Cyan Banister
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346 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I agree with Friedberg and Chamath. You know, it's a lot of everything. But I also think that to add to the prevention part, you know, other than clearing out underbrush and trees and things like that, you know, we don't build things in the state of California in a way that Houses should be built when you know that there are fires like this.
So, for example, we have more wooden roofs than we really should have. We should really evaluate our materials that we're building things out of. But we also have, you know, down in El Segundo, you know, this is a company that I invested in Rainmaker. We have the ability now to cloud seed and do preventative measures to actually make a region have more water.
And I don't understand why we're not looking into things like this that could have prevented, you know, we knew that this storm was coming. We knew that these winds were coming. You know, Southern California shut power down. I have a farm down there. We still don't have power because they knew that most of these fires were started by PG&E or down power lines.
And so they proactively shut everybody down and we're still running on generators. And if you notice, there's no fires down there, but they also have 100 mile per hour winds.
And you're not seeing it. And there's plenty of mountain ranges and dryness there. You know, avocado farms are basically just sitting fuel. So I do think it's a combination of all of those things. And competence is definitely one of them.
Oh, without a doubt. I think diversity is good unless that's all you have. And I'll just simplify it like that. And I think it's very sad that somebody could be very qualified and be in a position, and we now have to question whether or not they were hired because of DEI. And Then it comes down to prioritization.
Like, when you're dealing with an organization like a fire department whose main job is to protect the public and put out fires and save people, any amount of time, as we know, is a valuable, precious resource that's being spent trying to roll out these programs or, you know... It goes beyond just who you hire. It's even the thought police of how you think.
It's so pervasive within an organization that you die from the bureaucracy of it. And if anything went wrong with DEI, it was that they didn't have their eye on the prize of fighting fires. And instead, you know, they're focusing on something that truly doesn't matter. So you can be as diverse as you want to be and not be able to put out a fire and then it just really doesn't matter, right?
Because you're not training people. You're not spending money on things that matter. You're not having the discussions that matter. And... That's where I think that does fall apart and it has a place there. But, you know, I go back to what Chamath said, though, you know, it really comes down to prevention and learning from our past.
We seem to have a very short term memory and we forget very quickly because we rebuild and it looks pretty again and everybody forgets. And we just don't have the ability as a society really to think long anymore. Yeah. And that's a real problem. And I think we should learn from this fire. I really hope that what comes out of this is a shift in political leanings in this in this state.
You know, I think more moderates are going to come to their senses. And as we've seen with the election and the outcome. And I think the state might shift some and we might actually get some policies that you're so right.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of these people paid for, I was reading stories of 30 some odd years into insurance thinking that, you know, their house wouldn't burn down. And then, of course, it gets canceled two weeks before their house burns down. And then the one time they need it, they don't have it. And part of this is, I mean, a huge part of it is what Friedberg was talking about are the regulators.
And so the free market solution is the only solution. If you look at, I have an investment in a company called Kin Insurance, and they specialize in direct-to-consumer insurance. insurance for areas that are plagued with natural disasters. So their number one state out of the 11 that they serve is Florida, followed by Texas, which has tornadoes and things like that.
And how they're able to get into these places and do insurance is the pricing is according to the construction of your home and all of these various things, and also weather models and using data science, things that are not allowed in California, if you can believe it or not. So you're not allowed to use a weather model to price in your decision-making for insurance in the state.
And that just doesn't make a lot of sense. You should be rewarded if you put the resources and time into your home to make it weatherproof, fireproof. Fireproof. Even earthquake resistant, right?
That's the number one thing that everybody misses and is mentioned in every interview that I've seen is photographs. Photos.
Yeah, I think I think Democrats need to reclaim their party. I think there's a lot more strength in the middle. And, you know, they've let this woke ideology, I call it woke imperialism, like a religion. take over in place of actually doing things that matter to the people that elected them, that pay taxes, that pay their, you know, their paychecks and everything in between.
And it's time that people really look in the mirror. I've got so many moderates coming to me saying, you know, people call me a Republican and I'm far right and I'm a Nazi and I'm like, yeah, welcome to the club. At some point, you've got to stop letting them run the board and stand up and say, enough's enough. We're not building some railway that's never being built.
We're not solving homelessness with billions and billions of dollars. We're not doing this stuff anymore. We do need real executives, to your point, Jason, to run things that understand how things are, how it works, and the best use of funds. Because right now, it's misappropriated.
And replace them. It's scary, but you can. You know, they send all their people after you. They threaten you. Gets personal. They went after you. I was signature number one. And I had to deal with the deluge of that stuff. But to be honest with you, I've never been happier to do something and get civically engaged.
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