1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're going to talk with 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: Sayed Kashani, who's an attorney from the Palisades lost his 5 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: home in the fire, and like many in the Palisades, 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: as you heard from the report we played before Brigida's news, 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: they cannot believe that the DWP is draining the reservoir 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: a second time, the one hundred and seventeen million gallon 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: reservoir that was drained in twenty twenty four before the 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: fire because the cover was torn. Well, they put a 11 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: new cover on. Eventually it was too late, too late 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: for use the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: been torn again, and so they're going to shut the 14 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: reservoir down for another nine months, drain it all over again. 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: And they're still trying to sell that this doesn't matter 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: except they've come up with a backup water supply for 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: fire safety. It's hard to keep up with this. Let's 18 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 2: get say Ed Kashan on say it. How are you well? 19 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 3: It's a couple. Thanks for having me back, appreciate it makes. 20 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 2: My head spin. So let me get this straight. So 21 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: they're actually draining the thing again. But they've always claimed 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 2: they would have not done any good at the fire, 23 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: but they have a backup water system this time, like 24 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: just in case. 25 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you right now that backup system, as 26 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 3: they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're 27 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 3: talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 3: could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now, 29 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 3: the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 3: cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a 31 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir 33 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 3: is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know, 34 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 3: the interesting thing is when they first put this cover 35 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: on in twenty eleven, the DWP had reports and public 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 3: meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be drained 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 3: for a period of time. And back then the LA 38 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 3: Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this reservoir 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 3: for fire safety, and if you drain it, there has 40 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 3: to be alternatives. And at the time there were some alternatives. 41 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 3: Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are like the 42 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 3: Chautauqua reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now closed down, 43 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: not even available, so they're you know, they're putting the 44 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 3: entire Pallsage area at risk again. 45 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 2: Over a cover, and they keep insisting we have to 46 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: protect drinking water now, this reservoir and correct me if 47 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: I had the dates wrong, didn't have a cover. For 48 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: over forty years, from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there. 49 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 3: Was no cover exactly. This cover is, you might say, 50 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: is kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I 51 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 3: don't want to get into the details and the chemistry 52 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 3: about it, but the idea is that having a cover 53 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 3: enables you to use a different type of chlorinating agent 54 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 3: that supposedly is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact, 55 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: there's a epedeomologist, epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking 56 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: of UCLA who's been quite vocal on this and pointing 57 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: out that there's absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary 58 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 3: chlorine and no cover. 59 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 2: So that's why they got the cover? Well, because yeah, 60 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: I know, is there, it's not, it's probably not where 61 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: they're gone. It's absurd because they drain this reservoir in 62 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: early twenty twenty four. So the Palisades went that whole 63 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: year without that reservoir supplying water, and it turns out 64 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 2: I guess they didn't need it. 65 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 3: they drain the reservoir, but the DWP never told anyone 67 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 3: for as far as I can tell, as far as 68 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 3: the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department. 69 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the 70 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 3: and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of 72 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 3: DWP gave it an announcement and he said, and I quote, 73 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 3: our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say 74 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 3: is that when you know that the most important reservoir 75 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 3: in that area is still empty at the time. 76 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: Why had they been lying so frequently for so long 77 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: before the fire, During the fire? After the fire, all 78 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 2: they do is lie, or at least they cover up, 79 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 2: and with whole information, what are they doing? 80 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 3: I think it all goes back to these environmental these 81 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 3: extreme environmental extremists. I mean, the environmental extremists at the 82 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: State Water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk 83 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 3: of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, So 84 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 3: you need to cover the whole reservoir an enormous expense 85 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 3: and take it out of commission and put everyone at 86 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 3: risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as 87 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 3: you know, from the fire, that in order to protect 88 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 3: some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to 89 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: fight the fire. Probably, Well how did that work out 90 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed. 91 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: Anyway, This is all so crazy. 92 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: It really is. All the environmental extremists, it really is. 93 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: You know, you hear this, people complain about it, and 94 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 2: you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's just 95 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 2: people taking political shots at one another. But this is 96 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 2: a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into the 97 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: government have insane policies that kill people and destroy enormous 98 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: amounts of real estate. 99 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 3: Well, the worst of it is, these are people and 100 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,559 Speaker 3: programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind 101 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 3: the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature, 102 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 3: whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public 103 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 3: areas of the public vote. This cover idea started with 104 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 3: a regulation, and it started in some you know, environmental 105 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 3: bureaucracy that was never voted on, that never had public hearings. 106 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 3: It was just some decision that someone decided that if 107 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 3: you use this type of chlorine instead of other type 108 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 3: of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes 109 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 3: a difference to the water supply when the first type 110 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 3: of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years 111 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 3: with no problems. 112 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, first, first I heard of this, and now they're 113 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 2: going to close it down for nine months. Why do 114 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: they have to close it for nine months? They repaired 115 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: the old cover much more quickly than that. 116 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: You know, I. 117 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: This work. This is what happens when you only have 118 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with 119 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 3: a single company I won't give its name, but they're 120 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 3: out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this cover. 121 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 3: And it's only one company, it's a single source. Well, 122 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 3: guess what if your company knows that you're going to 123 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: get substanti business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive 124 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier 125 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 3: just to keep coming back and back and back and 126 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: repair and repair and refair. I mean, I'm not saying 127 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 3: they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean, I 128 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: think it would be a better idea to do it 129 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 3: do it right the first time, so it works. But 130 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 3: like I said, the whole idea of a cover was 131 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by 132 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 3: unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their 133 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 3: environmental agenda. 134 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as 135 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: they passed through the battles of the system. We don't 136 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: know their name. We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way, 137 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: what does it take to get her removed? And this 138 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: is one insane, stupid decision and one insane why after 139 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: another after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty 140 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: thousand a year and all she's brought is devastation. How 141 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: does she survives? 142 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 3: The And it just gave an award for Women of 143 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: the years? 144 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the Times the Times game were a Woman 145 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: of the Year award. 146 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean, 147 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: there's no accountability. But look, the same people who made 148 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: the wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up. 149 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 3: For example, we sought a report from the state that 150 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 3: claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well, 151 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 3: who was who provided that report? That report came from 152 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 3: state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover 153 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 3: regulation in the first place. In other words, three of 154 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 3: the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies 155 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 3: that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies 156 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 3: aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made 157 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 3: a mistake and you know, we let the whole city 158 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 3: burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going 159 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 3: to say, well, it never made any difference. 160 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: Sed Well, one hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim 161 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 2: would have had no effect. I met a guy in 162 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 2: the Palisades a few weeks ago. He had a two 163 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 2: inch hose connected to his swimming pool and he saved 164 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: his home and two weather homes near him watered it 165 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 2: down well so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they 166 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 2: didn't the two inch holls one to his pool. 167 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 3: Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was 168 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 3: able to protect his house so long as there was water. 169 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 3: But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story. 170 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 3: But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a 171 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 3: source of water. As long as the city supplied water. 172 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 3: He was able to keep his house safe once the 173 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 3: water shut off. The evening of the first fire, that's 174 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 3: when his house got fired and there was nothing he 175 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 3: would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said, 176 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 3: there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way, 177 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 3: the DWP story that houses water lines broke and that's 178 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: why they lost pressure. That doesn't hold up either, because 179 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 3: many areas of the Palisades, if you see them after 180 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 3: the fire, they were bone dry. That means the water 181 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 3: means did not break and spill water over. That means 182 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: the fire got to these areas after the water was 183 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 3: shut off. So that story isn't going to hold up either. Again, 184 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 3: the only thing that's going to get us the truth 185 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: here is this pending litigation, and I'm hoping the courts 186 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 3: will let it go forward to the point that we 187 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 3: have a trial, We have witnesses, we have documents, all 188 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 3: presented in the light of days so people can see 189 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 3: exactly what happened. 190 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 2: Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem, Thanks for 191 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 2: having me si ed as an attorney in the Palisades, 192 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: lost his home there. When we come back, Spencer Pratt, 193 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: the reality star who lost his home in the Palisades. 194 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: He has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video 195 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 2: podcast that La City botched the fire response. This was 196 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 2: the piece of video that was cut out of the 197 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 2: final version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's 198 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 2: comments on Twitter about this. That's next. 199 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 200 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 201 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 2: At John Cobelt Radio, and you should subscribe to our 202 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: YouTube channel. Then you get notifications every time we put 203 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: up a new video segment. We're putting up longer segments 204 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 2: on YouTube. YouTube dot com, slash at John Cobelt Show. 205 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 2: That's the address to subscribe YouTube dot com, slash at 206 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show, and it's at John Cobelt Radio for 207 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,839 Speaker 2: all the other social media platforms. Well, we just talked 208 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 2: with Sayed Kashani, the attorney out of the Palisades, about this, 209 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 2: the insanity of the DWP now taking the cover off 210 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 2: the reservoir again. They're going to close the reservoir again 211 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 2: for nine months. This time they're proposing a ten inch 212 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: water line from the Panga Canyon Reservoir has two thirty 213 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: inch water lines that's supposed to be used to fight fires. 214 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 2: You can't replace sixty inches of water line with a 215 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 2: ten inch line. That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, 216 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: they're going to do it for fire. Well, I thought 217 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 2: having a full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in 218 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: the fire. They're so full of it, they're so absolutely 219 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 2: full of it, and they keep saying, well, we got 220 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 2: to keep the drinking water safe. Well, when they closed 221 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 2: it in twenty twenty four, there was no drinking water 222 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: that year, and the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you 223 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 2: think they need it now? You know it's going to 224 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 2: rain this week, but you never know when the sant 225 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: Ana winds may hit in the summertime. All the rain now, 226 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 2: everything could be bone dry come July or August or 227 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: September next year, and there'll be a lot more there'll 228 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 2: be a lot more brush that had grown because of 229 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 2: all the rain we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt, 230 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 2: the reality star, we've had him on the show. He's 231 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: responding to the Karen Bass botch comment to quickly run down. 232 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: Karen Bass appeared on a podcast called The Fifth Column, 233 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: and it was originally a sixty six minute podcast The 234 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: last four minutes came after the host said goodbye to 235 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 2: Bass on air, and then the video chems kept rolling 236 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 2: and she started talking about how La City botched the 237 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 2: response the La Fire Department, and the video was posted 238 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: in November. At some point between November and this week, 239 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 2: Bass's office realized that that extra four minutes was up 240 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: there and she was admitting that the city had screwed 241 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: up badly, and so they took it down, and the 242 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: weasel who hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, 243 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,719 Speaker 2: then hung up on the La Times when he was 244 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 2: questioned on it. I got to get his name while 245 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 2: I look for his name. Just to remind everybody who 246 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 2: the weasel is. Here is Spencer Pratt on X with 247 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: a post going after Bass. 248 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 5: Mayor Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the 249 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 5: Palisades fire was quote botched while on a hot mic 250 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 5: at the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't 251 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 5: find that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that 252 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 5: they scrubbed that footage from the internet. 253 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: Well, guess what, by admitting that. 254 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 5: The Palisades fire response was botched, she just earned herself 255 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 5: a subpoena from our lawyers. For the Palisades Fire lawsuit. 256 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 5: Her stunning admission is a massive departure from. 257 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: The Ooh, we did everything we could. It was just one. 258 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 5: Hundred miles pro wins bs and narrative that they've been 259 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 5: spinning to date. But in a moment of accidental candor, 260 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 5: she let the truth slip, and this mistake will cost 261 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 5: her dearly. She has just signaled that we were right. 262 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 5: They did botch the fire response, and now we have 263 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 5: good cause to call her as a witness. 264 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 2: What did she mean by botched? What went wrong? Who 265 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 2: screwed up? 266 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 5: Thanks for playing It's time for my lawyers to go fishing. 267 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 2: That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She 268 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 2: and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three 269 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: of them this year, and countless other fire officials had 270 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 2: been insisting repeatedly, over and over again, we. 271 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 6: Did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One hundred 272 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 6: miles of hour winds. There was no one hundred mile 273 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 6: an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read six 274 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 6: days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service and 275 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 6: had a firefighters at the site of the original January 276 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 6: first fire, which was still smoldering, and it was smoldering 277 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 6: because the ninnies in the State Parks Department went down 278 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 6: and kicked the LA Fire Department out on January second, 279 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 6: because they wanted to save the freaking milk vetch plant, 280 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 6: the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the firefighters stepping 281 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 6: on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want Laft bulldozers creating 282 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 6: a fire line. And I remember another LA time story 283 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 6: early in the year where they had long wanted to 284 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 6: build a fire road out of the Palisades up and 285 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 6: over the mountain going to the north, and they weren't 286 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 6: allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan. 287 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 2: That was a story from US January or February. But yeah, 288 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had 289 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,479 Speaker 2: nobody there. 290 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: It. 291 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 2: Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by 292 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 2: the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight because 293 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 2: she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars 294 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at taxpayer 295 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 2: expense to keep her from testifying in front of a 296 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 2: federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that 297 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are 298 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 2: they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of 299 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 2: the Palisades residents with twenty five thirty five. By the way, 300 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: the name of the host of the Fifth Column is 301 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show 302 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 2: and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so 303 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 2: beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty 304 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 2: eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city, She defunded 305 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 2: the fire department. What are these staff members? This is 306 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 2: your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and 307 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 2: bully him to take down the last four minutes of 308 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: the podcast, and he does it. Wow, Wow, Wow, I 309 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: don't get how the world works anymore. Okay, we've got 310 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 2: more coming up on the John Cobelt Show. 311 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 312 00:17:58,359 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 4: six forty. 313 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 2: Were on every day one till four o'clock. After four o'clock, 314 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 2: it's John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app 315 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 2: and you can listen to what you missed. We are 316 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 2: going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's got a 317 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: website so does itmatter dot com. He's a political writer 318 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 2: and a commentator. And there is a story that has 319 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 2: been bubbling in the background. We've covered it some because 320 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 2: there's only one reporter in the whole state trying to 321 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 2: find out the truth, and her name is Ashley Zavala 322 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 2: for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, like 323 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 2: I said, for all the people just beside themselves with 324 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 2: anger and fury over Trump using private money to build 325 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 2: that ballroom. In Washington, we got Newsome spending over a 326 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 2: billion dollars on something called the State Capitol Annex project. 327 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: It's a new large section of the state Capitol, over 328 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 2: a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's 329 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 2: going to cost or it's going to be built. It 330 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 2: there's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of nondisclosure agreements, 331 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 2: and it looks like a big sticking boondoggle that nobody 332 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 2: wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk to us talk with 333 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 2: John Fleischman about this, John, how are you. 334 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know. 335 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 7: Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X 336 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 7: to call the expansion of the White House, the knockoff Versailles, 337 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 7: and and and really let Donald Trump have it while 338 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 7: he's got his own crazy thing going on. 339 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 1: At the Capitol. 340 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 7: Uh, the ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated 341 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 7: to cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you 342 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 7: pointed out, it's all coming from private money. But here 343 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 7: in California, they're they're like massively expanding the state capitol, 344 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 7: like and the last the last budget was one point 345 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 7: one billion, but no one thinks that's even going to 346 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 7: come close to what it's actually going to cost. There's 347 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 7: no no one in charge, No one will say what 348 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 7: it actually costs. 349 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: And this is my favorite part. 350 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 7: There's over two thousand people working on this project, and 351 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 7: the government has had every single person, from the lawyers 352 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 7: down to the construction workers signing legal nondescrolloser agreements so 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 7: that they cannot talk to the media or anyone else 354 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 7: about what they're doing and how much it costs. 355 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: It's completely nuts. 356 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 7: Newsom obviously has approved the funny because he signed the 357 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 7: budget bills that include the money. And as you said, 358 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 7: Ashley's of all of the reporter from KSETV and Sacramento 359 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 7: has been on this thing. But she's been the only 360 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 7: one and so there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing, 361 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 7: and it's absolutely boggers. I mean it's I mean, I 362 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 7: wish that I know this is radio, but you know, 363 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 7: if you go to I'm sure your website, if you 364 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 7: go to so doesn'tmatter dot com. My piece has photos. 365 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 7: It's just it's like. 366 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: They're building the taj Mahal. 367 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 7: He's building his own Versailles at the same time that 368 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 7: he's trying to criticize as the president. 369 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 2: And it's it's it's it's not there's some hypocrisy. 370 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 7: And it's even better they it's leaked out that they 371 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 7: have built this new structure of the building with secure 372 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 7: secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move all 373 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 7: around the Capitol without ever having to come out to where. 374 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: The media or the public are. 375 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 7: So it's like they're literally creating this own little kind 376 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 7: of like honeycombed secret capital structure. 377 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: At the cost. 378 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 7: I mean, they're spending more than on this than you 379 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 7: would spend to. 380 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: Build like an NBA stadium. 381 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 2: And what's going to be in what's going to be 382 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 2: inside this attics. 383 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 7: Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for 384 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 7: all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally 385 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:54,400 Speaker 7: a physical manifestation of the grotesque enlargement of California state government. 386 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 7: You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending 387 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 7: more money and doing more stuff. 388 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: And it's and again. 389 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 7: There's literally you know, it's not like they held at 390 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 7: press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect. 391 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: We're building this up. 392 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 7: Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or 393 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 7: here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire 394 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 7: story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars 395 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 7: they're spending, importing granted from like Italy put into the capitol. 396 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 2: I mean we're paying for that, We're paying for that 397 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 2: Italian granted. 398 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it, 399 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 7: because anybody that could tell us has been locked down 400 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 7: with the non disclosure agreement and has been told del 401 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 7: w sou that if they disclose anything. 402 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: And I've never even heard of such a thing. 403 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 7: And you know, literally, after years of covering this, Ashlely 404 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 7: like a week ago, got some of these legislators that 405 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 7: are in charge of this to. 406 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: Go on her program. 407 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 7: Where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing. And so 408 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 7: the whole thing is crazy, and so I think it's 409 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 7: going to be one more of those questions that people 410 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 7: are like, Okay, you really want this guy to be 411 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 7: the president of the United States. It's completely nuts. Although 412 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 7: you know, maybe you know, the whole thing is just crazy. 413 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 2: He he actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer, I'd 414 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 2: like to know what it costs. Well, you know what 415 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 2: it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget. 416 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 7: Oh not only that, not only that, but he has 417 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 7: appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group 418 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 7: that oversees all of this somebody from the state Senate, 419 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 7: a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and. 420 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: The governor's representative. 421 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 7: So while he's telling us I liked to know how 422 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 7: everything's spend, his representative is in every meeting making every decision. 423 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 7: And so once again it's a complete pile of dog 424 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 7: crap right that he's literally we've seen this guy before. 425 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 7: He's pathological. He goes on talk radio shows, he goes 426 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 7: on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And 427 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 7: because of all of his friends in the media, this 428 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 7: radio show accepted you know. 429 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: Nobody calls them on it. 430 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 7: Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever 431 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 7: he wants? 432 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 2: Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and 433 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 2: the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're 434 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be 435 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 2: to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation 436 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 2: to protecting newsome I don't understand. 437 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. 438 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 7: And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San 439 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 7: Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing 440 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 7: to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements 441 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 7: and get the truth out. 442 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: Do you think any of them have. 443 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 7: Taken the time to sue the government over this? 444 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: Well, that's what I want to add. I want to ask, 445 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 2: how can it be legal for them to force two 446 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project 447 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money and 448 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 2: the purpose of the building is going to be making 449 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 2: law in California for the public. How can we not 450 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: have access to every detail and understand where every penny went. 451 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 7: Well, understand what they do in California is and this 452 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 7: is really it tells you something about the legislature. Most 453 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 7: of these invasive laws that they passed that put restrictions 454 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 7: on us. 455 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: Or open up the books. 456 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 7: In almost every one of these laws, they put boilerplate 457 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 7: language at the end it says, this public disclosure law 458 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 7: shall not apply to the legislature or the governor, and 459 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 7: so they exempt themselves from all these disclosure laws. But 460 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 7: I don't think what they're. 461 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: Doing is legal. 462 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 7: Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue them and 463 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 7: get this information. But you know, the media is more 464 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 7: interested in covering his hair than they are covering his versides. 465 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: His verside, So you. 466 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 2: Know, you mentioned those major newspapers make it up. We 467 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 2: got to have about twenty five minutes to television stations, 468 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: not to mention, all the television networks and the cable 469 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: news channels, and nobody, nobody wants to take him on. 470 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: Well apparently not, you know. So, I mean, I've now 471 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: written about it today. 472 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 7: And Ashley is of all of the local Sacramento reporter 473 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 7: has been writing about it. But it has been virtually 474 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 7: crickets from the state wide media. 475 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 1: And it's just a reminder. 476 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 7: That they do not exist to be watchdogs on the left. 477 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 7: You could be sure if there was a Republican governor 478 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 7: right now or a Republican legislature, they would be all 479 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 7: over it. But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media 480 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 7: people for what the policies are that are coming out 481 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 7: of Sacramento. 482 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: And they don't want to provide a distraction, right because 483 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: Trump is spending. 484 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: A fraction with private money on that ballroom, and look 485 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 2: at all the hysteria that goes on. 486 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 7: Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is 487 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 7: overseeing this boondoggle, has the nerve to go on X 488 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 7: and accused Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles. 489 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 7: Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and 490 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 7: so really laying really. 491 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: Stupid and uh, you know hopefully you know. 492 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does he keep talking. 493 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 7: Maybe America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll 494 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 7: get a new governor. Although frankly, the batch of people 495 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 7: running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light 496 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 7: bulbs in California either. 497 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 2: I mean no, there's nobody home. 498 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 7: At least not on the this not on the Democrat side. 499 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 7: All right, John, our attorney general may run. He'll save 500 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 7: us all right, Thanks John, thanks for having me on, 501 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 7: and I'd encourage people to come visit sodaes itmatter dot com? 502 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 2: So does itmatter dot com? John Fleischman. He's got a 503 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 2: two part series on this on this scandal, uh coming up. 504 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 2: Katie Grinds from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation. 505 00:27:54,359 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 2: She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like 506 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 2: the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to 507 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 2: read all fifty, touch on a few of them again. 508 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: All the feeding back to what I discussed last hour. 509 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 2: There are going to be many Democratic candidates running for 510 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 2: president against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount 511 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 2: of opposition research on all this. He is going to 512 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 2: get pillaried. Like you won't believe we actually has competition 513 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 2: for the nomination. 514 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 515 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 4: six forty. 516 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social 517 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 2: media at John Cobelt Radio, and you should subscribe to 518 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 2: our YouTube channel. Then you get notifications every time we 519 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: put up a new video segment. We're putting up longer 520 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 2: segments on YouTube. YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt Show. 521 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 2: That's the address to subscribe YouTube dot com, slash at 522 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show, and it's at John Cobelt Radio for 523 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 2: all the other social media platforms. All right, well, we 524 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 2: just had John fly spanon from sodesitmatter dot com. One 525 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 2: of her other favorite reporters, Katie Grimes from California Globe. 526 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 2: She was on with us yesterday and this week. 527 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 6: She wrote a piece about the Top fifty disasters. The 528 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 6: top fifty disasters Governor Gavin Newsom has ushered into California. 529 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: We should do it. We should do a countdown. We 530 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 2: could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well, here 531 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 2: we go. I'm not going to read all fifty, but 532 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 2: the ones that some of them are old, some of 533 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 2: them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because they're 534 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 2: a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How about 535 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 2: this one. Just found this out a few days ago. 536 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 2: Under Gavin Newsom, well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians 537 00:29:53,520 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 2: left California in twenty twenty two. He's written, seventeen thousand 538 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 2: people left the state in twenty twenty two, more than 539 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 2: two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty five or older, 540 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 2: most of them with four year or two year college degrees, 541 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 2: and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas. 542 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 2: Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he went through the 543 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 2: numbers and you could track how many people leave the state, 544 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 2: how many moved to other states, and what their socio 545 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: income status is, and so what you had here is 546 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: a huge percentage of the two hundred thousand net migrants 547 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 2: lost were college educated. Andy had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. 548 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: Thousands of businesses have fled to other states. That's just 549 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: one number two. I talk about this all the time 550 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 2: and I'll never stop talking about it. Highest taxes in 551 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: the nation. California ranks among the worst for high taxes, 552 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 2: the bottom two for worse for individual taxes, worst gas tax, 553 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 2: highest business tax. And he's looking for more tax He's 554 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: trying to pass a retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after 555 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty billionaires who live in California, and 556 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 2: it's going to make them pay for the past in 557 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 2: case they leave. And this is going to drive some 558 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 2: of them out in twenty twenty. Here's another one. Twenty twenty, 559 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 2: he planned to close two state prisons. He's closed five. 560 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 6: Remember after we've passed Prop thirty six over his objections. 561 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 2: Which made stealing illegal again and drug use illegal again 562 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 2: and created a set of sentinel laws. Well, he was 563 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 2: so pissed that it passed against his objections that he 564 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 2: hasn't funded it. He refuses to funder the treatment programs 565 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: for the drug addicts. Gavin Newsom is the first governor 566 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 2: to make homelessness a way of life. The number of 567 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 2: mentally ill drug addicted people littering the streets with thess 568 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 2: and drug needles, tent encampments and filth has grown dramatically. 569 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: I think it's about one hundred and eighty seven thousand 570 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: in the state. He has spent thirty seven billion dollars 571 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 2: on homelessness in the last six years, and homelessness has 572 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 2: exploded in the state. These are all from Katie Grimes, 573 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 2: and I'm just getting a fraction of them. You should 574 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: go to californiaglobe dot com. You could read the whole list. 575 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 2: Eight to twelve dollars gas coming. We used to have 576 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 2: forty three refineries We're down to seven our oil production 577 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: has declined by sixty five percent, our foreign imports have 578 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 2: increased by seventy percent, or increased two seventy percent. Let's 579 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 2: not forget the COVID lockdowns, which destroyed thousands of businesses 580 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 2: and destroyed the childhoods and the learning capabilities of hundreds 581 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: of thousands of children. He spent four and a half 582 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 2: million dollars on free immigration legal services, and of course 583 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 2: the big whopper, he passed a bill that guaranteed free 584 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 2: healthcare to every illegal immigrant in the state. It's costing 585 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 2: US thirteen billion dollars, now thirteen billion. The medical program 586 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 2: is insolvent, it's broke. What do you do with a 587 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 2: broke plan like that. Well, he's going to medical to 588 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 2: any poor or disabled, elderly person who has two thousand 589 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 2: dollars in assets. So if your parents or grandparents are 590 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 2: down to their last two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that 591 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 2: two grand or they don't get medical because he blew 592 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 2: thirteen billion on illegal aliens. That's enough for now. I'm 593 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 2: holding on to this. Katie Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. 594 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 2: You have to read that because there's plenty more. It 595 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,879 Speaker 2: it just makes you sick. Okay, we've got more coming 596 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 2: up on The John Cobalt Show. Now here's an update 597 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 2: from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been 598 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 2: listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 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