1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,080 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 Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: We are on every day from one until four o'clock, 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: giving you a lot that nobody else will give you anymore. 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: That's what we do here. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 2: And we're going to talk with Tracy Park, the LA 7 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: City council woman right now. Tracy represents the West Side 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, which includes Pacific Palisades and the California 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: Department of Housing and Community Development. NEWSOM made this announcement 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: a few days ago, announced one hundred and one million 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: dollars in funding. They issued a nofah. You know what 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: a nofah is. Notice a funding availability one hundred and 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 2: one million dollars for low income housing in the Palisades, 14 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 2: which has upset a lot of. 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 1: People for the reasons we have talked about. 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: Most people can't get their permits processed in Palisades, and 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,639 Speaker 2: it seems like to have this river of money come 18 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: in for low income housing, a lot of people think 19 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 2: that that's eventually what the state is going to engineer. 20 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: You know, Scott Wiener is trying to pass a bill 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: that allows low income housing to be built in any 22 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 2: residential neighborhood, single family neighborhood. Let's get Tracy park on. 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 3: How are you, Tracy, Hey, John, I'm good things. 24 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: There are a lot. 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 2: Of people, you know, angry about the Palisades, and it 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: seems to intensify as you know, you probably get more 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 2: of it than anybody else in the world. But this, 28 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 2: this explain this one hundred and one million dollars for 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: low income housing. That that that's a tough thing to 30 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 2: swallow for a lot of people who can't get anywhere 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 2: with the city on getting their their permit issued. 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 3: Yes, and I have certainly been, you know, deeply engaged 33 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: over the last several days as all of this has unfolded. 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 3: And now I just want to be very clear. My 35 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 3: obligation is to the victims of this fire, and I 36 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 3: have been very clear from day one that we need 37 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: to rebuild the Pacific Palisades for the people who were 38 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: impacted by the fire. And nobody is looking to do 39 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 3: a corporate landswap or giveaway or engineer some entirely new community. 40 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 3: And I also want to mention that the governor and 41 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: his team have been extremely helpful to me personally and 42 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: to the Pacific Palisades, especially with our efforts to keep 43 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: the area secure and supporting the law enforcement efforts there. 44 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 3: But this nofa is consistent with a statewide push to 45 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 3: add apartments and density, especially affordable housing, which as we 46 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 3: all know, comes with taller buildings and more units and 47 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 3: no parking. You know, some additional housing related to seniors 48 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: and some workforce housing makes some sense. But people in 49 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 3: the Pacific Polisades are rightly upset and frustrated about one 50 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 3: hundred million dollars being made available to corporate developers to 51 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 3: add more density instead of directly helping the victims of 52 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: the fire, especially given how many hundreds of them were 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: under or uninsured and who lacked the resources that they 54 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 3: need to actually rebuild. And so their frustration and anger 55 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 3: over this is loud and clear to me as their 56 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 3: council member. 57 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: Well, what can be done here? Because this building long 58 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 2: income housing, more density. There's already a tremendous amount of 59 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 2: traffic that comes out of the in and out of 60 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: the palisades. On Sunset Boulevard, it's already a parking lot 61 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 2: and Sunset Boulevard most afternoons because I drive through it. 62 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: You don't need more density and the parking is not 63 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: existing in a lot of places. The last thing the 64 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: Palisades needs is more people stuffed in there. It's not 65 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: designed for it because you can only go to the 66 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 2: south into the east to get out of there. 67 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 3: No, John, you're right, and you hit the nail on 68 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 3: the head. The Pacific Palisades was it pain't in the 69 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 3: ass to get to on a good day before the fire. 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 3: It's worse now because of the construction and the other 71 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 3: access issues. But think about the evacuations that happens on 72 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: and around January seventh. It is a miracle that no 73 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,679 Speaker 3: one died. John, Think about how chaotic it was evacuating 74 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 3: out of Brintwood and there was no active fire burning 75 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: in your community. So there are major public safety and 76 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 3: emergency access ingress and egress issues related to density that 77 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 3: must be at the forefront of our planning during this rebuilding. 78 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 3: So I have already introduced legislation here at the local 79 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 3: level that would tie any added new density to adequate 80 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 3: evacuation routes. But I also think it's important that we 81 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: consider the strain on our infrastructure, our roads, our electric grid, 82 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 3: our sewer systems, our water pipes, our fire department, our 83 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: police Department, our schools and everything else. And so we 84 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 3: have seen the challenges just during the fire in the 85 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: aftermath itself, of over densification without concurrent invents, inadequate infrastructure 86 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: to support it. And you know, here the people of 87 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 3: the Pacific Palisades, you know, John, I have been in 88 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 3: hundreds of meetings in the last six months. I have 89 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: spoken to thousands of impacted residents. Nobody has asked for 90 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 3: money for corporate developers to come in and build residential 91 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: skyscrapers on Sunset Boulevard with no parking. What they are 92 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 3: asking for is Sacramento's help in resolving the ensurability concerns 93 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 3: and providing the financial relief directly who the victims of 94 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 3: the fire. 95 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 2: You said Newsom's administration has been cooperative. Are they cooperative 96 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 2: on those issues? 97 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: You know, they have been really helpful to see the 98 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: eleven As we have navigated through the security issues around 99 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 3: the Palisades, the governor and his team have been great 100 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 3: about waiving regular relations and red tape. You've seen that 101 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 3: with sequel exemptions and the role of the Coastal Commission, 102 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 3: and so, you know, I think the intentions behind this 103 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 3: are good and they are consistent with state policy. But 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: to describe the Pacific Palisades as urban infill is just 105 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: simply not consistent with this very challenging geographical hillside coastal terrain. 106 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 3: And it's a perfect example of how Sacramentos hop down 107 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: approach to density and development in local communities just simply 108 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 3: doesn't always work. 109 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody in the Palisades wants this. Can you hang 110 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: on for another segment? Sure you have the time. Okay, good. 111 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 2: Tracy Park and she is the council person for the 112 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: West Side District eleven of Los Angeles, including the Palisades. 113 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 114 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 4: six forty. 115 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: We continue with Tracy Park. Tracy is the council owned 116 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 2: for the West Side of Los Angeles District number eleven, 117 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 2: and we've been talking about the news of administration announcing 118 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: one hundred and one million dollars in funding for low 119 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 2: income housing in the palis Age Palisades, which is absolutely 120 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: enraged a lot of the displaced residents of that town. Tracy, 121 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: what is the problem with the permits? It's been six months. 122 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: Rick Caruso was on our show last week. He's been 123 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: putting out the numbers, they're very, very low. I talk 124 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 2: to people all the time. You do too, You've heard 125 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: all the complaints. When when is the past administration going 126 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: to fast track the permitting process? 127 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: Why don't they take ricks artificial. 128 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: Intelligence software the plan check idea that he has, So 129 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: there's a lot of knock question. 130 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 3: There are well over six hundred permits that are in 131 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 3: the pipeline now and a couple hundred that have already 132 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 3: been issued, and we've broken ground on sixteen properties in 133 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: less than six months. But there are a number of 134 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 3: issues that are holding people back. And as a council office, 135 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: we actually circulated a survey where we got back about 136 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 3: one thousand responses from both people who lost homes and 137 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 3: had standing homes to try to get a sense of 138 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: what were the challenges they were facing, what was holding 139 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 3: them back in their decision making about whether to rebuild 140 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 3: and if so, when or whether to sell. And the 141 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: primary issues continue to be questions related to insurance, especially 142 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 3: folks who were under or uninsured, and how they are 143 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: going to cover the gap between their coverage and the 144 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 3: actual rebuild cost. And then also questions related to access 145 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 3: to capital, that's loan modifications for people who lost homes 146 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: who were somewhere mid cycle in a mortgage, as well 147 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: as the need for low interest access to capital for 148 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: people who now will be entering the mortgage marketplace during 149 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 3: the rebuild. But there are also questions related to the 150 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: reopening of schools, other public amenities like the library and 151 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 3: rec center, as well as when there will be enough 152 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 3: retail and other amenities to sustain the lifestyle there. So 153 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 3: that survey feedback has given us, you know, a peak 154 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 3: around the corner about what some of those issues are 155 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 3: now on the city side. Is there more that we 156 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 3: can and should be doing better? Absolutely? It is just 157 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 3: speak out because we don't have the AI capability. 158 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: Well, what about Carricio's AI? Is that usable or not? 159 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 2: He says it is, and he says he gets nothing 160 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 2: back from the Bass administration on it. 161 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 3: It is. And you know, I'm having trouble getting straight 162 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 3: answers myself about why this isn't up and running the 163 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 3: county is able to do that. We are pushing for 164 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 3: self certification. I do appreciate Mayor Bass suspending collection of 165 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 3: the permits these emotion. 166 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: What Rick says, what takes a few months could take 167 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 2: a few hours with the AI. You're saying it works, 168 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: he's saying it works. Why doesn't Karen Bass immediately implement 169 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 2: this system. 170 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 3: I don't want to speak on behalf of why it 171 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 3: hasn't been done, but I want you to know I 172 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 3: am pushing for it. It's just ridiculous to me that 173 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five we are going to be held 174 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 3: back by Ourkane procedures that are causing delay. I mean 175 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 3: there are examples of people that have submitted plans on 176 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 3: like for like rebuilds, which should be a rubber stamp, 177 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 3: then they've gotten them back with notes. If I could 178 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 3: go on all day with one off stories where we 179 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: have had to intervene with either DBS or planning and 180 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 3: redirect them back to yes, get this done. You know 181 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 3: what our constituents want, John, They either want real help 182 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 3: or they want us to get out of their way. 183 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm hearing. I got a lot of 184 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 2: friends affected. As you know, we've got people here in 185 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 2: the building affected. I'm hearing the same stories over and 186 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: over again. They think there's a total lack of urgency. No, 187 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: it's more like a total lack of interest coming from 188 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: city Hall that everybody's moved on, and you know, there's 189 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: bigger political issues like the immigration rates that they can 190 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 2: focus on, and the Palisades is six months ago. It's 191 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: all news. 192 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: No. I was always about that, and I said from 193 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 3: the outset, you know, at some point the news cycle 194 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 3: is going to shift, the cameras are going to go away, 195 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 3: and the politicians are going to go back to Sacramento. 196 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 3: And you know, my job as our council member is 197 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 3: to continue to be at the forefront of this and 198 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 3: to be the voice for the community so that these 199 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 3: needs in issues don't get lost into the rest of 200 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 3: the chaos of daily government governance in the city of 201 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 3: Los Angeles, which, by the way, those additional issues that 202 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,479 Speaker 3: you mentioned, John, are not going to help us stabilize 203 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 3: our budget or our local economy, or fix the sidewalks, 204 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 3: or rebuild the Palisades or get us ready for the 205 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: Olympics in twenty twenty eight. 206 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 2: I just hear so much frustration as becoming despair. Is 207 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 2: what do you tell people? They say, what am I 208 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 2: supposed to do? They can't get an answer back from anyone, 209 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 2: They can't get a phone ball call back, they can't 210 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 2: get an email back. 211 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: It's like, why aren't. Why isn't there a whole set. 212 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 2: Of trailers built in the middle of Pacific Palisades with 213 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: government workers and the AIS software and the computer systems. 214 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 2: You know, you could do a pop up like that 215 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: pretty quickly, so people right in town there can get 216 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: all these needs met and have problems solved quickly. We've 217 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 2: got the technology, now there is the expertise out there 218 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 2: to do it. I don't understand. It feels like it's 219 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two right now. 220 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: It doesn't. 221 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 3: It feels like in many ways we are playing from 222 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 3: a playbook that was written twenty five years ago under 223 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: different circumstances in a different community. And I hear you 224 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: about the location of you know, the one stop permitting center, 225 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 3: for example, that has been housed over in West Los Angeles, 226 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 3: where it's a pain to park, You've got to get 227 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 3: in the elevator and go to multiple different floors, and 228 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: it's an extra nuisance of a stop on the way 229 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 3: into the Palisades for people who have a reason to 230 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 3: be there and to be doing work there. So one 231 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 3: of the things that we are doing is looking to 232 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 3: move that right into the heart of the Palisades because 233 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: it will naturally become a community hub, a place where 234 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: people can get their questions answered in real time. They 235 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 3: can see multiple departments at once. But it raises the 236 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: question of why have we been unable to not only 237 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 3: implement the technology but de silo these departments. When you 238 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 3: look at the number of different departments and agencies that 239 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: you have to go out and get sign off and 240 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 3: clearance from, come on, it's just the scene. I know. 241 00:15:54,200 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: It's people feel like nobody at city Hall cares. 242 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: They just don't care. 243 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter to people at city Hall what happens 244 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 2: to the Palisades and the homeowners, the residents there. 245 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: And how can I say otherwise? 246 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 3: Well, I very much care, And you know I put 247 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 3: out a lot of communication to our friends and neighbors 248 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: in the Palisades to keep them updated and engaged so 249 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 3: they know. 250 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 2: When Yeah, you know, you're doing as terrific job as 251 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: anyone could humanly do. 252 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: Really, but you can't do it by yourself. 253 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 2: You, I know, you got to play politics here, but 254 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 2: you Karen Bass has got to do something. 255 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: She's got to do something fast, something big. 256 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 3: I continue to need her help, but we as a 257 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 3: community have to stick together and we have to fight 258 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 3: to keep this on the forefront of everyone's attention, regardless 259 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 3: of whatever else may be going on in the city. 260 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 2: All right, Tracy Park talking with you. Anytime you want 261 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 2: to come on, we will discuss things further. Tracy Park 262 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: the councilwoman from the West side of LA You're. 263 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 4: Listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM six forty. 264 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 265 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 2: you can listen to the John Cobelt Show on demand 266 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: on the iHeart app after four o'clock. I just had 267 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 2: Tracy Park on for half an hour and if you 268 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 2: missed it, that's what the podcast is for talking about 269 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 2: She's the council person for the West side of Los 270 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 2: Angeles and Palisades. Look, I'll tell you the truth. I 271 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 2: drove through there yesterday with my wife and we actually 272 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 2: went off. We went off Sudden Said Boulevard and drove 273 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 2: through the neighborhoods, which we've been doing, you know, every 274 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: few weeks, and there's nothing going on there. 275 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: There just is. 276 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 2: There's no sense to momentum, there's no sense of recovery, rebuilding, nothing. 277 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: It is just quiet. 278 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 2: You expect to see tumbleweeds, blowing across Sunset Boulevard in 279 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 2: front of you. 280 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: There aren't people. 281 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 2: There aren't there's scattered workers on individual properties or utility workers, 282 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 2: but for the most part, nothing's being constructed. I think 283 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 2: I think Tracy said there might be sixteen sixteen lots 284 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 2: where ground has been broken. There's over seven thousand homes 285 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,239 Speaker 2: that have burned, and then thousands more businesses, and it's 286 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 2: six months is enough time. 287 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: To stop and say, well, all right? 288 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 2: And the thing is, there's not much in the pipeline 289 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 2: because the insurance industry was so mismanaged by cal fart 290 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 2: Lara and the Democratic legislature, and the insurance industry is 291 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,959 Speaker 2: so corrupt and they pulled out on people so fast, 292 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 2: and they wouldn't write policies for many that a lot 293 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 2: of people are uninsured, underinsured. Some of them didn't even 294 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 2: know it. The insurance company snuck in and they sent 295 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: drones over the to see that the reservoirs weren't filled 296 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: and that the brush wasn't cleared on Newsome State lands, 297 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 2: and they said, well, we're not ensuring this. 298 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: We've lost a lot of we've lost enough money in California, 299 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: and they stuck out of town and people didn't even know. 300 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 2: That they had lost their insurance. They were getting thrown 301 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: into the state Fair Plan, which drastically under insures the 302 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 2: kind of people who live in the Palistates. And I know, 303 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 2: let me tell you, there is a lack of empathy. 304 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 2: There is a bias against the Palisades residents by Karen Bass. 305 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 2: There is. I think it's personal animosity. Those are not 306 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 2: her people. That's not why she got into politics. She 307 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 2: didn't get into politics to help out the kind of 308 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 2: people who live in the Palisades. She probably has stereotypical 309 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 2: notions of what they're like and how much wealth they have, 310 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 2: and a lot of them don't. A lot of them 311 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 2: inherited the homes over years. A lot of them bought 312 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: their homes, you know, decades ago when they were worth 313 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,479 Speaker 2: a lot less. You know, the real estate boom here 314 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: in California, the property value boom is fairly recent. 315 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: And she doesn't care. And that's the hardest thing to 316 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: deal with. 317 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: That's the hardest thing for people to accept, because since 318 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 2: you're a little child, you're fed this nonsense in bs 319 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 2: about public service and public servants and they are here 320 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 2: to help everyone else and we should respect them. 321 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: And revere them, and they're full of crap. 322 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 2: We know they're making a lot of money on the side, 323 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 2: a lot of money on the side, and they're making 324 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 2: a lot of money for their friends and relatives. Just 325 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 2: look at the nonprofit homeless industry and the two billion 326 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 2: dollars that disappeared in LA. That's how they're making their money. 327 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 2: I mean, you could have whatever political views you want, 328 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 2: but don't be a naive child. Don't be stupid. Karen 329 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 2: Bass and most of that city council does not give 330 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 2: a crap about you. No matter where you are, they 331 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 2: don't care, and especially you're in the Palisades. I think 332 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: Bass has a lot of animosity and indifference, and that's 333 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 2: the way she's acting. Rick Caruso's AI technology that he 334 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: acquired for his nonprofit Steadfast LA will work. It'll cut 335 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: the weight periods on plan check on the permits from 336 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: months to hours. Why isn't it being used. Why wasn't 337 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: it being used weeks and weeks ago when he first 338 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 2: announced it. Personal animosity from Bass, probably against Caruso because 339 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 2: he might be an opponent, and also just in general 340 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 2: against the people there. She doesn't show up, She didn't 341 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 2: do anything you see here run a MacArthur park. She 342 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 2: turned her whole schedule upside down to start screaming about 343 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: to Ice arresting illegal aliens when she knows that the 344 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 2: park was rife with criminals, cartel members, gangsters, a lot 345 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 2: of them here illegally. She knows that, But that's that's 346 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 2: what gets her excited. That's what turns her on. I 347 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 2: don't know why some things are inexplicable. You don't know 348 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 2: why they just are. And her sympathies, and a lot 349 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 2: of left winging progressive sympathies, are with criminals, even if 350 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 2: they're cartel members or gangsters. Okay, so people inexplicably elected 351 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: her to be the mayor, so you expect her to 352 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 2: help out the residents of the Palisades who lost everything 353 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 2: in large part because she and the rest of the 354 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: city agencies were not prepared and did not respond. She's 355 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 2: warned for days about the most destructive, deadly fire coming, 356 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 2: and she bolted for Africa. You think she cares. She 357 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 2: lands off the plane, has nothing to say. You think 358 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 2: she cares. She didn't even show up for Newsom's dog 359 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: and Pony show last week. That news conference on the 360 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 2: six month anniversary. No, she went to scream at ice 361 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 2: agents who were trying to arrest the drug cartel members 362 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 2: and gangsters and MacArthur Park. She doesn't care. So now 363 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: we're stuck for eighteen months with somebody who doesn't care. 364 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 2: And if you got a family in the Palisades, And 365 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 2: by the way, this goes for Altadena and the county 366 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 2: supervisors too. The county supervisors for the most part, don't 367 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: care about all the middle class families in Altadena. This 368 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 2: is not just a poor versus wealthy thing. This is 369 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: everybody in government in Los Angeles versus everybody who's normal, 370 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: who has jobs, in a family and homes. They don't care. 371 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 2: They're getting theirs. They're making their money on the side. 372 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: They got all those homeless nonp deals, so they and 373 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,719 Speaker 2: their family members are raking it in. Their friends are 374 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 2: raking it in. Not just homeless scams, but they've got 375 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 2: all kinds of scams, and they just enjoy the raw power. 376 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 2: Boston people around telling people what to do, right down 377 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: to plastic straws and compost bags anything. I mean, look, 378 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 2: you know just remember COVID Boston people around telling you 379 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 2: what to do, claiming they had science on their side, 380 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 2: and they were all full of crap. It was their 381 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 2: wet dream. It was what they desire to do all 382 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 2: their lives. Lock people up in their homes. They want 383 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 2: to lock us up in our homes, put us on buses, 384 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 2: put us in high rises. And it's happened, you know, 385 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 2: many times in history. What do you think Castro did 386 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 2: in Cuba? Oh, who's the biggest fan of Castro in 387 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 2: La Karen Bass? Not an accident, that's her mindset. So 388 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 2: it's playing out exactly as you would have predicted had 389 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: you paid any attention to Karen Bass, his life and 390 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 2: her beliefs and her activities. Somebody who joins some rebel 391 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 2: organization that's in love with Castro and is traveling to 392 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 2: Cuba all the time and his praising Castro. I've been 393 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 2: to Cuba. I know that's that's what she admires. I 394 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 2: know that's what she'd like to turn the Palisades into. 395 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,879 Speaker 2: It's not hyperbole, it's not rhetoric, it's not cheap insults, 396 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 2: it's the truth. That's her mindset. That's what you elected. 397 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 2: And by the way, it's gonna happen in New York 398 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: City too. With that Zoorn Mondami, although he's more honest 399 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 2: about it. He's more honest about admiring socialists and communists. 400 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: She covered it up with her cute, little grandmotherly smile, 401 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 2: so she fooled everybody here. Mondami is not trying to 402 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 2: fool anybody, and he may get elected anyway because of 403 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 2: all the crazy people in the cities. 404 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 4: Now you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI 405 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 4: AM sixty. 406 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we're gonna have John Ally on. John is a 407 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 2: businessman and he has a group called Santa Monica Coalition. 408 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 2: We'vet him on a number of times, and he is 409 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 2: now offering homeless people one way tickets out of town. 410 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 2: He's been doing this since June. And you got a 411 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 2: one way ticket and you go back and see your 412 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 2: family and friends. There are donors donating the money. He's 413 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 2: gotten over two hundred calls from people asking for help 414 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 2: since they broke the story a couple of weeks ago, 415 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: and they've sent people on flights and bus rides to Texas, Pennsylvania, 416 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 2: Wyoming and other places. 417 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: So that's a way. And you know, this is why. 418 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 2: Everybody always says this is a joke. But imagine instead 419 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 2: of the billions of dollars. If we just offered everybody 420 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 2: a bus or a plane ticket home, maybe we could 421 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,159 Speaker 2: get some some kind of reduction in the street home US. 422 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 2: And I don't know if you heard earlier two o'clock hour, 423 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 2: we had Michael Monks on from CAMFI News. That's another 424 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 2: good thing to listen to on the podcast later is 425 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 2: so they announced they announced the homeless census count, which 426 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 2: they took in February for twenty twenty five. We're down 427 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 2: four percent in the county, three percent in the city. 428 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 2: And everybody's putting out tweets and all kinds of press 429 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 2: releases congratulating themselves for three and four percent drops. But 430 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 2: only Michael put into his report that, hey, look at 431 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen numbers. In twenty nineteen, the county homeless 432 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 2: was fifty eight thousand, Now it's seventy two. In twenty nineteen, 433 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: the city homeless numbers were thirty five thousand, Now it's 434 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: forty two. It's down from last year, both city and county, 435 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 2: but it's still way higher than it was in twenty 436 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 2: nineteen and twenty nineteen. 437 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: It was a very bad year. 438 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen, things started to really get out of control. 439 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 2: That's why we passed those measures to raise billions of 440 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 2: dollars in tax money. And in twenty nineteen it got worse, 441 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 2: and it's been getting worse and worse, and now a 442 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 2: slight drop. And you wouldn't believe the crap that Karen 443 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 2: bass is putting out on our ex accounts, like are 444 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 2: you you are insane? Right? Yeah, they know what they're doing. 445 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: They know most people are never going to hear that 446 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 2: the numbers are still much higher than they were in 447 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 2: twenty nineteen because all the schlock TV news departments in 448 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 2: town aren't going to report it. They are, they're going 449 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 2: to bury it, like they've been burying a lot of 450 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 2: the truth on the immigration story. Speaking of the immigration story, 451 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 2: I meant to get to this all day, but I 452 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 2: got a few minutes left. I've really had it up 453 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 2: to here with all the nonsense, the way the marijuana 454 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: farm was covered up in Ventura County and all the 455 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 2: people screaming about the workers being arrested. I think they 456 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 2: rested about three hundred and sixty at that marijuana farm. 457 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: Do you know they got fourteen miners, fourteen miners working 458 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: in sweatshop conditions. Most of them didn't have parents. Here's 459 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: the way that life works. The kids had their family 460 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: members pay the drug and smuggling cartels. All right, So 461 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 2: the family pays the cartel, the kids are smuggled over 462 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 2: the border. Now they're put into forced labor as slaves. 463 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 2: As slaves, and any money they make goes to the 464 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 2: cartel to pay off the transportation debt. They charged thousands 465 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 2: of dollars to take a kid over the border. So 466 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 2: when that kid goes to work, somebody's got to pay 467 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: the cartel. I'm guessing it's the company. There's a reason 468 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 2: that company. By the way, it was a federal judge 469 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 2: signed a warrant to investigate that company. So you saw 470 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 2: those jackasses throwing rocks and shooting at the ICE agents. 471 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: It's really horrifically violent. Well, the ICE agents had a 472 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 2: federal warrant because that company hired not only hundreds of 473 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 2: illegal aliens, which is against the law, but they had 474 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 2: a child labor slave camp at least fourteen kids. That's 475 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 2: why when I saw that stupid you normally I don't 476 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: like to talk about idiot politicians and their tweets and 477 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 2: they're back and forth against each other. But you probably 478 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 2: heard that news some was taunting jd Vance his Vance 479 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 2: took his family to Disneyland, because Newsomb really is a 480 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 2: low class skunk. So he's taunting Advance about I hope 481 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 2: you enjoy Disneyland and made some crack about all the 482 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: all the broken families the Advance has affected here in California. 483 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 2: It's like, you schmuck, You've got children working as slaves 484 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 2: and a marijuana farm right in your state. You didn't 485 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 2: do anything to police that that was that was thriving 486 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 2: here Inventory County under Newsom's nose, growing marijuana, which which, 487 00:31:56,040 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: by the way, is it's still illegal federal. It may 488 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 2: be legal in California, but it's illegal on a federal basis, 489 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 2: so the federal government has every right to bust in there. 490 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 2: And then they've hired illegal aliens, which breaks federal law. 491 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: And then they have. 492 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 2: Miners working without parents. Well, that breaks every moral law 493 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: in the history of the universe. And so Newsom, instead 494 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 2: of applauding Ice for busting it up and apologizing to 495 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 2: the state for allowing this to fester under his nose, 496 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 2: he goes after jd Vance for taking his family to Disneyland. 497 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 2: There's something so incredibly sick about Gavin Newsom, and it 498 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: is going to be so entertaining when he gets his 499 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: ass handed to him what he runs for president. 500 00:32:58,840 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: I don't think. 501 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 2: I think people don't want these whack job progressives anymore, 502 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 2: not even in the Democratic Party. This guy still thinks 503 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 2: it's twenty twenty. It's not anymore. He is used up 504 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 2: outdated old news at a style. Maybe he could get 505 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 2: a couple of wacky old ladies to swoon over them 506 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 2: in South Carolina. But his day is done, and he 507 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 2: should be He should be embarrassed that there were immigrant 508 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 2: children working as slaves in a forced labor marijuana farm. 509 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: I mean, how awful is that? Is he going to 510 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: run on that? 511 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: Hey, Here in California, pot is not only legal, but 512 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 2: we hire legal workers for slave wages, you know, because 513 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 2: people like their cheap pot. And we hire children for 514 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 2: the slave wages until until they're able to pay off 515 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 2: their debt to the drug cartels. And by the way, 516 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 2: if there are drug cartel members living in California, we 517 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 2: give them free healthcare. 518 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: I want him to run on that so badly. I mean, 519 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: I mean, but I don't think. 520 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,280 Speaker 2: I don't think most of the public is that stupid? 521 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 2: Even the people who voted for Kamala Harris aren't that stupid. 522 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: But you never know, you never know. But just as 523 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: a human being, he's just he's just awful. He's just awful. 524 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 2: He should have been down there providing comfort to all 525 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 2: those poor kids. We're working slaves. 526 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: Oh. 527 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 2: I saw in the LA legis, the California legislature today 528 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 2: they have an idea that they want slave reparations. Again, 529 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 2: this is another group every year they want slave reparations. Okay, 530 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 2: it's like, hello, you have modern day slaves here in Camerao, 531 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 2: in Ventura County. You have modern day child slaves. That's why, 532 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 2: that's that's fascinating about this. The same people who want 533 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 2: reparations for slaves from the eighteen hundreds are throwing rocks 534 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 2: and bottles at the ice agents who are trying to 535 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,359 Speaker 2: rescue the child slaves here in the year twenty twenty five. 536 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 2: I mean, total that up for me, all right, con 537 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 2: ways up next see you tomorrow. We got Michael Kerzer 538 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 2: with the news KFI AM six forty. Hey, you've been 539 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 2: listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. 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