1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: That's the podcast version, same as the radio show, and 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: if you miss any part of it, you can listen 7 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: to the podcast posted on the iHeart app after four o'clock. 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 2: And we're gonna start off with a good friend of mine, 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 2: Jake Steinfeld. We've known each other a lot of years, 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 2: both dads in the same class. Turn on his microphone 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: system works a lot better? 12 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: Are you there? 13 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 3: And a test it didn't want to do. Hey yeah, hey, 14 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 3: look at it. Is this the first time you're on 15 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 3: the air. 16 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: This is it? This is your first day, my first 17 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: for sure? Show is right? You haven't learned to turn 18 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: on the microphone? Good though, very good. I give an 19 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: order and they do it right away. How do you 20 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: do it, buddy? I'm doing all right. 21 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 2: You made joke, you know Jake Steinfeld from his Body 22 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: by Jake Empire fitness Guru fitness mogul. According to one headliner, 23 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: I didn't know you got promoted to mogul of alleged 24 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: to my own show. That's right, and he's also involved 25 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: let me get the name of this right, with the 26 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: National Foundation for the Governor's Fitness Councils. You've done work 27 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: with forty eight states, forty eight governors. 28 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 3: Fifty governors and forty actually fifty states and forty eight governors. 29 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: And I've been doing this, you know. 30 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 3: I Uh. First of all, great to see you, Buddy's 31 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 3: great to see you. I'm proud of all the success 32 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: that you've had, man. And we're just talking about our 33 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 3: sons who have pals my Luke and you know James, 34 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 3: that's right. Yeah, and he's pitching ninety one miles an hour. 35 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 3: That means he's doing better than that. But that's also 36 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 3: he's in training, right, perseverance. Yeah, that's about. So. 37 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: You unfortunately suffered the big loss in the Palisades fire 38 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 2: like thousands of others, and it's got you thinking. And 39 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: we'll talk about this towards the end of the half 40 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 2: hour about maybe running for governor, but first I wanted 41 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: to talk about your experience with the fire. Yes, I 42 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: know a number of people who went through this and 43 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: every time it just kills me to hear it. 44 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for actually bringing 45 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: it up, because it's off the front pages. Now I 46 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 3: know that body, and that's the thing that kind of 47 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 3: hurts the most. And by the way, everything we'll talk 48 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: about this is not a pity party for me. This 49 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: is about something where an incredible, incredibly surreal moment that 50 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 3: I never would have thought. I'm sure thousands of people 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 3: the Palises and Altadena alike never would have thought would 52 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 3: have ever happened in twenty twenty five. 53 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: I'm just going to give you a bit of a moment, 54 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: if you will. John. 55 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: It's the seventh of January. Now, woke up that morning. 56 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 3: I'm in the gym. I trained six days a week. 57 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 3: I have a gym in my house. I've been training 58 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 3: early in the morning. I'm a quarter to four in 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: the morning. Guy. 60 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: I get up, I do my workout. I train. 61 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 3: It's a workout that I do a lot of repetition, 62 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 3: so I kind of visualize my day with every rep 63 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 3: that I do, I kind of visualize what the day 64 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 3: is going to be. But I remember that last night, 65 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: which was the sixth of January, and we listened to 66 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: the weather all day and they were talking about heavy 67 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: winds be careful for the heavy winds. And I remember 68 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 3: the night of the sixth it was as calm as 69 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 3: could be. And the morning of the seventh, at a 70 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: quarter to four in the morning, four o'clock, four to twenty, 71 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: I'm done with I do a forty two minute workout. 72 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: The workout was over, and I just I kind of 73 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 3: chuckled to myself, saying, yeah, boy, some wins, and I 74 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: was incredibly I moved on with my morning, made breakfast. 75 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 3: My wife, Tracy, and I had a conversation. Our four 76 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: kids had grown and out of the house. My daughter 77 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: is in London and three boys are in New York. 78 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 3: But my daughter had come home to surprise Tracy for 79 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: her birthday, which was going to be on January the tenth, 80 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: and we were hanging out. I have one girl, so 81 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 3: I love my daughter. And we're having breakfast, having a 82 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 3: great day. And the girls were going to go out 83 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 3: and do a little shopping, get their hair done, in 84 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 3: the whole thing, have a night afternoon together. And I 85 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: had a lunch that I was going to go to 86 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 3: at twelve thirty at Toscana, which is I called the 87 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: cafeteria in Brentwood. 88 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: And day was normal. 89 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 3: Noticed a fire in the hills at about ten thirty 90 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 3: in the morning, and kind of thought nothing of it, 91 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 3: very honestly, because we've seen that in the past. Brush 92 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 3: fires happened, fire department comes, push it out. 93 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 1: Okay, great. Next this was a little different. 94 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 3: Though it started, it got a little bit bigger, and 95 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 3: I left it around noon to go to Toscana. I 96 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 3: take Sunset Boulevard and make a right turn and Sunset 97 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 3: was backed up, and I thought, this, something's weird going 98 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 3: on here. Today is about now it's twelve o'clock. The 99 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 3: skies are still blue around my house. The winds are blowing, 100 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 3: and I called this guy and I said, look, I'm 101 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 3: going to cancel. Let's do next week. I got back 102 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 3: to my house and now the skies are getting darker 103 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: and the winds were getting heavier and heavier. 104 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: I called my wife. I say, you know, I'm going 105 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: to pack a few things. Now. 106 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 3: We've been asked in the past to evacuate. You know, 107 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 3: we've had a couple of close calls we have right. 108 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: I put the important documents in my car and then 109 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 3: I just thought, okay, this is going to be just 110 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 3: all right. I'm going to cut to four hours later, 111 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 3: about five o'clock, my wife came home, and now the 112 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 3: sky's are black and the smoke is getting bad, and 113 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 3: I say to my wife, we need to leave. And 114 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 3: now we start rushing around, so we have sort of 115 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 3: less than an hour to really get things together. I 116 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 3: go to my office and I called my office mission 117 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 3: control and another thing get. I have a poem that 118 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: I was given when I was cut from my eighth 119 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: grade basketball team, called don't Quit. And the poem was 120 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 3: on a perma plat John and it sits on the 121 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: top left of my desk and it's been there ever 122 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 3: everywhere I've lived since I'm fourteen years old, I've had it. 123 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: I have a duffel bag. I'm putting a few things in. 124 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 3: I picked the poem up and I physically stop and 125 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 3: out loud, I say, what am I doing. I can't 126 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 3: put this poem in my duffel bag. If I do that, 127 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 3: I'm quitting on my house. And I put the poem 128 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 3: down and I touched it literally, and I said I'll 129 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: be back to read this tomorrow morning. Unfortunately that wasn't 130 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 3: the case. And I'm going to tell you this, You've 131 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 3: never I can't explain the feeling you have. The next morning, 132 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 3: now we checked into a hotel we actually were able 133 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 3: to get into thanks for mortgen Steinfeld daughter got us 134 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 3: into the Regent Hotel, the Old Low's. It's a new 135 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 3: hotel on the beach, right by the pier. We opened 136 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 3: the curtains and we physically watched the Palisades in Malibu 137 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 3: burn and it was psychologically damn imaging, like you can't believe. 138 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 3: And I usually sleep like a log, you know. My 139 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 3: wife calls it a call at sleep. I go to bed, 140 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 3: I get about three and a half four hours sleep 141 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 3: at night. But this night I went to bed and 142 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: I jumped up at three ten and I said I 143 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: have to go to the house. And Tracy said, what 144 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: are you talking about? I said, I need to go. 145 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: And something hit me John And for whatever the reason was, 146 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 3: thankfully my wife kept me down and on my phone 147 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 3: I was able to you know, we have cameras around 148 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 3: and around ten forty five at night, the cameras went off. 149 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 3: I had a bad feeling. I get the chills talking 150 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 3: about it right now to you, man, and this is 151 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 3: now I'm getting much. 152 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. 153 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 3: And so the next morning of the eighth, we'd get 154 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 3: in our car right and we drive. We kind of 155 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 3: sneak around a little bit because the police are there, 156 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: the National Guard is there. It's smoky, it's ash everywhere, 157 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 3: and we were able to get up to Chautauqua, which 158 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 3: is close to my house, and. 159 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: There was a car there. 160 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 3: We asked the gentleman if he can give us a 161 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 3: ride to my house, and as we drove, we saw 162 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 3: an ond neck of the woods. 163 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: The houses seemed to be okay. 164 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 3: And as I turned the corner to my block, there's 165 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 3: a basketball hoop in the front yard of my house 166 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 3: that when we bought the house in nineteen ninety four. 167 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 3: I've been there thirty years. Four kids grew up in 168 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 3: that house. Great memories, great everything, a lot of love. 169 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 3: That basketball hoop was melted and you pull up and 170 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 3: the house is gone and there's little fires everywhere, and 171 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do with My daughter put 172 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 3: her arm on my shoulder and said, Daddy, it's gonna 173 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: be okay. And I called my wife and I said 174 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 3: it's gone. And it was so surreal. Everything everything, everything 175 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 3: burned to the ground, everything burned to the ground. I'm 176 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 3: going to show you something minute. The only thing that 177 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 3: we found from the fire there's one thing that was found. 178 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 3: But I will say this to you. It took about 179 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 3: forty eight hours because we were psychologically pretty wrecked. And 180 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 3: you know, you think about this. Every species has a 181 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: home everything. Yeah, and until Cravas nest bond apartment of 182 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 3: condo house. When you don't have a home, you don't 183 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 3: feel good today, John, what do you say to Deborah, Honey, 184 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 3: I'm gonna come home, I'm gonna lay down. Tomorrow will 185 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 3: be okay when there is no home and you're truly 186 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: not without anything. 187 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: I had a. 188 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 3: Shirt, a pair of pants, a pair of underwear, and 189 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 3: that was it. You know, you tell your significant other, 190 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 3: whoever it might be, Honey, I got nothing to wear tonight. 191 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: We truly had nothing to wear. 192 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 3: And it was so surreal and until I was able 193 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 3: to forty eight hours later and look, like I said, 194 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 3: it's not a pity party for me. 195 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: We'll be able to read build the house. But the psychological. 196 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 3: Damage that it does when you lose everything, meaning not 197 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 3: the material yeah, the material stuff, because you know what, 198 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,359 Speaker 3: you base a lot of your life on material things. 199 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: And it also represents your whole journey, right, you know, 200 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 2: everything that's in anywhere you've traveled, any little trinket that 201 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 2: you bought along the way, presence and mementos of your 202 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 2: kids and. 203 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 3: All everything, the little handprints, the little report cards and 204 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 3: things like that, all gone. It's all gone. And it 205 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 3: really what it does make you do is kind of 206 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 3: look in the mirror and say, you know, what are 207 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 3: you made of? What are you made of? And it's 208 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,599 Speaker 3: a it was a moment, and this is this is 209 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 3: what happened. It took me a couple of days. I 210 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: got in the gym, I got my balance, I got 211 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 3: back to a routine really important to do, and I 212 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 3: had this sense of lightness came over me. I mean truly, 213 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 3: I felt lighter, like this sense of rebirth or like 214 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 3: this rejuvenation. And I'm a pretty pumped up guy, you 215 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 3: know that, man about my life, but there was this 216 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 3: electricity that started to run through my body. And still, 217 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I am, I'm electrified. Man. 218 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: You have been glowing. Can I stop? 219 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,599 Speaker 2: Justice said, yes, please, right, because we've got to just 220 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 2: do a little bit of news. We come back more 221 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: with Jake Steinfeld who lost everything in the Palisades. 222 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 223 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 4: six forty. 224 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 2: Well, we continue with Jake Steinfeld Fitness Fitness Mogogil. Wow, 225 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 2: Gury's got a big say you know body by Jake, 226 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 2: I'm not sure you've heard of that. And we were 227 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: talking about how he lost his home in the Pacific 228 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 2: Palisades fire. One object survived and he showed me a 229 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: photo of it, and it's a frame of a quote. 230 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 2: The quote is if you're going through hell, keep going, 231 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: Winston church Winston Churchill said that, And what a bus 232 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 2: our thing to survive? 233 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 1: How about that? So what was that frame? Native? 234 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 3: It wasn't a frame. It was like a tray, a trail, 235 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 3: like a metal trail. Yeah, like I mean I've have 236 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: like hundreds of those. Well I had hundreds of those things, right, 237 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 3: And that was the only the entire home. 238 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 2: It's kind of a message from from the gods. What 239 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: do you think if you're going through hell? Keep going? 240 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 2: How about that? Uh? You just were telling us about 241 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 2: the day of the fire fire, how heartbreaking it was. 242 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 2: What did you think of You talked about how you 243 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: were tracking the winds the day before, Karen Dass claiming 244 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: she didn't know what was coming. You know, she was 245 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: in Africa, you know, the fire department. Some of my 246 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 2: friends and your friends have said there were no firefighters 247 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 2: around so much of the day. There was no water, 248 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 2: the reservoir wasn't filled. There were one hundred fire engines 249 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: being repaired, but there's no mechanics. There's a thousand firefighters 250 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 2: sent home. 251 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 3: You know the story, fire hydrants not working, you know, 252 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 3: in disrepair. 253 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 2: You've always been very involved in the Palisades. You'ven't been 254 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: honorary mayor, and I know you know everybody in politics. 255 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 3: What did you think of it was heartbreak? Honestly, it 256 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 3: was really heartbreaking. And I'm not a person, John, I'm 257 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 3: not a jumper on people's heads, you know, especially when 258 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: they're down. The challenge here, though, is that, you know, 259 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: when you are a part of the victims, right and 260 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 3: they just want to step back for a second, and 261 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: you're watching the news and you're hearing people, Look, there's 262 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 3: been plenty of catastrophes before the Palisades and the Eaten fires, 263 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 3: and unfortunately there's going to be catastrophes in the future. 264 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 3: But when it's only human nature, when you're sitting down 265 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,599 Speaker 3: and you're watching the television and you're seeing these catastrophes, 266 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 3: happen in real time, and you go, my goodness, gracious, 267 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 3: look at these fires. People are losing their homes, are 268 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 3: losing everything. And then you go, honey, what do we 269 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 3: have for dinner tonight? You know, and then you're on 270 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 3: to the next thing, except when you're now a part 271 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 3: of that group of people that have lost their homes 272 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 3: or thankfully we didn't lose we're all safe, most of 273 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 3: the people. There are a lot of people obviously the 274 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 3: eaton fires that lost their lives. That's the ultimate Righteh, 275 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 3: we can will and will rebuild. But when you look 276 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 3: at it's twenty twenty five, John, we live in the 277 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: Huntington palis as in the flats, right, We don't live 278 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: in a forest. There's no brush anywhere around the fire 279 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 3: we saw for miles away from ten thirty in the morning. 280 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 3: How that wasn't taken care of? That to me is 281 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: where my question mark goes and where the challenge goes. 282 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 3: And when you look at let's cut to the conversations 283 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 3: that they were having about They had town halls where 284 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 3: the mayor was coming on and they had a group 285 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 3: of people that would get and I listened to the 286 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 3: first couple. I was irate because they were trying to 287 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 3: be light light about it, some humorous conversation. 288 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 2: And look, because they had a home to goud To, 289 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: they didn't feel it. 290 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: That's the difference, man. 291 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: When you know, it's one thing to say, oh, hey, listen, 292 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 3: I feel so sorry for you. I know what you're 293 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 3: going through. You don't. And it's by the way, we've 294 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: learned this now firsthand, because you say this to people 295 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: who've lost someone, and we've all My mom passed away 296 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 3: two months before the fire, so you know, we've been 297 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: dealing with some challenges, to say the least. But when 298 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 3: you hear people who are making promises about we're going 299 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 3: to get this taken care of immediately, the amount of 300 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 3: mischie gos my grandmother's term, that we had gone through 301 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 3: to go from phase one to phase two to try 302 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 3: and to go up privately to get our landscaped as 303 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 3: opposed to having the Army Corps do it for us. 304 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 3: And the reason being is psychologically to stare at that 305 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 3: rubble was killing us and I just wanted to do 306 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 3: whatever it took the right way, the right way, but 307 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 3: just get it done. I get it done, and I 308 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 3: can't believe in this day and age that you can't. 309 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,359 Speaker 1: With an order, with a law, with a rule. 310 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 3: Everybody just stand up and say collectively, let's just get 311 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 3: this done. There. I know there are rules of the 312 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 3: books in the past, but this is different and maybe 313 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 3: from this moment we could really make change onto how 314 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 3: to change things for the better on a number of 315 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: different fronts. 316 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: Well, when I hear them they want to streamline the 317 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: process and eliminate the bureaucracy. Well, if you're going to 318 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 2: do it for this, why don't you do it for 319 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: all time? And if it's not needed in this emergency, 320 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 2: it's not needed change. 321 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 3: That is my whole feeling on all of this. And 322 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 3: by the way, if on the seventh of January it 323 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 3: would have rained instead of fire stormed, I might be 324 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 3: sitting here talking to you and we'd have a fun 325 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 3: conversation about I don't know, it's fitness and sports and 326 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 3: all that good. 327 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 2: I got to take another break. We come back on 328 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 2: a focus on you possibly running for governor. Yes, because 329 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 2: you're clearly taking this entire experience and all the heartbreak 330 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: and all the energy you have and you want to 331 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 2: do something life meaningful with it. 332 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: Life is about moments, all right, we're. 333 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 2: Going to get to Jake Steinfeld maybe running for governor 334 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 2: the state of California. 335 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: That's next. 336 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 337 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 4: six forty. 338 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 2: If you weren't here two o'clock, you missed Jake Steinfeld 339 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 2: here for two segments, but he's sticking around for another 340 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: one because we're going to talk about his possible run 341 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 2: for governor. He went through the fire, lost his house 342 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 2: and all the contents inside, and then we discussed his 343 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 2: review of the city's. 344 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: Preparation and response to the fire. We're still waiting. Yeah, 345 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: they're gonna come any day now. I mean really, we 346 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: are still waiting. 347 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: We believe they didn't have the reservoir filled up one 348 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen billion gallons, and nobody wants. 349 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: To talk about it. 350 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 3: In the Pacific Ocean, yes literally, you can see it 351 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 3: off the street. 352 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: Yes's right. 353 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just saying, yeah, I know it's they 354 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 3: needed some water. 355 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 2: There was this big blue thing out there, all right. 356 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: So you went on Fox News, yes some weeks ago, 357 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 2: and one of the hosts, as you were telling your story, 358 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 2: said why don't you run for governor? And you said 359 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 2: I wouldn't say no. 360 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 3: Exactly, I said, I wouldn't say no, And it was 361 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 3: one of those crazy moments where you know, listen, I've 362 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 3: been an entrepreneur my whole life. I had a dream 363 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 3: when I was living. I'm born and raised in New York. 364 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 3: I had a dream to come to California. There was 365 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 3: a that was California. And when I came here, I 366 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,719 Speaker 3: pursued that dream, and everything that I have done in 367 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 3: my career and in my life happened here in California. 368 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: I couldn't have done everything that I've accomplished anywhere else 369 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 3: in the world, but in this great state. And when 370 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 3: I look at what's happened today now, literally my house 371 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 3: burned down. Metaphorically, we're watching California burn And for the 372 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 3: sake of my kids, your kids, John, all your listeners' 373 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: kids and their kids, and people who want to be 374 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 3: in this great state because it is awesome, there needs 375 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 3: to be massive change. And as an entrepreneur as I've 376 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 3: been my whole life. 377 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 2: Right by the way, if you're just tuning in Body 378 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 2: by Jake his Empire. 379 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I've done I've won a bunch, I've 380 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: lost a bunch I've won a little bit more than 381 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 3: I've lo But the one thing I known as an entrepreneur, 382 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 3: I know what I know and the stuff you don't know. 383 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 3: You get the right people around you, because if you don't, 384 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 3: you end up becoming a legend in your own shower. 385 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 3: You know. 386 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: And when you think. 387 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 3: About that, that dream that was California isn't available right 388 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 3: now with prices the way they are. 389 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 2: With we can just go through a litany of crime, 390 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 2: the homelessness. The price is the lack of housing. 391 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 4: I mean. 392 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 3: And my feeling is a simple one. Look, if my 393 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 3: house didn't burn down, I'll keep saying this, I wouldn't 394 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 3: This wouldn't have crossed my mind. Yes, I was the 395 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 3: honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades. I was selected, not elected, 396 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 3: And you know I have stood next to forty eight 397 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 3: of the fifty governors. I have been putting fitness centers 398 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 3: in elementary and middle schools around this great country of 399 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 3: ours for the past thirteen years. 400 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: I started political. 401 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 2: World's not alien to you, and you've been a big 402 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 2: success at business, and it just seems like you also 403 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 2: have a lot of common sense. 404 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate you saying and my life isn't about 405 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 3: red or blue. It's about the red, white and blue. 406 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 3: And the time has come where we really have to 407 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 3: stop the fighting and we've got to figure out a 408 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 3: way where we all can kind of sit down and 409 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 3: get along because there are a bunch of challenges and 410 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 3: we're living with it right now and with cooler heads. 411 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 3: And look, I've been playing around of a white board 412 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 3: in my office put together sort of a superhero team 413 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 3: of people, you know, because I can tell you right now, 414 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 3: I know, like I said, I know what I can 415 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 3: do really well, but I also know that I need 416 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: a lot of support. And when you do something as 417 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 3: a team, whether it's building a business a family, you 418 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,959 Speaker 3: have to you have to come together and listen and 419 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: listen to what people need and what they want and 420 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,239 Speaker 3: figure that out. California is a pretty big place and 421 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 3: you can't just do it with one person, and you 422 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 3: need to have a number of people doing this with you, 423 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 3: and like I said, early with you. 424 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: I mean. 425 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 3: Look, I served under President Reagan right with coach George 426 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 3: Allen as an advisor for the you know, his Fitness Council. 427 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 3: I did a sitcom on the Family Channel with Pat 428 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 3: robertson I met the Bush you know the Bushes, Dan 429 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 3: Quail back in the day, right with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama. Uh, 430 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,959 Speaker 3: And I said, forty eight or fifty governors. So I'm 431 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 3: not about redro blue. I'm about the red, white and blue. 432 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 3: I'm a registered Republican, but I'm the middle of the 433 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: road guy. We want to be sensible, we all want 434 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 3: to work together, but change needs to happen. And I 435 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 3: will say this, I'm thinking about it seriously. And if 436 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: we do press go we win. Well, you only play 437 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 3: to win, So that's it. 438 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 439 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: I was going to drop the mic, but the mic. 440 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: Is is attached here. 441 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: And I was walking out, but no, this is this 442 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 3: is a It's something that I would take very seriously. 443 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 3: And you know, what's the timeline on your decision? Mike, 444 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 3: I'm not going to have I'm not going to put 445 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 3: a timeline on this thing. 446 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: I'm not you know. 447 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 3: Uh, there's a lot of people that that might be running. 448 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 3: I don't even look. I don't look at that. I'm 449 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 3: looking at if we can, if we can, If I 450 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 3: really believe that with a team that we put together 451 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 3: can make change, will stand up and say that if 452 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 3: that's not going to be the case, then I'm not 453 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 3: going to put anyone through anything seriously, and I will 454 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 3: say this that my wife has been incredible. She has 455 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 3: stood next to me for thirty seven years, well thirty 456 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 3: eight years. And as an entrepreneur you come up with 457 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 3: some crazy ideas, but this is a state where anything 458 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 3: is possible. Dreams come true here. 459 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 2: And if I would, if everybody wants to go back 460 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 2: to that, that feeling, and we need to come back 461 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: to that because this is the greatest place on the planet. 462 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: Is no one else nowhere else I would want to live. 463 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: I love it. 464 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: Yet I've been here since I'm eighteen years old. I'm 465 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 3: sixty seven now, and I have loved every single day. 466 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 3: And I will say this the morning the morning of 467 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 3: the eighth of January. You know we all have I 468 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 3: called the M and M shell. You know that's over us. 469 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: I've been doing what I've been for a lot of years. 470 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 3: Man from television, Ted Turner gave me my start doing 471 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: the Fitness break on Cable News Network and I've been 472 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 3: on TV since nineteen eighty one, all the way through. 473 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 3: Authentic is a big part of what my belief is 474 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 3: and being trustworthy and I know too that every time 475 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 3: I speak, I hope I'm honest enough that people listen 476 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 3: and we can get along. But we all have that 477 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 3: shell where we keep just enough inside. And when my 478 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 3: house burned down on the eighth, on the seventh at night, 479 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 3: that shell broke, and emotion has taken over me in 480 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 3: a very positive way. And you get emotional about talking 481 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 3: about people and doing better. And no matter where you 482 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 3: are in your life right now, if you have that 483 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 3: black cloud over your head, it's just a matter of perseverance. 484 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,439 Speaker 3: And there's a poem if you don't mind for the 485 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 3: last couple of seconds. Yes, right, the poem that I 486 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 3: was given when I was cut from my eighth grade 487 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 3: basketball team, the one that was on my desk that 488 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 3: are lost. It goes like this, So if you're driving, 489 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 3: don't close your eyes. But if you're sitting at home 490 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 3: and you're listening to this, here is this poem. When 491 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 3: things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road 492 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 3: you're trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low 493 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 3: and the debts are high, and you want to smile, 494 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,479 Speaker 3: but you have to sigh when care is pressing you 495 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 3: down a bit, rest if you must, but don't you 496 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 3: quit life is queer with his twist and turns, as 497 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 3: every one of us sometimes learn, and every your failure 498 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,640 Speaker 3: turns about when you might have won had you stuck 499 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 3: it out. 500 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: Don't give up. 501 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 3: Though the pace seems slow, you may succeed with another blow. 502 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 3: Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of 503 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how 504 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 3: close you are. It may be near when it seems 505 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,199 Speaker 3: so far. So stick to the fight when your hardest hit. 506 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 3: It's when things seem worse that you must not quit. 507 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 2: All right, don't quit, Jake Steinzel, John, thank you for 508 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 2: coming on with us. 509 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: Great scene. But I may know if you decide to 510 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 1: rhyme peace, God bless don't quit. I'm not I don't. 511 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: I don't quit, all right. I actually think everything could 512 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: be turned around. Let's do it all right, all right? 513 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 2: Jake Steinfeld, body by Jay thinking about running for governor 514 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: here in California. 515 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI A 516 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 4: M six forty. 517 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 2: You can follow us to John Cobelt Radio on social 518 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio. You know who we got 519 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 2: coming on in uh right after Debor's news is Carl 520 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 2: de Mile Uh. Carl Uh offered a voter I D 521 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: bill here in California Assembly built twenty five and voter 522 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,719 Speaker 2: ID for some reason is controversial. Uh, with the with 523 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 2: the Democrats and the legislature, you would you have to 524 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: you'd have to show a picture I D before you vote, right, 525 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: anything that any kind of IDA that a government manufactures. 526 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 2: You know, it could be a passport, it could be 527 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 2: a driver's license, it could be you know, the special 528 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 2: IDs they create for people who don't drive and for 529 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 2: some Gee, I can't understand why the Democrats would be 530 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 2: against voter ID, unless, of course they knew they were 531 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 2: pulling some kind of fraud with ballot harvesting and with 532 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 2: illegal aliens voting using ballot harvesting as the method in 533 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: which they can vote. That's the only assumption I have. Otherwise, 534 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: why would you care? Why would you oppose this? 535 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: So vehemently? 536 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: Huge majorities of voters in this country over ninety percent white, black, Hispanic, male, female, 537 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 2: all demographics, all Democrats, Republicans. 538 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: It's like. 539 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 2: Having a vote on does the sun rise in the morning, Well, 540 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 2: yes it does. 541 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: Do you want voter ID? Well yes I do. 542 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 2: Why so we know that the person voting is who 543 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 2: they who they say they are. It's not complicated. But 544 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 2: nothing gets progressives crazier than saying, well, people should prove 545 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: who they are. And you know, we just yesterday we 546 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: did the same story with We talked with the city 547 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,959 Speaker 2: attorney of Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach is a charter city 548 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 2: and to some extent they can set their own rules 549 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 2: apart from the state, and they adopted a adopted some 550 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: voter ID language in their charter in a law and 551 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 2: Newsom and Rob Bonta took Huntington Beach to court saying, no, 552 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: you can't do that. You can't ask for idea for voting. Well, 553 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: they knew some in Bonta lost in the first round. 554 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 2: An Orange County Superior Court says, well, yeah, of course 555 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 2: you can have voter idea to my bill would have 556 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 2: required ID when you vote in person and then provide 557 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 2: documentation proving citizenship. When registering to vote. You'd have to 558 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 2: put the last four digits of your Social Security number 559 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 2: if you had a vote by mail ballot envelope, and 560 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 2: all ballots would be counted within seventy two hours of 561 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,959 Speaker 2: an election. You know, in Florida, they had nearly all 562 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: the ballots counted in about two hours. They knew within 563 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 2: two hours who won in the November election. We went 564 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 2: on for over a month. Well we're special, We're like 565 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 2: special needs is what we are. We're the only state 566 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 2: in the Union that does this. And I know this 567 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: for sure because I track voting, Like whenever there's a 568 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 2: new Congress voting in every two years, you go to 569 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 2: a real club politics page and they have all the 570 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 2: outstanding House races that haven't been called yet because the 571 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: votes haven't been counted, and it's always California districts forty 572 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 2: nine other states. There are no other districts that are 573 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 2: still outstanding after two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. 574 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: Just California. 575 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: And then you look at the percentage of votes counted 576 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: even after three weeks, and they've only counted maybe sixty 577 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 2: eight percent of the vote or seventy three percent of 578 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 2: the votes, Like, what are they doing? 579 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: Why is it taking so long? How am I supposed 580 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: to trust an election. 581 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: When nobody has to show ID you don't have to 582 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 2: show citizenship, you don't have a result for a month afterwards, 583 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 2: And why. 584 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: Are the Democrats so insistent? 585 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 2: Well, We're going to talk to Carl Demayo right after 586 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 2: Deborah's news and see what he thinks, since it was 587 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 2: his bill that was was rejected, fiercely rejected. Deborah Mark 588 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 2: is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, 589 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You 590 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live in KFI AM six 591 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 592 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app