1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock and 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Whatever you miss do you pick up 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: on the podcast version John Cobelt Show on demand on 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 2: the iHeart app. 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: It's the same as the radio show. 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 2: Last week on Thursday, they had a kents meeting up 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: in the San Fernando Valley in the Encino area, because 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: there is a very if you if you're not familiar 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 2: with the area, you don't live there, there's a very 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: large and beautiful park. It's called the Supulita Basin Recreation Area, 13 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: and it covers a large swathe of land just north 14 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 2: of the one oh one up to up to Victory Boulevard, 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: and then again from east to west. It goes from 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: west of the four oh five to White Oak. It's 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: a large area and it's got everything. It's got baseball 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 2: fields and a golf course and I mean, you name it. 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: It's like a super sized park. Lots of people go 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: there and lots of homeless live there, and people are 21 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: really fed up with hundreds of homeless people. They think 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: maybe up to three hundred are living there. But what's 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: worse is they start seven hundred fires a year, or 24 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: at least in the last year and a half, and 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 2: it's about one call to the LA Fire Department every day. 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 2: And so people went to a meeting and I imagine 27 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: it was pretty intense because the fire department Deputy Chief 28 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 2: Jamie Moore said, I want to bring some calmness to 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: the room. 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: I can feel the tension all the way up here. 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: Well, when you have a place that's meant for families 32 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: and children where people are posted to picnic and play 33 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: ball and enjoy themselves, and you got three hundred homeless 34 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 2: people starting a fire every day, well yeah, it ought 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: to be tense. People should be furious. We're going to 36 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: talk to Roy and Eraser on now. Let me get 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: his name right, right and Wasser and he is the 38 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: Encino Neighborhood Council president. 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: Roy, how are you. 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Thank you for having me. 41 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 1: I think we've had you on before. You seemed familiar. 42 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: So tell me what is the state of the suppulvid 43 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: basin that that recreation area. 44 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: What do you see? What are your friends and neighbors see. 45 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 3: It's not good, it's not good. We're averaging well over 46 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: one fire per day on average. They're happening at all 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 3: hours of the day, from morning to night time, and 48 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: it is with the we have, it's just an increasing 49 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 3: wildfire risk all over the state. But here in the base, 50 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,399 Speaker 3: in such a big area, with so many encampments there 51 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 3: and so many homes adjacent to it, were really just 52 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 3: one bad weather day away from having a catastrophic disaster. 53 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: And I imagine that city officials have probably gotten thousands 54 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: of calls in recent years. There's seven hundred fire reports 55 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 2: right there from the start. 56 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're getting reports left and right, emails left and right, 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 3: so they are well aware of the problem, isn't This 58 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 3: isn't something new. 59 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: How many years has it been going on. 60 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: I don't know how long ago it started, but it's 61 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: been going on for quite a long time. I know 62 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen was the last time they had an 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 3: actual concerted effort to clean up the basin with removing 64 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: the encampments in a short period of time. They did 65 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: it in three or four stages, so this well precedes that. 66 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 3: But I couldn't tell you when this problem started. It's 67 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: been going on for a very long time, though, all right. 68 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: With all the calls and all the emails and the 69 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: public meetings in general, what's the response back from Karen 70 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: Bass's administration and the city council members? What did they 71 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: say anything or they just ignore everybody. 72 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,239 Speaker 3: The city council member for CD four and CD six 73 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 3: really don't say a whole lot. They're leaving it up 74 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 3: to the mayor. The mayor's office is acknowledging the problem 75 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 3: and is making promises about clearing the encampments and doing 76 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 3: something about it. And we see some effort, it's just 77 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: coming very slowly. 78 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: I saw so one story that said that maybe they 79 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: cleaned up one acre. 80 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 3: They cleaned up one acre. It took him three and 81 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 3: a half weeks to clean up one acre. 82 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: Uh, that's a two thousand acre park. It is. 83 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 3: There's six hundred acres that they estimate which have this 84 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 3: problem with encampments and overgrown brush. And so if you're 85 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 3: going to clean six hundred acres at three and a 86 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 3: half weeks per acre, that's over forty years. But they 87 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 3: promise us it won't take that long for the next 88 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 3: five hundred and ninety nine acres. 89 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: That's just ridiculous. What are the names of the two council. 90 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: People Ameldapadia and Nythie Ironic. That's sort of the council 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 3: members proceiding Kevin. 92 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Pi. 93 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 2: Okay, because I noticed in one of the news stories 94 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: they contacted Kevin Pidia's office and they had no comment. 95 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 3: Uh, it's a meld I read that. I don't know 96 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 3: where I read it. It's a Meldapidia. Uh. And she 97 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 3: may not have had a common eld Nthea Lamon's office 98 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 3: in CD four. There there's a very small portion of 99 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: the basin which is actually in c D four, which 100 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 3: she always reminds us of. But there are a lot 101 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 3: of homes in CD four that are right next to 102 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: the basin which would burn down if there was a 103 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 3: massive fire. And so I think she should be a 104 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 3: little bit more involved than she is. 105 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: Uh, what would did you go to this community meeting 106 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 2: that I referenced before? 107 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I organized it. 108 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: All right. 109 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 2: Well, what was your impression of it, because it looked 110 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 2: like I don't know, the Deputy Chief Jamie Moore is 111 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 2: getting a little comfortable because people were so tense I 112 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 2: think is the word he used. 113 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not a friendly cloud people. Everyone who 114 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: was there is there because they are upset and there 115 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 3: because they are nervous and scared about about their homes 116 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: burning down and losing everything they have, and so it 117 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 3: was not a friendly crowd to say the least. 118 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think is going on? 119 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 2: Why the non response from the Bass administration and uh 120 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: Emelda Padilla and Nittie Ramen. Does it really seem like 121 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 2: nobody cares. 122 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 3: I don't think it's a non response. I think it's 123 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 3: an insufficient response. I don't think until recently they have 124 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 3: really taking this problem seriously. In the last few months, 125 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 3: the Ntenor Neighborhood Council and the Antino Property Owners Association 126 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: have been having regular meetings with them and really putting 127 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 3: some pressure on them to do something about it. And 128 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: I think they're trying to respond, but it's just such 129 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 3: a huge problem that it's difficult, and it would it 130 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: would I will say this, It would surely help if 131 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 3: the state or federal government would lend a hand because 132 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, the Supublita Basin is 133 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 3: owned by the federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers, 134 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 3: and if they wanted to, they could have this area 135 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 3: cleared up very quickly. Because they cleared up the Palisades 136 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: fire burned area ahead of schedule, and that is many, many, 137 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 3: many times larger than the supublic basin. So there's a 138 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 3: lot of hand lay in the supublica basin, which is 139 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: part of the problem. 140 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 2: So the federal government owns the land, but the city 141 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: is supposed to manage it. 142 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 3: Well, it's least to the city to parks and rec 143 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 3: it's least to tapping your brothers farms, it's least to 144 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: a number of different organizations, and so you know, it's 145 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 3: a there's a lot of fingerpointing going on. The Army 146 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 3: Course says it's not to us, it's up to the 147 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: people that are leasing it. The people that are leasing 148 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: it says it's not our problem, it's the Army course problem, 149 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 3: or the Army Corps hasn't given us permission to clear it, 150 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: and we get a lot of finger pointing, And it 151 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: was really disappointing that I couldn't get someone from the 152 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 3: Army Corps to attend our meeting because we had thirteen 153 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 3: people on our panel, but not then. 154 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 2: And so so when the city officials say this, are 155 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 2: they saying that legally they can't touch the problem or 156 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: they're just hoping the FEDS do the hard work. Like, 157 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 2: are they pointing fingers just because they don't feel like 158 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 2: doing it or they feel legally they're not allowed to 159 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 2: do it. 160 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 3: It's been both of those in the past. Currently they 161 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 3: are not using that as an excuse, but they I 162 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: have been told that if the Army Corps would step up, 163 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 3: it would make a difference, If the National Guard would 164 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 3: lend a hand, it would make a difference because there 165 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 3: is a challenge of resources, both in manpower and funding 166 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 3: to clean this up. So there are are other places 167 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 3: that could have other people that could help if they 168 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 3: wanted to. 169 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: Of course, if they attended to this on a on 170 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: a week by week basis, this huge problem would not 171 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 2: have built up into something so monstrous, this problem, but 172 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 2: then it gets way out of hand and everybody says 173 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: it's too big for us. 174 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So the real important thing is if and 175 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 3: when this does get cleared up, maintaining it is going 176 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 3: to be about most importance, because if they don't maintain it, 177 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 3: we're going to end up right back where we started, 178 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 3: and that would be the worst case scenario. 179 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 2: All right, well, listen, roy, uh, we want to help 180 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 2: you out so keep in contact with us because this 181 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 2: shouldn't stand, especially the fire danger. I mean, we're now 182 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 2: in high season and we don't need to see how 183 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 2: to end up like the Palisades. 184 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Sorry, you know, no, you know I 185 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 3: always The point I make often to our city officials 186 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 3: is that can you imagine if there were some homeless 187 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 3: people living in the Palisades and people kept telling them 188 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 3: there's going to be a wildfire if you don't get 189 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 3: rid of these encampments, and the city had full notice 190 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 3: of this and did nothing, and then the Palisades fire 191 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 3: happened because of the problem that they were warned about. 192 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: And that's the exact situation we have here. We've been 193 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 3: told by la FD that this has the highest possibility 194 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 3: of becoming a devastating fire of anywhere in La probably 195 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 3: not on the scale of the Palisade, but this has 196 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 3: a high potential for high damage, high consequences, and they 197 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 3: know it. They've got to do something as fast as 198 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 3: they can, because we're one bad weather day away from 199 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 3: from something catastrophic. 200 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 2: Okay, And Sino Neighborhood Council President Roy and Waser and 201 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: your website. 202 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 3: Our website is Encino NC dot org. You can go 203 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: there for lots of information about things happening in Encino, 204 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 3: events we have, and you can sign up for our 205 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 3: newsletter where we will let you know about upcoming meetings 206 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 3: like this that you can come and participate in, because 207 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 3: that is one of the best things we can do 208 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 3: to get the city to move is to show up 209 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 3: in large numbers and put the pressure on them. 210 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 2: All right, right, got it, run, Thank you very much. 211 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: We'll continue with this. 212 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 213 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 4: six forty. 214 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 2: We just had on as an amazing phone call and 215 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: conversation with Roy and Wasser, the Encino Neighborhood Council president. 216 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: And you don't have to live in Encino, you don't 217 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 2: have to use the Subulve Debation recreation area. You could 218 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: be living anywhere in la or anywhere in southern California. 219 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: And this is exactly what life is like, just the 220 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 2: complete degradation of everything we used to enjoy, everything we 221 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: used to take for granted, everything we're entitled to because 222 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 2: of the taxes we paid. The Supulvita Basin is a 223 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 2: two thousand acre recreation area. The land's actually owned by 224 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 2: the federal government. It is leased out to the City 225 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles allows 226 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 2: three hundred insane vagrants to live there every day. And 227 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 2: this is not an exaggeration. I've best stressed this is 228 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 2: not hyperbole. Every day they start a fire. Every day. 229 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 2: They have over seven hundred fires in the last year 230 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 2: and a half. There's at least one call to the 231 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: LA Fire Department every single day, according to ABC seven. 232 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: Fox eleven did a story on this too, and they 233 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 2: went into one of the encampments and one guy says, 234 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 2: one of the vagrants says, some of the fires are 235 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 2: either caused by someone trying to hurt somebody for revenge 236 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: or people from the neighborhood. You know how they say, well, 237 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 2: you know they've got to cook their food. We're not 238 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 2: cooking food. They're trying to burn each other alive. You 239 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: imagine all the petty disagreements and fights they have. According 240 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 2: to the reporter Matthew Seedorf, tents, cars, trash, midshift, houses 241 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 2: in trees are visible from the trails. And our guest, 242 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 2: Roy and Wasser, who's the Ino Neighborhood Council president, told 243 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: Channel eleven there are literal booby traps around the encampments 244 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 2: booby traps. In fact, last summer, a firefighter was injured 245 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: from an explosion while fighting a wildfire in the basin 246 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 2: near the tents, and was says, they're fishing hooks that 247 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: are hanging from the edge of the encampment, and they 248 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: fashioned spear like objects out of the branches and cover 249 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: them up. If you step on that, you fall in. 250 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: It's a big problem. And there's a lot of brushtick 251 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: and hide in out there. Oh my god, it's like 252 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 2: this crazy tribe has infested themselves into the Supulvita Basin 253 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 2: recreational area. 254 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: I've been there. 255 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 2: Many times when we used to live up in the 256 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 2: hills close to Sherman Oaks. We went there all the 257 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 2: time when the kids were little. And that it's taken 258 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: over my homeless people. And this has gone on for years. 259 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: Ryan Wasser said, the last time anybody remembers it getting 260 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 2: cleaned out extensively, he was twenty nineteen, so this is 261 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 2: six years. 262 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: John. 263 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 5: I have thought that Governor Newsom said that all of this, 264 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 5: that all these homeless camps need to be cleaned up. 265 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 5: So I don't understand why he's not getting involved in this. 266 00:15:59,560 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 267 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 2: Oh, maybe he's attending his uh, his task force meeting 268 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 2: on this matter. I mean just the other day he 269 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 2: announced there was another task force to clean up these 270 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:10,239 Speaker 2: kind of encampments. 271 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 5: Right, so you should be calling he should be calling 272 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 5: bass and saying, Okay, this is unacceptable. Let's get let's 273 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 5: get rid of this situation now. 274 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: Can you imagine how many calls they've gotten and seeing 275 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 2: a residents are are are on the whole pretty active. 276 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 2: They have a lot to be active about. They've had 277 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: probably thousands of calls over the last six years, seven 278 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 2: hundred fires. And there's two idiots council people, one of 279 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 2: them Melda Padilla's misidentified in his story as Kevin, but 280 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: it's a Meldapadia. And then and the infamous Nitia Rahman, 281 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: who never met a homeless person she wouldn't want to 282 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: crawl into a tent with. And so they have these 283 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 2: town meetings, like why do you need town hall meeting? 284 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 2: Just send in law enforcement. I don't care who. I mean, 285 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 2: It's it's like Washington, d C. You know, the locals 286 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 2: are cheering the National Guard. I cheer the National Guard. 287 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: I don't care if they bring in the Marines. I 288 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 2: don't care about the Constitution anymore. The Supreme Court said, 289 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: nobody has a constitutional right to live in a public place. Nobody, 290 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 2: nobody has a right to sleep in a public place. 291 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 2: That's part of the Constitution as well. They don't have 292 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 2: that protection. So Bess is just asking asking for Trump 293 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: to come in. Newsom should come in. But he's he's 294 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 2: all you know, he's a phony, he's a complete fake. 295 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbel's on Demand from KFI A sixty. 296 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock. 297 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 2: After four o'clock, it's the podcast John Cobelt's Show on 298 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app and you can listen to 299 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: the podcast all weekend, any of our shows all weekend. 300 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: All right, We've got Wascheline coming up twice in the 301 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 2: three o'clock hour, and we spent the last half hour, 302 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 2: which you can hear later on if you missed it 303 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 2: on the podcast, talking about this beautiful park in the 304 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 2: San Fernando Valley, the Supulvida Basin Recreation Area. It's two 305 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 2: thousand acres and it's all green and there are lakes 306 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 2: there and there's a golf course and there's ball fields 307 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 2: and picnic areas and you. 308 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 1: Can do anything. 309 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: And it runs west of the four or five, south 310 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 2: of Victory, north of the one on one and Caring Pass. 311 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 2: And you know, she's, you know, three years into her 312 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 2: rain is Mayor, She's allowed this place to completely go 313 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: to hell. There's three hundred homeless people living there, three hundred. 314 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: It's an outdoor mental institution. 315 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: And they start fires every day. Can you imagine this? 316 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 2: She already burned down the Palisades. Now through her neglect, 317 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 2: she's gonna burn down and Sino potentially. Yeah, everybody in 318 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 2: Encino is afraid because the whole park is dry, and 319 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: there's three hundred pyromaniac arsonists there and they start fires 320 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 2: on purpose because they're always having feuds and they're angry 321 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 2: at each other and they're trying to get revenge on 322 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 2: each other, and they make booby traps. 323 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: It's like a war zone. 324 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: You approach them and you could literally fall through a 325 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 2: booby trap underground. Now we have proof, DETR did you 326 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 2: hear about this? We have proof that mer Bass's office 327 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 2: is tracking our show. 328 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: Oh really? 329 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Y and I Ray and I both got 330 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 2: an email from Bass's communications office and it because yesterday 331 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: at the end of the show, I started talking about 332 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 2: this and we promoted that we were going to have 333 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: one of the residents on and so they heard that 334 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 2: and we got this email yesterday at about nine o'clock. 335 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: They're working late. 336 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 2: Hello, we heard that you're going to be covering with 337 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 2: su Pulvit of Basin tomorrow and we wanted to share 338 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 2: this with you. Statement from the Mayor's office. Listen to 339 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 2: this and get your barf bag. Mayor Bass is leading 340 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 2: a new approach for the Subulvta Basin to reduce safety 341 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 2: threats of the area. These include addressing challenges that have 342 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 2: been decades in the making. What now here's a tip 343 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: to Mayor Bass's with what's it called the communications office. 344 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 2: Much of the media is made up of morons. Much 345 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 2: of the media are brain dead progressives, like everybody on 346 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 2: Passes staff. This stuff may work on them because they'll 347 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 2: just read it verbatim right the news editor at the 348 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 2: TV stations or at the Times, they'll see this and 349 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 2: they'll say, well, Mayor pass released the statement saying and 350 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: then they'll just read it knowing it's a pile of crap. 351 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: She's full of it. She's lying because that's what they do. 352 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 2: You don't send this to us. Do you think I'm 353 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 2: gonna sit here and go? Do you know Mayor Bass 354 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 2: is leading a new approach to reduce safety threats in 355 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 2: the Subulva debasin, why cheers to Mayor Bass for immediately 356 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 2: jumping on this. 357 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: She's done nothing. She burned the Palisades down. Now she's 358 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: gunning for Encino. Listen to that. I mean, that's how 359 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: stupid they are. You send this to me. 360 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 2: I've got it here. My email address is on this, 361 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 2: so is Rais. What do you think you're doing? What 362 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 2: do you think you're doing? You have a plan? You've 363 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 2: been there now for two years and almost nine full months. 364 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 2: You're already running for another four years. You didn't know 365 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 2: that there were three hundred homeless people starting a fire 366 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 2: every single freaking day, seven hundred fires in a year 367 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: and a half. Did you know about any of them? 368 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 2: Or did that escape your attention? Like the worst fire 369 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 2: conditions in LA history escaped you on January seventh? Or 370 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 2: maybe you've been in a foreign country. What the last 371 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,719 Speaker 2: six years since they last cleaned the homelessness? This includes 372 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 2: addressing challenges that have been decades in the making, have 373 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 2: decades making. 374 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: No, it's not that's a complete lie. 375 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 2: I've been living here for what thirty three years now, 376 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 2: and when my boys were small, we used to take 377 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 2: them to this recreation center all the time. There were 378 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 2: no homeless people there, what maybe two, There weren't three hundred, 379 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 2: and there weren't fires every day. Mayor Pass is committed to. Oh, listen, 380 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 2: she will take time. It will take time to address comprehensively, 381 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,959 Speaker 2: like the long standing homeless encampments. 382 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:35,959 Speaker 1: It doesn't take time to address that. 383 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 2: Send in the heavy machinery, send in the police, the 384 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 2: sheriff's department. Ask Trump he'll send in the National Guard 385 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 2: and start scooping it up with a payloader. Destroy it all. 386 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 2: The Supreme Court says they have no right. What democracy 387 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 2: we have right? Supreme Court weighs in and said they 388 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 2: don't have any right to live there. Well, I'm going 389 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 2: to be defiant about it. Every person, every person has 390 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 2: the right to burn down a two thousand acre park. 391 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 2: You're not going to push us around. Mayor Pass. Let 392 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 2: me go back to this thing. Is committed to seeing 393 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 2: this effort through. Having been to the basin and speaking 394 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: directly with Valley residents and her staff, including her deputy 395 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 2: mayor of public safety, her deputy mayor of public safety. 396 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 1: Would that be the guy. 397 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: That was fired and he pleaded guilty to calling in 398 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: bomb threats to city hall? Is that who they met with? 399 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: What was his name, Brian, Brian Williams. That was the 400 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 2: deputy mayor of public safety, the guy who called in 401 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 2: bomb threats to city hall, and he's going to jail. 402 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,679 Speaker 2: Then she goes at the end of July the Mayor's 403 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 2: Inside Safe program. How's more than thirty Angelinos who'd been 404 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: living in a shocking and notorious encampment in Van Nights 405 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 2: near the supulvit Abasin. Well, that's not in the supulvit Abasin. 406 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 2: You have three hundred. You have ten times that many 407 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 2: in the supulvit Abasin. Did you said this this to 408 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 2: neutralize the story for us to focus on another angle, 409 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 2: to see the other side. She is a crazy person, 410 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 2: an absolute crazy person. I don't know if I'd burned 411 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: down the Palisades and now it was fire season and 412 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 2: I had why did we got forty five thousand homeless 413 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 2: people in the city. I'd be waking up every day 414 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: sweating that these crazy people were going to burn down 415 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 2: another set to the city. But no, she sends out 416 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 2: nonsense garbage press releases, and. 417 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: She sends it to me. She sends it to me like. 418 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit here, not along like all the other 419 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 2: bottleheads in the media in this town. 420 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: Oh well, Karen. 421 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 2: Bass is actually being very proactive. They all have their 422 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 2: heads up their rear ends. 423 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 5: I think hers she needs to come in studio John 424 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 5: with you and tell all this to your face. 425 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 2: Yes, Karen Bass, you are invited to come here and 426 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 2: give us your comprehensive plan with an exact timeline on 427 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: when all three hundred mental patients are out of there. 428 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 2: And the timeline should be very very short. So come here. 429 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 2: You can spend a whole afternoon with me. You could 430 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: spend the whole week with me. You could be you 431 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 2: could be good. 432 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,719 Speaker 1: I'm always gentle. 433 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 2: You could be the host of the show, and we 434 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 2: could go through the entire supulvit Abasin. 435 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: Do We'll do the show from the supulvit abasins. I'll 436 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: walk around. 437 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe one of us will fall into one 438 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 2: of the movie traps live on the radio. Good God, 439 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 2: what does wrong with them all? Right, Well, but she 440 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 2: started it. Now, she's the one who opened contact. So 441 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 2: we are going to be on her case because all 442 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 2: we want to do is like Spare and Sino, the 443 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 2: same fate that the Palisades suffered by the way old 444 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 2: brushes hasn't been taken care of either, which is also 445 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 2: what did in the Palisades, because because she and Knwsom, 446 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 2: we're too lazy to make sure the brush was cleared. 447 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: All right, I gotta take a break. 448 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A. 449 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 2: Six coming up after two o'clock. Well, yes, we have 450 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 2: another fire story. The federal government and federal prosecutors are 451 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 2: suing Southern California Edison for the Altadena fire, also known 452 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: as the Eaton Fire. 453 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: Bill A. 454 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 2: Saley, the US attorney we've had him on many times, 455 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 2: says there's no reason to wait for the results of 456 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 2: the investigations. There's no other apparent cause for the fire. 457 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 2: Edison's own statements indicate that we'll talk about that because 458 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 2: the real danger to California in terms of wildfires is 459 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: not climate change, which knew some lies about. 460 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: It's the UH, it's the. 461 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 2: Energy companies, it's the power companies who own newsom. They 462 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 2: have shoveled so much money at him he can't see straight. 463 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 2: So he lets them get away, literally with murder. They're 464 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: allowed to murder Californians, and they're allowed to burn down 465 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 2: their towns and burn. 466 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: All the all the forests and everything. 467 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 2: They're allowed to burn whatever they want and kill whoever 468 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 2: they want. So cal Edison and PG and A. Heuston 469 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: gives them carte blanche. We'll get into all that. If 470 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: you are waiting on mail and you live in Torrance, 471 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 2: the mail that's missing will will never arrive. The US 472 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 2: Postal Service has temporarily closed the post office in that town, 473 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 2: and they have destroyed thousands of pieces of mail and packages. 474 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 2: They did tests and they found that the entire facility 475 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: had been contaminated with asbestos. So the Postal Service in 476 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 2: Torrance was mailing you asbestos every day. They have now 477 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 2: moved mail services to other places like Hawthorne and Segundo. 478 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 2: Apparently mail from those two places will not kill you. 479 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 2: A HASMA team responded to the facility the day before 480 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 2: this first started on July twenty sixth. Video showed dozens 481 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 2: of postal workers standing in the parking lot, and they 482 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 2: did tests for three weeks and there was some areas 483 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 2: of building tested positive for his beestos contamination. Four thousand 484 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 2: pieces of mail were contaminated. They don't know how long 485 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 2: the post office is going to remain closed, and there's 486 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 2: no explanation as to how long the asbestos may have 487 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 2: been mailed to you or if you received a letter 488 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 2: from somebody in Torrance, I guess you could have received 489 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 2: mail coded with asbestos in your home, no matter where 490 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 2: you are. It's not the only thing that's been wrong 491 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 2: in Torrents. Boy, I thought our post office was bad, 492 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 2: and it is. Last month, a former Postal Service letter 493 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 2: carrier in Torrance pleaded guilty to stealing credit cards and 494 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 2: checks from the mail and used them to live a 495 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 2: lavish lifestyle that she flunted on Instagram. There you go, 496 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 2: there's your postal workers. 497 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: That system should be destroyed. I have no idea why. 498 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 2: I mean, we've got plenty of private carriers now with 499 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 2: FedEx and Amazon and ups. There's no purpose to the 500 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 2: Postal service Now. They send you mail coded with asbestos 501 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 2: and if it doesn't arrive, it's because one of the 502 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 2: postal workers stole your credit cards. 503 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: All right when we come back. 504 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 2: So Cal Edison is being sued by the federal government 505 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 2: for starting the Altadena fire. Yeah, their neck and neck 506 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 2: with Karen Bass over whose fire was worse This one 507 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 2: killed night team destroyed nine thousand homes, and we got 508 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: Michael Krozer in for Debor Mark live in the KFI 509 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 2: twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the 510 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 2: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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