Jay Powell
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227 appearances
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4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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And I said, there's a sprinkler system in my little one story ranch house? He said, yeah. I said, I've never seen it. And he showed it to me. It was on the roof. People were so scared after that 62 fire, they were putting these on the roof. And now you cannot have. Wood roofs have been banned. You were grandfathered in. I was part of that. But there was a lot of PTSD from that.
And now I do think there's going to have to be some lessons learned. And let's get to where some folks online are pointing to maybe not having great priorities, and maybe focusing on things that are not as important as the taxpaying citizens. A lot of tweets, I don't know how people feel about them, about DEI, about who's running the fire department, etc.
Did you have any thoughts on that, Friedberg?
This is an important one. James Woods, obviously the famous actor, who lost his home in Pacific Palisades, has been going on a bit of a rant about Christine Crowley. She is LA's fire chief. She also happens to be a lesbian and has made a priority and done a number of talks on trying to increase diversity inside of the fire department.
She also, just with a bit of research, is one of the top performing firefighters in a paramedic, an engineer, a fire inspector, a captain, a battalion chief, an assistant chief, fire marshal, deputy chief. And when she took the firefighter exam in the late 90s, she was scored in the top 50 out of 16,000. She seems eminently qualified.
There has been a massive pile on attack on her and, you know, how it is on X and other social networks where people are really tweaked about DEI that they're kind of putting the blame on her. What are your thoughts of this DEI angle, Chamath?
It seems like a lot of projecting going on here, Chamathia. I agree.
And here, what we're seeing on the screen is Rick Caruso's village.
Yeah, I think what you're getting to here is we can confirm lesbians didn't cause the Santa Ana winds to cause these fires, obviously, but there is an issue that I think many people in the public, especially in California, who voted for this very leftist liberal ideology are now starting to realize is, hey, wait a second, what are the priorities here, Cyan?
What are we focused on and what should we be focused on? And it's very easy to be focused
on dei and maybe things that aren't as important homelessness and move budget there but at the same time they wouldn't give her 17 million dollars they cut the fire budget she tried to fight it well that that's not clear now there's now the counter narrative is that she actually got an extra 50 jason okay so we're in a breaking news environment so we'll see what the truth winds up being here
But, Cyan, I think the point remains the same here, which is, is prioritization and what we focus on out of whack in California?
At a certain point, you have to wonder, are we using politics and the purpose of it to make people's lives better and to have a high functioning society? Or is it a way to virtue signal or to share your opinions on things? Oh, it's absolutely a virtue signal. Yeah.
And I think what people are starting to realize is, you know, in an acute situation, whether it's our budget deficit, whether it's schools, whether it's safety from climate, you know, or non-climate induced disasters, you do need to have competence.
And this is the Rick Caruso is such a competent executive that when he ran for office there, the fact that he didn't get that job is just absolutely crazy. And you saw the mayor come in and she wouldn't even address She wouldn't answer any questions from the press, not even thoughts and prayers or, you know, we're thinking of this or we're going to get it done.
It just seems like we're hiring non-executives to work in functions that should be high-performing executives. This is an operational role.
And yeah, when it lands on your doorstep, quite literally here, they are not going to be able, having been in this exact area, I can tell you, when you try to pull a permit to do anything, as I was explaining with my roof, the regulations are deep and expensive and time-consuming. I don't believe... We talked about the California Coastal Commission on a recent episode, Friedberg.
What are the chances that the California Coastal Commission even allows these people to build those homes in those locations on PCH, Friedberg?
To my question, Freeberg, what are the chances they allow the millionaires on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu to rebuild those homes? Or do you think they slow roll it and those people are all 50, 60, 70 years old? They'll never be able to rebuild their homes. The California Commission would just slow roll this and say, you know what? Nature returned it to its natural state.
I think we should talk about insurance. This is a great segue. Yeah, yeah, the perfect segue.
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