1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four, and then 5 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 3: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the 6 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 3: iHeart app. Well, listen to this. We've been telling you 7 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 3: about Karen Vass, the inept incompetent mayor Los Angeles who 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 3: sent out a tweet warning us all about the firestorm, 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: the windstorm that was threatening us. But she went to Ghana, Africa. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 3: Why some politician was getting inaugurated and she'd rather be there. 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: She knew this was coming, and then she stayed there 12 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 3: after warning everybody it's like, oh you know, extreme fire danger, 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 3: red flat warnings, high wind mornings. Oh it's life threatening, 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 3: it's dangerous. Stayed in Ghana, finally flew back and landed 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 3: early this afternoon. She I guess this is her coming 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: off the coming out of the airport. 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, she's like the air tunnel, like right as you 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 4: get off the air Yeah. Remember she cut the budget 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 4: of the fire department. The fire department, county and city said, hey, 20 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 4: we were overwhelmed. We don't have the resources, they don't 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 4: have the manpower, and in the Palisades, the city, fire department, County, 22 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 4: whoever showed up there. 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 3: Everybody showed up out of water. They were out of 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 3: water after seventeen hours, no more water for the Palisades fire. 25 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 3: So there's at least a thousand buildings that have burned. 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 2: How you be out of water? 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: Well, Sky News reporter David Blevins, And by the way, 28 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 3: the British guys frequently are the ones to do the 29 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 3: dirty work because most American reporters don't have the balls 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 3: to confront politicians, especially left wing progressive politicians. 31 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: They just can't do that. 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 3: Well, David Blevins was courageous and ask Mayor Karen Bass 33 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 3: if she owes La residents an apology for being out 34 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: of a country when the fire happened. 35 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: Played a clip. 36 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 5: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 5: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire 38 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 5: department budget by millions of dollars? 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 6: Not in there? 40 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 2: Have you nothing to say today? 41 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 5: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 5: Elon Mosque says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering 43 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 5: your position, Madam mayor? Have you absolutely nothing to say 44 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 5: to the citizens today you're dealing with this disaster. No 45 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 5: apology for them. Do you think you should have been 46 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 5: visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? 47 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: Back home? 48 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 7: They're walking down a tunnel here. 49 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, now she's walking out of the door, Adam Mayor, 50 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 5: let me ask you just again, have you anything to 51 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 5: say to the citizens today as you returned, Madam Mayor, 52 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 5: just a few words for the citizens today as you 53 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 5: return to do you a catastrophe. 54 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 3: That is pathetic and infuriating? That was a minute thirty 55 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 3: eight of Karen Bass refusing to speak when the British 56 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: reporter asked, do you owe an apology to the La 57 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 3: residents for not being around when the fire erupted? 58 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: Said? 59 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 3: Nothing to say to everybody, nothing, let alone an apology. 60 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 3: Nothing And again it took a British reporter to do that. 61 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: There was a post on x by a financial company 62 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 3: Geiger Capital, courting Rick Caruso. Rick Carroso in this post 63 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 3: is described as a billionaire real estate developer called into 64 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: La local news and Rick said, this is like a 65 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 3: third world country. There is no water coming out of 66 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 3: the fire. Hydrants. La Mayor Karen Bass is on a 67 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 3: foreign trip to Ghana. Elon Musk retweeted that post, and 68 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 3: then Musk wrote, Obama made sure that Rick Caruso, who 69 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 3: is extremely competent, lost to utterly incompetent Mayor Karen her 70 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 3: real name, Mayor Careen. And Musk is absolutely right, and 71 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 3: so is Geiger Capital and Rick Caruso. There is no 72 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 3: excuse for this. There is no excuse for cutting the 73 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 3: budget of the fire Department, increasing homeless spending to one 74 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 3: point three billion dollars, increasing homelessness when the homeless start 75 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 3: nearly fourteen thousand fires a year. 76 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: Who started this one in the Palisades? We don't know? 77 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: And then Trump posted on a truth social that Governor 78 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 3: Gavin Neuscomb refused to sign the Water Restoration Declaration that 79 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess 80 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 3: rain and snow melt from the north to float daily 81 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 3: into many parts of California, including the areas that are 82 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 3: currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way. He wanted to 83 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: protect an essentially worthless fish called the smelt by giving 84 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 3: it less water. It didn't work, but didn't care about 85 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 3: the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. 86 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean 87 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: fresh water to float into California. He's to blame for this. 88 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 3: On top of it, no water for the fire hydrants 89 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 3: nor the firefighting planes. A true disaster. Truck talked about 90 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 3: this when he was on our show back in October. 91 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: Listen, California's crazy. You could be so rich, you have 92 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: such great resources. And if you even think about putting 93 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: a rig that nobody would even see. 94 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 8: They they look like beautiful trees. 95 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: Now if you look, if you even think about it, 96 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: they put you in jail. I mean, it is crazy. 97 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: And they have no money. You know, you have another thing. 98 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: You have a lot of water, but basically you're always 99 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: in a drought. You know, in in your richer areas 100 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: like Beverly Hills and all. They want to give you 101 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:06,679 Speaker 1: a very little amount of water. You buy a house, 102 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: spend a lot of money, and they say you're allowed 103 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: to use twenty nine gallons of water. Do you know 104 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: that you have water coming in by millions and millions 105 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: of gallons up from the north and they send the 106 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: water out into the Pacific Ocean. They don't let it 107 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: come down. 108 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, to save a fish that they can't they to 109 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 3: save a fish they can't even find anymore. 110 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: A fish called the smelt. 111 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 2: Yes, the delta smelt doesn't do. 112 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: Well, the delta smelt. And to save this little tiny 113 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: fish that, by the way, is dying for a different reason. 114 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: It's got no water. You know, before they had water. 115 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: Now it's got no water. So it's dying anyway. But 116 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: to save the delta smelt, which is not an important fish, 117 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: and by the way, is in other areas too, But 118 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: for that millions of gallons of water, millions and millions, 119 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: I've seen it. It's like a giant forcet. It takes 120 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,239 Speaker 1: all of that water coming down from way up north, 121 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: from the snow melts and all it's pouring down. And 122 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: that's why you have all those empty fields along the 123 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: highway where you have the farming area. You know, you 124 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: have the best land in the country just about. But 125 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: they took the water away. And what would that do 126 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: to your forest fires? You could let the water. I mean, 127 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: you have so much water. 128 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 6: And they let it go out. 129 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,239 Speaker 1: And you know, I had it all done. 130 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: It was all done. 131 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: The hardest part was a federal It was all done. 132 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: Gavin Nooscombe refused to sign. It was Department of Commerce, 133 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: that got it done, and he refused to sign. 134 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 8: And think of this. 135 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: You have so much water and they send it out 136 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: into the Pacific Ocean, which for the Pacific Ocean is 137 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: like a drop. You understand that. 138 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's billions of gallons, but it's nothing compared 139 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 3: to what's out in the ocean. All right, It's Trump 140 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 3: on October eighth, and he reiterated some of that on 141 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 3: his social media site today. Newsom has horrible water policy. 142 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 3: They have horrible fire policy in this state. They did 143 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: not do controlled burns for many years. They still didn't 144 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 3: do controlled burns for a lot of the brush in 145 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 3: Pacific Palisades. Coming up after three thirty, we're gonna have 146 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 3: a Rick Caruso on. We talked with him earlier. We're 147 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 3: going to replay it. He covered much of this from 148 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 3: his perspective. He used to be a commissioner for DWP, 149 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: and you know, he suffered and his family suffered as 150 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 3: a shopping center in the Palisades was damaged. His daughter 151 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 3: lost her house, his son's house was damaged. I don't 152 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: know how badly. Rick was on with us earlier. In 153 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 3: the show, we're going to replay it. You listen to 154 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 3: his knowledge of what goes on. Have you ever heard 155 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 3: Karen Bass talk like this? You listened to Rick and 156 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 3: See if you ever remember Karen. 157 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: Bass saying anything. 158 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 3: In fact, we're gonna play Karen Bass again later this 159 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 3: hour too, literally saying nothing. 160 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI. 161 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 3: By the way, I want to thank one of our listeners, Carl. 162 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 3: He got us the video and the audio of Karen 163 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 3: Dass not saying a word coming off the plane at 164 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 3: the airport after flying from Ghana, which is where she 165 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 3: spent the much of the week while Los Angeles was burning, 166 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 3: while Pacific Palisades was getting destroyed. She was in Ghana 167 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 3: because some politician in Africa was getting inaugurated, and that's 168 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: what she thought was a priority. And she's she wouldn't respond, 169 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 3: she wouldn't apologize. We're going to play that again before 170 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 3: the end of the hour. Did you get any Deborah, 171 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 3: How did she pass out? She's on her phone? I think, Oh, 172 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 3: she on her phone, she's talking on the she's reading 173 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: attacks here talking. 174 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 2: He Wow, that's funny. What did you say? What you 175 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 2: did you know? 176 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 10: Michael Monks? 177 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 5: Oh? 178 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 2: Did you thought she fell asleep? Had your head thought. 179 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 10: Wow, No, no, I was. 180 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 6: I was. 181 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 10: I was sharing something with Michael Monk's. 182 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: Well, I know you didn't sleep last night. Oh my god, 183 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 2: she passed out. 184 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 10: I am about to but that isn't the excuse. So 185 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 10: what did you? What were you ram? 186 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 3: I was, I was just going to tease you about 187 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 3: not sleeping. Now I did. Two days I did not, 188 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,359 Speaker 3: And because the wind was blowing. 189 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 11: John, when I tell you that, I thought it was 190 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 11: kind of a little I was a little skeptical when 191 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 11: the National Weather Service and the officials were saying life 192 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 11: threatening extreme winds, right, yeah, ninety eight miles per hour 193 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 11: in Woodland Hills last week. 194 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 2: Really ninety eight miles what that sounds like? 195 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 11: It was terrifying. When I tell you, I have I 196 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 11: have never been so scared in my life. 197 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 10: I literally was up the entire night. My poor dog 198 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 10: was shitting. 199 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 11: One of my dogs was shaking like a leaf almost 200 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 11: the whole night because the wind was so loud. We 201 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 11: have really crappy windows in our house and doors, so. 202 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 10: The hair is blowing through and the doors are making. 203 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 2: All kinds of you know what you got to be 204 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: doing a window in doors? 205 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, window company out there that Deborah will 206 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 3: do an endorsement for you if you get her set 207 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 3: a windows. 208 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 11: Thank you, John, because our windows suck in our house. 209 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 11: I mean when I say suck, I mean truly. 210 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: That shouldn't happen. But your husband slept through it. 211 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 10: Yes, And I heard the same thing about you. 212 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 3: Yes, Deborah and my wife were texting each other. Yes, 213 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 3: because both husbands were happily asleep. Yes, and both wives 214 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 3: were waking up the husbands and making a lot of noise. 215 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: I slept like seven hours without any problem. 216 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 10: That's an hour. How could you have done that? 217 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 2: That's what night time is for rest? 218 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 4: How did you? 219 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 10: How did you sleep knowing that the fire was so 220 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 10: close to you? 221 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 2: Well, it was five miles away. 222 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 10: Okay, But again with these embers, you never know what's 223 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 10: going to happen. And your wife is so nervous. 224 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 2: I'm supposed to sit on the roof. 225 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 5: And what am I to say that? 226 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: What am I gonna do. 227 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 3: If you look outside when you see a fire and 228 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 3: say get out of there. 229 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 11: All I know is every time I woke my husband 230 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 11: up because I said I smell smoke because our windows 231 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 11: are so crappy, so the smoke's coming into our house. 232 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 10: So I thought our house was on fire. 233 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: He said, why are you waking me up? I'm sleepy. Yeah, 234 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 2: I get pelted with pillows. Television was on all night. 235 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 10: Well, okay, John, So I couldn't. I couldn't watch television. 236 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 11: I couldn't even listen to the Kfi app or the 237 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 11: iHeart app because I I didn't. 238 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 10: I had one charger, so I wanted to keep it. 239 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 11: One phone charger, an extra portable one, so I didn't 240 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,599 Speaker 11: want to waste it. So people kept calling me and 241 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 11: sending me text messages, and so I could see the 242 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 11: power on my on myself, I was dwindled away. 243 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 3: Yes, so I was all alone, thrown back in the 244 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 3: nineteen hundreds. 245 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 6: This horrid. Wow. 246 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 2: Look at that. Wow. Everybody want to get transistor rate, 247 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: And that's what I am. Radio's for. Because you're not, 248 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 2: nothing else is gonna work. 249 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 11: I couldn't wait to get into my car so I 250 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 11: can charge my phone and listen. 251 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 9: To K five. 252 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 2: You can't believe you don't sleep. 253 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 10: Don't. And I'm not exaggerating when I say literally, I 254 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 10: did not sleep, not even five minutes. 255 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 3: I was fine. Well, I have I have a philosophy. 256 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 3: If there's nothing I can do about it. I can't 257 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 3: stop a fire with my bare hands. 258 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 10: You could evacuate one moment. 259 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 3: It's time, I knew, But my wife was up, so 260 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 3: I knew if the fire came with within, you know, 261 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 3: two miles of the house. 262 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 11: In your wife's defense and in my defense, here's the deal. 263 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 11: Sometimes it happened so quick that you don't really have time, 264 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 11: and then there would be no more. 265 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 3: John Cobbe, I'm a big you know what you got. 266 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 3: You gotta sleep, store up your energy. If it's going 267 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 3: to be fight or flight, you got to be well rested. 268 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 3: It's a good thing. He had his go bags ready. 269 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 10: To go, though, Well that was not him. I guarantee. 270 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 2: I pay you did. 271 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 3: I packed my own bag sure, because I only I 272 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 3: know the proper fire outfits that I would be comfortable 273 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 3: with outfits. 274 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 10: What's a fire outfit? 275 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 3: When we come back, Rick Caruso is coming on, Rick, 276 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: as you know, famous developer here in La ran for 277 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: mayor Karen Bass beat him. 278 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 2: Boy, was that of a mistake? Yikes? 279 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 3: It's wrong with people anyway. We're going to talk about why, 280 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 3: how how could this happen that our fire department runs 281 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 3: out of water? By the way, you know that's that's 282 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: the main headline in the New York Times. This is 283 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 3: a national story, not just the fire, but are here 284 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 3: scarce resources hinder efforts to contain La fires? Scarce resources? 285 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 3: Get me billions of dollars we have in La City, 286 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 3: in La County, you know how. 287 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: Much of taxes we pay. 288 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 3: And they didn't have a glass of water left to 289 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: put out the fire in the Palisades. 290 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 2: Talk to Rick about this next. 291 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 292 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 9: six forty. 293 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four and then 294 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: after four o'clock. Whatever you missed, listen to the podcast 295 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 3: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. Continuing 296 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 3: our coverage of these massive fires, Oliver Southern California. Pacific 297 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: Palisades really has been devastated, and we're going to talk 298 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 3: now with Rick Caruso. You're well aware of him. The 299 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 3: developer ran for mayor last time around owns Palisades village, 300 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 3: and his village and his family suffered quite a bit 301 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: of loss in these fires, and he has spoken out. 302 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 3: He was all over television last night about the fire. 303 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 3: Hydrants running drive, the water supply running out for the 304 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 3: fire department here in La Let's get Rick on. 305 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 6: Rick Welcome, Hey John, how are you? 306 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 2: I'm fine? But how are you? 307 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 3: I understand a couple of family members may have lost 308 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 3: their homes. 309 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, my daughter lost her home and we lost another home. 310 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 6: But you know, we're all together, and we evacuated our 311 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,239 Speaker 6: home also, so but we're all together and we're going 312 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 6: to get through it and trying to work very hard 313 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 6: to support the neighborhood and the community up there. The 314 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 6: devastation as you talked about, John, it's just it's mind blowing. 315 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 6: You can't even get your head around it. Entire neighborhoods 316 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 6: have been wiped out, and so my heart really goes 317 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 6: out to people who have lost so much, because, as 318 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 6: you know, you lose a home, it's not the structure, 319 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 6: it's the memories and all the things that make life deer. 320 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 6: And so many small businesses up there just gone. And 321 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 6: the fire is still, you know, raging on. And but 322 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 6: we're going to do everything we can do to support, 323 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 6: you know, our brave Angelinos and rebuild and certainly support 324 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 6: our first responders that are fighting a good fight. But 325 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 6: I think a lot of tough questions need to be asked. 326 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 3: By three in the morning on Wednesday, all the fire 327 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 3: hydrants in the Palisades area and dry. They ran out 328 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 3: of water. Nobody understands this. This is I mean we 329 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 3: all saw on TV last night, is that homes are 330 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 3: burning and the firefighters had had no water to put 331 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 3: out the blazes. I mean, what you used to be 332 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 3: a commissioner with the DWP, you got an idea specifically 333 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 3: what went on here. 334 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 6: Well, actually the fight the Heighten stopped working long before 335 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 6: three o'clock. I think it was about eleven o'clock and 336 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 6: even earlier the firefighters had been complaining to our people 337 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 6: about water pressure and then no water. And it's an 338 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 6: incredible thing to think about, John, this is the second 339 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 6: largest city in the United States and we don't have 340 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 6: hydrants at work. We had a warning of this. I 341 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 6: think we've got a big failure of leadership on this. 342 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 6: How you cannot be prepared for this now. Certainly it's devastating, 343 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 6: the winds are terrible. You could have probably never prevented 344 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 6: all of the damage, but you could have mitigated it. 345 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 6: And I think it goes back to there's been no 346 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:10,239 Speaker 6: brush management program the hills that are controlled by the 347 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 6: city and the state and the county. You know, those 348 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 6: haven't been managed. There's been no control burns for decades. 349 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 6: So you had this enormous amount of fuel and this 350 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 6: fire just took off. 351 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 2: Is there a reason for that? 352 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 6: We've got a lot of toughs. 353 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 2: Why wouldn't they do the controlled burns? 354 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 6: You know, I raised it five years ago. If you remember, 355 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 6: we had the fire in Brentwood along the four or 356 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 6: five and thank god it stopped and didn't travel more 357 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 6: to the west. And I was told the city does 358 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 6: not have the resources to do it. But all of 359 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 6: us are old enough we can remember there used to 360 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 6: be control burns and that hasn't happened. So, you know, 361 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 6: we've got a lot of challenges in the city, and 362 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 6: I think at the top of it, we've got to 363 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 6: ask the questions. You know, who's running in the city. 364 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,120 Speaker 6: Are they capable of making good decisions? And it's not 365 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 6: just about now, it's about for the last few years. 366 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 2: But what do you think happened with the water supply? 367 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's an extraordinary event, but we 368 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 3: have those extraordinary events every so often. 369 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, this isn't the first time the Palisades has 370 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 6: burnt down either. So it's not like we didn't have 371 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 6: fair historical warning that this may happen again. It happened 372 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 6: in the sixties. But what I was told is that 373 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 6: the reservoirs that the hydrants there are fed by the 374 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,719 Speaker 6: reservoirs and it's a gravity flow, and they didn't manage 375 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 6: the water in the reservoirs properly, so it depleted and 376 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,719 Speaker 6: weren't refilling them up quickly enough. So from what I 377 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 6: can see, I could be wrong, but for what I 378 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 6: can see is there is just complete lack of proper 379 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 6: management of this, and I think it's negligence. I think 380 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 6: the city is, unfortunately, is going to be in a 381 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 6: very libeles situation for the billions of dollars of losses 382 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 6: in the Palisades. But what we've got to really start 383 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 6: focusing on in the next days and weeks, We've got 384 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 6: to hunker down. We've got to support people that don't 385 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 6: have the financial means, lost their homes, lost their businesses. 386 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 6: We've got to get people back on their feet, and 387 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 6: then we've got to start rebuilding in this city. I 388 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 6: pray to God cuts all the red tape, gets behind 389 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 6: people and helps people rebuild, and let's get out of 390 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 6: the business of making life difficult in this city and 391 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 6: let's support support these families, because not everybody's wealthy in 392 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 6: the Palisades, and most of the businesses of the Palisades 393 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 6: are small, independent businesses that just don't have resources. 394 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's the same people that didn't have a 395 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 3: brush clearing program for all these years or decades and 396 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 3: didn't have the water system working properly, you're going to 397 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 3: I don't know what to expect to try to help 398 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 3: rebuild the people's lives. It's the same people running LA. 399 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 6: Well. I mean, unfortunately, that's a problem. And I hope 400 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 6: this city starts really thinking about who they're electing an office. 401 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 6: And it's not about me. When I ran, i ran, 402 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,679 Speaker 6: I did my best and I launched and that's the 403 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 6: way the system works. And I fully accept that. But 404 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 6: going forward, leadership matters, and we've got to be electing 405 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 6: people that actually are qualified and capable to make good 406 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 6: decisions and put the priority of saving lives, making our 407 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 6: lives safe. The fact that our mayor and city council 408 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 6: cut the budget of the fire department two months ago 409 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 6: is absolutely unacceptable. And here's what we've got to show 410 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 6: for why. 411 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I saw that story. Why would they 412 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 3: cut the fire department of all places? 413 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 6: Do they completely mismanage the finances of the city. The 414 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 6: city has a deficit of half a billion dollars. They 415 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 6: gave a whole bunch of people raises. We've got fire 416 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 6: stations and I talked about this when I was running 417 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 6: from there. We have fire stations throughout the city that 418 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 6: are closed because they don't even have the resources to open. 419 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 6: The mismanagement is at the highest level. And it really 420 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 6: did and it still does today. It looks like a 421 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 6: third world city out there. It's still burning. 422 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 3: I know, it's overwhelming. What's burning? And you talk about 423 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 3: a third world Look, I mean, there's so much garbage 424 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 3: lying around the city. I'm sure you've seen. It's appalling. 425 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 3: Every time you stop at a traffic light or you 426 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 3: stop near a freeway on ramp and you just see 427 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 3: mounds of garbage. It looks like nobody's picked it up 428 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 3: in weeks or months. And I always look out and say, well, 429 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 3: what are the city workers doing all day? What is 430 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 3: city management doing all day? Because the place looks failthy 431 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 3: much of the time. 432 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 6: And we got to demand more time. We got to 433 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 6: demand more. The residents got to demand more. They deserve it. 434 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 6: They'd be a lot of taxes. We won't be a 435 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 6: lot of taxes. Yeah, very expensive to live in the city. 436 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 6: It should be clean, should be safe, it should be 437 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 6: a happy, wonderful place. They have a business and we're 438 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 6: just not there. Well, we got to change it, and 439 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 6: we're going to change it by rebuilding the Palisades and 440 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 6: some of these other communities in a way that will 441 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 6: be everlasting. 442 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 3: Well, I know you're going to be a big part 443 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 3: of it. Are our sympathies for the losses you and 444 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 3: your family have suffered, And you're right, we just got 445 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 3: to move forward and start rebuilding. 446 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: But we need we need a complete change over. 447 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: Yes we do. 448 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 6: But we're going to lean in heavily. The Crusoe family 449 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 6: is going to lean in heavily. And I know you 450 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 6: and your family are great Angelano's and we'll do the same. 451 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 6: And we're a strong city. So we're going to bring 452 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 6: it back. And uh, that policy's community is such a dear, 453 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 6: wonderful Oh that's beautiful town. 454 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 3: Oh that's a beautiful town. I mean I live right 455 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 3: next door and we're there all the time, and places 456 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 3: that we've gone to for years have been destroyed. I 457 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 3: was just there yesterday yesterday morning. 458 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, we were, we did. 459 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 3: We did a hike and petare A canyon and all 460 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 3: the blocks that we drove up and down yesterday morning. 461 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 3: All the homes are destroyed. Twenty four hours later. It's 462 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 3: it's it's overwhelming. 463 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it is overwhelming. It's going to take a 464 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 6: massive us to rebuild. 465 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 3: All right, Rick, we'll talk again soon, all right. I 466 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 3: talked to you later. Yeah, Rick Caruso you thanks, all right, bye. 467 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 3: We will continue John Cobelt Show, KFI Am six forty. 468 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,239 Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six. 469 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 3: We're gonna conclude. We have to share for new people 470 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 3: just joining the show. Earlier, we played a Sky News reporter. 471 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 3: This is a British news reporter, David Blevins, greeting the 472 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 3: Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, coming off the plane. 473 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 3: She had gone to Ghana in West Africa and stayed 474 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 3: in Ghana even after her office her social media tweeted out, 475 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 3: oh dangerous firestorm coming, dangerous windstorm, life threatening. 476 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: Right. 477 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: She went to Ghana and stayed. 478 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 3: In Ghana to celebrate a politician getting inaugurated, and Karen 479 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 3: Basque comes off the plane walking back into the airport, 480 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 3: and David Blevins asked her, really basically one question. 481 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: Listen to the silent. 482 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 5: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 483 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 5: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire 484 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 5: department budget by millions of dollars? 485 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 6: Madam? There? 486 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 5: Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing 487 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 5: to say to the citizens today? Elon Mosk says that 488 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 5: you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, madam, Mayor? 489 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 5: Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 490 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 5: You're dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do 491 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 5: you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this 492 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 5: was unfolding? Back home? 493 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: She's still there. 494 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 5: Let me ask you just again, have you anything to 495 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 5: say to the citizens today as you returned? One second, 496 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 5: mout a, Mayor, Just a few words for the citizens 497 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 5: today as you returned to deal with a catastrophe. 498 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 3: No apology, no explanation, no response, nothing but empty silence. 499 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 3: Oh all right, quickly, let's get David Bleven's on uh, 500 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 3: the reporter for Sky News, who was questioning Karen Bass there, David, 501 00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: I only got a minute. Yeah what what? What a 502 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 3: pretty icy interview you had with her? H Did she 503 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 3: acknowledge you in any way? 504 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 8: Not in this lightness. But we were rather for Juesus 505 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 8: because we thought at her, or rather my eagle light 506 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 8: cameraman spotted her on our flight from Washington, DC to 507 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 8: Los Angeles this afternoon, so we decided we would at 508 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 8: least attempt to get a few words from her. But 509 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 8: the lady was not for talking, as you could see. 510 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 8: Didn't stop us trying. 511 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 2: Though, No, I'm glad you did. 512 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 3: Nobody in Los Angeles media would do that, or maybe 513 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 3: a couple of people would, but most of them wouldn't. 514 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 3: They're usually very, very polite and frightened off confronting politicians. 515 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 3: It seems you British guys have a lot more. 516 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 6: Well. 517 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 8: I like to think I'm quite polite as well. But 518 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 8: certainly our job is generous to ask the questions. Whether 519 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 8: or not we got the answers, well, that's another question, 520 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 8: and today, certainly the mayor was not a day in 521 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 8: the business of giving us answers. 522 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: Right. 523 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 3: Interesting that you got no explanation, no apology, no comment, 524 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 3: know nothing and the devastation is so severe. 525 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, excellent work. That was a very memorable minute 526 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: and a half. Thank you, Thank you so much. Okay. 527 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: David Blevins from Sky News Conway ding dong with you. 528 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 12: We've got a press conference awaiting us at four o'clock 529 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 12: in about two and a half minutes or so, we'll 530 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 12: take that. Michael Monks is coming on with us. And 531 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 12: it's just uh, fire coverage all day long. Yeah, it 532 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 12: doesn't stop, it doesn't stop. And it's eerie out there 533 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 12: on the streets. There's a lot of traffic lights that 534 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 12: are still out, and there's a lot of people flying 535 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 12: through the intersection without looking. And I saw a radical 536 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 12: accident on Hollywood Way and Verdugo or Magnolia. 537 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: And it's and people on it. 538 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 12: It feels like the beginning of COVID out there, you know, 539 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 12: where everybody just wants to get home. 540 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 2: And and I and and even the freeways were really 541 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 2: empty too. 542 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, at nine o'clock at night, nobody's out. Remember 543 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 12: the first couple nights of COVID, nobody was out. There's 544 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 12: nobody out at night. Everybody's home, yeah, yeah, worried about 545 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 12: the home burning down. 546 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, and everybody's on edge. That's fine. Well, 547 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: kN enjoyed the overnights I did. Yes, I know. 548 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 12: We're doing it again tonight, but going back from midnight 549 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 12: to three, which where I started it at midnight to 550 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 12: two no st eleven pm to two am, and that 551 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 12: was a lot of fun because you can get away 552 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 12: with a lot of crap at. 553 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 2: That out right. Yeah, nobody's listening. Nobody's listening. 554 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 3: I don't think that the rules are restrict the federal 555 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 3: FCC rules. 556 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 12: We said the F word on the air and then 557 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 12: we got a call for management the next day. 558 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 3: Say yeah, that one's over the line, that one's over line. 559 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 3: All right, conwait X all the fires cars. 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