1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 3: We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and 5 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 3: every day after four o'clock we transform into a podcast, 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 3: John Cobel's Show on demand, so whatever you miss, same 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 3: as the radio show, you. 8 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: Can listen to it. 9 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 3: Then shortly after four o'clock. This never ends, and nobody's 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 3: trying to stop it. The corruption in the state is 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 3: just overwhelming. California High Speed Rail has another ten billion 12 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 3: dollar budget gap, even larger than what they expected two 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:51,319 Speaker 3: months ago, ten billion dollars. Newsom had announced a few 14 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: days ago that he wants to take a billion dollars 15 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 3: of gas tax money and throw it into the black 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: hole of high speed rail. Nobody stops him. Nobody stops 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 3: the really the rapid abuse of the taxpayer in the state. 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: Seventeen years, seventeen billion dollars. And this is for that 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: short stretch from Bakersfield and Merced, which is only one 20 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 3: hundred and seventy one miles along. It's nowhere near La 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 3: it's nowhere near San Francisco. This stretch between Bakersfield and 22 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 3: Merced is going to cost at least thirty eight billion dollars, 23 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 3: which is more than the entire rail line was supposed 24 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 3: to cost. The original rail line was going Sacramento to 25 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 3: San Francisco to Los Angeles to Anaheim to San Diego, 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: all that for thirty three billion dollars. But they lied, 27 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: like everybody in government and everybody in the media lies 28 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 3: every day. 29 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 2: They make it up. 30 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: Now we've blown seventeen billion, you need another ten billion. 31 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: They have a plan to try to finish this stretch 32 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 3: in twenty thirty three. These are like science fiction years, 33 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: science fiction budgets. Meantime, the unions and the consultants and 34 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 3: the grifters and sisters and parasites are all stealing your 35 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: tax money and you'll let them. Here's an overview of 36 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 3: the situation. This is KCRA Channel three and Sacramento. Their reporter, 37 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 3: the only reporter that covers the Sacramento legislature, Ashley's EVA. 38 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 4: That last check that Merch said to Bakersfield line was 39 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 4: expected to cost California taxpayers thirty five point three billion dollars, 40 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 4: but sources tell us project leaders are now warning lawmakers 41 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 4: that cost could grow again, now up to thirty eight 42 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 4: point five billion. 43 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 2: Dollars. 44 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 4: This also means the project's budget gap could reach up 45 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 4: to even more than ten billion dollars again, just for 46 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 4: this Central Valley segment. High speed Rail Authority has confirmed 47 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 4: these new figures. Now, the possible funding gap presents even 48 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 4: more questions about the project. That Baker's Field tm mersedline 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 4: was expected to be completed between twenty thirty and twenty 50 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 4: thirty three, but the project's inspector General earlier this year 51 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,839 Speaker 4: warned that may no longer be the case. The High 52 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 4: Speed Rail Authority at some point this summer is expected 53 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 4: to have a full update on what's going on. But 54 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 4: in those documents that we obtain to get this information 55 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 4: and that project leaders have confirmed, they note the cost 56 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 4: estimate has arranged depending on. 57 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: A variety of factors. 58 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 4: Those factors include inflation and the rising cost of materials 59 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 4: like concrete and copper. The High Speed Rail Authority is 60 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: eyeing possible design changes to save money, potentially so. State 61 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 4: Senator Tony Strickland is the vice chairman of the Senate's 62 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 4: Transportation Committee. In a statement, he told us quote, the 63 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 4: high speed rail project continues to suffer from self inflicted wounds, 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 4: and I am extremely disturbed to learn about this latest information, 65 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 4: which further erodes the public's trust and a project as proposed. 66 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 5: Will never be built. 67 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 4: He went on to say, I urged my colleagues and 68 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 4: the Senate for us to have a serious conversation on 69 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 4: how we can discontinue this failed project, as our state 70 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 4: truly does not have the money to waste, and Californians 71 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 4: are sensitive to government waste. 72 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: I also checked in. 73 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: With Democratic State Senator Dave Cortesi, who leads the Transportation 74 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 4: committee there in the Senate. Nothing from him yet, but 75 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 4: he was hoping to have a hearing on the high 76 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 4: speed rail in May, and obviously we're halfway through the month, 77 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 4: so we'll see, right. 78 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 3: So we also know that Trump administration is performing an audit, 79 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 3: so where does that stand. 80 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 4: That's right, That audit apparently is still underway, and we 81 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 4: reached out to the Trump administration for comment about this update. 82 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 4: Nothing yet from them. We should note California taxpayers have 83 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 4: spent fourteen billion dollars on this project so far, and 84 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: the federal government so far has put about. 85 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 6: Four billion dollars up. 86 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 4: Next year, the governor plans to put a billion dollars 87 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: toward the project. 88 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: But it's not clear at all how. 89 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 4: This possibly ten billion dollar funding gap will be addressed 90 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 4: by the legislature, by lawmakers, and even President Donald Trump 91 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 4: has said that this is a project he's not interested 92 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 4: in funding. So a lot of questions about this bullet train. 93 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 4: One other thing I should note is that the La 94 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 4: to San Francisco project was originally pitched to voters to 95 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 4: cost him forty billion dollars. This baker Field toi Marsaid 96 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 4: line is almost reaching that price. 97 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: Dag Actually what I had read it was thirty three billion. 98 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 3: But fine. The federal government has spent four billion California taxpayers, 99 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 3: that's you, has spent fourteen billion, eighteen billion dollars in 100 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: seventeen years. Not an inch of track has been laid out. 101 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 3: They don't even own all the land that they need 102 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 3: to own, let alone develop the land properly. It's been 103 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: seventeen freaking years. Nobody can stop this there there is 104 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 3: so there's a lot of union corruption here with these 105 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 3: fake jobs, these make work jobs that the unions had 106 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: done demanding. Gavin Newsom is a silly coward. I mean, 107 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 3: maybe maybe when the doctors went for Biden's testicles, they 108 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 3: cut off Newsom's testicles by mistake. I don't know, but Newsom, 109 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 3: if he was a grown man, would stand up and say, 110 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 3: I don't come up with a fake executive order. It's like, 111 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 3: no more, not another penny. This is it done. We're 112 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 3: not barring any more money, We're not taking any more 113 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 3: money from the federal government. 114 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 2: Nothing. 115 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 3: Do you know in eighteen years, no private companies have 116 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 3: come forward to often any to offer any type of investment. 117 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: Why do you think that is? It is because it's 118 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 3: clearly a massive failure, and it just enrages me. We're 119 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 3: so overtaxed, so wildly overtaxed. I was we were driving 120 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: down Sunset Boulevard a couple of times this weekend. If 121 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 3: you've never been on Sunset Boulevard on the west side, 122 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 3: I am telling you Afghanistan has been roads. 123 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 2: It is rough. 124 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 3: It shakes your brain, your teeth, You practically have a concussion. 125 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 3: If you drive in the right lane, yeah, you have 126 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 3: to drive in the left lane, but then you have 127 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: to deal with all the drunks and coke addicts on 128 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: Sunset Boulevard who are coming at you right across the 129 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: double yellow line. So you go to the right lane 130 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: because you feel psychologically a little safer, except that that 131 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: it's like land minds had gone off. Maybe land mindes 132 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 3: did go off. I'm just astonished. The roads are so 133 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:42,239 Speaker 3: awful in the city, so awful, and there's no tax 134 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 3: money spent to fix them, and yet we've got eighteen 135 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 3: billion dollars going to the worst Paris. We have the 136 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 3: worst human beings working in government and who access government 137 00:07:54,400 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 3: with their parasitical companies. There their consultancies and they're engineering, 138 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 3: and their lawyering and their real estate consulting, all the stuff. 139 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 3: It is. They laugh like hell at us, and we 140 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: have a bunch of schmucks going around. 141 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: It's like, actually, have a high speed train. That'd be 142 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: really cool. I voted for. I've heard some of these 143 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,239 Speaker 1: people I voted for that. I thought it'd be really cool, 144 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: and you know, you know it's going to help climate change. 145 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: Like stupid ass, apparently you had your brain removed. There 146 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 3: is There is no high speed rail coming effort. It's 147 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 3: going to be a perpetual scam until we're dead, and 148 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 3: then after we're dead, the scam will continue for the 149 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: next generation of parasites, and none of the politicians want 150 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 3: to stop it. Because they have political donors who depend 151 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 3: on our tax money for their way of life, and 152 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 3: then they give kickbacks to everybody who serves in the legislature. 153 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: Kickbacks go to every one of them campaign donations. It's 154 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 3: it's like the homeless racket, you got, the high speed 155 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 3: rail racket, you got the climate change racket. 156 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 2: It's all a racket. 157 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: It's all just money laundering, circulating money, and they play 158 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 3: on your emotions. They manipulate your motions. 159 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: Say well, I'm kind of afraid about what's happening with 160 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 1: the climateciness. 161 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: It's wrong with you? And why so many in col 162 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 2: Why are so many in. 163 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 3: California afflicted with this disease? They don't have these stupid 164 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 3: projects in other states. Just here, Nobody is spending tens 165 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 3: of billions of dollars on homelessness, tens of billions of 166 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 3: dollars on climate change, tens of billions of dollars on 167 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 3: high speed rail. No other state is doing this except us, 168 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 3: and we got we've got nothing for it, nothing. 169 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: All right, more coming up? Oh what do I do next? 170 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: Oh? 171 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 3: Do care about these these New Orleans prisoners that escaped? 172 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 3: Carved out a big hole in a wall behind a 173 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 3: toilet and they've gotten away with it. 174 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 175 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 6: six forty. 176 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: I just noticed this story. I came him out less 177 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 3: than an hour ago. Sunday night, they had a shooting 178 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 3: on the Third Street Promenade Santa Monica. Boy, they really 179 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 3: Santa Monica. The mental patients that run that city really 180 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 3: ruined the Third Street promenade and an owner of a 181 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 3: shoe store shot to death. 182 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 2: An attempted robber. Oh wow. 183 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 3: The property manager is John Alley, who we've had on 184 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 3: the show many times. He has told us about the 185 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 3: degradation of Santa Monica. And they have the most far 186 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 3: left government that I have ever seen in my life. 187 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: And I lived just a couple of miles from Santa 188 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 3: Monica and so I have unfortunately firsthand experience all the time. 189 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: They are sick and crazy there. It's unlimited homelessness, little 190 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 3: crime enforcement. But you know what they constantly enforce. They 191 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:29,839 Speaker 3: enforce parking regulations, traffic regulations. They have those stupid ballards 192 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 3: in every corner so you don't make a right turn 193 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 3: easily right. 194 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: They try to stop. 195 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 3: You from making a right turn, so they set up 196 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 3: these short posts they're called ballards, so you. 197 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 2: Can't do it. 198 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 3: And they have red paint on lots of curbs so 199 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 3: you can't park. They have all kinds of crisscross intersections 200 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 3: that make no sense. They have flashing lights everywhere for 201 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: one reason or another. It is a naze of paint 202 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 3: painted crosswalks and green lanes. You know. For the three 203 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 3: people who bikes, it's just not oh and then and 204 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 3: the traffic lights like will stop you every single block, 205 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 3: I mean really every single block. It's crazy. They declared 206 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 3: war a war on cars. They've made everything difficult. The 207 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 3: one thing they allow, though, is they allow criminals, vagrants, 208 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 3: mental patients, and drug addicts to run free. And then 209 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 3: the other day they announced that they were going to 210 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: have an outdoor alcohol zone that would be opened till 211 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 3: two in the morning on the Santa Monica Promenade, which 212 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 3: I remember when I moved here, I thought was one 213 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 3: of the coolest places to go to. Soon you're gonna 214 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: be able to drink at two am outdoors. And here's 215 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 3: what was going on outdoors on Sunday night, nine thirty. 216 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 3: There's a guy who owns a shoe store called Soul 217 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 3: and Laces and he was with a customer. It was 218 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 3: after hours, but he was making a sale and a 219 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 3: bad guy showed up and tried to rob the place. 220 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 3: And it looks like a second person entered the store 221 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 3: and pepper sprayed the owner, and the store owner, who 222 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 3: had I legally owned gun shot the suspect and killed him. 223 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 3: So there you go. Well there's good news. One of 224 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: one of the one of the robbers was was shot 225 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 3: to death. Oh so, so here's how they set up 226 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 3: the owner. They wanted an after hours sale. Looks like 227 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: the contacted the owner and said, Hey, I want to 228 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 3: buy some stuff. Can we do it after closing hours? 229 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 3: And the owner said okay. So the guy shows up, 230 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 3: he's talking to the owner trying to make the deal, 231 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 3: and then the customer had an accomplice who showed up 232 00:13:55,480 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 3: with pepper spray, and then the owner shot the. 233 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 2: Guy to death. 234 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 3: The first man was arrested on suspicion of being involved 235 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 3: in the robbery. And they haven't identified the shop keeper. 236 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 3: But Souls and Laces is the name of it. Yeah, 237 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 3: that's that's your. That's your that's your weekend night at 238 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 3: the promenade down uh in New Orleans. That's another city 239 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 3: that that's gone to hell. 240 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 2: Uh. 241 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 3: Ten ten serious violent criminals escaped from a New Orleans jail. 242 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 3: They cut a hole in a jail cell behind a toilet. 243 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 3: They lifted up the toilet apparatus and uh busted through 244 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 3: the hole in the wall. Ten of them escaped, seven 245 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 3: are still at large, according to Louisiana State Police. The 246 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 3: governor of Louisiana said the was the worst in recent 247 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 3: state history. Jeff Landry ordering an audit of the sheriff's office. 248 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 3: They think, obviously that there was help maybe from some 249 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 3: of the sheriff's deputies who were supposed to be guarding 250 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 3: these guys. You should see the photos of these characters. Jeez, 251 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 3: we're a lot of bizarre hair, facial tattoos. I like 252 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 3: tattoos on the cheek and on the forehead. That's usually 253 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 3: a sign of good mental health. The governor said nine 254 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 3: of the ten escapees had been in the pre trial 255 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 3: stage for years, and he wants to know why the 256 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 3: DA has never prosecuted these guys fully, they just were 257 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 3: stuffed in jail. The governor is blaming the progressive justice system. Yeah, 258 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 3: this is progress, all right, and they've got rewards out. 259 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: It took hours for the sheriff's officials to learn of 260 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 3: the escape. They apparently escaped at twelve thirty in the 261 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: morning overnight, but nobody discovered it until a head count 262 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 3: was done at at eight o'clock to a eight thirty 263 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 3: the next morning, so they had been gone for eight hours. 264 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 2: Ten ten. What is it about. 265 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 3: Jails in prisons? Anybody who's hired to work jail in 266 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: prison just nobody cares. Nobody cares about anything. You imagine this, 267 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: You had ten would be sellons missing for eight hours, escaped, 268 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 3: big hole in the wall. 269 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 2: Nobody heard it. I guess. 270 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 3: Around twelve twenty three am the inmates yanked the sliding 271 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 3: jail cell door off the track. At one on one 272 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 3: am they exited the jail. Oh, I guess they have 273 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 3: video of a timestamp on it. That's why they have 274 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 3: such a precise accounting of what happened. And then they 275 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 3: breached a wall behind the toilet. They found clean cuts 276 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 3: on metal bars behind the toilet inside the jail cells. 277 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 3: The toilet and the bolts were removed using toiletry items, 278 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 3: but didn't specify what the items were. What what kind 279 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 3: of toiletry items? Can you can you cut the the 280 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 3: bars of a jail cell with. 281 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 5: A toothbrush made into a shank, and I could go 282 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 5: through the metal in the bar if it's sharp enough. Yeah, 283 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 5: that's uh. Oh, you seem you seem to have a 284 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: lot of knowledge on this. Well, I've watched prison Break 285 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 5: on TV. Did you see the note that they left 286 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 5: for everybody on the wall? No, right above where the 287 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 5: toilet was. They had written graffiti all over the wall 288 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 5: and everything, and one of them said too easy l 289 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 5: O L. 290 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 2: Of course they spelled to wrong. Yeah they had instead 291 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 2: of t O O. Yeah. 292 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 3: Well, if you take a look at these guys, that's 293 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 3: not a surprise. Uh but I mean everybody, everybody was 294 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 3: shocked at this, Like nobody knew what was happening. Everybody done. 295 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 3: Had they do this? Why have they been sitting there 296 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 3: so many years and not put on trial? Nobody seems 297 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 3: to care. Nobody seems to care about anything anymore on 298 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 3: any level of government in any state. 299 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 2: When we come. 300 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 3: Back this Palm Springs guy, this is a new kind 301 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 3: of ideology. I never heard of the guy who blew 302 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 3: up the fertility clinic. He has a belief system that 303 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: this is the first of its kind that I'm aware 304 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 3: of this was the motivation for. 305 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 2: Blowing up the clinic. We'll tell you about it we 306 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: come back. 307 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 308 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: A six forty boy. 309 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 3: I've never heard of this ideology before. 310 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 2: This is the guy. 311 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 3: His name is Guy Bartkas from twenty nine Palms and 312 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 3: he blew up the fertility clinic in Palm Springs over 313 00:18:53,960 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 3: the weekend and he he uh. And you know, the 314 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: fertility clinic is where they store a lot of frozen 315 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 3: embryos and that's where couples go and they try to 316 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 3: fertilize the embryo and hopefully have a child from what's 317 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 3: been saved. They do in vitro fertilization treatments, egg collections, 318 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 3: and other related procedures. This guy, this guy's big, big 319 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 3: issue was he he doesn't think that people should be 320 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 3: brought into this world without their permission. And it makes 321 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 3: you stop and think, like, how does this work. It's 322 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 3: because I think we're all brought into the world without 323 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 3: our permission. 324 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 2: It's it's not. 325 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 3: Like you can fill out a form in the womb 326 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 3: and saying yeah, I want to get out, No, I 327 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 3: want to be vacuumed and flushed away somewhere. You know, 328 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 3: we're we're all forced into the world, whether we like 329 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 3: it or not. And I there's no way, there's no 330 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 3: other way to do it, as far as I'm aware. 331 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 3: But this is what drove him. I guess he looked 332 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 3: at the embryos being well fertilized and humans being created 333 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 3: through that process, and he thought it was like a 334 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 3: civil rights violation of the embryo. But the idea that, yeah, 335 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 3: he opposed people being born without their consent, and I 336 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 3: assume that includes himself, who consented to coming into the world. 337 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 3: Guy Bartkas he's twenty five years old, and of course 338 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 3: he had a manifesto, and so THEBI is reading the manifesto. 339 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 3: Those are always a good time. Twenty nine Palms is 340 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 3: where the largest Marine Corps base is. But he was 341 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: not a marine because they thought, well, maybe he's a 342 00:20:55,359 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 3: marine and he had access to explosives. No, they don't 343 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 3: know if he was connected though in some other way 344 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 3: so we get access exposives. They don't even know if 345 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 3: the exposives came from the marine base. Nobody seemed to 346 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 3: know this guy, At least as of now, no one's 347 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: come forward to say, yeah, he was the whack job 348 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 3: in the neighborhood. It damaged buildings several blocks away. The 349 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 3: FBI said, is probably the largest bombing scene we've had 350 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 3: in Southern California history. Now they found what was left 351 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 3: of Barcas mangled near the scene. I mean, they believe 352 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 3: it's him. They but he was really scrambled up. He 353 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: wanted to live stream the attack, so they're not sure 354 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 3: if he intended to blow himself up, but that's what happened. 355 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 3: And he he said he had a war against pro 356 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 3: life people and a fertilization clinic would be targeted. He 357 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 3: also hears some of his belief system too. Bed Debra's 358 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 3: not here today. He believed in a bottle abolitionist, veganism, 359 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 3: the opposition to all animal use by humans. Pro mortalism. 360 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 3: It is the belief that it's best for living beings 361 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 3: to die as soon as possible to prevent future suffering. 362 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 3: So he wants all of us dead because I guess 363 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 3: all of us brings suffering to somebody along the line. 364 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 3: I'd never heard of this stuff. In the manifesto, he 365 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 3: denounced those who bring human life into the world. Well, 366 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: that'd be a lot of us, and his final goal 367 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 3: is to sterilize this planet of the disease of life, 368 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 3: so he wanted to wipe out the human race. They 369 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 3: found an audio file where he would explain why I've 370 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 3: decided to bomb an IVF building, and basically it comes 371 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 3: down to that I'm angry that I exist. 372 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 5: I was about to say, this guy hates his mom. 373 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 5: If he hates I bring life into the world. 374 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 2: I'm angry that I exist. 375 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 3: I mean, he could simply kill himself, which is what 376 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 3: he did, but it looks like he wanted to take 377 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 3: I'm angry and and you know, nobody got my consent 378 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 3: to bring me here. Well, while that's never going to happen, 379 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 3: you can always opt out at any moment, and it's 380 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 3: not hard to do. 381 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 2: Ah. 382 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 3: Wow, of course he's vegan, though, I got a file 383 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 3: this for tomorrow or whenever Debra comes back. She's she's 384 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 3: got got a bad deb sign it condition. She can't 385 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 3: speak very well right now, but when she comes back. 386 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 3: Because I've got a couple of vegan stories that there 387 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 3: is a militant extremist Vegan wing among that crowd and 388 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 3: the UH. Brian Levin is the founder of the Center 389 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 3: for the Study of Hate and extremism cal State San Bernardino, 390 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 3: And he said this, this bomber appears to be part 391 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 3: of a growing movement. Oh oh, that's great, A growing 392 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 3: movement of people who hate themselves and don't want to exist, 393 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 3: alienated lone actors who get radicalized on obscure internet sites 394 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 3: and misinformation. It's called an anti natalism movement. See you're 395 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 3: against babies being born, so you're anti natal and describes 396 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 3: him as a hopeless, unstable young man who soon suicidal 397 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 3: despair stirs him into a self consuming, brutal death, justified 398 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 3: by a distorted embrace of an obscure anti life ideology. Yeah, 399 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 3: it's obscure. I mean this is a new one. There's 400 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 3: this is so many people sitting on the internet reading 401 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 3: bizarre websites, and they read these things and they get 402 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 3: radicalized the way you would for religion. But it was 403 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 3: a terribly powerful bomb. It's stunning that he was the 404 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 3: only one killed. I think there was somebody else who 405 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 3: was injured. But I just never had seen he's against 406 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 3: people being born without their consent. All right, when we 407 00:25:53,840 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 3: come back, there's a story in the La Times. Palisades 408 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 3: residents are getting angrier and angrier by the day because 409 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 3: they don't see a plan and they don't see any 410 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 3: movement on the part of the city to rebuild the Palisades. 411 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 3: And you know, we've had we had David Howard on 412 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 3: one of our sales managers here a. 413 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 2: KFI who talked about this. 414 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 3: They're like Karen Bass has engineered some kind of brick 415 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 3: wall between her and the good people of the Palisades. 416 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 3: Like we told you, there's only been a handful of 417 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 3: permits that have been granted to rebuild, and one writer 418 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 3: estimated it would take about four hundred and sixty years 419 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: to rebuild the Palisades in Altadena based on the speed 420 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 3: of the permitting process. Rick Cruso is trying from the 421 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 3: outside to speed this up, but there's got to be 422 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 3: I'm thinking some kind of intervention here. You can't continue 423 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 3: to have her run the government with her staff and 424 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 3: this city council because they are flat out unwilling to 425 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 3: help the Palisades people rebuild. You know, they send out raw, 426 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,880 Speaker 3: raw press releases, but the permitting system is at a standstill. 427 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 3: And it's now four and a half months in and 428 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 3: despair has been beginning to set in. 429 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 2: So we're gonna get to all this coming up. 430 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 431 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 6: six forty. 432 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 3: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt 433 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 3: Radio at John Cobelt Radio. La Times had a story 434 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 3: over the weekend that if you read the whole thing 435 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 3: and it becomes clear that there has been there has 436 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 3: been very little movement on the part of Bass administration 437 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 3: to do anything for the people in the Palisades, and uh, 438 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 3: there's some kind of some kind of deal going on, 439 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people in the Palisades 440 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 3: are very angry about this. They hired something called Haggarty Consulting, 441 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: and they were supposed to help the Emergency Management Department 442 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 3: with recovery. 443 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: And the residents. 444 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 3: If you remember that infamous Zoom meeting, We played some 445 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 3: of that on the air, and they had an executive 446 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 3: from Haggarty and the guy's based in Illinois or Iowa, 447 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 3: somewhere out in the Midwest. And they beast paid this 448 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 3: company ten million dollars and they came here and a 449 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 3: woman asked, well, what's your experience in other disasters? Can 450 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 3: you give us an idea of what you have done 451 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 3: in other similar situations, and the guy couldn't speak for 452 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 3: about a minute and a half. He was totally stunned, 453 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 3: unprepared for the question and had and had no answer. 454 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 3: When he started speaking, just gibberish came out. Well, apparently 455 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 3: nothing's changed. Still, nobody seems to know what Haggarty Consulting 456 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 3: is doing, and Karen Bass has done nothing to explain it. 457 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 3: The recovery is supposed to be led by the Los 458 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 3: Angeles Emergency Management Department, which, according to the LA Times, 459 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 3: is long underfunded. All the things that you would need 460 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 3: in a wildfire, an urban wildfire, police, fire, emergency management, 461 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 3: they all were way way unfunded or underfunded. We've told 462 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 3: you the fire department was only funded at a fifty 463 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 3: percent rate. Same thing with the police department. They're going 464 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 3: to be down to eighty four hundred cops within a 465 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 3: number of months. They used to have ten thousand. They're 466 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 3: going to need twelve thousand, especially with the Olympics coming, 467 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 3: and they're at eighty four hundred and they're dropping. And 468 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 3: Karen Bass's new budget cuts money for police, cuts money 469 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: for fire, and they already had hardly any money for 470 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 3: emergency management. Carol Parks was the chief of the Los 471 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 3: Angeles Emergency Management Department, and she went before a budget 472 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 3: committee last year and told them that they only got 473 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 3: a tiny fraction of the budget, and they've only got 474 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 3: thirty people, and there was nobody on staff devoted to 475 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 3: full time disaster recovery. So if we had an earthquake 476 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 3: or wildfire, the city would be scrambling. And then you 477 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 3: remember what happened. Karen Bass decided to take the week 478 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 3: off and go to Africa, and we had nobody running 479 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 3: the city. You know how we're finding out that we 480 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 3: had nobody running the federal government when Joe Biden's mind 481 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 3: turned to oatmeal. We just had nobody who showed up 482 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 3: for work, right because Bass was gone. Her deputy mayor, 483 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 3: who's in charge of the police and Fire department, he 484 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 3: was on leave, suspected of calling in bomb threats by 485 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 3: the FBI. 486 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 2: You know, everybody forgets this. 487 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 3: I like to go through a little reminder session every 488 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 3: once in a while. There was no mayor, There was 489 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 3: no deputy mayor, at least for police and fire. 490 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 2: He was on the bench. 491 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 3: There was nobody devoted to full time disaster recovery, and 492 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 3: the city council and the mayor balked at devoting more 493 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 3: money to the Emergency Management Department. This all happened last May. 494 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 3: Seven months later was the Big fire. Six thousand structures burned, 495 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 3: tens of thousands of people displaced. Do you know what 496 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 3: the Emergency Management department? You know how much money they get. 497 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 3: They have a budget that is smaller than what the 498 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 3: police department spends in two days. You take police expenses 499 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 3: for two days, that's the entire annual budget for the 500 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 3: Emergency Management Department. So, in other words, we don't really 501 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 3: have one. So that's why she went to this Haggarty consulting. 502 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 3: They're from Illinois, ten million dollars and now here we are. 503 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 3: It's more than four months after the fire, and the 504 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 3: Palisades residents, according to The Times, are saying. 505 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 2: Who's in charge? What have they been doing? 506 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 3: What is Haggarty doing, what's the plan to restore the Palisades. 507 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 3: There's no answers. You can't get a hold of anybody. 508 00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 3: They have nothing to say. After the Palisades, the Emergency 509 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 3: Management Department assigned a mid level staffer to take on 510 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 3: the recovery. Then they brought back a former general manager, 511 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 3: Jim Featherstone, out of retirement to serve as the recovery chief. 512 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,719 Speaker 3: You know, we had Steve sober off for five minutes 513 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 3: and until he found out he wasn't going to get paid. 514 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 3: The city code puts the Emergency Management Department in charge 515 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 3: of coordinating a disaster recovery. But it turns out that 516 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 3: LA only spends a dollar fifty six per resident on 517 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 3: emergency management. San Francisco spends seven dollars and fifty nine cents, 518 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 3: So they spend six times as much in San Francisco, 519 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 3: Is that right? Three times as much and we have 520 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 3: four hundred and sixty nine square miles. The chief, Carol Parks, 521 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 3: said last year the department lacks the experience and dedicated 522 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 3: staff to oversee long term recovery projects. Well, this is 523 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,439 Speaker 3: why nothing's happening in the Palisades. They don't have it apart. 524 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 3: They actually don't have the employees. The office barely exists. 525 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 3: They don't have money, they don't have people, they don't 526 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:38,359 Speaker 3: have anything. And she warned the city council last year, 527 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 3: but nobody in the city council cares. Sh God, it's 528 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 3: like worse than anybody could have ever imagined, and none 529 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,920 Speaker 3: of it's getting better. Karen Pass is really a sociopath. 530 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 3: She just doesn't care. And I know enough people who 531 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 3: are really struggling, you know, trying to get through the day. 532 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,839 Speaker 3: But you know, the government, all they're good at is 533 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:14,839 Speaker 3: making an incredible amount of restrictions and regulations and red 534 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 3: tape and delays. I you know, I've read this story 535 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 3: several times and I just. 536 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 2: So. 537 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 3: As of mid March, Haggarty has twenty two employees working 538 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 3: on the Palisades fire recovery. That's it. And they're billing 539 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 3: the city at hourly rates ranging from eighty to four 540 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 3: hundred dollars per hour per employee. Monica Rodriguez is one 541 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 3: of the few speaking out. She's a city council member, 542 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 3: and she goes, I don't understand their purpose. I don't 543 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,720 Speaker 3: need another contractor, we need staff to do the work. 544 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 3: And then you talk to that idiot puppethead Zach Sidell. 545 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 3: He's he's Bass's chief spokes hole, another one of these 546 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 3: professional liars, and she says, he says, despite one of 547 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 3: the worst natural disasters in recent history, LA's recovery is 548 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 3: on track to be the fastest in modern California history. 549 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about? 550 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 3: The bulb faced lying is is really stunning. They will 551 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 3: say anything, what do you mean the fastest recovery, it's 552 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 3: a handful of permits. Palisades residents say, Haggerty, Emergency Management Department, 553 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:51,480 Speaker 3: Karen Bass, poor job communicating. Nobody knows what's going on, 554 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 3: and there's no you know, occasionally have these zoom meetings 555 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 3: where residents, you know, yell at the zoom screen. I mean, 556 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 3: you know, there's got to be some kind of dramatic 557 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 3: takeover here. There really is. I mean, there really has 558 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,760 Speaker 3: to be some kind of intervention. You can't because otherwise 559 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 3: you're gonna drift for the next year and a half. 560 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 3: Does she show up for work anymore? But what does 561 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 3: she do all day? What is everybody there do all day? 562 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,359 Speaker 3: And you know the people in the Palisades, they're high achievers. 563 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 3: These are people who've accumulated a lot of money because 564 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 3: they work long hours, they work hard, They have unusual 565 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,799 Speaker 3: amounts of energy and and they're they're they're staring at 566 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,440 Speaker 3: the city government that are you know, their mouths are 567 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 3: hanging open. These people are drooling on their on themselves, 568 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 3: and you know, Gavin Knwso promised this was all going 569 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 3: to be cleared up. But of course his mouth was moving, 570 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:08,760 Speaker 3: so he was lying as well. The uh Sighteel says 571 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 3: forty addresses have received permits. That's what he claims, except 572 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,880 Speaker 3: they've lost thousands of homes. 573 00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:28,759 Speaker 2: I don't know. What do you do? What do you do? 574 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 3: It's supposed to be a democracy, right, You're supposed to 575 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,799 Speaker 3: wait till the next election. Except the city allowed a 576 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:42,240 Speaker 3: huge chunk of land to burn, did nothing to prepare 577 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,799 Speaker 3: for the fire. There was no water, there was no 578 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 3: fire department at the ready, there was nothing. Nobody in 579 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 3: the city, in the county cleared the brush. They didn't 580 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,759 Speaker 3: fill up the reservoirs. The fire trucks, one hundred of 581 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 3: them were busted. We have like a non government situation. 582 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,160 Speaker 3: And still they managed to spend themselves a billion dollars 583 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 3: into debt this year. They're still a billion dollar deficit. 584 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 3: And they're not even refuting any of this. They're not 585 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 3: even arguing about it. It's like, yeah, yeah, that's what 586 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 3: it is. 587 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:23,240 Speaker 2: So what do you want from us? Good job voting? 588 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:23,640 Speaker 2: All right? 589 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,759 Speaker 3: Michael Krazer's got the news live in the KFI twenty 590 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:27,600 Speaker 3: four hour newsroom. 591 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 592 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 3: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 593 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 3: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 594 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 3: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app