1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Let me tell you 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: you need to take a deep breath. I know you 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: really do you know what's coming. 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: I have never seen John ever this angry and agitated 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 2: in all the years I have worked with him. 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: Because I'm pretty mellow off the air, right you are. 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: I channel all my rage on the air. That's why 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: I don't have to go to a psychiatrist. I don't 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: have to take any medication. I do the show. I 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: feel better, and everybody around me is much happier. As 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: long as I'm working, I will tell you lots of 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: things that we're dealing with in the inverted universe of 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But first I want to get Alex Stone 15 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: on from ABC News because while it seems like the 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: threat is subsiding now, there's more wins possibly coming next week. 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, you're mellow off the air. I am mellow. 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: See I don't see you much off the air. I'm 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: very relaxed. This It's true. 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: No, seriously, he is. He is very mellow. He told 21 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: me a story he's going to tell on the air later. 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 2: And I mean I said, whoa, whoa, whoa. I mean 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 2: he was screaming like a crazy person telling me the story. 24 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to hear it like a crazy person. 25 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: Not a crazy person. I would like one. Yeah. So 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: with the winds, there was a period this week where 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,559 Speaker 1: we thought rain might be coming tomorrow, and now that's 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. But maybe a little bit 29 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: drizzle with the more of the marine layer coming in 30 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: and more moisture in the air, and give a little 31 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: bit of a break for at least a couple of days. 32 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: And some of the firefighters who have been on the 33 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: front lines, the original group for nine days straight, now 34 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: they should be getting a couple of days off this 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: weekend and then right back to it next week. In 36 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I've been 37 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: on the Palisades Fire and the Eating fire. They both 38 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: look really good right now. No active burning. We haven't 39 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: real active burning since about Saturday on both of them. 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: But then on Monday red flag fire warnings could be 41 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: coming back. The Santa Ana winds are going to make 42 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: a return again. All next week could be Santa Ana 43 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: wind events, two different ones, one maybe later in the 44 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: week that could be stronger than earlier in the week 45 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: and to day, LAFD Chief Crowley saying, there are. 46 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: More extreme winds on the horizons, like I said, next week, 47 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: and our community needs to remain ready. 48 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: So she's saying that the firefighters are going to keep 49 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: the staffing up, They're going to keep going, hopefully with 50 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: a little bit of a break over the weekend. And 51 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: then even without the rain, everything is so dry. But 52 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: then you've got this home in Pacific Palisades that was 53 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: ripped apart by a landslide today and they don't really 54 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: know why, but they think it was probably water that 55 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: they got into the soil, either from all the firefighting 56 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: or broken water lines. They're trying to figure that out. 57 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: So it's a mudslide even without the rain. And that 58 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: home had survived the fire, seemed like it was doing okay, 59 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: and then now it's destroyed because it's broken in half. 60 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Are you serious? I hadn't heard this. Yeah, So that 61 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: family's going to have to deal with that. And then, yeah, 62 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: and that's one of the concerns, you know, the people 63 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: going back in that if this family had gone back 64 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: into their home and then it broke in half because 65 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: the hill gave way, and there are so many just 66 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: being in the fire zone, I can tell you so 67 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: many down power lines or nails everywhere, piles of burned 68 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: power poles, just stuff everywhere, and the evacuees. The La 69 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: County Fire Chief Maroni said today it could be a 70 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: week or longer before evacuees are allowed to go in 71 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: and get back into the homes it survived and see 72 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: the areas it didn't survive. And we talked to Deputy 73 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Mike Looom, a good friend of KFI. He loves KFI. 74 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: LA Sheriff's deputy runs the reserve program and he's on 75 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: the search and rescue team in the area around Alta Dina, 76 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: and Mike was telling us today it's still pretty bad 77 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: all around the evacuated areas. We have open gas lines, 78 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: we have exposed water lines, and so they're evaluating each 79 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: property to determine if it's safe to enter. Yeah, So 80 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: it's still a mess in the areas because a lot 81 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: of people john are at the roadblock saying let us in. 82 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: We don't see any active fire, and they're saying yeah, 83 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: but they've only searched a portion of the buildings for 84 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: human remains. We saw them yesterday on the beachfront homes 85 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: in Malibu as they came up to us and they 86 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: had their rakes and they were going through and looking 87 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: for human remains that were in those homes, and it 88 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: was quiet, it was solemn. It was a search and 89 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: rescue team out of Menlo Park in northern California, and 90 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: they didn't find any of the homes that were around us, 91 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: but they're going through and looking right now. You know, 92 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: I live in the area. People are very angry, yeah, 93 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: for over a lot of issues. They're very frustrated, and 94 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: one of the things they're frustrated about is a lack 95 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: of information, a lack of because they have those dog 96 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: and pony press conferences where the mayor and the police 97 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: chief and the fire choice yeah right, and they talk 98 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: in their platitudes and the cliches and the government gas. 99 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: What they're not. No one's getting is specifics and some 100 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: like one on one treatment. Here it's just people pontificating 101 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: at a podium and it's not cutting it with most people. 102 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: There's a tremendous amount of anger and just a lack 103 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: of a lack of being forthcoming and honest with detail. 104 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: Not that we're working hard on the problem. And I'll 105 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: talk about my situation in a few minutes, which I 106 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: think perfectly encapsulated on a much, much less serious level. 107 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: But I want to talk about it because I want 108 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: people are who are seriously in serious trouble because they 109 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: lost their homes. What you're in for with the city 110 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: and with the infrastructure, because I have a relatively minor 111 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: issue compared to what they have, and it is incredibly, 112 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: excruciatingly frustrating to deal with the government, to deal with 113 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: people in these bureaucracies and agencies, and there's just a 114 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: lack of information and lack of honesty. Yeah, well, I 115 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: can imagine it's got to be frustrating. And you know, 116 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: when you drive into these areas, it will shock you 117 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: what it looks like, especially in Altadena where when you 118 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: go in and it's just neighborhood after neighborhood completely obliterated. 119 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: When you go into the Pacific Palisades area, same thing 120 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: once you go up into Pacific Palisades. But if you 121 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: drive along PCH the beachfront homes, they many of them 122 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: are gone. Some did survive, but many of them are gone. 123 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: But it is right now. Just it was bumper to 124 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: bumper yesterday with just fire engines coming and going. There 125 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: are so many firefighters here right now from we saw 126 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: them from towns that you had never heard of, in 127 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: Texas and in Colorado and in Oregon where it was 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: a traffic jam just of fire engines coming and going 129 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: off of the line. And then you've got lanes that 130 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: are shut down because power crews are cleaning up the 131 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: power poles and all of the down lined lines are 132 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: everywhere it is. It's still a mess, I know, it 133 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: seems like that, you know, they're just spewing all this 134 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: stuff out. If it's not safe in there that you know, 135 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: people are gonna take care of themselves. They would probably 136 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: be fine, but it would be a madhouse with the 137 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: pch down to one lane because there's so much garbage, 138 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: not actual garbage, but burned stuff on the side of 139 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: the road, and with power lines and power poles still 140 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: down in the way. But kudos to the linemen who 141 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: are in there. They're working I believe, twelve hour sixteen 142 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: hour shifts and they are chewing up those power poles 143 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: and putting them in giant dumpsters and picking up all 144 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: these heavy power lines that are everywhere. They're getting that 145 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: stuff cleaned up, but it's going to take a while. 146 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: And there are fire engines parked everywhere, still pulling out hoses, 147 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: putting out hotspots in some of the homes are still 148 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: flaring up from time to time, so they're still doing 149 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: quite a bit. Well. The picture you're painting is very 150 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: useful if there's anyone listening who wants to know what's 151 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: going on, how much work is being done, and what 152 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: the delays are about. See and that's what we're looking 153 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: for from the public officials to explain things the way 154 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: you're explaining them. So we could imagine that these these 155 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: guys are working sixteen hours a day and dealing with 156 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: all the firefighters, fireflowers down, it's yeah, and they don't 157 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: know why they can't go see their homes. They don't 158 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: understand about the power lines being down. And a good 159 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: example is yesterday on PCH there was a home that 160 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: we were out in front of and Kern County Fire 161 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: pulled up, pulled out their hoses because it had lit 162 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: up again and so there's still fire. In fact, they 163 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: were what they were going to do with a bunch 164 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: of the homes along the PCH. They were bringing in 165 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: a heavy duty crane because those homes all collapsed on 166 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: all the layers collapsed, So they were going to pull 167 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: in that crane to pull the roof off of the 168 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: ground level and then pull the upper level off of 169 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: the bottom line to cool it down. There's still so 170 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: much heat in those levels and still fire in there 171 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: that they want to let them breathe and be able 172 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: to hose them down. So yeah, yeah, there's just different 173 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: stuff going on. But it is I keep saying, but 174 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: it is a mess. It would be tough to have. 175 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: Maybe they could escort them in somehow, which the LAPD 176 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: tried to do and then they were overwhelmed by it. 177 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: But to just open up the barricades to all residents, 178 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: it would be mayhem in that area of traffic jams 179 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: and firefighters not being able to get around in southern California, 180 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: Edison crews not able to move that. There's just so 181 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: many crews in right now. All right, Alex, we'll talk 182 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: again soon. Thank you. Got it sounds good. Thanks to 183 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: like Stone, ABC News for KFI. I'll tell you about 184 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: some of the nonsense that we're going through when we 185 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: come back. I'll tell you about my mental breakdown this morning. 186 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: You're not going to scream again, are you? 187 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's so enraged me if I relive 188 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: the moment, you know how you when you get PTSD, 189 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: you get traumatized and just go right back to that moment. 190 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm I'm it's only like six hours since it happened. So, 191 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: but I didn't hurt anybody, Uh hurt my ears? Was 192 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: I that loud? You were very loud? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 193 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM. 194 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: Six forty, So I will I will tell you what 195 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: we're dealing with when it comes to the bureaucracy, with 196 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: our power being out and with the rampant looting still 197 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: going on in the neighborhood that nobody, uh from the 198 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: police department seems interested in. But I got to tell you, 199 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: it's been a stressful week because we have no power, 200 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: it's been very cold in the house, and there was 201 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: a crazy looting going on. There were four homes on 202 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: our block broken into just last night. And my wife 203 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: doesn't want to leave because she does not want to 204 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: give in to the looters. So I come home and 205 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: we sit in the dark and have dinner and then 206 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: we go upstairs and sit in the dark, and well, 207 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: it's it's you can't take it anymore, right, you know 208 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: my birds it's down to fifty eight degrees. I don't 209 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: know how much the birds can take and there's no 210 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: way I can move them. 211 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: And I know you meant to say this because you've 212 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 2: said it before, but you get that there are people 213 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: who lost their home, yes, and you still have your home. 214 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: And I know you're very sensitive about that, and you 215 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 2: have said it before, but I'm just saying it again 216 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 2: for you so that nobody thinks that you're insensitive. 217 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be a whining you know, entitled 218 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: west side. I don't know what words you use. 219 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: Not having power is very stressful, but it and what 220 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 2: I'm upset. 221 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: About is I just call all these numbers, and we 222 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: know some people in government obviously we call and it's 223 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: just give us an answer. Three things. What's wrong? How 224 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: long is it going to take to fix? What do 225 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: you have to do to fix it? You know, if 226 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: there's a transformer, let's say, blew up and the parts 227 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: are on a boat coming from China for two weeks, 228 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: just tell us and then what day it's likely to 229 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: come back, because we keep thinking it's going to come back, 230 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 1: and the next day and the next day. How long 231 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: can this go on? And I know a lot of people, 232 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: and I'm trying to speak for all the people now 233 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: who are frustrated because they are blocked out or locked 234 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: out of their neighborhoods with this evacuation, this curfew, or 235 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: the worst case is you've lost your homes and they're 236 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: not letting you in to see the homes and start 237 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: that process. You don't know how bad it is. You 238 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: may not know if your home still exists or not 239 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: all that stuff, right, So I'm just on the fringe here, 240 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: But it's just being on the fringe and having a 241 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: relatively minor problem is incredibly frustrating because nobody in the 242 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: city gives you an answer. Just put looking for an answer, 243 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: even if it's an answer we don't like. Just give 244 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: me an answer and I'll tell you more about that 245 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: in a second. But so, like you said, it's true, 246 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm pretty mellow off the ear, and the way I 247 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: deal with the world is it created a radio show 248 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: where I have this going on in my head all day. 249 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: I've been like this since I was a kid, and 250 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: so I just over time, I was able to develop it, 251 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: to communicate what I saw was going wrong with the 252 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: world and turn it into a radio show that people 253 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: would listen to. But every once in a while one 254 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: it takes every few years, maybe, and it's always something 255 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: to do with either a government, a government entity, or 256 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: maybe a customer service rep. My wife wanted me to 257 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: go to Starbucks and get her a latte, which is. 258 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 2: Funny enough, why I had one this morning. 259 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: I will just me going into Starbucks and say. 260 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 2: Does she get oat milk with it? 261 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: No, not Oatmelkress. I parked my car behind the Starbucks 262 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: on a street legal space parking meter, but it's before 263 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: eight am, so the parking meter is not operating yet. 264 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: I pull up, stop the car. I look to my 265 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: left and here's this short little parking enforcement agent. 266 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: You didn't tell me she was short. She was short, Okay, 267 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 2: don't bag on short people. 268 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: Short people have no reason to live more than anything. Well, 269 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: she's and she's got an attitude. You know, parking enforcement 270 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: agents have this terrible attitude about them, many of them, 271 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: they do, and you know they are They're kings of 272 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: the world. So she looks at me. I look at 273 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: her and she waves with her right hand just a 274 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: little bit to move forward. And I looked at her. 275 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: I was like what. I moved forward a couple of 276 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: inches and then she's waved the hand again, moved forward, 277 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: and I rolled down the window. It's like, what are 278 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: you doing? She goes, move forwar. You're a couple of 279 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: inches in the red zone behind you. I go, is 280 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: this what you're doing? I said, why don't you go 281 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: help put out the fires. She's not a firefighter job. 282 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: Think of there's twenty thousand people with at home. Go 283 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: go to palis Ades put out the fires. What are 284 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: you doing? And she said, I'm just trying to keep you. 285 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep you from getting a ticket from me. 286 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: But she's ready to write a ticket. She's like poised, 287 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: ready to jump. And it's like, oh, I'm not you're 288 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: going to write a ticket? And I said what what? 289 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: She goes, what's my job? I go, well, what kind 290 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: of a job is this? What did you fail high school? 291 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: And I'm I'm bellowing, I'm waving my arms. I'm totally 292 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: out of my mind. And then I thought, oh my god, 293 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: somebody's going to pull out a phone and I'm going 294 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: to be on the internet for the next twenty five years. 295 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: Chest And now I realize I can't get out of 296 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: the car because she's probably gonna snap my license plate 297 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: and I'll end up with cops. The cops will come 298 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: and shoot me, right, they will. You sure I'll be here? 299 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: And so I got to go to another Starbucks. I 300 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: couldn't even stay there, and I was so angry, so crazy, 301 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: so much adrenaline that I took me a half hour. 302 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: I didn't even want to go home because my wife 303 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: would see it, like I'm all upset, and I didn't 304 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: want to tell her the story. Like at that moment, 305 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: I just didn't want to get into it. I just 306 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: keep it to myself. And I admit that's probably the 307 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: angriest I've ever been. I never blow up like that 308 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: at home. I don't blow up like that at the station. 309 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: I just this. She just personified everything that's wrong with 310 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: government and bureaucracy to me. 311 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: And can I just say that you tempered this so 312 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: much on the air, because when he was telling me 313 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 2: the story off the air, he was screaming, screaming, So 314 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: you've had a chance to calm down a little bit. 315 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: So that's good. Look, you're on edge. 316 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 2: You've probably hardly had any sleep, and right, I mean 317 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 2: you not have sleep. 318 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: Oh, I was up at four in the morning. I 319 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: can't I get up. I only sleep in and I'm 320 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: having terrible dreams too. Yeah, because we're like under, We're 321 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: like under a real threat, you know, first the threat 322 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: of the fire, then the threat of the looters, and 323 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: then the lack of power. And it's freezing cold, and 324 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: I'm constantly checking the birds and checking the cat and 325 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: the dog, waiting to find them stiff as a board. 326 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: And then the frustration of making all these phone calls 327 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: to all these cocamaby agencies like the DWP. 328 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 2: Although I do have a positive DWP story, I'll tell 329 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 2: you about later, all right, because we do need some 330 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: positive I guess there should be balance, right, ye, all right? 331 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 332 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 3: six forty. 333 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: This just in. Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for looting 334 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: in fire evacuation zones to be treated as a felony. 335 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: Yesterday we had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County DA. 336 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: He and Nathan Hawkman in the La County DA is 337 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: demanding that the legislature make looting an absolute felony right now, 338 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: it's what they call a wobbler. It's up to a 339 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: local prosecutor and then a judge to decide whether it 340 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: wobbles to the left and becomes a misdemeanor which is 341 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: a relatively light sentence no more than six months in 342 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: a county jail, or a felony and make it part 343 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: of the three strikes calculation. And you know what happens. 344 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: You give certain prosecutors, like a gascon or a lot 345 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: of these left wing judges a choice. These all become wobblers, 346 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: These all become misdemeanors, are not felonies. Well, Newsom is 347 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: now agreeing that at least in fire evacuation zones, it 348 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: should be a hold on. I'm getting another fire warning. 349 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 2: It's a bunch of evacuation orders have been Did I 350 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 2: got it to? 351 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: Okay? All right, it's good news. Yes, I hear that. 352 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: I hear that sound from the watch Duty app and 353 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: you know your tense up and it's like which way 354 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 1: should I run? So so Newsom now has become a 355 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: born again crime fighter, This slippery, oily psychopath praying on 356 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: people at their most vulnerable is despicable. These criminals are 357 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: among the worst kinds. This is a guy who fought 358 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: tooth and nail to try to defeat Prop thirty six, 359 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: to defeat the repeal of Prop forty seven. He never 360 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 1: had a bad word to say about forty seven, And 361 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: when Prop thirty six was going to get on the ballot, 362 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: he pulled all kinds of tricks. They all failed, and 363 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, praying on people at their 364 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: most vulnerable is despicable. Looting has never been legal here, 365 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: Yes it has. Looting has been legal. Can you imagine 366 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: that he actually can say looting has never been legal here? 367 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven in practical in effect made it legal. 368 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: And he knows this. It will not be tolerated. And 369 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: that's why I've tasked support from Cowguard and CHP to 370 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: protect residents and their property. All right, nice, nice theater 371 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 1: from Newsom there. Performative theater is all that is. Let 372 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: me go back to what's going on in my neighborhood. 373 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: And it's going on a lot of people's neighborhoods. So 374 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: we don't have power, and so it's really cold, and 375 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,880 Speaker 1: it's obviously really dark, and my wife and I don't 376 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: want to leave the house because we don't want the 377 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 1: leaders to come and take stuff. And we have pets, 378 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: birds can't be moved. And we keep figuring this will 379 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: be over in a day, but it's not. And we 380 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: call up all the phone numbers, the DWP, you name it. 381 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: Let me tell you everybody who answers the phone in government, 382 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: everyone so far is of oh help. Everybody says, well, 383 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: that's the other agency. DWP says, well, you got to 384 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: call the fire department. Fire department says called DWP. Fire 385 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: department says, call LAPD because they're putting up the blockades. 386 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: Round and round and rounded goes why why do people 387 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: do that? Do you have a manual, one page manual 388 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: that says, when someone calls and complaints here at DWP, 389 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: blame the fire department. You call the fire department, blame 390 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: the police department. Is that your instructions? Just say so, 391 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: let us know what because nobody's in charge, everyone's covering 392 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: their ass. Now, from what I understand through my sources, 393 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: I told you the three things. I want to know. 394 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,239 Speaker 1: What's broken? How long is it going to take to fix? Like? 395 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 1: What do you need to fix it? Are we waiting 396 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: on parts. Is there a lack of personnel? Can you 397 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: contract it out? And then when's it going to be done? 398 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: Just tell us the truth, because if you tell me 399 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: it's twenty four hours of a blackout, we have Plan A. 400 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: If it's gonna be two weeks, we've got Plan B. 401 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: It's two completely different directions. I don't think it's I 402 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: think with all the press conferences, you should explain this 403 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,719 Speaker 1: or tell the council people, or you know, tell us 404 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: what website to read. Why don't you do that? Why 405 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: aren't you Why don't you act like normal people? How 406 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: come people in government don't act like normal people and 407 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: just get the answer whatever it is. We're adults, we 408 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: can take bad news. Instead, they stonewall, they dither. From 409 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: what I understand, cal Fire will uh will not let 410 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: the work get underway. CalFire meets with LA Fire Department, 411 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: and they meet with the d WP, they meet with 412 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: the police, and they have a committee of committees. And 413 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: you know what happened with a committee With a committee 414 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: of committees, nobody makes a decision. Everybody covers their ass 415 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: and everybody blames it on someone else. So every time 416 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: you call, they blame it on somebody else and give 417 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: you another number. What how do you get this to stop? 418 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: What do we have to do to get people in? 419 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: People know this if you ever try to get a permit. 420 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: I remember a few years ago we had these eucalyptus 421 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: trees in the backyard that started not our backyard, but 422 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: the backyard behind us and catty quarter to us, and 423 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: they started coming down during one of the floods. We 424 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: had to get the trees on someone else's property chopped 425 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: down for safety reasons. Good luck getting all the departments 426 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: to tell you the truth as to whether that can 427 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: be done and who's responsible for it, and who do 428 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: you have to call? Again? Everybody says, well, you go here, 429 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: you go there, you call this, you call that, you 430 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: can't do this, and it's infuriating, it's absolutely And you all, 431 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: you people in government, right, you wonder iers, complain about 432 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: government people because it's true. You're all a bunch of 433 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: e f ups. You're liars, you're lazy, you don't tell 434 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: people the truth, you don't get things done. And now 435 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 1: you know we're dealing with we're dealing with again. This 436 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: is different from the firefighters fighting the fire. I'm talking 437 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: about the bureaucrats. I'm talking about the people the titles. 438 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the people of the offices, who set 439 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: the policies, who show up at these press conferences. Why 440 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: do you have to make so like this isn't tough 441 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: enough on everyone? Why didn't she explain to people trying 442 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: to get to see their homes in the Pacific Palisades, 443 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 1: do what Alex Stone did last half hour. Just talk 444 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: about all the downpower lines. Point out that the house 445 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: that collapsed from the landslide. This is why we don't 446 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: want to let you in anywhere, because these homes are 447 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: not stable. They could collapse because the water undermined the foundation. 448 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: Talk about that. But why can't LAPD get in these 449 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: neighborhoods and take care of the looters? Why why repeated 450 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: phone calls begging what do you want? You want to bribe? 451 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: What do you want? You want a firstborn child? You 452 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: want my dog? What is it going to take on 453 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: behalf of all the other people in my neighborhood, on 454 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: my side of town? What does it get What does 455 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: it take to get l APD cars in the neighborhoods 456 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: and chase the looters away and shoot to kill I 457 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: talked to a whole lot of neighbors and friends, and 458 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: it was unanimous. Shoot to kill ought to be the 459 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 1: policy by the police. Please don't do this on your own. 460 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: Obviously you can't do that. That's a joke. But but 461 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: that's how people are feeling. There's gonna be a political 462 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: earthquake here. Bass should have packed already. I can find 463 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: nobody defending Bass. I think the only people defending them 464 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: are internet trolls. I don't think anybody sincereally wants Karen 465 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: Bass to be the bear anymore. Okay, I see these headlines. 466 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: Is she the most hated mayor in America? Everyone hates 467 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: Karen Bass and l like, yes, that's true. Everybody does that. 468 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: That picture that that minute and a half where she 469 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: was stonewalling the report order from Sky News, that's going 470 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: to live in infamy. The photo of her standing with 471 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: the UH, with the diplomats from Ghana or the president 472 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: of Ghana, that's going to live in infamy. She has 473 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: no business still being the mayor. Everybody believes that if 474 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: we could do like an instant recall, an instant firing UH, 475 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: it would be overwhelming against her. And there's something wrong 476 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: with our system that when someone is this is a 477 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 1: dereliction of duty. Okay, this is like a captain jumping 478 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: off the ship right before the ship hits an iceberg 479 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: and everybody dies. All right, they'll find that captain, they'll 480 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 1: fish him out of the water, and he's going to 481 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: prison for the rest of his life. And we did 482 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: have people die in this fire. And there's no excuse. 483 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear the spin. And please save 484 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: your your your racial rantings and ravings. It's garbage and nonsense. 485 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: And the same thing would newsome too. I mean, enough 486 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: is enough? What you you know? The thing is, I've 487 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: heard people say, if there's a burglary, you call LAPD, 488 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: they won't show up, or they won't show up for 489 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: an hour, or they tell you to do it online. 490 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You could have hundreds of 491 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: people calling LAPD in one section of town and they're 492 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: still not showing up. And you know, we got a 493 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: new new police chief, Jim McDonald, and well, obviously tough times, 494 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: but hey, you got to come through here. Everybody's got 495 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: to come through. You know what calls me, We pay 496 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 1: for this. They all are supposed to be working for us. 497 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: People on that side of town pay tremendous amounts of 498 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: tax money. And I can tell you I have a 499 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: number of neighbor's, number of friends absolutely done. They're moving. 500 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: They're selling their house and moving. As soon as this 501 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: is over a lot of people, You're gonna lose a 502 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: lot of tax revenue. Maybe you could turn it all 503 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: the all these blocks into homeless shelters. Maybe that was 504 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: the whole idea. Maybe that's the whole Marxist socialist idea 505 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: is just destroy the wealthier neighborhoods, make everybody move out, 506 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: and replace it with housing for illegal aliens and homeless 507 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: people and criminals. I mean, if that was the plan, 508 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: working perfectly, isn't it. If that wasn't the plan, I mean, 509 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: what would you do differently if you wanted to destroy 510 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: the richest part of town and replace it with housing 511 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: for illegal aliens and homeless people and criminals. What would 512 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: you do differently? You cut the fire department to nothing, 513 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 1: defund the police. Once you get rid of the fire 514 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: department and the police department, not clear sailing. Eventually the 515 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: bad guys take over and they win. 516 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 517 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 3: six fort. 518 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: Debora and I were just talking off the air that 519 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: this Pallisates fire and the fire now to Dina are 520 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: both the extremely severe worst case scenarios, but they are 521 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: limited to those two geographic areas. 522 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 2: So what happens when the big one hits right? 523 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: The San Andreas fault goes and we get a seven 524 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: eight nine earthquake and the entire city, entire county is ravaged, 525 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: not just one enclave like the Palisades or one smallish 526 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: town in the hills. What what if the entire region 527 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: gets rocked by an earthquake and you have tens of 528 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: thousands of buildings and hundreds or thousands of people dead. 529 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: This crew is gonna show up Bass and Newsom. You 530 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: know they have. I know now that when they give 531 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: us rhetoric, and I'm going to talk a lot about rhetoric, 532 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: somebody in the California globe rot a great peace on this. 533 00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: All this rhetoric is nonsense. They don't have plans, they 534 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: don't have a program to implement to help mitigate the damage. 535 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: Everybody's on their own. Now, that's the first time in 536 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: life I felt like I am completely on my own. 537 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: It's really scary thing. There's nobody to rely on. I mean, 538 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: most of my neighbors have left the ones that are 539 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: and got their homes looted. Say, that's the thing. That's 540 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: why I'm glad we stayed in the house, because I 541 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: think we've created just enough of an atmosphere like, hey, 542 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: there's people in here, and you don't know what's going 543 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: to happen. But four other families on very close to 544 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: us looted last night. Police woen show up. We know 545 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: the fire didn't show up. Firemen didn't show up in time. 546 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: In the Palisades. We know Karen bass is in Africa. 547 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: Newsom's got his head up his ass pretending, you know, 548 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: lying to people on the phone with Joe Biden. This 549 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: is what we're dealing with, clowns, lunatics. So what are 550 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: we supposed to do. Some people are starting to arm themselves. 551 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: There's a whole thing in the Wall Street Journal. I 552 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: got to get to that too. People in out the 553 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: DNA and Palisades arming themselves. They are running through the hillsides, 554 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: sneaking down alleyways to avoid the police checkpoints to go 555 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: see their house. And everybody says the same things like 556 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. I kept reading this in the story. 557 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. So what happens when an earthquake 558 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: hits and instantly we're all gonna know. Now nobody from 559 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: the city, county, or state is going to come and 560 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: help us. And when the water lines are broke and 561 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: the gas lines are broke, the electricity is out. The criminals, 562 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: I mean two criminals already have been detained who are 563 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: legal aliens. They let in millions of illegal aliens and 564 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: they joined the brigade of homegrown looters. It's like, great, 565 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: this is that's you know, it's federal government failing. The 566 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: state government has failed. They have taken and I'm going 567 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: to go through this as well, many many, many billions 568 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: of dollars and spent it on so much unbelievable nonsense. 569 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: And they didn't fund the fire department and they don't 570 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: fund the police department here in LA and every jackass 571 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: voter busy scrolling their TikTok doesn't even know it. Nobody 572 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: even is aware that the fire department is half staffed, 573 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: half funded. Do you know we have one hundred fire 574 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: engines in the shop, one hundred of them, no mechanics 575 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: to fix them. It's fire season and Karen Bass and 576 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: the LA City Council. Half of them are criminals, half 577 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,719 Speaker 1: of them are clowns, idiots, and they literally are criminals. 578 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: Half of no funding for the fire department just to 579 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: hire mechanics to fix the engines. Somehow that was zeroed out. 580 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: That was crossed out. What you want mechanics to fix 581 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: fire engines to fight fires? No, here's some more homeless 582 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: money to those criminal nonprofits. Just keep scrolling, keep texting, scrolling, 583 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: you know, Instagram, scroll away, social media. Everyone's mesmerized by 584 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: the screen, and nobody knows now that there was absolutely 585 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: no plan to protect us or to respond to the 586 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: greatest natural disaster to hit Los Angeles. 587 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 2: Is there a plan when the big earthquake hits? I mean, 588 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 2: if there wasn't a plan for this, do we have 589 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 2: a plan for when the earthquakes? 590 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: What do you think if this was a dress rehearsal. 591 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 2: I mean really that's terrifying. Yeah, and you would think 592 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 2: that this would be a wake up call and that 593 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 2: there will be a plan actually before the big earthquake 594 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 2: the summer. Can you imagine if we just get very 595 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 2: little rain, we're gonna have the Santa Anna's in the 596 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 2: dry conditions and the heat this summer. 597 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and when the fires hit again and the 598 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 1: earthquakes hit again after we're not allowed to buy gas 599 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: powered cars anymore, we're all going to jump into our 600 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: electric cars and oh we're out of juice. Oh we're 601 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: stuck in traffic for six hours, and our batteries are dying. 602 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: What kind of a hell? What kind of a hell 603 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,399 Speaker 1: hold they created for us? We can't pour gasoline into 604 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: our cars to get out of the fires and the earthquakes. 605 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, you know what I hope 606 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: dies in that fire. You know what I hope died 607 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 1: in that fire is progressive politics. I hope progressive politics 608 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: died in that Palisades fire, the out the din of fire, 609 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 1: and all the rest. If we go one more day 610 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: under progressive politics, we're gonna end up like the victims 611 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,479 Speaker 1: of these fires. We're just gonna end up dead, charge 612 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: beyond recognition. That's what progressive politics does. It kills you. 613 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,399 Speaker 1: It destroys your home, it destroys your community. Like I said, 614 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: I got friends they're moving out, neighbors they're moving out. 615 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out where to move John. Sorry 616 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 2: to say I might be leaving you. 617 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 1: My wife wants to move, my best friend's out here. 618 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: All want to move, but that's what you did to 619 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: the community. And they're all serious. This isn't threats. They 620 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: can pack up and go anytime they want and sell 621 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,760 Speaker 1: their house and make a good profit on it. Debora 622 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: Mark Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've 623 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You can 624 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,960 Speaker 1: always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty 625 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and 626 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 1: of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.