1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to have 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton on the show at two thirty, one of 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: the leading candidates for governor Republican. And we are also 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: going to have the Moistline twice next hour at three 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: twenty and three point fifty. And now we're going to 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: talk with Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: lost his home in the fire, and like many in 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: the Palisades, as you heard from the report we played 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: before Brigida's news, they cannot believe that the DWP is 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: draining the reservoir a second time, the one hundred and seventeen 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: million gallon reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: before the fire, because the cover was torn. Well, they 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: put a new cover on. Eventually it was too late, 15 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: too late for to use the reservoir to fight fire. 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: But now it's been torn again, and so they're going 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: to shut the reservoir down for another nine months, drain 18 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: it all over again. And they're still trying to sell 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: that this doesn't matter, except they've come up with a 20 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: backup water supply for fire safety. It's hard to keep 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: up with this. Let's get say ed Kashani on say it. 22 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: How are you hello? 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: Was the caball? Thanks for having me back. I appreciate 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 2: it makes. 25 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: My head spin, So let me get this straight. So 26 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed 27 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: they would have not done any good at the fire. 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: But they have a backup water system this time, like 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: just in case. 30 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: they describe it, is a going to help at all. 32 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: They're talking about a ten inch diameter water line that 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: possibly could bring more water over the help from PANG. Now, 34 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You 35 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're 37 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir 38 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know, 39 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: the interesting thing is when they first put this cover 40 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 2: on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 2: public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be 42 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 2: drained for a period of time. And back then the 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: LA fire department actually objected and said, we need this 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 2: reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there 45 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 2: has to be alternatives, and at the time there were 46 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 2: some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now 48 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're 49 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: putting the entire Polsage area at risk again. 50 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: Over and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking 51 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: water now this reservoir and correct me if I had 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For over forty years, 53 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there. 54 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: Was no cover exactly This cover is, you might say, 55 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I 56 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,119 Speaker 2: don't want to get into the details and the chemistry 57 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: about it, but the idea is that having a cover 58 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent 59 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact, 60 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Anstrom out of UCLA speaking 61 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 2: of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing 62 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary 63 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 2: chlorine and no cover. 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: So that's why they got the cover. Well, because yeah, 65 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: I know it's not it's probably not where they're gone. 66 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: It's absurd because they drained this reservoir in early twenty 67 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: twenty four, So the Palisades went that whole year without 68 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out I guess 69 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: they didn't need it. 70 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 2: Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did 71 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone 72 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: for as far as I can tell, as far as 73 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 2: the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department. 74 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the 75 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 2: fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty 76 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of 77 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote, 78 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 2: our reservoirs are full. Well, what kind of thing to 79 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: say is that when you know that the most important 80 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 2: reservoir in that area is still empty at the. 81 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: Time, Why have they been lying so frequently so long 82 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: before the fire, During the fire, After the fire, all 83 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: they do is lie, or at least they cover up 84 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: and with whole information. What are they doing? 85 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: I think it all goes back to these environmental these 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the 87 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:22,119 Speaker 2: state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk 88 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 2: of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so 89 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 2: you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense 90 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: and take it out of commission and put everyone at 91 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as 92 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 2: you know, from the fire, that in order to protect 93 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 2: some native species of plants, oh, they were unable to 94 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 2: fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out 95 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 2: for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway, 96 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 2: This is all. 97 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: So crazy, It really is. All the environmental extremists, it 98 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it, 99 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's 100 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: just people taking political shots at one another. But this 101 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into 102 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy 103 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: enormous amounts of real estate. 104 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 2: Well, the worst of it is these are people and 105 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: programs that operate behind the scenes that pass rules behind 106 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 2: the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature, 107 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 2: whatever you think of the legislature. At least there's public 108 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 2: hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with 109 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 2: a regulation that started in some environmental bureaucracy that was 110 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: never voted on, that never had public hearings. It was 111 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 2: just some decision that someone decided that if you use 112 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: this type of chlorine instead of other type of chlorine, 113 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 2: then somehow that I don't know, it makes a difference 114 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: to the water supply when the first type of chlorine 115 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: has been used for over one hundred years with no problems. 116 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. First, at first I heard of this, and now 117 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: they're going to close it down for nine months. Why 118 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: do they have to close it for nine months? They 119 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: repaired the old cover much more quickly than that. 120 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 3: You know. 121 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: This work. This is what happens when you only have 122 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 2: one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with 123 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: a single company I won't give its name, but they're 124 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover. 125 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 2: And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well, 126 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: guess what if your company knows that you're going to 127 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 2: get substantial business from repairing this cover. What's the incentive 128 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 2: to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier 129 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 2: just to keep coming back and back and back and 130 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 2: repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying 131 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I 132 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: think it would be a better idea to do it 133 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 2: do it right the first time so it works. But 134 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 2: like I said, the whole idea of a cover was 135 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by 136 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their 137 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: environmental agenda. 138 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as 139 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: they passed through the bowels of the system. We don't 140 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: know their name. We know Jennie Canones. And by the way, 141 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: what does it take to get her removed? I mean, 142 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: this is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why 143 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: after another after another, And she's making seven hundred and 144 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: fifty thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation. 145 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: How does she survive? As the. 146 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: It just gave her an award for Women of the Years, Yes. 147 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: Yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman of 148 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: the Year award. 149 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous. But I mean, there's 150 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: no accountability. But look, the same people who made the 151 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 2: wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up. 152 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 2: For example, we sought a report from the state that 153 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: claim that the reservoir wouldn't have made a reference. Well, 154 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: who was who provided that report? That report came from 155 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover 156 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 2: regulation in the first place. In other words, three of 157 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 2: the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies 158 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 2: that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies 159 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 2: aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made 160 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 2: a mistake, and you know, we let the whole city 161 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 2: burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going 162 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, well, obviously. 163 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: One hundred and seventeen million gallots they claim would have 164 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades 165 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose 166 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home 167 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: and two weather homes near him watered it down well 168 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the 169 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: two inch holls one to his pool. 170 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was 171 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: able to protect his house so long as there was water. 172 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story. 173 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 2: But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a 174 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: source of water. As long as the city supplied water, 175 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: he was able to keep his house safe. Once the 176 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 2: water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's 177 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 2: when his house got fired and there was nothing he 178 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 2: would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said, 179 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way, 180 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 2: the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's 181 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because 182 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: many areas of the palisades, if you see them after 183 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water 184 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 2: means did not break and spill water over. That means 185 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 2: the fire got to these areas after the water. 186 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 3: Was shut off. 187 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 2: So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again, 188 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 2: the only thing that's going to get us the truth 189 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 2: here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts 190 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 2: will let it go forward to the point that we 191 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: have a trial. We have witnesses, we have documents, all 192 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 2: presented in the light of days so people can see 193 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: exactly what happened. 194 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: Siah Kashani, thanks for coming on. 195 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 2: No problem, Thanks for having me. 196 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: Sied as an attorney in the Palisades, lost his home there. 197 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the reality star who 198 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: lost his home in the Palisades, he has seized on 199 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast that La City 200 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: botched the fire response. This was the piece of video 201 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: that was cut out of the final version posted to YouTube. 202 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: We talked about that a couple of days ago. I'll 203 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: play you Spencer Pratt's comments on Twitter about this. That's next. 204 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 205 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 4: six forty. 206 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: If you can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on 207 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: social media at John Cobelt Radio, and you should subscribe 208 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: to our YouTube channel and then you get notifications every 209 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: time we put up a new video segment. We're putting on. 210 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: We're putting up longer segments on YouTube. YouTube dot com 211 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: slash at John Cobelt Show. That's the address to subscribe 212 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt Show, and it's 213 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well, 214 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: we just talked with Sayad Kashani, the attorney out of 215 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 1: the Palisades, about this, the insanity of the of the 216 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're 217 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This 218 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: time they're proposing a ten inch water line from the 219 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's 220 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace 221 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line. 222 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going 223 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a 224 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire. 225 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: They're so full of it, they're so absolutely full of it, 226 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the 227 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty 228 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and 229 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need 230 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: it now? You know it's going to rain this week, 231 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: but you never know when the sant Ana winds may 232 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could 233 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: be bone dry come July or August or September. Next year, 234 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,839 Speaker 1: and there'll be a lot more There'll be a lot 235 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: more brush that had grown because of all the rain 236 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: we've had so far this winter and that we're going 237 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: to get in the coming days. Spencer Pratt, the reality star, 238 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: we've had him on the show. He's responding to the 239 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen 240 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and 241 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last 242 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: four minutes came after the host said goodbye to bad 243 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and 244 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: she started talking about how La City botched the response 245 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: the La Fire Department and the video was posted November. 246 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: At some point between November and this week, Bass's office 247 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: realized that that extra four minutes was up there and 248 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly, 249 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: and so they took it down, and the weasel who 250 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung 251 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: up on the La Times when he was questioned on it. 252 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: I got to get his name. While I look for 253 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: his name, just to remind everybody who the weasel is. 254 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going 255 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: after Bass. 256 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 5: Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the 257 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 5: Palicies fire was quote botched while on a hot mic 258 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 5: at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't 259 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 5: find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that 260 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 5: they scrubbed that foot from the internet. Will guess what 261 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 5: by admitting that the Palises fire response was botched, she 262 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 5: just earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the 263 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 5: Palises fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure 264 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 5: from the. 265 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one. 266 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 5: Hundred miles brough wins bs and narrative that they've been 267 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 5: spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor, 268 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 5: she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost 269 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 5: her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right, 270 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 5: they did botch the fire response, and now we have 271 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 5: good cause to call her as a witness. What did 272 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 5: she mean by botched? 273 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: What went wrong? Who screwed up? 274 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 5: Thanks for playing Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers 275 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 5: to go fishing. 276 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: That's great, that is great, and he's absolutely right. She 277 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: and all her stooge fire chiefs and she said, three 278 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: of them this year, and countless other fire officials have 279 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we. 280 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 6: Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred 281 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 6: miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile 282 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 6: an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six 283 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 6: days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and 284 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 6: had a of firefighters at the site of the original 285 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 6: January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was 286 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 6: smoldering because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went 287 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 6: down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January 288 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 6: second because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant, 289 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 6: the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping 290 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 6: on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD bulldozers creating 291 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 6: a fire line. And I remember another LA time story. 292 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: Early in the year where they had long wanted to 293 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: build a fire road out of the Palisades up and 294 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't 295 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan. That is 296 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: a story from US January or February. Yeah, they botched it, 297 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: of course, they botched it. They had nobody there and 298 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: Bass admitted it. And I hope she gets nailed by 299 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: the attorneys. But that's going to be a fight because 300 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars 301 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer 302 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: expense to keep her from testifying in front of a 303 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that 304 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are 305 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of 306 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way, 307 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: the name of the host of the Fifth Column is 308 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show 309 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so 310 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty 311 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded 312 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: the fire department. What are these staff members? This is 313 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and 314 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: bully him to take down the last four minutes of 315 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: the podcast and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I 316 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: don't get how the world works anymore. When we come 317 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: back Steve Hilton. He is one of the leading Republican 318 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: candidates for governor. He has intelligence and common sense, and 319 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to him. Coming up. 320 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 321 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 4: six forty. 322 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: We're going to talk with We're going to talk with 323 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,959 Speaker 1: Steve Hilton. Now. He's a Republican running to be governor 324 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: of California, doing very well in the polls here in 325 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: the early going. And Steve Hilton did a visit to 326 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: South La. New York Times did an extensive story on 327 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: it a few weeks back. Nothing but sex trafficking, nothing 328 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: but prostitution, very young girls. And he stood at the 329 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: corner of Figure Row on seventy seventh Street and he 330 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: blamed it on the twenty twenty two Safer Streets for 331 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: All Act, that's what they called it. This was out 332 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: of the perverted mind of State Senator Scott Wiener. This 333 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 1: act eliminated a law against loitering to sell sex. So 334 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: police now are really constricted on cleaning up blocks of prostitution. 335 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: We're going to get Steve on here to talk about 336 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: what this law did. It's nothing but terrible things. Steve, 337 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: how are you. 338 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 3: I'm great, It's great to be with you. I mean, 339 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 3: this is truly one of those shocking things I've ever seen, 340 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 3: and I've read about it, and I've been talking to 341 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 3: people who are working on this issue for years, but 342 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: to go there and see it, I mean, it's a 343 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 3: stretch of figure out. It's about fifty blocks is known 344 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 3: as the Blade, like miles long, and you drive along. 345 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 3: We were there Friday night. We could go around midnight 346 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 3: for hours, and it's just everywhere you look out in 347 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 3: the open. You hear that term child sex trafficking and 348 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 3: you just think of maybe dingy basements and some you know, 349 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 3: hidden place. No, it's on the street, on the main road. 350 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 3: It's just driving past. I saw with my own eyes 351 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 3: a guy in a car, these sick people picking up 352 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 3: these young girls. There was an older girl negotiating through 353 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 3: the window with this guy for a young girl that 354 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 3: was right there next to her. She couldn't have been 355 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 3: more than about eight or nine years old. 356 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: Really, it's just the. 357 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 3: Unspeakable evil just going on right there. And this is normal. 358 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 3: I was with a nonprofit that rescues girls, and you know, 359 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 3: pastors and former military guys, and they they've been doing 360 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 3: it for many, many years, and they tell me that 361 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 3: the typical age of the girls that they rescue twelve 362 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 3: to fourteen. That's typical many many younger than that. It's 363 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 3: just it's just like it's beyond It is a total evil. 364 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 3: It's thick, disgusting evil. It has been going on for years, 365 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 3: but exactly as you said, it's been made much much 366 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 3: worse by this legislation. It's another Scott Weener special signed 367 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 3: by Gavin Newsom, which exactly as you said, it constrains 368 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 3: the law enforcement from going up and actually doing anything 369 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 3: about it. Why where did this legislation come from. It's 370 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 3: another example of their insane far left gender ideology. This 371 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 3: time it was about trans women, which is you can't 372 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 3: go up to people based on an assumption about who 373 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 3: they are or what they're doing based on their appearance. 374 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 3: That's the issue. And so this is supposed to be 375 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,360 Speaker 3: non discrimination against trans women, and it's ended up in 376 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 3: young girls being sold for sex on the streets of 377 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 3: Los Angeles with impunity. And now it's got to the 378 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 3: point where we here in California are now the world. 379 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: According to the people I was with the world capital 380 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 3: for child sex trafficking. So you can add that to 381 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 3: the list of great accomplishments of Gavin Newsom. And this 382 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 3: now is going to be sixteen years of one party rule. 383 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 3: It's just beyond belief. And I was there to say, look, 384 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 3: we're not going to put up with it. When I'm governor. 385 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 3: We're going to clean it all up. We're going to 386 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: get law enforcement involved. I actually called on the National 387 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 3: Guard did be deployed. We're going to reverse that disgusting legislation. 388 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 3: We're going to deal with the fact that most of 389 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 3: these girls come from foster homes. Again, a really important 390 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 3: point for everyone to understand. You hear the word trafficking, 391 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 3: you think maybe this is cross border, this is all 392 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 3: part of the open borders Biden insanity, and there is 393 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 3: a part of that, But most of the girls are 394 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 3: American American girls and a large proportion, more than half, 395 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 3: from the foster care system here in California, foster who government. 396 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable what's going on. 397 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: And Dows some signs this he has daughters. All these 398 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: legislators that voted for this, they have daughters. How could 399 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: they do this to other people's girls? 400 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 3: Well, The thing is that you could even you can say, right, 401 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 3: you know, this is three years ago. Whatever, you can say, well, 402 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 3: it didn't you know, they didn't know that this would 403 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,239 Speaker 3: be the consequence it was, it was, I mean, I know. 404 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 3: But now, well they've been told repeatedly. The law enforcement 405 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 3: up and down the state have been raising the alarm 406 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 3: about this for years, and they're refusing to do anything 407 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 3: about it. And they're still defending it. And out there 408 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 3: Scott Wiener is defending it and saying, oh, it's you know, 409 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 3: law enforcement should do their job. I mean, it is 410 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 3: just unbelievable. 411 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: Well LAPD has well, their organization is the Los Angeles 412 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: Police Protective League, and they said that that Bill Wiener's 413 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: bill was a human sex trafficker and pimp's dream come 414 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: true and should be repealed, right right, And they're right. 415 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 3: And it's not. It's and you see this exact same 416 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 3: point from law enforcement right across the state. And I 417 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,959 Speaker 3: want to tell you a story which really captures this 418 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 3: for me. I'll do this briefly if I can, But 419 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 3: this was a happy ending. It was a girl that 420 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 3: was rescued by the crew that I was with just 421 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 3: weeks ago. This is recently. This was a fourteen year 422 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 3: old girl from Orange County. She posted online on one 423 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 3: of her social media platforms she just bought some weed 424 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: or something and she owed forty five dollars, and within 425 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 3: minutes one of these disgusting pimps botted it, got hold 426 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 3: of her, agreed to meet up. Now, you can say, 427 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 3: none of that should have happened, right, shouldn't have been drugs, 428 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: shouldn't have agreed to meet with a stranger. That's all true, 429 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 3: of course, as a parent, that's the first thing that 430 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 3: comes to mind. But nevertheless, she did meet up with 431 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 3: this guy. Within two hours of meeting him, she was 432 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 3: on the streets in la He took her up there, 433 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 3: forced her to change her clothing, gave us some drugs 434 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 3: to take her, you know, put her in the right zone, 435 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 3: as it were, and she's on the streets within two hours. 436 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 3: She was rescued five days later. In that five day period, 437 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 3: she had been traded three times from one group to 438 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 3: another like a piece of meat. I mean, this is 439 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 3: so evil. It's so evil, and I just cannot believe 440 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 3: that you and these people, the Democrats, who just sort 441 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 3: of let this go on year after year. They're the 442 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 3: constantly lecturing us about compassion and social justice and my goodness, 443 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 3: you know, gender equality in women's rights. It's unbelievable. 444 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge meat market for of underage girls. 445 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: And they not only it's they're not only don't care, 446 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: they actually helped build the market by by they's stupid 447 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: they did. They created this mark straordinary. 448 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 3: I know, why, why. 449 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: What goes on with them? What's missing? 450 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 3: The this? It's this is it, it's it's this is 451 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: what happens when you get ideal, total fanatical ideologues in charge. Right, 452 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 3: they had they had to do not care about the 453 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 3: real world and the practical consequences of what they do 454 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 3: in a in a less emotive and serious way. You 455 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 3: see exactly the same with their insane climate crusade, where 456 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,959 Speaker 3: they're doing things that just make no sense, like you know, 457 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 3: but stopping our oil and gas industry in California, but 458 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 3: meanwhile importing it from halfway around the world, increasing carbon 459 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 3: emissions that they're doing it to the ideology says we've 460 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 3: got to fight the fossil fuel injury. None of this 461 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 3: makes sense. It's ideology totally gone mad. And that's what 462 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 3: happens when you have one party rule. That's why it's 463 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: so important we win next year. That's why I'm confident 464 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 3: we will win next year because people can see how 465 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 3: far this has gone and we're not going to put 466 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 3: up with it anymore. 467 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: Can you hang on for another segment? Absolutely time, Okay, 468 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: we'll come back. I want to talk about one of 469 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: your one of your opponents, Eric Swawell, who is doing 470 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: well on the Democratic side in the polls. Okay, because 471 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: he's apparently giving up his day job as a congressman 472 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. 473 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 3: Are we going to have some fang fang jokes coming up? 474 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: Look far to that. 475 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 476 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 4: six forty. 477 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: 'ron every day from one until four o'clock. After four 478 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, 479 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: you could hear what you missed. We continue with Steve Helton, 480 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: the top candidate's running for governor as a Republican here 481 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: in California. Another top candidate on the Democratic side is 482 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: Congressman Eric Swalwell. Quite anti Trump over the years, involved 483 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: in the impeachment. And it turns out New York Post 484 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: has a story today that he doesn't show up to 485 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 1: vote very often. In fact, he misses more votes than 486 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: almost any other congressman except for one. And he's missed 487 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: ninety five votes at a three hundred and forty two. 488 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: He's missed more votes than a guy named Raoul Garrava, 489 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: a Democrat from Arizona, who missed sixty nine votes, but 490 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: he died in March, so he's got an excuse. 491 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 3: Unbelievable. 492 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, the days he's missed some votes, there's photos 493 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: of him, well, he was appearing on Jimmy Kimmel wive 494 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: missed two votes on November twentieth. And then let's see 495 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: another example. He missed two days of votes in February. 496 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: There's photos of him attending the LA premiere of the 497 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: HBO show White Lotus. He's one of your one of 498 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: your opponents, and he's doing well on the Democrat side. 499 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's there. You go, White Loaded. Obviously 500 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 3: very important research there. I mean, we've got to go 501 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 3: back to Fang Fang. This is this is the you know, 502 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 3: his focus. Clearly there's there's a very interesting aspect to 503 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 3: the kinds of things where he puts his attention. Let's 504 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 3: let's leave it at that the Chinese spy what is 505 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 3: the Chinese spye. It's just the name is, you know, 506 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 3: Fang for unbelievable work. 507 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: In his office. 508 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,479 Speaker 3: It's just it's just too much. The thing that this 509 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 3: tells you is that it's just he's just not a 510 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 3: serious person. He's not He's a social media phenomenon. And 511 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 3: that like these Democrats. Now you got IOC and all 512 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,719 Speaker 3: these people who think they're I mean, obviously he's in 513 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 3: the sort of you know, minor league compared to her, 514 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 3: But this is what they're all about. Just like actually 515 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 3: they think that now the job of being in office 516 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 3: is to troll President and Trump on social media. They 517 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 3: literally think that's their job. Look at how Trump usance 518 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 3: now spending our tax paying money on this website. That's 519 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 3: just a sort of Trump trolling website. It's got no purpose. 520 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 3: It's going to benefit to anyone in California. You look 521 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 3: at Eric Swoll, well, that's what's you know, he's putting 522 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 3: out of these videos and he did among those videos 523 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: like cringe videos in the gym and whatever, trolling Trump. 524 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 3: It's just it's not serious, and we have really serious 525 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 3: problems in California. You need people who understand policy, who've 526 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 3: got experience in government and experience in an executive role 527 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 3: like I have in business as well as in government, 528 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 3: so you actually get things done. You've got that business mindset, 529 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 3: especially when you get these legislators who just literally or 530 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 3: they think that doing something is the same as saying something, 531 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: putting out a press release, putting out a post on 532 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 3: Instagram or whatever. They think that's it. They think that 533 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: means you've done something. Well do you haven't. And this 534 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 3: is why we're in such a mess in California. You've 535 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 3: got people like that whose only skill is kind of, 536 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: you know, sucking up to the activists and the unions 537 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: and all the kind of constituencies you have to panned 538 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 3: too on the left, that's what they're like. That's all 539 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 3: they know how to do. So this guy would be 540 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 3: a disaster, just like any other time. I can't see 541 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 3: a single Democrat there that is that really you could say, 542 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 3: represents the kind of serious change we need in California. 543 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: Why didn't they want to help people? That's if I 544 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: don't understand. I mean, he's hobnobbing in Hollywood, hobnobbing with 545 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: the Chinese spies. He's not voting anymore in Washington, d C. 546 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: He's putting out all kinds of nonsense about Trump taking money. 547 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: He's got fifteen grand he got from Sean Penn, ten 548 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: grand from Robert De Niro, money from Kathy Griffin, money 549 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: from reality show producers. What is he doing? There's states 550 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: in ruins, and you can see it with your own eyes. 551 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: It's in ruins. 552 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 3: It's in ruins. I mean, it's the subt you know, 553 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 3: before I jumped into Race, wrote the book Cali Failure, 554 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: Reversing the Ruin of America's worst run State. That's exactly 555 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 3: the word that I used, because it's just obvious. I mean, 556 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: every single thing you look at as a disaster. What 557 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 3: is that answer to any of this. It's so hilarious 558 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 3: watching them. I've actually done it. I haven't done an 559 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 3: event with him yet, actually, to be fair, but I 560 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,719 Speaker 3: have with some of the other ones. You know, these 561 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 3: four not debates yet, but they're just like these candidate 562 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 3: forums when you speak one after the other and they 563 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 3: have nothing. You know, they say the same things, which is, oh, 564 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 3: it's terrible. Oh it's so expensive in California, the business climate, 565 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 3: so everything's so difficult. The bureaucracy, the taxes, as if 566 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 3: it's got nothing to do with them, or their party 567 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 3: or their ideas. They don't have a single constructive thing 568 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 3: to say about how they'd fix it, because of course, 569 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 3: fixing it means going in a completely different direction to 570 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 3: where they are politically, because. 571 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: They're all in office now or have recently been in office, 572 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: and they look around and they tell you what you 573 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: can see with your own eyes. You don't even have 574 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: to pay attention to the news as a voter, as 575 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: a resident. Go outside and it's like you took that 576 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: drive on Cigaroe and you saw three and a half 577 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: miles worth of little girls being sold into sex slavery. 578 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 3: Yes, just go and fill your car up with gas, 579 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 3: open your electric bill, I mean, pay the rent. I 580 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 3: mean all these things are way more expensive than anywhere 581 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 3: else in the country as a direct result of Democrat policies, 582 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 3: and there's nowhere else to blame. What explains the difference? 583 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 3: I mean they keep saying, oh, it's Trump. Well, if 584 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 3: gas is double the price of another state, Trump's president 585 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 3: in that state as well, how can it be Trump? 586 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 3: It's obviously the Democrats. 587 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: The average in the country is below two ninety now 588 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: and we're near four point fifty. 589 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 3: I know. I mean my policy, the first plan I 590 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 3: announced in the campaign, because it just hurts working people 591 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 3: so much, And that's really my focus is working class 592 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 3: California's and small businesses who've really been screwed by these policies. 593 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 3: The first one was my plan to dismantle the climate 594 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 3: disaster and the climate say, and so instead of five 595 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 3: four point fifty five six seven eight dollar gas which 596 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 3: is projected, we'll have three dollar gas in California. Now 597 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 3: you say that is the other I say on national 598 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 3: television sometimes and they and the host look at me 599 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 3: and say, what's so good about that? 600 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 2: You? 601 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 3: Like, there are thirty six states in America, Like I'm 602 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 3: saying three dollar gas, and people are saying, wow, that's ambitious. 603 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 3: How are you going to do it? There are thirty 604 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 3: six states in America with not three dollar gas or lower, 605 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 3: and they don't have oil reserves like we do. 606 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now, seventy eight, nine, ten, 607 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: there's actually forty states now under three dollars? Is it 608 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: forty today as of the update today? Yeah? There, there's amazing. 609 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: It's shocking, as the thing is, it's big states like 610 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida, really low. It's it's left wing states 611 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: like New York and New Jersey and Massachusetts. It's nearly 612 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: the whole country. 613 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 3: And exactly exactly. 614 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's got a run. Got into the news. 615 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 3: About next year. We're gonna we're gonna make everyone aware 616 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 3: that it's the Democrats causing it. And the only answer 617 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 3: is to stop voting Democrat, vote for Republic. And that's 618 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 3: why I'm confident I'll be the governor this time next year, 619 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 3: I'll be governor elect and be a very happy Christmas 620 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,239 Speaker 3: the new year. 621 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, Steve Hilton. 622 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 3: Good to be with you. 623 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: John Pine, we'll have you on again soon and when 624 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: we come back. Speaking of climate policy, Ford lost thirty 625 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: five billion dollars on electric vehicles. I'll tell you about 626 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: it when we come back. Hey, you've been listening to 627 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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