1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: One to four o'clock we're I Live every day on 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: KFI and on the iHeart app streaming, and then after 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: four o'clock we transform into a podcast. John Cobbet Show 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: on demand. You could hear what you missed This situation 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. Ocean Avenue, which I'm very familiar with. 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: It overlooks the beach and the ocean. It's right across 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: the street from what was a beautiful, beautiful park called 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: Palastine Park. And along Ocean Avenue there's residential homes. Eventually 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: you get into hotels and restaurants, but on the northern 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: end it's residential homes. And in that area they were 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: going to place not one, but two buildings that we're 12 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: going to house severely mentally ill people, severely mentally ill 13 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: homeless people. We're going to be moved in. I think 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: about fifty of them between the two buildings. Imagine that. 15 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: Imagine you live on those blocks or around the corner, 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: because all the side streets leading to Ocean Avenue and 17 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: the Ocean are mostly residential. Yeah, all residential. There's no 18 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: there's no commerce at all. And suddenly you got fifty 19 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: mentally ill homeless patients wandering around because, as the former 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: mayor Lennon ne Grete said, it's not a locked facility, 21 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: it's not a hospital. If they want to wander off 22 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: for lunch, if they want to go to the park, 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: they want to leave the program, nobody's forcing them to stay. 24 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: They can just leave for the day and meander in 25 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: the neighborhood and have a psychic have a psychosis break outside. 26 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: These are These are like forty fifty people who can 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: all have psychotic breaks from reality at any given moment, 28 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: and they'd be wandering in this residential nameghborhood, across from 29 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: the nice park, across from the beach in the ocean. 30 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: Who did this? Well, we've gone through the whole mechanism. 31 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: The thing is, nobody told, you know. It was the city, 32 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: it was the county, it was Saint Joseph's Hospital, it 33 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: was you know, some nonprofit guy, and I'm going to 34 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: tell you about him in a second. But but nobody 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: nobody told the residents. Residents found out, they completely freaked out, 36 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: and all the politicians ran for cover. They knew what 37 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: was going on. Now here's a central character in this 38 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: that we have not spoken about yet, Leo, who's still Nickoff, 39 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: who's still Nickoff? P U s t I l n 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: I ko V Pusta Milkoff. I'm going to call him leoh. 41 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: Leo has talked with the Westside Current dot com and 42 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: admitted that they made mistakes in rolling out this project, 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: and he's blaming the bureaucracy that kept information reaching the public. 44 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: How about this, Leo, It's not about the delay in information. 45 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: It's about this. This idea was even conceived, even considered, 46 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: let alone well on the way to implementation without anyone's knowledge. 47 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 1: How about this? No mental health facilities in residential neighborhoods, 48 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: No severely mentally I homeless people in residential neighborhoods, and 49 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: they're not even locked down. How about no? Never, don't 50 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: even think about it. You're out of your mind. Who 51 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: the hell are you now? That's expensive real estate. You're 52 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: right near the ocean. That's millions of dollars in real estate. 53 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: And you get fifty severely mentally ill patients allowed to 54 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: run out on the loose. No, no, no, never, And 55 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: that's got to be the uh yes, NIMBYs. Not in 56 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: my backyard, not in my front yard, not on my block, 57 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: not within ten miles of me out out and somebody's 58 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: got to get that through the thick empties. Well can 59 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: they be thick and empty at the same time. Yeah, 60 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: their skulls are made a cement block, and inside the 61 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: cement block is dead air. And I'm talking about the 62 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: city council. I'm talking about this County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath. 63 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 2: She is a. 64 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: Disaster and she claims she was blindsided by this, that 65 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: the Department of Mental Health didn't inform her office about 66 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: the project until the funding had been secured. Oh stop it. 67 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: How many people know about a project where a guy 68 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: comes in and he goes, you know, I'm going to 69 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: run two buildings, fifty mental patients, fifty severely ill mental patients, 70 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: and you know I'm taking gus, I'm taking tax money here. Yeah, 71 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: a lot of people knew about it, and they also 72 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: knew the best thing is to try to get this 73 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: jammed in, move the people into these two buildings. It 74 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: would make it more difficult to get rid of them. 75 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: You know, ask ask for forgiveness, that permission. It's the 76 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: oldest game that every little kid learns. That's what they 77 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: were doing. And Leo, the developer, he said he understands 78 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: why they objected. The location became public about a month 79 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: before it's launch. He said, he and his partners we're 80 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: talking with the city for a six month period. He said, 81 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: at any point officials had the opportunity to notify the public. 82 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: So that nobody in Santa Monica City government ever told 83 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: the public. The city council, no, whoever runs all these 84 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: idiotic departments or these commissions that allow this sort of thing, 85 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: nobody knew, or no they knew. Nobody told. Nobody told 86 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: because they knew every single resident would hate this, hate it. 87 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: This stuff should be banned forever from residential neighborhoods and 88 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,679 Speaker 1: any variation on it. No drug rehab centers, no alcohol centers, 89 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: no homeless shelters, temporary homeless shelters, permit and homeless shelter shelters, 90 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: mental health, drug treatment, all of it, none of it 91 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 1: in residential neighborhoods. Not for five minutes. No, this guy, 92 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: Leo was stilling, the cough has owned and operated twenty 93 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: one buildings for the last year under the skid Row 94 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: Housing Trust. So this guy is This guy's running some 95 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: kind of homeless empire. And he thought using the ocean 96 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: Avenue properties was a good idea because they need mental 97 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: health and addiction services. Yeah, but not in a residential area, 98 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: he says on skid Row. There's a shortage of it. 99 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: And he said it would have been nice to open 100 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: the building in downtown, but there's already a lot of 101 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: those services in that area. It makes it difficult to 102 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: get projects funded. I don't know what that means. Why 103 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: would it get Why because there's so many other homeless 104 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: mental health service buildings there? Why would it be hard 105 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: to get it funded? And bottom line is, who gives 106 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: a crap about your problems? Then go find another remote 107 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: area or some industrial area, or the desert or somewhere 108 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: in the Angeles mountains, or maybe put them all on 109 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: a boat and toll them out to see and do 110 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: the treatment there. Always only you know, we really can't 111 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: do this, and we really can't go there, and we've 112 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: got all Nobody cares about your problems you brought. You 113 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: wanted to bring fifty mental patients to my neighborhood. How 114 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: fast can I kick you in the ass and get 115 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: you out of town? Nobody? This is the plan. Of course, 116 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: the Santa Monica City Council and the Santa Monic bureaucrats 117 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: are all for this because they believe that people who 118 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: have jobs and own homes are to be punished for 119 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: their success, and they have to take in their fair 120 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: share of drug addicts and mental patients and homeless people. 121 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: That it should be spread equally throughout the districts. This 122 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: idea has been around for years in LA and in 123 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: La County. It's part of the progressive ideology that we 124 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: all have to share. It's like, no, we don't have 125 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: to share in this. No, I don't want this. No, 126 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: there should be designated areas in the city where you 127 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: take care of it. Let all the mental patients live together 128 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: on the same block and they can all scream and 129 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: howl at the moon and entertain each other. Not here, 130 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: not ever, fifty of them, and they're not locked in. 131 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: They're not locked in, so they could wander into the 132 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: restaurants while you're trying to have lunch. They could bother 133 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 1: your kids while you're sitting in the park on a blanket, 134 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: playing with your two year olds, while you're walking your dog. 135 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: You can have fifty of these people running around. Lindsey Horvath, 136 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: she got to be the first one put in one 137 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: of these mental health institutions, along with almost everybody on 138 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: the Santa Monica City Council and the county supervisors, all 139 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: of them. This is really avirid behavior. All right, more 140 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: coming up. 141 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 142 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: six four. 143 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's Show. We're on from one to four every 144 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: day after four o'clock. John Cobelt's Show on demand on 145 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: the iHeart app, follow us at John Cobelt Radio on 146 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: social media, and we're putting longer segments on YouTube these days. 147 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: To subscribe to get notification, go to YouTube dot com 148 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show, YouTube dot com slash at 149 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: John Cobelt's Show. All Right, you know what to do, 150 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: Just go do it and then I can. I'll stop 151 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: annoying you with all these announcements. Well, one of the 152 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: biggest busts in business history is trying to force electric 153 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: vehicles on the public who didn't want them. And obviously 154 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: there was a lot of pressure from the federal government, 155 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: and Ford stupidly went along. One thing I didn't understand 156 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: is why four GM and the rest of them didn't 157 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: fight back furiously. That's what bribes are for. That's what 158 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: lobbyists are for. But instead all the all the auto 159 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 1: companies bent over, and boy, they took it hard. They 160 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: had lost so much money. And this week the Ford 161 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: Motor Company announced their latest write down. They're writing off 162 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: nineteen and a half billion dollars in losses. Almost all 163 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: of it is the electrical vehicle business. Nineteen and a 164 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: half billion. You think that's bad. Yeah, how much money 165 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: they've lost since twenty twenty two, thirty five billion dollars? 166 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: Thirty five billion. Do you know how much income Ford 167 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: has had in that time? Eleven billion? They lost three 168 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: times as much money as they made from selling everything else. 169 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: That's just overwhelming. And if you remember, Biden pushed this hard. 170 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: Newsom pushed this hard. Congress issued a seventy five hundred 171 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: dollars tax credit per vehicle, and that would phase out 172 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: after a manufacturer sold two hundred thousand electric cars. Obama 173 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: what had this goal a million evs on US roads 174 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: by twenty fifteen. The actual number is under four hundred thousand. 175 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: The public didn't like them, and we know why. You 176 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: don't get much range. It takes too long to charge, 177 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: and they're very expensive. The whole thing was just too 178 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: much of a hassle unless you were really wealthy and 179 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: you bought a Tesla. Tesla owners seemed to be happy 180 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: until Musk got aligned with Donald Trump. Then suddenly Tesla 181 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: owners decided the car didn't run all that well. But 182 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: there isn't a replacement for Tesla. None of the other 183 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: car companies came up with anything close, certainly not in 184 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: an affordable range. And so Ford announced that they're getting 185 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: rid of the f one point fifty Lightning that was 186 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: their election pickup truck, and they introduced that on the 187 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: market and with a lot of fanfare. It got a 188 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: lot of publicity and excitement, and it turned out that 189 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: it was a bust because if you have a pickup truck, 190 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: you like to carry a lot of things. You like 191 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: to pull stuff, right, Maybe you want to pull a boat, 192 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: Maybe you want to fill the truck bed with all 193 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: kinds of equipment. It turned out that if you have 194 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in the truck bed, or if 195 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: you're pulling something heavy, your electricity falls dramatically. You lose 196 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: juice rapidly, so you can't go very far. I guess 197 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: nobody thought of this when they put them out on 198 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: the market because they were really expensive, so it didn't 199 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: take long, and you know, everybody communicates now immediately they 200 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: start posting things on various websites and bulletin boards, and 201 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: quickly the whole world realized that getting an ev an 202 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: EV pickup truck was going to be a huge hassle 203 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: and a half and the car wouldn't go very far. 204 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: So now what they're going to do is, well, let 205 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: me tell you what the damage, right, thirty five billion dollars. 206 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: They lost thirteen billion dollars on its business just since 207 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Add that another nineteen billion dollars with 208 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: this write off. They also they also now are getting 209 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: rid of They're closing their Kentucky EV battery factory. They're 210 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: going to lay off thousands of people. They're going to 211 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: turn it eventually into a battery storage business for customers 212 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: utilities and wind and solar power developers who take those 213 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: energy sources converted into battery, and then there's this storage 214 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: area that Ford is going to run. They're also massive 215 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: data centers that train art official intelligence that is also 216 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: going to require a lot of batteries. So they're going 217 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: to repurpose the battery factory but the idea of electric vehicles. Oh, 218 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: here's another reason didn't happen. We didn't have an electrical grid, 219 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: especially in California. And this is what really flummocks me. 220 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: This was one of these subjects the last few years. 221 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: I thought I was insane. I thought there was something 222 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: wrong with me. How can you force tens of millions 223 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: of people to plug in an electric vehicle every day 224 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: when we're always running on the edge of running out 225 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: of power, especially in the summertime. I remember we did 226 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: a few years ago, had a really hot summer, and 227 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: because stupid Newsome closed all these gas plants and he 228 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: was going to close a nuclear plant, we almost had blackouts. Well, 229 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: if you add millions and millions of electrical cars, well 230 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: then what's going to happen. Oh that's when they said, 231 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: well you only got you only can plug them in 232 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: between ten at night and four and in the morning. 233 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: It's all right, Okay, I can see where this is going. 234 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: We're going to have our lives now twenty four hour controlled. 235 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: We can't charge the car when we want. It means 236 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: we can't drive when we want. It means our freedoms 237 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: are constricted. We can't go as far as we want. 238 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: You know, you can't buy a four f one fifty 239 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: lightning and want to load it up with stuff and 240 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: pull a boat behind you if the thing's going to 241 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: peter out after fifty miles. And this always was about control, 242 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: and the public looked at it. I mean a lot 243 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: of people considered an EV but at those prices, with 244 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: that range, with the charging stations, there were no charging stations. 245 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: Not only you didn't have an electric grid, you didn't 246 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: you had very few charging stations. But it was like 247 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: a weird religion that they were forcing you to join, 248 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: like you had to join or we're going to destroy 249 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: your life. I mean, I think this year, coming year 250 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, thirty five percent of the cars were 251 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 1: supposed to be electric vehicle sales here in California. Well, 252 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: they weren't going to come anywhere near that. I never 253 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: really understood if there's a penalty for that, and then 254 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: what they were going to do is drive up the 255 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: That's why the gasoline is is four to fifty a gallon, 256 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: and that's why it may be headed to six eight 257 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: ten dollars a gallon with all the oil production problems 258 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: we have in the state. They were going to force 259 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: everybody into electric vehicles. That was going to be their 260 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: backdoor mandate in case we weren't buying thirty five percent evs, 261 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: we weren't meeting the goals. They were going to force 262 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: us all because we'd end up with ten dollars gas. 263 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: So now now now Ford is backing way off. They 264 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 1: think hybrids eventually are going to sell very well. They 265 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: already are, and that would have been the logical way 266 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: to go. People seem to like hybrids, it makes more sense. 267 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: But the fanatics, the environmental fanatics and Newsom, we're demanding 268 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: all or nothing. There was no mid range compromise like EVS. 269 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: So this this came from the Obama administration, the Biden administration, 270 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: the Newsom administration. By twenty thirty two, around the whole nation, 271 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: two thirds of new cars across the country would have 272 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: to be electric, even though nobody wanted them. But we 273 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: dodged that, dodged it not with any protests, We dodged 274 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: it simply by not buying them. I always wandered in 275 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: the back of my mind, It's like, well, what if 276 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,239 Speaker 1: people don't buy what kind of a standoff is going 277 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: to occur? If people refuse to show up to the 278 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: dealership and purchase one of these one of these losers. Okay, 279 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show. 280 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 281 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 3: six forty. 282 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four o'clock. 283 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, that's the podcast, 284 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: and listen to what you missed. I want to get 285 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: right to David Goldbloom here. He is director of a 286 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: really a powerful emotional documentary called Big Rock Burning, and 287 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: it's about people who live in Malibu's Big Rock community 288 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: as they try to come back after the fire that 289 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: wiped out many of the homes there. Let's get to 290 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: David Goldbloom. 291 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 2: On Thanks for having me, John. 292 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm really glad to have you, and I'm a little 293 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: fired up because we just found out, you know, the 294 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 1: new details about the Palisades fire. What got you in? 295 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: What motivated you to do this documentary? 296 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I guess a little bit of craziness. 297 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 4: My home burned down and the fires and that night 298 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 4: my community, very tight knit community in Big Rock and Malibu. 299 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 4: We formed a WhatsApp group and people that's how we 300 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 4: were getting information out to each other. That's how we 301 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 4: were finding out that no help came. There was a 302 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 4: stand down order, no firefighters, no water, and the reservoirs 303 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 4: were kind of became a news network overnight, and everybody 304 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 4: just kept saying, we have to get our story out there. 305 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 4: How come not one firefighter came to our mountain the 306 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 4: entire night of the fires. And I kept hearing that 307 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 4: for a couple of nights, and the more people kept saying, 308 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 4: we got to get our story out there. Eventually I 309 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 4: was just like, Okay, if we want to tell this story, 310 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 4: I'll jump in the ring and I'll shepherd it. And 311 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 4: I think over forty residents who had lost their homes 312 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 4: reached out to me and said, you know, we're on board, 313 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 4: we'll do whatever we kind of help you. 314 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: And where is Big Rock in Malibu? Exactly? So people 315 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: not familiar can place. 316 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 4: So if you think about the Palisades fire, it went 317 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 4: down the pch and really the first mountain enclave leading 318 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 4: towards Malibu was Big Rock once you pass Pacific Palisades, 319 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 4: So it's kind of at the beginning of Malibu and 320 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 4: what fired. 321 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: Your station covers that community. 322 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 2: I think La County. 323 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, La County. So that's who you were waiting on 324 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: to come and nobody did. 325 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, there were apparently there was a stand down order 326 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 4: and the standout or events. Yeah, one of the residents 327 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 4: heard it on a dispatch. 328 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: That's really common in fires, right, a standout rather than 329 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: send more guys, send less guys, in fact, don't send anybody. 330 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: Stay home. 331 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 2: Well, I guess let it burn with the mantra. 332 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what what it It really was, wasn't it. 333 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: It really was the philosophy. After the first a couple 334 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: of hours, it's like, ah, nothing we could do. Let 335 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: it go. 336 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, And it wasn't just fire. 337 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 4: To somebody in the film, she called nine one one 338 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 4: and they kind of just said, sorry, we can't help you. 339 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 4: And she was stranded on a mountain, like on a boulder, yeah, 340 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 4: with fire all in common, like all around her, and 341 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 4: just there was every man for themself. 342 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: How do you feel like like today? I don't know 343 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: if you heard. We've got another round of stories from 344 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: the attorneys representing the Palisades owners, and it looks like 345 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: the state put a stop to the La Fire Department 346 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: cleaning up the January first fire, which is where the 347 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 1: rekindling happened because they wanted us to protect the Milk 348 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Fitch plan. So no bulldozers, no fire lines, no tamping 349 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: down the hospots. When you hear these things, and there's 350 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: been a lot of these stories, how do you feel, like, 351 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: what does that do to your psyche? 352 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 4: It's really sad and it's really disappointing. And I was 353 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 4: on an La Times Studio podcast the other day and 354 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 4: I said, it makes. 355 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 2: You kind of not want to be here anymore. 356 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 4: You know the fact that nobody has stepped up, nobody's 357 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 4: taken accountability, nobody's said we messed up. And what I 358 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 4: wanted to do with our film is to show the 359 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 4: human story is of loss and grief and resilience too, 360 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 4: and kind of show these were a real peace people 361 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 4: who lost everything. 362 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: I felt and I didn't know anybody in your film. 363 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: I felt so sad for everybody. I few sad. I 364 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: felt angry, and it's like, this shouldn't happen to these people. 365 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 1: These are regular people just living their lives. 366 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. 367 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what kind of reaction have you gotten to 368 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: the film? And where's it playing? And how can people 369 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: find it? 370 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 4: It's been incredible because I think this whole issue has 371 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,479 Speaker 4: become somewhat of a political hotbed, and I tried to 372 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 4: I tried to focus on the human stories. 373 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 2: Yes, we call out a lot of people for what 374 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 2: they did. 375 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 4: Or didn't do, but it seems to have been well 376 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 4: received all over the map, maybe except for Caaren Bath. 377 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 2: But everybody's really appreciative. 378 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 4: And we premiered at Malibu City Hall to a sold 379 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 4: out crowd in August, and I think almost everybody there 380 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 4: had lost their homes and some fire. 381 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 2: And then we've been around the country. 382 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 4: We were at SCAD, Savannah, Mill Valley, Newport, Santa Fe. 383 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 4: And now we're coming to PBS on the anniversary of 384 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 4: the fire, so it'll be broadcast into twenty million homes 385 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 4: across California. 386 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: All right, So you've done a lot of film festivals 387 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: and now PBS and it's going to be on January seventh. 388 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 2: Yep, the anniversary of the fires. 389 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: Oh that's great. So it's going to be seeing all 390 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: over the country. I mean, it's impossible not to get 391 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: emotionally affected while you're watching it. I actually had to 392 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: stop it a couple of times because you know, I'm 393 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: covering this stuff every day, and you know, nothing bad 394 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 1: happened to me. That's why I cannot imagine what it 395 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: must feel like to suffer the trauma. And then you 396 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: get reminded of it every day or every week. You know, 397 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: as more and more of these stories come out, it's 398 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: got to be just unbelievable. But you know, there was 399 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: a sense of optimism in some of the people also 400 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: with the sadness. Yea, it was fascinating to see like 401 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 1: all those human, human emotions playing out at once in 402 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: the aftermath. 403 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's one character in the film. He stayed 404 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 4: behind and he fought with a garden hose, and that 405 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 4: was the kind of team of that night. The people 406 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 4: who stayed behind were fighting with garden hoses and pool 407 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 4: water and bathtub water. But his home survived the night 408 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 4: of the fires. And then the next morning he went 409 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: around and he went from home to home. That's how 410 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 4: I found out my home had burned down. He took 411 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 4: everybody's address in the WhatsApp group, and he was driving 412 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 4: around telling people whether their housemade it or not, because 413 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 4: we were all kind of wanting this sense of closure. 414 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 4: And then he got back to his home and his 415 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 4: home was burning and. 416 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of. 417 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: The toughest parts of the film. Yeah, because he's just 418 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: standing there looking out over where the house used to 419 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: be and he had saved it, and then he tried 420 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: to help everybody else out and that's when the fire 421 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: came back and got him. It's just, yeah, that is 422 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 1: some story you mentioned in passing that Karen Bass didn't 423 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: necessarily have a good reaction. Has she seen or she 424 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: heard about the movie? I mean, what. 425 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 4: You know, I when I we started three days after 426 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 4: the fire, and I had reached out to everybody, I 427 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 4: was trying to get everybody to just kind of have 428 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 4: a voice, and I reached out to Karen's office and 429 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,239 Speaker 4: really was persistent, really trying to get her to, you know, 430 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 4: be on camera have an interview, and they kept just 431 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 4: saying she's done a lot for the community in Malibu already, 432 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 4: and she has. 433 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 2: A busy schedule. And I was kind of like, I'll 434 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 2: come anywhere. 435 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: You know. 436 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 4: I don't know where she's been in Malibu. I haven't 437 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 4: seen her, but she was not I don't think she 438 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 4: wanted to be part of this. 439 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: No, no, Well, the movie is fantastic. I'm glad that 440 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: it's going to be on PBS and the whole nation 441 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: can see it, and you've had great reaction at the 442 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 1: film festivals. And it's thirty minutes, but it's some of 443 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: the most powerful thirty minutes you're ever going to experience. 444 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 2: Thank you, John. 445 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, so good luck with it, and as time goes on, 446 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 1: anything you need from us to publicize it further or 447 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: in any way try to make life better for the 448 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 1: people there in Malibu, just let us know. 449 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, that's a good time to your show. 450 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, David Goldblum. And again PBS. On 451 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: January seventh, the anniversary of the fire, you get to 452 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: see his documentary. Okay, We've got more coming up on 453 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: the John coblt Show. 454 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 455 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 3: six forty. 456 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. We're 457 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: going to play you audio from a video that John 458 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: Alley is posted. John's going to be with us right 459 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: after two o'clock news. He's a businessman who's been fighting 460 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: all the destructive sick policies that the Karen Bass government 461 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: and the Santa Monica government have insisted upon by allowing 462 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,400 Speaker 1: mental patients and drug addicts to run wild on the streets, 463 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: and there's many other crimes that flow from that policy. 464 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: Here in this audio, you're going to hear John Ally, 465 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 1: an LAPD officer, speaking to a homeless couple. Now, this 466 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: homeless couple was trafficked across state borders. There's human trafficking 467 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: going on, and there's a drug rehab facility in LA 468 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: that flew them to LA and they're helped out by 469 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: a well known insurance company and they were kicked out 470 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: eventually from the rehab because the payments dried up, I 471 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: guess from the insurance company. They were kicked out and 472 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: dropped off at in LA County. And uh, listen, listen 473 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: to this conversation. 474 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 4: Where is the last time you saw your kids? 475 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: So you say it again one more time. It's gonna 476 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: be how tough it is stated listening to be extremely tough. 477 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: And like I said, if it was easy, everyone else 478 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: would be doing well. But I know there's something in 479 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: you guys that you guys can cut through because you. 480 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 3: Have each other as well. 481 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna take a whold. This is the comment 482 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: for here. 483 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 3: All Right, someone's gonna be hurting more than another in 484 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 3: another day. 485 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about when you have to 486 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: overcome what brought you down here. 487 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: In the first place, right And I wish you could 488 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 2: see you guys around there. 489 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: He's got because we're gonna send it a great sure, 490 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: yea a picture, browse and dates, good take seats stuff. 491 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 4: Stare their family, your family you can trust absolutely, Okay tomorrow, yes, tomorrow. 492 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that we bring them for your police officers. 493 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: But you know what, it's I'll come the job. What 494 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: we've got here are these these rehab facilities, and they're 495 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: funded with your tax money, and and they're flying people 496 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: in from out of state. And then the rehab facilities 497 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: can get insurance money. And then eventually the insurance money 498 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: runs out, and this couple is left out of the street. 499 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: They're they're kicked out of the rehab facility. There's nobody 500 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: left to pay it, so they're not off the drugs. 501 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: But everybody else has made the money. This rehab facility 502 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: has gotten the money from the insurance company. They get 503 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: funded by the government. It is an incredible racket. And 504 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: that's why the homeless situation ever gets any better. Because 505 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: people in the homeless industry keep bringing in more and 506 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: more vagrants from the outside, from other states. So when 507 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: you hear that idiot Karen Bass talk about Inside Safe 508 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: taking people off the streets, the numbers aren't going down, 509 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: and they're not going down because there's replacements, and eventually 510 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: the tax money runs out for Inside Safe. It already has, 511 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: so they're going to have to let people go out 512 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: of the motels that they purchased. The money eventually runs out, 513 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,080 Speaker 1: but they make as much as they can for as 514 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: long as they can. Most of the public doesn't understand. 515 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: The whole thing is a scam. It's a racket. They 516 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: take tax money, they take insurance money, they take donations 517 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: from well intentioned progressive people. In the meantime, thousands of 518 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,719 Speaker 1: die in the streets, but thousands of new ones come in. 519 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: Karen Bass intentionally lies about the homeless numbers. When you 520 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: look at her report, the county report, and then compare 521 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: it to what the RAND Corporation did an independent count 522 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: it's not even close. Some of the districts RAND discovered 523 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: the county undercounted. Karen Bass undercounted by up to forty percent. 524 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: So the whole thing is a lie. The whole thing 525 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: is a racket and a scam. They make numbers up up. 526 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: There's a story out of Washington d C today. You know, 527 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 1: the police chief of Washington d C just left. Turned 528 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: out she was lying about the number of crimes. They 529 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 1: were making up numbers so they could say, well, we 530 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: don't need any help from the federal government. Crime numbers 531 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: are already down. Well, they were fake crime numbers. LAPD 532 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: has done this with fake crime numbers that's been reported 533 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: on here. We have fake homeless count numbers. They're getting 534 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: wealthy people running these organizations. They're making money. We're gonna 535 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: talk more with John Alley about this and about his 536 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: fight in MacArthur Park as well. Okay, we've got more 537 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: coming up on the John Cobelt Show. 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