1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on Demand is going to be posted 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: after four o'clock and it's a podcast version. It's the 5 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: radio show all over again. So if you miss stuff, 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,159 Speaker 2: and we have, we've had some good stuff today. We 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: had Daniel guss On the journalist covering city Hall. We 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 2: had Michael Monks on cover City Hall for KFI, among 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: other things, and they gave extensive reports about the council 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 2: meeting today where Kristin Crowley got axed again. She got 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: fired by Bass as you know, appealed and she lost 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: thirteen to two. One of the things I'm trying to 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: give an airing to is really the central issue is 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: that we're governed by people. And when I was a 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 2: kid growing up in my naive lied tiny little brain 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: which really hasn't developed all that much since, but it 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: retains this idea that a government and the government is 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: us right. We all pitch in our tax money, and 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: there's certain things that we must have that you have 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: to have for a civilization. You have to account for 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: human nature, so there's certain things you need in a 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 2: civilization and to me, there's only a handful of things 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 2: that are absolute musts, and that you have to have 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: a police department, you have to have a fire department. 25 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: You have to have somebody building and maintaining the roads. 26 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: You have to have a school system, you have to 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 2: have electricity and water, and you know, then the list 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 2: gets more optional. Not one minute in my life growing 29 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,559 Speaker 2: up did I ever encounter a place where I lived 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: where the priorities were not police, fire, schools, roads, et cetera. 31 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: And now we're at a place where the priorities are 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 2: as I mentioned last hour, mental patients, drug addicts, you know, 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: meth addicts, Fenton, the lattics, criminals, illegal aliens, I mean, 34 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: and billions go there are billions from the city goat 35 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: into these categories. And this is all money that should 36 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 2: go to fire and police. And the school thing is 37 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: another matter. But the firefighters there, there's no possible, there's 38 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 2: no way to defend giving a billion a billion four 39 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 2: to homeless people and eight hundred million to the fire department. 40 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: And I've heard a lot of and read a lot 41 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: of back and forth. Well, Karen Bass cut the budget, 42 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: Oh no, she did it. There was a sucking budget 43 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: and they actually rate and it goes back and forth, 44 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: and it's like, guys, shut the f up. The total 45 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: funding is horrible. It's half of what it should be. 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if it went up or down three percent. 47 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 2: It's really bad. And by the way, often BASS politicians 48 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 2: likes say, wow, we increased the budget. 49 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: It means you gave raises. 50 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: Out Raises do not mean that you have a better 51 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 2: funded fire department. If you're fifty percent short on staffing, 52 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: if you're fifty percent short on engines and equipment, it 53 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: means you're giving more money to the few people you've hired, 54 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: but you need twice as many people. So it's not like, well, 55 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: you know, we increased funding. My seven percent doesn't know 56 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: where did the money go. That was always maybe crazy 57 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: about Landa. I mean increased the money for education. You 58 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: gave you gave raises to teachers. That doesn't improve the education. 59 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 2: To give raises to teachers, it just means the teachers 60 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: make more money. It doesn't change the quality of the education. 61 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: It's what you spend the money on. I want to 62 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: get to a post I saw today and I believe 63 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: this was submitted by a woman named Christy Johnson, and 64 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: this was her. This is what she submitted to the 65 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: La City Council, and it's in writing. I guess you 66 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: could do that, and I want to read part of 67 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: it because this matches what I am hearing in my 68 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 2: own life. I'm just going to read excerpts. 69 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,559 Speaker 1: She said. 70 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: We want an honest answer to a direct question that 71 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 2: hasn't yet been given a practiced, hollow excuse. Miss Crowley, 72 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,799 Speaker 2: please respond to a few of the dozens of eyewitness 73 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 2: accounts that we have collected. Here's one of them. I 74 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: was in the Palisades and we saw everything unfold in 75 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: real time for an entire week. Fact there were no 76 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: first responders present for the first thirty six hours. Fact 77 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: the fire was left to burn everything in her neighborhood. Fact, 78 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: much of the Palisades burned as the result of small 79 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: spot fires, not a massive wall of fire that tore 80 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: through the town. In fact, many of the homes had 81 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 2: running water garden hoses, and many others had pool water, 82 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: which those of us who stayed used, but the firefighters 83 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 2: never tapped. Into Fact, there were hundreds of fire trucks 84 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: parked in the will Rogers Beach parking lot as the 85 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: fire burned on January seventh and eighth. Even the next morning, 86 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 2: when the wind had died down, homes were left burning 87 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 2: without a fight. The folks in charge dropped the ball, 88 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: evacuated the area, and then let it burn. I've seen 89 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: drone footage of my home starting to burn on January eighth. 90 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 2: It's clear from the footage there were no fire trucks 91 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 2: or fire personnel anywhere in the vicinity. They evacuated us 92 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 2: on the seventh and then abandoned our street. The city 93 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 2: claims due to high winds, water wouldn't have helped. Yet 94 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: those on my street who stayed behind watering their homes 95 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 2: were able to save them. How does the city explain 96 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: that away. If they're going to abandoned us, they should 97 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 2: at the very least let us know so we can 98 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 2: have made informed decisions to either stay and water our 99 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 2: homes or to collect our valuables, knowing we'd never see 100 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 2: them again. I was there too. I lost my house 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 2: and stuck around for forty eight hours watching this circus 102 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: of incompetency while the fire trucks were parked down at 103 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 2: the beach and over by Paul Revere School doing nothing. 104 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: I'd lived through twelve fires. 105 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: Four of them had a lot stronger winds, but were 106 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 2: successfully stopped before they hit any houses. No, the big 107 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,559 Speaker 2: difference between this fire and others is that the fire 108 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 2: department disappeared instead of fighting. And normally I'd say, I 109 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: don't know if I believe this. 110 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: Is this a crank? Is this possible? Is it true? 111 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 2: Except I'm hearing from my friends and I'm reading posts 112 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 2: after posts online that yeah, this is true. There's a 113 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: lot of people who said the firefighters didn't show. Nobody 114 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 2: ever came, They evacuated homes, they closed the roads, you 115 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 2: couldn't get back, and then the homes were left to burn. 116 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: And what is there a leaded burn policy? She talks 117 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: about the LAFT failures on January seventh, including the lack 118 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: of planning and preparation, not being aware of the empty reservoirs, 119 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: not ensuring the trucks were in working order, not testing hydrants, 120 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: not keeping a thousand staff on duty in light of 121 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: the weather predictions, and not preassigning firefighters to the burn 122 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 2: site from January first. And this is really important. That's 123 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: where the kids shot the fireworks, and they started a 124 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 2: twenty four acre fire, which they put out relatively quickly, 125 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: and then the winds showed up six days later, and 126 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 2: strong winds can kick up an old fire real fast. 127 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 2: Why wasn't there a crew standing around that spot? And 128 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: why won't they tell us whether that spot reignited? Or 129 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 2: why won't they tell us that was an arsonist? Or 130 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: why won't they tell us it was a bunch of 131 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: homeless people? Why after almost two full months though, they 132 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: don't tell us how this fire started or who started it? Now, 133 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 2: going back to what she was saying, we demand now 134 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 2: as an honest answer to a direct question that hasn't 135 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 2: yet been given a practiced hollow response. Hold on here, 136 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 2: hold on, just please stand by. My screen is jumping 137 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: around the most critical and pointed question we have to. 138 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley, please give us your explanation for the hundreds 139 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 2: of homes and businesses that were allowed to free burn, 140 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 2: meaning ignite and burn to the ground with zero firefighter effort, 141 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: with pools on the property or nearby in the Palisades. 142 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: On January eighth, ninth and tenth, my husband and a 143 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 2: couple of neighbors the house on one particular street on 144 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: the seventh, no firefighters came to our aid. The homes 145 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: in that cul de sac were saved by a few 146 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,239 Speaker 2: neighbors with hoses, pools, buckets, shovels of dirt and extinguishing 147 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: spotfires for a week. On January eighth, my husband and 148 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: I watched on Channel seven as a single unit in 149 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: our townhouse complex on Palisades Drive caught fire. There was 150 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: zero firefire effort. The entire Upper and Lower Woodies complex 151 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 2: of approximately eighty homes was allowed to free burn to 152 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 2: the ground. 153 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: Our pool was full. We have post fire photos of 154 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: the full pool. 155 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: We understand the residents were restricted from re entering the 156 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 2: highlands the Palisades Drive, preventing us from returning to defend 157 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: our residents. This is criminal negligence by the LA Fire Department, 158 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 2: considering that the LA Fire Department has demonstrated through its 159 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: actions a decision to abandon the Palisades on the eighth, ninth, 160 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: and tenth. And I'm telling you, I have heard this 161 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 2: over and over and over again, but there doesn't seem 162 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 2: to be any investigative curiosity on the part of most 163 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 2: of the media, no intense coverage. Nobody in the city council, 164 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 2: not the mayor. You know, everybody wants to defend and 165 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: applaud the firefighters, and we should, but the fire management 166 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 2: and the decision making was atrocious, and the funding is atrocious. 167 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 2: This is not a civilized city, This is not a 168 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 2: serious civilized government. These are clowns, boobs, and they're dangerous. 169 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: They cost thousands of homes to burn, They caused people 170 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 2: to die. And they's so smug and arrogant and obnoxious 171 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 2: and with their stupid weasel spokeshols spinning their lies and nonsense. 172 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 2: And when is the media going to grow up and 173 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 2: become adults? And if what Daniel Guss said is true 174 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 2: last Hour, is it really because all the reporters and 175 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 2: anchors are afraid to criticize a black female mayor. He 176 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 2: thinks that's the root of all of this. Really, you 177 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: gotta be ashamed of yourselves. Anybody who's in charge is 178 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: held accountable and should be removed for incompetence, regardless of 179 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 2: her color or gender. You don't get special protection. But 180 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 2: apparently the reporters, and I guess the news directors and 181 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 2: the anchors are not all of them, but some of 182 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 2: them really intimidated. 183 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,199 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 184 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 3: six forty. 185 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: We've been watching a wacky chase. 186 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 2: During the commercial break, the cops did a pit maneuver 187 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 2: and spun a guy around and he ended up on 188 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: the side of the road, and there was an array 189 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 2: of police cars in front of him. And then the 190 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 2: guy was he was, you know, his cars stopped. He's 191 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 2: sitting in there with his door open. Looked like he 192 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: was about to surrender. And he suddenly realized, hey, nobody's 193 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 2: behind me, backs up and turns around and. 194 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: Takes off again. And now they haven't pulled over on 195 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: the side of the road. This isn't Winetka, you. 196 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 4: Said, yeah, this may be uh bosy Croft Avenue and 197 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 4: Plummer Street, maybe Chasworth. That's and and so now they 198 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 4: did a close up of him sitting in the driver's seat. 199 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 4: He had the window and door open, and it looks 200 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 4: like he's looking at photos of women. 201 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: Yeah or girls. I can't girls, yes, were they naked 202 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: or no? 203 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 5: No? 204 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 6: No, no no no. I just saw a kind of headshots. 205 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 6: You can see him, he has his car door open 206 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 6: and he's looking at. 207 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: These stopping for a porno breaks. 208 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 6: I didn't say that. 209 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. 210 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 6: It's it's it's strange and he's just sitting there looking 211 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 6: at pictures. 212 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 2: He made the cops look ridiculous though, when he just 213 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: backed away, one of the cop cars didn't drive behind 214 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 2: him because he was facing the wrong way on the road. 215 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: They'd spun him around, so he was pointed in the 216 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 2: wrong direction. 217 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 6: No know, if anybody's in front of him. There's a 218 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 6: car in front of him, carved on the side. It's 219 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 6: not a cop car. 220 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: Look at it. 221 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 6: Look at what he has in his hand. Now I 222 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 6: can't she's not showing it. 223 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not zooming in either. 224 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 2: Those were dirty pictures that they can't show on broadcast TV. 225 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: We're watching Channel five. Or they're afraid, you know, somebody 226 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 2: might give him a headshot. 227 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,719 Speaker 6: Channel seven panned in a little bit, but now they're 228 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 6: panning out. 229 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well we'll keep track of this on 230 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: Playing more from today's Stupid Circus the LA City Council 231 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 2: with Kristin Crowley trying to save her job, but she 232 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 2: lost thirteen to two. One of the union guys, the 233 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 2: United Firefighters of Los Angeles director David Ryles He goes 234 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 2: after Karen Bass during the public comment period, played cut seven. 235 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 7: Good morning, Dave Ryles, Director United Firefighters of Los Angeles City. 236 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 7: I'm a proud thirty two year veteran of the LAFD, 237 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 7: currently assigned the fire Station one oh seven out in Chatsworth, 238 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 7: which is Council Member Lee's district. I was raised in 239 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 7: the valley where I currently reside, in the San Fernando 240 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 7: Valley and in our neck of the woods, We're not 241 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 7: unaccustomed to high winds and wildland fires. Like a majority 242 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 7: of the Los Angeles residents, I too, struggle with the 243 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 7: idea or the reality that Mayor Bass was unable to 244 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 7: anticipate the horrendous windstorms that were coming that day. In fact, 245 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 7: the Mayor herself posted the following on. 246 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: Her social media account. 247 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:54,239 Speaker 7: There is an expected destructive and potentially life threatening windstorms 248 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 7: starting today Tuesday, January seventh. It's just inexplicable for the 249 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 7: MA of the Los Angeles to say that she didn't 250 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 7: know about the dangerous weather windstorms that day that were impending. 251 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 7: With all the forecasts all over the country, everybody knew 252 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 7: about it. The mayor's own failure to be informed should 253 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 7: not lead to the dismissal of the fire chief. As 254 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 7: the mayor of the city of Los Angeles. The residents 255 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 7: expect her to be the one in command. She should 256 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 7: have been checking in with all of her department heads 257 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 7: to find out exactly what their needs would be for 258 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 7: the impending weather event, to make sure that everybody was covered. 259 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 7: That's what a proactive mayor would do. Being the mayor 260 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 7: of the second largest city in America is a huge responsibility, 261 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 7: shifting a blame to those who are the boots on 262 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 7: the ground but doing their part to help you fix 263 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 7: everything in town. 264 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: Speaker that your time has expired. 265 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yeahs. What strikes me is she's just 266 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: a coward. She will not take responsibility, and she comes 267 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 2: up with the flimsiest lie. Oh, I didn't know there 268 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: was going to be a wind storm. I didn't know 269 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: there was an extreme critical fire warning. 270 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: I didn't know. 271 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: Wow, what crisis management team came up with that? That 272 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 2: is one hundred percent laughline. But maybe not. Apparently there's 273 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: one guy. I don't know if this guy was paid. 274 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: I'll play a little bit of this. This guy showed 275 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 2: up to speak out and support of bass firing. Kristin 276 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: Crowley cut number ten. Now I'm changing cut number ten. 277 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 8: Good morning, Council President and the Steam Council. My name 278 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 8: is Eric Agiar and I'm with Brotherhood Crusade, and I'm 279 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 8: here to support Mayor Bass and her decision. Mayor Bass 280 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 8: made the right decision to remove the fire chief. Leadership 281 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 8: changes are necessary when performance doesn't meet the high stand 282 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 8: or require for public safety. The decision to remove the 283 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 8: fire chief was about experience and accountability, not politics. 284 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 3: Stop. 285 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 2: Sure, well what about Bass there? That argument doesn't apply 286 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 2: to Bass. Who's Crowley's boss. Crowley at least was in town. 287 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: Crowley was here, all right. 288 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 2: Well, maybe maybe that organization he mentioned gets funding. 289 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:24,239 Speaker 1: I don't know. 290 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 291 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 2: Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from one 292 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 2: in to four every day and then after four o'clock 293 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. And 294 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: it's been quite a program so far. As we cover 295 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: the Kristen Crowley firing. It she needed, she needed some 296 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 2: support a city council to reverse it. She didn't get it, 297 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,479 Speaker 2: thirteen to two loss, and there's nowhere else for her 298 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 2: to go. She's definitely getting punished in part for her 299 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 2: failures that day, but more so because she stood up 300 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 2: to Karen Bass and told the truth publicly that the 301 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 2: LA Fire Department is only fifty percent funded, fifty percent staffed. 302 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 2: The money has been shoveled off to all the drug 303 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 2: addicts and mental patient vagrants and all the illegal alien help, 304 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 2: all the help the criminals get. I mean, the homeless 305 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 2: alone is a billion, four hundred million. Now people are 306 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 2: looking to rebuilding, and there's going to be a fight 307 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 2: because the same socialists that have helped destroy Los Angeles 308 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 2: in California want to make sure it remains destroyed. Boy, 309 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: they hate these people hate Pacific Palisades, right. A lot 310 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 2: of people there were wealthy, but others had inherited their 311 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: home and they were paying They were paying tax taxes 312 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: on it. I mean, there was a lot of tax 313 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 2: money coming out of the palisades, you know, considering they 314 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 2: didn't get much fire coverage. It's really that in itself 315 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 2: is criminal. But you know there were people living in 316 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 2: apartments as well. There's actually mobile home parks there, and 317 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 2: you know people either bought homes years ago before the 318 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: it was really expensive, or they got it from their 319 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 2: parents and grandparents. What I'm saying is not they're all 320 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: independently wealthy. Some are, though I'll tell you this, though 321 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 2: virtually everybody there doesn't want affordable housing. And I don't 322 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 2: even want to use that term because I know it's 323 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: one of those stupid euphemisms. It's like the unhoused. Affordable 324 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 2: housing means you are letting in a bad element. Now, 325 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 2: I grew up in a lower middle class suburb in Jersey. 326 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 2: My dad was a factory worker. My friend's dad was 327 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 2: an electrician. The neighbor was an electrician on one side. 328 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: The other neighbor was in construction, and so they all 329 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: worked with their hands. They all lifted things all day. 330 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: Dad theyde ten thousand dollars a year when I was 331 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 2: a little kid, and the house we bought at the 332 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 2: time was nineteen thousand dollars if you could imagine. So, yeah, 333 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: you could call that affordable housing, except it was a 334 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 2: squeaky clean environment. There was no refrath, there was no 335 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 2: criminal activity, no drug activity, no homeless people, no nothing. 336 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 2: So what's happened today is affordable housing means you're letting 337 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: in people who are involved in drug and criminal activity. 338 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 2: And again, the socialists in Los Angeles that's who they 339 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 2: want to cater to. They want to cater to not 340 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 2: just a different class economically, but a different class in 341 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 2: terms of behavior. And that's what the Palisades people are against, 342 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 2: is they're afraid that they're going to deal with all 343 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 2: those city problems that other neighborhoods are hit with. And 344 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 2: why should you, because people raise their children badly in 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 2: some circles because they don't enforce the laws in Los Angeles. 346 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: They don't need burglaries and thefts, they don't need people 347 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 2: laying in the streets and doing drugs. And so now 348 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: there's been several stories about the revolt that's developing against 349 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 2: any idea of affordable housing, and it was encapsulated. But 350 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: Joe Lonsdale, Joe Lonsdale is a founder of the data 351 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 2: analytics company Pallenteer Technologies. You may not know Palenteer. It 352 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 2: is one of the premier tech companies out of Silicon 353 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 2: Valley and. 354 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: That they really are on cutting edge of the tech world. 355 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 2: And he's also on Caruso's foundation, Steadfast LA. And he 356 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 2: shared a headline from The Washington Examiner that claimed that 357 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 2: due to Los Angeles law, rebuilt residences in the Palisades 358 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 2: would require the inclusion of affordable housing, and Lonsdale wrote, sorry, guys, 359 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 2: no rebuilding. And he's being sarcastic here, Sorry guys, no 360 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 2: rebuilding your fancy houses that burned down by the ocean 361 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 2: in La until there's a new crack den installed right 362 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 2: in the middle of the neighborhood. Actually posted that, and 363 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 2: that's what they're all worried about. He is articulating that 364 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 2: he's rich enough that he doesn't care if there's some 365 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,959 Speaker 2: some woke posse that's going to try to chase him 366 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 2: down and cancel him. 367 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: He doesn't care. 368 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 2: But these articulating what everybody's afraid of. Even in the 369 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 2: kind of neighborhood I grew up in, which again was 370 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 2: Laura middle class. Nobody wanted whatever. There was no such 371 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: term as affordable housing back then, but we all knew 372 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 2: what that concept was, even if it was not by 373 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 2: that name. You want to keep the neighborhood at a 374 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: certain behavior level. People don't like to talk about this 375 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 2: out loud. Everybody gets all squirmy. The they're you know, 376 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 2: their anuses start to tighten up a little bit. But 377 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: it's true. You want to live with civilized people and 378 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: affordable housing. Well, you can't do a civilized person desk, now, 379 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 2: can you. You don't know if these people are poor 380 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: but peaceful and they're raising their kids properly, or if 381 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 2: you're going to get all kinds of wild mayhem. 382 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: You don't know. 383 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 2: You don't know if the dad's going to keep working, 384 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 2: or maybe there is no dad and he's not working 385 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 2: at all. Here's another story in the Times about a 386 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: guy named Justin Kahanoff. He's the owner of a burned 387 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 2: out shell gas station. I know this place. What he 388 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 2: wants to do since his gas station is gone, He 389 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 2: wants to build the neighborhood's tallest apartment building, including low 390 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 2: income residents. 391 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: Well, low income. 392 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 2: Residents is a little more honest than affordable housing. He 393 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 2: wants to have a big, beautiful building with as many 394 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: as one hundred apartments, with some reserve for low income residents. 395 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 2: The average home in the Palisades costs three and a 396 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: half million. The median household earned three hundred and twenty 397 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: five thousand dollars. The total number of rental units restricted 398 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 2: as affordable housing. How many you think of the Palisades. 399 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 2: Just take a guess. Throw out a number. How many 400 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 2: affordable housing units in the Palisades. Three you're close two 401 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 2: exactly two. The Palisades is unaffordable housing by design, and 402 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: people who work hard and honestly for a living want 403 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 2: it that way. Most people aspire to that, people who 404 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 2: work and have semi ambition. Talking about the ninety four 405 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 2: percent of government workers who don't bother to show up 406 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 2: in the office. But people who work hard and have ambition. 407 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 2: We all want to live in a place where there 408 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 2: are no riff wrath. All right, that's the whole point 409 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: of this. That's what my dad wanted, that's what I wanted, 410 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 2: that's what my kids want. That's why they're all working 411 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,639 Speaker 2: every day. Doesn't mean you have to live wealthy. It 412 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 2: just you want people who are going to behave who 413 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: aren't going to break laws, who don't have all kinds 414 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: of weird addictions, who don't have dysfunctional lifestyles that spill 415 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 2: out into the street, that have intact families. I don't 416 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 2: care if it sounds old fashioned and corny, whatever, that's 417 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 2: what most people want. And once you've achieved that, yeah, 418 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,360 Speaker 2: you want to shut the door in case somebody gets 419 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: a wacky affordable housing idea. One of these weirdo socialists. 420 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 2: I mean you have pick. I mean there's a woman 421 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 2: named Unsas Hernandez and her district is MacArthur Park. MacArthur 422 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 2: Park has become so dangerous and disgusting it's beyond belief. 423 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 2: That's where they found these s Guatemalan, the Squatemalan smuggling 424 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 2: operation that ran twenty thousand migrants through that neighborhood in 425 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 2: the last few years. 426 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 1: Twenty thousand and a lot of those people. 427 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: Were being were basically being held hostage because they couldn't 428 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 2: all pay the bill to the smuggler. But that's this 429 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 2: is hernandez idea of a good neighborhood. And she's always 430 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 2: bellowing about affordable housing. It's like, no, no, no, people 431 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 2: who have built nice, clean neighborhoods. They want the nice, 432 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 2: clean neighborhoods. And it's about behavior. Is it about ethnicity, 433 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 2: It isn't about color, It isn't about any of that stuff. 434 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 2: It's about how are you going to behave how are 435 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 2: you going to conduct your life? We don't want any trouble. 436 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: We want peace. We want peace and respect. You go 437 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 2: through these neighborhoods well before the fire, there's a garbage 438 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 2: in the Palisades, there's a trash blowing around. You go 439 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 2: into like MacArthur Park, there's pilots of garbage everywhere. That's 440 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,959 Speaker 2: what we're talking about. And yeah, there are crack deads 441 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 2: in affordable housing. 442 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: It's all. 443 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 2: It's what they did is they came up with a 444 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: really cute, really cool euphemism. But everyone sees through euphemisms. 445 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 2: You have to be very suspicious of language, especially the 446 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 2: language that the media uses, language that the government officials use, bureaucrats, 447 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 2: legislators have to be very wary of the code words. 448 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 2: And people have decoded affordable housing. So that's going to 449 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 2: be a hell of a fight in the Palisades. More 450 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 2: coming up, people. 451 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 452 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 3: six forty. 453 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio, on social 454 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 2: media at John Cobolt Radio and Conway Up in a 455 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: few minutes. I just want to what's the phrase they use, 456 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 2: circle back? Circle back, because I want Karen Bass somebody 457 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 2: to chase, be chased every day about her fake story 458 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 2: where she said she wasn't aware of the firestorm warning, 459 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,159 Speaker 2: which she told that on television to Alex Michaelson that 460 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 2: she frankly wasn't aware that there were warnings about an 461 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 2: extreme dangerous firestorm that was going to be likely and 462 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 2: if you didn't hear, the La Times found an email 463 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: dated Friday, January third, the day before she left for Ghana, 464 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 2: which said that the National Weather Service was predicting damaging 465 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 2: winds elevated fire conditions the following week and there was 466 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 2: a high confidence in the accuracy of the forecast. This 467 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 2: was from the city's Emergency Management department and that by 468 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 2: Monday they were going to have a zoom meeting. They 469 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 2: sent this email out to about fifteen Karen Bass. 470 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: Aids. 471 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: Fifteen people that work directly for Karen Bass, including two 472 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 2: of her very top aids, and one of them is 473 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: Christopher Anyaco Christopher aya on Yaquo, executive officer for Emergency 474 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 2: Operations for Karen Bass. And then there was also Jacqueline Sandoval, 475 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 2: the policy director for Emergency Management. All right, so executive 476 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 2: officer for Emergency Operations, policy director for Emergency Management. They 477 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: got the email saying saying big emergency next Tuesday, likely 478 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 2: ten page attachment from the National Weather Service a graphic 479 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 2: showing a large red flame icon critical fire conditions. Eventually 480 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 2: they updated the warning and made it a purple icon. 481 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 2: See a purple icon means extreme. We were wondering if 482 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: critical is the worst warning they could give. No, actually 483 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 2: it was extreme. Didn't matter. Carrie Bass went to Africa 484 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 2: anyway and claims that she didn't know. Do you know 485 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 2: this went to one hundred city workers. One hundred of 486 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:48,959 Speaker 2: them and fifteen worked for directly worked directly for Bass. 487 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 2: The first fire call from the National Weather Service was 488 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 2: December the thirtieth, which is about nine days before the fire. 489 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: National Weather Service started conducting a one o'clock briefing on 490 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 2: the fire risk, inviting fire departments and emergency agencies from 491 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 2: La and Ventura County. First one was December thirtieth, next 492 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 2: one was January second, and they were saying at least 493 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 2: eighty mile an hourw winds, extremely low humidity, dry vegetation, 494 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 2: extream critical fireworks. So the times blew that Karen Bass 495 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 2: light bits, We got Conway and tops a. 496 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: You know, look, Mayor Baths is not my mayor. 497 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 9: I don't live in the city of La and she's 498 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 9: your mayor and your mayor by the way. But she 499 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,719 Speaker 9: said when she was running from mayor of Los Angeles. 500 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 9: She would never leave the country. And then she became mayor, 501 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 9: and she left the country five times. She went to Mexico, Ghana, 502 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 9: and three times to Paris. 503 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: Oh, she went five times. I had five times. 504 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 9: I understood about the Ghana trip. Yeah, No, she wasn't here. 505 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 9: Remember the riot, the riots over Ucla with the palast. Yeah, 506 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 9: she wasn't here that night. Yeah, she was in France. 507 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 2: Yes, well, yeah, the Olympics, right, Yeah, she wanted to 508 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 2: see how the Olympics. 509 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 5: I don't think she realized when she made that promise 510 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 5: that there was gonna be so much cool stuff to see. 511 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: All over the world, but it finally hit her. That's 512 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: all I'm saying. 513 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 9: Jay Leno is coming on with us the very important 514 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 9: topic of how to get old cars to pass a 515 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 9: small test. 516 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: Oh, very important. 517 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 5: It's good that you got Jay. 518 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: There's a lot of laughs there. Yeah, we got It's funny. 519 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 9: Then we got monks at at four oh five, we'll 520 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 9: talk about the city council and the fire chief and 521 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 9: all that stuff. And then a local station lied to 522 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 9: me last night, lied to me on their newscast. Wow, 523 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 9: they said that oil change is going to go up 524 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 9: by fifty bucks. 525 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: Oil change. 526 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 9: An oil change is going to go up because of 527 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 9: the tariffs. An oil change is going to go up 528 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 9: by fifty bucks. 529 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 6: All right. 530 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 9: First of all, fram auto oil filters are made in 531 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 9: this country. And that's the you know, that's a good one. 532 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 9: Ac Delco's made in China. But those things are eleven 533 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 9: dollars for an oil filter. 534 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 5: Now why they're not there's sixty three dollars and. 535 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 9: The and the oil is all produced here in the 536 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 9: United States. Penn's oil mobilely you know mobile all that. 537 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 9: It's all so, how is that going up by fifty bucks? 538 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: Impossible? They just love they found it. 539 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 9: They found a mechanic in New Jersey that said it, 540 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 9: and then they all reported, Yeah, it's like I remember 541 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 9: we said we used five hundred million straws a day 542 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 9: in this country. 543 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: Here where that came from its third grader? That's right. 544 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 2: That led to the ban on the that's right straws 545 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 2: because one straw went up one seed turtles sea turtles 546 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 2: nose right, and I think he was doing coke. 547 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: You got. 548 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 9: And then at six o'clock we have President Trump coming. 549 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: On with us. Oh, that's right, he's got a big 550 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: gun to do. 551 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not State of the Union officially, no, right, 552 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 2: but it's it's addressed the Congress. 553 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 5: But it's but typically isn't typically steady Indians January and 554 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 5: February they do it right. 555 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, but for some reason the first year they caught Yeah. 556 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 9: Yeah, congressional address or an addressing congression. I like to 557 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 9: walk through the halls and look at the liberals here 558 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 9: and how they react to it. 559 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, you know what? 560 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 5: Good times. I can't wait till tonight. The guy knows 561 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 5: how to nail the media and he knows how. 562 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 2: To play the moment. I think this is going to 563 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 2: be very entertaining tonight, pulling their hair out. Yeah, Conway's 564 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 2: up next to go with you. Cruze has got the news. Hey, 565 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 566 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on kf I Am 567 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 568 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.