Propaganda
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So this episode is not just about private fire departments because that would not be a very interesting full episode. It's about the question that private fire departments bring up, which is like, Nigga, whose water is that? Wait a minute. Who owns the water? Is the water private too? And if the water's private too, what else are my utilities are private?
And this is what I mean by there is nothing you can do about it. Now, if there is any of you that are built like Robert and Magpie, then... Maybe you ain't got to worry about this. Maybe you could dig your own well and find the groundwater. However, there are things called water land rights, which I will talk about into this.
So even if you move off the grid to live on a mountain, you find somewhere in the backwoods, you know, four acres away from Magpie, wherever the hell Magpie live, and you dig to find some water, somebody own that water. It already happened here, y'all. Let's go. All right, this may or may not be a shock to y'all.
I know in the first The Block is Literally Hot episode I did way, way, way, way back when I first joined, when Cool Zone Media first launched, when I first joined the team, my first episodes. It was one of those things where it's like the thought has probably never crossed your mind. And some of it's like sitting. I'm talking to y'all who pay bills.
Some of this stuff is sitting right up under your nose. Like Southern California Edison is one of our power companies. But then there's PG&E. This isn't the city of Los Angeles providing this. That's a company. In the same way that your internet come from a company, what makes you think your power don't come from a company?
And if your power come from a company and an internet come from a company, why wouldn't your water come from a company? I don't know what would make you think that that's just a city municipality. Well, because duh, because water fall from the sky. What the shit? So what I'm paying for you to pump it through the through the doggone pipes. Well, I mean, I understand that that's a service.
But what what the hell are my taxes for you? Somebody like I don't know if you notice you can own the rain. So the water that fill inside a lake, somebody bought the lake. This is the episode that I'm finna tell y'all right now. So your utilities, most likely your city has sold your water and your sewage processing to a private company.
And the bills that you paying, your water bill is not going to the city for the service you are receiving. It is paying the company back the money that the company paid your city to get this gig. Let me back up here. First, let me cover the private fire departments. Now, here's the thing. Private fire departments usually are hired by insurance companies.
So what they do a lot of time is like prevention. They'll come in here and, you know, clear out shrub, make sure that your house is not like set up for failure. You know, in California, I mean, people always talk about our strict laws and regulations. building codes and it's like, well, nigga, do you see why?
Every time you got a bureaucratic law, there might be a historical evidence as to why we need that. One of which is, my nigga, California ain't got a lot of water. So if you're going to build a house, you can't just have dry shrubbery up around your house. Why? Because you just basically put a box of matches Just around your house. So, yes, fam, like that's why you can't do that.
Why are you not allowed to have a lot of trash in your house, nigga? I mean, what the hell you think? Because this shit will catch on fire. So these private companies, private fire companies usually come through and again, they hire body insurance companies.
normally to come and clear shrubbery make sure that your your lint at your dryer is uh cleared out make sure your hvac is good and usually they got their own little tank right so they come in with their own little tank of water that's their private water they're basically bringing their bottled water you know i'm saying while the rest of us is using tap right but eventually that little tank gonna run out you feel me and then at that point you got to tap into the fire hydrant right now
What most of these companies will say is like, guys, we're not monsters, dude. Like if if the neighborhood is on fire, of course, we're going to help. What do you like? What are you talking about? Which I truly believe for this reason, if I'm paying to protect this house, but the neighbor's house is on fire, that probably means that the neighbor's house is going to cause my house to catch on fire.
So, of course, it would be in my best interest. to help put that one out. According to the New York Times, they reported that, yeah, a good 45% of all firefighters working in the United States today are employed privately. Now, a lot of those are like wildlife suppression.
Now, there is such thing as called the National Wildlife Suppression Association, which represents more than like 300 private firefighting groups. And a lot of them work more as like government contractors. Right. As far as like, again, supplement for like wildfires. Right. And like I said, the others are hired by private companies.
Yo, and peep this like a little two person private firefighting crew with a small vehicle. I mean, it could cost like three grand a day, like a large crew of like 20 firefighters and four trucks can run ten thousand dollars a day. This is according to Brian Wheelock, the vice president of the Grayback Forestry. It's a private firefighting company in Oregon.
But most of the time, like I said, these people don't really work directly with homeowners. But that's not what's the interesting part of this story to me. The interesting part of this story to me is the reality of the utilities that we live in. Now, let me go ahead and run off some statistics to you.
I just want to go ahead and add to the dystopia that we live in because we need to say we need to change the name of this show to it has happened here. I'm a link all this data to the show notes. Now you're ready for this. Water and wastewater service privatization follows broader trends. More than 40% of drinking water systems nationwide are private, regulated utility systems.
Of the 60% of the systems owned by local governments, privatization by contracting of operations management has grown rapidly since 2001. Nationwide, the privatization of water, wastewater grew by 13 percent after growing 84 percent over the decade in the 1990s. Right. So what that means is almost half of y'all are paying a private company for your water.
Now, let's make some distinctions here between public utilities and private utilities. And, you know. What are we even talking about? So public utilities are owned and operated by your local state and federal governments on behalf of the citizens and customers in that area. So a public utility would be your municipal water, sewage, sanitation services.
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