base. We're in the public safety face. I hite to even ask this question, but the President electros tous Anderson Cooper, by the way, and I hate how he words this pace.

chocolate chip up please? Just so people know what I'm talking about. It's like it's it's like entertaining a toddler. Oh he's a big boy. Oh, it's so good. Look at you. Oh you put your pants on right, Oh, how nice. Oh you went potty by yourself. Good for you. It's that it's that same energy like when he visited Durham went and got himself some ice cream and they stuck a microphone in his fund in his face, and we got this.

I know people there. But even if I didn't know people there, because there are so many people in this country that think California is this this beacon of how government should be done? You do you want this? Time's fifty or maybe fifty one, but fifty. Canada's got a lot of water.

then they can blame that on climate change. It's ridiculous.

right your bunker. Wouldn't you want to say, all right, well, if the Republicans aren't going to take it seriously, and this is what climate change is going to do, we should have double reservoirs. We should have we should have fire capacity within these fire hydrants that is far exceeding what we normally do.

get to it. Hang on. Earlier in the show, I had said that the mayor of Los Angeles, the former con gershwoman now Mayor Karen Bass, who again sat there yesterday, well, like a b BA BBC reporter was picking up on the accent in Ghana, is sticking a mic in her face, going hey, you anything to say, and she won't say anything about this. I had indicated that she made a decision to move sixteen and a half million from the fire department's preparatory funds basically for maintenance, for hydrants and

equipment and stuff like that, to give to migrants. And that was not accurate. It was seventeen point six. So wanted to make that correction. All right, looked up the snowfall and yeah, so we were you know, we had all these stories where we were talking about there's record snowfall. I remember talking about with Ray stage it. The numbers are crazy.

poles on the side of the road. When you get into a road like that, they're like ten feet tall, and it's really crazy. And I have a picture somewhere I gotta find it on my phone of you drive through like I don't call it a tunnel, but where there's ten feet of snow on the side of the road.

It's really disconcerting to drive through there too, because there's no room for air and it's wild and It's one of those things that whenever somebody's like, ah, we got a lot of snow, I'd be like, that's not a lot of snow, right, I do the old man thing. But we got I think the most snowfall I remember we got on the property one year was about two

hundred inches. But if you go above that, like just above Cloud Peak, which is the main peak there where I grew up, they get on average three hundred and fifty inches. And that's at the top of a mountain. This is above tree line, so there's not it's just it's it's so much snow. They got six hundred They

got six hundred and seventy seven inches of snow. For those of you who want to do the little early don't want to do the quick math, that's over fifty five feet of snow and they did nothing to procure that bonus that mother nature. Yeah, Ross made a good point off the air. It's like that joke of the guy standing on top of his house with the flood waters around him. Right, So he's stand on top of his house and here comes the guy comes buying a canoe and he's like, hey man, I'm here to rescue you.

And he's like, I'll be fine. I have Jesus right, all right. Guy goes away, and then here comes some dudes in a speedboat and they're like, hey, man, we're here to rescue you. And he's like, no, it's so, it's fine, Jesus will save me. And then and then all of a sudden, here comes a rescue helicopter. Right they're hovering over the dude's house, ladders down like, get in, man, we're here to save you, and he's like it's okay,

Jesus will save me. And then his dumb ass drowns and he gets up there right at the pearly gates, and Saint Peter's surprised to see him, and he goes, what happened to you? What are you not supposed to be here? And he's like, oh, I drowned, and well, I can't believe Jesus didn't save me, and and Saint Peter goes, well, we sent you two boats and a helicopter. Dummy, Well you got six hundred and seventy seven inches of

snow and ross. Do you remember what happened when they just politely pointed out that maybe they should dig a big ass hole down at the bottom of the mountain and then let nature do its own thing. Remember how outraged they were over that. How dare you? We can't the diversity smelt?

not burned down. Or it's like yeah, I don't care, so it comes, or another choice, like there's a media coming and you don't have a choice in this game, and the media can either hit a colony of Pandas Adorable Adorable Pandas.

had that idea. And the sad thing is, see, now if people like I'm just going to say, I'm just spitball, like you probably have some sort of celebrities like a Mark Ruffalo or somebody in this area, it's like, no, we made the right decision because we have to save the endangered species and what's happening now is climate change and has nothing to do with that.

And then he's frantic tweeting forty eight hours later that the criminals are in his neighborhood and please come save us and how is this happening because.

even take questions? How dare you criticize her? When Ted Cruz fled Texas during that snowstorm years ago and went to can Kun do you mean the senator? You mean this? This senator left during something that was run by state officials. The emergency management has being run by state officials. Karen Bass is the mayor, and you're all going to play

that game. And you know you're right, Russ. Some of them will come down like Mark Ruflow and their house won't burn down, and so they'll just hold on to that. I'm sure John Cryer hasn't changed from last week when he was on pill maher. They you just you messing with your own livelihood. At this point, I told you I talked to family members out. One of my family

members is not a conservative. He's also not an angry progressive or whatever, but like, and he doesn't really talk politics, but over the years, whenever we brought something up, he'll come out with a take and I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot, that's okay, But you know, it doesn't bother us that dude's so red pilled right now. He's so red pilled right now. It was it was interesting talking to him because I and I didn't want to stop him because he's he's you know, he's dealing because he

had a friend who's whose house is gone. It's somebody I don't know, but he was telling me that, and he's so red pilled right now, and I just wanted to stop and be like, bro, good for you. But I didn't because he just wanted to vent and I just wanted to get all that. But yeah, I don't know,

maybe maybe that's what it takes. The problem is you're so far gone and and the the APPARATUSUS of power in California are so fortified, and they do all the stuff that the people scream bloody murder about like that. All the Republicans at the North Carolina General Assembly are doing this, you know why, because California has done all of that already. There's a reason they don't even have normal elections there. Yeah, what are they they're jungle jungle primaries. Yeah.

want Kyle in there in his Sey Chariso. So what we will do during the primary is generally they'll get a couple different other Kyles. Sometimes they're not even really ideologues. With Kyle, and they will spread it and then they'll get the two Democrats or in this case, the Ross and I for the purpose of the store, sorry, we'll get well, we'll come out of the primary, regardless of party affiliation, with the most votes, and then for the general election they only put the top two on there.

So now there's not a chance that Kyle and Issouy Chariso Brigade or others are going to even have a chance because they're not on the general ballot. And that's how that works. Tell me, that's not the craziest thing you've ever heard. And what it does too, is that I know a lot of people in California who are

conservative but don't even vote. They don't vote because they're deincentivized because they can't even vote for, you know, one of the bigger races and have it make a difference, and then they don't vote then in the down ballot races because they're not there. It's a big problem with turnout for Republicans in California because people are just so deincentivized by the way the rules are. And so then

you get more of this. So you know that the struggle in the and what you have to do there is you have to convert people that we're voiding, we're voting for the Sudscherizo party, that are voting for Ross, and I that maybe they should try souscheriso and sous cheriso is a hard push in California. Well not really, but in this weird scenario I've created, I'm sure they love it out there. Chris, what's up?

a second, and that happened. Yeah, But but it's the problem is, sir, is regardless of how you get there, just put the climate change things to the side for a moment, even though if they honestly believe that, then they should the amount of water insurance with reservoirs and stuff they should have. If they really felt that way, they would make a priority. The the the reason for that when when you push all that to the side,

is they're gaslight in you. And they've also and if you just remove the climate change angle and you think about, hey, do you think it's a good idea if we build a sea of five million plus dollar homes in the middle of Kindling, most normal people will be like, I don't know that that's a good idea. How many of you have built a cabin or a home in a wooded area? Do they just let you cut out just enough trees to go and get the house built, or do you have a certain distance of trees you got

to clear. Depending on where you are, you gotta because they don't want the possibility or the danger there from a fire perspective, and also tree you know, large trees falling on homes and it's a little loosey goosey. But when you get into areas of California, Colorado, in parts of Wyoming, you got to cut back. When we did our cabin, we had to cut back on the on the non water side because it fronts a creek there. So yeah, yeah, so it's death by a thousand cuts.

But it stems from whether you believe that or not. So I understand the question. But I mean, I've done radio every every single hurricane season. I got to hear how climate change made hurricanes happen.

start a fire. One of these fires clearly came from one of the homeless camps. They haven't really stated on together too.

Californian joke, It's about being a breakfast cereal. But it's all fruits and nuts. I can't remember how it goes. Oh yeah, it's fruits and nuts, and everybody else is a flake something like that, which you know, it's a little stereotypical, but it's not far off when you see stuff like this. The lunatics are running the asylum. Six hundred and seventy seven inches of snow fifty five and a half feet and you let a wash into the

ocean that was last year. And if all you had to do was dig like two big ol'd holes, and nature would have done this because I don't know if you know this. Rossnard looked it up. What happens to snow when it gets a little warmer but not so warm that it turns into evaporating mist. Oh that's right, it turns into water, and then gravity will get it there for you. If you pick the right spot, we'll

be back. Would you rather be a crazy person who showed up at the Capital Visitor Center attempted to gain access in possession of three knives and a machete? All right, So that's team one, three knives and a machete, or uh, some dude with napalm. I've got I've got to go, Danny Trejo, You're going machete over napalm.

So this happened literally at the time, right around the time that Trump was doing this, So people were a little more security, a little more secret service. But as he approached, ground crew workers noticed the man trying to light something on fire. So he exited his car and now he's got whatever this thing is, and they're like, yeah, I don't know, that's probably not a good thing. When asked what he was doing, the man said, quote, I have napalm and I'm lighting it on fire. You better

get away from me. I'm trying to figure out what he actually had. I don't think theyver released what it actually is. I suspect they don't think it's napalm. They where do you even buy napalm? Yeah? Army surplus store? Where do you get that? But so that was that was dude number one and dude number two. Capitol police arrested a man attempting to bring a machete in three knives into the Capitol. This happened just a couple hours before Trump was coming to visit. So but these two

things happened like two hours apart. Capitol police say they arrested him just after two pm when officers spotted the machete in the man's bag. So, I did he put it through? He tried to put a machete in three knives through a screener? Is this some weird staffer issue? What is going on here? Didn't they just remember over the I remember over the break they had the staffer for one of these guys trying to ring a gun in. But we see that every now and then. Yeah, he

was he attempted to go through a security screen. What do you think they're not going to notice that? Although ross, you know what happened the last time I flew, I had a big, a big one of the big heavy on bottles that I bought for seventy two dollars whatever they charged at Hudson News there.

But I had bought the bottle in Raleigh when I had left and had I had bought two bottles, stuffed one in my bag and drank one and I forgot the other one was still in the bottom of my

backpack and I never pulled it on on vacation. So I come through, I screen in at the airport and then I had to do a separate security screening through customs too, and then rescreen into So when you land coming from an international flight, when you land in Miami or wherever, you go through customs, then you get your bag and if you're on a connection, then you have

to rescreen security. They didn't catch a giant bottle of water in my bag either time, and you know how much they love to catch people who have a little bit of water in their bag. The thing went through, so maybe the dude thought he could get his naybe, they probably knew who you were. The funniest, the funniest question I ever got asked by the immigration guy. And

this is after Miami Airport. I was flying back. I was flying back from It was when I went to Ecuador and in Columbia to go to Glopagos when on a flying back, and you know, sometimes I'll ask you questions. Sometimes I just leave your passport looking into the camera and then you're off and he goes, uh, he's one of these guys who asked questions. And he's like, where were you? What are you doing? What do you do for a living? And I liked him.

irrigation system. Okay. So the way it works is like this. So my family's property is starts at a very a very low elevation. It's it's you know, a mile up there. But if you go all the way up the property to the highest point where it butts into the deepest part of national forest, you have an altitude gain of about three thousand feet, okay, and about every five hundred feet in elevation change. We have reservoirs, and so when

the water flows down, we're able to capture it. We then fill a base and at the top of the property it goes down and it will then spill over part of it where we have like a culvert, a meter culvert, and then it flows down to the next one and then continue on. And there's not just one series of it. There's actually two and two and a half and and and we do that because we at different altitudes need water. Also, it's less likely to evaporate the higher up it is because the colder it maintains.

It keeps a lotter cleaner too. And it's it's ungodly expensive to pump water uphill. So so and it's it's not some big the logical thing. So here's what I would suggest to the state of California. Do that, and I'm gonna save you money on the labor cost. You're gonna have to have the equipment. But if you stick a bunch of like, you know, big construction equipment out there and you just tell average dudes they can come out and dig holes with it, there'll be a line

around the corner. You know how much every guy wants to be able to run a bucket and it's really fun. If you've never done it, it's like it's like you're the kid with the thing in the park with the sand digger, but for real, for real, you'd have guys lining up all day to sit there and just dig holes for you and move dirt around. That's why they have adventure parks where you can go do that.

so simple ray stage. I here to give you some of that snowfall you need for water to run off, so you can keep that song on fire. You tell the state of California wanted a reservoir, and you just told random dudes, Hey, we got a bunch of like big cat equipment up here. If you you want to come play in the sandbox, you wouldn't get free labor for days. My wife doesn't get it. When we win the lottery, that is my goal to actually talked.

get pretty slick. I would prep maybe for some glaze or some trees, potentially some branches coming down if we do get the ice accumulation, So there might be some spotty power outages. I'm not going real aggressive on that right now, but at least a chance there worst of the coming as we head on through later Tomorrow evening into Tomorrow night and early Saturday. Maybe an end as a brief period of snow, but then we'll quickly modify into the forties Saturday afternoon.

Radio program. Unless you are let's see a banker or post office, then a happy federal holiday that we didn't get to avail ourselves of because the Jimmy Carter stuff. So that's the thing. If you're going to be if you thought you're going to the post office today, probably not. But in the interim we truck on and we do so with our official NERD correspondent, Stephen Kent have a chat in a while. Obviously had all the big holidays. How you doing there, Stephen?

Then you had the cyber trunk at the Trump Hotel, you had all of this British pedal grooming stuff going on over there. Well, I can't in my mind, I don't even know if I could encapsulate all of the insane stories that are out there. What was the one that you like, were like, holy crap, and we're really paying attention to which one stood out to you?

you can't do that. So in pure US FAFO fashion, we said, well, how about we fund essentially the over the the independence of Panama. And so we did. We we literally came in and we were like, hey, we're the you know, we're like this would stand it up to the bully. Here we are and so you you said no, So we're just gonna not this isn't yours anymore, the hubris of it. And then we built the canal. Thirty thousand US service members died or contractors died doing it.

And we had this this this this buffer zone to the Panama Buffer Zone, which they essentially leased over to US from perpetuity and then Jimmy Carter gave it back one day. Like there's a lot going on there. So if you're Panama, you truly know what went down there. Uh but let's let's be honest. It isn't about us going in and taking the canal back and planning the

flag day. It's about timing what China does and what China has done is they have essentially acquired most of the control and maintenance of the Caribbean side, the Cologne side, and they are fast acquiring essentially the rights on the on the on the Pacific side. And uh, that is that's not good for us. That's a really really bad thing. And that's how China rolls. I've explained how what they

do in Africa. In Costa Rica, where I like to spend my time, they have a brand new soccer stadium that that China just built them.

the hospital during the dark night. He's like, everything you know is going according to plan, everything's fine, but if someone suggests doing something outside of the plan, everyone loses their minds. And you know, acquiring Panama and Greenland, these are both things that have like rich history, hundreds of years of discussion.

from Greenland as support too years up. One solves Europe's PROBM because Russia just cut them off, and two would make us insanely and not to mention the natural resources that are in Greenland, but just for the pipeline part of it is immeasurable. And they are actively making one of the new shipping routes to be a primary shipping route, to be the North Passage. They're already ice cut it.

We use it for a few months out of the year, and it's getting easier to ice cut it the more maintenance you do and warming temperatures and all that that. They say that the most important port in the world at one point could be in Alaska.

passage of US military stuff. Now they won't let any military stuff through, but Russia obviously has a port in there, so they can run around do whatever the hell they want in there, and that is Russia essentially telling Turkey, don't you dare. So this stuff is all really strategically important, but I I will that will that for another time.

Let's go. You made a Batman reference there. Do you remember remember when you saw the first Nolan Batman and you're like, this is gritty and this is great, right, It was definitely upward departure, and then the Joker. The Joker was another upward departure and just gets grittier and grittier. Is there anything grittier than cannibal Batman? What's that's all?

and he landed a role in Dark Night. So now Ross was joking, he goes, is if you criticize this, some nerds gonna be like, well, actually, in episode seventy or issue seventy three of the like Batman was a cannibal. No no, no, no, So what are we doing here man? Are we gonna go cannibal Batman? Or are they going to make him not talk about that stuff?

be action movies. So if one of your favorite actors from like the nineteen nineties or two thousands disappears, they will probably resurface in the Yui Ball movie. So Armie Hammer is going to be doing just that in the Dark Night. You know some movie about vigilante Justice and we'll probably never hear about him again.

they never meant to insult Trump voters. They were just talking about Trump and it's jokes and you need to get over it, and and who was the who was the commute was at Whitney Cummings right, who went scorched Earth the other day on Hollywood? And it's like, do you do you how do you gauge whether they mean it or they're just trying to protect their paycheck, Because I like with Jim gaff again, he didn't us say Trump, He said the R word to describe half of the country.

And isn't it interesting to watch them come around? And then you watch with Mark Zuckerberg, right, So what do you make of all this?

shifted and politics is downstream of culture. So yes, Trump is coming back, but the people in America and different pockets erape are exhausted with sort of this affluent left wing censorship regime and fear of comedy. I think that things are really really changing and Jim gas again he's gonna have to do I don't know. I think probably a little bit of period of irrelevance because of how far he went out on a limb to knock Trump voters and just regular people, which is the real set here.

stuff where he's blocking Trump for his delivery. He's also mocking Biden for his age and nobody's getting offended. What he got canceled for is he does a podcast. Uh, and one of the guys that's on the podcast is an Asian comic and they they're all like, they're all joking with each other, and that's what they went back and got him for doing essentially Asian boys or whatever. But like that wouldn't happen today. I don't think I don't think he no, I.

after Donald Trump by name. He calls him the horse in the hospital. And it's actually a great way to think about that guy. He's just kind of there. He's doing weird stuff that people don't expect. And what do you even do when the horse gets on the elevator? You just kind of scratch your head and wonder is he going to make it up?

turns off that creative spigot. You still think you're doing it, so you put out these awful s and O cold opens with you know, with the Hillary Clinton after Hillary lost with the song and like you allow yourself to be trapped down there and maybe you don't even notice it. So so there's a bit of sincerity maybe there, but very little because it seems very self serving. Uh and yeah, lastly, I got just about a minute here. Is this Superman movie gonna work out or not? I know some people

are upset that they want with a new guy. Trailer doesn't look bad, but I hear some of the focus group stuff isn't isn't going well?

I think it has a lot going for it. But we've grown to be taking superhero movie is so so seriously that we expect everything to be some sort of Oscar winning award work of art and maybe we just need to enjoy.

and five people in total ended up dying. Then he fled over like going towards Nightdale and right kind of in the hook of the belt line there, went into a cabin or a barn of some sort, and police eventually went in there. And I honestly, this dude probably should have died with the injuries he sustained, but somehow pulled through. All Right. Why am I bringing this because attorneys representing this dirt bag, alleged dirt bag who is accused of killing the five people, are now saying that

it was due to a brain injury. So I don't know if they're setting up for some sort of defense from mental capacity. But the thing that makes me angry here is why why are we still not being treated to the totality of what was going on here? Because and I will say this, I have very good sources very good sources who from the jump have given me a lot of insight, and I'll explain it to the extent of what I can on the air to what is going on here and what was going on here,

and I think it's a really important component. And I still don't fully understand the reason why they're holding back at this.

he had put together. This is what my sources tell me. And if I'm wrong, then they can come out and correct me. But I'm not wrong, right, No one's gonna be correcting me on this. This guy was meticulously planning to go shoot up a school. His brother found out about it, and he killed his brother, is my understanding, because he didn't want his plan. You surved, but then he'd killed his brother. So at this point, now you've

got to kick your plan into gear. And that's why, you know, for other people lost their lives after that. It is a particularly horrific story. But if you don't recognize that the sources I have are talking about something that required a dedicated mind to attempt to put together, right, the logistics of it, acquiring the weapons, putting the schematics together.

I'm sure making a list of the people who hurt you the most and figuring out where they're going to be, because you know you're only gonna have a certain amount of time to go in there and do your murdering. These are things that somebody who's suffer you know, sitting around with a brain injury and can't think of stuff, I'm going to have a hard time believing that they

were able to put together. And so when we don't have that information out publicly that I have been told by multiple law enforcement people involved in this, then you can't understand contextually this argument his attorney's making sounds a little hard to swallow. Now there, I'm sure there's a lot more here, and and maybe he did suffer a brain injury, I suffered a brain injury. I know some of you are not surprised. No, seriously, I was in a rollover accident. I was ejected from the vehicle. I

had a basel or skull fracture, rattled some stuff. Oh, I had. I messed myself up, man, Thankfully I was. You know, I was twenty at the time. Yeah, a little easier to bounce back when you're twenty and in reasonably good shape. But it was, it was, And I haven't shot up a neighborhood. So this is this is why as we move forward with this, Yeah, people need

to know this. And if that is, if if my sources are correct, and I believe they are because they have been correct on damn near everything I've ever heard from them. This is why this played out in the way that it played out. This guy was gonna go shoot up a school. His brother found out, his brother

was gonna tattle tale. He killed his brother. Then he went all right, we're in this, and then the day's events unfolded, so arguing diminishmental capacity, I don't know, I don't know about all that, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight Sevenfore, this is stuff just makes me angry. Here just makes me angry. Uh attorney side of the vast amount of evidence connected to the

case when asking they want additional time too. They're trying to put the trial back, including eight terabytes of data that includes downloads of cell phones, laptops, and iPads. Hmm, you know what's on the what's on the iPad and the laptop there or the laptop I believe told what's on the laptop plans to shoot up a school? So why wouldn't that info be out there? Why don't people have a deeper understanding of this? Why are there not questions about how that festered? And were there any signs

out there where somebody might have known that this. I guess he was fifteen at the time, fifteen year old decided he was going to go do this thing, or it was planning on doing this thing, and then just did the the you know, the frantic version of it.

still still we need to have more information. And frankly, when you're cobbling together an arsenal like that, Now, some of those guns are obviously the families, but when you're putting plans together, cobbling an arsenal and making a murder list, diminished capacity is is a lot harder. I've never understood why why that's not out there? Why?

don't know. I think college football is just on its last leg. So to some extent, man who nil stuff. You see the Florida guy's transferring again and he's already been given like thirteen mil. They're just isn't it for shake? That's crazy?

of like our setup day. Cold might not get out of the thirties tonight in near twenty then later tomorrow from west to east, probably about two o'clock at the Triad and around four or five o'clock around the Triang we'll start to see some snow come in, and there'll be some mixed precipitation of snow to sleep and freezing rain before ending sometime on Saturday through midday. Could be around an inch or two of sleet and snow and

ice developing and accumulating. Soday is going to get pretty tricky out there to travel, but it's not going to be a fun snow, So it's gotta be wet and messy and kind of gloppy. But with the freezing rate, if you do get enough of it, there could be a glaze of ice and maybe some spotty power outage, so I would at least prep for that. I don't think it's going to be widespread, but we're trending now a little bit more ice than we are actual all snow.

But either way, it's gonna be a mess tomorrow night to go out. So maybe take a Friday night, stay home, watch a movie or something, and even on through early Saturday.

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And then yesterday they purplock you in the state police arrest you. What's this world coming to? Well, that is what happened with the mayor in Louisiana. He's twenty five. Younger Dudes' name is Tyrone Tyrone Trong. He was taken into custody by Louisiana State Police. Here's what happened, according to the indictment. So what he did as mayor of Bugaloosa, Louisiana, which is the most Louisiana sounding name I've heard for

a city in a while. As mayor of Boogaloosa, he rented an Airbnb and filled it with hoes and drugs, and you all paid for it, the residents of Boogaloosa, Louisiana. So yes, look at this guy. He has he's it. He's the man, he's the guy in charge of his community of people. And he can't even have a secret Airbnb hooker loft with drugs without getting in trouble. I mean, is this America? What are we even doing?