1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,399 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 2: app and we're now going to talk to Laura Ingle 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: from Newstation, the Cable TV news channel. She's in New 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: York City, Zorn. Mom Donnie, the incoming mayor, announced today 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: that he is no longer going to be sweeping away 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 2: all the homeless encampments that litter the city. Eric Adams, 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 2: the mayor, up until I guess this month, he had 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: cleared out eighteen thousand encampments over the last three and 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 2: a half years. And Mom Donnie wants that stopped. Let's 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: go to lawyer. Why is this? What is he doing? 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 3: Hey? 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 4: John? 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a big political back and forth tug 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: of war over this issue that has of course hung 16 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 3: over New York City for so long. 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 5: And when we talk about the numbers and we talk. 18 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: About the planning, that's where people are really digging into 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 3: the data right now because the city has spent over 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 3: six million dollars of trying to clear out these encampments. 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 3: But the other side of the coin, even though all 22 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: that effort is being made to clean up the encampments, 23 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: to get the tenth packed up and get people moving 24 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 3: on to shelters shows that I think it was like 25 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 3: four thousand people, let's say, were removed from their homeless encampments, 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 3: but then only one hundred and fourteen were placed in 27 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 3: shelters and nobody had permanent, long term solutions for these people. 28 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 3: So the city is spending a lot of money to 29 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 3: sweep everything up, but yet there's no connection to homeless 30 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 3: shelters that the homeless can actually benefit from. So what 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: Mandani is suggesting that he's not going to he is 32 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 3: not going to continue to sweeps, and of course Eric 33 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: Adams has said who's still the mayor, saying well, we're 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 3: going to keep going until basically the last second as 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: much as we can, because it's it is hard for 36 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 3: the people of New York to navigate through tents. I 37 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 3: was actually at Luigi Mangioni yesterday at the court hearing 38 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 3: Downtown Criminal Court, and to my surprise, there were. 39 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 5: A big row of tents just across the street. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 3: From the criminal Courthouse, which I hadn't seen in quite 41 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:14,839 Speaker 3: some time. 42 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 5: So we are people are moving. 43 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: In, people are already claiming space. 44 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 5: Word is out. 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: You know, the rent is high, so there's a lot 46 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: of people that are looking to see what that solution 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: could be. But you know, it's kind of you know, 48 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 3: just like we had it in LA when I was 49 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 3: reporting there at KFI. 50 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 5: I mean, we were down. 51 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 3: In Santa Monica doing the same in downtown LA, doing 52 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: very similar stories of you know, how do you fix 53 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: this problem? If money isn't the solution, if the best 54 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 3: laid and best meant plans aren't working, then what but 55 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 3: but just not sweeping them up? Many people here, many 56 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 3: voters have said they would like to see more of 57 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 3: a plan than that. And I'm sure what we'll hear 58 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 3: from him once once he gets into office sun in January. 59 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: Well, where do they think all these people who got 60 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: swept up? Went like there was eighteen thousand encampments and 61 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: you're telling me there was only one hundred and fourteen 62 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: placed in these shelters. Well, what happened to the eighteen thousand? 63 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: They go to New Jersey. 64 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 3: Well in New York City's big, right, So they get 65 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: on the subways and they move from place to place, 66 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 3: and a lot of people, you know, of course, they're 67 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 3: citing quality of life issues and this is not the 68 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 3: right thing to do, and it's all about the money. 69 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 5: Too about you know how much money is being spent. 70 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: Because they're it involves offices, it involves law enforcement and 71 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 3: community leaders, homeless advocates that are all trying to come 72 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,119 Speaker 3: up with some type of a solution. But the fact 73 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 3: that Mandani is saying that he's not just flat out 74 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 3: they're not going to do any sweeps. 75 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 5: I mean, I think some. 76 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 3: People the reaction has been, could you do some sweeps? 77 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: Could you maybe do more calculated sweeps of these encampments, 78 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 3: because you know, just like in La, I mean they 79 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: are they can be very big in places well, whether 80 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: you're talking about an overpass, whether you're talking about an 81 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: area where there's the vents from the subway system where 82 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: a lot of homeless will gather for the heat and 83 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: it is cold here right now. I mean we're in 84 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: the twenties right now. 85 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: Don't people die in the streets? 86 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 3: Yes, yes they do. And there's a code for that. 87 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 3: So if you see somebody that looks like they are 88 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: not doing well, you can call the city and it's 89 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: called like code blue. You can call the city and say, 90 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 3: I see somebody that needs to get into a shelter 91 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 3: right away. And in theory, somebody is supposed to come 92 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 3: and find that person at the location that's been called 93 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: in and get them to a shelter. But the problem 94 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 3: is is that they don't. A lot of homeless don't 95 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: stay where they've been placed. 96 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 5: They don't like it there. 97 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 3: They'd rather be out on the streets. So it's like 98 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 3: this merry go round, round and round of no solution. 99 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 3: But Mundani is saying that he's not going to sweep 100 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 3: him up. 101 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 5: Now, we just need to know where they're going to go. 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: So there's no there's no plan announced. 103 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 5: Yet not as of Yeah. 104 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: I mean he had a press conference yesterday and it 105 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 3: was an off topic question. That's how this whole thing 106 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 3: made a headline. He was doing a news conference for 107 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 3: something else. 108 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: All right, Well, I think, as you know, we have 109 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 2: a lot of we got thousands, all most people living 110 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 2: in the street. 111 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: This is not a complicated thing. 112 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: Either they're indoors or they're outdoors, and if they're outdoors 113 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: in fifteen degree weather, then they're going to freeze to death. 114 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: It's kind of a bizarre thing to announce that you're 115 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 2: because I thought in New York City they had a 116 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 2: wall like everybody was entitled to some shelter at least 117 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: a bed. Oh we lost her, all right, got to 118 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: disconnect there, all right. Well, anyways, that was good talking 119 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: with Laura Ingele from Newstation, which is the cable of 120 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 2: the TV channel. It's a good, good channel, good news 121 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: operation they have there. And about Zorn Mom Donnie stopping 122 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: homeless encampment sweeps. This is unbelievable, how stubborn they are 123 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: to embrace this. And instead of there being fewer politicians 124 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: in office that have this agenda, like here in LA 125 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: and now New York, there's more of them. People actually 126 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 2: vote for politicians who want more homeless encampments, and then 127 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: the people complain about all the homeless encampments. 128 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: I'm baffled. 129 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 6: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am 130 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 6: six forty. 131 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: We're on from one to four o'clock. 132 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: You want to follow us on social media, it's at 133 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Radio at John coblt Radio on all the 134 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 2: social media platforms. And if you want to subscribe to 135 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 2: our YouTube channel, we're putting up long former long form 136 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: videos every day. 137 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: Just go to. 138 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 2: YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show. YouTube dot 139 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 2: com slash at John Cobelt's show, and you could be 140 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 2: a YouTube subscriber and you'll get notified when we have 141 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 2: another video that we've posted. Well, he just said Laura 142 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: angel On from News Nation. But Zorn Mamdani, it's not 143 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: going to be mayor. I don't think for a month. 144 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 2: And he's already announced he's going to get well, he's 145 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: going to stop clearing homeless encampments. 146 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: Is that great news? 147 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 2: People don't understand what these Democratic Socialists of America are 148 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 2: really about. They hear the word Democrat and they get confused, 149 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 2: which is the point of that party's name. They're not Democrats, 150 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 2: they are socialists. But it's even worse than that. They're 151 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: destructive anarchists. And he says they're not going to clear 152 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 2: out the encampments now, as Laura said, these people were 153 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 2: cleared out and nobody knows where most of them went. 154 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 2: Eighteen thousand encampments were cleared, and those people went wandering 155 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: off to who knows where. But that's eighteen thousand encampments 156 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 2: that are not in the streets, or maybe they're tearing 157 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 2: down the same encampments over and over again. 158 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. 159 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: We lived most of our lives like here, in La 160 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: without this being a thing except on skid Row and 161 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 2: most cities obviously ninety nine percent of cities don't have this. 162 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 2: It's it's just a matter of. 163 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: Tolerance. I don't think even tolerance is the word. 164 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 2: It's embraced and it's encouraged by people like the Democratic 165 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: Socialists of America because this is their version of equity. 166 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: They think it's it you have to understand. And I 167 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 2: hesitate to talk like this because it might sound like 168 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: it's conspiracy crazy talk. They hate the capitalist society we 169 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 2: have in America. It angers them and it defends them, 170 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 2: and so they're actively trying to undermine that. That's what 171 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: Zoron Donnie is doing. That's what the four Democratic Socialists 172 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 2: and the La City Council are trying to do, to 173 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: undermine and equalize society. That's why you have homeless shelters 174 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 2: in nice residential neighborhoods where people are doing well, middle class, 175 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: upper middle class, and wealthy, and then that's not fair 176 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 2: in their eyes, and so everybody's got to be punished 177 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 2: and the neighbor neighborhood has to be degraded. See, it's 178 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 2: not about uplifting the people. The drug addicts and the 179 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 2: mental patients in the streets and helping them. It's about 180 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 2: degrading everyone else's neighborhood to somehow equalize our existence. And 181 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 2: that's what they believe in. 182 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: And you just have. 183 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 2: To read what they you know, read their websites, read 184 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 2: their propaganda, and you could see their actions, match their policies, 185 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: match their stated goals. 186 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: So this is going to be normal now. 187 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 2: The former New York Police Department chief of department they 188 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 2: call him, he's the highest, He was the highest uniformed officer. 189 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 2: He since retired, John Chell, and he was called a 190 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: New York Post saying this is going to lead to 191 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 2: a sharp increase in shanty towns developing along the city 192 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 2: streets of New York like we have here in LA. 193 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 2: He says, under current law, you generally cannot force individuals 194 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: into shelter. The majority refuse services. Boy that point has 195 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 2: been debated for so many years because the people who 196 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 2: are trying to ruin our quality of life keep insisting 197 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: that we have to do outreach, and when it doesn't work, 198 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 2: you do more outreach, and when it doesn't work, you 199 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: do more outreach. Except it doesn't work because they don't 200 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 2: want to go. I remember Gavin Newsom, Saul, I just 201 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 2: don't believe that it was probably line that is a 202 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 2: fact of life. Most of these people don't want to 203 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 2: go indoors, and they don't want rules and regulations. They 204 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 2: don't want to get off the drugs. They don't want 205 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,719 Speaker 2: people telling them what to do. They don't want to 206 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 2: be constricted in any way. They would rather risk dying 207 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: in the street because they're whacked out in a meth 208 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 2: haze or a fentental haze, or god knows what anyway, 209 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 2: so they don't even know if they're living or dead. 210 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 2: They don't even know their name half the time. The 211 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 2: only way to deal with this is force people, force 212 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 2: them at gunpoint if necessary, into some kind of treatment center, 213 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 2: and never allow anybody to sleep in the streets, which 214 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 2: is the way they conduct business in most cities in 215 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: the country, and most cities here in Los Angeles County 216 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: and an Orange County. You could go to Manhattan Beach 217 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: and you will find zero people living in the streets. 218 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 2: Beverly Hills, zero people living in the streets. Beverly Hills 219 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: is bordered largely by Los Angeles and West Hollywood. 220 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: West Hollywood has very few too. 221 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 2: You go to Orange County, you're not going to find 222 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 2: these encampments like an Irvine, for example, doesn't exist. I'm 223 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: going to find them in the Laguna Beach, Newport Beach. 224 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 2: And it's not even a matter of liberal or conservative. 225 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 2: It's just that some cities say, well, these are the rules. 226 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 2: You can't sleep in public period. And Karen Bass, she's 227 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 2: part of this group, part of the movement. The movement 228 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: is about letting homeless people live and die in the streets. 229 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: It's equity and it's about enabling illegal alience. That's why 230 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 2: so much money is funded to Charlot, for example, who 231 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: provides the spark for the rioters whenever they have an 232 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: anti ice riots, holds a press conference for Churla to 233 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 2: get people to join the riots. She holds press conferences 234 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: for legal aliens so they can apply for medical benefits 235 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 2: and get free health care. And she never does anything 236 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 2: about homelessness. She has a fake program called inside Safe, 237 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 2: and she lies about the numbers. The RAND Corporation proved 238 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: that Rand Corporation did their own count in three major 239 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,839 Speaker 2: LA districts and found that Bass's numbers were wildly undercounted, 240 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: sometimes up to forty percent doesn't stop the news media 241 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: from repeating Basses lies that homelessness is down slightly. 242 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: It's not. 243 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 2: She just lied about the numbers, and the Rand Corporation 244 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: proved that she was lying. But why would you go 245 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: to the Rand corporation? Those are super intelligent people quote 246 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: stupid political hacks instead, going back to Cell, who is 247 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: the Chief of Department for NYPD. Outreach does not automatically 248 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: mean acceptance. Ending street intervention programs before building sufficient housing, 249 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 2: shelter and treatment capacity is not a plan. 250 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: It's a gamble. 251 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: These resources must be first created and clearly codified, otherwise 252 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,359 Speaker 2: you're gonna have a sharp rise in encampments, declining street conditions, 253 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: serious quality of life impacts across our neighborhoods. 254 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: Well, I you know, I. 255 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 2: You so all these this A I don't get You 256 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 2: have all these screaming mom Donnie supporters who are getting 257 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 2: all whipped up because he's a handsome guy with a 258 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 2: beard on social media and they weren't paying attention to 259 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 2: his policies which are going to be really destructive. And 260 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: you know, he has a lot of young women who 261 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 2: supported him. These young women are going to enjoy all 262 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: these like sex molesters and child molesters, and criminals and 263 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 2: drug addicts and mental patients, chasing them and leering at 264 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: them and threatening them as they walk on the streets. 265 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 2: Young women aren't gonna have a moment of peace in 266 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: New York once these encampments start spreading. But they were 267 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: so mesmerized by his charisma. Does anybody think, does anyone 268 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 2: think at all and analyze things intelligently. 269 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna get what they voted for. 270 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: Boy, he's a month away from taking over and now now, 271 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 2: and I mean I would suggest that, in fact, maybe 272 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 2: we could encourage all the people here in Los Angeles, 273 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 2: all the vagrants. Let's buy him bus tickets to New 274 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 2: York City. Mom, Donnie's gonna welcome you. 275 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: Win. 276 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 2: Your weather is a little harsh, but if you pump 277 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 2: yourself up with enough fentanyl and math, you're not gonna notice. 278 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty. 279 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 2: Now after three o'clock, we're gonna have Rob Montz. He's 280 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: a director who grew up in the Palace and then 281 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 2: he moved to the East Coast for college. His mother's 282 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 2: house burned in the Palisades fire, he came back to 283 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: the Palisades and he's done a thirty minute documentary to 284 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: try to find out why the Palisades was abandoned to burn. 285 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: That's how he puts it. 286 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: He's done dozens of original interviews and he's got other 287 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: video never before seen, and he put together this documentary. 288 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 2: We're going to have him on the show coming up 289 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: after three o'clock. And the film is called Paradise Abandoned 290 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 2: Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire, and it's being released today 291 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: and we'll tell you how you can watch it, where 292 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 2: you can find it, and we'll talk to Rob Montz 293 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 2: coming up after three o'clock. Oh and in the next segment, 294 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: at about two fifty or so, we'll play you a 295 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: four minute clip from the documentary. There's a number of 296 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 2: people who are putting out uh documentaries on what happened 297 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: because the whole story, most of the story, just hasn't 298 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 2: been explained in detail yet. And you know, every week 299 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: we come out with something that's more and more and 300 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 2: more damning of the city government, the fire department, the 301 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 2: Parks department, Gavin Newsom's office, just ay, the you know, 302 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 2: the insurance commissioner. There is there is so much incompetence 303 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 2: and so much corruption and so much stupidity. Anyway, we 304 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 2: talked to Rob Monts, the filmmaker coming up next. We'll 305 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 2: play is a clip and then we'll talk to him 306 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: after three. 307 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: All right. 308 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: Uh, here's another thing I'm baffled by. I heard I 309 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 2: heard like a brief summary of his story on the radio. Uh, 310 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: I guess maybe on KFI. I just didn't get it. 311 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: Not that it wasn't explained in the h in the newscast, 312 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 2: It's just I didn't understand this. Apparently, the parents of 313 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 2: an eight year old girl are suing a private school 314 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 2: in Chatsworth here in Los Angeles, Sierra Canyon School. I'm 315 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 2: familiar with that school, although my kids did not go there. 316 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 2: The eight year old, the eight year old's parents, it's 317 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: the Kidness family, and they are saying that their daughter 318 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 2: was dragged into some kind of kissing club, a kissing club. 319 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 2: Pentea Kipness is the child's mother, and she said it 320 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 2: was started by older students who bullied and sexually assaulted 321 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 2: their daughter. Now, this is a K through twelfth grade school, 322 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: high end prep school, cost forty five thousand a year 323 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 2: to send a kid, so I'm thinking, well, this must 324 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: be high school perverts. Fifteen sixteen, seventeen years old. They're 325 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 2: kissing eight year old because let me tell you, let 326 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: me tell you what they did. The kids did, and 327 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 2: then I'll tell you who did it, because it wasn't 328 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen seventeen year old male perverts. Apparently, the older 329 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 2: students would call the girl names peak through the bathroom 330 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 2: stall while she used the bathroom and pressured others. 331 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: To commit sexual acts. 332 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: The child, this little eight year old, is pressured to 333 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 2: kiss the others in the club and forced to kiss 334 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 2: and touch the genital areas of the two older girls. 335 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 2: They recorded some of the acts on the girl's phones. 336 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: The teacher took one of the phones and sent the 337 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 2: videos of the acts to herself and showed them to 338 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 2: other staff. The mother is reporting this bullying to the 339 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 2: administrators at Sierra Canyon, but nothing was done. So I 340 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 2: remember I told you the victim was eight years old. Well, 341 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 2: this happened to her when she was seven and the perpetrators. 342 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 2: Perpetrators were eight year olds. Apparently, during school hours, seven 343 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 2: and eight year old female students would gather inside the 344 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 2: bathrooms to participate in the kissing club, and the eight 345 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 2: year olds pressured, intimidated and bullied the younger students to 346 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 2: join the club, including this seven year old girl at 347 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 2: the time, the daughter of Pentea Kipness. She's filing a lawsuit. 348 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 2: She said the school knew about this and didn't do anything. Now, 349 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 2: where would eight year old girls get the idea to 350 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: forcibly kiss and touch or to force the seven year 351 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 2: olds to kiss and touch the genital areas of the 352 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 2: eight year olds? Like, where do they possibly get this idea? 353 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: And they've got phones and they're allowed to take the 354 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 2: phones into school and use them, and they're in the 355 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: bathroom recording these these sex acts. This is the part 356 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 2: I didn't get at first. It's seven year olds being 357 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 2: sexually assaulted by eight year olds at a wealthy private 358 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 2: school in Chatsworth. Now the lawsuit is because the school 359 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: didn't report the assault. You know, the state law says 360 00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: it's mandatory reporting. They're suspected child abuse, the school staff 361 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: has to report it. None of this I understand it all. 362 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: I mean, there's got to be some kind of weird 363 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: abuse going on in the homes of the eight year 364 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 2: olds right that they would be able to pick this 365 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: up I olthough I was, I was kissed against my 366 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 2: will by an eight year old girl in second grade. 367 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: But it stopped there. It was just a beck on 368 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: the cheek. How'd that work out for you? Huh? Are 369 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: you married to her today? 370 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 2: No? 371 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: She's cute though, name was Sharon. She was really wow 372 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: you remember the name. You always remember your first kiss, 373 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: don't you? And shocked me. I thought, oh did I 374 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: actually told the teacher went up her. 375 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 2: Sharon just kissed me, you cooties, And so I'm trying 376 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: to figure out The teacher took one of the kid's 377 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 2: phones and then sent the videos of these girls being 378 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 2: forced to kiss and touch the genitals of the eight 379 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 2: year olds. No, these are eight year olds touching. No, 380 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,239 Speaker 2: the seven year olds are being forced by the eight 381 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: year olds to touch the genitals of the eight year olds. 382 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 2: These are all girls. And then the teacher shows them 383 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: around and nobody reports this to stop it. And the 384 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 2: Sierra Canyon School knew about the kissing club eventually, but 385 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 2: did not notify the mother, Pettia Kipness, or the husband, 386 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: Max Kipness, or the police. The whole thing is just 387 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 2: ridiculously baffling, you know, after all, the scandals. I mean, 388 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 2: I mean like the archdiocese scandals here in La go 389 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 2: back almost twenty five years now, and all the bad 390 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 2: publicity you had, sex scandals in LAUSD, the sex scandals 391 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: with the Catholic Church, sex scandals with the boy Scouts, 392 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 2: and still how many billions and billions and billions of 393 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: dollars have been paid out in damages. And still when 394 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: teachers and administrators at a school get wind of funky 395 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 2: stuff going on, they don't do anything about it. They're 396 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 2: not disgusted, grossed out, scared, horrified, or worried that this 397 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 2: is going to cost everybody an enormous amount of money. 398 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 2: I just I don't get it. All right, we come back. 399 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 2: Rob Monts is coming on. No, these gonna come on 400 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 2: after three. But in next segment, we are going to 401 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 2: play a clip of this thirty minute documentary called Paradise 402 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 2: Abandoned inside the Pacific Palisades Fire. He wants to know 403 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 2: why the Palisades was abandoned to burn, So we will 404 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 2: play you a clip in the next segment, and then 405 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 2: after three o'clock we'll talk to Rob Monts. He grew 406 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: up in the Palisades. 407 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM six. 408 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: Forty and before we play a clip of this documentary 409 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 2: about the Palisades called Paradise Abandoned. 410 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: Another odd thing happened in the Palisades some now Here's 411 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: a guy. 412 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 2: Who's described as a hip hop artist and social media influencer. 413 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: Is that a job? He calls himself. 414 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 2: Clinton Lord C l I N T N l O 415 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 2: r D. I never heard of this guy, but I'm 416 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 2: not up on hip hop influencers. His real names Clinton Adams. 417 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,479 Speaker 2: He's thirty two, has hundreds of thousands of followers on 418 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 2: Instagram at TikTok, and apparently it's a lot of pictures 419 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: of himself at public events like the BET Awards, and 420 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 2: he's on runways. He works with designer brands. What he's 421 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: really been doing is he took over a home in 422 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 2: the Palisades. This home had been vacated because of smoke damage. 423 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 2: Apparently Clinton Adams didn't mind the smoke stink, and he 424 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 2: broke in. Owners didn't know, and he was a squatter. 425 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 2: And what he would do is he would lure women 426 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,640 Speaker 2: into the home and he raped them. And he finally 427 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: got arrested on November nineteenth, and now they've released his 428 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 2: photograph and he looks like a hip hop influencer. He's 429 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 2: they're looking for more victims. They figured these aren't the 430 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 2: only three women that he pulled this on. He would 431 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 2: meet his victims locally on the West Side and the 432 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 2: Ladas off This has charged him three countsl raight, one 433 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 2: count of an assault with intent to commit a felony. 434 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 2: He met two different women and invited him to a 435 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 2: place and he said, hey, this is my home in 436 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: the Palisades June twenty ninth. One incident occurred August seventh, 437 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 2: August eighth. He's now being held on almost a million 438 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 2: and a half dollars bail. And I don't know exactly 439 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: what he's he's, what he's done, what he's created in life, 440 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 2: but they have found a criminal record. In twenty twenty one, 441 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 2: he was arrested and charged with discharging a weapon and 442 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,360 Speaker 2: a felling charge of throwing a missile. 443 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: A missile doesn't explain what the missile is. 444 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 2: He pled guilty, got probation, and then he was committed 445 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 2: some kind of parole violation along the way. He's been 446 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 2: the subject of a restraining order and now he's got 447 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 2: three charges of rape because he took over a Palisades 448 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 2: smoke doubt house and squatted and lured women inside. All right, now, 449 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 2: let's uh, let's play a clip here. It's about four minutes. 450 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 2: It's Rob Monts. He's a director. He grew up in 451 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 2: the Palisades before moving to the East Coast, and he 452 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 2: came back to try to figure out why was the 453 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 2: Palisades abandoned to burn. Documentary is being released today and 454 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 2: here's an excerpt. 455 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 7: The Chase Bank building was burning. I was there when 456 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 7: it started. There was a little fire up on the roof. 457 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 7: The mayor and the governor were in the middle of 458 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 7: town doing a news conference, and in the background you 459 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 7: see the Chase Bank building burning to the ground. They 460 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 7: weren't doing anything. The whole thing is burned right to 461 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 7: the ground, with the mayor and the governor within. 462 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: A block of the place. 463 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 7: Methodist Church on Viade Lapause. It was probably close to 464 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 7: one hundred years old. 465 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 8: This town was founded by Methodists with utopian dreams. They'd 466 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 8: come to the sea not for money or fame or power, 467 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 8: but to establish a Christian camp, sermons and games in 468 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 8: the most beautiful place on God's green earth. In nineteen 469 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 8: thirty eight, they built this church. It's where I went 470 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 8: to preschool. And on day two its tower catches fire. 471 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 8: A fire truck sits a block away. 472 00:29:53,640 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 4: This neighborhood burned down on day two. You think that 473 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 4: they would have made some sort of effort to try 474 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 4: to save this neighborhood in others, and they didn't come. 475 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 4: My neighbor across the street, he came back on day 476 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 4: two he saw that there was fires breaking out. My 477 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 4: understanding is that he went back and told the fire 478 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 4: fighters who were on the beach, and he said they 479 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 4: were eating breakfast burritos and had been told to stand down, 480 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 4: and they didn't come. 481 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 9: This is our neighbor here. He was a school teacher. 482 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 9: Let's see, this is a fancy pot in my life. 483 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Just got. 484 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:45,959 Speaker 5: What are you gonna do with that stuff? 485 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 9: We're gonna throw it away. 486 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 10: The people with power over the Palisades failed to respect 487 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 10: this land. They failed to respect nature's violence. Their failures 488 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 10: fueled the fire, and as night turned a morning, with 489 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 10: the Palisades still burning, the people with power made a decision, 490 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 10: not incompetence, not an inevitability, but a conscious decision to 491 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 10: give up. They leave my city my childhood in ruins 492 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 10: and then brag about how quickly don't rebuild it. 493 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 5: One of the fastest recoveries in our state history. 494 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 8: This has been the fastest fire recovery in modern history. 495 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 10: We are doing the fastest degree removal of else's recovery. 496 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 1: Of anywhere in the nation. 497 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 8: I think they're trying to forget. 498 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: We'll hold it. 499 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 7: No, no soup, Let's figure out what happened here? 500 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 4: Why was no one fighting fires on the eighth. 501 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That's uh. 502 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 8: What does this city say when people like you press 503 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 8: them on that question. 504 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 9: It's under investigation, all right. 505 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: It's paradise abandoned inside the Pacific Palisades Fire. Rob Monts 506 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 2: is the director. We're going to talk to him coming 507 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 2: up right after Michael Kurzer's news, because the stuff he's 508 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 2: talking about is the stuff I've heard from a lot 509 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 2: of people that I know or have met in the 510 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 2: Palisades because I just live a couple of miles away, 511 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 2: and my wife and I hiked three times a week 512 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: in this canyon park nearby, and we run into Palisades 513 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 2: residents all the time who homes were burned, and my 514 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 2: wife compulsively interviews people, and we've heard some amazing stuff 515 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 2: and what you heard in that in that clip, it's true. 516 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 2: The firemen we're standing around, I mean firemen eating breakfast burritos, 517 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 2: and they told residents, but we were told to stand down. 518 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 2: And then I've seen this clip of Bass and Newsom 519 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 2: Online holding a news conference with the Chase Bank building 520 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 2: burning behind them, and honestly, I looked at it. It's like, no, well, 521 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 2: this has got to be AI right. I don't know 522 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 2: what to trust anymore. But then this is true, and 523 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 2: I think, yeah, they made a decision to let it burn. 524 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 2: I really do. And more and more people I talked 525 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 2: to in the Palisades have come to that belief. They 526 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 2: didn't want to believe it at first. At first some 527 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 2: people would dismiss it and say, no, that can't be. 528 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 2: You don't want to believe it, But yeah, I think 529 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 2: that's what happened. We'll talk to Bob Monts coming out, 530 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 2: and this documentary is getting released today. 531 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 1: That's next. 532 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 533 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 534 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday. 535 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: And of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.