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Absorbing the Aftermath of the LA Fires

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0:00 [Music] all right today we're talking about the aftermath of the LA fires a lot of us have a lot of thoughts about it I was just telling Nick that like the other day we went to visit a restaurant that we liked uh that was close to the altitud of fires and then me and smack just decided to go see like what it even looked like and we we just drove through the area once and it's like she just started crying dude it's hard to see it's heartbreaking for sure it doesn't look real it just looks like you're going through like a movie you didn't make a Tik Tok video there to Capital but I saw people do I saw people like you could you could tell who's there to just like shoot stuff for themselves and that's crazy what type of content would you shoot there like a dance one I don't know if it didn't look like they were dancing it just looked like they were taking photos to like have but it didn't look like that was their house you know

0:50 what I mean just to be like maybe to show their friends or family or whatever so concept videos would be lit there huh I and I did Sad Song behind it but it but it is sad like if you do that if you go out there to do that and we were trying our best to stay out of the way too but there's so many uh workers that are rebuilding or cleaning up that you don't want to get in their way cuz the trucks take up the whole late damn sometimes I saw a Tik tocker in Lina and they were dancing to ushers let it burn and they were dancing in front of it and everyone was like wrong with you dude the biggest anomaly is what this fool saw on the TV screen in Vegas bro what talk about that dude I saw well give me a sec to pull it up and then I'll tell you about it but anybody else want to share you you're serious about some dancing to let it burn mhm yo I got to see that well speaking of people taking pictures I talked about this on one video we did a while ago but my buddy he's his house burned down and

1:41 he's there filming like he's taking pictures of like the damage and he sees like an an older Asian couple with their kid there and they're taking photos outside of the houses like I saw that standing and posing and the guy is you know Tak a picture of his wife or whoever it is of just the houses burnt down and they eventually went to a neighbor whose house was still up and he was like cleaning stuff and she went over and like took a picture of him and he was like confused you could see the whole interaction like uh what are you do and he's like do I pose he's kind of having a dilemma he doesn't know what to do tour came we saw older Asian people there too when we met yeah and I'm just like dude that's a crazy thing that's wild but I kind of expect that in La like La is just such a everyone's just coming here to take photos of like look at it's almost it's

2:33 like the whole place is a tour zone right dude I got off the plane right this place called Rock and Bruise which is in the airport that yeah dude they were they were playing the fire footage cuz everyone was like this is during the fire so this is like we're get off the plane is you know Embers in the air live coverage of burning Mountain live coverage of burning stuff they're playing higher and higher like while the Flames are going on over Roes and ████ you know the lyrics of higher and higher you want to read the lyrics which remember what the hell was that song called again I think it's is it Steve Winwood higher is it not that one no it's something else oh it was dude it's um it's um ████ that St Elmo's Fire dude they're playing that song is St Elmo's

3:24 Fire High part while they're showing RS on fire it was crazy oh no it you know there were a lot of people that were like that's what La deserves cuz they're ████ a lot of people were saying that crazy ████ cuz they're like you're Sodom and gomorra that's why God's punishing you self-explanatory dumb dude but at a time like that that's what people like why that's what Dave Chappelle was joking about though and that was really funny on the really good monologue oh he did told did I say that I was reading Steve's article yesterday but yeah the aftermath looks and I went to sleep after I jacked off it definitely look like if if you have a chance to even just see like how um you can literally see like the path the fire just jumps skips houses goes here you'll go to an area that looks like nothing touched it whatsoever everything's normal but there's just a total house burned down right there there's a couple each block it's weird and it skips some homes it

4:14 skips tons of homes especially ton of businesses too cuz it's like where it went down location wise you're like how seriously well you know I'm sure there were people setting fires too like that's that's I'm sure there's arrested for it a bunch of arsonists were arrested I think he's talking about about people setting up their own house on fire yo what may not that maybe not that I just mean like you just never know what people's intentions are the yeah my bad you're right you're right there were people saying think about that that's crazy think about it ████ 800 a month with my whip what do you mean like do you think they don't want to pay for it anymore damn mortgage yeah this channel doesn't think that but I never even thought of that but like that's a wild way to solve your problem you still have to pay their like property taxes and mortgages hell people didn't have fire Insurance yeah there's

5:04 a lot of people that didn't think it that would be one of those like oy doofy that's doofy for sure telling me that I didn't know is for people that didn't even have any fire damage whatsoever they could still have a total house for sure like one of my we know a couple of people that they live in the area and their house didn't burn down but they have to do like $200,000 in Damages just to their home because they have to throw everything out they're so close to the Ash that their house is like toxic they have to throw their clothes away everything within the house so it's almost like a complete loss in a lot of ways and they have to like it's going to take months for them to come back and their house is untouched and they have like they have to go back in a year or something like that that's what some people were were were thinking about so it's like there's so there's so much damage to that Community where you kind of don't know what's going to happen

5:54 that's that's the realization right cuz once everybody kind of forgets about it and everybody moves on you're like like the real problems are just going to start now that's true yeah where the repercussions of like people are trying to build and and they're on their own now it's like oh no more age like good luck yeah and they just cleared out I think the people some people that lost their homes they're the passing convention center and now they they're finally getting moved out today I believe it's been like a month they've been living in the convention center yeah a lot of people have you know and some people there nowhere else to go yeah and you know it was hard to find places to live Pasadena in general you know or in the surrounding areas where everyone's just displaced one thing that blew my mind about like how fire spread cuz I was you know after Lina happened and all that I'm like yeah I get it it's windy right but like I didn't realize

6:44 how aggressive The Embers fly so when I saw the footage of eaten and all that and you just saw like looks like bullets Fireballs yeah 80 mph yeah I was like what the ████ no wonder and then you can see how like it'll fly from One Tree and it gets onto another tree and from there to the house and I'm like that's and it seems like everyone's trying to push the blame well probably is the blame on SoCal Edison they're like going after him because they're they found out that Eaten Canyon yeah those three towers or whatever that were they didn't they didn't shut it off completely and they were faulty so then that was the spark that caused all the fires right but then you're like man it's it's it's sad because it's not just that too right like the whole narrative of the fire like the fire department not being staffed properly one of our my future

7:36 brother-in-law was trying to put out his his uh his aunt's house and there's like no water pressure out of the hose the firefighter comes up to him and is like he's like the only one on the Block and he's like hey you guys got to go in the house you have to film everything the fire's on its way like it's already coming right and it's like we can't help you there's nothing we can do and this guy is like that's his job and he has to tell this to his family right and he's and there was like we have no water we have nothing so like there were so many firefighters that just didn't have the resources can't do their job yeah and it's like it's ████ up and now there's a ton of firefighters still there trying to help out as much as they can you know there's there's like a ton of like there's so many National Guard there's a lot of National Guard people were out there like like any any like street that goes up to the area there'll be like a guard post don't you guys find it odd

8:27 how similar things are to the Lina fire like I mean The Coincidence are crazy right so both the Mayors were gone at the same time both started with the spark from a wire and then both because of the Winds wind conditions it spreads they also ran out of water too right that's a big one it's like how do they both run out of water so I'm like both poorly managed as hell yeah like if there's winds coming then they should know turn off the power and that's what the Mandate was supposed to be right and then there was doing that exactly like what's that's why it's a big question mark Cuz Monrovia shut their power off all the neighboring cities did AC L stuff right now for Altadena specifically abolutely absolutely I'm getting the ads are you guys EA fire All Those ads they're popping up on my Instagram yeah so everyone's hopping on

9:17 board to to get the damages recovered right cuz it's dude like you drive through these these houses that have been there for so long and that are beautiful homes like they're multi multi-million dollar homes in just in certain areas and they're just all gone and then even like with the PE the lower income areas like those are ████ toasted yeah you're like what are these people going to do like whole plazas like like a strip mall things that were just obliterated too of shopping centers and it it got the fire got pretty low to the point where dude yeah you know it just it just couldn't be stopped let me ask you guys this though did you guys feel Invincible with LA before this because every year Monrovia or like parts of the palace like not Palisades but Malibu the mount the hill every summer it burns we're

10:08 used to seeing fire in the mountains like it's not Bernardino like and then there are some Mountain neighborhoods that do and then there was that one year where that there was that uh Central California Town it got leveled remember was it 2020 or something like that I forgot the name of the town but like it almost feels like oh that's that's the that's out that's like the mountain people not us and then this ████ happens and you're like oh my God I didn't know it was so out of control and the like the big thing that I felt afterwards is like oh the the city government really doesn't have our back as much as I thought they did and it was already low the standard was already low and you see this happening you're like oh they really don't give a ████ one thing that happened too was I think all the 25 deaths in the Eden Canyon fire were all

10:58 in one area and it was the area apparently where you know all our a lot of people got text messages of like hey you need to evacuate firew warning blah blah blah but all the people that didn't get that there was an outage in one small little pocket of Pasadena they all died that's where all the deaths no so like I wonder what's going to happen with that the people that died were the specific ones that didn't get the where where did uh like where is that information like there was a bunch of news outlets that crazy because people were saying that no they died because they refused to evacuate I heard that ████ I was like what yeah because some people are Evac it's not the guy in the during the hurricane in a boat dude this is this is a totally different thing that's so crazy that that happened cuz we there was a friend of a friend he has a famous story and he you know like he he was

11:48 taking care of his brother who has cerebral paly and then his father who was I think a diabetic with ampute so they couldn't leave they couldn't leave he has so happened to me he he takes care of him he so happened to have an injury of his own was in the hospital that night and then that's when the fires happen right and this is a close friend to one of our members of the gym and this is a story that kind of went National and went viral right yeah yeah yeah but it's just like dude you hear that you're like oh my God like some people just didn't know sucks dude right and then yeah I don't know it's there's there's so much to unpack from all this yeah and yeah and unfortunately it's all the people that live there that are going to have to deal with all of it yeah and there seems like there's no gone it still just blows my mind like when I think about that yeah and you think like the rationale is like oh this

12:39 is a really rich exclusive area there's no way they're going to let that burn right yeah right yeah exactly like oh this this will never happen this management can affect them too exactly and it's like ter dude Terri even though they're paying like exponentially more in taxes than like a small town I saw something really weird about like the uh rebuilding of the Palisades but it needing to be like uh I guess more diverse you mean ethnically oh I saw them talk I saw them talking about environmental standards or something for it too like I think I saw what you're talking about and then they also talk about we have to we have to prepare the the area for climate change stuff so that's what Gavin Newsome just talking for like you mean like just racially people that live there like that way you know what I'm talking about I know what you're talking about uh Gavin n was

13:30 talking about it so this is the story that I was talking about this is I don't know the suable policy thing no this is just um 17 of the 25 that died were were in an area where there were um oh that's horrible dude it was too late for people yeah to leave oh my God you know that was what was kind of like 17 not not scary but it was like should we leave is like remember when we kept getting the emergency things and then it was like should we go guys like what the ████ and then and then and then it was like it's a false call yeah I promised Nikki too I was like if we get an alert I'll leave I promise me and anthy will just Dy back and then it it kept on being false alarms well also though like you know we were let's be honest like we got our alert and even before it was a false alarm we were like

14:21 we looked outside we thought about where we are GE graphically yeah we can see it all on the map yeah we're like you know what we're going to film we all flew in here we all in here like we're just going to film we'll see what happens and then like very shortly later it was false alarm but at the same time you know for anybody there are some people that didn't get alerts looked outside was like I'm out I'm out grab your ████ let's get out you know so you know you got to do your best with a s█████ situation you guys know that song Disco Inferno what about yeah I know it's actually because people were discing and it burned down oh really shut the it's based on like a real disaster it's really something I was in shock you made music about a disaster people made art from tragedy yeah two ████ yeah thank you the people dance to that art weird

15:14 song called dis Inferno they they were ████ dancing and it caught on fire and all these people got trapped in the Disco and they ████ burnt down Jesus and it's like a party song and this whole time I didn't even know then you ████ find out the history of it and you're like oh my God that's crazy it's a fire song it is Yo imagine if if we had any you know all those mobile detailers they have the they have water in their ████ Vans the song was originally recorded by the Champs in 1976 and released as a single it was inspired by the 1974 Blockbuster film The Towering Inferno ████ do in which a party in the top four volume break Community not who's this cop hey got to community note that ████ dud too crazy

16:05 what you got subie chill man you're making us look B need wait you're talking about the auto detailers that have water pressure was pressure washers imagine those guys all everyone who Auto details who have a ████ gallon of water in your ████ truck meet up at this spot so imagine you huge traffic jam that's smart yeah that ████ really smart hey you know what I saw though a lot while while the news was covering all the ████ fires they'd be interviewing these people trying to pour water on their ████ house right and they're just like so tell like they're just trying to ask all these questions and I'm like yo morality wise you guys better that feels you better keep one guy on staff to like help you know like don't just stand there and just film and watch them as their ████ houseb down that's that's the ████ News man yeah

16:56 for sure but at least help you know like there should be one guy to help no they're like they're like that's that one movie Watchman or something they don't give a f Nightcrawler Watchman watch watch Yo but check this out we got to alert we got to Alert West Hollywood you need to evacuate blah blah blah blah and I was just like looking outside I'm like why the ████ do we need evacuate look at all these apartments around here you know what I'm saying so to make sure everyone around me was evacuating causing a havoc and I was just like ████ this I'm going straight towards the fire cuz I want to see how ████ oh yeah when you became a rescuer I was like how important is this fire soone straight towards the fire my God just to find out damn dude went Rider we need you an Al a Dina my boy

17:46 that was entertaining though I was watch I was watching your live ████ I was like wow you were you were live streaming the fire I was live stream I was just like yo I'm here right now boss he was live updating him helping people like helping people yeah but at the dude but like I looked at the fire and I was just like okay that's where the mountain is wind's blowing that way the ember's not even going towards the building right and then I looked up again and there's like four ████ Choppers doing their cycle and I was just like oh we good man we chilling and you were historically wrong that was a crazy fire those four Choppers probably didn't do much that burned out the Hollywood fire I'm talking about bro I'm talking about Hollywood fire fire Hollywood fire the one that was happening on R wasn't that bad only one apartment building that ever burned down yeah Google the city all wait yeah towering in front

18:38 1976 fact check

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