1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I Am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 3: You can hear us every day from one until four o'clock. 5 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 3: John Cobelt's Show on demand after four o'clock, that's the 6 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 3: podcast version. It's the same as the radio show. You 7 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 3: could just listen to us continuously all day and night. 8 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 3: The fire has caused a lot of collateral damage in 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 3: different ways in different cities, and Malibu is suffering from 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 3: not only losing you know, a number of homes, but 11 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 3: there's a checkpoint on pch going north and it's difficult 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 3: to get past there unless you have a proof of 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 3: residency or some kind of special pass, which means the 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: businesses are suffering a lot. You can come from the 15 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: north and you can take one of the canyon roads, 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: you know, from the San Fernando Valley, but you you know, 17 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: bulk of the population is south of Malibu and they 18 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: can't get in there, and businesses are having a hard time. 19 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 3: Bob Morris is the owner of Paradise Cove Beach Cafe, 20 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 3: which is a wonderful restaurant right right on the water, 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: and business is down sixty percent, and he would like 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 3: the uh the government to lift the restrictions to just 23 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 3: just let people in before Malibu businesses disappear. And we're 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 3: going to talk to Bob's business consultant, Glenn Bisarah, who's 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 3: trying to get the word out that Malibu is open 26 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 3: for business if you can get in there. 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: Welcome. 28 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 4: How are you, Glenn, John, I'm doing great, and thank 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 4: you for this opportunity. It's really important. 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 3: Well, my wife and I went to Malibu just a 31 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, and there are a lot of 32 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 3: businesses operating. You know, the city was not wiped out, 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: but good luck trying to get in. Why don't you 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 3: talk about the difficulties people are having. 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 4: Well, I think you know, your point is really well 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 4: taken to be one of the great tragedies is that 37 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 4: you know that that we're killing the businesses that are 38 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 4: left and survived, and they're going to be critical to 39 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 4: the recovery. And you know they're they're employing, you know, 40 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 4: thousands of you know, individuals as on their staffs, and 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 4: you know, many of these are small, family own businesses, 42 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 4: like Paradise Cove. It's been owned for twenty eight years 43 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 4: by the Morse family. The more family's been on this 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: location in Paradise Cove for over fifty years. Bob Morris 45 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 4: actually grew up on the property where the restaurant sits. 46 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 4: And we're doing everything we can to combat really a 47 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 4: lot of what the government is doing. If you drive 48 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 4: down the one O one Freeway through Calabasas, the big 49 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 4: digital freeway sign says pH is closed. Well, for anybody 50 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 4: driving along the freeway that doesn't know the area that well, 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 4: or you know, hasn't gone out to Malibu to see 52 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 4: that it's open, I would just stay away from that. 53 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 4: I would assume that all of PCH is closed, and 54 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 4: that's that's not accurate. 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 2: That's not true. 56 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 3: All you can get to pH from the one on 57 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 3: one and then you can access businesses all along all 58 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 3: along the ocean there on both sides. 59 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 4: So we need we need Cowtrans to look at those 60 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 4: signs and say Malibu is open. Via Las Virgines or 61 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: Canaan Road. It's a beautiful drive, you know, through those 62 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 4: canyons into into Malibu. 63 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 5: And and these. 64 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 4: Small businesses, these stamily own businesses, they're they're waiting and 65 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 4: they're dying for people to return. I mean, this is 66 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 4: we're entering their their high season, and you know every 67 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 4: indication from the government is that you don't go into 68 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 4: the area. 69 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: What what is it? 70 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 3: What wait saying Cowtrans doesn't understand that they're killing Malibu 71 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 3: with that, But that's that sign is just wrong. 72 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 2: It's factually right. 73 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: All both signs are all up and down, all up 74 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 4: and down the one O one freeway. 75 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: Well, has anybody talked with them? What's the response? 76 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 4: Well, we've reached out, and you know there's again there's 77 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 4: a lot of finger pointing and the problem when you 78 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 4: know when one finger is pointing in one direction and 79 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 4: another finger is putting under the other directtion, you know, 80 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 4: the hand doesn't work. And we need everybody to be 81 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 4: working together. We have a we have a press conference 82 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 4: at four o'clock here at the Malibu Pier and we've 83 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 4: got the state Senator, We've got assembly Woman Jackie Irwin 84 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 4: and Lindsay Horvath, the county Superris. We're hoping that we 85 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 4: can pull all of them together now to get you know, 86 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 4: get everybody working on behalf of this community that is 87 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,239 Speaker 4: just trying to survive right now. And these are little fixes, 88 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,119 Speaker 4: These are easy things. You can change a digital sign 89 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 4: from a computer somewhere at Coltran's headquarters. 90 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: And that should have been done weeks ago. Well, yeah, 91 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: that's that's easy. Where they just refused to I don't understand. 92 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 4: They said that, Well, it's you know, we've got other 93 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 4: you know, other government entities asking for this messaging. I said, 94 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 4: I can't imagine anybody who's asking for a signed to 95 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,679 Speaker 4: stay pH is closed. 96 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 3: What government entity, what government entities wants all the businesses 97 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 3: to go bankrupt? 98 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: Which which is that government entity? 99 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: That's a great question. 100 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: You know. 101 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 4: Look, I would love for you know, Governor Newsom to 102 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 4: spend a little less time on his podcast and a 103 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 4: little more time actually coming down here to Malibu to 104 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 4: talk to these businesses that are dying. And you know, 105 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 4: there's there's some very you know, wonderful businesses that are 106 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 4: they're they're ready to shut down. And and these are 107 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: easy fixes just getting the word out. 108 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 3: Just type the message on the UH on the message board. 109 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 4: That's that take about a minute exactly. Now, there's tougher 110 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 4: requests that we have, but we believe, you know, because 111 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 4: we've talked to you know, engineers, traffic engineers about what 112 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 4: you had mentioned at the entry. You know, when we 113 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: started this conversation about p H and the difficulty people 114 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 4: have coming from the south coming into Malibu. There's plenty 115 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 4: of space for three lanes of traffic. And you know, 116 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 4: and I've I've been in areas you know where you 117 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 4: have two lanes of traffic for high peak time, you know, 118 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 4: going one direction, and then in the afternoon or when 119 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 4: that you know, traffic direction changes, you flip that, you know, 120 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 4: flip it over and the two lanes are going in 121 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 4: the other direction. Those things could be done and still 122 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 4: may make it safe to allow for the construction and 123 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 4: the cleanup to happen, and that should be happening, you know, 124 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 4: twenty four to seven right now. But you know, we 125 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 4: need we need PCH coming from the south to be 126 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 4: open all the time. They have red blinking lights at 127 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 4: crosswalks that don't have any ability for people to cross 128 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 4: because there's k k rails right now blocking or there's 129 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 4: no homes there anymore for people to walk across the street. 130 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 4: But yet you still have to stop your car every 131 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: time you get to one of those red blinking lights. 132 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 4: They could be yellow, so they're caution to keep the 133 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 4: traffic flowing. There's there's so many easy common sense fixes 134 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 4: that could be put in place, and we're just, you know, 135 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 4: having a hard time getting right. 136 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 3: And when you and when you call the you know 137 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 3: whatever bureaucrats, administrators who can handle these things, what do 138 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 3: you get on the phone call? 139 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: What? 140 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 2: What do they say? What do they do? 141 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 4: Some of them, Yeah, some of them are trying to 142 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 4: be helpful, so I want to be fair. You know, 143 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 4: there are a few that are trying to be helpful. 144 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 4: But others will say, well, you know Caltrans said this, 145 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 4: and then you talk to Caltrans and they'll say, well, 146 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 4: the Army Corps engineers said that, And then somebody else 147 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 4: will say, well it's the city of Malibu or it's 148 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 4: the County of Los Angeles. Everyone's pointing fingers at each other. 149 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: That's why I think this press conference at four is 150 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 4: important because we're trying to get everybody, you know, on 151 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: the same message, wanting to accomplish. 152 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: The always like that, it's always like that. 153 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 3: No I went through That's something in my town where 154 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: you know, there was there was a homeless encampment that 155 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 3: covered federal state, no, federal city, and county land and 156 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 3: they all blamed each other and the homeless encampments sat 157 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 3: there for four. 158 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: Years and I hate that. Why do they do that? 159 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 3: Well, it would take a zoom call, a zoom call, 160 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 3: four squares on on a zoom screen would settle this. 161 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 4: The problem I think with government, John, is that it's 162 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 4: much safer and easier for those bureaucrats to say no 163 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 4: than it is to actually take leadership and say yes 164 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 4: to something. Well, you know what, sometimes yes isn't going 165 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 4: to be perfect, but you know, somebody's got to take 166 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 4: some action. And where we need that desperately right now? 167 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, you know what I mean, it's better, it's 168 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: better just to let all the Malibu businesses go bankrupt, 169 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: right that. 170 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 2: That that's the safer course to take, exactly. 171 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 4: That's that's what it feels like right now. And these 172 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 4: these these are good, you know, hardworking people, employing lots 173 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 4: of people just trying to survive again and and and 174 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: and government instead of you know, helping lift them up, 175 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 4: they've got their foot on their neck right now. 176 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 2: All right, well, listen, four o'clock you're having the press conference. 177 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 3: On Malibu p here, yes, okay, and Paradise Cove Beach Cafe. 178 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 2: That is great place. Bob Morris is the owner. 179 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 3: We're talking here with his business consultant, Glenn de Sarah 180 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 3: is trying to get the word at that Malibu is 181 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 3: open for business and you can get there by taking 182 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 3: the canyon roads, and you can get there by coming 183 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 3: down pch from the. 184 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: North or the right exactly for the west, I guess. 185 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 3: And uh, it's just it's just coming up from the 186 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: south out of the Palisades where you have that military checkpoint. 187 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 4: Right And there isn't any reason why we can't fix that. 188 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 4: I know there are people smart enough at least of course, 189 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 4: I really believe that there should be people smart enough 190 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 4: in our government. They can fix that and figure out 191 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 4: a way to keep that flowing for the people of 192 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 4: that need to get in here, the employees that the tourists, everybody. 193 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 4: There's no reason for that road to be, you know, 194 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 4: managed the way it. 195 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 5: Is right now. 196 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 3: All right, Well, listen you you stay in touch with us, okay, 197 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 3: and if you can't get any movement, we'll make some 198 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 3: more noise here. 199 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: Thanks for coming, Thank you so much. Great day. 200 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 2: Thank you. 201 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 3: We got two rounds of the moistline coming up. Oh 202 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 3: in a hack and a dumpster. 203 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: That was warming up. 204 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 205 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 3: Forty John Cobelt Show, Can't Fine six forty more stimulating 206 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 3: talk radio. And we have the Moistline coming up in minutes. 207 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: Moistline except first of two parts this hour end. We 208 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 3: are throwing a hack in a dumpster who's been in 209 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 3: the news all week for being a crook. All right, 210 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: we should call a crook in a dumpster today because 211 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 3: he's run off with a lot of your money and 212 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 3: enjoyed himself with the money. 213 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 2: There's a good hint huh that's coming up next. 214 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: The uh. 215 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 3: The Los Angeles Times is starting to make a lot 216 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 3: of noise. They're sick of being stone walled by the 217 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 3: criminals in the Karen Bass administration. The city is supposed 218 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 3: to reveal all messaging, all exchanges. 219 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,959 Speaker 2: It's it's it's a it's part of the law. 220 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 3: And then and all the all the messages, all the 221 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 3: memos regarding the fire. All right, if you remember, fire 222 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 3: breaks out on January seventh, Karen Bass is in Africa. 223 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 3: By January tenth, the LA Times is already requesting the 224 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 3: text messages and other messaging that Bass was doing with 225 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: her aids and other department heads. And bureaucrats, and they 226 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: got stonewalled by Karen Bass. She wouldn't give up anything. 227 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 3: And then after two months she said, oh gee, too bad. 228 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 3: It was on thirty day automatic delete. What are you 229 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 3: talking about? We asked it for this three days after 230 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: the fire started. Oh yeah, I guess we didn't see 231 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 3: that request. 232 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 2: Sorry. So she's covering up because in. 233 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 3: Those texts, in all those messages, there's probably a lot 234 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 3: of damning evidence about how incompetent she is and everybody else, 235 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 3: you know, whether it's jediz Keinoniez from the TDWP, or 236 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,319 Speaker 3: Kristen Crowley running the fire department, or Marquise Harris Dawson, 237 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 3: the bozo in charge of the city council who was 238 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: the acting mayor, all of them and all their minions, 239 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 3: all their. 240 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 2: Assistants and deputies. 241 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: So La Times is sick of it, and The Times 242 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 3: filed a lawsuit against the City of La accusing officials 243 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 3: of unlawfully withholding and deleting the mayor's text messages and 244 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 3: other public records. It's well known under the Public Records Act, 245 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 3: it is state law. It is policy that all government 246 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 3: bureaus adhere to you have to hold on to all 247 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 3: the messages, especially when you have a monumental, deadly fire 248 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 3: that's destroyed thousands of homes and costs hundreds of billions 249 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: of dollars in damages. Yes, the public has a right 250 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 3: to know what led up to this, how did you 251 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 3: handle it? 252 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: What was the response? 253 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 3: So the city turned over now that first they said 254 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 3: there were no such messages thirty day delete and then 255 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 3: they said, well, we found some here, but they're holding 256 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 3: back a lot and I don't believe they're all deleted. 257 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: I flat out think they're lying on that. The Time 258 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 3: says empowering public officials to scrub their records or to 259 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: decide which of the records are subject to the law 260 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 3: sets a dangerous precedent. This is their legal argument. According 261 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 3: to Kelly Avelas, the outside council for the La Times, 262 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 3: it's bigger than these text messages. 263 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: The city and this is. 264 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 3: Karen Bass seems to believe they can destroy whatever they want, 265 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 3: whenever they want, and that they don't have a duty 266 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 3: to the public to retain public records. Politics reporter Julia 267 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 3: Wick investigative reporter Matt Hamilton joined the action as La residents, 268 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 3: they're trying to block city officials from destroying protected material. 269 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 3: You wonder how much deleting has gone on. Secondly, there's 270 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 3: a separate story in The Times. A lean check Median 271 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 3: and Paul Pringle say more than two and a half 272 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 3: months after the Palisades Mayor Karen Bass's office and the 273 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 3: la Fire Department had maintained an extraordinary secrecy about the 274 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 3: city's preparations and response. 275 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 2: The fire Department, the mayor and representatives. 276 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 3: Have yet to provide answers to basic questions from the Times. 277 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 3: They have not addressed The Times questions about which fire 278 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 3: crews were the first to arrive on the seam, and 279 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 3: the fire department has denied dozens of public record requests 280 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 3: from journalists and others related to the handling of its fire, 281 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 3: including nine to one one calls, dispatch logs and internal communications. 282 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 3: All right, let's move on now to the moistline. We 283 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 3: start with round one eight seven to seven moist eighty six. 284 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: Go and John, thanks for calling the moistline. 285 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 7: I'm so excited to hear from you about time. 286 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 8: Well, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen 287 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 8: it with my own Times. John cobelt out paying play 288 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 8: called my uterus a. 289 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 9: Womb with Hi, John, this is Keith. I listen to 290 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 9: you from Atlanta, Georgia every day so our insurance Commissioner Ricardo. 291 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 10: Calpart Lara, traveling the world as insurance rates are skyrocketing. 292 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 10: He has disappointed the community. He comes from the working class. 293 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 10: He is an embarrassment and he oughta be ashamed of himself. 294 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 11: I'm so sick of hearing about this bolt of people 295 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 11: going out there and counting the homeless. Have anybody ever 296 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 11: gone down there and actually counted? Has anyone actually got 297 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 11: over there where there's street up the street after street 298 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 11: of nothing but hundreds and thousands of these zombies walking around. 299 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 11: It's through sanity. 300 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 7: So what's the deal with the Democratic Party promoting Bernie 301 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 7: Sanders AOC. They clearly just don't have a leader in 302 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 7: the party. And then you have Gavin Newsom with his 303 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 7: bodcap trying to become a moderate. They don't have anybody. 304 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 7: It's sad ever since losing his tway twenty four, but 305 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 7: just don't have any party leader. This hilarious man, keep 306 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 7: this ging Gavinison trying to be a water and that's 307 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 7: just amazing. Hey, John does admit the hermit I listened 308 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 7: to ya Radia say shut. 309 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 10: I want to say, good lo you. 310 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 7: If you come to this country illegally and you commit crimes, 311 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 7: and you rack up a rap sheet and a criminal record, 312 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 7: you shouldn't have any civil rights. Send these to anybody 313 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 7: that'll take up anywhere in the world. 314 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 6: Send them to. 315 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 7: Siberia, Send them to your grade, so they go fighting 316 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 7: the war there. They'll give them to Russia, give them 317 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 7: the Putin. 318 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 5: I don't care. 319 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 7: Just get them the hell out of here. 320 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 5: I hope, I hope. Oh where will that be? 321 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: Go? Watch out of flood? 322 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 4: Don't gone a quit that be? 323 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 5: Don't go, don't go. Oh No, every one of these 324 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 5: idiot activist federal judges that repeatedly violate the Presidential Awards 325 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 5: Powzak should be immediately removing the betch, disbarred, and disrobed. 326 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 5: You might even appreciate that, Uh John. 327 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 12: On the homeless issue, John's there ain't no sense in 328 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 12: counting it, because what you're counting is a bunch of 329 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 12: wild animals that are chemically addicted monsters. Start building them 330 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 12: accomps man and this stuff an't a man there. Those 331 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 12: slaps at city council work for us they're getting a 332 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 12: little too Marxist. 333 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 1: For my taste. I think they should all be replaced. 334 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 13: As long as you have politicians who rely on their 335 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 13: career in politics for their main source of income, you 336 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 13: will have an inherent conflict of interest. They will do 337 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 13: what is good for them and their political career. It 338 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 13: e job, because if they don't get re elected, they're unemployed. 339 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 2: This parking enforcement. 340 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 14: Problem, you know how they're going to fix it, right, 341 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 14: They're going to triple the cost of the parking meters 342 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 14: and they're going to triple the fines. 343 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 12: This is hilarious, This LA City Council meeting. 344 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 4: It's no different than the moist line. Am I the 345 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 4: only one that wonders why people are discussing constitutional rights 346 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 4: for illegal aliens and violated. 347 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 12: I thought constitutional rights were only for Americans, and if 348 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 12: you come into the country illegally, you're not afforded those rights. 349 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 13: You take your chances and get what you get. 350 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 12: Don't be ridiculous, John. Those bags are great. 351 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: They hold potatoes, apples, grapefruit. 352 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 12: They're strong enough. 353 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 8: And you put your table scraps in those bags and put. 354 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 2: Them in your green bins and they get composted. Oh 355 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 2: you are taking things backwards. 356 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 4: You mighty talk about dash how she doesn't know how 357 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 4: to do math or do anything. The state is billions 358 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 4: of dollars in debt already and she's going up there 359 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 4: asking for money. 360 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: Not very bright person. 361 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 4: Issue. 362 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 15: Of course, nobody's going to explain anything. 363 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 9: Money talks blocks. 364 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 2: Come on, So guys, you know what's up. 365 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 4: Just here say here, this, here's that. 366 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Realize everyone's corrupt. 367 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 15: And that's it. 368 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 4: I don't understand what the seaward is. 369 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 3: The city council is trying to get them to stop saying. 370 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 12: Is it cower, crooked, chicken, crazy, corrupt? 371 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 11: They all apply, but. 372 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 4: Ever don exactly which one. 373 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 8: Please let me know, thank you, thank you for leaving. 374 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 2: We're not allowed to say it on the radio. And 375 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 2: actually it's one of my least favorite words. 376 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 3: It is. 377 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 2: Every woman says that. Yes, yes, it's an awful, awful word. 378 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 2: It's number one. Yes, that's correct, that's number one, number one. 379 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 2: It's the third rail. 380 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 3: It's the one thing you never say, okay unless you 381 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 3: want it whacked over the head really hard. Yes, not 382 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 3: that it's ever happened to me, because it hasn't. 383 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 2: I don't. I never used that word. I'm very happy 384 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 2: to hear that. Okay, I'm a gentleman. Oh, I wouldn't 385 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 2: go that far. I come on, let's not be ridiculous now, all. 386 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: Right, don't don't. Don't tempt me when we come back 387 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: the hell are we gonna do it? 388 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: Oh? 389 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 3: Yes, Hack in a dumpster. We've got a deserving candidate. 390 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 3: And I'll use a sea word on this guy. He 391 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 3: is a cruk. He is corrupt, and he has run 392 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 3: off with thousands of dollars of tax money and really 393 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 3: enjoyed himself. We've been talking about him all week. He 394 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 3: goes in the dumpster next. And also we're gonna have 395 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 3: another round of the Mosteline. 396 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I 397 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 6: AM six forty. 398 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 13: Who could. 399 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 2: It's time for John cop Bilt to throw in a dumpster. 400 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 3: John Cobelt CHOKFI AM six forty live everywhere on the 401 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. The Hack and a Dumpster this week is 402 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 3: a man that we talked about extensively. Kg O TV 403 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 3: and Sam Francisco did a long piece on Ricardo Lara. 404 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 3: He is the insurance commissioner and they discovered that Riccardo 405 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 3: Lara has taken forty six trips while insurance commissioner forty six, 406 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 3: many of them overseas to exotic places like Bogatac, Colombia, 407 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 3: to Paris, to the UK, to Toronto, both in North America, 408 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 3: South America, Africa, Europe. He was in Bermuda recently giving 409 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: a fifteen minute speech and he skipped a Senate hearing 410 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 3: because the insurance industry is in an upheaval. Seven out 411 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 3: of the eleven, seven out of the twelve major insurance 412 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 3: companies have either pulled out of the state or severely 413 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 3: restricted their policy writing. And the insurance is really expensive, 414 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 3: and everybody's unhappy, and he's mismanaged it, botched it, and 415 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 3: he goes on all these trips and charges us thirty 416 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 3: three thousand dollars. We had to pay for the trips 417 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 3: that the taxpayers were built for, and then there were 418 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 3: other trips that were junkets paid for by lobbyists who 419 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 3: like to bribe politicians and other influential cabinet members. And 420 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 3: insurance in this state is the worst in the nation. 421 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 3: It's extremely expensive, it's unavailable for a lot of people. 422 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 3: The state Insurance Fund that's supposed to be the place 423 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 3: of last resort is going to go bankrupt after this 424 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 3: Palisades fire. And he flies around and even with all 425 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 3: the crises going on in the past few months, he 426 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 3: still doesn't show up for the meetings. He goes to 427 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 3: New York City for Pride Week and to go see 428 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: some DJ nam Kitty glitter. Now's that about. Here's what 429 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 3: he sounds like. 430 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 15: Thank you to my fellow Angelino's for joining us to see. 431 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 2: Again. 432 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 15: I'm sorry for everybody who has suffered or who has 433 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 15: been affected by these devastating wildfires. We are going to 434 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 15: get through this, and I hope today gives you some 435 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 15: peace of mind and answer some of these critical questions 436 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 15: that you have as insurance consumers as you now begin 437 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 15: the rebuilding process. 438 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 2: So I know that this is. 439 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 15: A very overwhelming experience and you probably have a lot 440 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 15: of questions. 441 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 2: Okay, I'll stop. 442 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 3: He's wanting to overwhelming for a lot of people because 443 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 3: they have had they had their. 444 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 2: Insurance canceled in the Palisades. 445 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 3: Or they got thrown in the fair plan which has 446 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 3: a three million dollar payout cap. Again, this all leads 447 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 3: to the insurance commissioner and the way he has mismanaged 448 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 3: and botched the whole system. 449 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 2: And he doesn't show up for meetings with the Senate. 450 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 3: He doesn't, he doesn't, He misses most of them. How 451 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 3: is he still in off? It's well, we're gonna take 452 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 3: care of him here. Why don't we get the Ukrainians together. 453 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 3: Let's get the mob. Debra, you get loaded up and 454 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:09,959 Speaker 3: ready to do whatever you do. 455 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 2: I'm ready, all right. 456 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 15: My job is to in this town hall to get those. 457 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: Think the moobs. You now, there you go, back, there 458 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 2: you go. 459 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 3: He's at the bottom of a dumpster, wallowing in the garbage, 460 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 3: the worst. 461 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 2: Don't worry. He is a grifter, he's a crook. 462 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 3: You gotta pay thirty three thousand dollars so he can 463 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 3: enjoy himself, and he gives it, gives a fifteen minute 464 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,479 Speaker 3: speech in Bermuda. 465 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: He's not fooling anybody. 466 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 3: There should be, I mean, every media outlet, every politician 467 00:24:54,720 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 3: in office ought to be asking that he'd be bounced, removed, fired, called. 468 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 2: What a mess? What a mess? What is what? 469 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 3: The travel thing? Bass in Africa? He's he's in Colombia. 470 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: The wrong job man, I know. And who's the other 471 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 2: one we were talking about? This week. There was a 472 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: third one we were talking about. I don't remember the 473 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 2: third Yeah, yeah. 474 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's somebody else some other named the two again. 475 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 3: Well it was it was it was Bass in Africa 476 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 3: and and uh Lara Lara. But there was a third 477 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 3: one traveling. I just did one of the stories today 478 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 3: had Oh it doesn't matter, they're always traveling. Every single 479 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 3: legislature ends up on these junkets. There's dozens of them 480 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 3: that end up going to like Hawaii every year, and 481 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 3: it's paid for by various lobbyists, and then they get 482 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 3: their bills passed that the lobbyists right, and that these 483 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 3: legislators don't even read. All right, we come back. We 484 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 3: have another round of the Moistline coming up. Oh and 485 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: if you listen to the podcast later two o'clock hour, 486 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 3: Chad Bianco the Republican candidate for governor. He is the 487 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 3: Riverside County sheriff and he is proposing abolishing the income tax. 488 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 3: That is worth a listen. He led off to two 489 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: o'clock hour, So if you missed it, go to the podcast. 490 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 491 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 6: six forty. 492 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 3: I remember the third person who went traveling. It is 493 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 3: the woman who runs a LASSA Valicia Adams Kellum or 494 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 3: Kellum and Adams Adams Kellum. I think she runs LASA. 495 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 3: She's the one who gave a two million dollar contractor 496 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 3: her husband's nonprofit. And she was supposed to appear in 497 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 3: federal court and talk to the judge overall the missing 498 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 3: money at LASA, and she was at Boston. That was 499 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 3: the third one. One more quickie. It looks like Gavin 500 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 3: Newsom has been checkmated by the US Education Secretary Linda 501 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 3: McMahon because Newsom popped off on his podcast that he 502 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 3: thought it would deeply unfair that biological boys and men 503 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 3: were participating in girls and women's sports. But you know, 504 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 3: it's still the law in California that they can do that. 505 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 3: And so Linda McMahon said, your recent comments about male 506 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 3: athletes playing in women's sports that it's deeply unfair came 507 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 3: to the attention of my office this week. I'm writing 508 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 3: on behalf of the US Department of Education to request 509 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 3: a clarification. 510 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: California public schools need to. 511 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 3: Comply with federal law on this issue, and if Newsom doesn't, 512 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 3: state could lose forty six billion dollars in federal money 513 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 3: forty six billion dollars unless he gets the boys and 514 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: men out of girls in women's sports and sids. McMahon 515 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 3: noticed that Newsom agrees with her she expects changes. We'll 516 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: see what happens next week on that front. Meantime, Round 517 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 3: two of the Moistline. 518 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 5: Thank Sean, thanks. 519 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 2: For calling the Moistline. 520 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 3: I'm so excited to. 521 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 7: Hear from you to boat time. 522 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 8: I heard you say that the ladwp's two primary jobs 523 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 8: are to provide water and power, and I think you're 524 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 8: for getting one very important thing, which is equity, which they're. 525 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 4: Doing a fabulous jungle roariety. 526 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 3: By the way, I'm just wondering if a lot of 527 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 3: are the taxpayers stands for him to run all over 528 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 3: the world or are the. 529 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 2: Interest companies pans for that to keep them busy so he. 530 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 7: Doesn't interfere with them rasing rates and anthelion policies around here. 531 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 4: One of the more annoying things about Karen Bass, besides 532 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 4: their incompetence, is that ridiculous fixed smile that never seems. 533 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 14: To go away. 534 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 16: Wait a minute, here we are, two months after the fires, 535 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 16: the city of la Is broke and they're paying ten 536 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 16: million dollars to a. 537 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 7: Consulting firm so they can consult about what to do. 538 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 7: Now the map is not adding up. What is Karen bat? 539 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 11: People need to wake up. 540 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 7: They need to get rid of this woman. 541 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 9: Hey, wouldn't that device for cows be called a cow 542 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 9: lytic converter? 543 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 4: Hey? 544 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 17: John, why don't they just take all that toxic waste 545 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 17: and put it under the solar panels in the desert. 546 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 2: No big deal, it'd be a good spot for it. 547 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 8: Keep your trash to yourself in Los Angeles. 548 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 2: I live in the Mojave Desert. Don't be dump in that. 549 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 4: Garbage up here. 550 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 7: Deal with it yourself. 551 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 11: Elon Musk cars are one hundred percent electric. 552 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,239 Speaker 3: And yet they're going to go burn them all and 553 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 3: pull loop that ear. 554 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 7: Fantastic. Keep up the good working demon tramps. 555 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: I've been drinking, but I'm sick of California and I'm 556 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 1: sick of rock Monta. They got to throw as in jail. 557 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: I'm sick of this California. I'm believing I'm mad too. 558 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: So let me get this straight. 559 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 9: Bass was on a military jet and she was trying 560 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 9: to communicate by a zoom. An tax messages are you 561 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 9: really telling me that there wasn't a satellite phone on 562 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 9: that plane, that she could have had an immediate direct 563 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 9: person to person contact with the people on the ground. 564 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 14: With Come on, do you want to know why Karen 565 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 14: Bass got a standing ovation at Sacramento. It's because she 566 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 14: did exactly what they wanted her to do. She burned 567 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 14: down the Palisades so they can reimagine Los Angeles. It's 568 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 14: all bought and paid for. Dude, we haven't laid any 569 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 14: track yet for the train. Have we even come across 570 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 14: and bought the train yet? 571 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 17: That the high speed ril is such a good idea 572 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 17: of the. 573 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 7: Meson of politicians pushing forward. 574 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 14: Let them invest their money and will imagine a. 575 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 8: Dollar for two thouars? 576 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 17: How come no one's talking about Mayor Bass and the 577 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 17: city council can't pull their head out of there to 578 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 17: rebuild the city, but they're still going forward with the 579 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 17: Olympics and the World Cup. Really, don't we have more 580 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 17: important things to do, like bounce a budget and rebuild 581 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 17: six thousand homes and not concentrated on freeing the world 582 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 17: to la for the Olympics the World Cup. When's someone 583 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 17: going to finally pull the plug on that piasco. 584 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 5: High speed rail is ridiculous. 585 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 3: Interstate ten is roughly two four hundred and sixty miles. 586 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 9: It took thirty three years to complete. 587 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 17: John, there's a very good reason why the Department off 588 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 17: Water and Power never got around to cleaning the cover 589 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 17: on the reservoir. 590 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 2: The equity lines got dirty. 591 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 17: Yeah, the giant equity lens that Janie Quinionis had planned 592 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 17: to put over the DWP building. 593 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 2: Guy con it, thank you for leaving your message, Please 594 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:37,959 Speaker 2: hang up, goodbye, eight boys eighty six for next week. Conway. Hey, now, 595 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 2: what a chase? What a chase? 596 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 16: I couldn't leave the couch watching that chase that just 597 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 16: ended unbelievable. 598 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 2: Did you watch it? You look at nine Oh my god. 599 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 16: There's probably twenty cars that have been destroyed. It was 600 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 16: on the six oh five. I think it end up 601 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 16: in Long Beach. They were on the twenty two, the 602 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 16: six oh five, the four h five, And this guy 603 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,719 Speaker 16: was just plowing one car after another after another. 604 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. 605 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 16: And and and the guy ended up plowing into a 606 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 16: paint store and then casually tried to walk away like 607 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 16: he was just mixing in with the you know, Friday 608 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 16: afternoon crowd. 609 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. He set all these cars on the freeway, yeah, 610 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 2: not a free once. 611 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 16: He got off the freeway one after another after another, 612 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 16: and then he was going the wrong way for a 613 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 16: lot of the time. It was unbelievable. You'll see it 614 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 16: tonight on Channel two, four, five, seven, nine eleven. All 615 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 16: the local stations will have it. We'll have it tonight 616 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 16: or report on that. That was one of the most 617 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 16: radical chases I've seen. I've been looking at him for 618 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 16: twenty five years. It was unbel and I was sitting 619 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 16: there watching with my daughter and my wife and we 620 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 16: were all screaming. 621 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 2: Like aha, we couldn't believe what was going on. 622 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 16: I thought somebody was gonna get killed. You know, somebody 623 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 16: is gonna get killed in one of these things. Oh yeah, 624 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 16: one of these chases. It's amazing that nobody got killed. 625 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 16: So we'll talk about that. We also got Michael Monks 626 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 16: coming on with us, Alex. 627 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 2: Michael said, I know you like that guy. 628 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 16: We'll talk a little bit about We have a guest on, 629 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 16: Walter Wang. We'll talk about the he's the CEO of 630 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 16: GM Eagle. That's the l LPGA tournament out there. And 631 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 16: then the huge earthquake that happened overseas. I was I 632 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 16: was up last night when this happened, and I man, 633 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 16: I tell you, watching that building collapse and watching a 634 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 16: lot of these apartments and hotels. They have pools on 635 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 16: the top of the hotel and so when it sways, 636 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 16: all the water gets dumped out. I mean it was incredible. 637 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 16: I mean it's just what a seven point seven? 638 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 2: That's huge? Yeah, that is that is huge. 639 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 16: Look, we had a six point nine in north Ridge 640 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 16: and I still remember. 641 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 3: So overnight you're watching the earthquake. During the day you're 642 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 3: watching the car chase. 643 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,479 Speaker 2: Do you sleep it all? 644 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 16: Or I'm just watching disaster after a disaster. That's all 645 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 16: that's going on. Man, all right, So all of that 646 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 16: and a couple of ding dongs and we'll get out of. 647 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: You, all right. 648 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 3: Conways, Andrew Caravalo is lid in the KFI twenty for 649 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 3: our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobelt 650 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 3: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 651 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 3: CAFM six forty from one to four pm every Monday 652 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 3: through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on the 653 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app.