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 1: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: Welcome, how are you? 5 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 6 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: then after four o'clock. Whatever you missed you could pick 7 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: it up on whoa, whoa, whoa? Hold on? 8 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: Just blow my ears out? 9 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 3: Hang on. 10 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 1: I have a malfunctioning headset here. Oh my god, way, 11 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: whoa hold on? Okay, all right, that's that's dangerous. The 12 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: bones in my face are reverberating here, hold on something. 13 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: Something has gone wrong here. I can plod on for 14 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: this segment. 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 4: But we. 16 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: Head this headset's malfunctioning. Okay, that's not I have trouble 17 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: starting the last couple of days. We're on from one 18 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: to four after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand 19 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. 20 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: Now, I told you. 21 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: I warned you that this Karen Bass led recovery is 22 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: going to be a disaster. Said, I told you that 23 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: the biggest problem with the Palisades recovering is going to 24 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: be it's the same clowns that created the situation. Bass 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: created a situation by never funding the fire department and 26 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: not overseeing a pre deployment of fire engines and firefighters 27 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: and drones. That's why the fire got out of control 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: very quickly because nobody was in position, nobody knew what 29 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: to do. She wasn't around, And I said, that same 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: mentality is going to permeate this recovery. And if I 31 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: was in the Pacific Palisades right now, I would be 32 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: calling everybody I know in forming some kind of I 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: don't know, twenty thousand person union, demanding that she and 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: Steve sober Off get out, just simply get out, because 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: this latest story that developed over the weekend there nobody knew. 36 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: Nobody knew that Steve Soberoff was going to make a 37 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: half a million dollars to work three months. 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: Nobody knew that. 39 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: But that story came out I guess h late on Friday, 40 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: and everybody said, five hundred thousand dollars for three months. 41 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: Who agreed to that? Well, Karen Bash did. And you're saying, well, 42 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: where's the money coming from? And this is where it 43 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: gets strange. They said, well, it was coming from philanthropic groups, charities, 44 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: Well which charities? Who runs those charities? Why are they 45 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: being so generous to donate that much money? For so 46 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: little work, and nobody can even define exactly what he's 47 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: going to do or what he has been doing. It's 48 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: not only a half a million dollars to sober Off, 49 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: but it was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for 50 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: another real estate executive named Randy Johnson, and he's going 51 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: to report the sober Off. So now you've got seven 52 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars for two people for three 53 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: months from these mystery philanthropic groups. And we don't know 54 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: what the political connections are. We don't even know if 55 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: these groups are real. Why would you give out a 56 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: vague phrase like philanthropic groups? What charity would spend three 57 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: quarters of a million dollars on a seventy six year 58 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: old man who's going to work for three months, Especially 59 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: when Rick Caruso is putting together his own organization, a 60 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: nonprofit it for free? 61 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: What? 62 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: What's what's what's this sober Off guy doing? I just 63 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: don't get this. Nobody gets this. So Basque got so 64 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: much criticism she announced that. 65 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 2: That he's going to work for free. 66 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: Sober Off at first was defending the deal, saying, well, 67 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: his expertise made him worth the price expertise, said where 68 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: where did he have expertise bringing back an entire town 69 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: that had burned to the ground. What expertise was that? 70 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: So Bass had to call sober Off up and beg 71 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: him to give up the money. She this is Bass speaking. 72 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: I spoke to him today and asked him to modify 73 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: his agreement and work for free. He said, yes, we 74 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: agree that we don't need anything distracting from the. 75 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 2: Recovery where we're doing. 76 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 5: So. 77 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: I don't know who broke the story originally, but if 78 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: that story had been broken, we still wouldn't know he 79 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: was getting half a million dollars. The only reason she 80 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: changed her mind is not because she thought it was 81 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: the right thing to do. It's because they got caught. 82 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: They got caught spending three quarters of a million dollars 83 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: of somebody else's money. 84 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: And they won't say who the somebody else is. 85 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: And if that's come out, you know, sometime in the 86 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: last few hours, you know, let me know. But I'm 87 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: really suspicious. I don't understand this. And why wouldn't you 88 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: spend the three quarters of a million dollars on some 89 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: of the people who are struggling and suffering. Wow, this 90 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: salary as I said, for sober Off would be two 91 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: million a year, and that is far more than any 92 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: city employee makes, including the mayor. Obviously, on top of that, 93 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: Bass has not been able to explain exactly what sober 94 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: Off is gonna do. Originally they said he was gonna 95 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: lead the first phase of the rebuilding effort, and then 96 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: Friday she said, well, maybe he's gonna focus on rebuilding 97 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 1: the historic business district. Soberoff disagreed with that, so he 98 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: disagreed that he's going to have a diminished role. He 99 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: says he's regularly interacting with federal agencies. Now Trump has 100 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: somebody here overseeing this before any federal money goes out. 101 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: Rick Grennell's his name, and Grennell it was the ambassador 102 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: for Trump first time around. Grenell called Soberoff's pay offensive. 103 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: I'm getting paid zero dollars, as are many people. It's 104 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: a good thing. They'll be strings attached on the federal 105 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: money for California. 106 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 2: Oh, now you know there there will be. 107 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: And this is this is why when Trump says there's 108 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: gonna be strings attached. 109 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 2: People go, how could you do that? Well, how could 110 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: you do that? 111 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: It's like paying attention to what Elon musk is finding 112 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: you have the screaming of all the cockroaches in Washington, 113 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: d C. 114 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 2: Stuff like this always turns into a racket. Always, it's 115 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: always a racket. 116 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 5: Uh. 117 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: There's one council member finally came out of a coma, 118 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: Monica Rodriguez. She's part of a committee overseeing the recovery. 119 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: She said it was infuriating that the philanthropic groups would 120 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: provide three quarters of a million dollars for two people 121 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: when there's so many fire victims in need. 122 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 2: So now sober Off is gonna get Yeah. 123 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: In fact, I found a quote by Soberoff saying it's like, well, 124 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: you know, if you want me to drop everything, you know, 125 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: it's it's it's different. 126 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: If nothing was going on. 127 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: But he said if you have to drop, if I 128 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: have to drop everything, then he expected to be compensated 129 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: for it. Well, now there's no compensation. I'm sure is 130 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: heart is going to be in it. We've got a clip, 131 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: by the way, somebody posted on a next door app 132 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: just four minutes of that Steve sober Off zoom call 133 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: which he had with Hollywood talent agents. Remember I talked 134 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: about this a couple of times last week. Sober Off 135 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: had this zoom call with top agents from CIA and 136 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: William Morris and UTA, and is giving him advice on 137 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: how to hold that they should hold on to their properties. 138 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 2: Give it a year. 139 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: The value of your property is going to triple because 140 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: of all the money coming in. Don't drink the water, 141 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: don't wash your babies in the water. And that only 142 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: went to the to the high end talent agents. The 143 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: rest of the Palisades. I mean, there's people still living 144 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: in femas shelters, but they didn't get this advice from 145 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: sober Off. 146 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 2: Maybe they didn't. 147 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. Did they not anti up the money 148 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: did he charge for that zoom call? See this whole 149 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: thing smells and I'm sorry you're in the Palisades. You 150 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: should have zero confidence in this crowd. I don't know 151 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: what to tell you, because you know it's not likely. 152 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: I mean, Caruso, his intentions are good. He's not taking 153 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: any money. He's setting up this this outside it's called 154 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: Steadfast LA, this outside organization to try to connect homeowners 155 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: with everything they need to get on the rebuilding path. 156 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: But what sober Off is doing and Karen Pass is doing, 157 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: and how many times has she changed her mind on 158 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: something important so far. You know, when Trump came to 159 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: town and she had promised in front of Trump that 160 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: people could go back to their homes within twenty four hours. 161 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: That turned out not to be true. And also what's 162 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: not been settled is why the hell have they set 163 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: up this toxic waste dump at the beach at will 164 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: Rogers State Beach instead of sorting out the toxic waste 165 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: in the Palisades itself, where everything is already screwed. I 166 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: know there was a protest, there's going to be a 167 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: protest march from some of the residents. They were going 168 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: to march along pch or along the parking lots there. 169 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that's crazy about this, and 170 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: no decision seems to stick for more than a couple 171 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: of days because they don't know what they're doing and 172 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: they don't think things through, and then they get all 173 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: kinds of angry blowback from people. But I'm telling you, 174 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: that's that's unconscionable. I want to and I want that 175 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: if anybody knows the names of these philanthropic groups, please 176 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: let us know, because there's not a whole lot of 177 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: digging going on. There's some superficial digging going on. But 178 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of ugly stories still to come. 179 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: We're coming up. I'll play some of that. Well, yeah, 180 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: that's what I started to say that Steve Soberoff clips. 181 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to play that zoom call. Somebody posted a piece. 182 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 2: Of it online. I want to give the idea what 183 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 2: this guy's about. 184 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 185 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 4: six forty. 186 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: All right, so we've been telling you that Steve Soberoff 187 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: is now not going to get paid a half a 188 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: million dollars for three months work and his number two 189 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: guy named named Randy Johnson. 190 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: I assume not the baseball player, right, No, I don't 191 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 2: think so. He's a photographer now. 192 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a real estate 193 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: executive named Randy Johnson. So he was going to report 194 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: to Sobrof neither one is gonna get paid. They're gonna 195 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: work for three months for no pay only because the 196 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: world found out. And in going through this timeline again, 197 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: Sobroff says, I've been doing this for thirty five years 198 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: for free on some of the biggest civic projects for 199 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles, But no one ever asked 200 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: me to drop everything. This time they did so that 201 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: I'm assuming when they said, hey, you want to take 202 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: over this recovery effort, Well it's gonna cost you. 203 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 2: What are you gonna pay me? 204 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: And they said, oh jeez, we can't pay tax money, right, 205 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: So they called up these philanthropic charities and did they 206 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: get strong armed? I mean, I can't imagine if you're 207 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: running a charity and you've got a half million line 208 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: around in the middle of the worst disaster ever to 209 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: hit the worst fire disaster ever to hit an American city, 210 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: you'd go, yeah, yeah, sure, take take a half million. 211 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: Scare the victims. Steve Soberoff needs more money. Yeah, he's 212 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: he's very he's very rich. This is does all this 213 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: is too weird because Bass named sober Off. The recoveries 214 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: are January seventeenth, and he and Bass and everybody in 215 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:34,679 Speaker 1: Bass's circle, nobody would say what he was going to 216 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: get paid. Now, why keep it a secret? Because it 217 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: would cause a firestorm, and they knew it. Sober Off 218 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: in Bass knew it would cause a firestorm, and they 219 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: thought they could keep it a secret. Why did he 220 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: insist on the half million dollars. I'm assuming he did. 221 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: I mean, che didn't open the negotiation by saying, hey, 222 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: you want a half million? 223 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 2: And he goes, oh yeah, okay. 224 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: That On Friday, appearing at a news conference, Bass and 225 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: sober Off again declined to say how much he would 226 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: be paid. 227 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: Ten hours later, this was Friday night. 228 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: The La Times kept asking finally the mayor released the information, 229 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: and they were still defending it, saying, Zach Sidell, he's 230 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: the spokeshole for Bass. There's simply no one like Steve. 231 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: And then by Saturday there were so many people screaming 232 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: in the palisades. Oh yeah, that was another thing that 233 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: Bass reversed herself on. Remember pulling the National Guard out 234 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: of the palisades, pulling the checkpoints out, and everybody started screaming. 235 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: It's like, why are you doing that? You're gonna get 236 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: free rate of the looters. Oh yeah, I go, so boy, 237 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: her decisions are dumb, aren't they? Just flat out dumb? 238 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: Taking out the National Guard while the looters are going. 239 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: U give sober Off a half million dollars and you 240 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: and you refuse to tell anybody the truth. What happened 241 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: to all the transparency on this that that's their favorite word, transparency. Well, 242 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: why don't you start with the first half million dollars? 243 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: You're paying one guy for three months, and then what 244 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: about the second three months. 245 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 2: I think this recovery is gonna go on by five, seven, 246 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: ten years. Who and this this just stinks. This stinks. 247 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: And their behavior in covering it up, their behavior in 248 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: refusing to reveal the truth. 249 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 2: It all stinks, which is why they covered it up. 250 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: Let me play you some of the now this is 251 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: a color like a montage of sober off on the 252 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: zoom call with the UH with the agents from William 253 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: Morris and CIA and Utah. They got their own prime 254 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: the audience, and so he gave them all kinds of 255 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: analysis and advice. 256 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 2: Let's play some of this. 257 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 6: Construction costs are going to be high because the demand 258 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 6: for commodities is going to be high. The demand for labor, 259 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 6: whether or not half our labor gets deported before this happens, 260 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 6: is going to be high. So we're going to be 261 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 6: recruiting people from around the country to come, you know, 262 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 6: and live at motel sixes like the Alaska Gold Rust. 263 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: So there are subs out here to do work. 264 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 6: So you're just going to choose the fork in the 265 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 6: road that goes back to the way. You could do 266 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 6: it any other time, and it's going to take a 267 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 6: long time. I'm very worried about the people who work 268 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 6: for you. I don't know if I'm more worried about 269 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 6: them than I am worried about you, because none of 270 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 6: you are going to be homeless, and a lot of 271 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 6: these people are. So the California Community Foundation is taking 272 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 6: care of them. They're giving them money, They're giving them. 273 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: Stop saying he's worried about the workers for these rich people, 274 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: you know, presumably the the housekeepers and the gardeners and 275 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: the nannies and all that. So, so why why are 276 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: you sucking up a half million if you're worried about them? 277 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: Why didn't you throw that half million into the pot 278 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: or let the philanthropic agency keep it so they could 279 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: help it. So what I don't understand his persona here 280 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: is say I think I care more about them than 281 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: about you. 282 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: Meantime, he and. 283 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: Bass are covering up his half billion dollar three month deal. 284 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 2: At bad Oder coming out of this. 285 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, a few people in the Palisades don't 286 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: do something about this, you're gonna deserve what you get. 287 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: The warning flags are out here. 288 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: Okay, you are not dealing with people who were forthcoming, 289 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: and you're not dealing with competence at all from Karen Bass. 290 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: I mean she has swung and missed on so many 291 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: aspects of this play. 292 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: Some more. 293 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 6: They're giving them money, they're giving shelter and everything else. 294 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 6: So I would say, if you donate to that fund 295 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 6: at the California Community Foundation, it's a good thing. You know, 296 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 6: I'm paying my housekeeper anyway. I'm actually worked for me 297 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 6: for thirty years. You know, it's all my kids. What 298 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 6: am I do? 299 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 3: Tell her? 300 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 6: Sorry, you know, but that's that's every everybody's choice. But 301 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 6: I'm worried about all those people who drive west on 302 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 6: the Santa Monica Freeway every morning, because losing their job 303 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 6: to them is like dropping a brick in a puddle. 304 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 6: But make sure it's clean. Have all your clothes cleaned. Water, 305 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 6: he's all your linens cleaned. The water now is unsafe 306 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,479 Speaker 6: in all these houses. The DWP says you have to 307 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 6: use bottled water. I don't know. If Jay gave me 308 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 6: bottle water, you probably give me DWP water. But just 309 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 6: because the dw P says your water safe. Have somebody 310 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 6: tested for you before you move back in. And and 311 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 6: when they say, you know, drinking water, you know, use 312 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 6: bottled water, what they don't say is, and they're starting 313 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 6: to say it now, don't bathe your baby in their water. 314 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 6: Don't take a bath in the water, don't take a shower, 315 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 6: don't do your dishes, don't do your laundry. You don't 316 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 6: want to do anything with that. 317 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: We got to take a news break. But again, this 318 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: is for a few wealthy agents. The rest of the 319 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: public was told that the water's okay and sober after 320 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: saying well, and I'll listen to the d w B 321 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: and what is not okay? This is what I'm talking 322 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: about here. There's tens of thousands of people in the 323 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: Palisades who we're not told that the water's not okay. 324 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 2: We're coming up. 325 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI A six. 326 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: On from one until four and then after four o'clock 327 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. All right, 328 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: it's going to play a couple more minutes of this 329 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: Steve Sober off zoom call, and then we got a 330 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: clip to play for you. Pacific Palisades resident named Kay 331 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: Steinsaper got really upset with The New York Times for 332 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: she thought mischaracterizing most of the people in the Palisades 333 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: as these rich people. And she says that's not true. 334 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 2: And she. 335 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: Made this a video and sounded off, we're going to 336 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: play you a clip because she thinks the New York 337 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: Times is way out of line in their characterization. But first, 338 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: a little more Steve Soberoff. Over the weekend. This all 339 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: happened since Friday night. It was discovered that sober Off 340 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: was getting a half million dollars for three months work 341 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: to be in charge of the recovery three months, and 342 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: he got another real estate guy named Randy Thomas two 343 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The money is coming from 344 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: charitable organizations, but nobody wants to say who. And then 345 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: there was so much criticism that Bass reversed her decision 346 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: and asked sober Off to work for free, and so he. 347 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 2: He did agree. I don't know if it was reluctantly. 348 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: What do you think In any event, we told you 349 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 1: last week sober Off was on a zoom call with 350 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: these uh, these uh agents, Hollywood agents who apparently are 351 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: entitled to their own private advice from sober Off, and 352 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: he gave him advice everything from the quality of the 353 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: water to how long they should keep their properties before 354 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: they sell. Let's let's play some more, because we're gonna 355 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: get We're gonna end up with the bus ts and 356 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 1: the bus to know if. 357 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 6: You can afford it, I'd get an independent agency or 358 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 6: maybe there's a kid at see the water thing. 359 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 3: It'll tell you if you're working montage and then you're 360 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 3: going to move in. 361 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,959 Speaker 6: I've asked for and gotten approval to go ahead and 362 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 6: start rebuilding. 363 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: The library, the park. 364 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 6: They're going to have that, they're going to have the 365 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 6: ten k race, They're going to have the Fourth of 366 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 6: July parade, be in different places. I'm talking to Ralph's 367 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 6: and to Gelson's about expediting their return to get these 368 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 6: to get these services. So people may say, well, gee, 369 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 6: I don't want to go back if there's not going 370 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 6: to be an uptown Pacific Palisades other than Rick's Place. 371 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 3: You know the village, so it's called the village. Yea. 372 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 3: I want to go back to the community. 373 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 6: I want to go back to Cafe Vida, I want 374 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 6: to go back to you know, I want to go 375 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 6: back to Noah's Bagels, and so, you know, we collectively 376 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 6: are trying to help those people get their permits, just 377 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 6: like I'm trying to help your people get yours. We 378 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 6: have a community Pacific Palisades, twenty three thousand people, ten 379 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 6: thousand homes, of which five thousand are gone, that has 380 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 6: been decimated. You've up to Marquez Knowles. Some of the 381 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 6: schools are going. Six out of nine of our churches 382 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 6: and synagogues are going. 383 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: This is something that's never happened. We're going. 384 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 6: So it needs to be rebuilt. In my and I 385 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 6: use the term. Maybe it's wrong. I say we're going 386 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 6: to rebuild, not reimagine, because if you start reimagining, well 387 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 6: maybe the road should be here, maybe this should be 388 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 6: an apartment building instead of this, or maybe this office 389 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 6: building should go to luxury apartments. 390 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 3: They can just go through the city process. 391 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 6: My job is for you simple get your back where 392 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 6: you are and get your housekeeper back where she is. 393 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 6: You know, the worst case is you're finished building your 394 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 6: house and they haven't hooked up your water. But I 395 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 6: just don't see that. So now some people are going 396 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 6: to take longer. I mean, you know it's going to 397 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 6: take five years for some people and three years. 398 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 3: For other people. Or yeah, it can't be done too. 399 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 6: I mean, you can't build a I couldn't even build 400 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 6: my garage in a year, you know, although we built 401 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 6: they built Stable center in eighteen months. 402 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: Well, you can't sold it much because the city of 403 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: LA has been so difficult with permitting. 404 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 2: Everything is everything. 405 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 1: Has been a joke, the whole process of permitting in 406 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: the city of La. 407 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 3: He said, this wasn't going to be political. Now, why 408 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 3: you're on the bus to Yes please. 409 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 2: It's been frustrating, I know for a lot of people. Yeah, 410 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 2: that's when he started talking about the bus to Yes. 411 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, one of the agents said, hey, 412 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: the reason we can't build it sooner is because of 413 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: Los Angeles' terrible permitting process, which of course Bass has 414 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: promised she's going to clean up, but nobody believes her. 415 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 1: And the permitting process is awful Los Angeles. It is onerous, 416 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: it's oppressive, it's stupid, it's so difficult. Having said this, 417 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: I'll probably never get a permit to build a dog house. 418 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: But it's true. It's a horrendous process. 419 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: And they all know it, and sober Off even acknowledges 420 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: it there that you know it's going to take a while, 421 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: you know it could take three years. Well, whereas Caruso said, 422 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,959 Speaker 1: it's like, if someone saying it takes three years, why 423 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: can't we do it a year. If somebody says it's 424 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: gonna take a year, why can't we do it in 425 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: six months? That that's what Trump said too. It's like 426 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: that that's too. 427 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 2: Long a time. Everything is too long. 428 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: And nobody believes Bass is going to streamline anything because 429 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: this is the same crowd that brought you the disaster, 430 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: the same crowd that brought you these impossible permitting uh uh, 431 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it. It's like one long, 432 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: endless game in the third circle of Hell, and the 433 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: people who brought you these absurd permitting processes are still 434 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: in charge and they don't know anything different. They think 435 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: they're justified to do this. 436 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: That's the thing. You talk to them. 437 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: They have all kinds of reasons and all kinds of excuses, 438 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: you know, It's what It's what I noticed Trump and 439 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: Elon Musk are running into in Washington. They're trying to 440 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: cut obvious absurd spending. 441 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 2: It's like Wow. 442 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: You know the reason we do with this why is well, actually, 443 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: you know that there's a there's a good excuse for this. 444 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you know what it is. 445 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: It's corruption, Okay, terrific corruption combined with incompetence. And if 446 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: you're hearing what they're finding in Washington, d C. What 447 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: do you think they'd find in La if they started 448 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: auditing every department? 449 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 3: Huh? 450 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: They already found out in the housing bureaucracy, you're the 451 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: homeless housing bureaucracy. Much of the money has gone unaccounted for, 452 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: billions unaccounted for. You know, we need a Musk and 453 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: a Trump here in LA badly because much of the 454 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 1: money that you pay in taxes is being looted. I 455 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: mean that La City government is a criminal organization. They 456 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: got nothing on the mob, and too many people in 457 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: California are too stupid to realize what's going on. Sacramento 458 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 1: is another one that's another huge criminal organization. And if 459 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: you did it audit, you would find exactly what Musk 460 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: and Trump are finding in Washington, d C. These are 461 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: criminal or organizations that have been stealing billions upon billions 462 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: of tax dollars forever. All right we come back, I 463 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: want to play you a clip of Kay Steinsaper who 464 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: went off on the New York Times. She some snotty 465 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: writer named Rondack Cason in the Times wrote a piece 466 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: calling Pacific Palisades residents the rogue rich. And this Kay 467 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: Steinsaper's who's a mother, just went off, and we'll tell 468 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: you a clip at her thing. 469 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 2: Coming up. 470 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 471 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, we are going to talk 472 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: with Alex Stone because now there's a rash of egg 473 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: heists around the country. 474 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 2: Excuse me, sorry about that. 475 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: In fact, in Seattle burglars stole five and forty eggs 476 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: last week, just like that rampant egg crime because the 477 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,719 Speaker 1: price is so high due to the bird flu. Well, 478 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: we'll talk to Alex coming up right after two o'clock. 479 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 1: Then we got to get into some of the crazy 480 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: stuff that Musk is finding about the seene amounts of 481 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: money being spent on utter garbage by the federal government. 482 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: Back to the Palasades for a moment. There's a mother 483 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: from the Palisades. Her name is Kay Steinsaper, and she 484 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: got really angry because the New York Times has a 485 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: writer named Ronda Cason, and casein, I've never seen this before. 486 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: You had a town of innocent people, the town is 487 00:28:52,520 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: destroyed by fire, and the culprits include the idiots who've 488 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: run the government for years and decades, because as I've 489 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: told you, Los Angeles only has half a fire department, 490 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: and of the remaining half that we have, nobody was 491 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: assigned to monitor high profile, high fire areas, even though 492 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: the National Weather Service was issuing stern warnings as stern 493 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: as you possibly can. I mean, they broke the English 494 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: language trying to come up with ways to tell you 495 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: that we're going to have a very deadly, very bad, 496 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: destructive fire. And Karen Bascot in the plane went to Africa. 497 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: And now after the Palisades, who put see this is 498 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. People saying, well, you got to trust 499 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: the government, that the government tries to do the right thing. No, 500 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: nobody I know of nobody who knew that the government 501 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: had half funded the fire department all these years, fifty 502 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: percent funding, that's a fact. 503 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 2: Nobody knew that. 504 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: Because nobody pays ten how would you know how much 505 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: the fire department? And then what little fire department we 506 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: have much of the time, more than half the time, 507 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: when it answers a fire call, it's homeless people starting 508 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: a fire. 509 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 2: I'm telling you this. 510 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: You cannot have a city where we spend more money 511 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: on drug addicts and vagrants in the street than we 512 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: spend on a fire department. Okay, you cannot have a 513 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 1: city like this. This is what happens because we have 514 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: spent year after year more money on drug addicts and 515 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: vagrants that we do our fire department. 516 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 2: What do you think is going to happen? 517 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: And the incredible stupidity of our government, And now that 518 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: we all know this, if it continues, then it's our 519 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: incredible stupidity. It's the taxpayers and voters of Los Angeles. 520 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: You've got to get your head out of your ideological 521 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: rear end and start voting on practical issues. Anyway, back 522 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: to case Steinsaper, here's what the writer in The Times 523 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: wrote about Palisades residents. It's deep pocketed, well connected residents 524 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: have access to power that few have. They can pick 525 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: up the phone and call Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass or 526 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: Steve Soberoff. The sheer concentration of affluence, coupled with the 527 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: frustration that the government's response to one of the biggest 528 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: American catastrophes in recent history has been inadequate could greatly 529 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: shape the future of the Palisades. I then quote some 530 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: expert as saying, I suspect, because these are pretty wealthy 531 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: households with a lot of economic and political power, they're 532 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: going to be able to dictate the terms of their 533 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: own recovery. 534 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 2: Well. 535 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: Kate Steinsaper took offense to that, and while taking a 536 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: video tour of her burned out neighborhood. 537 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 2: This is the video she posted. 538 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 5: I was over at the Female Recovery Center yesterday and 539 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 5: the stories that I've heard all around me were heartbreaking. 540 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 5: Senior citizens on fixed incomes who are just literally terrified 541 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 5: about what's next can see this house. This is what 542 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 5: happened to my community, you guys. And it's so hurtful, 543 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 5: and it's so outrageous that people want to pretend that 544 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 5: this doesn't matter because they assume people here are wealthy. 545 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 5: It's just literally not true. The New York Times published 546 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 5: a piece yesterday that was so incredibly false and hurtful. 547 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 5: I know people who were interviewed for that piece who 548 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 5: had their quotes taken out of context. The person who 549 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 5: wrote the piece clearly had an agenda when she spoke 550 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 5: to them, and it's just sickening. So New York Times 551 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 5: thank you. This is what it's like. 552 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, she points out the video that and we've discussed this. 553 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: A lot of people the Palisades bought homes many decades ago, 554 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: when the price of a house was much much less 555 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: expensive and the cost of constructing a house was much 556 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: much less expensive. And they've kept that house for decades, 557 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: or it's been passed from grandparents to parents to kids, 558 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,479 Speaker 1: and that while the house may be worth a lot 559 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: by modern standards, that's all their net worth. And then 560 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: just learned about people last week who maybe took out 561 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: a second mortgages because as their equity went up became 562 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: their savings account. They started borrowing against the equity that 563 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: was building up in the house. And now the house 564 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: is gone, but they still have to pay off those loans. 565 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: So this New York Times reporter was completely off, just 566 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: a complete idiot. Get her name again. Run to cas 567 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: Rod to Casey. That was just cruel, false, unwarranted. Mean, 568 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. All right, we 569 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: come back. You know something is you know the price 570 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: of something has gone way too high when people are 571 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: now going out of their way to steal large quantities 572 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: of the item and its eggs are now getting stolen. 573 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: I mean big heists going on. 574 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next with Alex Stone from ABC News, 575 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,240 Speaker 1: and we have Brigina di Gastino live in the KFI 576 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 1: twenty four our newsroom. 577 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 578 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am 579 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 580 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.