Real estate is everything in Los Angeles. Karen Bass's absence from the city when the fires broke out, and now her seeming aloofness, has instantly made her look unfit for the job of mayor. Even Gavin Newsom is distancing himself from Bass. Meanwhile, while we wait on the facts behind the fires, all the Silicon Valley VC guys and Elon need to shut the f*** up. Plus, Mike Johnson is a disgrace, Zuck has no inner core of values, and TikTok Zoomers need to get a better understanding of free speech and fascism. Venice resident Peter Hamby joins Tim Miller. show notes Mayor Bass ignoring a reporter's questions Peter's Puck piece on Karen Bass "Ecology of Fear" by Mike Davis Tim's interview with reporter Liz Weil on wildfires Zuck being awkward at the UFC fight Peter referenced
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Hey, y'all, so much happening today. So here's some programming notes. We are taping today's pod on Tuesday morning as the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing is beginning. I just saw Joni Ernst's kind of lukewarm questioning of the SecDef nominee. The board's live on YouTube all day covering this hearing. Right now, as we speak, Sarah Longwell and Will Salatin are on.
Sam Stein and I are going to be on here this afternoon. You can check out an archive of our live stream on YouTube. Plus, for subscribers, we'll have a wrap-up. out on Tuesday evening. Go to thebullock.com slash subscribe. We'll have the team together with a wrap-up of the Pete Hegseth hearings.
We also have the Jack Smith report out this morning, which I'm going to touch on with my guest a little bit today. But for the Wednesday pod, we have a favorite on who is perfect for a deep dive on both Hegseth and Smith. So keep an eye out for that today. We're going to focus more on what's happening with the fires and TikTok. So up next, my pal Peter Hampton.
Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Today, we've got a favorite content man of mine. He's a partner at Puck News, host of Snapchat's Good Luck America, and he lives in a Venice, California home once owned by a cast member of the TV sitcom Wings. He has a new piece out in Puck. The blood is in the water for Karen Bass. It's Peter Hamby. What's up, Hamby?
Hey, buddy, I actually want you to know the first time I used the joke about no longer being a journalist and being a content man. And now content man applies to you. I also was the first person to call you a content man. I use that as a bit at your wedding as a little toast. I said, right, I'm no longer a journalist. I'm here as a content man. Fully, fully Snapchat at that point.
I appreciated your beautiful toast to my wedding. We'll do a little personal talk here. I want to talk a little bit about the fires, and then we'll get into the politics of that. We'll get into a little bit of what's happening on Capitol Hill. I said in the intro that this Hegseth hearing is happening right now as we spoke.
We've gotten to see maybe an hour of it, so maybe we'll just talk about some initial impressions. But first, as I mentioned, you're in Venice. We've got multiple mutuals who've lost their houses. We've got mutuals who are out there delivering supplies to firefighters. Shout out to our boy Ian and his crew. You know, I mean, it's ugly. The winds kept getting worse yesterday afternoon.
So before we get into kind of some rank punditry about the mayor, I just am curious, like from on the ground, your sense of the scale of the devastation and kind of how you're feeling about everything.
Yeah, I mean, the scale is real. I saw your pal Wendell Pierce, New Orleans slash Angeleno, I think, talk about how this is LA's Katrina. I don't necessarily know if that's the case. LA is famously stratified by race and class and geography. And there are people who are technically unaffected. It sort of felt like Katrina just swamped the entire city. You would know better than me, I guess. Yeah.
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