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I watched last night. Did you see 14 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: any of the balls? 15 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 3: I did not? 16 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: You did not. 17 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 3: No, I didn't watch the balls. 18 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: My wife was watching for the dresses. Yeah. 19 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 3: Well that's what I would have watched for too. 20 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: It's like watching the Golden Club's red carpet or the 21 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: Academy Awards red carpet. 22 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 3: It's all about the dress. 23 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: It's all about the dresses. So I got a lot 24 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: of dress analysis last night. 25 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 3: Which one was your favorite? 26 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Which one was my favorite? 27 00:00:59,400 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 3: Yeah? 28 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: I know, I don't. Those dresses cover up everybody's body 29 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: from head to toe. So I okay, Okay, you don't 30 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 2: see any body parts with those dresses, so I long dressed. 31 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: Okay, so nobody was showing anything off no cleavage. 32 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: Uh no, well, I guess Laurence sand. 33 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the inauguration. 34 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I know Ucker liked, yeah, Zucker 35 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: br I saw that photo, Zucker staring down her down 36 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 2: her chest there, and I guess Bezos is happy. 37 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: But no, I mean I'm being silly. Dresses were beautiful. 38 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: They're probably worth the thousands and thousands of dollars, right, 39 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 2: got so, But uh, Trump, I just noticed that Trump 40 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: was because I was watching like nine ten o'clock at 41 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: night and the balls were going on. I'm thinking, my god, 42 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 2: that's one o'clock in the morning and he's been going 43 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: for about eighteen hours. And I remember they couldn't pull 44 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 2: Biden's corpse out for even eighteen minutes. Watching in the 45 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: afternoon and Trump was signing dozens and dozens of executive orders. 46 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: While doing a press conference, He's like signing away. You 47 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 2: hear the scribbling sound of his pen, and then he 48 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 2: looks up and he feels a question, and he scribbles 49 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: some more, looks up fields another question. Very relax is 50 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 2: like there are people with just extraordinary amounts of energy. 51 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 2: They're designed that way, and he only needs four or 52 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: five hours of sleep. 53 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 3: Well that's all I get tonight. 54 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: Huh Yeah, Well, actually I got a story all right, 55 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 2: late a this hour. I'll do the story on that 56 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: because my wife is like that too, She only sleeps 57 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: four or five hours a night. 58 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: I need double that, so I know you do. 59 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 4: And you like to brag about you got nine and 60 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 4: a half hours of sleep the other night. 61 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: Oh, the last three nights after the siege, the fires 62 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 2: and the looters and the power going out. I sung exhausted. 63 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 2: Last three nights. I slept really long and really well. 64 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 2: But what I read is that people like you and 65 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 2: Trump probably and my wife have a mutant gene. Yeah, 66 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 2: one of your genes is I wouldn't say defective, but 67 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: somewhere mutated, right, And there's a biological reason you don't 68 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 2: need sleep. You actually don't produce a certain element. Will 69 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: I will tell you about that later. I mean, you're 70 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 2: stuck with it. There's nothing you can do. 71 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 4: Can I Can I be tested to see if that's the. 72 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 2: Well, I guess, yeah, it's a specific gene. You know 73 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 2: how genes have like a three letter code or a 74 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 2: numerical code. Yeah, they listened to the gene there and said, well, 75 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: there's there's a mutation in people who don't sleep very much. 76 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: They literally can't like biologically. 77 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: They can't do it. 78 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: Okay. 79 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: So anyway back to Trump. So he wakes up this 80 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: morning and he goes on his own social media site, 81 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: truth Social and fired a thousand people, a thousand government workers, 82 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 2: all appointees from Biden's had been. 83 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: He actually closed the tweet with the phrase. 84 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: You're fired with an exclamation point and in capital letters, 85 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 2: just like he used to do on The Apprentice. Uh. 86 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 4: And what about all those people working from home? They 87 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 4: have been ordered to go back to the office. 88 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: Well, yes, this is the greatest thing in the world. 89 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: And I heard I heard somebody on the news today 90 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 2: really give a common sense explanation. They're planning to downsize 91 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: government dramatically. Elon Musk and his DOGE agency. 92 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: How do you. 93 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 2: Know who to keep and who to cut if they 94 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: don't show up for work and you can meet them 95 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 2: and you can watch them and see what. 96 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: It is everybody does. 97 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: If everybody's got some vague government title or classification and 98 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: they sit at home well, how. 99 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: Do you know, how do you know if you need them? 100 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: You don't even know what they do. 101 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: So yeah, everybody's going to come in because if you 102 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 2: ever look, this would be a good thing to look 103 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 2: up how many employees the government has compared to you know, 104 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: twenty years ago or forty years ago. 105 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: It's astonishing. 106 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: And it's just up until COVID, it's just desks and 107 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 2: chairs and people giving computer terminals and who knows what 108 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 2: they do. And then they go work from home during 109 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: COVID because all you need is a desk and a 110 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: chair in a computer terminal. And from what I've read 111 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: is that CEOs for the most part, have said people 112 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: do not work very much when they're working from home. 113 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: It's not efficient. You don't get the same productivity, you 114 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: don't get the same hours. There's no question about it. 115 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: Which is why so many companies are trying to force 116 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: workers to come in, is because you know, they tried 117 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 2: the experiment. People had talked about this sort of thing, telecommuting. 118 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 2: It was called years ago, and this was like the 119 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: great new frontier. All you needed was the technology, and 120 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: then we got the technology. We got Zoom and the 121 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: Internet and and all this and and uh, you know, 122 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: there's there's there's a certain percentage of people who it 123 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: works out, but in general it doesn't work out. 124 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, there are some jobs where 125 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 4: it does make sense to work from home at least 126 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 4: some of the time. 127 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 3: It just depends on the type of job and the 128 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 3: type of. 129 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 2: Person, right, But it's it's more specific broad based everyone 130 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: works at home. You really can't run a company that way. 131 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: I I you need FaceTime, Yeah, you need you need casual, 132 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 2: spontaneous conversations, right, it's what you need. And you'll also 133 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: you know, most people, especially government drones, which is largely 134 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 2: what we're talking about here, government drones need oversight. They 135 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: need somebody looking and saying, hey, what'd you do today? 136 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 2: Did you get that done yet? 137 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 3: Where have you been a micromanager? 138 00:06:55,080 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 2: There are uses for micromanagers if you have well they're cattle. 139 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: See a lot of people are cattle, okay, and you 140 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 2: need and you need a guy with a lastso or 141 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: a whip or something to move the cattle along. Somebody 142 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 2: have like mid level government workers. That that's a lot 143 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: of cattle there, that's that's a lot of beef. 144 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes when I walk by. 145 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 4: Uh, be careful what you're gonna say. 146 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 3: Maybe edit it first in your mind. 147 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: What did you want to hear me always unedited? 148 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 4: Oh? 149 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: I hear it off the air. I'm just trying to 150 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 3: save you. 151 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: From some you know, that's right. You know what I 152 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: I do. 153 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: That's why I'm telling you to be careful. 154 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 4: I get the unedited John Gobel Show every day before 155 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 4: the show. 156 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: That's that's the final front here. 157 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 2: When I'm in here, I'm going on the internet, after 158 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 2: I've met all my money, I'm gonna sit there be 159 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 2: entirely unedited, and nobody's going to be able to do 160 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: anything about it. And I'll probably get a bigger audience 161 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: than every Oh, I'm sure that's right, just to go 162 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: with the unedited podcast. 163 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: Probably get sued a lot too. Uh So we've got. 164 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 2: Uh so, we've got these these couple of hundred. 165 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. 166 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 2: They lost count you know, you know what you know 167 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: what Trump did, and he would do this once he 168 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 2: figured because you know, they came into the first term, 169 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 2: first three months, they were unprepared because they didn't think 170 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: they were going to win. They had both political parties 171 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 2: against them. The establishment Republicans hated him as much as 172 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: the establishment Democrats, the Obama crowd at the time, and 173 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 2: of course the media despised him, and so he had 174 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 2: everything working against him. He didn't have loyalists because everyone 175 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: was afraid to bet their career on Trump, and a 176 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 2: lot of them thought he was nuts and wrong about 177 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 2: a lot of things. 178 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: And over time he's turned out to be right on 179 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: a lot of things. 180 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 2: You know, we tried the old fashion way with Biden 181 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 2: and realized that, yeah, Trump actually figured out what was 182 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 2: wrong with Washington, and we can't run it the old 183 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: way anymore. And that's why he won such a big 184 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 2: victory much of the public. In fact, I saw a 185 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 2: poll that more people like his policies than like him. 186 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 2: His personality will always be a drag on his approval rating, 187 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 2: but when they break out one by one, the policies, 188 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 2: all the policies, most of the major ones did really 189 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 2: well in poling. So people are voting some people on him, 190 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 2: but a lot of people are saying, you know what, 191 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 2: we tried it the other way. They had four years 192 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: of pure undistilled progressivism, and boy did that wreck the place. 193 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: We'll talk Moore, we come back to. 194 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 195 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 5: six forty. 196 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: Elon Musk is gone to work to try to slash 197 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 2: a trillion dollars at a government spending. It's Doze, Department 198 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 2: of Government Efficiency. And the first thing they shut down, 199 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 2: and this cracked me up, is, uh, the diversity, equity 200 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: and inclusion programs. In fact, there's a whole agency known 201 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 2: as the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Counsel cd O e C. 202 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: And that website, if you try to access it now, 203 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 2: gives you one of those four oh four error messages. 204 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 2: He shut down the website and I guess they fired everybody. 205 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: This cde C was responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion, oh 206 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: and accessibility. 207 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: They added another letter. I didn't know this. 208 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 2: Everybody's always carrying on about DEI. Actually it was DEI A. 209 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 2: It's like all the letters that they add to like LGBTQ, 210 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 2: and they kept adding extra letters. The same thing here, 211 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 2: there's always groups that want to join, and so you 212 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: end up with a longer and longer and longer acronym into. 213 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 2: So the cd O e C was part of the 214 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 2: Office of Personal Personnel Management, also known as the OPM. 215 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: So you got this. 216 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: The cd O e C a subsidiary of O p M, 217 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: and they were in charge of enforcing d ei A. 218 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: That's why all this needs to be bull dozed. None 219 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 2: of this has anything to do with governing, nothing to 220 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 2: do with economic productivity. All it is is nonsense, burdens 221 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: some nonsense. You hire people because they'll be good at 222 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 2: the job, period, There is nothing else. Are they good 223 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 2: at the job or will they potentially be good at 224 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: the job based on their talents and their experience. 225 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: And blah blah blah. We know what is. 226 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: People have been hired since human beings existed, right back 227 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: when people are in caves. If you needed another guy 228 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 2: to move a rock in your family's cave, you'd go 229 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 2: to the other caves and say, oh, can you lift 230 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 2: this rock? And if he was strong enough and could 231 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 2: lift the rock, he was hired. But he was hired 232 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: because he was strong enough to lift the rock. So 233 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 2: Trump signed an executive order, so do diversity equity inclusion 234 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 2: agencies are gone, and all programs inside every agency are 235 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: gone as well. It includes mandates, policies, programs, preferences, activities, 236 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 2: any euphemism they have for government nonsense. And that's I 237 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: mean that is one of the best things that has happened. 238 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: Progressivism is dying very slowly here in California, you know, 239 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 2: witness Proposition thirty six and Nathan Hockman taking over his 240 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: La County DA. But it is almost completely dead in 241 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 2: the rest of America. Nobody wants to hear about this 242 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 2: this stuff anymore. Some of the other executive orders he 243 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 2: stopped seventy eight executive actions that Biden had signed. Oh 244 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords, so we can stop 245 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 2: wasting money on climate change nonsense, which by the way, 246 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 2: has had zero effect. 247 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: On the climate. 248 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 2: It became a huge racket, you know, like the homelessness 249 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 2: racket here in Los Angeles, well, worldwide, there's a climate 250 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 2: change racket. In fact, all these noble progressive causes are 251 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 2: actually fronts for rackets that reward loyalists in that community. 252 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 2: All these progressive groups actually created companies and nonprofits in 253 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: order to qualify for whatever grants there were, whatever tax 254 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 2: revenue was available, in order to finance themselves and their organizations. 255 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 2: None of it provided any benefit to you or me, 256 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: and I dare anybody to show you tell me. Like 257 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 2: in California, all the climate policies we have which has 258 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: given us four fifty a gallon gas, with the rest 259 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: of the country under three bucks. You tell me how 260 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: that benefit How has that benefited us? Not at all? 261 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 2: Fifteen fifteen years? What am I talking about? Eight nineteen years? 262 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: Now? This started two thousand and six. 263 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 2: Nineteen years of extremely expensive climate policy. Electricity rates that 264 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: are double the rest of the country, gas rates that 265 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: are two bucks more than the rest of the country, 266 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: and on and on and on. 267 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: What have we gotten out of it? Anything? 268 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: Can you tangibly point to anything that we have collectively 269 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 2: gotten out of nineteen years of being ripped off and 270 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: looted with all these taxes that they've charged us and 271 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 2: the energy companies, It doesn't exist. He also got rid 272 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: of Biden's order requiring that fifty percent of new cars 273 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: in twenty thirty be electric vehicles, So that's gone. We're 274 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 2: going to be the last state suffering under this nonsense. 275 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: They're going to reopen Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to 276 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 2: oil and gas exploration because there is a ton of 277 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: oil and gas up there that will lower See the 278 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: thing about drilling for gas and oil. The more we 279 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: drill and the more it looks like we're going to 280 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 2: drill that'll drive down the price of oil. And the 281 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 2: price of oil doesn't just affect the gasoline at the pump, 282 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 2: but it affects all the products we have. All the 283 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 2: products that we use have to be transported. There are 284 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,479 Speaker 2: hundreds and hundreds of products that are manufactured with petroleum. 285 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 2: This is how you do a broad based You instigate 286 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 2: a broad base decline in prices, make the manufacture of 287 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 2: all these goods and the transportation of all these goods cheaper. 288 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: And you do that by lowering the price of oil. 289 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 2: You lower the price of oil by increasing the supply. 290 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 2: The only way to do that is to drill for it. 291 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 2: I wish somehow the US government could annex California and 292 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: take it over, because we have a tremendous amount of 293 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 2: oil and natural gas below the surface here. And I've 294 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 2: always thought, well, if it exists, why not use it. 295 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 2: What's the point of keeping it underground? It serves no 296 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 2: purpose being underground. All Right, we come back. 297 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: Some more on. 298 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 2: It's become pretty clear that the people who run the 299 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: LA Fire Department really screwed up and did not pre 300 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: deploy firefighters and engines to the Palisades and other areas 301 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: before the big wins hit on January sixth January seventh, 302 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 2: So now they were pre deploying for this new round 303 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 2: of dangerous wins. It proves that what we were saying 304 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,959 Speaker 2: two weeks ago was correct. They screwed up, and they 305 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,360 Speaker 2: know they screwed up. And you don't have to wait 306 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 2: for the investigation to prove it. Look at their actions today. 307 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: Oh and I'll also give you an example. Michael Schellenberger 308 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 2: found of DEI embedded itself in the Los Angeles Fire 309 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: Department and what the consequences of that has been. 310 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: That's all ahead. 311 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 312 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 5: six forty. 313 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 314 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 2: then after four o'clock John Cobet Show on demand on 315 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. After two o'clock, we're going to talk 316 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: to Royal Oaks, the ABC News legal analyst dueling pardons 317 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 2: this week between Biden pardoning his entire family because he 318 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 2: knew that they were up to their necks in corruption. 319 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 2: Trump then won up to them and pardoned everybody who 320 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 2: was jailed over the January sixth insurrection. Including the ones 321 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: who had been convicted on violent charges on violent on 322 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 2: violence and also one guy who was convicted of sedition. 323 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 2: And so he did a pardon that tossed everyone out. 324 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 2: And so now the stupid fighting going on between insiders 325 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: in Washington is your guy did something unspeakable. Yeah, well, 326 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 2: your guy did something unspeakable. There's nothing you can do 327 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 2: about the pardons. That's in the constitution. Nobody can fix that. 328 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 2: So now it's anything goes. You want to pardon guys 329 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: who are part of a violent insurrection, there, you go, 330 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 2: want to pardon corrupt family members that were raking in 331 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: big bucks for Joe. Hey, Joe can do it. We'll 332 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: talk about that with Royal Oaks coming up. After two o'clock. 333 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: We were discussing how Eon Musk erased the US government's 334 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 2: diversity inclusion Diversity Equity and Inclusion program, I mean he 335 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 2: eliminated the entire office. If you try to access that 336 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 2: federal website, you get a four h four error. Diversity Equity, 337 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 2: Inclusion and Accessibility, the Chief Diversity offers officers, executive counsel. 338 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 2: It's all god DEI though still infects the city of 339 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, the government and the Fire Department, Michael Schellenberger 340 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 2: among many stories as he did, and listen, if you 341 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 2: have a few dollars, I would subscribe to. His site 342 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 2: is called public and it's Public dot News. It's Michael 343 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 2: Schellenberger and other writers as well, and he has done 344 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 2: amazing stuff. We've had him on the show a number 345 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 2: of times. Amazing stuff on the inner workings of the 346 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 2: California government and Sacramento and what's been going on the 347 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, especially in the fire department. Over the last 348 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 2: two weeks. I've read a lot of his stuff on 349 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 2: the air, We've had him on. 350 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: Uh. 351 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 2: He's had one piece in the last week that how 352 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 2: the city has not only mismanaged the fires, but it's 353 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 2: also greatly mismanaged the homelessness disaster. And he asks in 354 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 2: this column why is that. Part of the reason is 355 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 2: the city's diversity Equity Inclusion DEI programs. The city will 356 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 2: only per This is according to whistleblower Firefighter, the city 357 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: will only purchase from vendors that support DEI. So we'll 358 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: go with a vendor that we have to pay twice 359 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 2: as much to or the shipment may take twice as 360 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 2: long in order for it to be a DEI vendor 361 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 2: rather than a vendor who has it at half the 362 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 2: price and can get it to us tomorrow. 363 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: This is a firefighter. 364 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: He's talking about ordering fire equipment, but because of the 365 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 2: DEI rules in the Karen Bass administration, if fire officials 366 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 2: want to order fire equipment and supplies, they have to 367 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 2: go with a vendor, even if it costs twice as 368 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 2: much and the shipment takes twice as long. How could 369 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 2: you anybody who does that ought to be erased out 370 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 2: of office. Musk auto erase I. I wish there was 371 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: a way to get this fever that Trump and Musk 372 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 2: have created in Washington into La and Sacramento. Are we 373 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: going to be the only state living like it's twenty 374 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 2: fourteen while everyone else moves into the late twenty twenties 375 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 2: and twenty thirties. DEI, that is the past, ancient history. 376 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 2: It is a failed philosophy, a failed progressive philosophy. Somebody 377 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: justify to me why you would go with vendors that 378 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 2: cost twice as much and takes twice as long to 379 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: deliver just because they believe in DEI. What do they 380 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 2: have to do to prove that they believe in DEI 381 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 2: or that they practice DEI. Do they actually have to 382 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 2: send in an application with proof detailing how committed they are. 383 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 2: This is more Schellenberger again, this is the whistleblower. He said, 384 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 2: the DEI programs put firefighters and the public in danger. 385 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: Quote. 386 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 2: I personally witnessed in my own drill tower them making 387 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 2: and passing women to get their female quota numbers, even 388 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 2: though they didn't have to meet all the criteria that 389 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: the men did. Schellenberger asked what those criteria were, and 390 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 2: this person said, well, a certain amount of pushups, holding 391 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 2: a certain size hose line, throwing a certain ladder. We 392 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 2: no longer require two firefighters to be able to throw 393 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: a thirty five foot ladder because of the amount of 394 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: women who were failing that requirement. 395 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: So now it's a three person ladder. 396 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what I want outside my house, if 397 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 2: it's on fire and I'm trapped inside, I want them 398 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: to hold a committee meeting down below to see if 399 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 2: it's a two person or a three person ladder, and 400 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: they're going to be counting how many you know, for 401 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 2: all the prattling about women in the fire department, it 402 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: was two point nine percent. And then Garcetti issued some 403 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: kind of bandate and they got up to three point 404 00:23:55,240 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 2: three percent. But what they did is they degraded the 405 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 2: requirements for everyone, such as your ability to throw a ladder, pushups, 406 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 2: holding a hose line. All this stues is hurt fire response. 407 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 2: Oh and then they hired an assistant chief, the woman 408 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,919 Speaker 2: we played that clip last week, who said was answering 409 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 2: a criticism, well what if the woman isn't strong enough 410 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 2: to lift my husband? And her response was, well, then 411 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 2: your husband got himself in the wrong place. There's DEI 412 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: for you. In other words, hey, your husband has to 413 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,679 Speaker 2: die because it's not equitable to require women to be 414 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 2: able to lift grown men. This, this is insanity. So 415 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: they no longer have that as a job requirement. Throwing 416 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: a thirty five foot ladder in the field. That doesn't 417 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 2: work because we don't have enough people to spare when 418 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 2: a fire is happening to just throw one ladder right 419 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 2: in a fire with all the chaos, you need people 420 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 2: assigned to their various duties. You can't steal extra people 421 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 2: to hoist up the ladder because too many firefighters aren't 422 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: strong enough to do it. The DEI programs are also expensive, said, 423 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: this whistleblower distracting attention away from preventing and fighting fires. Oh, 424 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 2: should anything distract firefighters from preventing and fighting the actual fire. 425 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 2: The fire department, he says, ends up hiring unqualified people. 426 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 2: Do we really need to sink millions a year into DEI? 427 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 2: I don't think so. Another reason is corruption, which drains 428 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 2: money from the city coffers, including for firefighting. And then 429 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 2: he gets in to the homelessness debacle, which is another 430 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 2: interesting aspect of this as well. When we come back. 431 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,479 Speaker 2: We'll get now to the La Fire Department. They're doing 432 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 2: what they didn't do on January seventh. And this has 433 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 2: got to really hurt if you suffered in the Pacific 434 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: Palisades fire, because now yesterday and today the fire department 435 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 2: did what they should have done two weeks ago. We 436 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 2: talked about right away as soon as the La Times 437 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: discovered it. They in the face of these alleged one 438 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 2: hundred mile an hour winds, they didn't have anybody deployed 439 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: in the Palisades or anywhere else in the foothills. We'll 440 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 2: talk about that when we come back. 441 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 442 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 5: six forty. 443 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk 444 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 2: with Royal Oaks and he's with ABC News, the legal 445 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 2: Analyst about Trump's a collection of pardons everybody involved in 446 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 2: the January sixth insurrection who was convicted imprisoned, including the 447 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 2: guys who committed the most violence, and including one guy 448 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 2: who was charged with sedition. We will talk with Royal 449 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: Oaks coming up in just a few minutes. Now, you know, 450 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: January seventh was the January seventh is going to live 451 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: in infamy far longer than January sixth when it comes 452 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 2: to Los Angeles because of the fire that happened and 453 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: the lack of response by LA City government. I can't 454 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 2: imagine how things might have been different for quite a 455 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 2: few people had the firefighters been allowed in early, if 456 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 2: they had been pre deployed, which they should have been. 457 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: And that is something that Kristin Crowley is going to 458 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 2: have to answer to soon. And consequences are consequences should 459 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 2: be suffered for that decision, and Karen Bass too, since 460 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: she wasn't here to take part in that decision. There 461 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 2: should be consequences for both of those both of those 462 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 2: people because this was a serious serious, deadly, tragic screw up, 463 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 2: and to prove that they know now how they screwed up. 464 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 2: The LA Fire Department staffed all its extra engines and 465 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 2: a thousand extra firefighters remained on duty once they got 466 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 2: reports of the extreme winds that were forecast. Now this time, 467 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 2: the winds haven't caused any particular damage in Los Angeles. 468 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: There were a few small fires that were put out quickly, 469 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 2: but the big one happened two weeks ago, and if 470 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: you remember, Kristin Crowley did not send They had forty engines, 471 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 2: They had a thousand firefighters that they could have kept 472 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 2: on a second shift, and they chose to send those 473 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 2: thousand firefighters home and keep the forty engines in the 474 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 2: garag Not to mention the one hundred engines that are broken, 475 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: but they don't have mechanics to fix them. If there's 476 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 2: not an overhaul of all overhauls coming up after this, 477 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: and it should happen soon, we don't need a two 478 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: year investigation. It's pretty clear what went wrong here and 479 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: it should be fixed soon, and the money should be 480 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,719 Speaker 2: spent and take the money out of the homeless programs 481 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: to fix it. Fire officials said that yesterday the thousand 482 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: firefighters remained on duty to staff an extra thirty engines. 483 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley now says the pre deployment is very, very 484 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 2: thoughtful and strategic. I guess her decision two weeks ago 485 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 2: was not thoughtful, not strategic. She said, the fire patrols 486 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: and the engines were positioned in high risk areas, places 487 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 2: like West Los Angeles Woodland Hills. You'll be happy to know, Debra, 488 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 2: you're covered. 489 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 3: I'm very happy to know that when the. 490 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 2: Firefighters are allowed to do their work, they do. They 491 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: do their work brilliantly. Just send them, assign them Hollywood, 492 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 2: Sunton Valley. And then she said, we're extremely busy in 493 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 2: the city too. Our job is to ensure that we're 494 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 2: providing that nine to one to one service. That is 495 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 2: the homeless issue. Half of the fires in La are 496 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,719 Speaker 2: set by homeless. This has to stop. This had There 497 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 2: has to be zero tolerance for homeless people living in 498 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: public and starting fires. Half of the fire department is 499 00:30:54,600 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: tied up on any given day putting out the bumfires. 500 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: So she says, our job is to ensure that we're 501 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 2: providing that nine to one one service. On top of 502 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 2: pre deploying augmenting and still responding into the Old Palisades Fire, 503 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 2: which is almost sixty percent contained at least as of yesterday. 504 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 2: I guess it's probably it contained better than that. 505 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 3: Now it's a little more. 506 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there's rain coming this weekend. 507 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 4: Yes, but now the worry is, of course, getting too 508 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 4: much rain at one time, because then we're going to 509 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 4: have mud and de brief flows. 510 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: It's like one biblical plague after another. 511 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 4: Why can't we just have some light rain, A little 512 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 4: light rain on and off on Saturday, a little light 513 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 4: rain on and off on Sunday, give us a break 514 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 4: on Monday. Maybe come back a little bit on Tuesday, 515 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 4: just a little at a time exactly so we can 516 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 4: handle it. 517 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,959 Speaker 2: Well, that's not the way things are here. Yeah, I know, 518 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 2: by the way, we're another day closer to the earthquake. 519 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 3: I knew you're just yeah, that's all we need. 520 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: But we're overdue. 521 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 2: I know. 522 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 4: But you know what, but let's just tell the universe 523 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 4: to give us a break for now. I mean, we're 524 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 4: dealing with so much. We can't we cannot deal with 525 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 4: a big earthquake. 526 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: I think we have offended the universe. 527 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 3: The universe is, well, what can we do. 528 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. 529 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna have to go out and sacrifice 530 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 2: an animal or something. 531 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 4: I'm gonna go and I'm gonna have to get some sage, 532 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 4: right and smudge smudge everywhere. 533 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 2: It's Los Angeles, run around chanting and waving your arms 534 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 2: in the air. Royal Oaks, what did I read up 535 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 2: in Northern California? And they were up in like one 536 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 2: of those hippie towns. They were going to have like 537 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 2: a like a meditation center. They were going to have 538 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,959 Speaker 2: people come and gather together, and it sounded like they 539 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 2: were going to do some primitive ritual to try to 540 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 2: appease the nature gods over. 541 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: What's going on? All right? 542 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 2: Royal Oaks is next. ABC News legal analyst about the 543 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 2: avalanche of Trump pardons following the Biden swamp of pardons Biden. 544 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 2: I heard something funny. Trump said he didn't know that 545 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 2: Biden had pardoned his own family until after the speech, 546 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 2: because Biden did fifteen minutes before the end of his term. 547 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 2: So Trump and everybody else were getting ready to be 548 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: seated for the inauguration ceremony, and it was only after 549 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 2: that that Trump found out that Biden had pardoned hit, 550 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: two brothers, a sister, and two in laws. Well, now 551 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 2: Trump one optum by pardoning everybody connected to the January 552 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 2: sixth insurrection, including one's convicted of violent felonies and one 553 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 2: guy could convicted of sedition. Talk about that with Royal 554 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 2: coming up. Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four 555 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 2: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 556 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,479 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 557 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 558 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,479 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 559 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app