1 00:00:00,680 --> 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 Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four and then 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Whatever you missed John Cobelt's show on 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 2: demand on the iHeart app. Later this hour, we're going 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: to do some more on the Palisades fire. Only four 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: four homeowners have been given permits to rebuild. Four showing 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,959 Speaker 2: you what liars and incompetence Karen Bass and Gavin Usom are. 9 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: Everything was supposed to be streamlined. 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: They're going to cut red tape, blah blah blah blah, 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: A lot of gas passed at these news conferences in 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: public events, four in seventy five days. And a story 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: on FEMA getting overwhelmed. There's about thirteen thousand homeowners who've 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 2: lost their homes between the Palisades and Altadena, thirteen thousand. 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: We're going to play another quiz when we come back 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: next segment, but I won't tell you the question because 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: I don't want you to look it up. Let's get 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 2: to uh, speaking of the fires. Lydia Grant is the 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: president of the Sunland to Hunga neighborhood Council and She 20 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 2: represents many residents in Sunland to Hunga that fear that 21 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 2: toxic debris is going to be carried in to their 22 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: community for a long time from the eat and fire. 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: And they have their own tests that show how toxic 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 2: this this debris and dirt is and exactly what's in it. 25 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: So let's get lydia. Grant On, we've talked about lydia. 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: How are you? 27 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: I'm great, Thank you so much. 28 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: So explain to people who are not familiar. I mean 29 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: you're you're up in the I guess the like the 30 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: eastern San Fernando Valley. 31 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 3: Correct, we're in the northeast San Fernando Valley just before 32 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 3: you leave the count of the city line. 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 2: Okay, what do you have there? You have some kind 34 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: of landfill there that they want to bring all this 35 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: debris to. 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 3: So what has happened is we have a sediment placement 37 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 3: site that was built I believe seventy years ago, and 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: they got the regulatory permits fifty years ago, and at 39 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 3: the time there were no homes. So now that this 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 3: has neighborhoods all surrounding the spot, this entire spot surrounded 41 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 3: by the city of Los Angeles, and it's at the 42 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 3: top of a big hill. They've decided to start bringing 43 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: dirt from the Eaton fire area, from the sediment basement 44 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 3: and start dumping it on the top of the hill. 45 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 3: This is not a landfill, this is not a contained site. 46 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: This is just a dirt space. And what's happened is 47 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 3: the county did not notify the community. The county didn't 48 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 3: a whole route. The county didn't call the school district. 49 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: They didn't do anything. They violated all of their own 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 3: policies and then started dumping about I think they said 51 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty five. Well they're saying now that 52 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 3: that one hundred and thirty five number they gave us 53 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 3: istounded both ways. So anyway, they've changed the number. They're 54 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 3: saying they're only jumping about sixty five truckloads a day 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: in residential areas. 56 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: Let's go with the load number, sixty five truckloads a 57 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: day of You say toxic dirt. 58 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: Now you've done your own testing, yes. 59 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 3: So what happened was we we fought with the county 60 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: to do a test and the county was refusing, so 61 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 3: they did finally do a test, but by the time 62 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 3: the results came out, the community members were so concerned 63 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 3: because of this acrid burning smell that was infiltrating their 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: homes and the dirt that was flowing into their homes, 65 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 3: they decided that they were going to test it themselves. 66 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 3: So they did the test level and the test level 67 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 3: showed that for arsenic, for the normal what they call 68 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: safe limit for ecological impact is zero point one one, 69 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 3: and the arsenic test showed four point six five, which 70 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 3: is forty two times the same limit. 71 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: Oh, zero point one and it's it's it's uh. 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 3: Four zero point one one. 73 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: It's zero point one one. And the and the real 74 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 2: uh arsenic level is the. 75 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 3: Community test showed that was done out laboratory showed it 76 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 3: to be four point six five, okay, so forty two 77 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 3: times the normal, forty. 78 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 2: Two times the allowable level liniumum yeah yeah. 79 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: And selenium sollennium what our test results showed eighteen point one. 80 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 3: The safe limit is one point five for four point 81 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: one according to the test results for safe limit ranges. 82 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 3: These are from we understand the lab used as a 83 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 3: call of Fournia EPA to do their testing right. 84 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 2: So nine times the level, nine times the level of selenium, 85 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: forty two times the level of arsenic in the dirt 86 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: that the county is dumping at this landfilled type site 87 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 2: in your in your neighborhood. 88 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a landfill, it's just a dirt lot. 89 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, dirt lot. 90 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 2: Hill. 91 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 3: And unfortunately, this is a high wind velocity area, so 92 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 3: anything on that hill blows over through the whole community 93 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 3: and into the San Fernando finally, the northeast portion. 94 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: Have you talked to one of the county supervisors? 95 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: Funny, they have not gotten back to me. The council 96 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: member has now stepped up, and when we were told 97 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 3: last night by the council office that the county has 98 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 3: said the city will not be allowed in to test that. 99 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 2: Soil, the city can't test as the county tested to 100 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 2: confirm your readings. 101 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 3: They did, which is interesting. The only thing they showed 102 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,679 Speaker 3: was arsenic. They didn't for anything else. And they're saying 103 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 3: their test was three point nine, which is still way 104 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 3: above the zero point eleven. 105 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,119 Speaker 2: Yeah right, that's that's still like thirty nine times too high. 106 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 3: But they're saying that their test is normal, and that 107 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: they have refused on four occasions to give us what 108 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: they're considering their normal range. They will not tell me 109 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 3: what to say. 110 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: Well, if it's thirty nine times the safety level, then 111 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: it's not in any normal range. 112 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: They're just fully They're saying, well. 113 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 3: Do you could expect this in a high in an 114 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 3: area that's had a fire, but we didn't have a fire. 115 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: Well, you didn't have a fire. 116 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: And whether you expect it or not, all that dust 117 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 2: is what everybody's breathing in, and it is being imported 118 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: from another site. Correct. 119 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 3: And we do have other issues because when you have 120 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 3: there are several funguses for example coccidio micosis that if 121 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 3: it's if it's drought, then it dies, but then once 122 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 3: the rains come it comes back to life. And now 123 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 3: you've disturbed all the soil and dumped it at the 124 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 3: top of the hill where it can go all over 125 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 3: the valley. And they're going to say, well, it already 126 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: exists in the valley. Yeah, but this soil has been 127 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 3: disturbed and now is in a high wind area where 128 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: it could blow it out. 129 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: All right, So this is the soil from the Altadena 130 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 2: fire that may have the fungus in it, and it's 131 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 2: been disturbed and the winds are blowing and now it's 132 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 2: in your neighborhood. 133 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: Too. 134 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: Oh yes, and the county will all need test for metals. 135 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 3: They won't do any other testing for us. Even the 136 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 3: book County Health Department website as some of these fungus 137 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: is listed. The other thing that's that's concerned to us 138 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: is that they're also dumping the same soil in other 139 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 3: areas potentially so are. We just heard that the city 140 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 3: of Glendale is now supporting our ability to test because 141 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 3: now they're demanding tests too, because they're dumping this up 142 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 3: a bust exchange in part. 143 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 2: You've done the tests, You've found out there's that the 144 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: toxic levels of arsenic are off the charge millennium is 145 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 2: off the charts. They don't care. The county doesn't want 146 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: to do anything about. Who's your county supervisor. 147 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: It's Catherine Barger, and you've talked to their office. 148 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: I've had the most respect for her. When we first 149 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: started getting all the complaints, we held the community meeting 150 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 3: and her staff was there. We had over eighty people 151 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: come to complain, and the county just kept telling us 152 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 3: we can do what we want. Nobody gives us permission. 153 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: Who says that and leave us alone. 154 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 3: That's what the Public Works department told us. 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: So the Department of Public Works, that's the bureaucracy. They 156 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 2: basically flipped you off and said, don't bother us, not 157 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 2: your business. Yes, but you know what what's terrible is 158 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 2: is you guys didn't suffer from the fire, and now 159 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: you've got to deal with all this toxic dirt being 160 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 2: dumped in your neighborhood and nobody wants to do anything 161 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 2: about it. 162 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: Why can't the dirt be taken far far away? 163 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 3: That is a good question. And my concern is not 164 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 3: just for my own community. It's as Army, Corps of 165 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 3: engineers and all these others are dumping everywhere. There's no communications, 166 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: no coordination. So here we have, but we have trucks 167 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 3: coming through our area, going all over the place. 168 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 2: This is a big states, This is a big state. 169 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: This is a huge disaster. 170 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 2: This is where the governor should say that no town 171 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: should have to suffer. Well, we already have alt to 172 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,719 Speaker 2: be in suffering badly, and the ballistides suffering badly. We 173 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 2: shouldn't spread the suffering with toxic dirt to any other town. 174 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 2: There's got to be something out in the desert there. 175 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 2: I mean, we've all driven out there. You can drive 176 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 2: for hours and hours and hours, you don't see anybody 177 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: or anything. There's gotta be some site there that they 178 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 2: can dump this dirt and it's not going to hurt anything. 179 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 3: Money told and the county told us at our meeting 180 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 3: that they're looking at how much of taxpayer money this 181 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 3: is this is taking up. And one of our community 182 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: members said, well, don't you think the health of those 183 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 3: community members is more important? But they just said no. 184 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 2: But they're they're worried about Wait, they're worried about tax 185 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 2: money since when they give them, they give away millions 186 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 2: and millions to illegal aliens. So worried about tax money. 187 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 2: When American citizens want to test the toxic art that's 188 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: been dumped in their neighborhoods oh forgot. I hate that. 189 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,599 Speaker 1: I cannot stand with it is close to go to 190 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: tax money. You don't care about tax money? Stop? 191 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 3: Do we really care all? I hope the soial tests 192 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 3: as normal, but if you don't let us go test it, 193 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 3: it just makes us suspect. Yeah, because our tests, they 194 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 3: had to they had to trespass to get the test 195 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 3: because they wouldn't allow the community in. So the community 196 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 3: got so scared of what could be there that this 197 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 3: is what their tests showed that a legitimate laboratory did. 198 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 3: I have the results, and it has been We've been 199 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 3: fighting this for weeks, but finally when that test result 200 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 3: came back, we actually had something fight on. 201 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: If if it's a four twenty two times or thirty 202 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 2: nine times the safe level of arsenic, if it's four 203 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 2: or five or six times the safe level of selenium, 204 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 2: then that's what it is. I mean, they have these 205 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: standards for a reason. All right, listen, you keep in 206 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: touch with us, all right. I know you're going to 207 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: keep fighting. And everybody in your group there, it's the 208 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 2: Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council, Northeastern San Fernando Valley here in 209 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Lydia Grant. Thank you for coming on. 210 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 211 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 2: All Right, when we come back, you have about thirteen 212 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: thousand homes destroyed by the fire. How many applications for 213 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 2: FEMA assistance do you think have come in? This is 214 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 2: the federal government. You're not going to believe this. Well, 215 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 2: you will believe this, and we'll talk about the four 216 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: permits that have been approved for rebuilding in the palisations. 217 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Belts on demand from KFI AM 218 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 4: six forty. 219 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 2: Moistline eight seven seven moist daighty six. For Friday, let 220 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 2: it ramp eight seven seven moist d eaighty six. So 221 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 2: use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Every time 222 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 2: the government is offering aid, where members of the public 223 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 2: apply for the aid, usually online, there is an enormous 224 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: amount of fraud because in the federal government, and certainly 225 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 2: under Gavenus and in the state government, thousands and thousands 226 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 2: of criminals sign up for the aid, and much of 227 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 2: the time they get it. We know this from the 228 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 2: Unemployment Department during COVID handing out thirty to fifty billion 229 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 2: dollars billion dollars of tax money that they could not 230 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 2: recover because it went to fraudsters around the world. Eighty percent, 231 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 2: eighty five percent of the fraudulent payouts were people who 232 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 2: applied out of the country and got the money while 233 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 2: they're out of the country. And this is what plagues 234 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: the federal and state government. I have no patience for 235 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 2: anybody who's upset with Elon Musk. We need like fifty 236 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 2: Elon Musks in every single state, and we certainly we 237 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: can use a dozen just in California. One for LA 238 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: and one for every other major city, and one in 239 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 2: the state, and one day it's going to happen. This 240 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: can't go on forever because the state is broke, seventy 241 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 2: six billion dollar deficit. 242 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: LA has broke. 243 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 2: They've got a huge deficit, and you got whack jobs 244 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 2: like the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez running around demanding more 245 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: money for illegal aliens. That day is over. Americans don't 246 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: want to pay for any of this anymore. They want 247 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: to deport it. It's an eighty twenty issue in California. 248 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 2: Is this is not going to last even here. Here's 249 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 2: an example of this. Thirteen thousand homes destroyed between the 250 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 2: Palisades and Alta Dina and the fires. FEMA, the Federal 251 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: Emergency Management Agency, guess how many applications it's received. 252 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: Zero? Zero. 253 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I've been wrong every time, so I 254 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 5: decided to. 255 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: Be extreme and I'm going to go on the high end. 256 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: Ten thousand, ten thousand. 257 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 2: So you think for the thirteen thousand homes ten thousand 258 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 2: applications for assistance, ten thousand is wrong. 259 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: Zero is very wrong. 260 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: The number two hundred and seventy thousand, who two hundred 261 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 2: and seventy thousand, or about twenty people for each home, 262 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: because I don't know the applications work. But let's say 263 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 2: every adult in the home can file a separate application. 264 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true, but just to give 265 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 2: them the benefit of the doubt here, that would take 266 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 2: you up to about twenty six thousand, two hundred and 267 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: seventy thousand, twenty times the number of affected homes. It's 268 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 2: nothing but fraudulent applications. And many residents and we have 269 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 2: friends that this happened to when they applied for FEMA 270 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: AID found that someone else had already applied in their 271 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 2: name with their address, and they were locked out of 272 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 2: the system. All you have to do is look up 273 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: any of those databases online, pick a street where you 274 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 2: know the fire hit pick an address and the name, 275 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 2: and fill out the form online and not only potentially 276 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 2: do they get the money, you are blocked. 277 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: You get no money. You can die in the street. 278 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 2: And this is why Trump wants to dismantle FEMA, because 279 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 2: it's an absurd agency. It's just completely busted. 280 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: FEMA. And the thing is, the trouble is is. 281 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: What FEMA used to have a system where it was 282 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: hard to get the money, so they tried to make 283 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: it easier. But in making it easier, it means the 284 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: whole world can steal the money. Same thing happened in Sacramento. 285 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 2: By the way, we still haven't paid that bill. 286 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: FEMA said. 287 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: One problem is, well, there's a new problem. They have 288 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 2: to close applications at the end of the month. The 289 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 2: local idiot Congressman Brad Sherman had asked that they extend 290 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 2: the period to the end of the year, and FEMA said, no, 291 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: because we got two hundred and seventy thousand applications from 292 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: thirteen thousand homes. You extended to the end of the year, 293 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: we're going to have with millions and millions of fraudulent applications. 294 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: This is what people do around the world. This is 295 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 2: all they do. Young guys in foreign countries. Their job 296 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 2: is to wake up in the morning, get on a 297 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 2: computer terminal, and start scamming. Sometimes they work for companies. 298 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: I guess you could call them, well, it's organized crime. 299 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 2: Sometimes they're working against their will. Identity theft is not uncommon, 300 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 2: it's according to Breitbart, and maps of affected areas and 301 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 2: addresses available easily online. They've already rested a few people 302 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 2: for ripping off FEMA in the LA fire. One of 303 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 2: them was suspected of collecting on similar applications for two 304 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: decades going back to Hurricane Katrina. This is what I'm 305 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: saying is this is a this is a lifetime job 306 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: waiting for disaster. A governor declares a certain site a 307 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 2: disaster area eligible for FEMA money, and this character has 308 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 2: has lived off fake FEMA money for twenty years now. 309 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 2: Nathan Hackman says that fraudsters were coming to LA and 310 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 2: you have to call the FBI one eight hundred, call 311 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: FBI in case you're a victim of it. All right, 312 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: we come back. This was a contest we did earlier 313 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 2: and Deborah failed at. 314 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 1: This as well. 315 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 5: I failed every one of them. So you know what. 316 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 2: You go for Three on my quizzes, how many permits 317 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 2: have been processed by Karen Bass, who promised to streamline 318 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 2: the red and cut the red tape. 319 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: We'll tell you when we returned. 320 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 322 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 2: Karen Bash went well, along with some of some of 323 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: the council people, went to a Sacramento to beg for money. 324 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 2: She's pretty much like one of those homeless bag ladies 325 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 2: on the street or the shopping cart banging a tin cup. 326 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 5: Well, what do you expect her to do? We have 327 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 5: such a terrible deficit. 328 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 2: Billion dollars short. But this is separate, This is separate 329 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: from the billion dollar deficit. She wants another two billion 330 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: to help clean up after the fire because she left 331 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 2: for Africa, because the reservoir wasn't filled, two of them, 332 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 2: because the fire chief didn't deploy firefighters, because the engines 333 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:46,959 Speaker 2: were all on blocks, broken, because there were no mechanics, 334 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 2: because the DWP electric polls collapsed and wires hit the 335 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 2: ground and started a second fire, which we found out yesterday. Well, 336 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 2: the damage is going to cost a lot of money, 337 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 2: and La doesn't have it. City councils busy shoveling out 338 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 2: more money for illegal aliens. So she goes to Sacramento 339 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 2: to try to get the rest of the state taxpayers 340 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 2: to pay for this. So you people, the rest of 341 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 2: you in La County, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura County, 342 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 2: wherever you're listening, you're supposed to pay. You're supposed to 343 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 2: pay for their incompetence. 344 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: They need. 345 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fifty million dollars for mitigation and resilience 346 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 2: for city residents. What is that, Well, seven hundred million 347 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: dollars would be a loan to upgrade the Palisades electrical grid. 348 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: I guess. 349 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 2: So maybe they could put the wires underground. Boy, that 350 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 2: would have helped a lot. Maybe they should have done 351 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 2: those wires, the ones from the DWP. 352 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 5: Well, now they're saying they are going to do that 353 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 5: in the Palace Stades area moving forward, right. 354 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 2: The rest of the state's gonna have to pay for it, yes, 355 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 2: because the DWP never did it themselves. Forty million dollars 356 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: to incentivize electric upgrades and appliance says. 357 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what somebody to. Several people have told 358 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: me this. 359 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 2: You the only people who are getting permits, the four people. 360 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 2: This is what I've heard. I don't know if it's true, 361 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: but I did hear this in a news story. You 362 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 2: have to agree to all electric appliances in your house. 363 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 2: You can't do any gas appliances. What so you have 364 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 2: to have like an electric stove, and yeah, who. 365 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 5: Has electric stoves? 366 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 2: The state has been trying to force this for quite 367 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 2: a while. There's some cities I think like Berkeley that 368 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 2: if you have a new house or you're buying a 369 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 2: new stove for your house has to be electric. 370 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 5: I've had that in the past. You know what, I 371 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 5: would rent an apartment. I hated that. 372 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 2: I hate them too. We have one up at the 373 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: lake and I don't like it. I don't even just 374 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 2: understand how to cook with it. It doesn't cook it on, Joe, No, 375 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,479 Speaker 2: but it doesn't cook the same. There's something different. 376 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: I agree. I know, you just turn it on. 377 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 2: I don't understand it. This doesn't seem to cook the same. 378 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 2: So I don't understand what. 379 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 5: Okay, I'm glad that you cleared that up. I'm sorry 380 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 5: if I insulted. 381 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you'll do it again in a 382 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: few minutes. Six hundred and thirty eight million dollars. I'll 383 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 2: look at this. Six hundred and thirty eight million is 384 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: supposed to bail out the city's budget gap. 385 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: Look at that. I thought this was all of the fire. No, 386 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: they want the. 387 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 2: State taxpayers to pay a quarter of a billion dollars 388 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: to improve the streets, the sidewalks, and the street lights, 389 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 2: because we have streets that look like the roads in Afghanistan. 390 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 2: Sidewalks are disaster. People are tripping by the hundreds, costing 391 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 2: US millions of dollars. Street lights are out everywhere, So 392 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: how the state has to pay to upgrade our streets, 393 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 2: sidewalks and street lights. 394 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: What boy? 395 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: If I was in other cities and counties, I'd say no. 396 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 2: Let me tell you. They have squandered the money here. 397 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: They squandered the money on the homeless. That's why they 398 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 2: have no money to pave roads and fix sidewalks. Two 399 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 2: hundred million dollars to fund liability payments. Wait a second, 400 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 2: state taxpayers have to pay for all the crazy lawsuits. 401 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty million to refill the city's reserve fund. 402 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: My reading this right? This is from CBS News. Yes, 403 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: out of the six budgetary. 404 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 2: Concerns in the lawmaker's letter, that's Bass and some of 405 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 2: the council members. Bob Bloomenfield is one of them. Thirty 406 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 2: eight million dollars to offset lost revenue from the Palisades fire. 407 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 2: Ten million to improve the traffic signal system. 408 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: This is all. 409 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 2: Stuff that local taxes ought to cover, but they gave 410 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 2: it away. 411 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: To the homeless and the illegal aliens. 412 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 2: Oh Man, Council budget chairwoman Kadye Rslavsky a complete waste. 413 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 2: This trip to Sacramento wasn't about a one time fix. 414 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 2: It was about laying the foundation for a stronger, more 415 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 2: resilient city. 416 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: You blew the money. You blew the money. 417 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 2: Four and thirty million would help LA's firefighting capabilities and 418 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 2: pay for recovery efforts like debris removal, building permit waivers, 419 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: and building permit waivers. Yes, they defunded the fire department 420 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 2: many years ago. It's only fifty percent funded. And the 421 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: firefighters have to chase seven nineteen thousand homeless fires a year. 422 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 2: So now because we allowed tens of thousands of homeless 423 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: to live in our streets, the rest of the state 424 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 2: has to pay us to put out all the bumfires. 425 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 426 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 2: Seventy five million will expedite the processing of FEMA funds 427 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 2: from previous emergencies. Most of that is the COVID nineteen pandemic. 428 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 2: What are you talking about. We haven't paid out COVID 429 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 2: nineteen money. Well, I guess that. 430 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: All that was stolen too. 431 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: Bess actually went up to Sacramento and made these requests. 432 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: These demands really. 433 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 5: Heads on a stick, John, I heard. 434 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: Well, I think Daniel said this on the air. The 435 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 2: Assembly gave her a standing ovation. She used to be 436 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 2: the Speaker of the Assembly, so she got a standing 437 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: ovation from all the other Democrats. So what if they're 438 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 2: gonna give her the money? Oh, but they don't have 439 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 2: the money. 440 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 5: Ye's going to happen. 441 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. They're seventy six billion in debt. 442 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 2: They're actually going to spend two billion tax dollars from 443 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: everywhere else in the state to fix our streets, sidewalk 444 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 2: street lights, and to pay for our fire department because 445 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 2: we have blown all the money on homeless people and 446 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: illegal aliens. Oh, and ridiculous contracts, absurd contracts, and apparently 447 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 2: we have thousands of employees that we don't really need 448 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 2: because they're going to be laigoff thousands. Matt Dizebo, the 449 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 2: LA's administrative offers, said it's nearly inevitable, but layoffs cannot 450 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 2: and will not be the only solution. Yeah, they got 451 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 2: to steal money from everyone else in the state. Are 452 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 2: we come back. I'll to get to the permit story. 453 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI A six. 454 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 2: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. You should have done 455 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 2: this by now I'm hearing an echo of myself. Is 456 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 2: there a reason for that? All right, went away? Follow 457 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 2: us at John Cobelt Radio on all social media platforms 458 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 2: less than eight hundred away from twenty five thousand followers. 459 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 2: And if we hit that mark, we get prizes. Eric 460 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 2: and I get prizes. You don't get anything. Tracy Park 461 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 2: seems to be the only person on the city council. 462 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 2: Well there's two Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who cares 463 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 2: about how the fires have devastated the people in Los 464 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: Angeles whose neighborhoods burned down. Now we have more neighborhoods 465 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 2: were being hurt by all the toxic waste being trucked 466 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 2: in to their section of the city, and they're getting 467 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: lied to, of course by many people in government. But 468 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 2: one thing, and I, you know, maybe we've got to 469 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 2: get him on ties together of Karen Bass and Gavin 470 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 2: Newsom and who knows who else saying oh, we're gonna 471 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 2: streamline the process, we're gonna cut the red tape, we're 472 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: gonna make it easy for people to rebuild as soon 473 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 2: as possible. All of that, all that's just a bunch 474 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 2: of lies, because it's Bass and Newsome because now two 475 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 2: months after the Palisades fire, only four permits have been 476 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 2: issued four one, two, three, four four permits thousands of 477 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 2: homes and us As Tracy Park pointed out, we're on 478 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 2: day seventy five, post four post fire. And he goes, 479 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 2: I don't think it's a I don't think it's a 480 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 2: lack of interest in rebuilding. 481 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: She's so polite. She says, I. 482 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 2: Suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need 483 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 2: to continue to focus on. What is wrong with people 484 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: in these offices. Would you like to go into these 485 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 2: offices and see what they do all day? I mean 486 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: they must have hundreds, if not thousands of permit applications. 487 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: What do they do? 488 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: They only approved for and like I said, I heard 489 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 2: you only got a quick you only got a quick 490 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: permit approval if you promise to use only electric appliances 491 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,239 Speaker 2: because they're members of that climate change cult you may 492 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 2: have heard of that thinks even natural gas appliances. 493 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: Are incorrect. 494 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 2: Karen Bass hired a private consulting firm to oversee the recovery, 495 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 2: Haggardy Consulting. Remember that I think they're from Iowa. Ten 496 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 2: million dollars. We're paying ten million dollars. Nobody knows what 497 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 2: they do. Monica Rodriguez, the other councilwoman who seems to care. 498 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 2: We have city departments who know how to do this, 499 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: who have been involved in recovery efforts in the past, 500 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 2: but they can't hire the personnel they need because city's broke. 501 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 2: But we can give ten million dollars to an outside agency, 502 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 2: who she says, is just going to help write a report. 503 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: She says, it's obscene. 504 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 2: Why if they streamlined, if they cut red tape, that's 505 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: from cavenus and promise that's from Karen Bass's promise. How's 506 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 2: it seventy five days and four permits. See if anybody 507 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 2: in the media bothers to follow up on that. All right, 508 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 2: let's go to Conway. 509 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: Ding Dong with you. 510 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 6: We've got another more home invasions, more home robberies. There's 511 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 6: a couple lives off of Magnolia in the I don't know, 512 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 6: I guess the Wilshire area that's been robbed three times 513 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 6: in the last year. Three home invasions, three times. They've 514 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 6: been robbed in the last year. And you know what 515 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 6: the cops told them, Hey, maybe it's time to move out. 516 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 2: Really you know, when somebody is robbed three times, I 517 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 2: start to wonder if there's something going on in their lives. 518 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: Well, I'm with you. 519 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 6: I think that they have a lot of money cash, 520 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 6: you know, a lot of money, jewelry or watches, or 521 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 6: something going on in that house that people know about. 522 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: Also, you know, if you buy a safe. 523 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 6: Let's say you run out to you know, your favorite store, safe, 524 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 6: sar Us or whatever it is, and you buy a safe, 525 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 6: I think there's chatter among the people who know that you. 526 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: Bought that safe. 527 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 6: That's that's very possible, you know, and like, why are 528 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 6: you buying a twelve hundred dollars safe. 529 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 2: Or there's somebody with inside information. That's right, that's right, 530 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 2: because I actually know of a couple and they got 531 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 2: broken into, stuff was stolen, and it turns out their 532 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,719 Speaker 2: housekeeper had a brother or a cousin who is in 533 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 2: a criminal gang and was putting pressure on the housekeeper aheah, right, 534 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 2: let him know where stuff is. 535 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 6: And I remember when I I was in just out 536 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 6: of high school, and I didn't have a lot of cash, 537 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 6: but you know, you know, a couple of thousand bucks 538 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 6: in savings, and I went to the bank to pull 539 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 6: out some money to go to the track. And the 540 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 6: guy who was the teller, who is the guy who 541 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 6: was always in detention at Birmingham Height School. He was 542 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 6: always a mischief maker. He was always stealing from people's 543 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 6: cars and stuff, and he turned his life around. Now 544 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 6: he's a bank teller. I'm like, wait a minute, that 545 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 6: guy is now the bank teller. 546 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: You know. 547 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 6: Now he's got all my information. Yeah, get at anyway. 548 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 6: Today we've got you know, pirates on the high seas. 549 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 6: Now when you're on a cruise ship you have to 550 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 6: worry about pirates. Another thing you have to worry about. 551 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 6: Everybody's into crime now pirates. Everybody's into crime. God, we're 552 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 6: we pirates, I know. And then we got the Misak 553 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 6: coming in. He's a good friend of ours, he used 554 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 6: to work at KLAC and we'll talk about his health 555 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 6: continuing health issues. I think he's you know, there's a 556 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 6: lot of people out there whose kidneys have failed and 557 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 6: they're looking to get a transplant. And man, is that 558 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 6: a difficult road to go down. Yeah, it's it's Adrad 559 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 6: to deal with it here instead dot Bondo's I got 560 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 6: a friend. And then Preston Smith Matt Money Smith's daughter, 561 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 6: you know who. 562 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. 563 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 6: She's seventeen, eighteen nineteen, I don't know, maybe she's twenty. 564 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 6: She sang the national anthem last night at the King game. 565 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: Is that right? 566 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's kind of a cool deal. We'll talk to 567 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 6: her about what the what's entailed in that? 568 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, time way, it's a big show. 569 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 6: Plus, there's a rumor going around that Chipotle is closing down. 570 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 6: That's not true. It's just a murmur Chipotle. Yeah, all right, 571 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 6: and I and I and Andrew Caravell, who is going 572 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 6: to be in four Krozer all day. 573 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 2: All right, and Andrew is up next KFI twenty four 574 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 2: our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 575 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 2: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 576 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every 577 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 578 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app.