1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: CAF I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: app John Cobelt Show, and we're on every day from 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 2: one until four o'clock and every day after four o'clock. 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 2: Whatever you missed, you can access the iHeartRadio app for 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand. That's the podcast version. It's 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 2: exactly the same as the radio show, and it just 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 2: moves faster. And that'll run after four o'clock. And there 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: is much today that you don't want to miss. Let 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: me give you a quick rundown. Michael Monk's coming on 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: from CAFI News at one thirty because the the the 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: lazy loser county government workers in Los Angeles are having 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 2: a strike and some of them are gathering. 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Where are they gathering? 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: Downtown La, Downtown La, Yeah, okay, And I saw they 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 2: were literallying down in the street, a few of them, 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: some of the more over fed members of county government. 18 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: Oh you saw. 19 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 3: No, I actually didn't pay attention to their weight. 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: Well, I was thinking, how many officers are going to 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: pick up this one. There was one lady there who 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: really is must be a well paid government worker, or 23 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: she spends a lot of time at lunch, and I 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: think she needed about six cops to drag her away. 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 2: And they're all belligerent and angry, and they're exactly what 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: you think government workers look like, by the way, They're 27 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: just a bunch of slops and they got these angry demeanors. 28 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: And I don't know how they've been wronged in life. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: You chose to be a government worker, maybe you feel 30 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: unappreciated and downtrodden or overworked or I don't know, do 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: they have to show up in the office now, Maybe that's. 32 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 3: What put Yeah, a lot of people do not like 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 3: working in the office. They're upset that they can't continue 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 3: to work from home. 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: So that's what put them in the bad mood. They're 36 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: at fifth in Freemont, at least they were. And anyway, 37 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: Michael's going to come on and tell us with that 38 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: a's forty eight hour strike. It's one of those performances 39 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: that everyone seems to like to put on these days. 40 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 2: Two o'clock though, you're gonna want to hear the Lancaster 41 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: mayor Rex Paris. Last week, he announced that he had 42 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 2: a fix for the homelessness issue, hand out free fentanyl 43 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:21,559 Speaker 2: to the homeless. 44 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: You think I'm harsh. 45 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 4: Huh. 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: It's an elected official, and I agree with him. They 47 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: had a hand out free feneryl. I mean they're already. 48 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: San Francisco basically does, and so does LA. We give 49 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 2: them all kinds of paraphernalia, and we allow the fentanyl 50 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: to be sold. We allowed it for the last ten 51 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 2: years to come over the border. I mean, just billions 52 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 2: of dollars worth of fentanyl after three o'clock. And coming 53 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 2: up in just a minute, we're going to talk about 54 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 2: the cent Inez Reservoir. It is out of service again. 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 2: The cent Inez Reservoir is the notorious empty hole in 56 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: the Palisades. Because I also realized that I will be 57 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: in business forever until I fall over dead, because only 58 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: idiots work in government, whether they're elected officials or bureaucratic 59 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: leaders or these things blocking traffic in downtown LA. You 60 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 2: just really have a lot of load to mid double 61 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 2: digit IQs, and they're in charge of this vast expensive apparatus, 62 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: whether it's city, county, or state government. And you know, 63 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: it's no wonder things are the way they are. But 64 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: I see, like this oversized woman deciding to spend I mean, 65 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: today's a taxpayer paid work day, and she's decided, because 66 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: she's not not getting enough of her fair share, that 67 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: she's going to dump her large rear end in the 68 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 2: middle of the road and block traffic. I'm thinking, who 69 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: hired her? It's our fault. It's our fault for paying 70 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: for this government. Speaking of going back to work, I 71 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: didn't know this till today. And we're going to talk 72 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: about this later on as well. The state government still 73 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: hasn't required people to go back to work. Newsome put 74 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: out a notice yesterday that July one they have to 75 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,679 Speaker 2: go back to work. So it's over five years since 76 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 2: the pandemic shutdown. 77 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: Over five years and. 78 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,799 Speaker 2: These lazy, lousy government workers on the state level still 79 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: don't show up. 80 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: So that's why. 81 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: Everybody's pissed going on strike. Okay, so oh that's ahead. Now, God, 82 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: where do I start here? Okay, I don't understand this story, 83 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 2: but this broke last night. It looks like tonight in 84 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades, the government is going to start a fire. Yes, 85 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: the government will start a fire tonight to try to 86 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: figure out how the original fire was ignited t Mescal 87 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: Ridge Trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak. If you're 88 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 2: familiar with that area. Well, all those people moved out, 89 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: there's nobody left familiar with the area. And they want 90 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 2: to They want to figure out the exact point of 91 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: origin and how during a massive windstorm it raced from 92 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: the hills to the ocean. I'm reading from the La 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: Times now they want to know. I mean, the question 94 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: is answered within the sentence. How during a massive windstorm 95 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: it raced from the hills to the ocean. Well, it's 96 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: because there was a massive wind storm. I don't understand that. 97 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: Am I missing something? Investigators hope it will help them 98 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 2: determine the exact point of origin and how during a 99 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 2: mass of windstorm it raced from the hills to the ocean. 100 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: How is setting another fire going to do that? 101 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 2: We don't have one hundred mile an hour winds tonight, 102 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: and what's left to burn? By the way, I think 103 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: the first fire pretty much took care of everything. 104 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: Right. It looks like. 105 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 2: They're not confident in the age. I just talked about 106 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: this yesterday, this trial balloon that has been floating around 107 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 2: for four months now, that it was a reignition of 108 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 2: a New Year's Day fire early morning New Year's Day, 109 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 2: supposedly a bunch of teenagers went up to that trail 110 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: launched fireworks and that started the fire, which was about 111 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: twenty four acres. It was put out and the fire 112 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 2: department said that they did everything to make sure it 113 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: wasn't going to reignite. They were very careful about it, 114 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: So it sounds like they don't they're not convinced it 115 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 2: was a reignition of the old fire. Now, remember, the 116 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: fire may have started in two different places, one on 117 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 2: the trail, and as attorneys have discovered in their investigation 118 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: representing Palisades homeowners, there may have been a second ignition 119 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: point when the first fire caused electrical poles to collapse, 120 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: bringing wires down on to dry brush that hadn't burned yet, 121 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: and when the wires came down, they were electrified. This 122 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: may have been one of the many sins the DWP committed. 123 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: Not only did they have an empty one hundred and 124 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: seventeen million gallon reservoir so there was no water up 125 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: out the fire, but they didn't turn off the electricity 126 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: to those wires, and that those wires had been turned 127 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 2: off for years. Then they were turned back on shortly 128 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 2: before the fire, and it may have ignited a second 129 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: fire that night, but the first fire, if it's not, 130 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 2: if it's if it's not electrical wires, and if it's 131 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 2: not a reignition of the first New Year's Day fire, 132 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: what else is there? 133 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 5: Was it? 134 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: Was it a vagrant? 135 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 2: Was it somebody who did not take advantage of Karen 136 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: Vass's inside safe program? 137 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: Hard to believe. Can you imagine? 138 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: I've always suspected it was, and I know it is 139 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: Karen Vassis's policy and fire department policy to never admit 140 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 2: that an individual fire was caused by a vagrant. I 141 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 2: mean we I know reporters who have said that you 142 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: start asking questions of fire officials while fire is being 143 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 2: put out, you start asking about, oh, I can't talk 144 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 2: about that now. 145 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: Are not a lot of comment on that sort of thing. 146 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 2: So they've had a shutdown on any conversation related to 147 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 2: vagrants starting fires. Now, you know, every six months or 148 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 2: so we get an official statistical portrait, and more than 149 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: half the fires in La City are started by crazed 150 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 2: mental patient vagrants, some of them on purpose, some of them. 151 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: Oh they're cooking fires, Yeah, okay, you ought to be 152 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: cooking in the woods. That's a good idea. Anyway, Tonight 153 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: they're going to start another fire and it might last 154 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 2: till third I don't understand how this works. I don't 155 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 2: understand how recreating the fire is going to tell them 156 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 2: how it started. I think it is self evident that 157 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 2: the fire spread because of the wind. I'm just I'm 158 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 2: completely baffled by this. But it's getting all the headlines. 159 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 2: The US government has been investigating the Palisades Fire for 160 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 2: four months. We'll continue. I got to tell you about 161 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 2: the reservoir. There's going to be a lot on the 162 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 2: reservoir today because the reservoir is getting drained again. They're 163 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 2: starting the fire again, and they're draining the reservoir again. 164 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: PTSD all over again. 165 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: I know. 166 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: Four months and they haven't moved an inch in determining 167 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: and either getting the reservoir back in operation or determining 168 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: what started this thing, because they don't want to admit 169 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:57,719 Speaker 2: it was a homeless guy. 170 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: That's why you're listening to. 171 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 2: On co Belt on demand from KFI AM six forty. 172 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 2: Michael Munks coming up after two thirty to talk about 173 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: the big road block in downtown LA today. County County 174 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: workers not working today because they're all pissy they want 175 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 2: more and more and more of your tax money. Unfortunately, 176 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: a lot of the tax money is to pay off 177 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: the victims of the county workers who used to rape 178 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: the UH detention center children for the last forty years. This, 179 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 2: this is what county workers do, right. These are these 180 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 2: are These are people who are in the detention system. 181 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: Law enforcement. 182 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 2: They're supposed to track, you know, the the guy, the 183 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 2: the young criminals, the youthful criminals, the rookies, right, the 184 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: rookies coming through the system. And boy, what they did 185 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: sexually to these boys and girl garrels for decades. It's 186 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 2: costing the county four billion dollars. Well, you also got 187 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: a billion dollars I think in the county money to 188 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,479 Speaker 2: go for the fire cleanup in Altadena and the Palisades. 189 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: So a lot of money's spoken for. 190 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: But to a government worker, to the large government workers 191 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 2: who are blocking traffic, they don't care. They just want more. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, 192 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: and don't make me show. 193 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: Up for work. 194 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: So we'll get into that with Michael Monks. Now on 195 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: the reservoir issue, you know the one hundred and seventeen 196 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 2: million gallon empty reservoir. There was no water to put 197 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 2: out the Palisades fire because there were tears in the 198 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 2: cover that floats across its surface. When they discovered the tears, 199 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: they closed, They drained the reservoir, and it was closed 200 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: for over a year. Should have taken a month, should 201 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 2: have taken one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, ended up 202 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 2: costing over a million dollars. Nobody explains why, and nobody 203 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 2: forces the DWP to explain why. Genis z is the 204 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 2: dope who runs LEDWPH. Here's a report from ABC seven 205 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 2: Josh Haskell. If you play cut number three. 206 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 6: Since January seventh, we've been telling you about the Santa 207 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 6: Inez Reservoir. It's located in the hills of Pacific Palisades. 208 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 6: It is meant to help with a redundancy in the 209 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 6: water system, fire suppression, and also allow helicopters to land 210 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 6: here at the reservoir in order to serve the entire 211 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 6: area of Pacific Palisades. 212 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: It has been. 213 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 6: Closed now for over a year because of a tear 214 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 6: in its cover, and recently we learn that repairs they 215 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 6: are still underway. There's water back in the Santa Enez 216 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 6: Reservoir in Pacific Palisades as seen from are seven. But 217 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 6: it's not where it's supposed to be. It's on top 218 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 6: of the cover rather than underneath it. Thanks to addition, 219 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 6: small tears and pinhole sized leaks that the company doing 220 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 6: the repairs missed. They were identified recently by LEDWP while 221 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 6: the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir was being refilled. 222 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 4: I'm not going to tell a person that lost their 223 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 4: homes in the Palisades that it wouldn't have made a difference. 224 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 6: Three and a half months since the Palisades fire destroyed 225 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 6: nearly seven thousand structures and killed twelve people, the now 226 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 6: infamous reservoir in the hills of Pacific Palisades remains out 227 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 6: of service because of these new leaks. 228 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 2: Unfortunately, they are going to have to drain it again 229 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: and that is going to take a couple of weeks. 230 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 6: I know that is frustrating. 231 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 7: I am frustrated as well. 232 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 6: Gus Corono works for the union that represents LEDWP employees. 233 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 4: They're supposed to have everything in place prior to them 234 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 4: draining it, the contract, the material ready to go, so 235 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 4: that the outages or the drainage is minimal. Why weren't 236 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 4: the people that didn't get this reservoir up and running 237 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 4: quickly and hell responsible. 238 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 6: The fact that the reservoir was offline at the time 239 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 6: of the Palisades fire has prompted multiple lawsuits against LEDWP 240 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 6: and numerous investigations, including one ordered by Governor Newsom. Back 241 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 6: in January of twenty twenty four, LEDWP noticed a tear 242 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 6: in the floating cover after heavy rains, which. 243 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: Is when it was taken offline. 244 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 6: What was estimated to cost eighty nine thousand dollars was 245 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 6: subject to the city charter's competitive bidding process, even though 246 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 6: it was a single source contract, meaning the company that 247 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 6: installed the cover back in twenty twelve, lay Field Group 248 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 6: was the only one who could do the repairs and 249 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 6: the only bid that came in. 250 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. 251 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 6: It wasn't until November of twenty twenty four, nine months 252 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 6: later that the contract was finalized for one hundred thirty 253 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 6: thousand dollars and grew to two hundred sixty one thousand 254 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 6: dollars in February of this year. I Whenness News was 255 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 6: granted access to the reservoir by LEDWP to observe the 256 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 6: repairs last month. 257 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 4: They basically sat on it, and they failed to do 258 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 4: what they were supposed to do based on their own policies. 259 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 6: Now, in a statement, LEDWP called it troubling that the 260 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 6: outside contractor didn't detect the leaks after they finished the repairs. 261 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 6: They said, this is a frustrating setback, and they're working 262 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 6: as quickly as possible to return the Palisades reservoir to service. 263 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: So, Josh, when will the LADWP be able to refill 264 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 2: the reservoir? 265 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 6: So they're saying mid to late June that they think 266 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 6: that's when over returned to service. They are also, not 267 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 6: surprisingly exploring options to maybe replace that troublesome cover. 268 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 2: So wait a second, it's the same cover they were 269 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 2: just trying to fix it. The company is Layfield Group. 270 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 2: They installed the floating cover, if I heard that story correctly, 271 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 2: when they installed the original cover in twenty twelve. It 272 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 2: was in the contract though only they could replace it. Well, 273 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 2: if that's in the contract, why did they delay it 274 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: for a year to have a competitive bidding process. The 275 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 2: contract outlawed a competitive breeding process. There was not supposed 276 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 2: to be one. And same week that they found out 277 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 2: this cover was still torn with holes and they have 278 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: to drain the reservoir again, it was about a quarter field. 279 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 2: We got this clip of the idiot who runs the LEDWP, 280 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 2: Genie Kenon. Yes, this is what she said at a 281 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 2: DWP meeting April April twenty second. 282 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: Well, I like to start. 283 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 5: By highlighting the commons that Commissioner Cat says and wishing 284 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 5: everybody happy Earth They we have us of April ten 285 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 5: and you exhibit in the lobby at the museum space 286 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 5: called Sustainability at lee WP A Greener Tomorrow. This new 287 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 5: multipanel Vivid was created in celebration of. 288 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 2: Eight months she wished everybody a happy earth Day and 289 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: starts telling everybody about a Happy earth Day exhibit. She's 290 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 2: the one who left the reservoir empty. She's the one 291 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 2: who never fixed the cover. 292 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 3: Nobody's talking about the fires anymore. 293 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: Oh, I know that's just poof. 294 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 2: Just went up and smoke the whole issue, Happy earth Day. 295 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 2: Did she have her brain removed at some point in life? 296 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: Listen to her? She sounds like a little schoolgirl. Happy 297 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: earth Day, Happy earth Day. 298 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 2: Why doesn't Why isn't she being grilled? Why aren't there 299 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 2: any shouldn't every state hearings or federal hearings on this something. 300 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: You know how they drove out all. 301 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 2: Those idiot Ivy League presidents for their de I nonsense. 302 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 2: They all had to go and testify before Congress and 303 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 2: they were all embarrassed. It turned out, you know, they 304 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 2: were just engaging in a massive discrimination scam. 305 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: Happy Earth Day? Yeah, how about her? Happy Earth Day? 306 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: All right, I. 307 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 2: Gotta take you're listening to John Cobels on demand from 308 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 2: KFI Am six forty. Coming up after two o'clock. We've 309 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,719 Speaker 2: got Rex Paris coming on. The Mayor of Lancaster hit 310 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 2: solution for the homeless crisis says, give them all free fentanel, 311 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 2: all the fentandel they want, and undoubtedly that would work. Michael, Well, 312 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 2: we've got another strike here at the LA County. I 313 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 2: guess all the La County employees who are unionized with SCIU. 314 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 7: That's exactly right, about fifty five thousand of them. And 315 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 7: they work in a variety of different fields. So we're 316 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 7: talking about the Service Employees International Union that encopasses people 317 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 7: at libraries, the people who manage the bathrooms at the beaches, 318 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 7: which might be closed right now because of this strike. Janitors, 319 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 7: those types of folks, healthcare workers, even mental health workers, 320 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 7: social workers. 321 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: They're all in this thing. 322 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 7: Fifty five thousand workers on strike until seven and o'clock 323 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 7: tomorrow night. And it got a little out of hand 324 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 7: this afternoon. They were tying up traffic downtown. Yeah, they did. 325 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 6: So. 326 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 7: There's a board of supervisors meeting downtown today and I 327 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 7: think they were showing up to be present. Outside of that, 328 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,959 Speaker 7: it ended up being a sizable crowd of union workers, 329 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 7: it looked. 330 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: And those union workers were sizable with themselves. 331 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 2: Yes, I saw you, all right, well, hey, you come 332 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: in here. 333 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: Hey, you know, a little walking we'll do. We'll do 334 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: them good then, and that's what they end up doing. 335 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 2: I didn't understand why they were sitting on the ground. 336 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 2: It's like, you people need to march. 337 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 7: Well they were marching, yeah, okaycuse started on Temple Street 338 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 7: and it was a little chaok down there. Anyway, Traffic 339 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 7: was completely disrupted, you know, and once you disrupt one 340 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 7: street in downtown LA, it is complete chaos on all 341 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 7: of the streets in downtown La. 342 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: Then they started marching, and. 343 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 7: By the time they got to about fifth and figure Row, 344 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 7: they decided to outright block traffic. About twelve of them 345 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 7: sat down in the road and refused to move. The 346 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 7: LAPD had to declare an unlawful assembly against this union 347 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 7: and took all of them into custody one by one. 348 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,479 Speaker 7: Eventually sighted and released them, So no like throwing them 349 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 7: in the back of the cruiser or anything. 350 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: But after that the protests started to break up a 351 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: little bit. Uh huh. And what is it they want? 352 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 7: Well, like a lot of unions, they'd like a little 353 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 7: more money. And what they're saying is that they've been 354 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 7: working for about a month without a new contract, and 355 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 7: they say the management at the county is not negotiating 356 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 7: with them in good faith. They've only offered a well, 357 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 7: how do you say this, a zero percent cost of 358 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 7: living race and the union says you could do better 359 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 7: than that, right, maybe one percent next year is what 360 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 7: the county has also offered. 361 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: So they say that's not good faith bargaining that they 362 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: deserve more that. But the county says, look, did you 363 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: see what we just did today. 364 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 7: We just approved a four billion dollars sex abuse settlement 365 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 7: for thousands of sex abuse claims in the juvenile halls foster. 366 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: Care made by other county workers. Other county workers sexually 367 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: abusing the people they were supposed. 368 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 7: To take care of. That's exactly right. And this is 369 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 7: a four billion dollar hit that they're not writing a 370 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 7: check for today. They don't have like that much in 371 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 7: the bank somewhere. This is to impact the budget for 372 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 7: the county. They estimate until twenty fifty one, when I 373 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 7: don't know what year your show will be on the 374 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 7: air at that point, like that is that seventy year 375 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 7: anniversary or what is that? So we'll be able to 376 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 7: talk about it hopefully. Oh yeah, I'll be here. I 377 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 7: got nothing else to do. But that's what they're saying. 378 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 7: It's like, look, we're having problems. Three percent cut across 379 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 7: all county departments proposing the upcoming budget that the county 380 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 7: is considering right now. Yeah, they're broke, not as bad 381 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 7: off as the City of Los Angeles, but this is bad. 382 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 7: Two billion dollar costs for the wildfires that they dealt with. 383 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 7: These are sizeable problems. So they're like, union, we can't 384 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 7: give you anything right now. Read the room, and that 385 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 7: union says, come on, on the other hand, County, you 386 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 7: just spent two hundred and five million dollars to buy 387 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 7: yourselves a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles where you're going 388 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 7: to move the government they did that. Oh you don't 389 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 7: remember that? Yeah, I was just a few months ago. Right, 390 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 7: it's hard to keep trying. I know it is, yeah, 391 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 7: because I was doing my no it's on this, Like 392 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 7: wait a second, that's Frank did report on that? What's 393 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 7: what's the latest on some of these so much you 394 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 7: just get you drink from the news fire hose. 395 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the fire kind of wiped out the memory. 396 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 7: So yeah, they're working on that, and these workers are like, 397 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 7: come on, I mean, what's the do you already have 398 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 7: a home and now you're spending hundreds of millions to 399 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 7: buy a new home. You can give us some of 400 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 7: that and they're not going to try to raise taxes, 401 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 7: not at this point. And the other thing that's important 402 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 7: here is that CEO County CEO. If you see Davenport 403 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 7: said when she presented her proposed budget to the Board 404 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 7: of Supervisors a couple of weeks ago, there are no 405 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 7: layoffs recommended. That's not the same story at the City 406 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 7: of Los Angeles, right. The unions really have some grievances 407 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,479 Speaker 7: over hey, you're cutting you're cutting our ranks here. This 408 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 7: union at the county has not suffered any losses. But 409 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 7: I got the sense from the CEO's announcement that there's 410 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 7: no layoffs right now, you know, like maybe this time 411 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 7: next year, LA. 412 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: Might have to think about that. 413 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 7: So it would be hard to ask for a raise 414 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 7: and get it and suffer some consequences. 415 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: It looks like a lot of them don't have that 416 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 2: much work to do if they could spend hours standing 417 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 2: in the hot sun. I mean, it looks like there's 418 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 2: nothing pressing going on in their offices. Well, what I 419 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: would what they would tell you is the critical work 420 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 2: that the workers in this union do that's still going, 421 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 2: like emergency health services and that sort of thing. But 422 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 2: the non emergency, the non critical stuff that stop. I 423 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 2: mean libraries, like I said, the beach bathrooms, some various 424 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 2: offices are limited today. And I'm sorry before before I 425 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 2: get run out of here, Eric I gave a sound bite. 426 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 2: If you want to hear from the union president, a 427 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: union rep and a union president about what he thinks 428 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 2: today means. 429 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: We hope there's some momentum. 430 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 7: I'm trying to be optimistic that we move in the 431 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 7: right direction, but days like today let the public know 432 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 7: how serious we are about this fight. 433 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: These workers risk. 434 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 6: To rest because they want this message to be very 435 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 6: clear to LA County that. 436 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: They got to come back and they got to do 437 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: what's right by LA County workers risked to rest, they're 438 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 2: sighted and released immediately. 439 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: The charges won't stick, but it was a schedule. 440 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 7: They got handcuffed and walked away, So it's good imagery 441 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 7: for your argument. The supervisors seem to be playing both 442 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 7: sides here, the elected ones, like the CEO is appointed, 443 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 7: she has to come up with a budget, and then 444 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 7: the board, you know, scrutinizes if the board, the supervisors 445 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 7: have said, look, we're very sympathetic to this. They deserve respect, 446 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 7: but not offering necessarily any concrete proposals to increase their path. 447 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: Does do any of these people do math? I'm a 448 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: big fan of math. 449 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 2: Like when you get to zero right and there's zero 450 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 2: dollars left, is like, hey, sorry, no more. 451 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: We gave four billion to all the. 452 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: Sex perverts that we'd hired for fifty years, and we 453 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 2: got billions of dollars for the wildfire cleanup because you know, 454 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 2: nobody showed up to put it out. 455 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: That's right. 456 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 7: I'm not a fan of math like you are, but 457 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 7: I can do it a little bit. And the same 458 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 7: thing is like, if you're staring at some increased cost 459 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 7: and your money's not coming in at a higher rate, 460 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 7: you got to make some adjust men. And that does 461 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 7: not include going out to eat more. 462 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 2: Right, And so they go and they sit in the 463 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 2: middle of the road. Yeah, the people I saw in 464 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 2: the middle of the road. Those those people ought to 465 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: be gone. They'd be fired right now because now you've 466 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 2: backed up traffic and made everyone who works for a 467 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: living and pays the taxes for their salaries, we're all inconvenient. 468 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 7: You always have to It seems to be a strategy 469 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 7: here with all the various protests that we see in 470 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 7: l As to block a freeway or something. 471 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 2: I think you're not winning any friends. Now, Why and 472 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: why does the city allow it? Why don't they break 473 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 2: it all up? You you're supposed to have a permit. 474 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 2: There's a process for this. You apply for a permit 475 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 2: and maybe they'll let you do Sunday morning at six 476 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: am for a couple of minut That's. 477 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 7: How this ended up being declared an unlawful assaying by 478 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 7: the police. All right, Michael Monk's very good, always a pleasure. 479 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 7: KFI News. 480 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: Oh, it's a pleasure. It is a pleasure. 481 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 3: Well, he thinks it's a pleasure being on with you. 482 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: That's hey. Look he shows up for work. Admiration for him, 483 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: and he does a lot of and he does a 484 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 1: lot of work. Now he works hard. Okay, yes he does. 485 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: He's the guy. 486 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 2: All right when we come back, Well two o'clock, Rex 487 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: Paris is going to be on the legcaster mayor who's said, 488 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 2: why don't we give all the homeless people all the 489 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 2: free fentanel they want? 490 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: So that should be a good conversation. 491 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A sixty. 492 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: Listen to us from one to four on the radio. 493 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 2: We're on streaming after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on 494 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app. 495 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: It's the podcast. 496 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 2: It's the same as the radio show and you can 497 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 2: follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at 498 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio. Well, I don't think i've ever seen 499 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: this before. You know, everybody in the Palisades is seemingly 500 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 2: suing the LADWP, including now two federal judges, both of 501 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 2: them lost homes in the Palisades. Now, remember they have 502 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 2: decades of legal experience in deciding what responsibility one entity 503 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 2: may have in a particular case. And in this case, 504 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: these two judges that obviously they're not overseeing any cases 505 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 2: involving the fire, but they lost their homes and I guess, 506 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 2: based on what they have read and seen, they think 507 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 2: it's ladwp's responsibility. So US District Judge Dean Pregerson, who's 508 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: on the Central District of California's court, and a second 509 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: judge VJ. Gandhi, they call him Jay. He was a 510 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 2: magistrate judge in the same court. They filed a lawsuit 511 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 2: last week with their families excuse me. It was filed 512 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: in La Superior Court and says that the Palisades fire 513 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 2: was caused by both ladwp's water and power assets, specifically 514 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 2: the empty reservoirs and the energized power lines. 515 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 1: Now the power lines. 516 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: From what I saw on a video that attorneys discovered, 517 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 2: I think it was one of those one of those 518 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: wildlife video cameras. I think that U see San Diego 519 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 2: has many of them. They may they may track fires, 520 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: they may track wildlife. I don't know, but the permanently 521 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: stationed inside wilderness areas and it picked up this U 522 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: shaped utility pole. It was like two poles connected with 523 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: a cross beam, and it collapsed and brought down energized 524 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 2: power lines which had not been energized for a number 525 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 2: of years. The LEDWP only recently turned them on, but 526 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 2: they were energized that night. And this is twelve hours 527 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,719 Speaker 2: after the fire started. LADWP did not turn off the 528 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 2: power to these lines. And the homes in that neighborhood 529 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 2: were still standing because you could see them on the video. 530 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: They all have their life heights on the street lights 531 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 2: are lit up as well. People had presumably at all evacuated, 532 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: but the homes weren't burning yet. 533 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: So this. 534 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 2: I think it's called an h pole, more like an 535 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 2: h than you. It collapsed, the wires hit the dry underbrush, 536 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 2: it was thick. Then the flames spread and burned down 537 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 2: those homes, and I think that's what really powered the 538 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: fire in the overnight hours, because a lot of people 539 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 2: were caught by surprise, including the fire department, because you 540 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 2: don't see any fire truck station up there, and this 541 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 2: is twelve hours later. I don't know if anybody's ever 542 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 2: going to tell the truth about this. 543 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: Anyway. Pregerson and Gandhi in their lawsuit. 544 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 2: It says, despite dire warnings by the National Weather Service 545 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: of a particularly dangerous condition red flag warning, critical fire weather, 546 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 2: potential for rapid fire spread, extreme fire behavior, those were 547 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 2: all the warnings. This is when Karen Bass saw this, 548 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 2: she got on the plane Africa. No immediate answer. Judge 549 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 2: Gandhi said, the city must stand up and claim responsibility 550 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 2: and do right by the residents of Palisades. That's why 551 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 2: I joined the battle. He called the Palisades fire a 552 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 2: manifestation of risks that were widely known but ignored, and 553 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 2: the city needs to acknowledge that because it can't happen again. Yeah, 554 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 2: to these Kenonas, Karen Bass, Kristin Crowley, the deposed fire. 555 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: Chief, they've never acknowledged anything. They've never acknowledged the terrible 556 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: shape all these. 557 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 2: Departments were in. The fire department was in awful shape. 558 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 2: It was half funded. The DWP, while I mean, Kenonia's 559 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 2: is a complete bird brain and there ain't nothing going 560 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 2: on there. Happy Earth Day. Play that again, Eric, just 561 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: play the play the play the Happy Earth Day line. 562 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 5: Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the commons that 563 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 5: Commissioner Cat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth Day. 564 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 5: We have us of April ten and you exhibit in 565 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 5: the lobby at the museum space call sustainability at lee 566 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 5: WP a Greener Tomorrow. 567 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 2: In celebration of Earth Month, and need like subtitles or 568 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 2: a translator or something. Yeah, she doesn't address the empty reservoir. 569 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 2: She doesn't address the power lines that were not turned off. 570 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 2: But she's happy to fill a buster about Earth Day 571 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 2: and some dopey exhibit they have that no one's going 572 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: to go see. All right, Rex Paris coming up after 573 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 2: the two o'clock news, his proposal to end homelessness, give 574 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 2: them all free sentinel much as they want. He's not 575 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 2: backing down off of that. Deborah Marks live in the 576 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 2: CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to 577 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 2: the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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